The NXR Podcast - December 15, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - The Need For A Disciplined Lifestyle

Topics
training for godliness
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Timothy Paul Nathan Anderson
DAILY TRUTH - Motivation For Living A Disciplined Life DAILY TRUTH - Trusting Jesus Is The Fuel For Imitating Jesus

Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

163.46

Word count

1,237

Sentence count

80

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Joel discusses the importance of continuing to be trained in the word of God. Training for godliness is a life of perpetual and continual training for God. The moment we stop, we begin to slide downhill.

Transcript

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00:00:30 Now notice the second half of verse 6.
00:00:32 See, if you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus.
00:00:36 Being trained in the words of the faith and of a good doctrine that you have followed.
00:00:44 There's a sense in which Timothy, being trained, what Paul is saying is that Timothy has already been trained.
00:00:49 There's a past tense that Timothy has been trained in these things and being trained.
00:00:54 There's a present tense in which Timothy has been trained in these things, and he is presently being trained in these things.
00:01:02 But as we see, the primary command in our text today, second half of verse 7, the command of the apostle to Timothy and to all of us is that we, in a future sense, go on training.
00:01:16 Look at the second half of verse 7.
00:01:18 Train yourself for godliness.
00:01:21 now remember all scripture is for us not all scripture is to us so so the particular audience
00:01:29 that paul has in mind is timothy so paul is telling timothy train yourself for godliness but
00:01:35 when we when we compare the the end of verse 7 train yourself for godliness as a command given
00:01:42 to timothy but for all of us when we compare that with what we've already seen in the second half
00:01:47 of verse 6 of our text, well, Timothy's already been trained, right? He's being trained. We see
00:01:53 Paul addressing him elsewhere, speaking of his grandmother and mother and how he, even in his
00:01:58 childhood, he had already been trained. So Timothy has been trained in the past. He's being trained
00:02:03 in the present. So why is it so imperative? Why is it so significant? The apostle commands him
00:02:11 to go on training because the christian life is a life of perpetual and continual training for
00:02:18 godliness you never stop just like physically and we see him use this as an illustration in the text
00:02:26 in verse eight right physical training bodily training it's of some value but but spiritual
00:02:33 training training for godliness is of infinitely more value because it holds promise not only for
00:02:39 this life but for the next and just like physical training i don't think it's i don't think it's a
00:02:44 coincidence that the apostle uses this as a comparison as the illustration physical training
00:02:49 you can be in the best shape of your life and train for 20 years but the moment you stop
00:02:54 all of a sudden you begin to slide downhill right it's not as though in physical training
00:03:01 you can reach a certain point and then if you don't train anymore you just stay there
00:03:06 No, you're paddling upstream.
00:03:09 So the moment that you stop, you don't just maintain.
00:03:13 You lose the ground that you previously covered.
00:03:18 So it is with training for godliness.
00:03:21 So it is with spiritual training.
00:03:23 So it is with Christian discipline.
00:03:26 We must have been trained. 0.94
00:03:29 We need to be trained in the present.
00:03:31 But we must go on training in the future.
00:03:33 For the moment we stop, we decline.
00:03:37 And so this is the command to Timothy, but for all of us.
00:03:41 It is a continual command.
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