The NXR Podcast - June 13, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - The 3 Key Elements Of Faith

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
James
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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

177.76

Word count

746

Sentence count

34

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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The third and final component of true saving faith is assent, which is knowledge, assent and implicit trust in God and His person alone. Without this, there is no real saving faith, and without that we are not truly saved.

Transcript

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00:00:19.700 Jesus said,
00:00:20.820 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25.460 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30.000 So real saving faith requires knowledge and assent.
00:00:34.960 But if we only have those two key elements
00:00:38.020 without the third that I'll mention here in just a moment,
00:00:40.560 that only really serves to help us graduate
00:00:43.100 to the level of faith that is, biblically speaking, demonic.
00:00:48.620 See, the book of James in the New Testament
00:00:50.240 says that even the demons believe.
00:00:52.760 Demons have faith.
00:00:54.620 What do they believe?
00:00:55.480 If we look at the context, they believe that God is one.
00:00:59.380 James is saying to his audience that he's writing to,
00:01:01.660 you believe God is one?
00:01:02.960 Good.
00:01:03.900 But even the demons believe that.
00:01:05.740 And the result of their belief is that they shudder.
00:01:08.580 They shrink back in fear.
00:01:11.160 They tremble.
00:01:12.280 Now, look, you don't tremble at something that's not true.
00:01:15.120 So the demons, they don't just have knowledge of the fact that God is three eternal persons
00:01:19.220 and yet one in essence and being.
00:01:21.000 What's being said by James is ultimately this.
00:01:23.000 The demons have a better working Trinitarian doctrine
00:01:25.880 than the best living scholars on earth today.
00:01:28.760 demons have better doctrine and theology than you do and me so they know that god is three
00:01:33.940 eternal persons and that he is one and they don't just know this because just knowing something if
00:01:38.620 you don't agree that it's true doesn't result in trembling see the demons shudder because they
00:01:44.560 know it and they have given not eagerly not joyfully not willingly but they have given
00:01:51.640 nonetheless because they must their assent they agree with what they know see the third and final
00:01:57.960 component of true saving faith christian faith is that we know that we grant assent and that lastly
00:02:05.840 we we give our implicit trust and with that there is personal trust as a way of illustration if
00:02:16.720 there was a chair on the stage before me i could look at the chair and i could say i know that this
00:02:21.000 is a chair i'm not an expert in chairs but i've seen enough chairs in my life and the concept of
00:02:26.180 a chair is simple enough to where I can look at this chair and I know that this is a chair. I see
00:02:31.760 its chairness before me. I recognize its chairness. And not only do I know it's a chair, but I believe
00:02:37.020 it's a true chair. I have given my assent. I agree that this is not just a chair, but it is a chair
00:02:43.080 chair. It is a true chair, but I am not biblically having faith in the chair until I ultimately cast
00:02:50.820 my weight upon it, trusting that it will hold me up, that it is able, that it is sufficient to do
00:02:58.080 what it was created and designed to do. In the same way, you are not truly trusting Jesus. You
00:03:04.320 do not have biblical faith in Jesus until you know Jesus from the scripture. You agree with 0.68
00:03:09.260 what the scripture says about Jesus. And lastly, you cast the full weight, not of your behind,
00:03:14.660 but of your soul on Jesus, believing that he is able and willing to sustain you before God on that
00:03:24.740 final day, to wash you pure as snow by the sprinkling of his blood, to clothe you in his
00:03:31.860 righteousness, to present you pure and spotless and without blemish before God, not by works which
00:03:38.840 you have performed, but by grace, that is the free gift of God that is laid hold of through
00:03:44.700 the instrument of faith, which is knowledge, assent, and implicit trust in God, and that the
00:03:50.960 object is Christ and his work, his person alone. Thanks so much for listening. But real quick,
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