May 16, 2019 Show with Josh Moody on “Boasting: When We Boast Right, We Live Right, & We Bear Much Fruit to God’s Honor”

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And I am very excited that we have a very first-time guest today on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio. We have Josh Moody on the program. He is senior pastor of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, founder and president of God-Centered Life Ministries, and the author of Burning Hearts, Journey to Joy, No Other Gospel, and The God-Centered Life.

Today we are going to be addressing his latest book, Boasting. When we boast right, we live right, and we bear much fruit to God's honor. And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you for the very first time ever to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Josh Moody.

Hey, Chris, thank you so much.

My pleasure, brother. And if you could, tell our listeners something about College Church in Wheaton, Illinois.

Yeah, College Church is a historic church.

Praise God. Now tell us something about God-Centered Life Ministries.

Yeah, so this really came out of...

Well, praise God. And for those of you who want to do some further investigation of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, that website is college-church .org, college-church .org, and the God-Centered Life Ministry website is god-centeredlife .org, god-centeredlife .org, and hopefully I will remember to repeat that information later on during the program.

And by the way, just to satisfy the curiosity of those listening, our guest today, I did some question-asking of my own before he came on the air today, and his assistant told me that he is not related to D .L. Moody.

And nor is he, other than having a program on Moody Radio, nor is he the owner of the Moody Radio Network. Well, what we do on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio when we have a first-time guest, we have that guest give a summary of their salvation testimony.

Before we go on to the main theme today, which is your book on boasting, we would like you to give us some kind of an idea of what kind of religious atmosphere you were raised in and what kind of providential circumstances our Sovereign Lord raised up in your life that drew you to himself and saved you.

Yeah, so I grew up in a Bible-believing home.

I thought Brooklyn, New York right away.

Texas. How did you come to believe that you were receiving a call from God to enter into the ministry? Yeah, well...

Well, praise God, and forgive me if you mention this in the description of college church, but having been raised Anglican, was there either a theological or ecclesiastical transformation or change in your life?

Not that I am trying to insinuate there's anything wrong with being Anglican. I mean, well, there is something wrong with some Anglicans, but I have very strong Reformed Anglicans on this show quite often, actually.

39 articles, man.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.

But if you could tell us something more about that part.

Yeah, yeah, thanks. So my... Yeah, Oxford Movement. Yeah.

Yeah, it's kind of interesting that I typically rib my 39 articles Anglican friends because I tell them that I can really adopt the 39 articles even as a Reformed Baptist because the article regarding baptism just says that we are not to forbid children from being baptized, and I would never forbid a child who repented and believed, ever.

Boasting, Humility, and Why Christians Speak of Christ

Yeah, well, there you go.

It doesn't use the term infants. Of course, I know that Thomas Cramner and the Anglicans involved in those articles were paedo-baptists, but it's interesting that they didn't use the term infants in that.

Yeah, and I think they weren't...

And, in fact, I love telling my liberal Episcopalian and also Romish Oxford Movement Anglican friends that I believe I'm more Anglican than they are because of the 39 articles. I agree with them more than they do.

Well, this book, when people may initially either see it on a bookshelf, they may see it advertised somewhere on the Internet or elsewhere, they may be hearing me speaking about it right now, and it seems that the majority of my listeners are theologically Reformed, judging from the correspondence that we have with them.

I'm sure that some people might be having their eyebrows raised. What? Boasting? Is he promoting boasting? I mean, Calvinists of all people, even though there are many arrogant and proud Calvinists among us, we're supposed to be the most humble of Christians in regard to knowing that we did not contribute one single thing to our salvation, at least to our regeneration in election and our justification.

But tell us what on earth led you to write a book about boasting? And, obviously, when you read the subtitle, there's got to be a better motive in mind than many people might immediately rush to. Some people who might be fans of Joel Osteen and others like him might get a totally wrong idea, but if you could...

Yeah, so when we were Reformed Baptists, I...

Yeah, years ago, John MacArthur wrote a book with a very provocative title, And many of us who profess to love the Lord, we have repented very often of very scandalous, wicked sins. Not all of us, of course.

There are many who are raised Christian, whose sins, although equally damning, were perhaps more involving pride and things like that, not so overtly and scandalously wicked. But what is amazing, and I'm including myself in here, I'm not trying to point fingers just at everybody else, but it's amazing how we who are regenerate, we who know that we owe all to Christ, how often we can fail to boast about Him for something as little as we don't want the sales clerk in the store to give us a strange look, or we don't want our family at the Thanksgiving dinner table to groan and perhaps have a harsh word of retort.

And yet, throughout history, and even today in certain parts of the world like the Sudan, there are Christians who are actually being tortured and murdered for their faith, and yet we, for the slightest of ridiculous reasons, are ashamed to boast about our precious Lord, God, Savior, and King.

Yeah, and I'll go to the other extreme, which is for things other than the offender.

And for robbing time from their employers.

Right, exactly, yeah. So there's a balance in all that.

Well, we're going to find out when we come back from our first break whether or not Jesus himself boasted. If you'd like to join us on the air with a question for Josh Moody, our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com, chrisarnson at gmail .com.

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Welcome back. This is Chris Arnzen. If you just tuned us in, our guest today for the full two hours with about 90 minutes to go is Josh Moody, senior pastor of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, founder and president of God-Centered Life Ministries, and the author of a number of books, including the one we are addressing today, Boasting.

When we boast right, we live right, and we bear much fruit to God's honor. If you have a question for Pastor Moody, our email address is ChrisArnzen at gmail .com. ChrisArnzen at gmail .com, C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail .com.

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So right before the break, as you may remember, Pastor Josh, I asked you, did Jesus boast?

Yeah, and He, of course, is the only man that has the right to boast.

Of course, the only right we have to boast is to boast in the cross of our Lord. But His boasting is even seen clearly in His claims of being the exclusive Savior. His claims that He is the way, the truth, and the life, and that no one comes to the Father but by Him.

I mean, today's modern liberal, or more accurately should be called leftist, mainline denominations of Christendom, the way that Jesus describes Himself in the Scriptures, in the God-breathed inerrant Word, our liberal friends and neighbors do not want a Jesus like that.

They seem to want a Jesus that is so unhistorically and unbiblically humble that He is willing to share the glory with Muhammad, Buddha, and even human beings. Not that Muhammad wasn't a human being, but regular, average, ordinary people who may help fight against global warming or whatever.

Right.

These people are sharing in Christ's glory in their minds.

Yeah. Well, we have a listener in eastern Suffolk County, Long Island, Ronald, in Long Island, New York.

And Ronald asks, Do we not need to be very careful when we evangelize others that we do not speak or behave as if we are innately superior to them? I understand that we are called to be more godly and more obedient and more holy than our lost neighbors around us.

But the fact of the matter is, innately, we are very often no better, sometimes worse than they are. Some of our atheist neighbors are better parents and better spouses and better at many things that we fail, as Christians, to do.

Shouldn't the boasting be exclusively about a Savior who has also saved us from our own damnation? Yeah, I can recall a conversation with a lost individual very close to me, where this person responded to my pleas for them to repent and believe upon Christ.

This person said to me, You think you're better than me. And I retorted with the statement, No, that is the opposite of the truth. I am the one between us who recognizes how wicked I am. And I mean, I'm not saying that I'm always that biblical and that humble in my approach when dealing with unbelievers or with anybody else for that matter.

But that is, I think, something that we have to remind our friends, family, and loved ones who recoil in disgust or discomfort when we are evangelizing them, that we are not saying, Hey, be like me. I'm better than you.

We're saying, I know that I was rescued from my sin and from damnation, and I want you to share in that mercy. I want you to be rescued as well.

Yeah, the Lord does.

And I am very frequently guilty of the sin that Martin Lloyd Jones described, because I find myself all too often getting angry and frustrated with people who I know, people who I love, and even strangers that I happen to be in a situation that's getting me upset for some reason.

I all too often am expecting them to behave like Christians when I know that they're lost. And although we are definitely not to shy away from calling upon people to repent and to marking out and identifying the ways that they are rebelling against God, and of course some of those ways are even deadly to their physical life, let alone their eternal spiritual life, we can't at the same time let ourselves get filled with frustration over expectations that will never be met by unregenerate people.

Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever it is. I mean, that's true, generally speaking. But we're talking about something, we're talking about where you go after you die.

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It took me at least two minutes to recognize the significance of the artwork on the cover. I originally was wondering, what are these leaves, or is this a wheat field behind the word boasting? And I recognized, wait a minute, that's a peacock.

Those are peacock feathers. Obviously a perfect symbol for boasting.

Well, that's the point. Oh, that's brilliant.

Let's see, here we have B .B. in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, who asks, Is it ever right to boast about ourselves when we are trying to defend ourselves against false accusations? The Apostle Paul seemed to do that when he was being accused of things he was innocent of doing, and he even went as far as to explain how he labored as a tent maker to earn money, even though he was not required of God to do that.

Yes, and you're also possibly, not necessarily, but possibly stopping somebody else from sinning because they are committing the sin of bearing false witness, and if you just allow them to keep going and going and going, they're continuing in their sin.

Yes, we have to judge rightly. In fact, it's somewhat humorous, although it's not always humorous. It could be in the middle of an intense argument, or somebody's hurling insults at you, but when people hurl the accusation at you, you're judging, and the correct response, or at least accurate, not necessarily correct all the time, as far as the appropriate timing to say this, but it would be a truthful statement to retort, What are you doing right now?

You just accused me of judging. You are judging. You're making a judgment there.

Yeah, yeah.

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