Mark 12:30,31

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Mark 1230,31

• "And you shall love the Lord your God with all
  your heart, with all your soul, with all your
  mind, and with all your strength.' This is the
  first commandment. And the second, like it, is
  this 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
  There is no other commandment greater than these."

Volitional Center
Intellectual Center
Ethical Center
Emotional Center
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Matthew 2240

• "On these two commandments hang all the Law and
  the Prophets."

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Deuteronomy 65

• "You shall love the Lord your God with all your
  heart, with all your soul, and with all your
  strength."

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Leviticus 1918

• "You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any
  grudge against the children of your people, but
  you shall love your neighbor as yourself I am
  the Lord."

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A Life of Full Service to God

• Loving the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind
  and strength and loving your neighbor as yourself.

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The Heart - Emotional Service

• The Heart Must Be Pure.
• The Heart Is Purified by Obedient Faith.
• The Mouth Speaks from the Heart.
• True Service Comes from the Heart.
• Keep Your Heart with All Diligence.
• It Is Natural to Serve God Out of Love.

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SOUL

• "Soul, then, emphasizes our readiness to
  surrender our life to Him, living it out in
  devoted service and being ready to die for Him,
  if faithfulness to Him requires it." Harold
  Fowler
• This surrender is called conversion and is
  brought about by obedience to the Law of the Lord.

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Psalm 197a

• The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the
  soul

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James 121

• Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow
  of wickedness, and receive with meekness the
  implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

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1 Peter 122-23

• Since you have purified your souls in obeying the
  truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the
  brethren, love one another fervently with a pure
  heart, having been born again, not of corruptible
  seed but incorruptible, through the word of God
  which lives and abides forever,

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1 Peter 124-25

• because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory
  of man as the flower of the grass. The grass
  withers, And its flower falls away, But the word
  of the Lord endures forever." Now this is the
  word which by the gospel was preached to you.

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Psuche - Psyche

• In contrast to the spirit, that aspect of the
  inner man which interfaces with the physical
  realm.

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1 Corinthians 1535-38

• But someone will say, "How are the dead raised
  up? And with what body do they come?" Foolish
  one, what you sow is not made alive unless it
  dies. And what you sow, you do not sow that body
  that shall be, but mere grain--perhaps wheat or
  some other grain. But God gives it a body as He
  pleases, and to each seed its own body.

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1 Corinthians 1539-41

• All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one
  kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals,
  another of fish, and another of birds. There are
  also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies but
  the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory
  of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory
  of the sun, another glory of the moon, and
  another glory of the stars for one star differs
  from another star in glory.

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1 Corinthians 1542-44

• So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body
  is sown in corruption, it is raised in
  incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is
  raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is
  raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is
  raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body,
  and there is a spiritual body.

psuchikon
pneumatikon
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2 Corinthians 51-3

• For we know that if our earthly house, this tent,
  is destroyed, we have a building from God, a
  house not made with hands, eternal in the
  heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring
  to be clothed with our habitation which is from
  heaven, if indeed, having been clothed, we shall
  not be found naked.

The Inner Man Will Not Be Clothed Between Death
and the Resurrection.
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2 Corinthians 54,5

• For we who are in this tent groan, being
  burdened, not because we want to be unclothed,
  but further clothed, that mortality may be
  swallowed up by life. Now He who has prepared us
  for this very thing is God, who also has given us
  the Spirit as a guarantee.

The Body We Now Have Is Fitted for the Soul.
We Long for a Body that Is Fitted for the Spirit.
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Hebrews 412

• For the word of God is living and powerful, and
  sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even
  to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints
  and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts
  and intents of the heart.

There Is a Division Between Soul and Spirit.
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Psuche - Psyche

• In contrast to the spirit, that aspect of the
  inner man which interfaces with the physical
  realm.
• Sometimes refers to life itself.

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John lOll,15,17

• "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives
  His life for the sheep." "As the Father knows
  Me, even so I know the Father and I lay down My
  life for the sheep." "Therefore My Father loves
  Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it
  again."

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Matthew 1625,26

• For whoever desires to save his life will lose
  it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will
  find it.
• For what profit is it to a man if he gains the
  whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will
  a man give in exchange for his soul?

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Psuche - Psyche

• In contrast to the spirit, that aspect of the
  inner man which interfaces with the physical
  realm.
• Sometimes refers to life itself.
• Sometimes refers to the whole person.

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John lO24

• Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him,
  "How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the
  Christ, tell us plainly."

psuchon
Literally, "the soul of us."
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Psuche - Psyche

• In contrast to the spirit, that aspect of the
  inner man which interfaces with the physical
  realm.
• Sometimes refers to life itself.
• Sometimes refers to the whole person.
• In contrast to the heart, mind and will, it is
  the ethical center of man - the conscience.

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English Is Confusing, Two

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more
   refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.

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English Is Confusing, Two

1. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the
   desert.
2. Since there is no time like the present, he
   thought it was time to present the present.
3. At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head
   of a bass drum.

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English Is Confusing, Two

1. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
2. I did not object to the object.
3. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
4. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to
   row.
5. They were too close to the door to close it.

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English Is Confusing, Two

1. The buck does funny things when the does are
   present.
2. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer
   line.
3. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow
   to sow.

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English Is Confusing, Two

1. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
2. After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got
   number.
3. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a
   tear.

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English Is Confusing, Two

1. I had to subject the subject to a series of
   tests.
2. How can I intimate this to my most intimate
   friend?
3. I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

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The Conscience

• The conscience is defined as The inner sense of
  what is right or wrong in ones conduct or
  motives, impelling one toward right action
  (Websters Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of
  the English Language).
• As such, it is the seat of devotion.

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The Conscience

• It is one's conscience that either approves or
  disapproves of his actions depending on whether
  they are believed by him to be morally and
  ethically right or morally and ethically wrong.

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Romans 214,15

• for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by
  nature do the things in the law, these, although
  not having the law, are a law to themselves, who
  show the work of the law written in their hearts,
  their conscience also bearing witness, and
  between themselves their thoughts accusing or
  else excusing them

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John 89

• Then those who heard it, being convicted by their
  conscience, went out one by one, beginning with
  the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left
  alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

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1 John 319-22

• And by this we know that we are of the truth, and
  shall assure our hearts before Him. For if our
  heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart,
  and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does
  not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.
  And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because
  we keep His commandments and do those things that
  are pleasing in His sight.

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The Conscience

• Thus, what one believes to be right or wrong is
  the moral standard by which his conscience judges
  his actions.
• Thus, it is the acuteness of ones conscience
  which determines whether or not he will engage in
  devoted service to God.

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The Conscience

• Of course, what one believes may not be the
  truth.
• Therefore, ones conscience should not be treated
  as an infallible guide.
• But one should never violate his conscience.

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Romans 1421-23

• It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor
  do anything by which your brother stumbles or is
  offended or is made weak. Do you have faith? Have
  it to yourself before God. Happy is he who does
  not condemn himself in what he approves. But he
  who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he
  does not eat from faith for whatever is not from
  faith is sin.

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Devoted Service

• Appealing to God for a Good Conscience.

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1 Peter 321,22 (ESV)

• Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves
  you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but
  as an appeal to God for a good conscience,
  through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has
  gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God,
  with angels, authorities, and powers having been
  subjected to him.

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1 Peter 321,22 (NASB)

• Corresponding to that, baptism now saves younot
  the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal
  to God for a good consciencethrough the
  resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is at the right
  hand of God, having gone into heaven, after
  angels and authorities and powers had been
  subjected to Him.

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Devoted Service

• Appealing to God for a Good Conscience.
• Serving God with a Pure Conscience.

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2 Timothy 13

• I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience,
  as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I
  remember you in my prayers night and day,

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Devoted Service

• Appealing to God for a Good Conscience.
• Serving God with a Pure Conscience.
• Living in All Good Conscience.

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Acts 231

• Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council,
  said, "Men and brethren, I have lived in all good
  conscience before God until this day."

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1 Timothy 15-7

• Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a
  pure heart, from a good conscience, and from
  sincere faith, from which some, having strayed,
  have turned aside to idle talk, desiring to be
  teachers of the law, understanding neither what
  they say nor the things which they affirm.

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Devoted Service

• Appealing to God for a Good Conscience.
• Serving God with a Pure Conscience.
• Living in All Good Conscience.
• Striving to Have a Conscience Without Offense.

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Acts 2416

• "This being so, I myself always strive to have a
  conscience without offense toward God and men."

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Devoted Service

• Appealing to God for a Good Conscience.
• Serving God with a Pure Conscience.
• Living in All Good Conscience.
• Striving to Have a Conscience Without Offense.
• Avoiding a Seared Conscience.

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1 Timothy 41-3

• Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter
  times some will depart from the faith, giving
  heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of
  demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their
  own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding
  to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods
  which God created to be received with
  thanksgiving by those who believe and know the
  truth.

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Devoted Service

• Have You Appealed to God for a Good Conscience?
• Are You Serving God with a Pure Conscience?
• Are You Living in All Good Conscience?
• Are You Striving to Have a Conscience Without
  Offense?
• Are You Avoiding a Seared Conscience?