The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - You’ll NEVER Get Rid Of Your Anxiety, Unless You Do THIS ONE SIMPLE THING!

00:00:00.000 All right, listen, guys, I get it.

00:00:01.900 Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry because you're spending your

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00:00:13.860 However, algorithms are a thing.

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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. God is great in the sense that he sovereignly controls

00:00:57.180 every molecule in the universe.

00:01:01.500 How do you, brother and sister,

00:01:04.240 keep from your heart

00:01:07.340 surrendering to utter despair

00:01:10.640 after witnessing the tragedy of this past week?

00:01:14.440 How do you protect yourself

00:01:17.140 from spiraling into constant,

00:01:20.280 incessant worry and fear?

00:01:22.980 In part, you protect yourself from fear

00:01:26.560 by being vigilant, wise, shrewd, and strategic.

00:01:32.300 But you also protect yourself from fear

00:01:35.840 by believing that God is sovereign over all things,

00:01:40.500 including suffering and sin.

00:01:44.520 God is in control,

00:01:47.260 which frees us up from having to be in control.

00:01:52.160 For the one who does not believe in the absolute sovereignty of God

00:01:56.060 that He is controlling all things

00:01:58.500 and not merely controlling all things

00:02:01.380 as some kind of irrational, angry, paganistic God,

00:02:07.880 but controlling all things in a benevolent way,

00:02:11.160 not only for His glory,

00:02:12.740 but for the good of those who love Him

00:02:14.620 and are called according to His purposes,

00:02:17.100 as we see in Romans 8, verse 29.

00:02:21.800 For the one who does not believe that,

00:02:24.680 who does not believe God is sovereign over all, and he is working, not just salvaging.

00:02:30.540 God is not just salvaging and fixing things on the back end, but God is working, that is

00:02:36.920 orchestrating, designing, decreeing all things from the beginning, even suffering, even sin,

00:02:44.020 for his glory and your good. For the one who rejects that, that person must be in control.

00:02:52.040 if god is not in control and the one who is sovereign and in control of all things is not

00:02:59.860 also loving and benevolent and controlling and working all things for you and your eternal good

00:03:07.720 then that person will be given to fear that will be an emotional fretting anxious person

00:03:17.260 it only makes logical sense but for the person who believes that god doesn't just salvage

00:03:26.280 bad things but he controls and dictates all things

00:03:31.620 if you don't believe in the sovereignty of god how do you sleep at night you may attempt to

00:03:41.780 console yourself by saying well but as for me in my house we will serve the lord what about your

00:03:48.020 drunk neighbor who doesn't serve the lord who gets behind the wheel of the car and as you're both 0.99

00:03:56.340 entering the neighborhood he's choosing to be a fool and threatening the lives of your family 1.00

00:04:05.040 by his negligence. Brothers and sisters, it's not enough to say, well, I have chosen to submit 0.98

00:04:13.340 myself to God's sovereignty. No, it must be true sovereignty. If sovereignty is something that you

00:04:22.000 must submit to in order for it to exist, it's not the biblical sovereignty that we see spoken of

00:04:29.300 of god god is controlling all things we see even in the narrative of joseph in genesis he says to

00:04:38.780 his brothers when they finally repent for selling him into slavery in egypt he says brothers you

00:04:44.740 meant it for evil but god took your lemons and turned it into lemonade you meant it for evil

00:04:50.480 but god changed it and salvaged it on the back end and made a good as good as possible of a situation

00:04:56.680 out of a very bad scenario, said the Bible, never. No, it's the same word. You meant it

00:05:07.180 in intent. You planned it before it was even done. It was your plan, your motive, your intent,

00:05:14.340 your design to do me evil. And God, same word, meant it for good. He designed it. You designed

00:05:25.940 it and you bear moral culpability for your sin and yet standing above and beyond you is an

00:05:33.700 infinitely wise and powerful God who works through the creature to orchestrate that which is good and

00:05:41.460 pleasing in his sight. It's not only that God salvaged the situation that you intended for evil

00:05:49.360 but God planned it for good. You meant it for evil. God meant it for good. And he goes on to say

00:05:57.960 that a very many people might be saved. Had Joseph not gone to Egypt and risen through the ranks

00:06:06.320 and become the second in command viceroy under no one but Pharaoh himself, interpreting Pharaoh's

00:06:13.700 prophetic dreams and with wisdom and discernment coming up with a strategy and plan to prepare for

00:06:19.740 the famine of seven years had it not been for that everyone would have died and joseph like david

00:06:27.820 is a type of christ thrown into the pit as christ was thrown into the grave risen from the pit but

00:06:35.520 sold and betrayed by his brothers for silver just as Judas betrayed Jesus he then rose though he

00:06:44.420 ascended to the right hand of Pharaoh as Christ has ascended to the right hand of God and through

00:06:51.140 Joseph and his wisdom many did not perish but were saved just as Christ by his life death and

00:06:59.340 resurrection has saved eternally many souls. All of this was not salvaged by God, but planned

00:07:08.060 and decreed by God. So how do you resist the feelings of worry and anxiety and fear that give

00:07:19.820 way to actions and speech that come out of anxiety and worry and fear and thoughts incessantly bent

00:07:28.260 on anxiety and worry and fear? Belief. Belief. That's how you do it. You believe. You believe

00:07:40.360 that we live in a world that's tarnished by sin and evil, but that there is a God who is not only

00:07:48.800 powerful, but also good. And he doesn't just salvage things. If he makes lemonade, it's not

00:07:57.840 because man gave him lemons and it's all he had to work with. If he makes lemonade, it's because

00:08:03.300 he gave man those lemons because God wanted lemonade because it's delicious. God made the

00:08:10.560 decision. God is in charge. Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end?

00:08:16.720 Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry. And from the bottom

00:08:20.900 of my heart, I say thank you. I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just,

00:08:27.700 you can't afford it. In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean,

00:08:34.060 we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites 0.98

00:08:42.180 lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply

00:08:49.680 cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession. We are living in

00:08:56.240 a recession right now regardless. Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the

00:09:03.120 grocery store. You cannot support financially this ministry at this time nor should you but you could

00:09:10.660 still help us tremendously. I am asking you please if you're willing to do so take one minute of your

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00:09:25.300 might be. This is the way the system works. We want to be innocent as doves, but shrewd as vipers.

00:09:32.180 We need to be strategic. You leave us a five-star review, and our podcast shows up for more people.

00:09:39.420 And the Word of God and courageous theology applied in practical ways to every realm of life

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The NXR Podcast - April 10, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - You’ll NEVER Get Rid Of Your Anxiety, Unless You Do THIS ONE SIMPLE THING!

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