
You Are Not Your Own
Belonging to God in an Inhuman World
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Narrated by:
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Adam Verner
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By:
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Alan Noble
"You are your own, and you belong to yourself."
This is the fundamental assumption of modern life. And if we are our own, then it's up to us to forge our own identities and to make our lives significant. But while that may sound empowering, it turns out to be a crushing responsibility - one that never actually delivers on its promise of a free and fulfilled life, but instead leaves us burned out, depressed, anxious, and alone. This phenomenon is mapped out onto the very structures of our society, and helps explain our society's underlying disorder.
But the Christian gospel offers a strikingly different vision. As the Heidelberg Catechism puts it, "I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ." In You Are Not Your Own, Alan Noble explores how this simple truth reframes the way we understand ourselves, our families, our society, and God. Contrasting these two visions of life, he invites us past the sickness of contemporary life into a better understanding of who we are and to whom we belong.
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You Are Not Your Own by Dr. Alan Noble is an exposition of the answer to the first question of The Heidelberg Catechism .
The Heidelberg Catechism
Q. 1:
What is your only comfort in life and in death?
A. :
That I am not my own, but belong—
body and soul, in life and in death-
to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ…
A most wonderful & applicable, confessional statement of truth.
Dr. Noble makes every attempt to encourage his reader to apply it .
Unlike The Catechism, (translated into English 400 years ago) he writes in ‘modern’ language; using the perverted, twisted terminology & philosophy of 21st Century America.
Language & choice of words effects our thought. The simplicity & veracity of the biblical reality is weakened by trying to state it in modern language; & the truth gets lost in the excessive verbiage.
Boring, verbose, redundant, long winded, too much projecting of his personal weaknesses, repetitively telling the reader what the author has failed to see; he goes on & on, detailing every insight that he has missed;
The first four chapters are boring; hoping the he will get to the point; he doesn’t, but he does admit that he might seem repetitive…
The Heidelberg Catechism , in simple language, clearly states biblical truth.
Read it; read the scripture references; read the scriptures.
The Heidelberg Catechism
Q & A 1
Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?
A. That I am not my own,1 but belong—
body and soul, in life and in death—2
to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.3
He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood,4 and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil.5 He also watches over me in such a way6 that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven;7 in fact, all things must work together for my salvation.8
Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life9 and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.10
1 1 Cor. 6:19-20
2 Rom. 14:7-9
3 1 Cor. 3:23; Titus 2:14
4 1 Pet. 1:18-19; 1 John 1:7-9; 2:2
5 John 8:34-36; Heb. 2:14-15; 1 John 3:1-11
6 John 6:39-40; 10:27-30; 2 Thess. 3:3; 1 Pet. 1:5
7 Matt. 10:29-31; Luke 21:16-18
8 Rom. 8:28
9 Rom. 8:15-16; 2 Cor. 1:21-22; 5:5; Eph. 1:13-14
10 Rom. 8:1-17
Boring, redundant, verbose, long-winded, repetitive, unnecessary. . . . .
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