Tell Your Heat to Bear Again Danny Gokey

CCM Radio Edition.

February 16, 2016. Today we'll be taking a await at "Tell Your Heart to Beat Once again" by Danny Gokey which currently sits at #12 on the 20theCountdownMagazine.

This song earned a disapproval immediately, but there is a proficient thought expressed in the song that is worth exploring, that of the demand to heal and movement out of our past. The video nosotros are using isn't the airplay version of the vocal, and information technology was recorded in a live-take, then some of the words might be slightly dissimilar from what yous hear on the radio, but not plenty to change its meaning. Nosotros are going with this version of the song because Danny retells the story of the groundwork of this vocal. Sadly, that background wasn't scripture, information technology was an experience.

Danny Gokey Studio Video (w/ Story Behind the Song)

Danny Gokey didn't write this song. Information technology was written by Randy Phillips of the trio Phillips, Craig, and Dean.

Lyrics

Shattered similar you've never been before
The life you knew in a m pieces on the flooring
Words autumn short in times like these
When this world drives you to your knees
You retrieve you're never going to get back to the you you used to be.

Tell your eye to crush again
Close your eyes and breathe information technology in
Let the shadows fall away, stride into the calorie-free of grace
Yesterdays a closing door you don't live at that place anymore
Say adieu to where yous've been
Tell your centre to vanquish again

Beginning only permit that discussion launder over yous
It's alright at present, dear's healing easily will pull y'all through
And then get back upwards, take step 1
Get out the darkness, feel the sun
Because your stories far from over and your journey's simply begun

And so Tell your centre to beat out once more
Close your eyes and breathe it in

Permit the shadows autumn abroad, step into the calorie-free of grace
Yesterdays a closing door you don't live there anymore
Say adieu to where you've been
Tell your heart to beat out again

Allow every heartbreak and every scar
Exist a picture show that reminds you, who has carried you this far
'Cause dear sees farther than you ever could
In this moment Heaven is working everything for your skillful

Tell your heart to trounce again
Close your eyes and breathe it in
Permit the shadows fall abroad, stride into the light of grace
Yesterday's a endmost door you don't alive there anymore
Say goodbye to where you lot've been
Tell your heart to beat again
Your heart to shell once more

…oh then tell your heart, to beat again…

Discussion

The bones premise of the song is faulty. It isn't up to y'all to tell your eye to crush again. The anecdote about a surgeon telling the anesthetized patient "tell your middle to beat again" is quite compelling and moving, indeed information technology fits the definition of an "awesome story". Simply the story is then used a springboard to suggest that this holds some sort of spiritual pregnant, that the Great Physician has healed our hearts, Simply… but now it is upwards to the states to tell our hearts to beat once more. I have a real problem with that message. Despite that rousing story from an unidentified doc who talked his way into an undisclosed operating room, this is non how medicine works, this is not how healing works, not of our physical hearts nor of our souls. Please note, I'm non saying the story is fabricated, just that I couldn't verify any of it. Permit'due south look at the master issue with spiritualizing this chestnut and the message of the song.

Synergism versus Monergism

The anecdote is existence used to push a notion that God heals the heart only it doesn't beat until nosotros tell it to exercise and so. Synergists requite lip service to "salvation by faith solitary" but they'll tack on the need for works to complete the salvation. Synergism is baked into the core theology of many churches, only also works its way into Monergistic churches. Why? Because function of our sinful nature is the desire to get credit for what we practice. Nosotros also want to compare ourselves to others and we can't practice that with "organized religion alone" and so we expect to works to constitute a pecking guild. So, while the doctrine of these othordox churches clearly confess monergism, synergism creeps in to rob the believer of his/her balls of salvation. It'south not new to our century, such creeping was already taking place in the early church.

Galatians 3:1-ix (ESV) | By Religion, or by Works of the Law?

O foolish Galatians! Who has bugged you? It was before your optics that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Permit me ask you only this: Did y'all receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun past the Spirit, are you at present beingness perfected by the flesh?Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed information technology was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles amidst you practise and so by works of the law, or by hearing with religion— just as Abraham "believed God, and information technology was counted to him as righteousness"?

Know and then that information technology is those of organized religion who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, proverb, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." And so then, those who are of religion are blessed along with Abraham, the human being of organized religion.

The correct way to understand the function of proficient works is to view information technology as that which flows out from salvation rather than something that is needed to gain the assurance of salvation. When the Holy Spirit regenerates a person, granting saving faith at the hearing of the Give-and-take of Christ, that person is made live in Christ. Fully. No demand for that person to do anything, much less tell themselves to jiff again, or their center to trounce again.

The stated purpose of this song in the two "background" stories isn't presented every bit 1 of salvation. In fact, the original video from Randy Phillips targets those who've been hurt, who are broken-hearted. Simply such specifics didn't find their way into the lyric, so we had to found this groundwork starting time.

Healing of the broken-hearted

I mentioned earlier that this song did have something of merit in it, that is the idea of recovering from our past. Randy Phillips specified cleaved heartedness, and Danny Gokey left information technology a scrap more than broad, but the basic premise is that God has already healed your broken heart so y'all need to end living in it. Now thing how softly one makes this suggestion, it is still something you accept to do, which makes information technology Law. The answer to this problem isn't in finding some formula or principle for how to practice it; the reply is establish in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Repent, and be forgiven in Jesus' Name. Jesus also taught that we needed to forgive others equally we have been forgiven. Nosotros cannot continue such a Police of our own, nosotros must extend the Grace we've been given. Let's read some Scripture on the topic.

Matthew 6:9-15 (ESV) Pray then like this:

"Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on globe every bit it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily staff of life,
and forgive us our debts,
    as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And pb us not into temptation,
merely deliver u.s. from evil.

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Male parent volition also forgive yous, merely if you practise not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew xviii:fifteen-35 (ESV) | The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

"If your brother sins against you, get and tell him his fault, betwixt you and him lone. If he listens to you, yous have gained your brother. Just if he does non listen, take i or two others along with you, that every accuse may be established by the evidence of two or iii witnesses. If he refuses to mind to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you every bit a Gentile and a revenue enhancement collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever yous demark on world shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of yous agree on earth about anything they inquire, it will be done for them past my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them."

So Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how ofttimes will my blood brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?" Jesus said to him, "I practice not say to you seven times, but lxx-seven times.

"Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a male monarch who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten g talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant barbarous on his knees, imploring him, 'Take patience with me, and I will pay you everything.' And out of compassion for him, the master of that retainer released him and forgave him the debt. Merely when that same servant went out, he plant one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to asphyxiate him, saying, 'Pay what you owe.' And so his fellow servant savage down and pleaded with him, 'Accept patience with me, and I will pay you.' He refused and went and put him in prison house until he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. And so his principal summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave y'all all that debt considering you pleaded with me. And should not you lot have had mercy on your fellow retainer, as I had mercy on you?' And in acrimony his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you lot, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart."

A hard teaching, indeed, just necessary for the states to understand that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the very heart and middle of all of Scripture. Our hearts are wicked, stained past sin. By Grace our hearts have been made new and nosotros've been made alive in the spirit by the Holy Spirit of God, but we all the same accept our fleshly hearts to contend with. It is something nosotros must crucify in Christ daily. Apologize, and exist forgiven. Forgive others, and when yous fail that, repent and be forgiven again.

2 Corinthians 5:1-v (ESV) | Our Heavenly Abode

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling house, if indeed by putting information technology on we may not exist establish naked. For while we are all the same in this tent, we groan, being burdened—non that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may exist swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit equally a guarantee.

two Corinthians 5:xvi-21 (ESV)

From at present on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Fifty-fifty though we one time regarded Christ co-ordinate to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the globe to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to exist sin who knew no sin, and so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

This is the healing of the Great Md, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Beware of Victim-Blaming

My wife and I are particularly sensitive to the flip-side of the synergistic coin. It'due south an ugly side that few are willing to discuss until they need to separate themselves from an individual, or defend themselves from having their false doctrine exposed. The flip-side of this money is where nosotros notice the words, "God did His Part, God is non a liar, God is the same yesterday, today, and forever… therefore if you didn't get your healing, or if you lot are nonetheless burdened by your past, information technology's considering you aren't doing your part". The night underbelly of this coin is repulsive and runs opposite to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Every simulated religion in the world has police force and works-righteousness. Christianity's coin is unique and stands apart. Our coin has the Law of God on the one side and the Gospel of Jesus Christ on the other. The Police points to the Gospel, and the Gospel answers the Law. The Law exposes our sin, the Gospel grants repentance and forgiveness from sin.

Conclusion

The song doesn't have any Gospel in it. Disapproval was certain, just there is a real need that the song is attempting to accost, the need for healing, for forgiveness, and for hope. This song offers more Law for the hurting to keep, so it fails in its goal. What is needed is the Gospel of Grace, the Promise of Conservancy, the peace that passes all understanding… even when the emotions are wrecked.

Romans 16:24-27  (ESV) | Doxology

²⁵Now to him who is able to strengthen yous according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept undercover for long ages ²⁶just has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the control of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith— ²⁷to the just wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

Amen.
In Christ Jesus,
Jorge

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Source: https://faithfulstewardshipblog.com/2016/02/16/dim-tell-your-heart-to-beat-again-by-danny-gokey/

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