The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - The Evangelical Plague Of Gnosticism

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00:00:27.500 if we are to preach the gospel share the gospel proclaim the gospel to others we must believe it

00:00:34.660 and if we are to believe it we must understand it it is a heretical gnostic notion to think that

00:00:42.420 understanding and belief are somehow divorced from one another that's what much of our modern

00:00:49.860 evangelical culture has insisted they'll say yeah sure to preach the gospel shamelessly

00:00:57.180 unapologetically certainly you must believe it if you're going to shamelessly preach the gospel

00:01:03.900 then you have to be authentic it has to be genuine it has to be something that you yourself believe

00:01:11.020 like any good salesman if he's going to be successful it helps tremendously if he actually

00:01:17.780 believes in the product that he's attempting to get others to buy. So evangelicalism doesn't really

00:01:24.260 have much of an opposition to the principle up to this point. The idea that if you're going to

00:01:30.520 preach the gospel well, if you're going to do so persuasively, and if you're going to do so

00:01:35.980 unapologetically, you must believe it yourself. What you are presenting to others must be something

00:01:42.280 that you believe yourself where evangelicals will then derail is when you follow that statement up

00:01:49.360 by saying and that which you yourself believe it must also be something necessarily that you

00:01:56.420 understand this idea that well you believe with your heart and you know with your mind and these

00:02:03.660 are two completely unrelated things that is a misconception that is not biblical

00:02:11.880 even the greatest commandment that jesus says in matthew chapter 22 verse 37 through 40

00:02:18.680 he said to him you shall love the lord your god with all your heart with all your soul with all

00:02:25.120 your mind elsewhere in the gospel narratives strength is also included with all your strength

00:02:31.420 and the second greatest commandment is like it that you should love your neighbor as yourself

00:02:36.420 all the law and the prophets hinge that is they depend upon these two commandments the greatest

00:02:44.020 first and foremost love god the second love your neighbor as you love yourself but in regards to

00:02:51.040 the first in regards to man's moral obligation to love the lord his god above all other things

00:02:57.940 what's included in this command is that you should love the lord your god with everything

00:03:04.140 that's what jesus is expressing and he's quoting old testament scripture but what he's expressing

00:03:11.820 that the chief principle the headline of the story is that man is called to love god with

00:03:18.320 every part of him with all of his being reserving nothing for himself what jesus is not expressing

00:03:26.700 is that love for God is like a Luby's buffet and that you could step in line and you could say, 0.70

00:03:34.960 you know what? I'm more of a heart guy. And the commandment is love the Lord your God with all

00:03:39.820 your heart, soul, mind, and or strength. And I'm a heart guy. So I've opted for a Christian life

00:03:49.180 of loving the Lord with all my heart. And I'm fulfilling the first and greatest commandment.

00:03:53.940 you see what evangelicals have done is instead of the word and they have replaced it with the word

00:04:00.800 or what's the greatest commandment love the lord your god with your heart soul mind or strength

00:04:07.560 and you get to choose which option you prefer and the heart people this is what they do and i would

00:04:15.120 say this is 98 of evangelicals they all opt for heart it's not a coincidence what they do essentially

00:04:20.820 is they say this. Number one, I've chosen to love the Lord with all my heart. And first and foremost,

00:04:26.600 that's better than everybody else, right? There's some guys, you know, they love the Lord with all

00:04:30.460 their mind, but I've loved the Lord with all my heart. And I think the Lord prefers this one.

00:04:37.160 I'm better than those mind loving Christians. You know, those who just, they love God with their 0.95

00:04:43.640 thoughts, but I love God with my feelings. And that trumps loving God with your mind and with

00:04:49.280 your thoughts. Why? What verse told you that? Well, I think it was Disney chapter 12, verse 13.

00:04:56.760 Feelings trump everything. And I feel, you know, I mean, when I'm worshiping the Lord, I get the

00:05:03.680 feels. I cried four times this week while listening to a worship, you know, song in my car.

00:05:11.920 That's not how it works. It's not a buffet. Jesus doesn't say here are four, three or four

00:05:16.760 different ways to and all you have to do is one no jesus is saying you must love me with every

00:05:25.720 element of your being it's not this this this or that it's this this this and that you must love

00:05:35.980 the lord your god with all your hearts and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all

00:05:45.580 your strength. We are not Gnostics.

The NXR Podcast - November 06, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - The Evangelical Plague Of Gnosticism

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