The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - The Mentally Disabled & Children Who Die In Infancy

00:00:00.000 all right listen guys i get it many of you are unable to financially support this ministry

00:00:04.620 because you're spending your cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and admonition

00:00:09.880 of the lord praise god for you and that endeavor however algorithms are a thing shadow banning

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00:00:41.600 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of

00:00:46.720 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. We don't often think about this, but a credible profession

00:00:56.480 of faith is a work. A credible profession of faith, in terms of theological categories,

00:01:07.260 it is a work. And it is, in most instances, if not virtually all, it is the first good work.

00:01:18.140 In other words, a profession is not faith itself.

00:01:25.160 A profession of Christ as Lord is the first fruit of faith.

00:01:30.700 It is the first evidence, the first sign that faith is there, that faith is present.

00:01:40.200 But it is a work.

00:01:42.300 we are saved by grace alone through faith alone and not by works so that no one would boast

00:01:49.380 but for the one who has faith faith will express itself through works in other words as Martin

00:01:57.760 Luther once said we are saved by faith alone but the faith that saves is never alone we're not

00:02:04.280 saved by faith and works we are saved by faith alone but a true saving quality genuine authentic

00:02:12.200 faith that actually does provide salvation, that saving faith will always be accompanied by good

00:02:19.000 works. Faith will always be manifest, evidenced, proven by works. And one of the first good works

00:02:27.480 that evidences faith, proves faith, is a profession. A profession. And so when the

00:02:34.600 Scripture says if any man believes in his heart and confesses with his mouth that Jesus is Lord,

00:02:39.640 he will be saved. That is not meant to say if anyone believes in his heart, a.k.a. faith,

00:02:46.260 professes with his mouth, a.k.a. works, he will be saved. In other words, faith plus works equal

00:02:51.700 salvation. No, it is if anyone believes in his heart, has faith, he will be saved. And immediately

00:02:57.100 one of the first fruits of that salvation is that he will profess. And to get real practical in terms

00:03:03.900 of application. This better be true. Otherwise, the mute will not inherit the kingdom. The

00:03:17.180 mentally deficient, the vegetable, will not inherit the kingdom. The infant who dies in 1.00

00:03:28.520 infancy, who cannot physically profess, will not inherit the kingdom.

00:03:36.580 But I would argue that they will if they have faith.

00:03:41.920 What the scripture is saying is that faith bears fruit.

00:03:48.300 As a general principle, faith bears fruit.

00:03:52.940 There are practical, providential exceptions.

00:03:55.960 but but the point is that if faith is present and if practical providence allows this is what

00:04:05.320 it will look like assuming the person is able to speak if they have faith they'll confess

00:04:13.180 christ in his lordship but it is not faith plus the work of confessing christ as lord equal

00:04:20.720 salvation it is faith alone grants salvation and will immediately evidence itself by good works

00:04:29.000 one of the first good works being a confession of christ as lord can i be frank with you for

00:04:35.380 just a second right here at the end look some of you guys you're financially supporting this

00:04:40.280 ministry and from the bottom of my heart i say thank you i cannot thank you enough however some

00:04:47.400 of you, you just, you can't afford it. In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be

00:04:53.940 honest. I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian 0.97

00:05:01.340 political elites lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID. We have written checks

00:05:09.560 that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession.

00:05:15.500 We are living in a recession right now regardless.

00:05:20.260 Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store.

00:05:25.200 You cannot support financially this ministry at this time, nor should you, but you could

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The NXR Podcast - February 07, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - The Mentally Disabled & Children Who Die In Infancy

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