The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - The Power of Persuasive Preaching

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00:00:19.680 Jesus said,

00:00:20.800 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

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00:00:30.000 Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion,

00:00:34.560 but willingly as God would have you, not for shameful gain, taking an appropriate wage

00:00:39.720 and doing appropriate work.

00:00:41.600 Do it eagerly, not domineering over those in your charge, not using coercion, but the

00:00:51.360 church, the Orthodox church has held now for 2000 years that the way that ministers, the

00:00:58.540 way that they the way that they guide the sheep the way that they shepherd the sheep the way that

00:01:02.960 they move the sheep is not through coercion but through persuasion to persuade i mean that's

00:01:10.040 literally what hebrews and i've used it multiple times now but if you remember about three weeks

00:01:14.060 ago hebrews chapter 13 verse 17 obey your leaders and submit to them the word obey means to be

00:01:22.420 persuaded by which means a pastor should be persuasive i don't like the way you're binding

00:01:29.220 my conscience i feel like you're being too forceful a pastor should be persuasive i was

00:01:34.740 speaking with stephan just this last friday john knox a wonderful pastor in scotland he kept breaking

00:01:42.120 pulpits because he kept banging on them you find his pulpits i mean they still have his pulpits

00:01:48.380 they're splintered from how many times he would hit them while preaching.

00:01:53.340 Was he disqualified?

00:01:56.220 I hope not.

00:01:58.240 If John Knox is disqualified,

00:02:00.100 then I don't know if there's a qualified man alive.

00:02:04.240 He wasn't using coercion.

00:02:06.920 He was using persuasion.

00:02:09.540 That is the weapon.

00:02:10.680 That is the tool that God has assigned to his ministers.

00:02:14.820 And to be fair, that is the tool that God has assigned to all his children.

00:02:20.360 To the saints has been given the work of ministry, Ephesians chapter 4.

00:02:24.540 And the work of ministry is to make disciples, the Great Commission.

00:02:29.360 And to make disciples, we do not do it through coercion.

00:02:32.820 We don't do it through crusades and the sword, that which is a physical sword.

00:02:39.540 But rather we do it through persuasion and that which is the spiritual sword.

00:02:44.140 which is sharper than any other sword it is double-edged it cuts through bone and marrow

00:02:49.660 someone says that hurt i don't like how you said that yeah it hurts it's a hammer it breaks things

00:02:55.780 to pieces that's what jeremiah says it's a double-edged sword it slices through every fiber

00:03:01.440 of our being it comforts it convicts it consoles and it condemns those who are not in christ and

00:03:12.400 who refuse his gospel call.

00:03:16.020 That is not coercion.

00:03:17.760 That is not manipulation.

00:03:19.880 That is not spiritual abuse.

00:03:22.080 That is persuasion.

00:03:24.720 If a person says, as a matter of accusation,

00:03:30.680 which no one says I have an accusation,

00:03:32.020 they'll always say I have a concern.

00:03:34.200 But let's be honest, an accusation.

00:03:38.440 I have an accusation against you.

00:03:40.760 you speak in such a way that it just you make people feel like they can't disagree

00:03:47.620 i think we have to consider whether the speaking is aligned with the scripture because if so

00:03:54.180 that's not wrong that's just good preaching if a person says when you sit down after an hour

00:04:01.940 of speaking people feel like to do anything other than what you said would be a sin

00:04:07.980 that could be spiritual abuse and manipulation or it could be good preaching

00:04:13.360 we persuade we plead we charge we confront we challenge this is the tool that has been given

00:04:26.620 to the ministers of god and to all the saints to perform faithful ministry

00:04:32.800 not domineering over those in your charge persuade houston we have a problem i repeat

00:04:42.540 we have a problem our conference is about to sell out i mean about to sell out we probably

00:04:48.100 have about 75 to 100 seats left our venue holds about 525 to 550 seats and we currently have

00:04:56.460 450 people who are registered for this conference. The excitement is tangible. A lot of people

00:05:02.840 registered because they wanted to hit the early bird rate. We're now at our normal rate, $130 for

00:05:08.280 an adult, $50 for a kid who's 11 to 17 years old, and kids 10 and under get in free. You can bring

00:05:14.360 the whole family, but the problem is not that we're going to raise the rate again. The problem

00:05:18.400 is we're going to run out of tickets and we're going to run out pretty fast. Again, we've got

00:05:23.060 about a hundred seats or less, 450 people six months out are already registered for this

00:05:28.960 conference. We don't want you to miss it. So to ensure that you get to make it to this conference,

00:05:34.300 you need to register not a month from now, not a week from now, not tomorrow, but today. You want

00:05:40.580 to be there for the Theonomy and Post-Millennialism Conference, May 5th, 6th, and 7th with James White,

00:05:46.800 Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours truly, Joel Webbin. Go to Right Response

00:05:52.720 rightresponseconference.com. Again, that's rightresponseconference.com. It will sell out very soon.

The NXR Podcast - November 18, 2022

DAILY TRUTH - The Power of Persuasive Preaching

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