The NXR Podcast - December 08, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - The Love of Money


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Length

7 minutes

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Word count

1,301

Sentence count

96

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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Transcript

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00:00:19.700 Jesus said,
00:00:20.800 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25.460 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30.000 Not a lover of money.
00:00:31.680 That is not covetousness nor greedy.
00:00:35.660 That's the actual translation.
00:00:37.060 Not a lover of money doesn't mean not rich.
00:00:40.120 Okay?
00:00:40.640 It doesn't say an elder can't be rich.
00:00:44.460 Most elders, if they're vocational elders, they need to take a livable wage,
00:00:49.840 which means they're not rich, but they're also not impoverished.
00:00:53.280 Right?
00:00:53.440 They're not rich, but they're not poor.
00:00:54.900 So if they're a vocational elder, meaning that they actually work for the church,
00:00:59.080 like I do.
00:01:00.000 then they should take a livable wage for the work that they do.
00:01:03.760 But because we believe the Bible doesn't just allow for those elders who are paid by the church,
00:01:07.600 vocational elders, but also lay elders,
00:01:10.100 some of those lay elders, while faithfully fulfilling the role of an elder,
00:01:14.100 may have some other kind of vocation that actually is very lucrative.
00:01:19.320 And so it is possible for an elder to be rich.
00:01:22.720 And so the prohibition here is not that an elder can't be rich,
00:01:26.480 but rather it is he's not a lover of money.
00:01:28.900 He's not covetousness, and he's not greedy.
00:01:31.360 The Bible has much to say about money.
00:01:33.540 Wealth is not inherently wrong, but all wealth presents potential dangers.
00:01:37.580 Every Christian, but especially elders, must clearly understand that a man cannot serve both money and God.
00:01:44.860 He must constantly be seeking to put to death the love of money.
00:01:49.320 Not money, not wealth, but the love of it, covetousness, and greed.
00:01:54.760 And just for the record, especially, especially in our cultural climate today.
00:02:01.320 There are many people who are not rich, but are actually failing to meet this qualification more than those who are rich.
00:02:09.820 There are many people who are poor by financial standard, but are far more covetousness.
00:02:17.040 Far more given to the sin of envy when it comes to the riches of others.
00:02:23.040 This is a unique,
00:02:24.740 a unique situation in our culture today.
00:02:27.800 This idea that you have more than me
00:02:30.540 and just by virtue of you having more,
00:02:33.620 you therefore owe me.
00:02:35.500 It's like, well, okay,
00:02:36.700 are you going to do some of the work?
00:02:38.060 No, but you just,
00:02:40.700 you're not better than me.
00:02:41.920 You're not allowed to be richer than me.
00:02:43.580 I keep hitting kind of this theme
00:02:45.240 because I think it's a huge,
00:02:47.880 formidable enemy of the truth of God's word.
00:02:51.260 That thing is egalitarianism.
00:02:54.340 It exists at every level.
00:02:55.720 So when we went through 1 Timothy 2,
00:02:57.920 we see egalitarianism as it relates to the relationship between men and women.
00:03:01.160 As we're going through 1 Timothy 3,
00:03:02.800 we see egalitarianism at play as it relates to congregants and elders.
00:03:07.380 An elder is in a position of authority.
00:03:09.720 There is authority.
00:03:10.820 Now we can argue all day long as far as our polity and those kind of things
00:03:13.360 how much authority an elder has.
00:03:14.740 But an elder, the word is used double honor to the elders who do what?
00:03:19.040 Rule.
00:03:20.840 R-U-L-E, rule.
00:03:24.320 Meaning what? 0.79
00:03:24.840 Elders rule. 0.98
00:03:26.140 And not like boys rule, girls drool kind of rule.
00:03:28.540 But elders rule, meaning they wield some measure of authority.
00:03:33.320 And we don't like it.
00:03:34.540 So that egalitarian spirit, which really, I think it's Marxism.
00:03:40.300 I'll just say it.
00:03:41.780 It's a Marxist, demonic ideology.
00:03:46.020 It is.
00:03:46.980 That has no bearing in the word of God.
00:03:48.600 that just demands that no one can ever have anything that I don't have.
00:03:54.180 So men can't be the head of their home.
00:03:56.960 If a wife can't, that's not fair, right? 1.00
00:03:59.420 And elders can't rule in a church. 1.00
00:04:01.360 If the congregants don't have that equal rule, that's not fair.
00:04:04.480 And somebody can't have more wealth than me if I don't have it.
00:04:08.340 They owe it to me.
00:04:10.720 Thomas Sowell, he's not a Christian, but he's, I think, wise in this regard.
00:04:16.760 an older african-american economist he says that envy used to be known as one of the seven deadly
00:04:24.720 sins today in our culture it goes by its new name social justice all right all right all right stop
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