The NXR Podcast - December 26, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - The Christian Faith


Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

119.66

Word count

939

Sentence count

49


Summary

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The Christian faith is a historical faith. It is a proclamation of good news of something that God actually did. That God actually performed. The Christian faith begins with history, it begins with something that god actually did, and what we believe about this event is doctrine.

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00:00:41.700 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone,
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00:00:47.520 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:52.280 One of the wonderful things about the Christian faith
00:00:55.720 is that it is a historical faith.
00:01:00.820 Actual, real events that took place in human history.
00:01:07.400 It's a proclamation of good news.
00:01:11.860 The good news of something that God actually did.
00:01:16.360 That God actually performed.
00:01:18.840 Real events.
00:01:21.740 The Christian faith is a life, yes.
00:01:23.840 but it is also before it is alive how we must live it is doctrine what we must believe and before it
00:01:32.620 is even doctrine it is history the christian faith begins with history it begins with an event it
00:01:40.300 begins with something that god actually did and what we believe about this event what god did is
00:01:48.380 doctrine and how we live in light of what we believe about this event is character and godliness
00:01:56.920 our life but it all begins with history it all begins with god doing something
00:02:05.340 in his imminence in real time in real human history on this planet something was manifest
00:02:16.260 seen in the flesh
00:02:19.520 some one name was manifest
00:02:23.060 his name is Jesus
00:02:26.300 Jesus Christ is God revealed in the flesh
00:02:30.060 and in John the gospel of John
00:02:33.280 chapter 1 verses 1 through 2
00:02:35.080 we find these words
00:02:37.140 in the beginning was the word
00:02:39.560 that is the living word
00:02:41.280 Jesus
00:02:42.540 and the word was with God
00:02:45.260 and the word was God.
00:02:48.180 But then just a little later in verse 14,
00:02:51.220 John writes this,
00:02:52.660 and the word became flesh and tabernacled,
00:02:56.360 dwelt among us.
00:02:59.340 See, there are many religions
00:03:00.440 which speak of appearances of gods,
00:03:05.440 lowercase g, false gods.
00:03:08.320 However, only Christianity takes the position
00:03:11.580 that the God who existed from all eternity
00:03:14.700 and through whom all things were created actually became a human being.
00:03:21.900 As St. Augustine said, he is divinity wrapped in flesh.
00:03:29.000 Jesus emptied himself, as it were, Philippians chapter 2,
00:03:33.960 but he emptied himself not by subtraction, but rather by addition.
00:03:39.480 He did not empty himself of the divine nature,
00:03:42.380 but rather he emptied himself by taking upon himself a second nature,
00:03:48.180 the human nature, the divinity concealed in flesh.
00:03:57.020 Jesus, the God-man, who in the beginning was with God and was God,
00:04:04.040 and the word by which all things were created and even now are being held together,
00:04:09.380 Together, according to Colossians, this Jesus took on flesh, was born in a manger.
00:04:18.980 This Jesus, as an infant, crying beneath the stars that he both created and was presently sustaining.
00:04:30.760 this jesus in flesh crying while in his divinity upholding sustaining galaxies
00:04:41.120 this jesus later hanging bleeding out on a cross that every single molecule and splinter
00:04:52.980 of this cross is being fastened together by the same jesus who's bleeding out upon it
00:04:59.900 he was manifested in the flesh.
00:05:06.640 Hebrews chapter one, verses one through three says,
00:05:09.500 long ago, at many times and in many ways,
00:05:12.160 God spoke to our fathers by the prophets.
00:05:15.820 But in these last days, he has spoken to us by his son,
00:05:19.780 whom he appointed the heir of all things,
00:05:23.080 through whom also he created the world.
00:05:27.680 He, that is Jesus,
00:05:29.900 is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint, not similar, but the exact imprint of
00:05:40.040 his nature, God's nature. And he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
00:05:48.480 Now, Jesus, in his divine nature, is not of a similar substance to the Father, but the same substance.
00:06:01.840 So that he can say with all confidence and truthfulness, if you have seen me, you have seen the Father.
00:06:10.420 People must see God.
00:06:12.920 And if they are to see God, they must see his Son.
00:06:17.660 For he is the agency by which the father in these last days continues to speak.
00:06:26.320 In the days of old, God spoke to us at many times and in many ways.
00:06:33.940 God spoke in his special revelation through dreams, through visions, through impressions.
00:06:42.680 God spoke in manifestations and theophanies.
00:06:47.660 God spoke with stars guiding and angels manifesting.
00:06:53.100 But in these last days, God has spoken to us in his final word, in his final revelation.
00:07:02.960 It is final because it is perfect.
00:07:06.560 In these last days, God has spoken to us through his son.
00:07:10.380 and his son still speaks to us today through the apostolic testimony of Jesus contained in
00:07:19.360 the scripture and these scriptures are still expounded to us today through the faithful
00:07:25.700 preaching both in life and in doctrine of the body of Christ that is his church thanks so much
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