The NXR Podcast - April 07, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - What’s The Difference？ ｜ Paul Washer Vs. The Apostle Paul

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Apostle Paul Paul Washer Rachel Denhollander Tom Askell Joe Biden Tom Buck Apollos
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8 minutes

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64

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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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00:00:00.000 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
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00:00:42.360 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:47.420 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Now, I've got to go back and make a defense
00:00:56.880 from my boy Paul Washer because I do appreciate his preaching.
00:01:01.500 What I would say is that none of us are doing theology
00:01:05.080 or pastoral theology or preaching or anything like it in a vacuum.
00:01:12.400 We all have been placed in the providence of God
00:01:15.160 in particular time among a particular people.
00:01:19.160 When the Apostle Paul is writing to the Corinthian church, 0.97
00:01:22.920 it's spiritually immature and carnal as they are. 0.99
00:01:26.880 fleshly he says it explicitly but he also in the same breath you're in the flesh but also infants
00:01:34.640 in christ so you can be a genuine born-again christian living in a fleshly manner aka i do
00:01:42.820 believe there is such a thing as a carnal christian now it depends how you define carnal christian
00:01:49.580 but all that being said the apostle paul assures the corinthian church despite all of their
00:01:56.240 spiritual immaturity despite all of their sin all their problems sexual immorality is only one
00:02:02.940 example in the first half of first corinthians chapter 6 he talks about how they have lawsuits
00:02:08.920 among them they can't get along they can't agree they're wronging one another and the problem not
00:02:16.900 is not merely that they wouldn't rather allow themselves to be wronged but the problem is
00:02:22.740 even more significant than that it's when they have a disagreement they take it before pagan
00:02:28.780 courts is there not anyone wise among you right if the apostle paul was here today he would say
00:02:35.520 sbc southern baptist convention is there not anyone wise among you you're going to take it
00:02:42.300 to guidepost you're going to take it to the pagan court to come and rule in it's fine to
00:02:50.220 handle abuse cases. In fact, you must. And it's fine for there to be legal ramifications. In fact,
00:02:56.860 there must be. But the problem is that you keep going to the peanut gallery.
00:03:02.960 You don't need Rachel Denhollander.
00:03:06.840 Choose someone who's a Christian to weigh in. You don't need the ERLC, which wouldn't know ethics
00:03:15.520 if it slapped him in the face,
00:03:17.700 why don't you go to those who are wise among you?
00:03:21.500 Why aren't you guys going to Tom Buck and Tom Askell?
00:03:26.180 Why don't you go to the Christian pastors in the SBC
00:03:28.520 and ask them what to do?
00:03:31.480 So the Corinthian church was a mess.
00:03:34.620 They're going to pagans to settle their petty disputes. 0.98
00:03:39.940 They've got sexual immorality. 0.68
00:03:41.960 They're living in a fleshly, carnal way.
00:03:45.520 And yet, Paul assures him, infants in Christ.
00:03:51.120 But as I said, in terms of Paul Washer, we are all products of our time.
00:03:58.320 No one does pastoral ministry or preaching or theology in a vacuum.
00:04:02.580 We've all been placed in the province of God in a context.
00:04:06.660 And Paul's context, the Apostle Paul, his context was writing to a church that he started.
00:04:13.500 and elsewhere he talks about this he says i would rather minister in a place where i started the
00:04:21.540 work paul liked to plant right he mentions how apollos waters right i planted apollos waters
00:04:28.900 but god made it grow but but later in first corinthians the same letter chapter three
00:04:33.800 chapter three he talks about as an expert builder i laid a foundation it does not need to be
00:04:40.840 relayed. But he talks about, I laid this foundation as an expert builder, and now it's being built
00:04:46.860 upon. Paul liked to labor in a place where he could start the project and finish. Or if someone
00:04:55.800 else like Apollos is going to build, Paul would rather be on the foundational crew, construction
00:05:01.300 crew, and let someone else do the framing and electric work and plumbing. If Paul was, he's
00:05:07.220 either going to do the whole project or he's going to do the foundational beginning work of the
00:05:12.820 project because he wants to make sure it starts out right. And so my point is this, when the
00:05:18.060 apostle Paul is writing to the Corinthian church, he's writing to a church that he started. He's
00:05:24.040 writing to a church that he laid the foundation. So what I'm saying is he's writing to a church
00:05:30.980 that he knows in biblical categories is actually a church whereas in Paul Washer's defense as a
00:05:39.000 missionary often speaking guest speaking in other churches where he has not laid the foundation
00:05:44.480 and again in God's providence not doing ministry in a vacuum but in a particular context so
00:05:50.960 ministering in the 2020s in the American evangelical church it probably is a safe bet statistically
00:05:59.600 to talk to over half of the congregation
00:06:03.600 as though they're not Christians.
00:06:05.660 Because probably over half of the congregation
00:06:08.020 is not Christians.
00:06:11.560 If you threw a rock and just hit 0.98
00:06:13.420 an evangelical church in America at random
00:06:16.280 in the year 2023,
00:06:18.980 it would be a safe bet to say that the church
00:06:21.460 that you just hit with that rock
00:06:22.820 has less than 50% converted members.
00:06:27.080 You'd probably be right.
00:06:28.440 you don't have to be a prophet nor the son of a prophet to make that assessment and for it to be
00:06:35.120 accurate and that's the context that paul washer is ministering in so let the record state i defend
00:06:42.560 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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