Uniting Mind and Heart in Gospel Truth
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The main point of my two messages is therefore that God, if you've noticed the titles, the gospel-shaped mind and the gospel gospel-shaped heart, tonight, mind but they're all one. The point of my two messages together is that God created you with a mind and with a heart so that the heart, your heart, when rightly served by the mind, would treasure God with white-hot affection. [00:04:01]
The ultimate goal of God in giving you a heart and a mind is found in the act of the heart, not the act of the mind, and that the mind exists to serve that act. And when the mind rightly serves the heart, the heart explodes with a new affection which is profoundly transforming, and it's an affection that is God-ward. [00:08:22]
Right thinking about God exists for the sake of right feelings for God in that order. Logic exists for the sake of love. Reasoning exists for the sake of rejoicing. Doctrine exists for the sake of delight. Reflection about God exists for affection for God. The head is meant to serve the heart. Knowing the truth is the basis of admiring the truth. [00:13:12]
The gospel shapes the mind by liberating the mind from self-deceiving, reality-distorting bondage to self-exaltation and self-preservation. In Christ, all the destructive powers of my badness are over. I can't be destroyed by my badness if I'm holding fast to Jesus, and the gospel provides an absolutely certain outcome of my final glory. [00:17:30]
The Holy Spirit takes the objective statement of the gospel and makes that gospel mysteriously the instrument of the miracle of regeneration. First Peter 1:23: You have been born again through the living and abiding word of God, which is the gospel which we preached to you. So here's this objective propositionally stated gospel about events in history. [00:20:24]
The mind is engaged as the organ that perceives, construes, and articulates that gospel, which then serves regeneration, which is the coming alive of a person who is in love with Jesus and doesn't regard him as boring or mythological anymore. So now this third point is my first point way back at the beginning. [00:24:24]
Paul, when went into the synagogue as was his custom, and on the three Sabbath days, he reasoned with them from the scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and rise from the dead. So Paul's reasoning, explaining, proving, he's engaging the organ of his mind and addressing people with rational content. [00:27:12]
The gospel is the power of God into salvation. The gospel looks out on dead people and says, live in the name of Jesus Christ, rise and walk, and the words, the rational words and the arguments are used by the sovereign Holy Spirit to open hearts to give heed to that. The very words become the means by which the dead live. [00:30:32]
The Bible is a book. There it is, it's a book. We call it, I call it the word of God, objectively outside of me containing truth. Jesus Christ came into the world as the truth. We love that, we learn it here, but when he was finished with his work and returned, he left behind apostles, prophets who became the foundation of the church. [00:44:25]
When you read this, you are able to perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ. You wonder why Christians found schools, raised their kids up by teaching them to read early. When you read this, you will be able to perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ because the Holy Spirit who inspired the book is jealous to use the book. [00:48:32]
God created you with a mind and with a heart, an organ of thinking and reflection, pondering, meditating, truth-handling, and a heart, an organ of affection and emotion and feeling, inclination, and the mind, when it's rightly serving the heart, causes the heart to be aflame with Christ as a supreme treasure. [00:45:56]
Spare no effort to use your mind, spare no effort to think rightly so that you will then, by your mental apprehension of truth wherever it comes from, especially in the word, by your mind, the right use of it, you will be pouring fuel into the furnace of the heart for the sake of inflaming a white-hot affection for God. [00:46:48]
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The ultimate goal of God in giving you a heart and a mind is found in the act of the heart, not the act of the mind, and that the mind exists to serve that act. And when the mind rightly serves the heart, the heart explodes with a new affection which is profoundly transforming, and it's an affection that is God-ward. [00:08:22]
Right thinking about God exists for the sake of right feelings for God in that order. Logic exists for the sake of love. Reasoning exists for the sake of rejoicing. Doctrine exists for the sake of delight. Reflection about God exists for affection for God. The head is meant to serve the heart. Knowing the truth is the basis of admiring the truth. [00:13:12]
The gospel shapes the mind by liberating the mind from self-deceiving, reality-distorting bondage to self-exaltation and self-preservation. In Christ, all the destructive powers of my badness are over. I can't be destroyed by my badness if I'm holding fast to Jesus, and the gospel provides an absolutely certain outcome of my final glory. [00:17:30]
The Holy Spirit takes the objective statement of the gospel and makes that gospel mysteriously the instrument of the miracle of regeneration. First Peter 1:23: You have been born again through the living and abiding word of God, which is the gospel which we preached to you. So here's this objective propositionally stated gospel about events in history. [00:20:24]
The mind is engaged as the organ that perceives, construes, and articulates that gospel, which then serves regeneration, which is the coming alive of a person who is in love with Jesus and doesn't regard him as boring or mythological anymore. So now this third point is my first point way back at the beginning. [00:24:24]
Paul, when went into the synagogue as was his custom, and on the three Sabbath days, he reasoned with them from the scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and rise from the dead. So Paul's reasoning, explaining, proving, he's engaging the organ of his mind and addressing people with rational content. [00:27:12]
The gospel is the power of God into salvation. The gospel looks out on dead people and says, live in the name of Jesus Christ, rise and walk, and the words, the rational words and the arguments are used by the sovereign Holy Spirit to open hearts to give heed to that. The very words become the means by which the dead live. [00:30:32]
The Bible is a book. There it is, it's a book. We call it, I call it the word of God, objectively outside of me containing truth. Jesus Christ came into the world as the truth. We love that, we learn it here, but when he was finished with his work and returned, he left behind apostles, prophets who became the foundation of the church. [00:44:25]
When you read this, you are able to perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ. You wonder why Christians found schools, raised their kids up by teaching them to read early. When you read this, you will be able to perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ because the Holy Spirit who inspired the book is jealous to use the book. [00:48:32]
God created you with a mind and with a heart, an organ of thinking and reflection, pondering, meditating, truth-handling, and a heart, an organ of affection and emotion and feeling, inclination, and the mind, when it's rightly serving the heart, causes the heart to be aflame with Christ as a supreme treasure. [00:45:56]
Spare no effort to use your mind, spare no effort to think rightly so that you will then, by your mental apprehension of truth wherever it comes from, especially in the word, by your mind, the right use of it, you will be pouring fuel into the furnace of the heart for the sake of inflaming a white-hot affection for God. [00:46:48]
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