Story Behind Danny Gokey Make My Heart to Beat Again

CCM Radio Edition.

February sixteen, 2016. Today nosotros'll be taking a look at "Tell Your Center to Beat Over again" by Danny Gokey which currently sits at #12 on the 20theCountdownMagazine.

This song earned a disapproval immediately, but there is a good thought expressed in the vocal that is worth exploring, that of the need to heal and motion out of our past. The video we are using isn't the airplay version of the vocal, and information technology was recorded in a live-take, so some of the words might be slightly different from what you hear on the radio, merely not enough to change its meaning. We are going with this version of the song because Danny retells the story of the groundwork of this song. Sadly, that background wasn't scripture, it 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 like you've never been before
The life you knew in a thousand pieces on the floor
Words fall brusque in times like these
When this world drives you lot to your knees
You recall you're never going to get back to the you you used to be.

Tell your heart to beat once more
Close your optics and exhale it in
Let the shadows fall away, step into the lite of grace
Yesterdays a closing door you don't alive there anymore
Say goodbye to where y'all've been
Tell your middle to shell again

Showtime just let that word launder over you
Information technology'south alright now, dearest'southward healing hands will pull you through
So get support, take step one
Leave the darkness, feel the sun
Because your stories far from over and your journey's just begun

So Tell your heart to beat again
Shut your optics and breathe it in

Let the shadows fall away, step into the low-cal of grace
Yesterdays a closing door you don't live there anymore
Say goodbye to where you've been
Tell your heart to trounce again

Let every heartbreak and every scar
Be a picture that reminds you, who has carried yous this far
'Cause love sees further than y'all ever could
In this moment Heaven is working everything for your expert

Tell your centre to beat once again
Close your eyes and breathe it in
Let the shadows autumn away, stride into the calorie-free of grace
Yesterday's a closing door you don't live at that place anymore
Say adieu to where yous've been
Tell your heart to crush again
Your heart to beat again

…oh so tell your centre, to beat again…

Word

The basic premise of the song is faulty. It isn't up to yous to tell your centre to beat again. The chestnut nearly a surgeon telling the anesthetized patient "tell your heart to beat over again" is quite compelling and moving, indeed it fits the definition of an "awesome story". But the story is then used a springboard to suggest that this holds some sort of spiritual meaning, that the Bang-up Doc has healed our hearts, Only… but now it is upward to u.s. to tell our hearts to beat once again. I have a real problem with that message. Despite that rousing story from an unidentified md who talked his fashion into an undisclosed operating room, this is non how medicine works, this is not how healing works, non of our concrete hearts nor of our souls. Delight note, I'm not saying the story is fabricated, just that I couldn't verify any of information technology. Let'southward expect at the principal issue with spiritualizing this anecdote and the message of the song.

Synergism versus Monergism

The anecdote is beingness used to push a notion that God heals the heart but information technology doesn't vanquish until nosotros tell information technology to do so. Synergists give lip service to "salvation by organized religion alone" but they'll tack on the need for works to consummate the salvation. Synergism is baked into the core theology of many churches, simply also works its way into Monergistic churches. Why? Because office of our sinful nature is the want to get credit for what we do. Nosotros likewise want to compare ourselves to others and nosotros can't practise that with "faith alone" so we wait to works to establish a pecking order. And then, while the doctrine of these othordox churches conspicuously confess monergism, synergism creeps in to rob the laic of his/her assurance of conservancy. It's not new to our century, such creeping was already taking place in the early church.

Galatians 3:ane-9 (ESV) | By Faith, or past Works of the Law?

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was earlier your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did yous receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you and then foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are yous at present being perfected by the flesh?Did you suffer and so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to yous and works miracles among y'all do so by works of the law, or past hearing with faith— just equally Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?

Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by religion, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In y'all shall all the nations exist blessed." So then, those who are of faith are blessed forth with Abraham, the man of organized religion.

The correct style to sympathise the office of good 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 Word of Christ, that person is made alive in Christ. Fully. No need for that person to exercise anything, much less tell themselves to breath once more, or their heart to beat again.

The stated purpose of this song in the two "background" stories isn't presented as ane of salvation. In fact, the original video from Randy Phillips targets those who've been hurt, who are anxious. Simply such specifics didn't find their way into the lyric, so we had to institute this groundwork beginning.

Healing of the broken-hearted

I mentioned earlier that this song did accept something of merit in information technology, that is the thought of recovering from our past. Randy Phillips specified broken heartedness, and Danny Gokey left it a scrap more broad, but the basic premise is that God has already healed your cleaved eye and so yous need to cease living in it. Now matter how softly 1 makes this suggestion, it is however something you have to do, which makes it Police. The answer to this problem isn't in finding some formula or principle for how to do it; the respond is plant in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Repent, and be forgiven in Jesus' Proper noun. Jesus also taught that we needed to forgive others equally we have been forgiven. We cannot keep such a Law of our own, we must extend the Grace we've been given. Permit'southward read some Scripture on the topic.

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

"Our Father in sky,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will exist done,
on earth as information technology is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
    equally nosotros as well take forgiven our debtors.
And lead the states non into temptation,
but evangelize us from evil.

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Male parent will also forgive you lot, but if you lot do not forgive others their trespasses, neither volition your Male parent forgive your trespasses.

Matthew xviii:15-35 (ESV) | The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you accept gained your blood brother. But if he does not heed, take one or two others along with you lot, that every accuse may be established by the evidence of 2 or three witnesses. If he refuses to heed to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, allow him be to yous as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to y'all, whatever you demark on earth shall exist bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on globe shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you concord on earth about anything they enquire, it will be done for them by my Begetter in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my proper name, there am I among them."

Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often volition my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as vii times?" Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you seven times, simply 70-seven times.

"Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, i was brought to him who owed him ten 1000 talents. And since he could non 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, 'Accept patience with me, and I will pay yous everything.' And out of pity for him, the chief of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. Only when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, 'Pay what you owe.' So his young man servant barbarous downward 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. Then his chief summoned him and said to him, 'You lot wicked servant! I forgave y'all all that debt considering you pleaded with me. And should not you have had mercy on your beau servant, equally I had mercy on you?' And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. So as well my heavenly Father will do to every i of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your centre."

A hard teaching, indeed, merely necessary for united states to understand that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the very heart and center of all of Scripture. Our hearts are wicked, stained by sin. By Grace our hearts have been made new and we've been fabricated alive in the spirit past the Holy Spirit of God, but we still have our fleshly hearts to contend with. Information technology is something we must excruciate in Christ daily. Repent, and exist forgiven. Forgive others, and when yous neglect that, repent and exist forgiven once more.

ii Corinthians 5:1-v (ESV) | Our Heavenly Dwelling

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly dwelling house is destroyed, we take 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 past putting it on we may not be found naked. For while nosotros are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would exist unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit equally a guarantee.

2 Corinthians five:xvi-21 (ESV)

From now on, therefore, we regard no 1 according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new cosmos. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled u.s.a. to himself and gave u.s. the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, non counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, nosotros are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, exist reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to exist sin who knew no sin, so that in him nosotros might become the righteousness of God.

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

Beware of Victim-Blaming

My married woman and I are specially sensitive to the flip-side of the synergistic coin. It's an ugly side that few are willing to hash out until they demand to split up themselves from an private, or defend themselves from having their false doctrine exposed. The flip-side of this coin is where we discover the words, "God did His Part, God is non a liar, God is the aforementioned yesterday, today, and forever… therefore if yous didn't get your healing, or if you are still burdened by your past, it'due south because you aren't doing your part". The dark underbelly of this coin is repulsive and runs reverse to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Every simulated religion in the world has police force and works-righteousness. Christianity'due south coin is unique and stands apart. Our coin has the Law of God on the i side and the Gospel of Jesus Christ on the other. The Law 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, but there is a real need that the song is attempting to accost, the demand for healing, for forgiveness, and for hope. This song offers more Police force for the pain to keep, so it fails in its goal. What is needed is the Gospel of Grace, the Hope 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 you lot according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages ²⁶but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith— ²⁷to the only wise God be celebrity forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

Amen.
In Christ Jesus,
Jorge

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