Defining Discernment: Reason | MSI Week 3/4
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
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🗓️ 17 April 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Many Christians today have fallen victim to a dangerous trend in the culture: we are using emotional reasoning to address spiritual issues. Listen in today as I discuss week three of our study on discernment and learn why we must never allow our emotions to determine truth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey you guys, this is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:03.7 | Today is Wednesday, the 17th of April. This is episode number 754. |
| 0:09.6 | Today we're going to be talking a little bit about emotional arguments. |
| 0:13.2 | And I'm going to encourage you to stop making emotional arguments for spiritual problems. |
| 0:18.2 | This is week three of our Study at Mom's Strong International, defining discernment. |
| 0:22.5 | Stick around, I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:30.0 | So we're out on the road. Our family is taking a little bit of time to date in the Grand Canyon. |
| 0:39.2 | And this was something we wanted to do with our kids as we drove home and we're excited about that. |
| 0:45.8 | You know what? I've been to the Grand Canyon before, but several of our younger children have not been. |
| 0:50.2 | And it's always amazing to me every time I visit that place that God is just, that he was big enough to do that. |
| 0:58.4 | We've been talking about evidences of the flood. Anywhere you go, the Bible teaches us that creation speaks for the Creator. |
| 1:08.6 | We learn in Romans that we are without excuse because the evidences of God's power are all around us. |
| 1:16.0 | We know that we have a Creator. And as I'm always saying here at the podcast, having a Creator changes everything. |
| 1:23.6 | One of the things that I talked about in Waco this last week and before that it answers in Genesis. |
| 1:28.6 | And before that it teach them diligently in Nashville was this idea that we are called as men and women to rightly divide the Word of God. |
| 1:37.8 | To be able to divide the Word of truth, to be able to share it, to be able to stand on it. |
| 1:42.2 | And we're struggling to do that right now in a culture of biblically illiterate Christians. |
| 1:48.3 | And as I've been traveling and I love, I love the opportunity that the Lord has given my husband and myself and our children to go around and just encourage people to walk rightly with the Lord. |
| 2:00.4 | I'm reminded every day of the importance in my own life, a staying close to the Word of God and engaging with His Word every single day. |
| 2:10.1 | The Bible teaches us that we are in an epic struggle against good and evil, right? |
| 2:13.9 | The Apostle Paul speaking to the church in Ephesus and Ephesians chapter 6, where 12 reminds us we're not wrestling against flesh and blood. |
| 2:21.9 | This fight is against the rulers and authorities and cosmic powers over this present darkness, spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places. |
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