Whole Person Knowledge
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, Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
, Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
We must love God will our whole person - our whole being! (cf. ).
We must love God will our whole person - our whole being! (cf. ).
· We must love God will our whole person - our whole being! (cf. ).
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
Heart - “the causative source of a person’s psychological life in its various aspects, but with special emphasis upon thoughts” (Louw & Nida).
Soul - “the essence of life in terms of thinking, willing, and feeling” (Louw & Nida).
Mind - “the psychological faculty of understanding, reasoning, thinking, and deciding” (Louw & Nida).
Heart - Soul – Mind – The Whole Person!
Heart - Soul – Mind – The Whole Person!
Thinking/Reasoning
Feeling/Emotion
Understanding/Application/Experience
There is an order to Whole Person Knowledge
There is an order to Whole Person Knowledge
God is orderly! ().
12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.
God’s Creation is orderly!
The earth ( – 1>4, 2>5, 3>6).
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. 31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
The inhabitants of earth ().
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
The family (, ; , ; ).
23 And Adam said:
“This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. 8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man. 9 Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
God’s Worship is orderly (cf. ).
40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
So, it should be clear that “whole person knowledge” is orderly!
Whole Person Knowledge: Reason – Emotion - Experience
Whole Person Knowledge: Reason – Emotion - Experience
Begins with Intellect/Reason
Every example of God’s grace begins with God communicating with man!
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8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
13 And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
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37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.
5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them.
12 But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.
35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.
32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.
Emotion - knowledge produces an emotional response (cf. , ; ; ).
37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.
39 Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing.
34 Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household.
Experience – when we have heard the word of God we can begin to experience it in our lives (cf. ; ; ).
8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
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29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
