The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - Uprooting Bitterness

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00:00:23.480 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform thanks now notice one thing that's important for

00:00:30.340 us to recognize when it comes to that particular sin of bitterness a few things i might say one

00:00:36.100 bitterness has the potential as the author did the hebrews instructs us to defile many

00:00:41.440 so bitterness is not a sin that will simply affect yourself but it will affect others

00:00:49.840 it is an infectious sin it is a sin that will quickly spread and disease a whole crop

00:00:58.140 a whole congregation can ultimately be destroyed by one root of bitterness

00:01:03.940 that's one aspect of the sin of bitterness but another is this often we attempt to assuage our

00:01:13.640 own consciences by justifying our bitterness, saying, the reason I'm bitter is because of the

00:01:20.900 great atrocities that have been committed against me by others. And there's a partial truth in that.

00:01:29.500 Most people who are bitter, it is in part due because of the sins of others committed against

00:01:37.180 them. But others sinning against you in and of itself alone, if that's all that takes place,

00:01:44.660 it is not enough to produce bitterness. Bitterness does not come merely by being

00:01:52.960 sinned against by others. It is always a mixture of being sinned against by others coupled with pride.

00:02:02.100 hot spirits i believe it was matthew henry who once said this hot spirits come by high spirits

00:02:11.780 and what he's saying is that to be angry right and that's the question that the lord asked jonah

00:02:18.240 do you do well to be angry pro tip almost always the answer is no do you do well to be angry

00:02:26.740 and what matthew henry in his commentary on the book of jonah is getting at is

00:02:32.800 that high spirits are what lead towards hot spirits hot spirits speaking to anger

00:02:39.120 to be hot in your anger the opposite of the character of god not slow to anger

00:02:43.860 but quick in your retaliation quick in your indignation and what matthew henry is saying

00:02:51.280 is that in the case of jonah hot spirits are not merely produced by others harming you

00:02:56.660 but others harming you coupled with your own high spirits, that is, lofty pride, arrogance.

00:03:05.620 There are people who can be sinned against in terrible ways and yet not grow bitter.

00:03:13.520 Because although they were wronged terribly, they are people who do not think highly of themselves,

00:03:21.780 not more highly than they ought. They are people who do not possess these hot spirits because they

00:03:28.580 possess by the grace of God low spirits. It's not just being sinned against. It's being sinned

00:03:36.120 against with pride. It is the prideful man who, when sinned against, will quickly ignite in anger

00:03:44.260 towards those who sinned against him. This is Jonah. And Jonah had, make no mistake, he had in

00:03:51.380 fact, been sinned against. And not just that someone didn't invite his kid to their birthday

00:03:56.760 party. No, he had been sinned against by the Assyrians ramping up their pre-invasion attacks 0.91

00:04:04.860 into the northern tribes of Israel. And likely, if not family members, at least acquaintances or

00:04:11.460 friends that he knew had been taken captive or even harmed or brutally murdered by the Assyrians. 0.77

00:04:18.940 not to mention the Assyrians they also ruined Jonah's perfect prophetic record 0.98

00:04:24.380 his whole profession his whole career had been flawless God's going to expand this border right 1.00

00:04:32.880 God's going to give you a house he's going to give you a car he's good and it's actually true

00:04:36.740 right this is a prosperity preacher's dream right Benny Hinn would kill for this you know I mean

00:04:43.500 this is like I'm going to tell people that if they do this they'll be rich and for the first

00:04:47.860 time, I won't be lying. Right? This is a nice gig. And then all of a sudden, oh, but that other

00:04:57.320 prophet that came before me, he prophesied some bad things, like Assyria taking over us things, 0.95

00:05:04.380 and that's now coming to pass. Oh, man. The Assyrians are hurting people that I love. 0.95

00:05:12.740 this golden age of the 80s and the 90s. We're all making just tons of money selling our kids 1.00

00:05:22.300 and grandchildren, you know, their future, you know, on a raft down a river. And now we're

00:05:27.520 going to have to pay the piper. Isaiah's prophecies are now coming to pass. Those Assyrians can't

00:05:36.160 stand them. I had a good thing going that ruined it. Jonah was sinned against, but he wasn't old 1.00

00:05:42.720 sinned against. He was arrogant. He was prideful. He was petty. He probably, like many of us, 0.98

00:05:53.500 had an idol of comfort and personal pleasure.

The NXR Podcast - October 19, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - Uprooting Bitterness

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