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COUNSELLING UNBELIEVERS.
LESSON OBJECTIVE:
1 THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS IN DEALING WITH UNBELIEVERS.
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An unregenerate person does not appreciate and cannot appropriate the things of the Spirit of God.
It is the Spirit that enables us to understand God’s Word.
A An unregenerate person does not appreciate and cannot appropriate the things of the Spirit of God
So, how then can an unbeliever be counseled?
So, how then can an unbeliever be counseled?
B It is the Spirit that enables us to understand God’s Word
So, how then can an unbeliever be counseled?
So, how then can an unbeliever be counseled?
2 WE WILL TAKE THE LONG WAY AROUND THE BARN TO ARRIVE AT THE ANSWER FOR THIS.
We must first understand what the Bible means by the term “heart”.
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The Western view is a Valentine’s view—it indicates feelings.
The Biblical view is quite different.
1 The Western view is a Valentine’s view—it indicates feelings
2 The Biblical view is quite different
The common contrast is between head and heart .
● The common contrast is between head and heart
The Biblical contrast is between the outward and the heart (the inward).
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● The Biblical contrast is between the outward and the heart (the inward)
The heart, then, is the inner you which includes.
Intellect
3 The heart, then, is the inner you which includes
● Intellect
Emotion
● Emotion
Will .
● Will
The Biblical counselor alone is able to deal with counselees at the heart level.
B The Biblical counselor alone is able to deal with counselees at the heart level
Freudianism claims to help at a “level of depth”.
1 Freudianism claims to help at a “level of depth”
This often frightens counselors.
2 This often frightens counselors
“Can I do that?”.
● “Can I do that?”
“This person needs ‘more professional help’”
● “This person needs ‘more professional help’”
Actually, all other counseling is shallow and is only surface deep.
3 Actually, all other counseling is shallow and is only surface deep
It merely rearranges the furniture on the porch.
● It merely rearranges the furniture on the porch
It doesn’t get inside.
● It doesn’t get inside
Only Biblical counseling gets down inside and reaches the heart. .
4 Only Biblical counseling gets down inside and reaches the heart
So, the Biblical counselor has a serious problem when trying to counsel an unbeliever.
C So, the Biblical counselor has a serious problem when trying to counsel an unbeliever
Your counselee has an unreceptive heart of stone. .
1 Your counselee has an unreceptive heart of stone
Your counselee has no ability to love.
Loving God and loving neighbor is essential in order to please God.
2 Your counselee has no ability to love
● Loving God and loving neighbor is essential in order to please God
The Holy Spirit alone can enable love.
● The Holy Spirit alone can enable love
So then, why would you even try to counsel an unbeliever?
D So then, why would you even try to counsel an unbeliever?
Any changes he makes will still displease God.
1 Any changes he makes will still displease God
All you can hope to do accomplish is reformation not transformation.
2 All you can hope to do accomplish is reformation not transformation
You communicate to the counselee that they can better themselves apart from Christ!
3 You communicate to the counselee that they can better themselves apart from Christ!
A liberal church or a saloon?
4 A liberal church or a saloon?
Doing good to an unbeliever is certainly right and biblical, telling an unbeliever HE can do good is wrong and unbiblical!
5 Doing good to an unbeliever is certainly right and biblical,
telling an unbeliever HE can do good is wrong and unbiblical!
3 WHAT THEN, CAN THE BIBLICAL COUNSELLOR DO FOR THE UNBELIEVER?
God has not called you to put Band-Aids on cancer.
Our task is not to reform people, but to transform them.
1 Our task is not to reform people, but to transform them.
Preachers often say one thing in the pulpit and then deny it in the counseling room.
2 Preachers often say one thing in the pulpit and then deny it in the counseling room.
To help a counselee change from a lifestyle that displeases God to another lifestyle that also displeases Him is futile and foolish.
3 To help a counselee change from a lifestyle that displeases God to another lifestyle that also displeases Him is futile and foolish.
4 We must not give unbelievers the wrong impression that anything less than heart change means he has satisfied God.
We must not give unbelievers the wrong impression that anything less than heart change means he has satisfied God.
So, we do not counsel unbelievers, we PRECOUNSEL them.
B So, we do not counsel unbelievers, we PRECOUNSEL them
This is the word we use with them to indicate something must come first before counseling is possible.
1 This is the word we use with them to indicate something must come first before counseling is possible
Our “in house” term for it is—evangelism!
2 Our “in house” term for it is—evangelism!
Evangelism may involve some preliminary help.
● Evangelism may involve some preliminary help
Clay on the blind man’s eyes ().
Clay on the blind man’s eyes ()
Water for the woman at the well ().
Water for the woman at the well ()
But never instead of the Gospel message ()
● But never instead of the Gospel message ()
4 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PERSON REFUSES TO BELIEVE THE GOSPEL?
You continue with him until he either believers or rejects it (as in all evangelism).
“By coming here you have admitted you have problems to which you have no answer.
Why?
Because you don’t have God’s answer Book.
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