The NXR Podcast - April 29, 2022


QUESTIONS - How Can We Expose The Hypocrisy Of Big Eva？


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00:00:21.540 This one's for you, John, for sure.
00:00:23.520 You too, AD, but what scripture would you give to address the more weaselly,
00:00:27.640 sneaky ways that big eva types bear false witness e.g. relentless ambiguity that allows the wiggle
00:00:37.120 room defense of that's not what i was referring to or non-specific accusations without names
00:00:43.840 can't be verified the over generalization accusations against the entire church
00:00:48.820 uh trivial uh trivial easy to find a singular example basically it's a for me does it say
00:00:55.700 It's for me.
00:00:56.300 Well, I just feel like...
00:00:57.140 Because the word weasel came up in it, and that's 80s' favorite word.
00:01:00.600 I did.
00:01:01.360 That's true.
00:01:03.600 I like how this question isn't...
00:01:05.440 It's not tainted at all from the beginning.
00:01:08.320 Weasley.
00:01:10.880 Or the one way to skin a weasel.
00:01:13.880 Yeah.
00:01:14.540 What scripture comes to mind?
00:01:15.860 I would say, you know, one like, you know, let your yes be yes, let your no be no, or
00:01:20.500 the proverb about a winking eye or something like that.
00:01:23.680 the pursed lips of
00:01:26.320 a, do you know that one?
00:01:28.660 You know a lot about the Bible, right? The proverb
00:01:30.500 about, pastor, pastor,
00:01:32.780 pursed lips and squinting
00:01:34.680 eyes, it's like about, it's
00:01:36.580 about someone like going like, yeah, you know
00:01:38.640 like, it's in Proverbs. I have the whole Bible
00:01:40.640 memorized, but this is a learning moment
00:01:42.640 for you. Yeah. To feel like
00:01:44.140 you should know the Bible. Yeah.
00:01:46.720 I can't help it. I just read this
00:01:48.680 the other day. It's just embarrassing. Anyway,
00:01:51.000 but there's a few Proverbs that talk about
00:01:52.680 this, about deceitful people, right? Deceitful people. And so I think there's more than one way
00:01:57.420 to wink, you know? And I think a lot of times, you know, evangelical leaders, especially the
00:02:02.300 ones that I criticize, they'll put something out there. Like Tim Keller did this just the other
00:02:06.600 day. He put out a whole thread about, you know, is it okay for a civil servant, a federal agency
00:02:14.740 employee to be a Christian, but work for an agency that's doing evil things? And he never mentioned,
00:02:20.880 And Francis Collins, who just, yes, the day before an article came out about all the evil
00:02:27.520 things that he's doing and funding, and the Trump administration had cut funding for abortion
00:02:33.740 research, and he wanted more funding, he's supposedly a Christian, for abortion research.
00:02:39.240 So this article just came out, and then Tim Keller magically comes out with this thread
00:02:42.980 about, is it okay, hypothetically, I'm definitely not talking about anyone specific for this.
00:02:48.060 And so people called him out instantly, like, why don't you just name him?
00:02:51.240 Like, what are you talking about?
00:02:52.700 He tried to compare it to Daniel.
00:02:54.200 You know, Daniel worked for Nebuchadnezzar.
00:02:58.600 Yeah, right.
00:02:59.020 And so he tried to compare it to that and Joseph working for the pharaoh.
00:03:02.160 And the problem with that, everyone instantly saw this.
00:03:04.620 I'm not a genius, but, you know, those guys didn't compromise themselves, though, right?
00:03:08.740 Like, Daniel worked for Nebuchadnezzar, but he didn't obey him when he said, don't pray to anyone but me.
00:03:15.520 And so it would be Darius, that's right, right.
00:03:19.340 So it would be comparable if Daniel, what he had actually done, was say, you know, like, maybe we should pray more to Darius.
00:03:28.340 That would be what Francis Collin did.
00:03:30.020 But anyway, whatever.
00:03:30.960 So he didn't name him.
00:03:32.620 The next day he comes out and says, I wasn't talking about anyone specific.
00:03:37.740 And it's like, it's just so insulting.
00:03:40.000 And so I think it's those verses in the Proverbs about winking faces and pursed lips, not letting your yes be yes.
00:03:48.740 Tell me who you're talking about because we all know who you're talking about, and we're not playing that game anymore.
00:03:53.740 Nobody's buying Tim Keller's I wasn't really talking about that.
00:03:56.960 He was.
00:03:57.960 He was.
00:03:58.600 There's no hypothetical corporate boardroom member that he was talking about.
00:04:02.360 So that's what I would think.
00:04:04.920 Honestly, it's just not bearing false witness.
00:04:07.560 That's great.
00:04:08.260 John?
00:04:09.600 Any thoughts?
00:04:10.880 You were researching.
00:04:12.580 I was looking up the proverb.
00:04:13.880 I found it, and I put it back in my pocket.
00:04:15.500 It's a real proverb.
00:04:16.940 Yeah, it is.
00:04:17.780 You weren't just making it up.
00:04:20.100 You want me to tell you it's like Proverbs 20 or something?
00:04:22.500 I was like, yeah, that was Confucius, dude.
00:04:25.040 That wasn't the Proverbs, man.
00:04:27.760 Yeah, well, there's a few, actually.
00:04:29.960 It wasn't just one.
00:04:31.360 Now my phone's about to die.
00:04:35.140 I don't know.
00:04:36.080 Oh, Proverbs 10.
00:04:37.000 There we go.
00:04:37.640 Proverbs 10.
00:04:38.120 10.
00:04:38.500 That's one of them.
00:04:39.220 talks about winking eyes. So, yeah, so mine's a little, my answer to this is a little bit,
00:04:45.540 I think, like big picture here, like start with God, his character. That's the basis for morality.
00:04:51.460 God is clear, right? He communicates in such a way that we can know. He's not double-tongued.
00:04:59.320 There's a lot of proverbs about that too. He's not the author of confusion, right? That's who God
00:05:05.460 is. So if you go to Galatians, this is the specific story I was thinking of is when Paul
00:05:12.500 confronts Peter and literally he accuses Peter and the guys with him in Galatians 2 and 3 of
00:05:20.020 being, he says, in some translations even say it this way, they were not clear about the gospel.
00:05:25.660 They lacked clarity about that specific issue. And so that was enough for Paul to publicly rebuke
00:05:32.160 Peter. And so clarity is kind of assumed. Like in order to know that someone's qualified as a
00:05:38.660 pastor, like you have to assume like they're not lying to you. What they say is what they mean.
00:05:43.580 They have to be able to refuse those who contradict the word. And so like that requires a lot of
00:05:49.760 clarity. And if you don't have clarity, if you can't communicate, then you're, I mean, that's
00:05:54.800 like half your job as a pastor is to teach. Like how do you teach anyone if you don't know how to
00:05:59.900 actually like say what you mean and mean what you say. So this is just something that deceiving
00:06:06.620 spirits do. This is something that the devil does to confuse people. Has God really said? I mean,
00:06:12.400 he kind of did, but like, that's not from the Lord when it's not clear. The Lord is clear about
00:06:17.680 things. So you can go and apply that to your life plan and all kinds of other areas too. Like, you
00:06:23.300 know, there's, you know, whatever is not a faith is sin. Like we, things are pretty clear cut when
00:06:27.880 it comes to those issues so and the winking eye thing so let me just say one more thing too
00:06:32.100 i i've been accused at times of having a overly aggressive tone i know it's hard to believe i've
00:06:40.520 had that too that's really weird anyway um anyway so i've never had that the bible warns about false
00:06:48.160 teachers um regularly right and if you look the bible talks about how their tone it really does
00:06:57.100 But it's always smooth, buttery words that you, they're not aggressive.
00:07:03.320 They're coming to you smooth talkers.
00:07:05.940 And I think that when you see some of these guys that put out, and this is not a hard and fast rule, so I'm not saying that.
00:07:10.720 But they put out these passive aggressive messages that everybody in the world knows exactly who they're talking about, but they don't say it.
00:07:19.780 They do that so it comes out smooth and buttery.
00:07:23.860 And then they also do it so that when you call them on it, they're like, why are you accusing me?
00:07:28.880 Accuser of the brethren.
00:07:29.940 I never said that.
00:07:31.100 And it's a tactic of devils.
00:07:33.000 It's a tactic of demons.
00:07:34.500 And the reality is next time someone warns you about someone like me's tone, ask him why false teachers are never talked about as the aggressive ones.
00:07:44.200 It's always Paul that's getting aggressive.
00:07:46.240 It's Jesus that's getting aggressive with the false teachers.
00:07:49.400 And so I'm not saying that my tone justifies my content, by the way.
00:07:52.700 but what I am saying is that
00:07:54.560 the warning you should be looking out for when you're
00:07:56.660 considering people that are teaching falsely is
00:07:58.540 they're smooth talkers
00:08:00.220 that's right, it's like you said, tactic of
00:08:02.700 demons, it's also effeminate
00:08:04.100 and that said
00:08:06.380 I think we've all done, I've done it, I'll speak for myself
00:08:08.840 there are times where I've been indirect
00:08:10.500 indirect, for a man to be indirect
00:08:12.680 I think is effeminate and I've been
00:08:14.540 indirect and I think that's effeminate and that's a sin that
00:08:16.500 I gotta repent of
00:08:18.520 and continue to rely on the Lord Jesus to make
00:08:20.660 the righteous are as bold as lions
00:08:22.200 Lord, make me bold.
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