The NXR Podcast - February 16, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Utter Depravity VS. Total Depravity

Topics
total depravity vs. utter financial struggle and podcast support
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Joe Biden
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Length

8 minutes

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Word count

1,430

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78

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1

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Summary

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An unbeliever can do a lot of good things outwardly, but he cannot do any of those things in faith with a reliance on God's grace and a desire for God's glory. Without faith, it is impossible to please God.

Transcript

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00:00:00 All right, listen guys, I get it. Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry
00:00:04 because you're spending your cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and
00:00:09 admonition of the Lord. Praise God for you and that endeavor. However, algorithms are a thing.
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00:00:28 leaving us a five-star review. Also, perhaps even more effective than that, you can share our podcast
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00:00:42 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:47 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. An unbeliever today, at the level of the heart,
00:00:54 every intention of his heart is only evil continually that is a theologically true 1.00
00:01:02 statement and it will be true in every time in every place every culture every generation 0.98
00:01:07 that is the accurate biblical description of an unbelieving man at the level of his heart that
00:01:14 doesn't mean that outwardly he can't do good things doesn't mean that outwardly he can't walk
00:01:18 a sweet old lady across the street it doesn't mean that outwardly he can't even die for his comrades
00:01:23 in a battle, in a glorious sacrificial death, you know, fighting as a soldier. It doesn't mean
00:01:29 those things. But what it means is this, at the heart level, what he cannot do is anything that
00:01:35 is pleasing to God. We spent probably way too much time on that principle in Hebrews chapter 11,
00:01:43 right? Man cannot please God without faith, for without faith it is impossible to please him.
00:01:47 Or Romans chapter 14 says anything that does not proceed from faith is sin.
00:01:53 And I define faith week after week after week as saying to do something in faith is to do it with a reliance on God's grace.
00:02:01 Acknowledging God's grace is the source of every good and perfect gift and and with an aspiration, a goal, a commitment to God's glory.
00:02:10 So relying on God's grace and committed to God's glory, meaning that to do something in faith is not only, not merely to do something outwardly that aligns with the moral will of God, the law of God, but also at the inward level, your heart, your motives, you are acknowledging that you couldn't do anything if it were not for the grace of God.
00:02:31 and the thing that you're doing you're not just trying to benefit your fellow man but ultimately
00:02:36 you want to have your good deeds shine before men so that your ultimate aim they might glorify your
00:02:43 father who is in heaven you're doing it with a motivation with a recognition of i can't take my
00:02:49 next breath apart from the grace of god and everything that i do i don't want to just make
00:02:53 the world a better place for the sake of making the world a better place i don't want to only love
00:02:57 my neighbor. I want to love my neighbor, but first and foremost, love the Lord my God with all my
00:03:02 heart, with all my soul, with all my mind, with all my strength. Everything that I do, whether I eat
00:03:08 or drink, let all that I do glorify God. An unbeliever cannot do that. An unbeliever can keep 0.99
00:03:14 his wedding vows. He cannot cheat on his taxes. He can love his country. An unbeliever can do a lot
00:03:20 of good things outwardly, but he cannot do any of those things in faith with a reliance on God's 0.98
00:03:28 grace and a desire for God's glory. And therefore, anything that does not proceed from faith is sin.
00:03:34 Without faith, it is impossible to please him. That's the doctrine of total depravity. Total
00:03:39 depravity, just for the record, for anybody who's new to reform theology and Calvinism,
00:03:43 if you haven't found out by now, I am a Calvinist. Now it gets a little bit confusing, right? If you
00:03:47 stick in this church for a while you'll be I thought he was a Calvinist well I'm a Calvinist
00:03:50 and I'm also post-millennial which kind of throws a wrench in the gears because it's like I'm really
00:03:55 hopeful and also pessimistic at the same time so so you have to kind of work through that a little
00:03:59 bit I think I like to call it the sweet spot the perfect balance to each his own some of you would
00:04:03 reject it but all that being said total depravity which is one of the Calvinist points is not hear
00:04:10 me, it is not the same as utter depravity. Total depravity is not the same as utter depravity.
00:04:18 We do not believe that the Bible teaches that people made in the image of God, even though
00:04:23 that image has been tarnished by sin, even though man apart from Christ is fallen, even though every
00:04:29 single element of his being, his reason, his conscience, his moral compass, every single part
00:04:37 of him. He, even his flesh, his body in a physical capacity, everything has been marred by sin. But
00:04:42 we believe that the curse of sin, that it tarnishes the image of God, but it does not utterly destroy
00:04:48 the image of God. So that a vestige of the image of God remains not just for the Christian, but for
00:04:53 all people, all people, man, woman, adult, child, black, white, Christian, non-Christian are created
00:05:01 in the image of God. The imago Dei. The image has been tarnished, but the image still remains
00:05:08 intact. And because of that, people are not, as image bearers of the living God, even under the
00:05:14 curse of sin, people are not utterly depraved. Totally depraved, yes. Utterly depraved, no.
00:05:21 Utter depravity, what's that? Utter depravity is you are doing as much outward evil. At the level
00:05:26 the outward manifestations and behaviors and actions and not just thoughts or feelings or
00:05:31 intents or motives, but outwardly in speech and deed, you are doing as much evil as you possibly
00:05:39 can all of the time. Not just every intention of your heart, but every action with your body
00:05:47 is as much evil as you possibly could all the time. That's utter depravity. We do not hold or
00:05:53 affirm a doctrine of utter depravity when it comes to our anthropology, our view of man.
00:05:58 We do, however, hold to what I believe is a thoroughly biblical doctrine of total depravity.
00:06:05 Not that we're doing every outward evil we possibly can, but at the level of the heart. 0.65
00:06:10 God in his mercy is restraining our actions, but at the level of the heart, the unbeliever, 0.97
00:06:17 every thought, every intention, all of the time, continually, is bent on evil. 0.99
00:06:22 And evil specifically defined being not wanting to ever acknowledge God's grace,
00:06:28 not wanting to ever bring him glory, which is immensely evil.
00:06:34 That is evil.
00:06:35 Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end?
00:06:39 Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry.
00:06:42 And from the bottom of my heart, I say, thank you.
00:06:45 I cannot thank you enough.
00:06:48 However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it.
00:06:51 In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean, we're living in Joe
00:06:57 Biden's ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds 0.99
00:07:06 over the last three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash. It
00:07:14 doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession. We are living in a recession right
00:07:20 now regardless. Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store.
00:07:26 You cannot support financially this ministry at this time, nor should you, but you could still
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