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“ Summary, Part 3 (final) ” It is the seat of our emotions and affections—and the Bible says that it is deceitful above all else (JEREMIAH 17:9). Its affections are evil when our thinking is evil. PROVERBS 28:26: the unregenerate heart always leads us astray. Even the Christian, who is not yet glorified, ought not trust his own heart. Instead, we need to inform our minds with the light and conviction of Scripture. A good sign of conversion is when the heart finds God’s commands refreshing. C. OUR WILL, ONCE COMMITTED TO SIN, BECOMES COMMITTED TO THE TRUTH. There is no such thing as free will. Whether in sin or salvation, the will is never neutral, never equally able to choose sin or righteousness. Jesus told the religious of His day that they were unwilling to come to Him that they may have life. JOHN 6:44: God must first take hold of us before we fall before the Lord Jesus. Until then, we will not. APPLICATIONS: 1. PAUL’S DOCTRINE OF CONVERSION SHOULD HUMBLE US, BECAUSE IT TEACHES THAT WE ARE BORN SLAVES OF SIN, AND THEREFORE UTTERLY UNABLE TO SAVE OURSELVES. 2. PAUL’S DOCTRINE OF CONVERSION SHOULD THRILL US SINCE IT EXALTS THE GRACE OF GOD IN SALVATION. 3. PAUL’S DOCTRINE OF CONVERSION SHOULD ENCOURAGE US, BECAUSE OUR CONVERSION INVOLVES OUR WHOLE BEING.
Ian Migala (9/17/2013)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 2 ” Conversion radically impacts all the components of our being: our mind, heart, and will. A. OUR MIND, ONCE DARKENED BY SIN, IS ENLIGHTENED BY TRUTH. At conversion, truth comes into the mind, which is the doorkeeper of the soul. TITUS 1:15: God goes to the heart and will through the mind. Our minds must be transformed before we can render a verdict about anything. This is why it is so important to be in the word of God DAILY. We get our feet dirty walking in this wicked world, and it takes the Lord to wash them clean. Paul talks about the impression of truth upon our minds, like a stamp in a mint, and we must be teachable to bear the impress. PROVERBS 23:7: we really are the collection of our thoughts; the way we feel and act is based on how we think. If we’re truly biblical, then we should be generally predictable, since the Bible never changes. If you’re an emotional person, your thinking needs to be biblical so that your emotions will follow your thinking. In the Christian life, the quest for truth isn’t merely desirable—it is absolutely necessary (JOHN 14:6). B. OUR HEART, ONCE CAPTIVE TO SIN, BECOMES CAPTIVE TO THE TRUTH. Our heart is the faculty of our being that produces feelings based upon our thinking.
Ian Migala (9/17/2013)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 1 ” ROMANS 6:16-18: Paul opens the doctrine of grace alone by faith alone in Christ alone. Christ’s grace is greater than our sin, but the Devil’s logic leads us to conclude that we should sin so that grace should abound. But God informs us that salvation wider than salvation and imputation: it is also a radical transformation of our spiritual and moral lives, and we become new creations (2 CORINTHIANS 5:17). I. PAUL TEACHES THAT BEFORE WE WERE CONVERTED, WE WERE SLAVES TO OUR SIN. As sinners, we were unaware of this. In fact, we tended to think that Christians were the ones who were slaves. But this passage teaches that everyone is a slave to either righteousness or sin: no one is utterly free. Before salvation, we loved our sin and didn’t see our shackles. In fact, no one is more captive than the one who thinks his bondage is liberty. Until Christ bestows His light of grace in salvation, one’s understanding of bondage and freedom will be utterly backwards. Note how even the motivations of the experts and academia lead away from God’s righteousness and call it freedom and progress. Sin doesn't liberate; it condemns. II. PAUL TEACHES THAT GOD RADICALLY LIBERATES US IN CONVERSION BY THE TRUTH. “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (JOHN 8:32).
