The NXR Podcast - April 05, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Should Pastors Be More Concerned About Granting False Assurance Of Salvation？

Topics
false assurance financial struggles and podcast support
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Paul Jesus Christ Joe Biden
DAILY TRUTH - The Love Of The Father DAILY TRUTH - Without Assurance Of Justification, You Will Have Little Fuel For Your Sanctification

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If there was any group in the New Testament that could be trusted not to falsely assure anyone that they were saved, it would have to be the Church at Corinth. The Corinthian Church was a mess. They were in need of many warnings, many warnings and many consoling and comforting. So the conclusion is that whatever church that might be comforting or consoling the congregation is better than the Corinthian church.

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00:00:42 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:47 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. The Apostle Paul achieved a level of sanctification in this
00:00:56 life that was matched by few, if any. I would argue that no one before or after, other than
00:01:05 Jesus Christ, the God-man himself, that no one before or after has been more sanctified in their
00:01:13 earthly life than the Apostle Paul. Therefore, it's safe to assume that virtually no one cared
00:01:22 is deeply about personal holiness progressive righteousness sanctification as paul did it is
00:01:31 also true that the corinthian church possessed a level of spiritual immaturity among the new
00:01:39 testament churches that was matched by few if any therefore it's finally safe to assume that if there
00:01:48 was any particular church that the apostle Paul would be tempted to withhold assurance from it
00:01:55 would have been the church at Corinth all right I've got premise one premise two and then the
00:02:02 conclusion premise one Paul was really holy premise two Corinth was a mess conclusion if
00:02:11 Paul was going to be hesitant about offering assurance of salvation to any New Testament
00:02:16 church. It would have been the church at Corinth. You cannot say, well, Paul throws out assurance
00:02:23 to people loosely because he has low standards of holiness. No. There are plenty of false teachers
00:02:33 that are constantly handing out false assurance. And we can say rightly of them that they grant
00:02:40 false assurance because they care nothing for the sheep. And they have plenty of goats in their
00:02:48 congregation that they also hate and detest. They don't care about falsely assuring people, knowing
00:02:55 that false assurance is one of the leading, the leading motivations, the leading effects that
00:03:02 would cause someone to go to hell. Right? What does Jesus say in Matthew chapter 7? Many will
00:03:08 say to me, Lord, Lord, we did this in your name and that in your name. Meaning there are a lot
00:03:15 of people who will be shocked when they wake up in hell. It's not just that there will be a lot
00:03:23 of people in hell saying, yeah, this makes sense. Yeah, I figured. No, many will say, what's going
00:03:34 on? I was a Christian. And so false assurance is a damning, literally damning offense. The false
00:03:45 teacher who grants false assurance to unbelievers, but speaks to them and assures them that they are 0.65
00:03:51 believers, a false teacher, a false prophet, that person is damning people to hell. The Old Testament 0.84
00:03:59 speaks of false prophets in this way condemning them saying they've healed the wounds of my people
00:04:05 lightly saying peace peace when there is no peace they've taken gaping wounds and they've
00:04:16 healed them lightly oh it's okay you'll be fine nothing to see here nothing to be concerned about
00:04:24 so so handing out false assurance is a big deal but the point is that if there's anyone we can
00:04:34 trust other than jesus christ himself not to hand out false assurance it would have been the apostle
00:04:40 paul and if there was any group that that you would be in danger of falsely assuring
00:04:49 that maybe could stand a few more corrections and warnings
00:04:53 and less comfort and consolation,
00:04:56 it would have been the Corinthian church.
00:05:00 So premise one, Paul doesn't hand out false assurance.
00:05:03 He cares about holiness.
00:05:05 He doesn't have compromised standards.
00:05:09 Premise two, the Corinthian church was a mess,
00:05:12 radically immature.
00:05:14 They were in need of many warnings,
00:05:16 many warnings and if there was any church that paul would have been most careful with
00:05:22 it would have been them so the conclusion is whatever paul says to the corinthian church
00:05:29 that might be comforting or consoling i'm going pastorally to hold that as an ordinary standard
00:05:37 for comforting and encouraging and assuring my congregation essentially what i'm saying is
00:05:45 by the grace of God, I think you're better covenant Bible church than the Corinthian church.
00:05:51 And I know for a fact that I am less holy than the apostle Paul. So whatever standard minimum
00:05:58 bottom line of assurance that Paul's giving to Corinth, I'm going to give at least that much
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