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The Bible Doctrine Hour. Episode 3.
The Doctrine Of Positive Volition Towards Doctrine. Part 3.
March 17, 2011

1JO 1:9  If we acknowledge our sins, He is faithful and righteous, with the result that He forgives us our sins and purifies us from all unrighteousness.

When a person is born again, there is a deep desire or a hunger in all believers when they first become a Christian.

It comes from the human spirit which has been placed within the believer which also hungers to be filled as well.

It is a very delicate and sensitive desire that can be hindered by arrogance or emotionalism.

It can be put out by hardness of the heart, scar tissue of the soul or occupation with the details of life.

1PE 2:1 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisy and jealousy and all slander,

1PE 2:2 like newborn babes,

like newborn babes,
long for the pure milk of the word, so that you may grow in respect to your salvation.

The pure milk of the word is the adjective adolon and the noun gala which means the unadulterated, unpolluted, unspotted, untainted, teaching of the word of God.

1PE 2:2 like newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the word, so that you may grow in respect to your salvation. 

 long is the aor-act-imp from the verb epipotheo meaning to desire something, to long after it, to yearn, to intensely crave possession of something lawfully or wrongfully.

It is the exact word which is translated lust in other passages.

MAT 18:3 Unless you are converted and become like little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

1CO 14:20  Brethren, do not be children in your thinking, in evil be babes, but in your thinking be mature.

He actually says, only desire this.....if you have tasted the grace of the Lord.

There is a desire for Bible doctrine or the Word of God placed in the believer's life at the moment of salvation.

The more this desire is fed, the stronger it becomes and it can  carry the believer through the most difficult situations in life.

PSA 119:16 I shall delight in thy statutes; I shall not forget Thy word.

Extreme pressure only intensifies the desire even more.

"I shall delight in Your statues, Your word, or Your doctrine." 

 I shall not "forget" Your word.

This driving desire and yearning for God causes the believer not to forget the word in a pressure situation.

Adversity is inevitable, stress is optional.

This driving desire or craving for the Word of God also protects the believer in time of pressure and adversity.

PSA 119:24 Thy testimonies also are my delight;

They are my counselors.

The desire and yearning for the word of God is the believer's delight and Bible doctrine counsels them in time of pressure...not people, but doctrine.

This driving desire and yearning which we call positive volition toward doctrine also causes the believer to stay occupied with the Word of God in time of disaster.

PSA 119:47  And I shall delight in Your commandments, which I love.

This driving desire and craving for Bible class causes the believer to meditate on the Word of God and not on the pressures of life, PSA 119:97.

PSA 119:97  O how I love Thy law! It is my meditation all the day.

PSA 119:103  How sweet are Thy words to my taste! yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

When you have positive volition toward doctrine and for whatever reason you have been away from it for a while, evidence of positive volition toward doctrine is illustrated by your attitude toward it when you first hear it again.

JER 15:16 Thy words were found and I ate them, and Thy words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart;

Positive volition toward doctrine and that craving and desire for truth also is the basis for giving the believer spiritual energy in time of pressure, PSA 119:159.

PSA 119:159 Consider how I love Thy precepts;

Revive me, O Lord, according to Your grace.

Positive volition toward doctrine is also revealed and illustrated by your attitude toward the place where Bible doctrine is taught.

PSA 84:2  My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

JER 20:9 But if I say, "I will not remember Him or speak anymore in His name," then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I am weary of holding it in, and I cannot endure it.

Positive volition toward doctrine is also evident by the inner thirst and longing for the teaching of the word of God.

PSA 42:1 As the deer longs for the water brooks, so my soul longs for Thee, O God.

PSA 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?