The NXR Podcast - September 20, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - The Rebellious Mind Of The Unbeliever

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Joshua Jesus Christ
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7 minutes

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1,048

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44

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The Bible does not say that God does not exist, but rather that he has failed to prove His existence. And because God has failed in his responsibility to provide evidence for His existence, we rebel against Him because we don't even know that He exists.

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00:00:28.020 God, in terms of not chronological order necessarily, although this would probably
00:00:33.600 also line up, but in logical order, if we're speaking of in the logical order of the mind of
00:00:38.520 God, what he ordains, then the order would go like this. God determined to utterly destroy
00:00:46.260 the Canaanite tribes. And because God determined that they should be utterly destroyed, he therefore 0.99
00:00:52.740 harden their hearts so that they would come against in rebellion with a stubborn, stiff-necked
00:00:57.660 heart against Israel, despite all the miraculous things that God had already performed through
00:01:04.020 Israel. These people, by this point in the book of Joshua, by this point in this progressive
00:01:11.040 conquest of the land of Canaan, they all know, they all know about Israel's God. They know who
00:01:18.920 Yahweh is. They have heard what Yahweh did in Egypt. Ten plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, 0.83
00:01:27.320 sustaining his people supernaturally with manna from the sky, from the heavens for 40 years as 0.53
00:01:34.700 they wandered in the desert. They knew some of them may even as spies have been eyewitnesses of
00:01:41.980 the parting of the Jordan River when Israel first entered into the land of Canaan. They have seen
00:01:47.720 the ruins, the ash heap of Jericho, where the earth opened up and swallowed up the walls and
00:01:55.940 defense of that tribe. They've heard of the conquering of Ai. They know about the five kings
00:02:02.960 who gathered together in unity against Joshua and Israel, and how Joshua had all of his chiefs of
00:02:10.500 war in Israel bring out those five kings, lay them on their backs, and put their feet on their necks
00:02:17.100 to show the supremacy of Yahweh 0.94
00:02:20.480 that he is greater than all kings 0.85
00:02:22.460 and all false gods.
00:02:25.740 What I'm saying is that this is supernatural.
00:02:29.140 This is not just merely a rebellion
00:02:31.740 that the average person might have
00:02:35.060 because they're ignorant of the things of God.
00:02:36.960 Well, I rebelled against God
00:02:38.000 because I didn't know.
00:02:40.160 I wouldn't have rebelled against him
00:02:41.900 if he just, you know,
00:02:43.960 just showed a little bit of effort
00:02:45.380 to prove his existence.
00:02:47.100 but you know, I mean, even though we live in this miraculous world, even though I wake up with
00:02:53.920 breath in my lungs, you know, that's not proof, right? There's no proof for the existence of God
00:02:58.920 if you disclude all the proof of the existence of God, right? Incredible argument made by every
00:03:05.560 atheist. Well, I didn't know. And so it's not that I'm rebellious by nature. It's not that I 0.98
00:03:12.040 actually have a sin nature, that my heart is like stone, that in sin did my mother conceive me,
00:03:19.940 and in iniquity I was brought forth. That, no, no, no, no, no. That's not it. It's that God has
00:03:25.320 failed, if he does exist, in his responsibility to sufficiently provide evidence for his existence.
00:03:32.840 And because God failed, I then am ignorant, and my rebellion does not spur on my ignorance. Rather,
00:03:40.440 my rebellion, it stems from my ignorance. I have an amoral ignorance. I'm not responsible for that, 0.98
00:03:47.160 and because I'm ignorant, which, by the way, if I haven't said it already, is God's fault, 0.85
00:03:51.740 and because I'm ignorant and it's God's fault, I can't help but rebel against a God that I don't 0.97
00:03:56.380 even know exists. That's the way the mind of the unbeliever works, which is completely contrary 1.00
00:04:04.360 to what God has said in Holy Scripture. The Bible does not say that men are ignorant and
00:04:10.200 therefore rebel. The Bible says that men by nature are rebellious so that they intentionally do
00:04:17.000 everything they can to remain ignorant. And in fact, because God is exceedingly gracious and
00:04:24.480 kind, they're not truly, in the ultimate sense, ignorant. Because God has revealed himself by
00:04:31.940 what he has made that's romans 1 so that all men are without excuse and so what these men do is
00:04:41.080 because they're not ignorant but they are in fact rebellious is that they take the truth which they
00:04:46.640 are aware of and they suppress it by their deeds of unrighteousness so it is not that they are
00:04:52.600 ignorant because god failed to prove himself and therefore rebel but rather man is rebellious
00:04:58.360 and therefore he does everything he can to not keep ignorance but attain a state of ignorance 0.98
00:05:06.300 because he actually is born into this world with a basic knowledge, not ignorance, but understanding
00:05:12.600 that God exists. His eternal power, his divine nature, these things have been clearly not just
00:05:22.020 displayed, but Romans 1 says perceived. God has been faithful to present the message and man,
00:05:31.980 even unregenerate man, cannot help but receive, perceive the message so that all are without
00:05:40.320 an excuse. This is the same pattern, the same principle now apply in Joshua to the land of
00:05:48.500 Canaan, to the wicked pagan inhabitants. What we know is true in regards to soteriology, 1.00
00:05:57.000 anthropology, the spiritual state of man before salvation, that's the same principle that we see
00:06:05.200 in a practical sense, in a national and tribal sense with Israel and these pagan tribes in the
00:06:14.180 land of Canaan. For it was the will of the Lord, it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that 0.90
00:06:21.300 they should come against Israel in battle, so that he might utterly destroy them, and that they might
00:06:28.140 have no favor, no quarter, no peace treaties, no terms of covenant, that they would have no favor, 0.91
00:06:39.160 no option of surrender, but that he might destroy them as the Lord commanded Moses.
00:06:48.260 So the Lord, in terms of logical order, in the mind of God, what he ordained, 0.78
00:06:53.680 what he chose sovereignly to do, is that the Lord determined to wipe out the inhabitants of the land of Canaan. 0.87
00:07:02.020 And he determined this in a technical sense before the foundations of the world were laid. 0.95
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