Is There Good Anxiety?
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Desiring God
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🗓️ 21 April 1981
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In retrospect as I look back on reasons for why I left Bethel College to go into the |
| 0:09.4 | Pastorate, one of the more deeper reasons that came to my mind yesterday was this. |
| 0:19.0 | Problems that get under my saddle most are problems of the heart rather than problems of the mind. |
| 0:27.0 | Orthodoxy in my set of values is penultimate. |
| 0:35.6 | Personal faith is ultimate. |
| 0:38.7 | Reasoning to and from God is penultimate. Joy in God is ultimate. Ethics is penultimate. Love is ultimate. |
| 0:55.0 | Herminutics. No offense, sweetheart, is penultimate. |
| 1:00.0 | Obedience is ultimate. |
| 1:05.8 | Theology is penultimate. |
| 1:08.4 | Doxology is ultimate. |
| 1:15.0 | And as I try to understand what's been happening to me |
| 1:22.0 | over the past five years or so, I sense a movement, a gravitation along a continuum pushing me spiritually and |
| 1:29.1 | vocationally closer and closer to the place where the flower of the ultimate bursts forth on the stem of the penultimate. |
| 1:42.0 | Now of course I don't want to imply that I spend all of my time sitting at the base of a tulip flower, though I am still a five-point Calvinist. In fact, just like you, I still spend almost all of my time in the service of the penultimate, |
| 2:12.0 | because that's just a way this age is and I suppose in fact I know |
| 2:17.3 | that there remains in me a restlessness that I don't think will go away until I see God face to face and everything I do is |
| 2:29.3 | swallowed up in the immediacy of the ultimate. I'm looking for more satisfaction, but I'm sure |
| 2:39.2 | that I won't find it all until that day. Now the reason I mention all of this is to set the stage for what I really want to talk about today, namely some states of the heart that the Bible encourages us to have that are very perplexing to me. |
| 2:57.0 | Every time I've spoken in chapel, I've always given you the whatever on the front burner of my own mind and that's all I'm doing today. |
| 3:07.0 | I read an article by David Hubbard about a year ago on the text 2 Corinthians 1128 which says David Hubbard is the |
| 3:19.6 | president of Fuller seminary and I'm always reading his little things in today's Christian |
| 3:24.9 | little publication they put out. The text says and apart from other things Paul |
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