The NXR Podcast - April 10, 2023


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

Topics
financial struggle and podcast support
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Pharaoh Joseph Joe Biden Judas
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Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

136.3

Word count

1,342

Sentence count

73

Harmful content

Toxicity

4

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Summary

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God is sovereign over all things, including suffering and sin. God is in control, which frees us up from having to be in control. For the one who does not believe in the sovereignty of God, then that person will be given to fear.

Transcript

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00:00:00 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
00:00:01 Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry because you're spending your
00:00:05 cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
00:00:10 Praise God for you and that endeavor.
00:00:13 However, algorithms are a thing.
00:00:16 Shadow banning, sadly, is a thing.
00:00:19 And one major way that you can help to expand the reach and effectiveness of this ministry
00:00:24 that doesn't cost you a dime is by spending just a few moments leaving us a five-star
00:00:29 review. Also, perhaps even more effective than that, you can share our podcast with a friend.
00:00:36 We hope you'll take the time to do so. Thank you so much. God bless.
00:00:42 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:47 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. God is great in the sense that he sovereignly controls
00:00:57 every molecule in the universe.
00:01:01 How do you, brother and sister,
00:01:04 keep from your heart
00:01:07 surrendering to utter despair
00:01:10 after witnessing the tragedy of this past week?
00:01:14 How do you protect yourself
00:01:17 from spiraling into constant,
00:01:20 incessant worry and fear?
00:01:22 In part, you protect yourself from fear
00:01:26 by being vigilant, wise, shrewd, and strategic.
00:01:32 But you also protect yourself from fear
00:01:35 by believing that God is sovereign over all things,
00:01:40 including suffering and sin.
00:01:44 God is in control,
00:01:47 which frees us up from having to be in control.
00:01:52 For the one who does not believe in the absolute sovereignty of God
00:01:56 that He is controlling all things
00:01:58 and not merely controlling all things
00:02:01 as some kind of irrational, angry, paganistic God,
00:02:07 but controlling all things in a benevolent way,
00:02:11 not only for His glory,
00:02:12 but for the good of those who love Him
00:02:14 and are called according to His purposes,
00:02:17 as we see in Romans 8, verse 29.
00:02:21 For the one who does not believe that,
00:02:24 who does not believe God is sovereign over all, and he is working, not just salvaging.
00:02:30 God is not just salvaging and fixing things on the back end, but God is working, that is
00:02:36 orchestrating, designing, decreeing all things from the beginning, even suffering, even sin,
00:02:44 for his glory and your good. For the one who rejects that, that person must be in control.
00:02:52 if god is not in control and the one who is sovereign and in control of all things is not
00:02:59 also loving and benevolent and controlling and working all things for you and your eternal good
00:03:07 then that person will be given to fear that will be an emotional fretting anxious person
00:03:17 it only makes logical sense but for the person who believes that god doesn't just salvage
00:03:26 bad things but he controls and dictates all things
00:03:31 if you don't believe in the sovereignty of god how do you sleep at night you may attempt to
00:03:41 console yourself by saying well but as for me in my house we will serve the lord what about your
00:03:48 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 entering the neighborhood he's choosing to be a fool and threatening the lives of your family 1.00
00:04:05 by his negligence. Brothers and sisters, it's not enough to say, well, I have chosen to submit 0.98
00:04:13 myself to God's sovereignty. No, it must be true sovereignty. If sovereignty is something that you
00:04:22 must submit to in order for it to exist, it's not the biblical sovereignty that we see spoken of
00:04:29 of god god is controlling all things we see even in the narrative of joseph in genesis he says to
00:04:38 his brothers when they finally repent for selling him into slavery in egypt he says brothers you
00:04:44 meant it for evil but god took your lemons and turned it into lemonade you meant it for evil
00:04:50 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 out of a very bad scenario, said the Bible, never. No, it's the same word. You meant it
00:05:07 in intent. You planned it before it was even done. It was your plan, your motive, your intent,
00:05:14 your design to do me evil. And God, same word, meant it for good. He designed it. You designed
00:05:25 it and you bear moral culpability for your sin and yet standing above and beyond you is an
00:05:33 infinitely wise and powerful God who works through the creature to orchestrate that which is good and
00:05:41 pleasing in his sight. It's not only that God salvaged the situation that you intended for evil
00:05:49 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 that a very many people might be saved. Had Joseph not gone to Egypt and risen through the ranks
00:06:06 and become the second in command viceroy under no one but Pharaoh himself, interpreting Pharaoh's
00:06:13 prophetic dreams and with wisdom and discernment coming up with a strategy and plan to prepare for
00:06:19 the famine of seven years had it not been for that everyone would have died and joseph like david
00:06:27 is a type of christ thrown into the pit as christ was thrown into the grave risen from the pit but
00:06:35 sold and betrayed by his brothers for silver just as Judas betrayed Jesus he then rose though he
00:06:44 ascended to the right hand of Pharaoh as Christ has ascended to the right hand of God and through
00:06:51 Joseph and his wisdom many did not perish but were saved just as Christ by his life death and
00:06:59 resurrection has saved eternally many souls. All of this was not salvaged by God, but planned
00:07:08 and decreed by God. So how do you resist the feelings of worry and anxiety and fear that give
00:07:19 way to actions and speech that come out of anxiety and worry and fear and thoughts incessantly bent
00:07:28 on anxiety and worry and fear? Belief. Belief. That's how you do it. You believe. You believe
00:07:40 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 powerful, but also good. And he doesn't just salvage things. If he makes lemonade, it's not
00:07:57 because man gave him lemons and it's all he had to work with. If he makes lemonade, it's because
00:08:03 he gave man those lemons because God wanted lemonade because it's delicious. God made the
00:08:10 decision. God is in charge. Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end?
00:08:16 Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry. And from the bottom
00:08:20 of my heart, I say thank you. I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just,
00:08:27 you can't afford it. In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean,
00:08:34 we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites 0.98
00:08:42 lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply
00:08:49 cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession. We are living in
00:08:56 a recession right now regardless. Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the
00:09:03 grocery store. You cannot support financially this ministry at this time nor should you but you could
00:09:10 still help us tremendously. I am asking you please if you're willing to do so take one minute of your
00:09:18 time. Leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast platform, iTunes, Spotify, whatever that
00:09:25 might be. This is the way the system works. We want to be innocent as doves, but shrewd as vipers.
00:09:32 We need to be strategic. You leave us a five-star review, and our podcast shows up for more people.
00:09:39 And the Word of God and courageous theology applied in practical ways to every realm of life
00:09:46 gets out there. Help us get it out there. Thanks for tuning in.