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In our study of Romans we are between chapters 7 and 8 where we have taken up some topical studies. We are presently in a topical study about the heart of the soul. Last time we did a short study on the soul.
Today we will begin a study that focuses on the heart of the soul. The Biblical nouns that describe the heart always refer to the right lobe of the soul that pumps information in the thinking not the biological heart that biologically pumps blood.
The Hebrew word "lebh" and the Greek word "kardia" are both translated "heart" in God's Word. Outside of the Bible both words are used for the biological heart, but the Bible does not use them to refer to the biological heart.
The usage of the words for heart is based on an analogy because just as the biological heart is the pump that circulates blood throughout the biological body thereby enabling and supporting biological life, the right lobe of the soul circulates metabolized doctrine in the thinking of the soul that enables and supports the spiritual life of the believer.
The doctrine is initially understood academically in the left lobe that the Greek is calls the "nous" but it is in the right lobe or the "heart" where doctrine is completely understood, believed and deployed toward life's circumstances.
In the analogy what the biological heart does for the biological body the soul's heart does for the soul. The biological heart pumps blood, the soul's heart pumps information that is comprised of words.
God designed the right lobe to be dominant and to be in control of the entire soul. Whenever you are logical, analytical, or categorical in your thinking, you are using your heart. We see this in 1Sam 16:7.
The heart is designed to dominate the soul with rational thought so that all of the other parts of the soul are under control especially the emotions.
God's justice tests and evaluates the believer's heart. Jer 17:10, "I, the Lord, search the heart (for metabolized doctrine) and test the emotions (to see if they are subordinate to that metabolized doctrine).
The word translated "mind" in these verses in the NASB is the Hebrew word "kilyaw" that refers to the emotions. The KJV translates it as "reins" which is a better translation.
Jer 20:12, "Yet O Lord of armies, You who have tested the righteous, who sees the emotions and the heart."
Psa 26:1-2, "Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, because I have trusted in the Lord and I do not slip into reversionism.
v2 Examine me, O Lord, and test my emotions and my heart."
We see here that one of the major considerations in the function of God's justice is the relationship between the thinking of the heart and the feelings of the emotions.
Prov 23:7, "As a man thinks in his heart, so he is."
The Lord looks at your heart so he can evaluate if the thought that is circulating through it aligns with God's Word of Truth. Heb 4:12;
Prov 17:22, "A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones." Having a joyful heart means you share God's happiness as a problem-solving device in the thinking of right lobe (heart) of the soul.
Prov 15:13-15, "A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but when the heart is sad, the spirit is broken.
v14 The heart of the intelligent seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
v15 All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast."
God's happiness in the heart is predicated on metabolized doctrine resident in the stream of consciousness that gives a person a relaxed mental attitude that is exhibited by a cheerful face, a marvelous life, and animation. But the spirit is broken when the heart is sad, depressed, or complaining.
The believer's motivation for learning more doctrine comes from the doctrine that has already been stored in the heart. The continual feast is the result of Bible doctrine feeding the thinking of the heart.
Prov 18:12, "Before his downfall, a person's heart is arrogant; but humility leads to honor from virtue."
This tells us that arrogance rules the thinking of the losers right lobe (heart) but humility that is teachable from grace, doctrinal and authority orientation rules the thinking of winners right lobe (heart) because there can never be any true honor until a person learns understands and deploys God's Word of Truth. 2Cor 13:8;
Prov 18:15, "The heart of the prudent (the thoughtful discerning person) acquires knowledge; because the ear of the wise seeks knowledge."
This explains where motivation to learn Bible doctrine comes from. When you listen and concentrate, then you will acquire discernment in the right lobe that provides momentum and the desire for additional information.
Prov 22:15, "Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him."
Prov 27:19, "As water reflects a face, so a person's heart reflects that person." What you really are is not what you appear on the surface. What you are is based on what you are thinking in your heart or right lobe.
The Bible is like a mirror so you can look into God's Word of Truth and God's Word reveals what you really are.
Job 38:36, "Who has put wisdom into the heart, or given understanding to the mind?" In this verse both lobes are referenced. The mind is the left lobe and the heart is the right lobe of the soul.
2Cor 6:11-12, "O you Corinthians, our mouth has spoken freely to you (in teaching), because our hearts (right lobes) have been wide open (by maximum doctrine in the right lobe of the soul). Therefore, you have not been hindered by us (in your spiritual life); you have been hindered by your own emotions."
The Corinthian believers had receptive academic comprehension but no retention. In this passage we see that the emotions and the heart are contrasted. That reveals that the emotions are not a part of the function of the thinking of the right lobe of the soul.
Eph 1:18, "I also pray) that the eyes of your hearts (right lobes) be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance for the saints."
In Rev 2:23, John adds that if emotional control of the soul continues you die a carnal cosmic death from thinking that lies are truth.
Just as when blood does not properly circulate through the biological heart there is biological death, there is also carnal cosmic death of the soul in the spiritual realm when the heart is circulating cosmic lies. "
I will execute her followers with death (the sin unto death) and all the churches will know that I am He who investigates the emotions and the hearts, and I will administer punishment to each one of you (cosmic believers) according to your activities."
Heb 4:12, "The word of God...is a judge of both thoughts and ideas of the heart."
Heb 3:12, "Take heed, brethren, lest there should be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God." An evil heart of unbelief is failure to metabolize God's Word of Truth.
1Pet 3:15, "But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, always (being) ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence."
James 3:14, "But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your heart, do not be arrogant and do not lie against the truth."
Arrogance and lying against the truth are mental attitude sins that block the metabolization of doctrine because gnosis doctrine that is not parlayed into epignosis doctrine under the ministry of God the Holy Spirit is a lie against the truth because not believing what is true creates a lie against the truth.
Eph 4:18, "They have darkened their way of thinking (they always distort what is taught), they have been alienated from the life of God (they only have gnosis but no epignosis, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of scar tissue in their heart."
These verses explain that the mentality of the soul is divided into two parts: the left and right lobes. The right lobe is where you do your thinking, analyzing, applying of knowledge, and is the seat of common sense. The left lobe is your place of assimilating information and the area where your talent functions.
Neuroscientists tell us the brain has two separate hemispheres. They say that one is verbal, analytical, and dominant, while the other is mute. They classify the non-speaking side as the right hemisphere. The Bible classifies the mute side as the left lobe and the verbal hemisphere as the right lobe.
Neuroscientists tell us that the left hemisphere has language ability and is analytical; and the right hemisphere is artistic and talented. Talented people tend to function by mostly using the non-thinking part of their brain.
A child is about two years old before the link between the two hemispheres is completed. And it doesn't become completely functional until about ten years later. After age ten, one side of the brain is used for synthesis, spatial perception and music, while the other side performs sequential, verbal, analytical, and logical functions.
The scientists also contend that excellence in one hemisphere tends to interfere with top level performance in the other. The conclusion is that because of this most very talented people usually aren't very analytical.
The Bible tells us the heart s the thinking, reasoning part of the essence of the soul that is designed to dominate the soul. Therefore, it must be the target for doctrinal teaching, 1Kings 3:9,12; Psa 119:11, 19:14. To reach its target, Bible doctrine must pass through two staging areas the left lobe of the soul aka the heart and the human spirit.
The Biblical heart can be described as having compartments. One of those compartments can be called a frame of reference where doctrinal concepts related to principles, and categories of Scripture are connected together. It is at the entrance into heart so it is the first place where doctrine goes.
This is because knowledge is built upon knowledge; truth is built on truth. In the frame of reference new information comes in to be processed out to the other parts of the soul.
The frame of reference retains metabolized doctrine under the principle that doctrine is built upon doctrine. People start by learning basic things the move on to more complex things.
In the frame of reference the basic things become the foundation for correlating more complex doctrine from Scripture. Spiritual growth is the result of having a way to recall and correlate doctrine in the thinking so that it becomes a basis for acquiring, analyzing and applying God's Word of Truth
The frame of reference retains previously learned metabolized doctrines and becomes the basis for acquiring for new ones. The frame of reference is the location or area of retention of epignosis that is metabolized doctrine.
The frame of reference is the location of all concepts related to the mystery doctrine of the Church Age, which explains the protocol plan of God including God's will, plan, and purpose for your life.
The frame of reference is where the ten problem solving devices for the Church Age are constructed and made available for deployment.
The frame of reference is the seat of the inventory of metabolized doctrine, from which application of metabolized doctrine as wisdom is applied to the circumstances of life.
Metabolized doctrine in the frame of reference is the basis for the construction of a spiritual system of thinking in the soul's stream of consciousness.
Metabolized doctrine in the frame of reference is the basis for the execution of God's protocol plan so it is the basis for the glorification of God and the manufacture of an invisible hero in the Church Age.
Metabolized doctrine in the frame of reference increases your spiritual intelligence and creates capacity to learn more advanced doctrine.
The amount of doctrine you have in your frame of reference that you can recall and apply is what really determines your spiritual intelligence.
Metabolized Bible doctrine in your frame of reference provides your first divine viewpoint, and it begins to shape your mental attitude for the conflict between divine and human viewpoint, which is a constant struggle until you reach spiritual adulthood.
Metabolized Bible doctrine in your frame of reference provides the correct motivation for function in God's protocol plan. It creates motivation for learning more doctrine that results in increasing spiritual momentum.
Metabolized doctrine is the momentum factor that keeps you advancing in the spiritual life and eventually leads to execution of God's protocol plan.
Prov 4:4; "Then He taught me and said to me, `Let your heart hold fast My words, keep My mandates, and live.'"
Your heart is the source of concentration. Ones motivation and ability for concentration start in the frame of reference.
1Cor 2:9; "Things which the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of mankind all that God has prepared for those who love Him."
There is no way for a believer to understand all that God has prepared apart from a frame of reference being saturated with the mystery doctrine of the Church Age. You can only understand all that God has done from the Bible doctrine that is resident and circulating in the heart, the right lobe of the soul.
To come to love God indicates spiritual advance. Personal love for God the Father is one of the problem solving devices that is the correct motivation for the Christian way of life. Occupation with the person of Christ is the priority solution for solving the problems of life.
Believers who are filled with the Spirit have a spiritual frame of reference for the perception of the spiritual information that comes from God's Word that is taught by God the Holy Spirit to the regenerated human spirit.
The frame of reference also constructs a filter from metabolized doctrine that acts like an instant reaction force or a red-alert system so that you can discern what is true and what is false in the communication of the Word of God.
Metabolized doctrine in the frame of reference is the basis for the manufacture and the function of all the ten problem-solving devices.
Many believers have been delivered from false doctrinal teaching from metabolized doctrine in their frame of reference because they perceive and recognize that something is wrong with the false ideas, emotional activity, legalism, or ritual. So the frame of reference is where the believer gats protection in the spiritual life.
The frame of reference's alert system is necessary in the Christian life because believers must learn to avoid false teachers and con artists in the spiritual realm.
Metabolized Bible doctrine in the frame of reference produces the ability to recall doctrine in various situations and circumstances of life.
Lam 3:20-25; "Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me. This doctrine I recall to mind; therefore I have hope (as a problem solving device). The Lord's grace support (logistical grace provision) never ceases; His grace expressions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. `The Lord is my portion,' says my soul; `therefore I have confidence in Him.'"