The NXR Podcast - October 26, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - The Danger of Apostasy

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Hymenaeus Alexander Sovereign Gracie Joshua Harris C.J. Mahaney Jamie White Joseph Boot Gary DeMar Joel Webin Paul
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Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

152.22

Word count

767

Sentence count

55


Summary

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In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken teaches us about the fall of two of the most influential preachers in the early Christian church, Joshua Harris and Alexander Chansili, and how they were casualties of their influence in the church.

Transcript

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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 Ministry has casualties.
00:00:31.740 Some will tragically shipwreck their faith.
00:00:34.100 To use Paul's earlier analogy, some will go down in battle.
00:00:36.920 We all have a tendency to put our eyes on certain church leaders
00:00:40.600 instead of on Christ himself.
00:00:43.000 Satan cannot cause Christ to fall,
00:00:44.960 but he can certainly ruin leaders in the church
00:00:48.020 who have lots of influence.
00:00:50.220 If such a person falls, there are usually many others
00:00:53.060 who will fall with them as well.
00:00:55.740 Hymenaeus and Alexander, I would be shocked to find.
00:00:58.500 that they were simply two quiet unknown members in the church the implication seems to be that
00:01:08.760 they were leaders with influence in the church that Paul warns Timothy about these men because
00:01:15.400 these men had not only fallen themselves but in their fall they were influencing others to follow
00:01:21.800 them and their failure as well.
00:01:25.420 I don't know if you're aware of the recent events with Joshua Harris.
00:01:30.920 He wrote, I Kissed Dating Goodbye back in the day.
00:01:34.940 Not my favorite book.
00:01:38.760 But he grew in the Lord, or so we thought.
00:01:45.820 Eventually, he took over C.J. Mahaney's church, Sovereign Grace,
00:01:48.600 as a lead pastor, a church of thousands,
00:01:51.860 and not just a seeker-friendly megachurch,
00:01:54.580 but a church that was reformed, at least in its soteriology.
00:01:58.120 He seemed to possess good doctrine.
00:02:01.780 And he was a pretty good preacher.
00:02:04.500 And then he left his wife.
00:02:07.440 Don't worry, they're still friends, they both say.
00:02:11.320 But he left his wife.
00:02:14.000 And then shortly after,
00:02:15.860 coincidentally he also publicly announced that he left the faith do we see that in our text today
00:02:24.300 hold fast to faith and a good conscience see in his character he left his wife
00:02:31.420 he abandoned her he gave up on his marriage and his covenant and what the bible commands
00:02:39.220 in that regard he left her and then he left christ and these aren't my observations this is
00:02:47.200 his own admission joshua harris says i am not a christian and it said so publicly he has apostatized
00:02:54.860 now we know from scripture that ultimately he did not fall away but ultimately he never
00:03:04.040 truly possessed christ to begin with or more so we should say that christ never possessed him
00:03:11.180 christ will hold us fast christ will keep us the same grace that saves us keeps us if you truly
00:03:17.620 belong to christ christ will see to it that you are never lost but there will be many that we
00:03:23.000 thought surely they belong to christ and we will find in the end like joshua harris or like
00:03:31.100 Hymenaeus or like Alexander that perhaps they did not because the Christian
00:03:36.440 life,
00:03:36.960 because Christian ministry,
00:03:38.160 which we are all called to is not a picnic,
00:03:40.920 but a good fight.
00:03:42.780 That is a fight.
00:03:44.200 It is good because it's worth it.
00:03:46.180 It's worth fighting.
00:03:47.780 And because it is a fight,
00:03:49.580 it would be naive to think that it is a fight without casualties.
00:03:53.320 And because there will be casualties,
00:03:56.120 we must set our eyes on Christ and not men.
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00:05:01.860 God bless.