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🗓️ 19 September 2016
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0:00.0 | Pastor John, you have for years stressed an approach to reform theology that is both |
0:05.8 | hard thinking and deep feeling. Each of us will tend to fall on one side or the |
0:11.5 | other here either into an anti-intellectual feeling or an anti-feeling |
0:16.5 | intellectualism. Both are to be avoided. In today's question, a listener wants to |
0:21.3 | know this. Dear Pastor John, in your 30 plus years of ministry, what have you |
0:25.3 | practically done to avoid mere intellectualism, a cold academic study in your |
0:31.6 | Bible reading and in your exposition? Would you say? The first thing I would say is |
0:37.7 | that I need to be, we need to be deeply persuaded that this really, really matters. |
0:48.0 | This non-cold, non-intellectualistic, warm, practical affectionate relation to the |
0:59.4 | living Christ, we need to be persuaded. This really matters because there are a lot of |
1:04.5 | people out there. I keep bumping into them. There are a lot of people out there who |
1:09.0 | either for personality reasons or sometimes theological reasons think it doesn't |
1:13.6 | matter what your emotions do. That is, they think emotions are the |
1:18.4 | caboose at the end of the train. They're just not essential at all. It sounds like |
1:24.9 | the person who wrote this question is persuaded that they matter and it might |
1:31.9 | be good to ask why. Here's my reason. The first and greatest commandment is not |
1:38.7 | to know the Lord our God, which is of course assumed, but to love the Lord your |
1:45.0 | God. And that includes with all your heart. And Paul says at the end of first |
1:52.1 | Corinthians, if you don't love the Lord, you're a cursed. Love the Lord. And Jesus |
1:58.4 | says, whoever loves father and mother more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever |
2:03.1 | loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. In other words, the love |
2:06.9 | that we must have isn't just a kind of beautiful commandment keeping love. That's |
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