Who Wrote the Lyrics to Tell Your Heart to Beat Again?

CCM Radio Edition.

February 16, 2016. Today we'll be taking a look at "Tell Your Heart to Crush Again" by Danny Gokey which currently sits at #12 on the 20theCountdownMagazine.

This song earned a disapproval immediately, simply at that place is a good idea expressed in the song that is worth exploring, that of the need to heal and motion out of our past. The video nosotros are using isn't the airplay version of the song, and it was recorded in a alive-take, and so some of the words might be slightly different from what y'all hear on the radio, just not enough to change its meaning. We are going with this version of the song considering Danny retells the story of the background 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 vocal. It was written by Randy Phillips of the trio Phillips, Craig, and Dean.

Lyrics

Shattered similar you've never been before
The life y'all knew in a thousand pieces on the flooring
Words fall brusk in times like these
When this earth drives you to your knees
You retrieve yous're never going to get back to the you you used to be.

Tell your heart to beat over again
Close your eyes and breathe information technology in
Let the shadows autumn away, pace into the low-cal of grace
Yesterdays a endmost door you don't live there anymore
Say goodbye to where you've been
Tell your heart to beat again

Beginning just allow that discussion wash over you
Information technology's alright at present, honey'due south healing hands volition pull you through
Then get dorsum upward, accept step one
Leave the darkness, feel the sun
Because your stories far from over and your journey'south merely begun

So Tell your center to beat again
Close your eyes and breathe information technology in

Allow the shadows fall away, step into the light of grace
Yesterdays a endmost door you don't alive in that location anymore
Say goodbye to where you've been
Tell your heart to beat again

Let every heartbreak and every scar
Be a picture that reminds you, who has carried y'all this far
'Cause beloved sees farther than you e'er could
In this moment Heaven is working everything for your adept

Tell your centre to shell again
Shut your eyes and exhale it in
Let the shadows autumn away, step into the lite of grace
Yesterday's a closing door y'all don't alive there anymore
Say cheerio to where y'all've been
Tell your middle to shell again
Your eye to beat out once again

…oh so tell your middle, to shell once more…

Discussion

The bones premise of the song is faulty. Information technology isn't up to yous to tell your heart to trounce again. The anecdote near a surgeon telling the anesthetized patient "tell your center to beat again" is quite compelling and moving, indeed information technology fits the definition of an "awesome story". But the story is and then used a springboard to suggest that this holds some sort of spiritual meaning, that the Great Physician has healed our hearts, BUT… but at present it is upwardly to us to tell our hearts to beat over again. I have a real trouble with that message. Despite that rousing story from an unidentified doctor who talked his way into an undisclosed operating room, this is not how medicine works, this is not how healing works, not of our physical hearts nor of our souls. Delight annotation, I'k not saying the story is fabricated, just that I couldn't verify any of it. Let's look at the chief effect with spiritualizing this anecdote and the message of the song.

Synergism versus Monergism

The chestnut is being used to push a notion that God heals the eye just it doesn't trounce until we tell it to practise so. Synergists give lip service to "conservancy by faith alone" merely they'll tack on the need for works to complete the conservancy. Synergism is baked into the core theology of many churches, simply also works its mode into Monergistic churches. Why? Because part of our sinful nature is the desire to get credit for what we practice. Nosotros too want to compare ourselves to others and we can't do that with "faith alone" so we expect to works to establish a pecking order. So, while the doctrine of these othordox churches clearly confess monergism, synergism creeps in to rob the believer of his/her assurance of salvation. It's not new to our century, such creeping was already taking place in the early church.

Galatians 3:1-nine (ESV) | By Faith, or by Works of the Law?

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

Know and so that information technology is those of religion who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles past faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, maxim, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." So then, those who are of faith are blest along with Abraham, the homo of faith.

The correct manner to empathise the role of good works is to view it as that which flows out from salvation rather than something that is needed to gain the balls of salvation. When the Holy Spirit regenerates a person, granting saving faith at the hearing of the Give-and-take of Christ, that person is made alive in Christ. Fully. No need for that person to do annihilation, much less tell themselves to jiff once more, or their heart to beat over again.

The stated purpose of this song in the ii "groundwork" stories isn't presented as ane of conservancy. In fact, the original video from Randy Phillips targets those who've been injure, who are anxious. But such specifics didn't find their way into the lyric, so we had to establish this background first.

Healing of the anxious

I mentioned earlier that this song did have something of merit in it, that is the idea of recovering from our by. Randy Phillips specified broken heartedness, and Danny Gokey left it a bit more broad, but the basic premise is that God has already healed your broken heart and so yous demand to stop living in information technology. Now thing how softly ane makes this suggestion, it is still something you have to do, which makes information technology Law. The answer to this trouble isn't in finding some formula or principle for how to practise it; the answer is found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Repent, and exist forgiven in Jesus' Name. Jesus also taught that we needed to forgive others as we take been forgiven. We cannot go on such a Law of our own, we must extend the Grace we've been given. Allow's read some Scripture on the topic.

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

"Our Father in sky,
hallowed exist your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on globe as information technology is in heaven.
Give u.s.a. this 24-hour interval our daily staff of life,
and forgive united states of america our debts,
    as nosotros as well have forgiven our debtors.
And lead usa not into temptation,
just deliver us from evil.

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you practice not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 18:15-35 (ESV) | The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

"If your blood brother sins against you, get and tell him his error, betwixt you and him lonely. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. Merely if he does non listen, take one or two others forth with you, that every accuse may be established past the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to mind to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to mind even to the church, let him be to y'all as a Gentile and a revenue enhancement collector. Truly, I say to yous, whatever you bind on globe shall be bound in sky, and whatever you lot loose on world shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you lot agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be washed for them by my Father in heaven. For where ii or three are gathered in my name, there am I amidst them."

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

"Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a male monarch who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, ane was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his married woman and children and all that he had, and payment to exist fabricated. So the servant vicious on his knees, imploring him, 'Have patience with me, and I volition pay you everything.' And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. Merely 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 fellow retainer fell down and pleaded with him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you.' He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken identify, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their main all that had taken identify. Then his master summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked retainer! I forgave you lot all that debt because you pleaded with me. And should not you accept had mercy on your boyfriend servant, as I had mercy on you?' And in acrimony his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. And then also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you lot do not forgive your brother from your heart."

A hard teaching, indeed, but necessary for u.s.a. to understand that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the very heart and middle of all of Scripture. Our hearts are wicked, stained past sin. By Grace our hearts have been made new and we've been made alive in the spirit past the Holy Spirit of God, but we still accept our fleshly hearts to contend with. It is something nosotros must excruciate in Christ daily. Repent, and be forgiven. Forgive others, and when you lot fail that, repent and be forgiven once again.

2 Corinthians 5:i-5 (ESV) | Our Heavenly Dwelling

For we know that if the tent that is our earthly dwelling is destroyed, we accept a building from God, a business firm not fabricated with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent nosotros groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not exist establish naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, existence burdened—not that we would exist unclothed, merely that we would be further clothed, then that what is mortal may be swallowed upward by life. He who has prepared us for this very affair is God, who has given united states of america the Spirit as a guarantee.

two Corinthians v:16-21 (ESV)

From now on, therefore, nosotros regard no ane according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ co-ordinate to the mankind, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The former has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled usa to himself and gave u.s.a. the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, non counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to u.s. the message of reconciliation. Therefore, nosotros are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore yous on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, and 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 particularly sensitive to the flip-side of the synergistic money. It's an ugly side that few are willing to hash out until they need to separate themselves from an private, or defend themselves from having their false doctrine exposed. The flip-side of this coin is where we notice the words, "God did His Part, God is not a liar, God is the same yesterday, today, and forever… therefore if yous didn't become your healing, or if you lot are nonetheless burdened past your past, it's because you aren't doing your role". The night underbelly of this coin is repulsive and runs contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Every faux religion in the world has constabulary and works-righteousness. Christianity'due south money is unique and stands apart. Our coin has the Constabulary of God on the one side and the Gospel of Jesus Christ on the other. The Law points to the Gospel, and the Gospel answers the Constabulary. The Law exposes our sin, the Gospel grants repentance and forgiveness from sin.

Conclusion

The song doesn't take whatever Gospel in it. Disapproval was certain, but there is a real need that the vocal is attempting to address, the demand for healing, for forgiveness, and for hope. This song offers more Law for the hurting to keep, so it fails in its goal. What is needed is the Gospel of Grace, the Hope of Salvation, the peace that passes all understanding… fifty-fifty when the emotions are wrecked.

Romans 16:24-27  (ESV) | Doxology

²⁵Now to him who is able to strengthen you 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 glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

Amen.
In Christ Jesus,
Jorge

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