Your Heart Is Your Mind, and It Will be Dead when You Die, Until Resurrection Day
Guard your hearts now, because your hearts will be dead between your death and your resurrection
I Samuel 16: 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
Matthew 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 9:4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
Matthew 12:34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 15:8 “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
Matthew 15:18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
Matthew 18:35 So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”
Luke 16:15 And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
John 16:33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Acts 15:9 and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
Acts 16:14 One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
Romans 5:5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 6:17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
Ephesians 1:18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
Ephesians 3:16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
1 Thessalonians 2:4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Hebrews 3:12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 5:5 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
James 5:8 You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
1 John 3:20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything
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For the Elect Alone 
October 19, 2013 at 4:20 am
Genesis 2:7: “A Living Soul.” It is not surprising that this text forms the basis of much of the discussion regarding human nature, since it provides the only Biblical account of how God created man. The text reads: “Then God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
Historically, this text has been read through the lenses of classical dualism. It has been assumed that the breath of life God breathed into man’s nostrils was simply an immaterial, immortal soul that God implanted into the material body. And just as earthly life began with the implantation of an immortal soul into a physical body, so it ends when the soul departs from the body. Thus Genesis 2:27 has been historically interpreted on the basis of the traditional body-soul dualism.
What has led to this mistaken and misleading interpretation is the fact that the Hebrew word nephesh, translated “soul” in Genesis 2:7, has been understood according to the standard Webster’s definition for soul: “The immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life.” Or “The spiritual principle embodied in human beings.” This standard definition reflects the Platonic view of the soul–psyche as being an immaterial, immortal essence that abides in the body, though it is not part of it.
This prevailing view causes people to read the Old Testament references to the soul–nephesh in the light of Platonic dualism rather than of Biblical wholism. As Claude Tresmontant puts it, “By applying to the Hebrew nephesh [soul] the characteristics of the Platonic psyche [soul], . . . we let the real meaning of nephesh [soul] escape us and furthermore, we are left with innumerable pseudo-problems.”
People who read the Old Testament references to nephesh (which in the King James version are translated 472 times as “soul”) with a dualistic mind-set, will have great difficulty in understanding the Biblical wholistic view of human nature. According to this, the body and the soul are the same person seen from different perspectives. They will experience problems with accepting the Biblical meaning of the “soul” as the animating principle of both human and animal life. Furthermore, they will be at a loss to explain those passages that speak of a dead person as a dead soul–nephesh (Lev 19:28; 21:1, 11; 22:4; Num 5:2; 6:6,11; 9:6, 7, 10; 19:11, 13; Hag 2:13). For them it is inconceivable that an immortal soul could die with the body.
The Meaning of “Living Soul.” The prevailing assumption that the human soul is immortal has led many to interpret the phrase “man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7 ) to mean that “man obtained a living soul.” This interpretation has been challenged by numerous scholars who are sensitive to the confusion regarding the difference between the Greek-dualistic and the Biblical-wholistic conception of human nature.
Johannes Pedersen speaking of the creation of man in his classic study Israel, writes: “The basis of his essence was the fragile corporeal substance, but by the breath of God it was transformed and became a nephesh, a soul. It is not said that man was supplied with a nephesh, and so the relation between body and soul is quite different from what it is to us. Such as he is, man in his total essence is a soul.”
Pedersen continues by noting that “in the Old Testament we are constantly confronted with the fact that man, as such, is a soul. Abraham started for Canaan with his property and all the souls he had gotten (Gen 12:5), and when Abraham had taken booty on his warlike expedition against the great kings, the King of Sodom exhorted him to yield the souls and keep the goods (Gen 14:21). Seventy souls of the house of Jacob came to Egypt (Gen 46:27; Ex 1:5). Whenever a census is taken, the question always is: How many souls are there? In these and in numerous other places we may substitute persons for souls.”
Commenting on Genesis 2:7, Hans Walter Wolff asks: “What does nephesh [soul] mean here? Certainly not soul [in the traditional dualistic sense]. Nephesh was designed to be seen together with the whole form of man, and especially with his breath; moreover man does not have nephesh [soul], he is nephesh [soul], he lives as nephesh [soul].”
http://www.robertwr.com/
October 19, 2013 at 4:39 am
Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison—“the heart in the biblical sense is not the inner life, but the whole man in relation to God”
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The Christian must therefore really live in the godless world, without attempting to gloss over or explain its ungodliness in some religious way or other. He must live a ‘secular’ life, and thereby share in God’s sufferings. He may live a ‘secular’ life (as one who has been freed from false religious obligations and inhibitions). To be a Christian does not mean to be religious in a particular way, to make something of oneself (a sinner, a penitent, or a saint) on the basis of some method or other, but to be a man – not a type of man, but the man that Christ creates in us. It is not the religious act that makes the Christian, but participation in the sufferings of God in the secular life
October 23, 2013 at 4:26 am
from a review of Horton’s Covenant and Salvation, in Ordained Servant: “Having been called effectively involves having been regenerated, but the two are not identical. The exercise of the Spirit’s energies in calling produces an enduring change within sinners distinct from that exercise. The result is a new and lasting disposition, what Scripture calls a new “heart.” That is, at the core of my being, I am no longer against God and disposed to rebel against his will but, now and forever, for him and disposed in the deepest recesses of whom I am to delight in doing his will.
In view of the undeniable reality of their own indwelling sin, believers need to be exhorted not to quench or grieve the Spirit at work in their lives. But his work in the justified ungodly does not merely consist of an ongoing countering activity within those otherwise only disposed to be thoroughly resistant and recalcitrant. The definitive, nothing less than eschatological death-to-life change effected and maintained in believers by the Spirit provides a stable basis within them for his continuing day-by-day activity of renewing and maturing them according to their inner selves (2 Cor. 4:16), for his continuing toward completion the good work begun in them (Phil. 1:6). The Reformed use of “habitual” to describe this irreversible change, this radical dispositional reorientation, in believers seems appropriate.
Gaffin, in By Faith and not By Sight, p103—“The law gospel antithesis enters not by virtue of creation but as the consequence of sin…The gospel is to the purpose of removing the law gospel antithesis in the life of the believer…In Christ, united to Him, the law is no longer my enemy but my friend.”
April 23, 2014 at 4:29 pm
Psalm 42: 5 the salvation of my face and my God
the help of my countenance and my God
Romans 8: 23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
II Corinthians 5: we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
May 14, 2015 at 7:02 pm
http://www.presenttruthmag.org/Bible/1.html http://kenfortier.com/site/cdickinsonarticles
October 8, 2015 at 7:47 pm
Matthew 22: 34 When the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they came together. 35 And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test Him: 36 “Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest?” 37 He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your HEART, with all your soul, and with all your MIND 38 This is the greatest and most important[n]command. 39 The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. 40 All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands
March 14, 2016 at 8:57 pm
Only the gospel shows us what the law is. But the gospel is not the law. The gospel shows me that I cannot and will not ever keep or fulfill the law. The requirements of the law are fulfilled in the elect only by imputation (Romans 8:4) and the elect are justified (even according to the law) when the law has put the elect to death in Christ. (Romans 6:7).
So when I was converted, I did not change my mind about lust. I am not sure that lusting bothers me or grieves me more now than when I was a self-righteous puritan. But I do fear God now. Before I did not at all fear or know the true God before. I fear God in this one distinctive important thing: now I know that only God has satisfied His law and that only for the elect.
Without that last little bit (and only for the elect), then people can hear all the above and still be Lutherans or puritanical Calvinists. Part of the fear of God is to know that only God can save, to know that God’s character means that God a. has chosen some to save and some not to save and b. does not save apart from Christ and His satisfaction of God’s consistent with His character law.
July 5, 2016 at 12:34 pm
resignation and acquiesence bias
do not cancel out regrets
we need resistance to “current events”
memory loss helps us forward
toward indifference
about choices past
and future
what does it matter
what did it matter
Tuesday is Roots Market
jazz on Thursday night
notes to remind ourselves
buy Chuck Taylor shoes for Kevin’s birthday
mother’s day was Chanticleer
Longwood Garden our anniversary
the stream is still conscious
psalm 116 i will walk
before the Lord in the land of the living
whose husband will he be in the resurrection?
they say there is no being raised from the dead
but this age is passing away
the time is limited
from now on
as it was already
time was always short
from the beginning
the age purposed to pass away
God is not the God of the dead
except insofar as God raises the dead
Revelation 20: 5 The rest of the dead did not again until the age was completed. This is the first resurrection.
http://www.truthortradition.com/articles/the-dead-are-dead-until-the-rapture-or-resurrection
August 22, 2016 at 1:30 pm
September 1, 2016 at 7:49 pm
October 8, 2016 at 11:09 am
the greatest generation was not all that great
Matthew 11:16 “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children,
Matthew 24:32-34 “Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. “Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.
Colossians 1:26 In order to carry out the preaching of the word of God, that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints,
Philippians 2:14-16 Do all things without grumbling or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.
Ephesians 3:20-21 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations ever AND ALSO ever. .
Genesis 9:12 God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;
Isaiah 34:10 The fire will not be quenched night or day; Its smoke will go up ever From generation to generation it will be desolate; None will pass through it ever AND ALSO ever.