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The Watchpost Podcast
by Watchpost
How do we understand Scripture and live out the Gospel biblically and faithfully in a pluralistic world? In The Watchpost Podcast, we talk through common misdirections and misapplied ideals within Christianity.
Episodes
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Does God Care About My Self-Esteem?
There are some very real sinful issues that get mixed in with the concept of self esteem, but at the same time there are also very real needs regarding self esteem that arise but are shoved aside or even rebuked. In this episode let’s look carefully at how to understand self esteem in a godly…
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Each Christian Doing Their Part
When we hear messages about not wasting our lives but saying yes to the calling God has on our lives, we can easily be pulled in one of two directions—pride and ambition, or passivity and living for self. The call for every Christian is actually simple: not to be a great Christian, but just to be...
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How to Rightly Respond to the Gospel
Many believers get to the point where we see our sin, we see our need, we see our utter insufficiency, but don’t know how to move forward rightly from there. In that moment, there are some responses that arise from lies or from our own flesh that keep us from being able to take hold of Christ…
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Ephesians 1:17-24 Spiritual Wisdom (Scripture Study & Commentary)
The wisdom found outside of Christ is very different from the wisdom of Christ. We can pursue things intellectually, but the pursuit of the wisdom of Christ is spiritual. What does this mean? What does this look like for the believer? Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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Morality Instead of Christianity
Christianity is about doing what is right, but we will never walk in the righteousness of God if we aim at morality. The ways of God are much more than a moral system, and cannot be fulfilled by those who are unwilling to walk by the Spirit. The Christian who lives by the spirit is more moral…
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Worthy of the Kingdom of God
What God has done in Christ is complete and absolutely undeserved by any believer. But what has God done this for? Scripture shows us that He has done this so we might live a holy life. But the call is still for us to walk worthy of Christ—not to earn salvation, but to glorify God by treating the...
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Youthful Passions
What are “youthful passions”? (2 Timothy 2:14-26) Paul is speaking about passions that influence believers of any age, though there is a reason young people are specifically warned about these things. It’s about the life we are building, the things we are pursuing and taking into our hearts with...
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Ephesians 1:15-16 Christian Love (Scripture Study & Commentary)
What is love? When Paul praises the Ephesian Christians for their love for each other, what is he exactly commending? In a culture with a lot of ideas about “community”, or loyalty, or truth, or acceptance, it’s important for us to know what Christian love really looks like. Visit…
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What Is the Bible Saying?
The Bible has many stories, many morals, many truths, but when we look at the Bible as a whole, what is it saying about God? What is it saying about who His Son is? What is it saying about who we are? Amidst it all, what are we meant to hear from the Bible? Visit www.watchpost.org for more…
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We Can Trust God for Our Repentance
So many people are afraid of the standard of God, rather than being confident that Christ can be trusted to raise us up into holiness as we lean into Him. If we can understand that Jesus can be trusted, we will have the courage to face all our sins and all God’s commands, knowing that He can do…
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Repenting to the World Rather than God
As believers, we are seeking to live moral lives and we understand that change and growth is important. But many times because we are not truly looking to the Lord for the renewal of our mind and beliefs, we make changes and we repent but it’s not unto the Lord but unto the world, according to…
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Where Does Patience Belong in Forgiveness?
Part of being able to have grace and patience for people is also being able to expect them to change. Not perfect change, but still real change. Understanding the heart that is truly moving towards greater holiness in their repentance and how that is different than the heart that does not intend…
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Repentance Is Not Mere Self-Affliction
Real repentance involves mourning for one’s own sin, but it’s about much more than just feeling sorry for what we have done or punishing ourselves. Turning in repentance has fruit we can identify: change in our thinking and believing, change in our behaviour, and a focus on restoring the ones...
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Repentance Is Owning Our Personal Sin
We focus so much on the archetypes of sin and the particular ways sin shows up in other people that is distasteful to us, that we manage to excuse and blind ourselves to the sin we continue to cling to in our own lives. Our infatuation with our own lives often is what keeps us from deeply…
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Selfish Repentance, Pt2
Even the worst sinner can turn to the Lord with beautiful repentance. When we truly are repenting, we may not be able to always make everything right, but we desire to, and we delight in justice even at the cost to ourselves. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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Selfish Repentance, Pt1
In the modern world there is a high value for a form of repentance which, in reality, emerges from the self and the recognition that we want to be seen as a better person than we have been. There is a real difference between this and repenting in order to begin to restore those we have wounded…
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Ephesians 1:11-12 What Is Our Inheritance? (Scripture Study & Commentary)
Without Christ, none of us could light the lamp of our own salvation. The delight we have in our salvation is that now we are no longer ignorant about God and that we no longer walk in the futility of our minds, but rather we can put on Christ and delight in holiness. Our inheritance is a new…
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The World’s Obligation to Fear
What we fear is central to what we obey. We need to fight to ensure that the only one we truly fear is God, and that we do fear Him. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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False Signs, Pt2
(Part 2) In Acts 27, we see the shipwreck that resulted from the “signs” that the sailors trusted in, despite the risk and despite the word Paul brought from the Lord. This is something that plays out in all of our lives—each of us face the temptation to look for signs and put our trust in what…
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False Signs, Pt1
In Acts 27, we see the shipwreck that resulted from the “signs” that the sailors trusted in, despite the risk and despite the word Paul brought from the Lord. This is something that plays out in all of our lives—each of us face the temptation to look for signs and put our trust in what we find,...
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Ephesians 1:11 God’s Will (Scripture Study & Commentary)
Seeing the sovereignty of God’s will is both an encouragement to us (because we can entrust the future to Him) and also a confrontation, because we need to submit our own will under His. But how does our will interact with His will? Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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Ephesians 1:10 Christ, God’s Plan for the Fullness of Time (Scripture Study & Commentary)
Christ was God’s plan for the past, for the present, and is His plan for the future. We can only understand the questions and struggles of our present day by grasp, through faith, the reality of what God is doing and will do in the coming days through Christ. Visit www.watchpost.org for more...
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Ephesians 1:7-10 The Gospel (Scripture Study & Commentary)
The Gospel is the revelation of God’s mysterious will from the beginning being revealed in Christ. In this episode we discuss why God’s will has been such a mystery to us, and what He has revealed through Christ. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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The Christian and the Self Life
The denying of our self is the ongoing fight for every believer. Whether for a younger believer or an older believer, this is present but shows up in different ways. In this episode, we discuss how to be prepared in every season to continue forward with endurance. Visit www.watchpost.org for more...
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Worshipping the Lord with Obedience, Pt 2
Our worship must be unto Christ and according to His terms. Where it is tempting to become wrapped up within things of God, we are meant to be centered upon God Himself. Even our cares and passions for things that we consider deeply important in this world can overtake us, and these become what…
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Worshipping the Lord with Obedience, Pt 1
Our worship to God must be about God, according to what pleases Him, not just what pleases us. Within the freedom we have in Christ, we should seek to still approach God based on His terms and in love for Him, not simply however we please. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like...
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How God Divides by His Son
God divides rightly. This division is often so offensive to people until we understand what God is accomplishing through it and why it is still part of the reality we live in, even as those who follow Christ. God has divided the world by His Son; let us obey Him in this. Visit www.watchpost.org…
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Spiritual Endurance, Pt 2
The call to spiritual endurance is not for nothing—there is an end goal for which we ARE enduring. We as believers need to stay awake to the reality of the Kingdom of God and the coming Day, not slipping into the slumber and drunkenness of the world, because He desires that we would be ready for...
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Spiritual Endurance, Pt 1
The Lord leaves obstacles in this life. He leaves hardship, monotony, distraction, sin, and suffering here. When He calls us to run with endurance, He calls us to take up a particular spiritual worship—choosing holiness, choosing devotion, choosing Christ. Visit www.watchpost.org for more…
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King Ahab and How Our Ideas of Mercy Oppose God’s Mercy
The account of King Ahab of Israel and King Ben-Hadad of Syria in 1 Kings 20 is a striking illustration of the wrong ideas of mercy that are upheld even today by many believers. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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Ephesians 1:7-10 The Wisdom of God in Redemption (Scripture Study & Commentary)
God is shockingly generous, and meanwhile, He is not a fool. God’s wisdom is one that holds all the information and navigates everything perfectly—and this is true even in His mercy. His redemption of us is perfectly good and perfectly right, and while we are astounded by how good He is in…
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Ephesians 1:7-10 Jesus Is Redemption (Scripture Study & Commentary)
Both seekers and saints often struggle with understand who Jesus truly is. This passage richly illustrates how plainly God’s intention to bring all of humanity out of sin and into the newness of life is both proven and accomplished through Jesus. He is the one foretold through all of Scripture…
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Guarding Your Heart Spiritually
Keeping a watch over what we believe requires all diligence. What we obey and the beliefs we join with reveal where our hearts are, to whom our allegiance belongs. The sin that we keep in our heart and live out of actually harms people, as well as ourselves; and likewise, what other people…
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Love Your Neighbor: This Is Not Easy
Loving our neighbors isn’t aspirational, like a goal set before us; it’s a command—love is the standard. This is higher than kindness, broader than those who respect us; godly love is not easy. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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Love Your Neighbor: Within Your Own Heart
Self pity can claim your soul. Often we are afflicted by others and by external circumstances, and we need to conserve our recognition that we ourselves are valuable despite the wrongs we have experienced. As we do so, let’s talk about how to navigation the temptation towards self pity and a…
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Love Your Neighbor: Rescuing the Doctrines About Separation
Separating from people because we believe we are superior to others is absolutely not godly, and we are right to live and teach against this. What we do need to see and live from, though, is God’s instructions about how separation is something we do need to use within the right contexts, and if…
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Love Your Neighbor: Confronting Our Ideas of Love
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Love Your Neighbor: When Our Wisdom Conflicts with God’s Wisdom
We often evaluate our understanding of things by ensuring we are avoiding the wrongs that other people do. We “love people into change” because we want to be better than people who “give up on” people—and because this feels so right, we resist even when the Word of God conflicts with that idea.…
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Love Your Neighbor: The Danger of Elevating Compassion Over Justice
We form ideas about what love is that make us feel superior to people who lack compassion, but we have to face the fact that our ideas do not align with God’s truth. Our love is not higher than God’s love, and it’s important to consider and receive the wisdom within the boundaries God has laid...
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Love Your Neighbor: Holding the Balance
God is kind, and yet He is severe; God is severe, and yet He is kind! We need to work for right balance between all things within our understanding of “love”: love for God, love for others, love for ourselves, love for our enemies. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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Love Your Neighbor: It Is Lawful to Do Good, P2
Many believers are fighting to rescue our right to our own welfare, in opposition to those who enforce legalism and hinder good from being done. But sometimes while we do this, believers end up setting aside the need for all of us to also die to self. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and...
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Love Your Neighbor: It Is Lawful to Do Good, P1
When the law is used to keep good from being done, when the decision is to either follow the law OR meet a need, believers find themselves in an impossible dilemma. The purpose of the law is not upheld when we use it to hold back the work of God from being done for the welfare of His people....
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Ephesians 1:6 Predestination and Man’s Choice (Scripture Study & Commentary)
Let’s talk about God’s sovereignty, man’s choice, salvation, legalism, grace, accountability, works, and faith. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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Ephesians 1:5 (Scripture Study & Commentary)
The will of God is holiness (Acts 3:26). Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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Love Your Neighbor: Taking Up Our Cross
What does it mean to die to ourselves? A key part of the equality we have with our brothers and sisters in Christ is that all of us take up our crosses together. Loving our neighbor expects both ourselves and other believers to submit to Christ fully. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and...
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Love Your Neighbor: What Selflessness Is
We can only love our neighbor if we truly love God first. Selflessness is about being submitted to God, and love for others comes from that. (Mark 12:30-31) In trying to combat selfishness, many people plunge into a wrong idea of selflessness. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio...
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Love Your Neighbor: Law & Self Bias
“Loving others as ourselves” is complicated by the fact that mankind is biased towards himself. God gives law as something we can align ourselves with and others with so we break free from the default, which is to measure others against one’s self, and to measure one’s self against a...
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Love Your Neighbor: The Golden Rule
How do we “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” across differences, cultures, walks of life, etc? The Golden Rule can only be carried out rightly underneath the First Commandment. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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Love Your Neighbor: Equality
Loving our neighbour and loving ourselves is about godly equality. Visit www.watchpost.org for more articles and audio like this.
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Ephesians 1:4 “That we should be holy” (Scripture Study & Commentary)
God saves us from sin to holiness. Holiness is not merely a concern that should drive unbelievers to become believers, but the call and purpose of the Christian, not in place of righteousness (salvation by works), but according TO the righteousness we have in Christ. Visit www.watchpost.org for...
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How do we understand Scripture and live out the Gospel biblically and faithfully in a pluralistic world? In The Watchpost Podcast, we talk through common misdirections and misapplied ideals within Christianity.
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