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The Torment of the Christian
Rom 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
(NIV).
Because man has not trusted God, he has looked to every other source in the world to find the answers to emotional health.
But the more theories man comes up with, the more mental and emotional sicknesses that sweep down on our society.
Year by year, as we have cast away God’s standards, we dove deeper and deeper into a crisis that is giving rise to every imaginable horror.
The arrogant unbeliever insists that if we will just reject more of God’s standards, we will ultimately find the man made utopia.
Since there is not a single scientist that can explain the processes of the brain, much less the mind, I feel that I should reconsider whom I take my advice from.
The only theories of man that have worked are the ones that have been consistent with the Word of God.
Therefore, I must look to the Word of God for absolute information about the mind and emotions.
We must be careful to separate the teachings of the church and the teachings of the Bible.
Unfortunately, many theories of the church are as inconsistent with the Word of God as the theories of the world.
It has been these unscriptural, unworkable concepts of the church that have caused serious-minded people to look to another source for authoritative answers.
In Genesis, God created man’s body from the dust of the earth.
He then breathed into man something of Himself, some of His own Spirit.
When these two elements came together, man did not become a living *body,* as the medical world would have us to believe.
Nor did he become a living *spirit*, as the religious world would have us to believe.
God’s Word says that man became a living *soul!
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Gen 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
(NIV)
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*Gen 2:7 and the LORD God formed man /of/ the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
(KJV)*
Man’s body is what keeps him alive to this world.
He can feel thing in the physical world.
Those physical feelings are turned into thoughts and emotions in the soul.
Likewise, the spirit of a man gives him awareness of the spiritual world.
That information also becomes feelings and emotions in the soul.
Man experiences and interprets both spiritual and physical life in the realm of the soul.
Since God created man, He is the only one who really fully understands how real mental health should work.
Everything we need to know about mental health should be found in the Bible and supported by scientific experimentation – if either of these two groups could give up their prejudices and work together.
But, regardless of scientific validation, time has proven that the principles of the Word of God work consistently.
*John 17:3 now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
(NIV).
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When the Bible talks about life, it talks about a particular quality of life.
The Greek word is */“zoe.”/*
Zoe life is the quality of life as possessed by the one who gives it.
In this case, we are speaking of the quality of life God has*/.
This is what Jesus came to give./*
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Jesus said the quality of life would be the product of knowing God.
Knowing God is the product of a relationship, not just a singular experience.
While it is absolutely essential that we have a “born again” experience, that experience alone will not produce zoe.
If we do not develop a relationship with God and find fullness of life, that experience can be frustrating and cause us to disbelieve.
In the OT, there were people who believed in God, but they never had the opportunity to experience this quality of life.
This can only be found in the finished work of Jesus.
By accepting the love of God as expressed through the Lord Jesus’ finished work, we can be brought into a realm where we experience zoe.
Through Jesus, we have complete peace with God.
*Rom 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
(NIV).*
True mental health is only found when man is at peace with God in his own heart.
That peace only comes when one trusts the reality that Jesus has not only died to become their Savior, He has also risen again to become their righteousness.
This meets the deepest need that man has.
This is the basis for all emotional health.
This is the stabilizing factor that brings all of life together.
But this is also the reality that the church and the world have rejected.
Both groups have rejected the truth, neither one realizing the implications.
Both groups have robbed man of the one and only thing that would bring him absolute stability and peace, the qualification for the total love and acceptance of God.
Romans, chapter 9, talks about Jesus being the stumbling stone.
But it really doesn’t talk about him *personally* being the stumbling stone.
*It talks about the faith righteousness, which is found in Jesus being the stumbling stone.
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*Romans 9:30-33 30 What then shall we say?
That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith, 31 but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
32 Why not?
Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works.
They stumbled over the “stumbling stone.”
33 As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
(NIV).*
The Gentiles were not looking for righteousness, but they found it.
Why?
They were willing to accept it as a free gift.
Israel, on the other hand, was trying desperately to find righteousness so God could accept them.
They could not find it.
Why?
They refused to believe it could be received as a free gift.
They stumbled at the stumbling stone.
Jesus as Savior is not the stumbling stone, Jesus, as our righteousness is the stumbling stone.
Faith righteousness is the best-kept secret in the church.
Preachers preach day and night trying to get people to work harder to be more righteousness so they can be accepted of God.
It is this load that the Jews could not carry, and neither can we.
This is why Jesus came.
We didn’t just need a way to get to heaven; we needed freedom from the guilt of sin and the burden of righteousness.
By making us righteous, we now have complete peace with God.
It is this burden of responsibility that has made the world turn its back on God.
The world was smart enough to know that no one could ever be righteous enough to please a perfect God.
Laboring under that load has driven many people completely crazy.
So the world said: *“Nobody can do this, so why try?
Lets erase the mention of God from our memory so we can be free from trying to please Him.
Then maybe we can get on with life”* The church and the world have both stumbled over the stumbling stone: Jesus Christ, our righteousness.”
The human mind can only function optimally when it is at peace.
The absence of peace is destructive to both body and soul.
Peace is only found in a meaningful, loving relationship with God through the Lord Jesus.
It is found in a place where we accept the finished work of Jesus.
We have received Him as Lord, Savior and *righteousness.*
Nothing else brings absolute peace.
Many Christians have lost emotional stability believing that Jesus was Lord, but not knowing if God would accept them.
Trying to qualify is the torment of the Christian.
Trying to qualify destroys self worth.
Trying to qualify makes a statement to the heart that says, *“I am not qualified.”*
This is the cause of condemnation, the Christian insanity.
Condemnation is the expectation of judgment.
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