The NXR Podcast - October 19, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Seeking Spiritual Growth


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Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

156.8805

Word count

1,213

Sentence count

81


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00:00:00.000 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold it. Big announcement, a scary announcement, a threat,
00:00:06.140 but also a promise. The price of our conference, the post-millennial and theonomy conference,
00:00:11.160 it's going up. It's going up right after Reformation Day. We are going to hold the
00:00:16.060 price at $100, which is super cheap for a three-day conference with Dr. James White, Dr. Joseph Boot,
00:00:21.740 Dr. Gary DeMar, and the guy who's not a doctor, so we'll say Pastor Joel Webin. We've got a great
00:00:27.020 conference, May 5th, 6th, and 7th in Georgetown, Texas, just north of Austin for a hundred bucks,
00:00:33.460 super cheap, but we can't hold that price forever. So if you want to get into that price,
00:00:38.760 you got to get in now, right after Reformation Day, not Halloween, Reformation Day, October 31st.
00:00:44.640 That's the last day that you can get in this conference, register at the price of a hundred
00:00:49.340 bucks. After that, starting November 1st, it's going to be 130. So go to rightresponseconference.com,
00:00:56.300 rightresponseconference.com and register today. Thanks.
00:01:02.320 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:01:07.460 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. And here's the irony. The person who is lacking self-awareness,
00:01:17.940 who doesn't, they don't have their fingers on the pulse of the sin, which still remains within the
00:01:23.320 members of their being, of the idolatry that still lurks in the recesses of their heart.
00:01:29.820 The person who does not possess a healthy self-awareness,
00:01:35.420 that person feels like they're really sanctified, but ironically, they're not.
00:01:41.880 The irony is this, the more you're becoming like Christ in progressive righteousness,
00:01:47.640 in sanctification, sometimes the worse you feel.
00:01:51.160 but don't let that discourage you as you are becoming objectively not less like christ more
00:01:59.380 like christ but as you're becoming more like christ you're also becoming painfully aware
00:02:05.620 of all the ways that you're not like christ that's a mark of maturity a mark of maturity
00:02:11.080 is getting better and becoming more aware of the ways in which you still need to improve
00:02:17.060 a person who if you ask them you know what are your weaknesses what are some areas that you need
00:02:22.580 to improve what what are some of the things that the holy spirit is convicting you about
00:02:25.980 when you read the word what are some of the the the idols in your heart that get
00:02:30.840 highlighted and emphasized and the person has nothing to say that i never thought about that
00:02:35.560 like whoa like they should be terrified and i talk to christians like this this happens
00:02:45.780 somewhat frequently.
00:02:47.160 It's like, what sin are you striving
00:02:51.420 by the grace of God
00:02:52.480 and the strength that the Holy Spirit provides
00:02:54.640 to mortify, that is, to put to death?
00:02:58.280 What portions of your flesh
00:03:01.580 are you trying to put to death,
00:03:03.880 mortifying sin?
00:03:06.220 What sin are you grieved over
00:03:08.440 and burdened by?
00:03:11.960 In what ways are you growing,
00:03:14.180 Not lowering, but growing in aversion.
00:03:16.880 That is, godly hatred towards your sin.
00:03:22.320 Can you name any of those for me?
00:03:26.380 And the person's like, I never even thought about that.
00:03:30.220 Like, what are some of your biggest idols?
00:03:32.180 The things that you are most inclined, most likely, to trust and treasure.
00:03:40.500 Trust and treasure.
00:03:41.920 That is, hope in and love more than Christ.
00:03:48.840 Never thought about that.
00:03:51.820 But not just what areas of the flesh are you mortifying.
00:03:55.940 Here's another question.
00:03:57.040 John Owen.
00:03:58.840 In what way are you seeking to put to death even provisions for the flesh?
00:04:05.440 In what way are you, not just here's sin in my life and I'm trying to mortify it.
00:04:09.680 I'm trying to put it to death.
00:04:11.920 Idols in my life, flesh that is standing in a hostile position toward God.
00:04:16.860 But in what way are you seeking to snuff out every single provision for the flesh?
00:04:24.040 Most people can't answer that question.
00:04:27.880 And I'm not saying they're not Christians.
00:04:29.160 I'm just saying that is a sign of a lack of sanctification.
00:04:35.220 Whereas, and here's the irony, whereas the person who can answer those questions,
00:04:39.280 It's like, I'm super grieved about this sin in my life.
00:04:42.680 I'm very aware about these seven idols in my life.
00:04:46.880 I'm not.
00:04:48.600 I have been leaving provisions for the flesh
00:04:51.900 in this way and that way.
00:04:53.280 That person, when I'm talking to that person,
00:04:56.160 you know what I'm aware of?
00:04:57.900 I'm aware that I'm talking to a sanctified individual.
00:05:01.580 So the person who's more in touch with their sin
00:05:03.720 likely looks more like Jesus than the person who's not.
00:05:09.780 I think that's what Paul's talking about.
00:05:11.780 And again, I'm not saying that's exclusively what he's talking about.
00:05:13.960 Of course he's talking about his past life.
00:05:16.940 Of course he's talking about blaspheming, persecuting.
00:05:20.480 He's talking about all the things he did before the Lord Jesus Christ saved him
00:05:23.820 and called him to the office of an apostle.
00:05:26.800 But I think he's also saying that as I keep getting closer and closer to Jesus,
00:05:30.940 I keep being made more and more aware of all the ways I'm not like Jesus.
00:05:34.700 You don't get caught up into the third heaven and then leave that experience without any knowledge of sin.
00:05:43.760 Let me say that again.
00:05:45.120 You don't get caught up into third heaven and leave that experience without growing in your knowledge of sin.
00:05:52.900 Isaiah is caught up.
00:05:55.440 Woe am I.
00:05:56.240 A man of unclean lips who lives among a people of unclean lips.
00:06:00.440 Peter has an experience with the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:06:03.320 He sees him performing the miracle of catching all the fish.
00:06:06.760 Let your nets down on the other side of the boat.
00:06:08.660 His immediate response to Christ after he sees that miracle
00:06:13.000 and starts to begin to recognize who Jesus is, his deity,
00:06:16.800 that he is the son of God.
00:06:18.020 Peter says, depart from me, Lord.
00:06:21.320 Well, I'm a sinner.
00:06:23.920 Right, that's the reaction.
00:06:25.420 You see the holiness of God, you see your sinfulness.
00:06:28.740 And as we're sanctified, that grows.
00:06:31.580 It doesn't decrease.
00:06:32.760 But you shouldn't be growing in discouragement.
00:06:34.640 You're growing in self-awareness of the areas in which you need to improve by God's grace.
00:06:39.560 But you're growing in encouragement and comfort and confidence in the Son of God
00:06:44.540 who loved you and gave himself up for you at the very same time.
00:06:47.940 So you're not growing in an awareness of sin and in condemnation.
00:06:52.100 There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
00:06:54.560 You are growing in an understanding of the sin which still remains
00:06:59.120 and in confidence in the gospel
00:07:01.860 and the grace of God that covers that sin.
00:07:05.940 And so you have nothing to fear.
00:07:07.800 And these two things as they're held in balance,
00:07:09.860 long gospel, long gospel, long gospel,
00:07:13.500 sin and grace,
00:07:16.120 sanctification with justification.
00:07:18.740 As these things are held in balance with one another,
00:07:22.780 we grow and we grow and we grow and we grow.
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