The NXR Podcast - December 08, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - The Love of Money


Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

164.75

Word count

1,301

Sentence count

96

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

sentences flagged

Hate speech

8

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Summary

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In this episode, Pastor Ken teaches on the role of elders in the church and the role they play in our society, and how they differ from those who are paid by the church as lay elders and the ones who are not.

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. 0.96
00:01:44.860 He must constantly be seeking to put to death the love of money. 0.95
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? 0.99
00:03:24.840 Elders rule. 1.00
00:03:26.140 And not like boys rule, girls drool kind of rule. 0.50
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. 0.86
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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