DAILY TRUTH - What’s The Difference？ ｜ Paul Washer Vs. The Apostle Paul
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In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken continues his defense of his son, Paul Washer. He argues that the Apostle Paul was a born-again christian, even though he was writing to a church that was spiritually immature and carnal.
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
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God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Now, I've got to go back and make a defense
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from my boy Paul Washer because I do appreciate his preaching.
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What I would say is that none of us are doing theology
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or pastoral theology or preaching or anything like it in a vacuum.
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We all have been placed in the providence of God
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When the Apostle Paul is writing to the Corinthian church,
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it's spiritually immature and carnal as they are.
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fleshly he says it explicitly but he also in the same breath you're in the flesh but also infants
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in christ so you can be a genuine born-again christian living in a fleshly manner aka i do
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believe there is such a thing as a carnal christian now it depends how you define carnal christian
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but all that being said the apostle paul assures the corinthian church despite all of their
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spiritual immaturity despite all of their sin all their problems sexual immorality is only one
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example in the first half of first corinthians chapter 6 he talks about how they have lawsuits
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among them they can't get along they can't agree they're wronging one another and the problem not
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is not merely that they wouldn't rather allow themselves to be wronged but the problem is
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even more significant than that it's when they have a disagreement they take it before pagan
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courts is there not anyone wise among you right if the apostle paul was here today he would say
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sbc southern baptist convention is there not anyone wise among you you're going to take it
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to guidepost you're going to take it to the pagan court to come and rule in it's fine to
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handle abuse cases. In fact, you must. And it's fine for there to be legal ramifications. In fact,
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there must be. But the problem is that you keep going to the peanut gallery.
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Choose someone who's a Christian to weigh in. You don't need the ERLC, which wouldn't know ethics
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why don't you go to those who are wise among you?
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Why aren't you guys going to Tom Buck and Tom Askell?
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Why don't you go to the Christian pastors in the SBC
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They're going to pagans to settle their petty disputes.
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But as I said, in terms of Paul Washer, we are all products of our time.
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No one does pastoral ministry or preaching or theology in a vacuum.
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We've all been placed in the province of God in a context.
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And Paul's context, the Apostle Paul, his context was writing to a church that he started.
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and elsewhere he talks about this he says i would rather minister in a place where i started the
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work paul liked to plant right he mentions how apollos waters right i planted apollos waters
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but god made it grow but but later in first corinthians the same letter chapter three
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chapter three he talks about as an expert builder i laid a foundation it does not need to be
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relayed. But he talks about, I laid this foundation as an expert builder, and now it's being built
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upon. Paul liked to labor in a place where he could start the project and finish. Or if someone
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else like Apollos is going to build, Paul would rather be on the foundational crew, construction
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crew, and let someone else do the framing and electric work and plumbing. If Paul was, he's
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either going to do the whole project or he's going to do the foundational beginning work of the
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project because he wants to make sure it starts out right. And so my point is this, when the
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apostle Paul is writing to the Corinthian church, he's writing to a church that he started. He's
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writing to a church that he laid the foundation. So what I'm saying is he's writing to a church
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that he knows in biblical categories is actually a church whereas in Paul Washer's defense as a
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missionary often speaking guest speaking in other churches where he has not laid the foundation
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and again in God's providence not doing ministry in a vacuum but in a particular context so
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ministering in the 2020s in the American evangelical church it probably is a safe bet statistically
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you don't have to be a prophet nor the son of a prophet to make that assessment and for it to be
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accurate and that's the context that paul washer is ministering in so let the record state i defend
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paul washer can i be frank with you for just a second right here at the end look some of you
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I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it. In fact,
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some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's
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ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds
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over the last three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash.
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