NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - Growing In Spiritual Maturity
Aired: 2022-11-16
Duration: 06:41


=== Spiritual Maturity Through Mind and Heart (02:46) ===

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[00:00:19]  Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
[00:00:25]  You're listening to Daily Truth.
[00:00:30]  If we were to take all the qualifications for elders that we find in 1 Timothy 3, verses 1 through 7, and we were to sum them up in one concept, it would be spiritual maturity.
[00:00:42]  An elder must be mature in the Lord, he must be spiritually mature.
[00:00:48]  The only thing that we could perhaps add to that is that he must not only be spiritually mature, but he must also be competent.
[00:00:57]  If we were to say, if there were two parts perhaps for leaders in The church of God, we would say that there is character and there is competency.
[00:01:07]  Character and competency.
[00:01:09]  Now, I believe that in some regard, competency actually does flow from character.
[00:01:14]  That if a man or a woman is spiritually mature, you do not come by spiritual maturity apart from deep, real knowledge from the Word of God.
[00:01:27]  It's like what I say in the beginning of every single one of my sermons we don't love with our hearts that which we do not know with our minds.
[00:01:33]  So I just want to burst.
[00:01:36]  That bubble.
[00:01:37]  I want to completely just dismantle that myth that has grown so powerful in the evangelical church today that somehow Christians could come into spiritual maturity apart from doctrine.
[00:01:53]  False.
[00:01:54]  So if someone truly is spiritually mature in terms of character, they will, at least in some degree, have a measure of competency because you don't grow in character.
[00:02:06]  In sanctification, apart from knowing God's word.
[00:02:12]  And we've got it.
[00:02:13]  We have to dismiss that myth that reigns so prevalent in the evangelical church today that, you know, well, you're theological.
[00:02:22]  You're really good at loving God with your mind, and I'm really good at loving Him with my heart.
[00:02:25]  What does that mean?
[00:02:27]  That's a Gnostic, heretical divorcing of the mind and the heart.
[00:02:32]  That's not Christian.
[00:02:35]  It's not Christian, it's not biblical.
[00:02:37]  When it loves the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and soul, that's not like, hey, there's four different paths to choose.
[00:02:45]  Some will love them with their strength.

=== Why Theonomy Is Biblically Necessary (03:54) ===

[00:02:46]  What does that even look like?
[00:02:47]  You don't know God with your mind and you don't love him with your affections, but you're just pushing and lifting weights for Jesus.
[00:02:54]  Strength apart.
[00:02:56]  It's a collective deal, it's a package deal.
[00:03:00]  You're loving God not with, you choose which one of these, soul or heart or strength or mind.
[00:03:05]  No, you're loving God with all of your being.
[00:03:08]  All of your being.
[00:03:09]  So there is no love for God in these other realms, if you will, apart from the realm of the mind.
[00:03:15]  And so if we are to come into spiritual maturity in terms of character, it is because we are coming to love God more with our minds.
[00:03:24]  And if we are loving God more with our minds, understanding the truth and the depth of his word, then we are by default, consequently growing also not just in character, but in competency.
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