{"id":469,"date":"2016-04-14T06:08:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T10:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2016-04-15T08:17:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T12:17:29","slug":"affected-by-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/affected-by-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Affected by Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Shout<\/a><\/p>\n

Truth has not captured us until it has conquered heart, mind, soul and body.<\/p>\n

It is certainly true that truth must lay hold of our minds\u2014that we must grasp the truth and understand it, as God is pleased to give us light. But we should never be satisfied just to see truth take root in our thinking<\/strong>\u2014just to revel in understanding. God intends to conquer every part of us with His truth. And His conquest of our being is borne out in our affections, thoughts, choices<\/strong> and obedience<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Calvin asks the question in his Institutes<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cBut how can the mind be aroused to taste the divine goodness without at the same time being wholly kindled to love God in return? For truly, that abundant sweetness which God has stored up for those who fear Him cannot be known without at the same time powerfully moving us. And once anyone has been moved by it, it utterly ravishes him and draws him to itself.\u201d
\n\u2014Calvin [Institutes<\/em> 3.2.41]<\/p>\n

It is not enough just to acknowledge truth in our minds or even just go through the motions of outward obedience with our bodies\u2014God is concerned with our hearts. We need truth to penetrate us, capturing our will and laying hold of our affections\u2014changing, sanctifying and delighting our whole being.<\/p>\n

And so, when we come to worship, we should come expecting God to work in us\u2014to change us, to affect us. We should come praying for understanding\u2014and we should come, as well, praying that God would give us wisdom to make good choices, give us the courage and motivation to obey Him, and give us the passion that will captivate our hearts and keep us fixed upon Him in loving devotion.<\/p>\n

[This excerpt is from a sermon entitled \u201cEngaging the Emotions in Worship\u201d in the series\u00a0Thoughts on Worship<\/em>. You can\u00a0read the full sermon text here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

See\u00a0more\u00a0Sermons and Articles<\/a>\u00a0by Ken Puls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Truth has not captured us until it has conquered heart, mind, soul and body. It is certainly true that truth must lay hold of our minds\u2014that we must grasp the truth and understand it, as God is pleased to give us light. But we should never be satisfied just to see truth take root in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[105,115,109,101],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons","category-worship","tag-affections","tag-emotions","tag-mind","tag-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lLgO-7z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}