The NXR Podcast - October 26, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - The Danger of Apostasy

Topics
Joshua Harris 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

53


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 Hey guys, real quick, before we get started, I have a small request.
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00:00:19 Jesus said,
00:00:20 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30 Ministry has casualties.
00:00:31 Some will tragically shipwreck their faith.
00:00:34 To use Paul's earlier analogy, some will go down in battle.
00:00:36 We all have a tendency to put our eyes on certain church leaders
00:00:40 instead of on Christ himself.
00:00:43 Satan cannot cause Christ to fall,
00:00:44 but he can certainly ruin leaders in the church
00:00:48 who have lots of influence.
00:00:50 If such a person falls, there are usually many others
00:00:53 who will fall with them as well.
00:00:55 Hymenaeus and Alexander, I would be shocked to find.
00:00:58 that they were simply two quiet unknown members in the church the implication seems to be that
00:01:08 they were leaders with influence in the church that Paul warns Timothy about these men because
00:01:15 these men had not only fallen themselves but in their fall they were influencing others to follow
00:01:21 them and their failure as well.
00:01:25 I don't know if you're aware of the recent events with Joshua Harris.
00:01:30 He wrote, I Kissed Dating Goodbye back in the day.
00:01:34 Not my favorite book.
00:01:38 But he grew in the Lord, or so we thought.
00:01:45 Eventually, he took over C.J. Mahaney's church, Sovereign Grace,
00:01:48 as a lead pastor, a church of thousands,
00:01:51 and not just a seeker-friendly megachurch,
00:01:54 but a church that was reformed, at least in its soteriology.
00:01:58 He seemed to possess good doctrine.
00:02:01 And he was a pretty good preacher.
00:02:04 And then he left his wife.
00:02:07 Don't worry, they're still friends, they both say.
00:02:11 But he left his wife.
00:02:14 And then shortly after,
00:02:15 coincidentally he also publicly announced that he left the faith do we see that in our text today
00:02:24 hold fast to faith and a good conscience see in his character he left his wife
00:02:31 he abandoned her he gave up on his marriage and his covenant and what the bible commands
00:02:39 in that regard he left her and then he left christ and these aren't my observations this is
00:02:47 his own admission joshua harris says i am not a christian and it said so publicly he has apostatized
00:02:54 now we know from scripture that ultimately he did not fall away but ultimately he never
00:03:04 truly possessed christ to begin with or more so we should say that christ never possessed him
00:03:11 christ will hold us fast christ will keep us the same grace that saves us keeps us if you truly
00:03:17 belong to christ christ will see to it that you are never lost but there will be many that we
00:03:23 thought surely they belong to christ and we will find in the end like joshua harris or like
00:03:31 Hymenaeus or like Alexander that perhaps they did not because the Christian
00:03:36 life,
00:03:36 because Christian ministry,
00:03:38 which we are all called to is not a picnic,
00:03:40 but a good fight.
00:03:42 That is a fight.
00:03:44 It is good because it's worth it.
00:03:46 It's worth fighting.
00:03:47 And because it is a fight,
00:03:49 it would be naive to think that it is a fight without casualties.
00:03:53 And because there will be casualties,
00:03:56 we must set our eyes on Christ and not men.
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00:05:01 God bless.