The book of Romans part 325 The heart
In our study of Romans we are in a topical study on the doctrine of the heart of the soul. Last time we had just started looking at the momentum compartment that is the compartment where momentum from metabolized doctrine inside God's spiritual power system under the enabling power of the Holy Spirit creates spiritual growth.
When God the Holy Spirit moves doctrine that is in the frame of reference into the memory center, vocabulary and categorical storage compartments norms and standards are developed that create spiritual growth from metabolized doctrine that carries the believer toward spiritual maturity.
There are two categories of spiritual growth. Normal spiritual growth comes from post-salvation renovation of the thinking from human viewpoint into the divine viewpoint thinking of Jesus Christ.
This is the process of reception, retention, and recall of God's Word of Truth under the function of operation Z.
Receptive comprehension is the first of the three stages of Operation Z. Retention is the metabolization of Bible doctrine that converts gnosis into epignosis and recall, the application of that doctrine as wisdom.
Accelerated spiritual growth comes from the application of metabolized doctrine and the function of the problem solving devices of spiritual adulthood under the pressure of suffering and adversity for blessing. There are three categories of suffering for blessing as the believer matures spiritually.
Spiritual self-esteem plus providential preventative suffering advances the believer into the cognitive self-confidence of spiritual autonomy. Spiritual autonomy plus momentum testing leads to the cognitive independence of spiritual maturity and spiritual maturity plus evidence testing leads to the cognitive invincibility of maximum glorification of God.
In some cases a believer can even learn from the punitive suffering of divine discipline and self-induced misery under the law of volitional responsibility but that is a slow process and does not necessarily advance you into spiritual self-esteem, the first stage of spiritual adulthood because of the arrogance of negative volition and bitterness from reaction to the suffering.
The next compartment of the heart of the soul is the wisdom compartment that is the launching pad of Bible doctrine to experience. Wisdom is the application of metabolized doctrine through the problem solving devices to the various experiences of life.
Learning Bible doctrine must be accompanied by wisdom otherwise, arrogance sets in. Doctrine without wisdom results in self-righteous arrogance.
The Greek word for wisdom is "sophia" and the Hebrew equivalent is "chakmah." Wisdom is the ability to relate metabolized doctrine in the heart of the soul to life from God's viewpoint. It is the ability to deal circumspectly with life from the accumulated facts and relate them to God's grace policy using the mystery doctrine of the Church Age.
Wisdom is the application of metabolized doctrine and the deployment of the problem solving devices for both normal and accelerated spiritual growth.
The launching pad connects to the memory center. This is the application area. The launching pad takes recall of doctrine and applies it to experience and the believer's relationship with God and His grace policy using the function of the believer's royal priesthood.
The launching pad is used for the application of metabolized doctrine in both normal and accelerated growth, as well as in problem solving. One of the greatest areas of accelerated growth is the utilization and application of metabolized doctrine in suffering for blessing from God.
You can only apply doctrine for yourself because no one can do it for you and you cannot apply what you do not know.
The launching pad is where thought is converted into action. It is where your norms and standards are applied to life. All of the compartments of the heart come together to make application and as you apply more doctrine to life you develop more wisdom.
In the launching pad all the epignosis doctrine that is in the heart of the soul is pulled together for application. This is where the categories of hope, virtue love, God's happiness, and occupation with Christ have a big impact.
This is the application of doctrine to your own personal experiences in the privacy of your priesthood. It is not trying to apply your norms and standards to others unless you are parenting a child.
1Cor 1:30, "But you are from Him in Christ Jesus who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption."
1Cor 2:7-8, "For we communicate God's wisdom in a mystery that has been hidden, which God predestined before the ages for the purpose of your glory, (mystery doctrine) which none of the rulers of this age have understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."
James 3:17, "But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and divine good production, impartial, without hypocrisy."
1Thes 5:21; "But examine all things; hold fast to what is good."
Phil 4:8, "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is integrity, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if there is any virtue, if there is anything worthy of praise, concentrate on these things."
The next compartment we will discuss is the subconscious mind that is not actually in the heart but it is attached to the heart because the heart feeds it information. The subconscious is the place for storage of impressions, thoughts, and emotions that are not in the conscious mind or in the emotions of the conscious mind.
The subconscious mind functions totally apart from the vocabulary, categorical storage, the conscience, the frame of reference, or any form of metabolized doctrine.
The subconscious includes aspects of the mental life that are not immediately a part of the individual's conscious mind, because certain emotional factors will not ordinarily permit its contents to come to the surface. However, with relatively little aid, the obstructing emotional repressions can be lifted and the contents emerge into awareness.
People's emotions usually block these things out. While the subconscious is completely separated from metabolized doctrine in the heart it must also be distinguished from the unconscious. It exists between the conscious and the unconscious.
The subconscious is a mental apparatus that overlaps from the conscious mind, but is not normally immediately available to the conscious mind. The subconscious affects thoughts, feelings, and behavior without entering into one's awareness.
The subconscious is where there are impressions and mental activity just below the threshold of consciousness. These can be released. Often the teaching of Bible doctrine will release these things and clean out the subconscious of things that are false.
The subconscious is where the conscious mind dumps off things that are rejected, no longer believed, or priorities and standards that have been changed. When you change a standard you don't believe it anymore so it conflicts now with your conscience mind so it id dumped into the subconscious. So the subconscious collects all the rejected conflicting ideas from the stream of consciousness of the heart of the soul.
That means that the subconscious includes aspects of mental life that are not immediately part of the believer's conscious mind, since certain emotional factors will not ordinarily permit its contents to come to surface into the conscious mind so they remain repressed.
However, metabolized doctrine in the heart of the soul plus the development of wisdom as the application of doctrine can remove obstructing repressions, so the contents of the subconscious can emerge into awareness where they can be dealt with and handled in the proper manner.
This is one of Bible doctrine's problem solving functions in dealing with the subconscious because the normal problem solving devices are not available in the subconscious mind.
Psychiatry regards the subconscious as the superficial aspect of the unconscious that is probably incorrect, but the subconscious does function apart from the known self or the self as the knower, or one's sense of self-identity as a person.
Disorders of the conscious mind relate to the subconscious mind. The clouding of the conscious mind occurs when the individual is only partially aware of what is really going on and therefore partly or completely divorced from reality.
Certain mental diseases produce confusion, disorientation, and hazy awareness. These same things can also be produced in the believer through negative volition towards God' grace and the mystery doctrine of the Church Age and involvement in satan's cosmic system.
Normal clouding of the consciousness occurs when the individual is between sleep and waking. This is called the hypnotic state.
A total loss of consciousness can occur through trauma, shock, or shutting off the blood supply to some part of the brain, as in a stroke. So the subconscious must be considered in the context of disorders of the consciousness mind.
Apparently the subconscious becomes a place where things that shock the conscious mind that aren't dealt with are dumped. This includes sin, failure, adversity, frustration, or disappointment. When the conscious mind cannot or does not handle certain things, they are apparently dumped into the subconscious mind.
This brings us to a brief discussion on the negative functions of the heart of the soul.
The heart can reject Bible teaching, Prov 5:12-14. "How I have hated instruction of doctrine, and my heart has spurned reproof, and I have not listened to the voice of my teacher nor inclined my ear to the instructor. I almost came to ruin in the middle of the assembly of the congregation."
We see here that the heart that is negative to Bible doctrine refuses to concentrate. When a person doesn't like what they hear they can become subjective and unteachable so they become a candidate for reversionism.
The heart is a source of discord and troublemaking that leads to strife and conspiracy, Prov 6:14,"The one who by distortion or perversity in his heart devises evil continually, he is the one who is the spreader of strife.
Prov 6:18; A heart that devises wicked conspiracy, feet run rapidly to evil."
The heart can suffer disappointment from broken promises and the heart is the source of frustrations. Frustration is a thought. Prov 13:12; "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life."
The heart is the environment for mental attitude sins. 2Sam 6:16, "Now when it came to pass that the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, then Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked out the window and she saw David dancing before the Lord; consequently she despised him in her heart."
We see here that love and hate are developed in the heart because both love and hate are the result of a system and function of the thinking.
Arrogance is found in the heart. Prov 21:4, "Haughty eyes and an arrogant heart, the lamp of the wicked is sin."
In other words, once a person has arrogance in their heart whatever its manifestation, this becomes their point of view for life and they reject God's Word of Truth.
In Obadiah 3:3; "The arrogance of your heart has deceived you." This explains that when arrogance deceives a person it and causes them to become a moron.
Bitterness is one of the greatest forms of the sin of arrogance. When it infiltrates the heart and neutralizes whatever doctrine is there Prov 14:10, "The heart knows its own bitterness and a stranger does not share its joy."
The mental attitude sin of worry is found in Ecclesiastes 2:23;
Deceitfulness is found in Jer 17:9. NET note 17 "The heart is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad."
The frantic search for happiness is related to the heart in Ecclesiastes 1:13-14;
Revolution and insubordination are described as being a part of the thinking of the heart. 2 Sam 15:6b, "So Absalom stole away the hearts of the men of Israel." Jer 5:23, "But this people have a stubborn and a rebellious heart. Their heart was turned away from Me." Ezek 6:9.NET
Hypocrisy is related to thinking in the heart, for you can think one thing and express another thing overtly. Ps 55:21, "His speech was smoother than butter, but his heart was at war. His words were softer than oil, yet they are really like drawn swords."