The NXR Podcast - November 07, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Yes, Yoga Is Demonic

Topics
meditation & scripture interpretation
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Jesus Christ David
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6 minutes

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Word count

973

Sentence count

55

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What is the difference between Christian Meditation and Eastern Meditation, and what does it mean to meditate on the Word of God? How can we learn to memorize God's Word, and how can we apply it to our lives?

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00:00:23 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform thanks now meditation and memorization
00:00:30 are not synonymous meditation i believe that it necessitates it assumes memorization because you
00:00:40 cannot begin to meditate on that which you have not committed to memory that which you do not
00:00:46 No. Now, Christian meditation is absolutely opposed, is diametrically opposite to Eastern
00:00:56 or mantra meditation. Eastern pagan demonic mantra meditation. Yoga would be an example. 0.78
00:01:05 Oh, but I love yoga and I love wearing my tight painted on yoga pants. Oh, get saved.
00:01:11 Get saved. All right. If you want to stretch, there are other ways to stretch at home.
00:01:16 right? Then going to your yoga instructor. Your yoga instructor is a pagan, I promise you.
00:01:25 They are. And they're not just trying to teach you to be physically healthy. They want you to
00:01:29 be physically healthy. And by the end of that six-month class, worship Satan. That is the goal.
00:01:35 So all that being said, mantra meditation, that was for free. You're welcome. You can leave a
00:01:39 gift at the door. That was, you know, mantra meditation, pagan Eastern meditation. This is
00:01:45 the dynamic difference between that and christian meditation it's not the christian thought that
00:01:49 within the christian faith that there is no meditation there is i meditate david says in
00:01:54 the psalms on your law day and night here's the difference mantra meditation eastern meditation
00:01:59 it seeks to empty the mind of all rational thought and that by somehow emptying the mind of all because
00:02:07 it sees rational thought. It sees the mind latching onto anything of substance as a mere
00:02:14 distraction from real, true, inward enlightenment. But Christian meditation, however, in precisely
00:02:23 opposite terms, Christian meditation only meditates on that which is substance, namely
00:02:29 that which is eternal. The flower fades, the grass withers, but the word of the Lord
00:02:35 endures forever. So in Christian meditation, David doesn't say, I meditate day and night.
00:02:41 No, he says, I meditate on, there's substance there, there's rational thought, there's truth
00:02:48 on thy law day and night. So in Christian meditation, what we must do is first, again,
00:02:55 meditation, memorization, not the same. However, meditation assumes memorization. So first,
00:03:02 we're committing God's precepts his law his commands his word to memory and then once the
00:03:09 word has been hidden in my heart once it's been memorized I begin to meditate on thy law on thy
00:03:17 law word thy truth which means I begin to think about the word and in thinking about the word I'm
00:03:25 thinking at least two things number one I'm thinking about the word and its meaning and not
00:03:31 what it means to me not a relativistic subjective interpersonal meaning well god's word means this
00:03:40 to me and it means that to you and no no no if we have contradicting interpretations of the word of
00:03:47 god we cannot all be right now you can and an egalitarian you know i'll throw you an egalitarian
00:03:53 bone here you can all be wrong you can all be wrong together but you can't all be right
00:03:59 And so when it comes to interpretation,
00:04:01 that is God's meaning, it's not what it means to you,
00:04:05 it's what it means to him.
00:04:07 What does God intend to convey
00:04:09 in this given passage of scripture?
00:04:12 So memorize the word of God, hide it in your heart,
00:04:15 commit it to memory in your mind,
00:04:17 and then begin to meditate,
00:04:19 that is to think deeply upon God's word.
00:04:23 In the first sense, thinking about its meaning.
00:04:26 What does God mean by this?
00:04:28 What does God intend to say?
00:04:31 What is God communicating to his people?
00:04:34 Second, we move from interpretation or meaning to application, doing.
00:04:41 In light of this text, in light of meditating upon it and thinking about its meaning,
00:04:48 and now deriving its meaning from God and not from myself, how then should we live?
00:04:54 how do i live in light of the meaning of what god is saying in this given passage of scripture
00:05:00 thinking deeply upon application this is what constantine did that vile vile enemy of the church
00:05:08 a hero this is what king alfred did a hero they thought upon the scripture its meaning first
00:05:18 and its application second? How does this scripture apply to all of life? Not just my
00:05:27 pietistic private little heart. Jesus is not merely Lord of your heart. Jesus is Lord of all
00:05:35 and not just all peoples, but every single realm of human life and society. He is Lord of the arts.
00:05:44 He is Lord of medicine. He is Lord of business and economics, and he most certainly is Lord
00:05:51 of Caesar. Caesar is not God. Caesar has a God above him, the one true triune God, the King of
00:06:00 kings and Lord of lords, Jesus the Christ. And what Caesar does when he's born again and truly
00:06:07 loves the Lord with all his heart and his soul and his mind is he seeks to understand the meaning
00:06:13 of scripture as he meditates upon it day and night and also its application. Not just merely
00:06:20 how Caesar should behave in his family, in his marriage, in his fatherhood, but how Caesar should
00:06:26 behave and live as Caesar in the public square as one who legislates, as one who executes,
00:06:34 as one who oversees the affairs of society in the civil realm. This is what it is to meditate upon
00:06:43 God's Word.