The NXR Podcast - November 17, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - What Is A Credible Confession Of Faith？ ｜ Part 1


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6 minutes

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147.9

Word count

889

Sentence count

6


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What is a proper confession of faith in Christ? What does it mean to confess that Christ has come in the flesh and died for someone else? What is the difference between a biblical confession and a personal confession of Christ?

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00:00:27.500 do you have a proper confession of faith in christ and a proper confession i would say
00:00:33.700 two main elements for it to be proper it must be a biblical confession and it also must be a
00:00:41.180 personal confession biblical and personal biblical we see in first john anyone who confesses that
00:00:50.320 christ has come in the flesh or stated in the negative he says anyone who does not confess
00:00:56.640 that christ has come in the flesh is the antichrist or an antichrist many antichrists
00:01:03.660 have gone out into the world and one of the ways that you can know them
00:01:07.320 is that they deny that christ has come in the flesh they deny the incarnation and that might
00:01:16.140 seem so general as though it's not specific enough but there is much that inherently comes
00:01:23.100 with that one statement of christ coming in the flesh one of the things that comes with it is it
00:01:28.000 presupposes it assumes that christ existed before his incarnation before he came in the flesh
00:01:36.280 meaning what it assumes by necessary inference that christ has come in the flesh that he pre-existed
00:01:45.400 before coming in the flesh that he is eternal that he is god and not only that he is god before the
00:01:52.020 flesh but he is the god man fully god fully man that statement includes with it the hypostatic
00:02:01.380 union that he is the second member of the trinity it includes the incarnation it includes his deity
00:02:07.340 it includes a lot so you must have a biblical confession of christ but also a personal
00:02:14.180 confession for this i'll reference galatians again the apostle paul
00:02:20.320 he says i know this i'm confident of it that christ loved me and gave himself up for me
00:02:30.980 brothers and sisters the biblical confession is absolutely vital but it is not sufficient
00:02:38.360 in and of itself it must be a biblical confession of christ that is what you confess about
00:02:43.940 jesus aligns with the scripture it's not build a jesus right build a bear remember that store in
00:02:49.780 the mall you go and i'll take a little bit of this a little bit of that we're going to make
00:02:52.760 our own custom teddy bear right a lot of churches a lot of evangelicals are playing build a jesus
00:02:58.080 on sunday all right some people like hippie jesus all right he hugs trees he's got dreadlocks
00:03:06.120 he's really concerned with world peace he wouldn't hurt a fly
00:03:10.740 everybody's got a different Jesus I'm not I'm not endorsing this okay so do not take me out of
00:03:18.500 context don't go home and watch this movie but once upon a time because I too am a sinner
00:03:22.880 I watched Talladega Nights all right there we go some confession we're confessing our sin to the
00:03:27.600 Lord we've already heard the assurance of pardon there's forgiveness in Christ but I did I confess
00:03:34.680 I have once upon a time watched Talladega Nights Ricky Bobby all right two first names
00:03:39.640 there's a scene in that movie where they're going back and forth arguing about which Jesus is best
00:03:46.580 well I like the you know the figure skating Jesus you know I like my Jesus to be like a lead singer
00:03:52.340 of Led Zeppelin and I'm sitting on the front row and they say some other things or I like my Jesus
00:03:58.140 to be the baby Jesus you know little deer little eight pounds six and it's a blasphemous scene
00:04:02.900 don't get me wrong it's terrible however here's the saddest part it's not just sad that you know
00:04:09.320 will ferrell who is pretty funny is blaspheming christ in this movie for millions of people to
00:04:13.840 watch the saddest part is that it is almost synonymous with what evangelical churches do
00:04:20.980 on sunday morning at least will ferrell meant it as a joke at least he recognized that you know
00:04:28.720 this is laughable whereas a bunch of evangelical pastors they do it and they are completely serious
00:04:35.760 well we like our jesus to be like this we like our jesus to be like and and the jesus that they
00:04:41.980 begin to describe in their 20 minute ted talk sermon has nothing to do with the jesus of
00:04:47.500 scripture so first and foremost the truth test it must be a biblical profession a biblical
00:04:54.440 confession of jesus but secondly in line with the apostle paul in the book of galatians his
00:05:00.680 letter to the Galatians it must also be a personal confession of Jesus what I mean is this
00:05:05.100 it is not enough to confess that Christ came in the flesh and died for someone somewhere out there
00:05:10.960 but you must be able to echo the words of the apostle Paul and saying I am convinced that
00:05:16.260 Christ loved me and gave himself up for me so our confession must be biblical and personal
00:05:30.680 We'll be right back.