The NXR Podcast - November 09, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Pray For Your Pastor


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9 minutes

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1,277

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78

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In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken teaches on the importance of submitting to the leaders of a church, and how to have a clear conscience in order to act honorably in all things. God bless!

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, real quick, before we get started, I have a small request.
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00:00:19.680 Jesus said,
00:00:20.800 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25.440 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30.000 Hebrews chapter 13, verse 17 through 18, not written specifically to women, written to all the members of the church, all the saints, all Christ people, both male and female alike.
00:00:41.120 And yet I think there's much that we can glean in regards to submitting to those who we are learning from.
00:00:48.220 The leaders of a church.
00:00:51.300 Obey your leaders and submit to them.
00:00:53.440 for they are keeping watch over your souls
00:00:57.200 as those who will give an account.
00:01:01.540 Let them do this with joy
00:01:03.180 and not with groaning.
00:01:09.460 I feel like we all groaned a little bit today.
00:01:13.320 For that would be of no advantage to you.
00:01:17.140 Rather, I love this.
00:01:19.720 I want you to see this.
00:01:21.220 I've used Hebrews 13, 17.
00:01:22.680 I used it just a few weeks ago in the Sermon on Membership.
00:01:25.800 But I want you to see the very next verse.
00:01:29.120 It says, pray for us.
00:01:33.220 For we are sure that we have a clear conscience desiring to act honorably in all things.
00:01:41.380 That what the author to the Hebrews is saying to the members of that church
00:01:46.060 is something as God is my witness.
00:01:49.640 that the elders and I can say to this church
00:01:54.760 that we have a clear conscience
00:02:01.680 desiring to act honorably in all things.
00:02:06.820 Notice, the author to the Hebrews,
00:02:10.660 unless Jesus wrote the book,
00:02:12.600 which we're fairly certain he did not,
00:02:14.760 then it was a man.
00:02:16.180 Whether he be an apostle or an elder,
00:02:18.500 whether it be co-written between Apollos and Paul
00:02:21.500 whatever the theory might be
00:02:23.340 the point is this
00:02:24.080 it was a man
00:02:25.040 and if it was a man 0.53
00:02:26.580 it was a sinful man
00:02:28.420 however sanctified he may have been
00:02:31.080 still a sinner nonetheless 0.95
00:02:32.520 so notice what he does not say
00:02:34.480 for we are sure that we have a clear conscience
00:02:36.900 and that we have always acted honorably
00:02:40.640 in all things
00:02:41.800 he's not speaking so much
00:02:45.100 to his past ministry history
00:02:48.260 and saying that we have always led without fail.
00:02:53.900 That we have always led the church
00:02:56.740 and our ministry and our preaching and our counsel
00:02:59.080 and our ruling and deliberation
00:03:01.440 and all the things that we have done.
00:03:03.160 It has always been right.
00:03:06.180 It's not what he said.
00:03:08.860 Rather, he says, we have a clear conscience,
00:03:11.620 not because everything we've done has been right.
00:03:14.560 We have a clear conscience because as God is our witness,
00:03:17.820 By his grace and his grace alone, we desire to act honorably in all things.
00:03:25.620 And so, too, in echoing his words, my words to you as one of your pastors, provided that you'll still have me.
00:03:34.800 Is that the elders and I desire, genuinely, as God is our witness, desire to act honorably in all things.
00:03:44.280 As we guide this church into perhaps a more conservative doctrinal position, it is because we desire to act honorably in all things.
00:03:56.460 When I slow down and preach on a text as controversial as this one for three or four weeks, it is because we desire to act honorably in all things.
00:04:07.700 when we perform
00:04:10.820 the most unpleasant portions of ministry
00:04:14.520 such as church discipline
00:04:16.240 it is because we desire
00:04:19.380 to act honorably in all things
00:04:22.880 that is not a claim
00:04:25.340 of a sinless track record of ministry
00:04:28.660 I have failed
00:04:30.800 but it is a claim by the grace of God
00:04:34.180 that I and the elders can say
00:04:36.120 We have a clear conscience, not in regards to a sinless past, but in regards to a genuine desire to act honorably as we move forward.
00:04:47.160 Our desire is to act honorably.
00:04:51.060 So, look to the beginning of that same verse.
00:04:56.100 Pray for us.
00:04:59.220 Pray for us.
00:05:00.440 i'm grateful in the providence of god and his sovereignty for what happened today because it
00:05:06.640 it gives you a wonderful picture of my job
00:05:10.120 for god's sake pray for us
00:05:16.100 please we covet your prayers it is not easy to shepherd the flock of god
00:05:27.320 it has not been easy as of late
00:05:30.860 doesn't look like it's necessarily going to get any easier in the future
00:05:35.240 I desperately need prayers for strength
00:05:39.000 that I would be just as strong
00:05:43.560 in my life
00:05:46.380 in my family, as a husband, as a father
00:05:50.400 as a Christian
00:05:52.820 as I appear to be when I stand behind this pulpit.
00:06:00.680 Pray for us.
00:06:03.400 Obey and submit to your leaders.
00:06:06.700 It is the word of God.
00:06:09.760 And when you struggle, when you doubt,
00:06:14.140 when you begin to question,
00:06:17.480 as I see it, you have two primary,
00:06:19.720 I won't say exclusive, but two primary options.
00:06:22.820 if what we are doing is a breach of cardinal truth,
00:06:29.300 that is primary doctrine,
00:06:32.600 and as we'll see later in 1 Timothy 5,
00:06:35.260 and as we will witness, it seems,
00:06:37.160 in one of our upcoming members' meetings,
00:06:40.180 bring a charge.
00:06:41.620 If the elders and the deacons of the church,
00:06:44.020 if the officers of God's church are failing
00:06:46.760 in terms of primary doctrine,
00:06:49.580 bring a charge before the church.
00:06:52.820 But if not, and you're struggling,
00:06:57.100 then first and foremost, bring a prayer before the Lord.
00:07:02.780 If it's a primary failure, primary heresy,
00:07:07.520 bring a charge before the church.
00:07:09.600 I do not want to preach God's word if I'm a heretic. 0.81
00:07:14.100 So put me out of my misery. 1.00
00:07:16.200 Tie me up and burn me at the stake. 0.96
00:07:18.220 if it's primary bring a charge to the church if it's not bring a prayer to the lord
00:07:27.240 it doesn't mean that you cannot come to us with concerns and questions but there is a difference
00:07:34.720 in coming to the elders of a church who are not erring in primary doctrine it is something that
00:07:39.800 is secondary or tertiary there's a difference in coming to them to correct them versus coming to
00:07:46.060 them to learn from them, to ask for clarity. There's a difference in saying, I heard you say
00:07:52.820 this. What did you mean by that, brother? Could you help me understand? Versus coming to the
00:07:58.320 elders of a church and beginning to lecture them and rebuke and correct them for grievances and
00:08:08.480 differences on secondary doctrine. Oh, hi. I didn't see you there. Thanks for sticking around. I've 0.72
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00:09:12.600 God bless.