tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9312657407273915062024-03-12T23:32:41.770-05:00Line Upon LineLancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.comBlogger326125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-92202851486896087962023-11-22T10:25:00.005-06:002023-12-07T09:58:55.032-06:00Giving Thanks is the Foundation of All Genuine Worship<p><i> </i><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">The commandments of the hundredth Psalm <u>should</u>
reflect the innermost reality of the heart of every truly born-again child of
God.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should live our lives in humble adoration
and gratefulness for the love of God that shows to us when He reached into this
sewer of decadence that we call humanity to rescue us from an eminent destiny
of eternal condemnation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Every verb in Psalm one hundred is an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">imperative</i> (a command).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Psalm one hundred is a statement
that flows from a real faith in God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Psalm one hundred is a testimonial statement to the reality of our
understanding of Who He is and what He has done to redeem us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If
there is no desire to obey <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">from the heart</i>
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spirit</i> of this Psalm as a reality
of our lives, our lives are missing something that should be a critical part of
every true believer’s life (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real faith
expressed in constant worship/praise/adoration</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>The spirit of this Psalm reflects a
genuine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spirit of worship</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The spirit of this Psalm reflects a heartfelt
attitude of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">praise and thankfulness</i>
to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Praising God and being thankful should be natural outcomes of genuine
faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">“<sup>1</sup> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><<A Psalm of praise.>> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Make</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> a joyful
noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. <sup>2</sup> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Serve</b> the LORD with gladness: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">come</b>
before his presence with singing. <sup>3</sup> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Know</b> ye that the LORD he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i>
God: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it is</i> he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> hath made us, and not we ourselves; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we are</i> his people, and the sheep of his pasture. <sup>4</sup> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Enter</b> into his gates with thanksgiving,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> into his courts with praise: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">be thankful</b> unto him, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bless</b>
his name. <sup>5</sup> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For </b>{<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because</i>} the LORD <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> good; {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because</i>} his
mercy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> everlasting; and {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because</i>} his truth <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">endureth</i> to all generations” (Psalm 100:1-5).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Apostle Paul in II Timothy warns all believers how unbelief will manifest
itself in individual lives in the last days prior to the second coming of
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Among the list of sins grievous to God is the sin of being
unthankful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">“<sup>1</sup>
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. <sup>2</sup>
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">unthankful</b>,
unholy, <sup>3</sup> Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, <sup>4</sup> Traitors,
heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; <sup>5</sup>
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away”
(II Timothy 3:1-5).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">Saying “thank you” is not equal to being thankful!</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"> We cannot read the words of Psalm one
hundred without a sure understanding that the Lord, to Whom the Psalm directs
our praise and thanksgiving, was real to the Psalmist in every way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who listened to the Psalm and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">did what it said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">from the heart</i></b> revealed a real and personal relationship with
the LORD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being thankful is a heart
issue flowing naturally/normally/effortlessly like blood through our veins from
understanding Who God is and what He has done and is doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A real
relationship with God is not one of endless obligations lived in pretension.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A real relationship with the Lord is a
source of joyful, exuberant celebration that floods believers’ lives.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not</b> generated real knowledge of God that results in real faith in
God, the lives of our children will be described more by II Timothy 3:1-5 than
Psalm one hundred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Very few Christians rise to the heights of
the worship reflected in Psalm one hundred!</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The words of this Psalm reflect an attitude of thankfulness and praise
that translates the person truly believing in the God of the Bible into a
thanks-living, God praising, soul winning celebration of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a joy to be around the kind of person
whose life exudes Psalms one hundred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The genuine joy overflowing from their lives touches everyone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Everything that this kind of Christian <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">says</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does</i> translates into a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Praise
the Lord </i>testimony.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fountain of joy and enthusiasm for life</i>
that springs from their souls. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing
seems to be able to damper their joy and enthusiasm because the source of these
emotions is a sweet and precious relationship with their heavenly Father that
is able to transcend any problem that the world throws at them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world and its adversaries may be able to
knock them down occasionally, but they will be back on their feet in a few
hours or days with a new smile on their faces and praising the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This
describes a person with real faith in the God of the Bible.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real faith is joyously and thankfully evident
in the lives of those who genuinely understand the relationship God
offers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We all may occasionally allow the cares of
this world, the troubles, trials and pressures of life, difficulties, and
failures to steal away from us the joys of knowing the Lord Jesus and the joys
of serving Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, Psalm one
hundred is the Psalm of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the way things
ought to be</i>.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the attitude
of Psalm 100 is the natural, unforced, unpretentious attitude flowing from
in-depth knowledge of Who God is, what He has done, and what He is doing in our
lives, there will be a righteous exhibition of a life lived in celebration of
that relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the true
spirit of worship that eradicates the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">humdrum
and droll </i>of our “under the sun” existence and translates life into a
moment-by-moment <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fireworks celebration of
praise</i> to the glory of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If your
Christian life has become mundane, it is because your focus has been
misdirected to the mundane things of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Learn what it means to worship God and you will learn what it means to
celebrate life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Worship that is not a celebration of praise to God is a warped
distortion of what real worship should be and a warped distortion of what real
Christianity is all about.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> “<sup>1</sup> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Make</b>
a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. <sup>2</sup> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Serve</b> the LORD with gladness: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">come</b>
before his presence with singing” (Psalm 100:1-2).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">The words “make a joyful noise” are
from the Hebrew word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ruwa` </i>(roo-ah').<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ruwa`</i>
means to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shout out in rejoicing</i> like
people that are giving a standing ovation in applause for a great
performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea is that of an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">impulsive shout</i> of joyful exuberation that
cannot be restrained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither can a true
“joyful noise” be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">manufactured</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A true “joyful noise” bursts forth from a
heart that is illuminated by the Holy Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit, and motivated
by the Holy Spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">“<sup>22</sup> But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">joy</b>, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, <sup>23</sup> Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">limit or
restriction</i>}” (Galatians 5:22-23).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A true “joyful noise” is
spontaneous rejoicing that overflows from a heart filled with joy in the Lord.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The word “joy” in Galatians 5:22 is from the Greek word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chara</i> (khar-ah'), which refers to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a cause or occasion for joyous celebration</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can blame no one but ourselves if we allow
anything or anyone to rob us of the joy of our salvation and the joy of living
in intimate fellowship with the Creator of the Universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This kind of relationship with God will not
happen by accident in anyone’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
must be cultivated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It must be
exemplified in every facet of our existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It must be something we do ON
PURPOSE!</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">“<sup>6</sup> And because ye are
sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba,
Father. <sup>7</sup> Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a
son, then an heir of God through Christ” (Galatians 4:6-7).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He is a fool who allows
anything to interrupt this intimate fellowship with his heavenly Father that is
his through the Blood of Jesus Christ (I John 1:7).</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once a Christian has experienced this joy, he will never be satisfied
with anything less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, this kind
of joy will only be experienced by Christians who habitually live fully
surrendered to God’s will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have
this kind of joy in your life, it will not be a burden to be in Sunday School
or in a preaching service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will long
for any opportunity or vehicle to truly lift your voice in praise to God and
make a joyful noise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, real faith like
this is evident in a person’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ministry is another vehicle to express
praise and appreciation to the God of our salvation.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Serve </b>the LORD with gladness” (Psalm 100:2).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nothing will wear you out
faster than trying to force a smile on your face when there is no smile in your
heart.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no harder, more unpleasant task than
the task of doing something you hate to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The oil of “gladness” and
“thanksgiving” can lubricate almost any impossible task. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you truly love someone, doing things
which normally you will not find joyful suddenly become miraculously pleasant
if you know those things bring joy to the person you love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to be brutally honest with ourselves
about this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The central reason why doing what God commands is a burden to us is
because we do not really love Him the way we should. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“<sup>1</sup> Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the
Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also
that is begotten of him. <sup>2</sup> By this we know that we love the children
of God, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">when we love God, and keep his
commandments.</b> <sup>3</sup> For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments: and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">his commandments are
not grievous</b>” (I John 5:1-3).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We will never learn to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">serve the Lord with gladness</i> until we
get the joy of our salvation out of our <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">head</i>s
and into our <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hearts</i>.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I
think Christians think Psalm 100:1 says, “Make a doleful noise unto the
Lord.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is the source of this wellspring of joy and gladness?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the source of this spark of life that
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">jumpstarts</i> our hearts to sing praises
to God?</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Know ye that
the LORD he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> God</b>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it is</i> he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i> hath made us, and not we ourselves; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we are</i> his people</b>, and
the sheep of his pasture” (Psalm 100:3).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The source of all genuine praise,
worship, and thanksgiving is an intimate, personal/relational knowledge of God.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The source of
this joy and gladness is knowing the Lord as a personal friend, as a father,
and as a companion in all circumstances of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The source of this joy and gladness is
knowing this One Who knows everything there is to know about you and who
continues to love you anyway.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">People everywhere are seeking joy and
gladness in every avenue of life except the one avenue that can provide it.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no joy or gladness in this life
apart from knowing the Lord and loving Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“<sup>10</sup> And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept
not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in
all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. <sup>11</sup> Then I
looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had
laboured to do: and, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">behold</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">all <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i>
vanity and vexation of spirit</b>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">there
was</i> no profit under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If your life and your Christianity do not
overflow with joy and gladness and is not a celebration of praise, perhaps you
have lost your focus.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps you do
not know the God of the Bible the way you think you know Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If worship and serving the Lord are a burden
to you, perhaps you need to seriously re-examine the intimacy of the professed
relationship you say you have with the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If coming to church services is a burden to you, you will never give God
the worship He deserves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If obedience to God’s will and faithfulness
to servicing Him is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">forced labor</i> for
you, the problem is that your relationship with God is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">forced</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pretentious</i>. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If a person does not want to spend time
with the Lord, he is deceiving himself about both the reality of his faith and
the reality of His love for God.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
do not love someone if you do not want to spend time with him or if you do not
want increased intimacy with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You do
not love someone if you do not find joy in being with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You do not love someone if you do not want to
make him as happy as he makes you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“But let <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">all</b>
those that put their trust in thee <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">rejoice</b>:
let them ever <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">shout for joy</b>, because
thou defendest them: let them <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">also that
love thy name be joyful in thee</b>” (Psalm 5:11).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .2in; margin-right: .2in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0.2in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“<sup>1</sup> O give
thanks unto the LORD, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">for</b> {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because</i>} <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he is</i> good: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">for</b> {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because</i>} his mercy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">endureth</i> for ever. <sup>2</sup> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let the redeemed of the LORD say <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">so</i></b>,
whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy. . .” (Psalm 107:1-2).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">DISCIPLESHIP</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Irreducible Complexity</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Safety in God's Sovereignty </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span><b>The
only place of perfect safety in this imperfect world dominated by the adversary
is living at the center of God’s will.</b><span>
</span>Since the fall of Satan and millions of other fallen angels with him,
every person must understand the essential of perfectly knowing God’s will and
being fully consumed with not be “drawn away of his own lusts, and enticed”
into defilement before God.<span> </span>There is not
one moment of our existence where a human’s enticement and intended spiritual
destruction is not being orchestrated in some way by the satanic “mystery of
inequity” existing in this world.<span> </span>This
fact is foundational to the purpose of the book of Genesis (Beginnings).<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span><b>Although
the home, the church, and the fellowship of those of like precious faith are
all supposed to provide places of safety and security for believers, there
really is no safe place.</b><span> </span>We all have
been infected with pride and carnal lusts.<span>
</span>If our propensity for rebellion and carnality is not constantly checked,
maintained, and kept in the center of God’s well every single person will
innately become part of the “mystery of inequity” to some degree.<span> </span>Doing all we can to live in the center of
God’s will is that which defines the epitome of the <i>servant model</i>. <span> </span><b>The <i>servant model</i> is more concerned
with the well-being of others than a person’s own selfish pursuits and carnal
pride.<span> </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>“<sup>13 </sup>Let no man say when he is tempted, I am
tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any
man:</span></b><span> <sup>14 </sup>But
every man is tempted, when he is <b>drawn away</b> of his own lust, and
enticed. <sup>15</sup> Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin:
and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. <sup>16</sup> Do not err,
my beloved brethren. <sup>17</sup> Every good gift and every perfect gift is
from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is <b>no
variableness, neither shadow of turning</b>. <sup>18</sup> Of his own will
begat he us with <b>the word of truth</b>, that we should be a kind of
firstfruits of his creatures” (James 1:13-18).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span><b>God enlightens.<span> </span>Satan obfuscates.<span> </span>God clarifies.<span> </span>Satan confuses.</b><span> </span>Therefore, Satan is called the <i>adversary</i>.<span> </span>Satan is the adversary of enlightenment and
clarity.<span> </span>The terms “the faith” and
“Christian” have become so corrupted, so diverse, and indefinitive that they
have little meaning to most people. <span> </span>Indefinitive
terms with broad meaning have no real meaning.<span>
</span>This is the outcome of satanic obfuscation.<span> </span>The term “the faith” has been reduced to
something merely called <i>faith</i> with incredible lack of definition and
pluralistic meaning.<span> </span>This happens
primarily because those who have clarity and enlightenment from God’s Word do
not ensure that what they know with surety is known by the next generation with
equal surety.<span> </span>If you look up antonyms
for dogmatism in a dictionary you would find words like </span><i><span>broad-mindedness</span></i><span>, <i>liberalism</i>,
<i>open-mindedness</i>, and <i>tolerance</i>. <span> </span>These </span><span>antonyms</span><span> are the
tools of the adversary to doctrinal clarity and true enlightenment to
truth.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span><b>When
God declares that “the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which
believe not” (II Corinthians 4:4), he is talking about Satan taking truth that comes
from God in clarity and taking that clarity <i>out of focus</i> in the minds of
men.</b><span> </span>It is like having a perfectly
detailed marble statute.<span> </span>Satan first
breaks off the hands, then the arms, and then the nose.<span> </span>Then he slowly erodes away at its details
until everything is a blur and that which was originally created can barely be recognized
any longer.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>This constant obfuscation is what
happens with God’s revelations of Scripture.</span></b><span><span> </span>The greatest
complexity of discipleship is the constant need to keep main things the main
thing and clear things clear.<span> </span>God must
constantly give knew revelations to clarify the confusion and dissolution of
clarity by theological obfuscation.<span> </span>God
must constantly raise up new preachers that will teach the old truths to
clarify satanic obfuscations.<span> </span>Satan has
more obfuscators than those God that has raised up to clarify and purifying.<span> </span>Unfortunately, even within the Church today,
there are more people resisting edification than there are people fighting
against obfuscation.<span> </span>Resisting
obfuscation MUST become the goal of EVERY Christian of EVERY generation.<span> </span>This growing and ever-increasing disinterest
in the truths of God’s revelations has been the continuing problem since the
beginning of time.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold", serif;">It is the nature of fallen beings (sinners) to project fault and transfer
guilt and accusation to others.<span> </span>Adam did
this and Eve did this.</span></b><span><span> </span>Sinners do not like to be
responsible for their sins or for the damage those sins cause.<span> </span>However, because this is the pattern of the
fallen nature of all humans, we fail to teach our children to take
responsibility for their failures because they fear the consequences and shame
of those failures.<span> </span>To admit failure and
accept the consequences for failure is the first step towards recovery and one
of the first manifestations of genuine repentance.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>This characteristic aspect of denial
and transference of guilt/fault in the fallen nature of all humans is a core
descriptor of Satan – the “accuser of our brethren” (Revelation 12:10). </span></b><span><span> </span>Projecting, transference, and accusation are
also a central satanic evidence that humans have become children of the evil
because Satan “is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44). <span> </span>To blame others for what you have done is a
lie.<span> </span>Adam and Eve blaming others for
their failures is where <i>passing the buck</i> began.<span> </span>It is the sin of accusation committed by the
one who knows his/her own failure but is unwilling to take moral responsibility
for that failure and its eternal consequences.<span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold", serif;">Satan gets humans to blame God for consequences Satan causes.</span></b><span><span>
</span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold", serif;">Satan accused God of being selfish because God was keeping
good things from Adam and Eve.<span> </span>Satan
accused God of not wanting Adam and Eve to have their “eyes. . . opened, and ye
shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5).<span> </span></span></b><span><span> </span>Satan’s corruption
of their thinking was that “knowing good and evil” was a good outcome, not a
bad outcome.<span> </span>All sinners know we have
learned and seen many things we wish we could unlearn and unsee.<span> </span><b>Grace of God means these things can be
forgiven.</b><span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Servant Models</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>This <u>choice</u> provides the potential to succeed
where angels failed</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>20 </sup>Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s
children with her sons, worshipping <i>him</i>, and desiring a certain thing of
him. <sup>21 </sup>And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him,
Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other
on the left, in thy kingdom. <sup>22</sup> But Jesus answered and said, Ye know
not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to
be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are
able. <sup>23 </sup>And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup,
and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my
right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but <i>it shall be given to
them</i> for whom it is prepared of my Father. <sup>24</sup> And <b>when the
ten heard <i>it</i>, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren</b>.
<sup>25</sup> But Jesus called them <i>unto him</i>, and said, Ye know that the
princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great
exercise authority upon them. <sup>26</sup> But <b>it shall not be so among you</b>:
but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; <sup>27</sup>
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: <sup>28</sup> <b><u>Even
as</u> the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to
give his life a ransom for many</b>” (Matthew 20:20-28).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span><b>The
ultimate objective of salvation and discipleship is the voluntary submission of
one’s self to become the servant of another.</b><span> </span>This was the objective of Christ in all His
disciples to the place they would be willing to die for the benefit of those
they <b>chose</b> to serve.<span> </span>This is also
the greatest difficulty in making true disciples for herein defines being a
true disciple (follower of Jesus).<span> </span>The
ultimate free will choice after choosing to receive the gift of being “born
again” of the Spirit of God is the choice to benevolently and lovingly serve
others.<span> </span>This is the restoration of <i>the
way things ought to be</i>.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>11</sup>
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. <sup>12</sup> And
whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself
shall be exalted” (Matthew 23:11-12).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Total Depravity: what is it really?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Everything coming from a poisoned well is
poisoned.</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span> </span>When Adam fell into sin, all that is born of
his seed is born “in sin” and is cursed of God. <span> </span>Everything that God does within His creation
from the point of Adam’s failure and fall into sin is undeserved.<span> </span>Herein enters the doctrine of God’s grace and
longsuffering.<span> </span>Total depravity simply
means God-kind righteousness (holiness) cannot be produced by a sinner.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>6</sup> For when we were yet <b>without strength</b>,
in due time Christ died for the ungodly. <sup>7</sup> For scarcely for a
righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even
dare to die. <sup>8</sup> But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, <b>while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us</b>. <sup>9 </sup>Much more then, being
now <b>justified by his blood</b> {<i>justification is the impartation of
Godkind righteous as a gift to the believing sinner</i>}, we shall be saved
from wrath through him. <sup>10</sup> For if, when we were enemies, <b>we were
reconciled</b> {<i><span style="color: black;">katallássō,</span></i><span style="color: black;"> </span><i>i.e., changed due to a new creation in a new
birth; regeneration</i>} to God by the death of his Son, much more, being
reconciled{<i><span style="color: black;">katallássō,</span></i><span style="color: black;"> </span><i>i.e., changed due to a new creation in a new
birth; regeneration</i>}, we <b>shall be saved by his life</b> {<i>referring to
the glorification of Jesus as the ‘last Adam’ and the ‘firstborn’ of the New
Genesis</i>}. <sup>11</sup> And not only <i>so</i>, but we also joy in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now <b>received the atonement</b>
{<i><span style="color: black;">katallagḗ,</span></i><b><span style="color: black;">
</span></b><i>i.e, ‘the change’, noun form of the verb reconciled as used in
verse 10; the New Birth</i>}. <sup>12</sup> <b>Wherefore, as by one man sin
entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for
that all have sinned:</b> <sup>13</sup> <b>(</b>For until the law sin was in
the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. <sup>14 </sup>Nevertheless
death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the
similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure {<i>type</i>} of him {<i>the
‘last Adam’ and ‘firstborn of the New Genesis</i>} that was to come. <sup>15 </sup>But
not as the offence, so <b>also <i>is</i> the free gift</b> {<i>justification
and New Birth</i>}. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more
the grace of God, and the gift by grace, <i>which is</i> by one man, Jesus
Christ, hath abounded unto many. <sup>16</sup> And not as <i>it was</i> by one
that sinned, <i>so is</i> the gift: for the judgment <i>was</i> by one to
condemnation, but the free gift <i>is</i> of many offences unto justification. <sup>17</sup>
For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one,
Jesus Christ.<b>)</b> <sup>18</sup> <b>Therefore</b> {<i>picking up where verse
12 ends</i>} as by the offence of one <i>judgment came</i> upon all men to
condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one <i>the free gift came</i>
upon all men unto justification of life. <sup>19</sup> For as by one man’s
disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be
made righteous. <sup>20 </sup>Moreover the law entered, that the offence might
abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: <sup>21</sup> That
as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 5:6-21).<span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Is the fall total?</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span> </span>Yes, the fall into sin was total.<span> </span>However, total depravity does not mean what
extremists say it means.<span> </span>Humanity was
corrupted the moment its progenitor’s nature was corrupted.<span> </span>Adam became a sinner and began to produce
“after his kind” (Genesis 1:21-25).<span> </span><b>Adam
could choose to live <i>righteously</i>, in other words, LIKE righteousness.</b><span> </span>Yet, Adam could never BE righteous.<span> </span>Just as a maid who has committed fornication
may abstain from fornication for the rest of her life, she will never again be
a virgin.<span> </span>The best any sinner can ever
be is a saved sinner.<span> </span>Becoming a saved
sinner requires a miracle from God.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>We would think we would find mankind’s history riddle
with accounts of men pleading with God to be saved.<span> </span>Instead, we find God pleading with man to
receive His<span class="textexposedshow"> gift of salvation.</span></span></b><span class="textexposedshow"><span><span> </span>This defines God’s love and models the
epitome of servanthood.<span> </span>This is true because,
as a result of our depravity, we are blind to our condition before God.<span> </span>We are blind to the holiness of God and the
perfect righteousness of God.<span> </span>Only God
truly understands the totality and depth of our fall into sin and
condemnation.<span> </span>Only God understands what
is necessary to our rescue from that fallen state.<span> </span>God requires a supernatural solution.<span> </span>Only God can supernaturally provide that
solution.</span></span><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">The Protoevangelium: The Redemption of
Lost Dominion and Lost Souls</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">God lovingly clothed His fallen sinners
with skins from slain animals. <span> </span>However,
the dispensation of innocence ended.<span> </span>The
first creation was cursed, and Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of
Eden.<span> </span>To ensure that mankind did not
live forever in a body of sin and under the curse of death, God’s grace <i>drove
them out </i>while maintaining His commitment to the seeming impossibility of
humanity’s whole salvation; “body, soul, and spirit” (I Thessalonians 5:23).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>14</sup> And the LORD God said unto the
serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou <i>art</i> cursed above all cattle,
and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust
shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: <sup>15</sup> And I will put enmity
between thee and the woman, and between thy seed {<i>the seed, or sin nature,
of satanically corrupted man; Romans 5:12</i>} and <b>her seed</b> {<i>here
begins what is commonly called ‘the highway of the seed’ to the New Genesis;
Galatians 3:16</i>}; it {<i>Eve’s Seed</i>} shall bruise thy {<i>Satan’s</i>}
head {<i>dominion of death</i>}, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Genesis
3:14-15).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><sup><span>22 </span></sup><span>And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know
good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree
of life, and eat, and <b>live for ever</b>: <sup>23</sup> <b>Therefore</b> the
LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence
he was taken. <sup>24</sup> So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east
of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way of the tree of life” (Genesis 3:22-24; <i>Adam’s sin was that he
ate what God forbade and failed to lead his wife in righteousness</i>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span><b>After
the fall of humanity into sin and God speaking to Satan in Genesis 3:15, it is
almost as if Satan disappears from human view.</b><span> </span>We do not find him mentioned again until the
book of Job.<span> </span>Nonetheless, his constantly
effort is the destruction of humanity and to keep humans from reconciliation
with God and living in constant enmity with God.<span> </span>This is the “mystery of iniquity” (II
Thessalonians 2:7). </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Lance Ketchum serves the Lord as a Church Planter, Evangelist/Revivalist. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">He has served the Lord for over 50 years</span>.</i>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-27209972088238130832020-02-17T09:28:00.004-06:002020-02-17T09:28:58.802-06:00UNDERSTANDING OUR OPPOSITION<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">DISCIPLESHIP</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Irreducible Complexity</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>UNDERSTANDING OUR OPPOSITION</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TubOW6jeMs0/XkqxBHNXydI/AAAAAAAAEvQ/bJhcKS2jLXUrj2txhVppFNw27cupOtfEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/devil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="450" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TubOW6jeMs0/XkqxBHNXydI/AAAAAAAAEvQ/bJhcKS2jLXUrj2txhVppFNw27cupOtfEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/devil.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>Innocent
people are ignorant of the subtleties of hidden agendas steeped in fraudulence
and larceny.<span> </span>Fraudulent and larcenous
people depend upon ignorance, innocence, and misplaced trust.</b><span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>Fraudulent and larcenous people prey upon
such people.<span> </span>The innocent trust because
they have no experience with the selfishness of others that would destroy the
innocent with deception in order to take from the innocent the thing that is of
most value – INNOCENCE.<span> </span>Innocent people certainly
do not expect that the people given to protect them and serve them would
purposely seek to harm them or capitalize on their weaknesses.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Satan understood that should
Eve be deceived, and Adam disobey, they would both spiritually die.</b><span> </span>Adam and Eve may have understood the facts of
“thou shalt surely die” but most probably had little comprehension of what it
meant.<span> </span>Therefore, they were too ignorant
to fear consequences they could not comprehend.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Adam’s and Eve’s spiritual
death (judgment by God and separation from obedient fellowship with Him) was
Satan’s selfish solution to his problem of being unwilling to be their servant.</b><span> </span>Satan’s solution: get Adam to sin, which will
bring God’s death sentence upon Adam.<span> </span>Adam’s
death was SATAN’S PROBLEM SOLVED.<span>
</span>However, Adam’s problem and all of his progenies’ problems just
began.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>8</sup>
Be <b>sober</b> {<i>watchful discretion</i>}, be <b>vigilant</b> {<i>on alert</i>};
because your <b>adversary </b>{<i>opposer of righteousness or justice</i>} the
devil, <b>as a roaring lion</b> {<i>stalking</i>}, <b>walketh about</b> {<i>preoccupied
with</i>}, <b>seeking whom he may devour</b> {<i>using every opportunity to</i>
<i>destroy lives</i>}: <sup>9 </sup>Whom resist stedfast in <b>the faith</b>,
knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in
the world” (I Peter 5:8-9).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Adam was completely ignorant of
his adversary for the adversary was hiding behind being a <i>protector</i>.</b><span> </span>We are the most susceptible to deception and
personal injury by those we trust the most.<span>
</span>Innocence has no guardian mechanism because it suspects no harm and
knows no fear of harm.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>Selfishness
wants the hopeless whims of the will consumed with a pursuit that will take
that person out of the place of the protective custody of obedience to God’s
will.<span> </span>Selfishness foolishly and blindly
chases after the forbidden being lured into the abyss of blindness because all
selfishness sees is what it wants.<span>
</span>Selfishness is willingly ignorant of the hidden danger of a lurking
adversary seeking that person’s valuables; willing even to kill him.<span> </span>This <b>is</b> Satan’s hidden agenda –
DEATH.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">THE ESSENTIALS OF DISCERNMENT AND WISDOM</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span> </span><b>Because
humans have a powerful adversary in Satan and fallen angels (demons), the need
for spiritual discernment, enlightenment, and wisdom became essentials to basic
survival skills.</b><span> </span>The “mystery of
iniquity” works covertly with an agenda of spiritual destruction seeking to
bring everything that God perfectly created to ruin.<span> </span>Although God’s creation is incomprehensibly
complex, there is nothing more complex than the tri-unity of the creation of
one human being existing in the complexity of body, soul, and spirit.<span> </span>Humanity was created in the triune image of
God and designed to live in perfect soulic, spiritual, and physical unity with
God.<span> </span>Most humans barely comprehend the
simplest of these levels of unity let alone the trinity of all three.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Ignorance always corrupts discernment
requiring enlightenment to expose the adversary and his tactics of corruption
of our fellowship with God and corrupted worship leading sinners away from the
one true God to some form of idolatry.</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span> </span>However, education and
enlightenment to the covert operations of our adversary does not correct the
failure of the breach of fellowship with God and restoration of a harmonious
relationship with God in righteousness.<span>
</span>That which is broken must be restored to its original perfect
specifications, not merely repaired or reformed.<span> </span>Something broken that is reformed is nothing
more than a broken token of its original.<span>
</span>A glued together broken porcelain teacup will still bear its apparent
cracks.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">The foundation for a believer’s
restoration to fellowship with God must begin with God’s expectation of
perfection before we can understand the difficulty of redemption and complete
recreation through transfiguration of the human body, soul, and spirit.<span> </span>The difficulty for fallen humans is to
understand that there are ongoing aspects of redemption necessary to the
present and the temporal (in time) and there are aspects of redemption that are
future and eternal.<span> </span>Therefore, spiritual
discernment requires our understanding of what is necessary to fellowship with
God and retain His blessings in the present and in the physical world as well
is in the eternal and spiritual.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Discernment requires our understanding of
what is necessary to fellowship with God and to retain His blessings in both
existences.</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span> </span>Discernment begins with acknowledging our
ignorance of these things and the necessity of God’s enlightenment to His
expectations for both redemption and restoration.<span> </span><b>We do not get to make up our own
specifications for redemption and restoration to fellowship.</b><span> </span>Therefore, when we understand our ignorance,
we must understand just how incredibly ignorant we are.<span> </span>Second, we must understand that our adversary
is doing everything possible to confuse, corrupt knowledge, and increase our
ignorance of redemption and restoration to fellowship with God.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">The fall of humanity into depravity means
everyone is more than <i>a little bit broken</i> and <i>somewhat lost</i>.</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span>
</span>Humanity is incredibly broken, completely lost in sin, and totally blind
to the way of redemption by grace through faith and restored fellowship with
God.<span> </span>There is an adversary changing the
road signs of “by grace through faith” to the sinner’s way home.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><sup><span>3 </span></sup><span>But if our gospel be hid, <b>it is hid to them that
are lost</b>: <sup>4</sup> In whom the god of this world <b>hath blinded the
minds</b> of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them” (II Corinthians
4:3-4).<span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span> </span><b>God’s
pathway to redemption and restoration to fellowship with Him has always been
simply “by grace” and “through faith.”</b><span>
</span>This pathway throughout Scripture came to simply be known as “the way”
(Genesis 3:24).<span> </span>However, the adversary
of humanity does not want anyone to find God’s way home through redemption and
restoration to fellowship.<span> </span>The adversary
is not content with humanities lost estate and lost souls.<span> </span>The adversary wants humanity absolutely
miserable in this life and existence.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">The adversary has corrupted God’s <i>grace
way</i> in every way possible.</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span> </span>The many corruptions came
to be known as the <i>way of works</i> as opposed to the <i>way of grace</i>.<span> </span>“</span><span>There
is a way which <b>seemeth right</b> {<i>looks straight</i>} unto a man, but the
end thereof <i>are</i> the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25).<span> </span>Jesus corrected all the adversary’s <i>ways
of works</i> with one simple statement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>1</sup>
Let not your heart be troubled: <b>ye believe in God, believe also in me</b>. <sup>2
</sup>In my Father’s house {<i>abode</i>} are many mansions {<i>abiding places</i>;
<i>dwelling places for the redeemed to live is perfect fellowship with God</i>}:
if <i>it were</i> not <i>so</i>, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place
for you. <sup>3</sup>And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again,
and receive you unto myself; that where I am, <i>there</i> ye may be also. <sup>4</sup>
And whither I go ye know, and <b>the way ye know</b>. <sup>5</sup> Thomas saith
unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and <b>how can we know the way</b>?
<sup>6</sup> Jesus saith unto him, <b>I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man cometh unto the Father, but by me</b>” (John 14:1-6)<b>.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span> </span>The
<i>way of works</i> began when Adam and Eve became conscious of their nakedness
before God.<span> </span>Here begins the dispensation
of Conscience.<span> </span>Adam’s and Eve’s solution
is, “We broke it.<span> </span>We need to fix
it.”<span> </span>This is the foundation of the <i>way
of works</i> and all the innumerable derivations of it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif;">The
Dispensation of Conscience and the Adamic Covenant </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif;">(Genesis 3:22-24)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“And
they <b>were both naked</b>, the man and his wife, and <b>were not ashamed</b>”
(Genesis 2:25).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span>Being
a sinner and being conscious of sin are two different existences. <span> </span>Adam’s creation was not complete until God “breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life {<i>God’s Spirit</i>}; and man became a
living soul” (Genesis 2:7). <span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>It is commonly believed that Adam’s and Eve’s naked
bodies were covered by a radiant glow of light emanating from within them
caused by the indwelling presence of God’s Spirit (“breath of life”).<span> </span>Without knowing what is sin, there is no
guilt for that sin and no shame caused by that guilt.<span> </span>Without guilt and shame there is no
conviction of the failure of sin.<span>
</span>Without conviction of sin there is no fear of God’s pending justice and
judgment for the failure.<span> </span>Conviction
understands there is a penalty for sin.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Guilt, shame, conviction, and fear are all part of the
chain that should lead the sinner to remorseful “repentance toward God, and
faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21).<span> </span>Adam’s and Eve’s shame of their nakedness was
shame before God.<span> </span>Their sin had exposed
their guilt and their nakedness before God <b>to them</b> and they were ashamed
of the exposure of their sinfulness before a holy God.<span> </span>Their nakedness was not exposed to one
another or to God prior to their sin because their nakedness was covered by the
glory of God from within.<span> </span>When they
sinned, they lost their glow and their nakedness as sinful beings was now fully
exposed.<span> </span>Nakedness is merely an exposure
of their internal guilt of sin.<span> </span>Guilt is
good and a gift from God.<span> </span>Guilt should
lead to taking steps toward God for recovery.<span>
</span>However, the very nature of exposed sinfulness is shame, hiding,
covering, denial, and even blame shifting.<span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>7</sup>
And the <b>eyes of them both were opened</b>, and <b>they knew</b> that they <i>were</i>
naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and <b>made themselves aprons</b>. <sup>8
</sup>And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the
cool of the day: and Adam and his wife <b>hid themselves from the presence of
the LORD</b> God amongst the trees of the garden. <sup>9 </sup>And the LORD God
called unto Adam, and said unto him, <b>Where <i>art</i> thou?</b> <sup>10</sup>
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and <b>I was afraid</b>, because <b>I
<i>was</i> naked</b>; and <b>I hid myself</b>. <sup>11</sup> And he said, <b>Who
told thee that thou <i>wast</i> naked?</b> Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof
I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? <sup>12</sup> And the man said, <b>The
woman whom thou gavest <i>to be</i> with me, she gave me of the tree</b>, and I
did eat. <sup>13</sup> And the LORD God said unto the woman, What <i>is</i>
this <i>that</i> thou hast done? And the woman said, <b>The serpent beguiled me</b>,
and I did eat.” (Genesis 3:7-13).<span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span> </span><b>Although
the fall of Satan and millions of other angels preceded the fall of Adam and
humanity, the curse of God on creation happened because God had given dominion
of Creation to Adam (humanity).</b><span> </span>Hell
was created as a place of separation from God and of eternal condemnation for
fallen angels, not for the human beings.<span>
</span>Perhaps the most serious aspect of the fall of humanity and God’s curse
is humanities blind ignorance to the real circumstances of the outcome.<span> </span>Mankind has no real comprehension of spiritual
death or eternal condemnation.<span> </span>Because
of this ignorance and spiritual blindness, humanity barely comprehends the
pending danger under which they live each moment.<span> </span>If the seriousness of eternal condemnation is
not understood, then salvation offered as a gift of grace will seldom be taken
seriously.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">PRIDE</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><span>Pride <i>goeth</i> before
destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18).<span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Pride is the foundation of all sin laid
originally by Satan.</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span> </span>Satan’s fall and his leadership of one-third
of the angels of Heaven to rebel against God’s order of sovereignty is sourced
in pride.<span> </span>Pride is the infection of
corruption that refuses to be subordinate to anyone, let alone being willing to
become another’s servant.<span> </span>To willingly
become another being’s servant is the grand scope and ultimate goal of
discipleship and the epitome of having escaped the corruption that entered into
the world through the prideful fall of the angels and the infection of humanity
with that corruption.<span> </span>Pride is where
“you’re not the boss of me” was born.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><sup><span>12 </span></sup><span>How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! <i>how</i> art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations! <sup>13</sup> For thou hast <b>said in thine heart</b>, I will ascend
into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also
upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: <sup>14 </sup>I
will ascend above the heights of the clouds; <b>I will be like the most High</b>.
<sup>15</sup> Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit”
(Isaiah 14:12-15).<span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Rebellion against the orders of
sovereignty established by God were the seed of the fall of Satan and the third
of the angels that followed him in his rebellion against God.<span> </span>The rebellion was a pride filled rejection of
God’s established order of sovereignty.<span> </span>Satan’s
pride refused to submit to be the servant of an obvious inferior humanity.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Man was given sovereignty over angels.</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span>
</span>Angels, although extremely more powerful and sophisticated than humans,
were created to minister to humans.<span> </span>It
is apparent from Hebrews 1:7-14 that there are orders of angels that minister
solely to God in various capacities and other angels that minister as
benevolent servants to God’s redeemed.<span> </span>Willing
servanthood is the ultimate goal of discipleship and the unfathomable
communicable attribute of God manifested in His incarnation, death, burial, and
resurrection to save the souls of rebels corrupted with satanic pride.<span> </span>Jesus “became obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross” (Philippians 2:8).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>16
</sup>For <b>all</b> that <i>is</i> in the world, the <b>lust of the flesh</b>
{<i>satanic device for corruption of humanity</i>}, and the <b>lust of the eyes</b>
{<i>satanic device for corruption of humanity</i>}, and <b>the pride of life </b>{<i>satanic
device for corruption of humanity</i>}, <b>is not of the Father</b>, but <b>is
of the world</b> {<i>this word describes</i> <i>all that is</i> <i>part of</i> <i>satanic
influences or ‘mystery of iniquity’</i>}. <sup>17</sup> And the world passeth
away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever
(I John 2:16-17).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Dr. Lance Ketchum serves the Lord as a Church Planter, Evangelist/Revivalist. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>He has served the Lord for over 50 years.</i></span>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-41003350332813337082020-02-10T12:09:00.001-06:002020-02-10T12:09:25.348-06:00Creation is Complex<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk32227234"><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc";">DISCIPLESHIP</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Irreducible
Complexity</b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>God’s
creation is enormous. God’s creation is also
enormously complex.</b> The greatest
minds of the world have not even approached being capable of comprehending the
complexity of God’s creation in either its macro aspects or its micro
aspects. Humanity cannot even comprehend
the material size or complexity of the physical universe let alone the
complexities of how the various materials bodies interact and affect one
another. We cannot yet even comprehend
how humans interact and affect one another.
Discipleship is complex because of ignorance that somehow thinks it
comprehends more than it does. Discipleship
can be effective only at the level and degree of knowledge, understanding, and
practical application of what is known and understood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> For
those blinded to God’s existence, it
is easier to deny the existence of a God capable of creating the complexity of
the universe than to try to comprehend Him.
Instead of attempting to know and comprehend the Creator, unbelieving
humanity seeks to know and comprehend the creation thereby replacing the
worship of the Creator with the worship of the creation (science; Romans 1:19-25). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We must remember that Satan’s intent in overthrowing God’s
established order of sovereignty was first to question what God had commanded
by questioning Eve who had received secondhand from Adam what God said to
Adam. Eve knew only what Adam told her
and therefore was naturally UNSURE of what God had said. <b>Learn from this!</b> Deception is inherent in ignorance of understanding
the direct communication from God. READ
YOUR BIBLE! <b>Be careful to whom you
listen (even preachers). Satan was an angel
created to serve man! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><sup>15 </sup>And the LORD God took <b>the man</b>, and <b>put him</b>
into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. <sup>16</sup> And the LORD
God commanded <b>the man</b>, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest
freely eat: <sup>17</sup> But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it: for <b>in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die</b>” (Genesis 2:15-17).<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> “Thou shalt not
eat of it” establishes levels of sovereignty.</b> Although Adam was given
“dominion” sovereignty over his own will and sovereignty over the first
creation, God retained sovereignty over Adam’s will and the supreme sovereignty
over creation. Understanding this is the
first level of faith and faithfulness. Sovereignty
is a word that communicates two truths:
CONTROL and JUDICIAL AUTHORITY.
There is no purpose for judicial authority apart from moral or legal
failure and applicable justice for that failure. This is true for all levels of judicial
authority (government). Faithfulness is
ALWAYS defined as OBEDIENCE in every area of the understanding of what we know
and believe. <b>ADAM WAS SUPPOSED TO DISCIPLE
AND GOVERN EVE!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Eve should never have had the conversation
with the “serpent.”</span></b><span style="color: black;"> The “serpent” should never have had this
conversation with Eve. The serpent’s
purpose was not honest. The serpent’s
purpose was intent upon confusion and deception. Therefore, the “serpent” did not go directly
to Adam who had received the Edenic Covenant directly from God and who would
have known exactly what God had said.
The “serpent” went to Eve because she had been given the conditions of
the Edenic Covenant second handedly from Adam.
Therefore, what God had said could be questioned and Eve could be
deceived. This is the subtilty of the
“serpent” mentioned in Genesis 3:1. Eve
should have redirected the “serpents” question to Adam. This is all part of God’s order (levels) of
sovereignty. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><sup>11</sup> <b>Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection</b>
{<i>statement from which the rest of the instruction of the text flows</i>}. <sup>12</sup>
<b>But I suffer not a woman to teach</b> {<i>no permission from God</i>}, <b>nor
to usurp authority</b> {<i><span style="color: black;">authentéō: to</span>
dominate</i>; <i>the idea is to take authoritive leadership</i>} <b>over the
man, but</b> <b>to be in silence </b>{<i>communicates a state of being;</i> <i>stillness,
quietness, non-argumentative or threatening</i>}. <sup>13</sup> <b>For</b> {<i>because</i>}
<b>Adam was first formed, then Eve </b>{<i>Eve sinfully took dominion when she
persuaded Adam to make a determinate choice of will against God’s will</i>}. <sup>14
</sup>And <b>Adam was not deceived</b>, but <b>the woman being deceived</b> was
in the transgression” (I Timothy 2:11-14).<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Adam’s failure and fall was due directly
to his failure to adequately disciple his wife by teaching her exactly what God
said to him. This failure was not Adam’s
sin, but it opened the door for his wife’s deception, which opened the door to
his following the direction of someone he loved more than his love for
God. <b>Herein lays the conception and
birthplace of compromise and the first form of idolatry.</b> Idolatry is simply any degree of misplaced
loyalty to God. Idolatry is corrupted
worship. Idolatry is the worship of
anything created, beginning with putting self-first before God. Idolatry can extend into worshipping anything
other than God. <b>Idolatry then is any
corruption of the order of God’s ordained sovereignty. </b> This includes the inclusion of anything God
has excluded from righteousness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">The Fall or Judicial Failure</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">We have no record of the conversation Adam
had with Eve regarding the responsibilities of the Edenic Covenant. We know Eve was not present at the time God
gave the Edenic Covenant to Adam because Eve had not yet been created. We do know from the account of the serpent’s
deception of Eve in Genesis 3:1-8 that Eve had been informed regarding the </span>“Thou shalt not eat of it” command from God. Since we have no record of God saying this
again to Eve, we must assume Eve was informed and warned by Adam. We also see in Genesis 3:3 that Eve
communicated some additional conditions that did not exist in God’s original
instructions to Adam. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Did Adam add these conditions or did Eve add these
conditions?</b> We do not know. We only see the first addition of rules to
regulate behavior beyond what God said. <b>This
is where <i>religion</i> was born</b>. <i>Religion</i>
always adds to what God says or diminishes what God has said. <i>Religion </i>is the greatest difficulty to
overcome for <i>religion</i> is the confusion between “thus sayeth the Lord”
and <i>but here is what God means</i>. <b>God
hates <i>religion</i> because it is founded in <i>confusion </i>thereby
propagating and procreating more <i>confusion</i>.</b> <span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><sup>1</sup> Now the serpent was <b>more subtil</b> {<i>cunningly
deceptive, crafty, or tricky</i>} than any beast of the field which the LORD
God had made. And he said unto the woman, <b>Yea, <u>hath God said</u>, Ye
shall not eat of every tree of the garden? </b><sup>2</sup> And the woman said
unto the serpent, <b>We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: <sup>3</sup>
But of the fruit of the tree which <i>is</i> in the midst of the garden, God
hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.</b> <sup>4
</sup>And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: <sup>5</sup>
<b>For God doth know</b> {<i>instilling doubt in God’s motives</i>} that in the
day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil. <sup>6</sup> And when the woman saw that the tree <i>was</i>
<b>good for food</b> {<i>lust of the flesh</i>}, and that it <i>was</i> <b>pleasant
to the eyes</b> {<i>lust of the flesh</i>}, and a tree to be desired <b>to make
<i>one</i> wise</b> {<i>pride of life</i>}, she took of the fruit thereof, and
did eat, and <b>gave also unto her husband</b> with her; and <b>he did eat</b>
{<i>following his wife’s usurped leadership</i>}. <sup>7</sup> And the eyes of
them both were opened, and they knew that they <i>were</i> naked; and they
sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. <sup>8 </sup>And they
heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:
and <b>Adam and his wife</b> hid themselves <b>from the presence of the LORD
God</b> amongst the trees of the garden” (Genesis 3:1-8).<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Satan Fell First</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"> <b>We
are not told in Scripture by God when He created angels. </b> We are not told if angels were created prior
to Adam and Eve or after. We only know
that they were created before the fall and they, at the time of their creation,
were “very {<i>superlatively</i>} good” (Genesis 1:31) like everything else God
had created. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">We are not told how many angels God
created. </span></b><span style="color: black;">We know from Scripture outside of the
Genesis account that angels do not marry or reproduce (Matthew 22:30 and Mark
12:25). Therefore, their original number
at the time of creation is eternally fixed unless God decides to create
more. We know from Revelation 5:11 that
the numbers of faithful angels are “</span>ten
thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands” (one-hundred million
plus millions more). We do not know if
this is an exact number. This number is
most probably intended to reflect an innumerable quantity; “an innumerable
company of angels” (Hebrews 12:22).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"> We
know from Hebrews 1:14 that the original purpose for which angels were created
is to be <i>benevolent servants</i> of God <b>and</b> humanity, <b>especially servants
for the protective custody of redeemed</b>.
The primary enemy of the redeemed is the “mystery of inequity” created
by the operations of fallen angels. Benevolent
angels are the “hedge” of protective custody God puts around His faithful (Job
1:10). These benevolent angels guard the
faithful believer from the temptations and influences of fallen angels seeking
to corrupt. Another primary guardian is
the Word of truth that creates <i>fences</i> to keep a believer from wandering
into areas contrary to the will of God. These
<i>fences </i>are established by knowing with surety what God has commanded. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><sup>7</sup> And of <b>the angels he saith</b>, Who maketh {<i>appoints</i>}
his angels spirits {<i>spiritual beings, not physical beings like humanity</i>},
and his ministers {<i><span style="color: black;">li-toorg-os’;</span></i> <i>benevolent
public servants</i>} a flame of fire {<i>blazing flame of light</i>}. <sup>8</sup>
But unto the Son <i>he saith</i>, Thy throne, O God, <i>is</i> for ever and
ever: a sceptre of righteousness <i>is</i> the sceptre of thy kingdom. <sup>9</sup>
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, <i>even</i>
thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. <sup>10</sup>
And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and
the heavens are the works of thine hands: <sup>11</sup> They shall perish; but
thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; <sup>12</sup> And
as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art
the same, and thy years shall not fail. <sup>13</sup> But to which of the
angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies
thy footstool? <sup>14</sup> <b>Are they not all ministering </b>{<i><span style="color: black;">li-toorg-os’;</span></i> <i>benevolent public servants</i>}
<b>spirits</b>, sent forth <b>to minister </b>{<i><span style="color: black;">li-toorg-os’;</span></i>
<i>benevolent public servants</i>} <b>for them who shall be heirs of salvation</b>”
(Hebrews 1:7-14)?<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">“Hath God said” poses no problem to the
person that KNOWS “thus sayeth the LORD.” </span></b><span style="color: black;"> However, there is no
guardian greater than the free will of man to choose righteousness over
unrighteousness. There are no external controls
upon the human will greater than the God given internal ability of choice. Although free will choice is greatly
corrupted by a fallen nature, ignorance, pride, and selfishness, every
individual still has the ability to choose between right and wrong; good or
evil. How important then is the command
to: <b>“</b></span><b>Study to shew thyself
approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing
the word of truth” (II Timothy 2:15)?</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">What importance then is the statement of
II Timothy 3:16-17? Other than a fallen
nature of corrupted desires contrary to God’s will, the greatest enemy of any
man is ignorance of God’s will. Knowing
and understanding the Word of God is the only surety to avoid the deception inherent
in the question, “hath God said.” The
question is based upon the assumption of ignorance. Humanity is suffocating in its own apathy and
ignorance of the Words of God. Deception
is like a fungus growing in the dark depths of the ignorance of God’s
will. <b>Discipleship is educating the
ignorant.</b> People without ignorance
do not need discipleship. The need for discipleship
presumes ignorance exists and seeks to correct it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><sup>12</sup> Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution. <sup>13</sup> <b>But evil men and seducers shall wax
worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.</b> <sup>14</sup> But continue
thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of
whom thou hast learned <i>them</i>; <sup>15</sup> And that from a child thou
hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation
through faith which is in Christ Jesus. <sup>16</sup> All scripture <i>is</i>
given by inspiration of God, and <i>is</i> profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: <sup>17</sup> That
the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works” (II
Timothy 3:12-17).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Genesis is the book of
beginnings; “In the beginning God . . .”</b> <span> </span>The fifty chapters of Genesis is the history
of humanity’s failures (progressive degeneration away from God and His will) and
God’s successes (God’s long suffering in bringing sinners to understand
redemption and surrender to His will) written by Moses but authored by God
Himself.<span> </span>Genesis is also called “the
first book of Moses” although Moses was not even born at the time of the over twenty-three-hundred
years of the history recorded by its words.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Genesis is <b>God’s eyewitness account</b> of the history of humanity’s
failures given to and recorded by Moses for all humanity to read, understand,
and BELIEVE.<span> </span>All faith BEGINS with the
beginning of God’s recorded eyewitness and God’s verbal testimony of the truths
of creations, Satan’s deception, humanities fall, and God’s promise of both a
Kinsman-Redeemer and a New Creation.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Discipleship always begins at
the beginning.</b><span> </span>Faith begins with God
testifying to Himself as the Creator.<span> </span>Creation
is a matter of faith because no one was there at the beginning but the Beginner.<span> </span>If you are willing to believe in God, you can
believe in His testimony of the beginning.<span>
</span>Faith is a decision.<span> </span>If you can
believe in a God Who created an infinite universe and harmoniously controls
that universe by His will, you can trust Him with your life.<span> </span>If you can trust God with your life, you can
trust Him for His loving promise of the gift of salvation and His promise of a
New Genesis where you will dwell with Him in perfect harmony.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Real faith begins at the beginning in Genesis
1:1.</b><span> </span><b>If that is not where your
faith begins, your faith has not begun.<span> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Four of God’s seven dispensations
are recorded and defined in the fifty chapters of the book of Genesis.<span> </span>Each of those four dispensations end with
humanity’s failure in each of their individual governing covenants and with God
starting another new beginning with a new remnant of faithful believers, a new
dispensation, and a new stewardship to a new covenant of governance for
believers.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every major doctrine of the Bible is initiated in
the first twelve chapters of the book of Genesis.<span> </span>It can be said that the roots of every major
Bible doctrine can be found planted in the book of Genesis from which they grow
in depth and expand leafing themselves out throughout the rest of God’s
revelation.<span> </span></span></div>
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First Mention</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The book of Genesis is the
foundation for all faith.</b><span> </span>Often
people give meaning to words that are inconsistent with God’s original use
(especially readers that begin reading the Bible without Old Testament
foundations of understanding).<span> </span>The <i>Law of First Mention</i> understands that
every <i>doctrine</i> of Scripture in its
simplest form finds its origin in the book of Genesis.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <i>Law of First Mention</i> requires the exegete to begin with the first
mention of any doctrine in the Bible to discover the fundamental meaning
inherent in that first occurrence.<span>
</span>Although later occurrences may add clarity, meaning, definition or
extension, the <b>later occurrences will never change the original meaning to
be different from the original intent</b>.<span>
</span>The original meaning is always present within the later occurrence.<span> </span>The fundamental truth of the <i>original occurrence</i> will always be the
dominant meaning.<span> </span>The doctrine may expand
in clarity and definition, but it will never change meaning or purpose in that
God’s does not change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Genesis 3:15 is the <i>seed </i>of
the New Genesis planted in the dung hill of the fallen first Genesis</b>.<span> </span>Here begins God’s promise of redemption in
the Promised Redeemer of the promised perfect, sinless sacrifice born of the
“seed” of the woman, but not of the seed of the man.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<sup>14</sup>
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou <i>art</i>
cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly
shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: <sup>15</sup>
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed {<i>the
seed, or sin nature, of satanically corrupted man; Romans 5:12</i>} and <b>her
seed</b> {<i>here begins what is commonly called ‘the highway of the seed’ to
the New Genesis; Galatians 3:16</i>}; it {<i>Eve’s Seed</i>} shall bruise thy {<i>Satan’s</i>}
head {<i>dominion of death</i>}, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Genesis
3:14-15).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The book of Genesis gives us the first four
dispensations (see chart) and the first four governing covenants; <span style="color: black;">Edenic, Adamic, Noahic, and Abrahamic Covenants.</span></span></b><span style="color: black;"> </span><span><span> </span>The important lesson of Genesis is that
humanity’s failure and God’s justified judgment is not based upon the
evaluation of one failure, but constant failures generation after generation
and new beginning after new beginning.<span>
</span>The curse of God upon humanity and the first creation is proven to be
just with every new beginning. <span> </span>Yet,
every new beginning reveals the long-suffering of God and His love for sinners
as He continues to draw them to saving faith in the promised Messiah and His
gift of salvation.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Romans 3:21-27 is the New Testament equivalent of the <i>Protoevangelium</i>
of Genesis 3:14-15.<span> </span>In other words, all
the truths of Romans 3:21-27 are embryonically contained in Genesis 3:14-15.<span> </span>Romans 3:21-27 expands upon the <i>Protoevangelium
</i>in a summary statement of all the other expansions throughout
Scripture.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>21</sup>
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed
by the law and the prophets; <sup>22 </sup>Even the righteousness of God <i>which
is</i> by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for
there is no difference: <sup>23</sup> For all have sinned, and come short of
the glory of God; <sup>24</sup> Being justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: <sup>25</sup> Whom God hath set
forth <i>to be</i> a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance
of God; <sup>26 </sup>To declare, <i>I say</i>, at this time his righteousness:
that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. <sup>27</sup>Where
<i>is</i> boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the
law of faith” (Romans 3:21-27).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">1.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> <b>Innocence</b>; </span>Genesis 1:28-3:13</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">2.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> <b>Conscience</b>; </span>Genesis 3:23-7:23<span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">3.</span></b><span style="color: black;"> <b>Human Government</b>; </span>Genesis<b> </b>8:20-11:9<span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span> </span><b>Each
of these four dispensations have a </b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold", serif; text-transform: uppercase;">governing
covenant</span></b><b><span style="color: black;"> given to the
faithful at the beginning of the dispensation.</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span>
</span>The conditions of each covenant define the parameters of faithfulness
(being faithful) for believers.<span> </span>The
covenants are never conditions for salvation.<span>
</span>The covenants are never given to lost people.<span> </span>In other words, the covenants NEVER define
what a person must DO TO BE saved (redeemed).<span>
</span>The covenant defines how a saved (redeemed) sinner is to live BEFORE God
to maintain that already saved person’s sanctification.<span> </span>Covenant are always about SANCTIFICATION.<span> </span>Covenants NEVER define conditions for
salvation.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">The Dispensation of Innocence;
</span></b>Genesis 1:28-3:13</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Man was created innocent of sin and given
dominion over a perfect environment of the perfect first creation. <span> </span>Man was given one abstention commandment that
tested his willful submission to the sovereignty of God.<span> </span>Adam and Eve were warned of the potential consequence
of disobedience. <span> </span>Eve was deceived
because of pride, while Adam willfully sinned usurping God’s sovereignty. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">In Genesis 1:31, just before the end of
the “sixth day” of Creation, God looks in evaluation of what He had finished
and remarked to His triune Self, <b>“it is very good.”</b><span> </span>We read these words from the perspective of
our view of creation as it presently is in its fallen state.<span> </span>The words “very good” means God looked on all
of His created Cosmos and said, “it is superlatively good.”<span> </span>In other words, <i>it was perfect and without
flaw</i>.<span> </span>Everything worked in perfect
harmony and in exaltation of its Creator.<span>
</span>Creation was a manifestation of and testimony to the omnipotence,
omnipresence, and omniscience of its Creator.<span>
</span>After the fall, we only can see the harmony of God’s perfect creation in
its abstraction and in the disharmony of its imperfections with most of its
participants singing off key to one degree or another.<span> </span><b>When we look upon creation now, we are
like those returning to rebuild the grand Temple of Solomon with the rubble of
its ruins having never seen the grandeur of the original.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>The <b>Dispensation of Innocence</b> and the <b>Edenic
Covenant</b> begins in Genesis 1:28 and extends through Genesis 3:13.<span> </span>Genesis 1:28 defines the parameters of the
Edenic Covenant of Adam’s and Eve’s righteous responsibilities within that
covenant.<span> </span>The Edenic Covenant also
contains ONE simple warning (Genesis 2:17).<span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>28
</sup>And God <b>blessed</b> them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and <b>have dominion</b> over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth. <sup>29</sup> And God said, Behold, <b>I have given
you</b> every herb bearing seed, which <i>is</i> upon the face of all the
earth, and every tree, in the which <i>is</i> the fruit of a tree yielding
seed; to you it shall be for meat. <sup>30</sup> And to every beast of the
earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the
earth, wherein <i>there is</i> life, <i>I have given</i> every green herb for
meat: and it was so. <sup>31</sup> And God saw every thing that he had made,
and, behold, <b><i>it was</i> very good</b>. And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day” (Genesis 1:28-31).<span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">It is extremely important to understand
that the Edenic Covenant was given to Adam as the head of all humanity DIRECTLY
UNDER the sovereignty of God.</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span> </span>Eve had not yet been
created from Adam’s rib when the Edenic Covenant was given to Adam.<span> </span>The very first level of discipleship was
Adam’s responsibility to educate, explain, and ensure that Eve fully understood
the conditions of the Edenic Covenant given him by God.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">“</span><sup><span>15 </span></sup><span>And the LORD God took <b>the man</b>, and <b>put him</b>
into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. <sup>16</sup> And the LORD
God commanded <b>the man</b>, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest
freely eat: <sup>17</sup> But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it: for <b>in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die</b>” (Genesis 2:15-17).<span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold", serif;">We
assume that most people understand the meaning of words and the explanation of
the meaning of those words by the one communicating.</span></b><span style="color: black;"><span>
</span>Did Adam understand the words from God “</span><span>in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis
2:15-17)?<span> </span>Did Adam need to understand
death at any level before the command of God to “not eat” could be
enforced?<span> </span>Certainly not!<span> </span>Adam and Eve were not ignorant, apelike
beings living in caves and drawing pictures on rock walls.<span> </span>They were “very good” with all the depth of
the meaning of that phrase.<span> </span>They were
most probably more intelligent than any human who has ever lived since.<span> </span>Adam certainly could understand “thou shalt
not eat of it.” Adam certainly could understand that death was not part of
God’s promise of blessing and was a warning of dire consequences for
failure.<span> </span><span> </span>Just like most people will never understand
Hell until the first moment of their experience of Hell, Adam did not
understand death until his first moment of being plunged into the dark abyss of
the abscess of its blindness in spiritual death.<span> </span>He did not need to understand death and its
consequences.<span> </span>He needed merely to
understand obedience and its promised blessings.<span> </span>It was enough for him to understand “<b>thou
shalt not</b> eat of it.”<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Dr. Lance Ketchum serves the Lord as a Church Planter, Evangelist/Revivalist. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>He has served the Lord for over 50 years.</i></span>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-50298836418344752082020-01-27T10:06:00.001-06:002020-01-27T10:06:55.728-06:00I. Irreducible Complexity<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">DISCIPLESHIP</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Irreducible Complexity</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">The
first five books of the Bible were first given by God to Israel through
Moses.<span> </span>These first five books are
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.<span> </span>These five books came to be known as the <i>Pentateuch</i>.<span> </span>This was the Bible of the Jewish people.<span> </span>The priests of Israel were held responsible
to teach these five books to the Jews to know and observe (keep and preserve)
from generation to generation.<span> </span>This
began what we know as formal discipleship to make Jews <i>followers of the Law</i>,
or what these five books taught.<span> </span>Moses
would very quickly discover how difficult this commandment would become.<span> </span>Every other generation of believers after him
have found the difficulties to be ever increasingly difficult due to Satanic
corruptions and external influences.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>The
greatest difficulty of discipleship is found in the early chapters of
Exodus.<span> </span>Discipleship was committed to a
group of men called to be priests who in most part were completely ignorant of
God and of His commandments given in the Mosaic Covenant.<span> </span>They had some knowledge that had been passed
down through their generations by word of mouth and by tradition.<span> </span>However, much of the knowledge of God had
been corrupted and influenced through generations of involvement with pagans
practicing various degrees of idolatry.<span> </span>The
holy Bible, as a written history of the world, and the Mosaic Covenant, as a
written document defining parameters of righteousness, did not exist before it
was given to Moses.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first level of discipleship
was Moses teaching God’s appointed <i>disciple makers</i> (the Levitical
priests) the “statutes and judgments” of the Law and the APPLICATION of those
“statutes and judgments.”<span> </span>Herein lays
the core problem of discipleship – ACCURATE and DETAILED TRANSFERENCE FROM
GENERATION TO GENERATION WITHOUT CORRUPTION.<span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<sup>1</sup>
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments,
which I teach you, for to do <i>them</i>, that ye may live, and go in and
possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. <sup>2</sup> Ye
shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish <i>ought</i>
from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command
you” (Deuteronomy 4:1-2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><b>The
complexity of discipleship begins with Moses’ understanding of the <i>what and
why</i> of the books of the Bible given him by God.</b><span> </span>If Moses did not understand the <i>what and
why</i>, he certainly could not teach the <i>what and why</i> to the priests of
Israel.<span> </span>This fact would be equally true
of the transference of the <i>what and why</i> from the priests to the children
of Israel.<span> </span>This transference is
necessarily true of every new generation of disciple-makers.<span> </span>Every aspect of “the faith” must be
faithfully understood and taught to the next generation, who then must receive
it with equal responsibility.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>The
Mosaic Covenant was given to redeemed people for the purpose of establishing
boundaries for maintaining sanctification before God thereby retaining His
blessings upon them as His people.<span> </span>The
Mosaic Covenant was NOT given to the lost souls of the world.<span> </span>The Mosaic Covenant was given to GOVERN
believers.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The governing boundaries of the
Mosaic Covenant naturally became external. </b><span> </span>This is the natural way infants receive
boundaries.<span> </span>Infants really do not
understand the purpose of boundaries or the dangers to themselves that lay
beyond those boundaries.<span> </span>This superficial
and immature understanding was the beginning of the corruption of those
boundaries.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The boundaries of righteousness were
intended to be internal controls beginning with the control of what people
decided to give preference.<span> </span>The primary
control of a person was supposed to control what that person loved beginning
with loving God.<span> </span>When the head and the
heart are controlled, THEN the body can be controlled.<span> </span>The head knows, but the heart controls
motivation and desires.<span> </span>There is a vast
difference between internal and external controls.<span> </span>We can establish external controls such as
barbed wire and electric fences, but they will prove inadequate as every farmer
with a bullheaded bull finds out.<span> </span>God
has always wanted obedience from the heart.<span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The discipleship responsibilities
of the Mosaic Covenant fell primarily upon the heads of households (the father
as the priest of the home).<span> </span>Moses taught
the Levitical priests who were then responsible to teach the fathers as heads
of their household.<span> </span>The fathers as heads
of their households were then responsible for teaching their wives and insuring
their children learned and obeyed the statutes and judgments of the Mosaic
Covenant.<span> </span>However, the primary and
foremost responsibility of the fathers as priests of their households was to
model a genuine love relationship with God and love for God’s Word.<span> </span>Loving God and God’s Word is the first level
of successful discipleship and the first level of failure in discipleship.<span> </span>To know the Word of God without knowing and
loving the God of the Word is the failure that creates a meaningless religion
out of a purposeful and loving relationship with God.<span> </span>God hates religion (rules and rituals)
without relationship.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<sup>4</sup>
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God <i>is</i> one LORD: <sup>5 </sup>And thou
shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy might. <sup>6</sup> And these words, which I command thee this
day, shall be in thine heart: <sup>7</sup> And thou shalt teach them diligently
unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and
when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest
up. <sup>8</sup> And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they
shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. <sup>9</sup> And thou shalt write them
upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates” (Deuteronomy 6:4-9).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Religion (rules and rituals)
without relationship is what is created when the foundations of deep
understanding of the gift of salvation and the understanding of the doctrine of
redemption is excluded from loving knowledge of God</b>.<span> </span>This is why the Bible begins with the book of
Genesis and not the book of Exodus.<span> </span>The
book of Genesis details the omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence of the
Being revealed to us as God.<span> </span>This Being
by the mere power of His will spoke the universe into existence.<span> </span>To teach rules and rituals without teaching
the fall of humanity into sin and God’s loving gift of redemption through His
own incarnation into humanity and His substitutionary death to satisfy His own
wrath upon sin is the <i>petri dish</i> for breeding dead religion without any knowledgeable
love for the Redeemer God. <span> </span>This is why
evangelism that creates love for the Creator must begin with the truths found
in the first three chapters of Genesis.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another grand difficulty in
discipleship is <i>Levels of Transference</i>.<span>
</span>These <i>Levels of Transference </i>involve levels of responsibility,
levels of intelligence, and levels of interest.<span>
</span>Various levels of responsibility for learning are defined by the level
of responsibility in teaching what is learned to others.<span> </span>A person cannot teach others beyond the
teacher’s level of understanding.<span> </span>This
is true of the teacher that teaches teachers or the parent teaching
children.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The historic failure in these <i>Levels
of Transference</i> of spiritual knowledge is recorded in the book of Genesis
and the book of Numbers.<span> </span>Ignorance of
God and God’s will actually increases with every generation descending into
almost total Paganism, Hedonism, and innumerable levels of ever increasing
unbelief.<span> </span>This is the constant in the
spiritual history of the world.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We can only imagine the task
before Moses in the teaching of the priests of Israel so that they in turn
could teach heads of households of Israel.<span>
</span>We are told in Numbers 1:47 that the priests of the tribe of Levi were
not to be numbered with the other tribes.<span>
</span>The distinction here is that the priests were separated from all
political and tribal alliances and loyalties so that their loyalties to God and
His statutes and judgments would never be compromised.<span> </span>The priests were counted (Numbers 3:39;
22,000).<span> </span>They were not aligned with
loyalties to anything but to God and the Word of God.<span> </span>This time in history marks the first <i>Bible
school</i> where twenty-two thousand priests were taught by one teacher –
Moses.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The logistics of concisely
teaching the book of Genesis and Leviticus to twenty-two thousand priests at
once while measuring their comprehension of what was being taught is unfathomable.<span> </span>There would have been innumerable levels of
transference of understanding depending on levels of individual’s intelligence,
attention, resistance, apathy, and personal acceptance of the responsibility
involved in enforcing the statutes and judgments, while teaching these truths
to others.<span> </span>In is highly improbable that
there was any trained scribes (copyists) yet to create written copies of the
Pentateuch for each of the twenty-two thousand priests.<span> </span>Most of these priests were still probably
illiterate needing to be taught to read and write.<span> </span>Therefore, they probably could not even take
written notes of what was being orally taught.<span>
</span>The first step was to teach every priest to read and write.<span> </span>Every priest would then have been taught to
be a scribe to first make his own copy of the Pentateuch.<span> </span>Perhaps this gives us some comprehension of
what Moses was doing for those forty years in the wilderness and why there were
so many difficulties.<span> </span>“So then faith <i>cometh</i>
by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the forty years of wandering in
the wilderness, another generation of Jews was born and needed to be educated
in the Law.<span> </span>Priority was given to every
child learning to read and write and learn the Pentateuch.<span> </span>The Pentateuch would have been the only
writing the Jews would focus upon in their education.<span> </span>Without knowing the Pentateuch, the children
of Israel would quickly degenerate into the influences caused by ignorance of
God and ignorance of righteousness.<span> </span>The
Jews were geographically separated by God from the influence of the ignorant
pagans of the world for those forty years for God to build a nation of
evangelists to reach the world with knowledge God had given them about Himself.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The great weakness in the plan for
discipleship was the innate ignorance and apathy of every new generation who
would not see their mission and therefore degenerate by degrees back into
paganism.<span> </span>They also came out of Egypt
with a “mixed multitude” that internally continued to carnally influence the
Jews with the integration of paganism and idolatrous worship forms.<span> </span>This is the redundancy of every generation of
believers.<span> </span>We do not even indoctrinate
and disciple our own children in “the faith.”<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is a consummate end of the redundant
process of degeneracy into ignorance, unbelief, and rejection of spiritual
knowledge -APOSTASY and REPROBATION.<span>
</span>Jesus addressed this in Matthew chapter thirteen in answering the
question of why He spoke in parables.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<sup>10</sup>
And the disciples came, and said unto him, <b>Why speakest thou unto them in
parables?</b> <sup>11 </sup>He answered and said unto them, Because it is given
unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but <b>to them </b>{<i>apostate
Jews and priests who had rejection spiritual knowledge especially regarding
Redemption through a substitute Redeemer</i>}<b> it is not given</b>. <sup>12</sup>
For whosoever hath {<i>faith in God’s Word and the promised Redeemer/Seed</i>},
to him shall be given {<i>understanding</i>}, and he shall have more abundance:
but whosoever hath not {<i>faith in God’s Word and the promised Redeemer/Seed</i>},
from him shall be taken away even that{<i>understanding</i>} he hath. <sup>13</sup>
Therefore speak I <b>to them</b> in parables: because they seeing see not; and
hearing they hear not, <b>neither do they understand</b>. <sup>14</sup> And in
them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall
hear, and <b>shall not understand</b>; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not
perceive: <sup>15</sup> <b>For this people’s heart is waxed gross </b>{<i>grown
fat and calloused</i>; <i>no longer sensitive to God’s will</i>}<b>, and <i>their</i>
ears are dull </b><span> </span><b>of hearing </b>{<i>heavy;
weighted down with worldly concerns and ambitions where hearing God’s Word
becomes a burden and bore</i>}<b>, and their eyes they have closed </b>{<i>literally
‘shut down,’ there are none so blind as those who will not see</i>}; lest at
any time they should see with <i>their</i> eyes, and hear with <i>their</i>
ears, and should <b>understand with <i>their</i> heart</b>, and should be
converted, and I should heal them {<i>what sinners WANT overwhelms their senses
to the place they refuse God’s will and every level of input</i>}” (Matthew
13:10-15).</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc"; font-size: 18.0pt;">The Two
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Baptism <u>and</u> Filling of the Holy Spirit</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The baptism
WITH the Holy Spirit and the filling OF the Holy Spirit are NOT the same
events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
baptism WITH the Holy Spirit is a one-time event never repeated in the believer’s
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The baptism WITH the Holy Spirit
removes the believer POSITIONALLY from the cursed creation and immerses that
believer into the <i>New Creation</i> in Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The baptism WITH the Holy Spirit with Christ positionally
is another aspect of the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">vicarious nature</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
of Christ’s work of redemption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>8</sup> Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of
the world, and not after Christ. <sup>9</sup> For in him dwelleth all the
fulness of the Godhead bodily. <sup>10</sup> And ye are complete {<i>perfect
tense; i.e., once and forever</i>} in him {<i>vicariously</i>}, which is the
head of all principality and power: <sup>11</sup> In whom also ye are
circumcised with the circumcision made without hands {<i>vicariously</i>}, in
putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ {<i>vicariously</i>}:
<sup>12</sup> Buried with him in baptism {<i>vicariously</i>}, wherein also ye
are risen with <i>him</i> {<i>vicariously</i>} through the faith of the operation
of God, who hath raised him from the dead” (Colossians 2:8-12).</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“<sup>32
</sup>And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven
like a dove, and it abode upon him.<sup> 33</sup> And I knew him not: but he
that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt
see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth
with the Holy Ghost.<sup> 34</sup> And I saw, and bare record that this is the
Son of God”<b> </b></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">(John 1:32-34).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>John the Baptist was the first to introduce the baptism
with the Holy Spirit as the introduction of the believer-priest into the New
Covenant of the New Creation.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
baptism with the Holy Spirit is unique to the Church Age dispensation (from the
Day of Pentecost to the rapture).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
baptism with the Holy Spirit was not available before the Cross and the
completion of the propitiatory work of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>We should not confuse the baptism with the Holy Spirit with anything
the Holy Spirit of God did in the Old Testament.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John the Baptist is the messenger announcing
the <i>future coming</i> of the New Covenant in Jesus the Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Integral to that unfolding nature of the New Covenant
<i>dispensationally</i> is the baptism with the Holy Spirit.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Therefore, understanding the baptism with the Holy
Spirit defines God’s working in the lives of His Redeemed throughout the New
Covenant and the Church Age (from the Day of Pentecost to the rapture).</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the finished work of Christ that opens
the dispensational door for the baptism with the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, we know from Scripture that the
baptism with the Spirit could not have happened before Jesus was glorified.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>37 </sup>In the
last day, that great <i>day</i> of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If
any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.<sup> 38</sup> He that
believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers
of living water.<sup> 39</sup> (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they
that believe on him <b>should</b> receive: for <b>the Holy Ghost was not yet <i>given</i></b>;
because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)” (John 7:37-39). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The Scriptures tell us that the Holy Spirit could not
come in this new way until after Christ was ascended to the Father.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ said this in John 16:7 and Peter said
it in his message on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:31-33)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“Nevertheless I tell you
the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for<b> if I go not away, the
Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you</b>”
(John 16:7).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>31 </sup>He seeing
this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in
hell {<i>Abraham’s bosom or paradise</i>}, neither his flesh did see
corruption.<sup> 32</sup> This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are
witnesses.<sup> 33</sup> Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and <b>having
received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath <u>shed forth
this</u>, which ye now see and hear</b>” (Acts 2:31-33). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Although the finished work of Christ opened the door to
the New Covenant (and closes the door to the Old), it is the baptism with the
Holy Spirit that defines God’s <i>operations</i> in everything He does
throughout the Church Age.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone
ignorant of this one doctrine will be easily led astray (and many have been led
astray).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, it is important to
take the time to establish what the Scriptures teach regarding this doctrine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THIS IS THE DOCTRINE OF GRACE ENABLING!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We must be careful to avoid confusing the transitional period between
the Old and New Covenants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">At the time of the coming of the Holy Spirit at
Pentecost, there were believers in both the Old Testament sense and the New
Testament sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Old Testament
believer was saved by faith in what Messiah <b><i>would do</i></b> when He
came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were many saved Jews like
this at the time of Christ’s first advent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All the disciples of John the Baptist (as well as John himself) were Old
Testament saints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">These Old Testament believers were saved but were not baptized with the
Holy Spirit.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to become New Covenant believers,
they needed to recognize Jesus to be their promised Messiah, accept the work of
the Cross as the fulfillment of all for which the Old Covenant rituals cry out
(completeness), and publicly acknowledge (confess) their belief that Jesus was
the incarnate Jehovah God Who came to redeem them.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The baptism with the Spirit happens </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman bold" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">only</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> to those who trust
in Jesus and His finished work from the Day of Pentecost forward.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During this
inter-testament period, there were many Old Covenant believers who became New
Covenant believers by hearing the Gospel and accepting Jesus as the fulfillment
of the Law and the promised <i>full propitiation</i> of God’s wrath through His
vicarious death, burial, and resurrection/glorification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">THIS IS IMPORTANT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All three
aspects of the vicarious nature of the redemptive work of Christ are part of
our understanding of the completeness of the gift of salvation. </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apollos was a
disciple of John the Baptist and was one such Old Covenant believer who became
a New Covenant believer.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>24 </sup>And a
certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, <i>and</i>
mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.<sup> 25</sup> This man was
instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake
and taught diligently the things of the Lord, <b>knowing only the baptism of
John</b>.<sup> 26</sup> And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom
when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto <i>them</i>, and
expounded unto him <b>the way of God more perfectly</b>.<sup> 27</sup> And when
he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the
disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had
believed through grace:<sup> 28</sup> For he mightily convinced the Jews, <i>and
that</i> publickly, shewing by the scriptures <b>that Jesus was Christ</b>”
(Acts 18:24-28).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Another example of the Old
Covenant believers becoming New Covenant believers is the twelve disciples of
John the Baptist which Paul encountered at Ephesus </span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">(Acts 19:1-7)</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These Old
Covenant believers had trusted in the promises of redemption in the coming Messiah
but had not yet heard that Jesus had fulfilled all of those promises through
His death, burial, and resurrection/glorification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a perfect example of this
transitional issue moving from the Old Mosaic Covenant to the New Covenant and
the new operations (governance) of God through the baptism and filling of the
Holy Spirit.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The filling of the Spirit could not happen as
it happens under the New Covenant apart from the baptism with the Holy Spirit
and the accompanying indwelling of the Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The filling happens <i>from within</i> through the indwelling thereby
overflowing through the believer’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts
came to Ephesus: and <b>finding certain disciples</b>,<sup> 2</sup> He said
unto them, <b>Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?</b> And they
said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.<sup>
3</sup> And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said,
Unto John’s baptism.<sup> 4</sup> Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the
baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, <b>that they should believe on
him which should come after him</b>, that is, on Christ Jesus.<sup> 5</sup>
When they heard <i>this</i>, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.<sup>
6</sup> And when Paul had laid <i>his</i> hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came
on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.<sup> 7</sup> And all the
men were about twelve” (Acts 19:1-7).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Tongues
were a </span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman bold" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">sign GIFT</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> to Old Covenant
believers who had not believed in Jesus as Messiah.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>Prophesying was a </b></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman bold" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">sign GIFT</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> for those who believed Jesus was Messiah and that the New Covenant had
become a reality and they had now become part of that new reality.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<b><sup>21 </sup>In the
law it is written</b>, With <i>men of</i> other tongues and other lips will I
speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the
Lord.<sup> 22</sup> Wherefore <b>tongues are for a sign, <u>not to them that
believe</u>, but to them that <u>believe not</u></b>: but prophesying <i>serveth</i>
<b>not for them that believe not, but for them <u>which believe</u></b>.<sup>
23 </sup>If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and <b>all
speak with tongues</b>, and there come in <i>those that are</i> unlearned, or
unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? <sup>24 </sup><b>But if</b> <b>all
prophesy</b>, and there come in one that believeth not, or <i>one</i>
unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:<sup> 25</sup> And thus
are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on <i>his</i>
face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth” (I
Corinthians 14:21-25). </span></div>
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it <i>appears</i> that tongues accompanied the baptism with the Holy Spirit, it
was the filling of the Holy Spirit that resulted in speaking in tongues.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>1 </sup>And when
the <b>day</b> of Pentecost <b>was fully come</b> {<i>its prophetic type was
fulfilled</i>}, they were all with one accord in one place.<sup> 2</sup> And
suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it
filled all the house where they were sitting. <sup>3 </sup>And there appeared <b>unto
them</b> cloven tongues <b>like as of fire</b>, and it <b>sat upon each of them</b>.<sup>
4</sup> And they were <b>all filled</b> with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak
with other tongues, <b>as the Spirit gave them utterance</b>” (Acts 2:1-4). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> The baptism with the
Holy Spirit unites the believer with the <i>mystical body</i> of Christ (the <i>New
Creation</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At conception, all people
become part of the <i>family</i> (body) of Adam and are condemned as humankind.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>12 </sup><b>Wherefore,
as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed
upon all men</b> {<i>genetically the sin nature is transferred through the
father to the children</i>}, for that all have sinned:<sup> 13</sup> (For until
the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.<sup>
14</sup> Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had
not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of
him that was to come” (Romans 5:12-14).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">moment</i> an individual repents of sin and
“dead works,” understands the Gospel, places <i>saving/resting</i> faith in the
finished work of Christ, publicly acknowledges Jesus’ divine authority over his
life (Rom. 10:9-13), and calls on the Name of Jesus to save him, <b>that
individual is positionally removed from the family of Adam, is positionally
“born again,” and becomes part of the family of God in the body of Christ.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the <i>New Birth event</i> called
salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, salvation does not
end with the New Birth. </span></div>
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body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being
many, are one body: so also <i>is</i> Christ.<sup> 13</sup> For by one Spirit
are we all baptized into one body, whether <i>we be</i> Jews or Gentiles,
whether <i>we be</i> bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one
Spirit” (I Corinthians 12:12-13). </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Any time
we see the words “in Christ” in the Bible</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">, the phrase is referring to the <i>effects</i>
of the baptism of the Holy Spirit and our new position before God. </span></div>
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many, are one body <b>in Christ</b>, and every one members one of another”
(Romans 12:5).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>20 </sup>But now is
Christ risen from the dead, <i>and</i> become the <b>firstfruits</b> of them
that slept.<sup> 21</sup> For since by man <i>came</i> death, by man <i>came</i>
also the resurrection of the dead.<sup> 22</sup> For as <b>in Adam all die</b>
{<i>Romans 6:23a</i>}, even so <b>in Christ</b> shall <b>all be made alive”</b>
{<i>Romans 6:23b</i>} (I Corinthians 15:20-22).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“Therefore <b>if any man <i>be</i>
in Christ</b>, <i>he is</i> a new creature: old things are passed away; behold,
all things are become {<i>perfect, active, indicative</i>; <i>once and forever
is finished</i>} new” (II Corinthians 5:17). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>29 </sup>The next
day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the world.<sup> 30</sup> This is he of whom I said,
After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.<sup>
31</sup> And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel,
therefore am I come baptizing with water.<sup> 32</sup> And John bare record,
saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon
him.<sup> 33</sup> And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with
water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending,
and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.<sup>
34</sup> And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God” (John
1:29-34).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It is a sad testimony that Christianity has allowed the
doctrine of the Holy Spirit (Pneumatology) to become so perverted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many Christians have become very confused by
false teaching regarding the different aspects of the ministry of the Holy
Spirit, especially in the last century.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In order to understand the New Covenant teaching about the baptism with
the Holy Spirit it is necessary to get a Scriptural overview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Word of God is quite thorough in its teaching
about the Holy Spirit.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The Holy Spirit is personally involved in the life of
every person in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>He is
working to bring each person to understand what sin is, what the righteousness
of God is, and the eternal consequences of sin.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>7 </sup>Nevertheless
I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not
away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him
unto you.<sup> 8</sup> And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin,
and of righteousness, and of judgment:<sup> 9</sup> Of sin, because they
believe not on me;<sup> 10</sup> Of righteousness, because I go to my Father,
and ye see me no more;<sup> 11</sup> Of judgment, because the prince of this
world is judged” (John 16:7-11).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The Holy Spirit is even more personally involved in the
life of each person who trusts in the finished work of Christ and receives
Jesus as Lord of his life.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a
person calls on the Name of Jesus to save him, believing the gospel and
acknowledging the divine authority of Jesus over his life, that person is
immediately indwelled by the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit becomes an
integral part of that person’s being.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The Holy Spirit is the impartation of the Divine
Nature.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>He is the imputation of
the righteousness of Christ.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
personally multiplies all that God is in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the indwelling presence of God in our
lives, who empowers believers to do all that God demands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The indwelling of the Holy Spirit and the
baptism with the Holy Spirit are the acts of God which define the Age of Grace
from every other dispensation of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 90%;">“<sup>2
</sup><b>Grace</b> and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of
God, and of Jesus our Lord<sup>, 3</sup> According <b>as his divine power hath
given </b>{<i>perfect, passive, participle; i.e., once for all and forever</i>}
<b>unto us all things that <i>pertain</i> unto life and godliness</b>, through
the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:<sup> 4</sup> <b>Whereby
are given</b> {<i>perfect, passive, indicative</i>} unto us exceeding great and
precious promises: that <b>by these</b> ye <b>might be partakers</b> {<i>partner,
sharer</i>} of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the
world through lust” (II Peter 1:2-4).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Holy Spirit is not some
impersonal <i>energy</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">force</i>.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the third person of the Godhead who is
given to the believer to form <i>a cooperative partnership</i> (“fellowship’)
between God and the believer and <b>to enable</b> the born-again child of God
to live the life necessary for that fellowship to take place.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 88%;">“<sup>3
</sup>That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may
have fellowship with us: <b>and truly our fellowship <i>is</i> with the Father,
and with his Son Jesus Christ</b>.<sup> 4</sup> And these things write we unto
you, <b>that your joy may be full {</b><i>John 15:11</i>}.<sup> 5</sup> This
then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that <b>God
is light, and in him is no darkness at all</b>.<sup> 6</sup> <b><u>If</u> we
say</b> that we have fellowship {<i>a cooperative, working partnership</i>}with
him, and walk in darkness {<i>the mouth and feet are then in contradiction to
one another</i>}, <b>we lie</b>, and do not the truth:<sup> 7</sup> But <b><u>if</u>
we walk in the light, as he is in the light</b>, we have fellowship one with
another, <b>and</b> the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth {<i>present,
active, indicative</i>} us from all sin” (I John 1:3-7).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The
Holy Spirit is the source of the <i>rivers of abundant life</i> in Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the source of all that God provides to
every believer in Jesus Christ.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i>abundant
life</i> (John 10:10, available to every believer) is conditioned on abiding in
Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the Holy Spirit Who
enables the believer to live within the circle of truth (obedience).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without the Holy Spirit’s empowering, it
would be impossible for any believer to live the way God wants or to accomplish
anything of lasting value in this world.</span></div>
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</sup>Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.<sup> 5</sup>
I am the vine, ye <i>are</i> the branches: <b>He that abideth in me, and I in
him</b>, <b>the same</b> bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do
nothing.<sup> 6</sup> If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch,
and is withered; and men gather them, and cast <i>them</i> into the fire, and
they are burned.<sup> 7</sup> <b>If</b> ye abide in me, and my words abide in
you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.<sup> 8</sup>
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye <b>bear much fruit; so shall ye be my
disciples</b>.<sup> 9</sup> As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:
continue ye in my love.<sup> 10</sup> <b><u>If</u></b> <b>ye keep my
commandments, ye shall abide in my love</b>; even as I have kept my Father’s
commandments, and abide in his love.<sup> 11</sup> These things have I spoken
unto you, <b>that my joy might remain in you, and <i>that</i> your joy might be
full</b>” (John 15:4-11).</span></div>
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comes through what the Bible calls <i>the filling</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>It is understood that a person is
controlled by with what he is filled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, the <i>filling</i> of the Holy Spirit refers to a life
brought under, or yielded to, the <i>control of the Holy Spirit</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>This must be the priority focus of the
life of every believer in that everything else in the <i>Christian life</i>
depends upon this.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every Christian
is commanded to be <i>filled</i> with the Spirit.</span></div>
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be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled {<i>present, passive,
imperative</i>} with the Spirit;” (Ephesians 5:18).</span></div>
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active, participle</i>} that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more dominion over him. <sup>10</sup> For in that he died, he
died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.</span><span style="mso-font-width: 95%;"> </span><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;">11 </span></sup><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;">Likewise
reckon </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">{<i>present,
imperative</i>} </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;">ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but
alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.<sup> 12</sup> <b>Let not sin
therefore reign</b> {<i>present, active, imperative</i>} in your mortal body,
that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.<sup> 13</sup> <b>Neither yield</b>
{<i>present, active, imperative</i>} ye your members <i>as</i> instruments of
unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are
alive from the dead, and your members <i>as</i> instruments of righteousness
unto God.<sup> 14</sup> For sin shall not have dominion over you {<i>future,
active, indicative</i>}: for ye are not under the law, but under grace” (Romans
6:11-14).</span></div>
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for the <b>enabling of the Holy Spirit</b> to give understanding of the things
of God through the understanding of Scripture (the doctrine of illumination).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any person, professing to be “born again,”
who just cannot seem to understand Scripture is either still lost or is not
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;">“<sup>9
</sup>But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that
love him.<sup> 10</sup> But God hath revealed <i>them</i> unto us by his
Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.<sup>
11</sup> For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which
is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.<sup>
12</sup> Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of
God.<sup> 13</sup> Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s
wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things
with spiritual. <sup>14 </sup>But the natural man receiveth not the things of
the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know <i>them</i>,
because they are spiritually discerned.<sup> 15</sup> But he that is spiritual
judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.<sup> 16 </sup>For who
hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind
of Christ (I Corinthians 2:9-16).</span></div>
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is God’s personal intervention to enable the believer to understand that which
is outside the scope of the believer’s empirical sensatory abilities.</span></div>
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called to another’s side to aide and strengthen him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the purpose behind the word
“fellowship” with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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believer, the baptism with the Spirit is the positioning of believer <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">into</i> the body (family) of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The baptism with the Spirit is
non-experiential and instantaneous with regeneration and is never repeated.</b></span></div>
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</sup>Wherefore, as <b>by one man</b> {<i>Adam</i>} <b>sin</b> {<i>and the
curse upon sin</i>} entered into the world {<i>of humanity seminally</i>}, and <b>death</b>
{<i>separation from God</i>} by sin; and so <b>death</b> {<i>separation from
God</i>} passed upon all men, <b>for that all have sinned</b>:<sup> <b>13</b></sup>
{<i>all that follows in vs 13-17 in parenthesis is an explanation of the
statement in verse 12</i>} (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is
not imputed when there is no law.<sup> 14</sup> Nevertheless death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of
Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.<sup> 15</sup>
But not as the offence, so also <i>is</i> the free gift. For if through the
offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace,
<i>which is</i> by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.<sup> 16</sup>
And not as <i>it was</i> by one that sinned, <i>so is</i> the gift: for the
judgment <i>was</i> by one to condemnation, but the free gift <i>is</i> of many
offences unto justification.<sup> 17</sup> For if by one man’s offence death
reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)<b><sup> </sup></b><sup>18</sup>
<b>Therefore </b>as by the offence of one <i>judgment came</i> {<i>death;</i><b>
</b><i>separation from God</i>} upon all men <b>to condemnation</b> {<i>the
eternal destiny of Hell</i>}; <b>even so by the righteousness of one <i>the
free gift</i></b><i> {of God-kind righteousness gifted to the believer in the
indwelling Holy Spirit in the gift of the salvation event} came</i> upon all
men <b>unto justification of life</b> {<i>the eternal of eternal life with God</i>}.<sup>
19</sup> For as by one man’s disobedience {<i>Adam’s</i>} many were made
sinners, so by the obedience of one {<i>Jesus</i>} shall many be made
righteous.<sup> 20</sup> Moreover the law entered, that the offence might
abound {<i>sin could be seen in its exceeding nature and the severity of its
eternal consequence</i>}. But where sin abounded {<i>sin’s consequences are
fully understood</i>}, grace did much more abound {<i>the gift of God in
gifting His righteousness to sinners is fully understood</i>}:<sup> 21</sup>
That <b>as sin hath reigned</b> {<i>as king or Lord;</i> <i>sovereignly ruled</i>}
unto death, <b>even so might</b> {<i>new possibility through salvation and the
indwelling</i>} <b>grace reign</b> {<i>as king or Lord;</i> <i>sovereignly
ruled</i>} through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans
5:12-21).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The baptism with the Holy
Spirit is the placement of the believer into the body of Christ.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the Holy
Spirit indwelling the body of the believer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Both events are instantaneous with salvation and are never
repeated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are a <i>one-time event</i>
never needing repetition.</span></div>
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</sup>For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of
that one body, being many, are one body: so also <i>is</i> Christ.<sup> 13</sup>
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether <i>we be</i> Jews
or Gentiles, whether <i>we be</i> bond or free; and have been all made to drink
into one Spirit” (I Corinthians 12:12-13).</span></div>
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</sup><i>There is</i> one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one
hope of your calling;<sup> 5</sup> One Lord, one faith, one baptism,<sup> 6</sup>
One God and Father of all, who <i>is</i> above all, and through all, and in you
all” (Ephesians 4:4-5).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;">“<i>Let
your</i> conversation <i>be</i> without covetousness; <i>and be</i> content
with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will <b>never </b>leave {<i>subjunctive
mood in junction with the ‘never’ = IMPOSSIBILITY</i>} thee, nor forsake {<i>subjunctive
mood in junction with the ‘never’ = IMPOSSIBILITY</i>} thee” (Hebrews 13:5).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Therefore, any teaching regarding
the ministry of the Holy Spirit that contradicts these events being
instantaneous and unique (happening <i>once</i>, never needing to be repeated)
in the life of each believer is heresy and the person teaching this should be
rejected as a heretic.</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;">“<sup>9
</sup>But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and
strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.<sup> 10</sup> A
man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;<sup> 11</sup>
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of
himself” (Titus 3:9-11). </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;">The baptism with the Holy Spirit makes the believer <i>one with Jesus
</i>Christ and <i>positionally united</i> with Jesus Christ in everything that
has happened to Jesus and everything that belongs to Jesus.</span></b></div>
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ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized
into his death” (Romans 6:3)?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;">Romans 6:3 begins the answer to the two questions posed in Romans 6:1-2; “</span><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">1 </span></sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">What shall we say then? Shall we
continue in sin, that grace may abound? <sup>2</sup> God forbid. How shall we,
that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>The answer to these two questions in Romans 6:3-23 establishes that
the believer’s new position “in grace” (Romans 5:2) in the event of
regeneration and justification is to be accompanied by certain expectations in
practice – HOW LIFE IS LIVED.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The emphasis in the verses that follow
Romans 6:3 is NOT upon the Person of the Holy Spirit, but upon the supernatural
enabling given to the believer </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman bold" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">fully
yielded</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> to Christ so as to be
victorious over the “old man” who has now been positionally crucified with
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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</sup>And ye are <b>complete</b> in him, which is the head of all principality
and power:<sup> 11</sup> In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision
made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the
circumcision of Christ:<sup> 12</sup> Buried with him in baptism, wherein also
ye are risen with <i>him</i> through the faith of the operation of God, who
hath raised him from the dead” (Colossians 2:10-12).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>A central reason why so many Christians fail to realize
their full potential in Christ is because of a misunderstanding of the ministry
of the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;">1. </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;">If you are living under the constant guilt of sin, it is
because the Holy Spirit is convicting you of sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acknowledge the sin of which He is convicting
you (confess it to God), turn from that sin (repent), and yield your body to
His control (be filled).</span></div>
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the Father for that wisdom and the Holy Spirit will give you wisdom.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“If any of you lack
wisdom {<i>the heart and mind of God for life decisions</i>}, let him ask of
God, that giveth to all <i>men</i> liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall
be given him” (James 1:5). </span></div>
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difficulty understanding the spiritual principals taught in the Scriptures, you
are either trying to do so with human intellect alone or you are not
saved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only the Holy Spirit can teach
you spiritual truths.</span></div>
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fruitless life, without inner joy, it is either because you are living your
life in the power of the flesh, and not under grace (the enabling power of the
Holy Spirit), or because you have never been “born again.” </span></div>
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nature of Biblical repentance has been confused by the corruption of a primary
Hermeneutical principle: <b>The Old Testament Hebrew takes precedent in meaning
when defining similar terms in the Greek New Testament.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The corruption is when a meaning from New
Testament Greek word is used to lower/lessen the meaning brought to that word
from the Old Testament Hebrew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often the
Old Testament meaning is completely replaced by the meaning of a Greek word in
the New Testament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, we </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman bold" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-transform: uppercase;">do not</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> take the meaning
of a Greek word from the New Testament and impose that meaning on the Old
Testament meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We <b>DO</b> take the
Old Testament meaning of the Hebrew and impose it upon the New Testament
Greek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We interpret the New Testament
from the Old Testament, not vice versus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b><span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">The doctrine of repentance in the Old Testament is
communicated using two different Hebrew words; <i>Nâcham</i> (<i>naw-kham’) and
shûwb</i> (shoob).</span></b><span style="mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Nâcham</i> (<i>naw-kham’) </i>is usually
translated <i>repent</i> or <i>repented</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The word means <i>to sigh</i> or <i>to exhale strongly</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The implication is an expression of sorrow,
remorse, or deep regret.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the
word used in Genesis 6:6 where we are told, “And it repented the LORD that he
had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Nâcham</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> (<i>naw-kham’) </i>is used
regarding God more often than it is used to describe something men do.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This word is accompanied with both
the ideas of grieving and compassion in a desire for good (as expressed in
Romans 8:28).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, we might
conclude that God’s regret is not in the pain or difficulties that the creation
of humanity brings to Him, but the pain and suffering sin would bring to
humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">There is an extreme and deep commitment on the Lord’s part in the creation
of humanity.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God knew man would fall into sin and had a plan of redemption in place
(Revelation 13:8) before He ever created humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pre-creation commitment by God is essentially
that He would become the servant of humanity in both redemption and unceasing
preoccupation with the minutia of drama with which humanity would constantly preoccupy
itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 93%;">God’s creation of humans, who would willfully sin against Him, created a
situation for God requiring an unceasing commitment on His part to bring those
sinners to choose the loving gift of His redemption and then choose to follow
His loving directions to live righteously according to His commandments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great commitment by God in the creation
of humanity is Him doing all of this within the context of human freewill
choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, God created humanity
anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although this was an extreme act
of love and commitment, it does not mean that He did not occasionally regret
what that commitment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 93%;">This is the lesson God wants parents to learn as they produce sinful
children into this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Children are
born selfish, willful, deceitful, and demanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Children will perfect those imperfections
very quickly without the careful and watchful instruction and discipline of
loving parents.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 93%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Culturing and sophisticating the corrupted freewill of a child with a
sin nature to choose righteousness over the natural propensity for sinful and
selfish pleasures is no easy task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
involves parents in a loving commitment that gives them a small comprehension
of what it means to be God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">The second word used in the Old Testament to express the doctrine of
repentance is the Hebrew word <i>shûwb</i> (shoob).</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This word is usually translated <i>turn</i>
or <i>return</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The implication is <i>a
complete change in direction</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is the primary meaning that is brought to the New Testament in the Greek word <i>metanoéō
</i>(met-an-o-eh'-o).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the
definition of <i>metanoéō</i> is to think differently or change the mind, the
added meaning from the Hebrew <i>shûwb</i> (shoob) would imply a turning from
of that which is repented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, a <i>change
of direction</i> or actions should accompany a <i>change of mind</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To make New Testament repentance mean something
different than Old Testament repentance is very poor Hermeneutics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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word </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">epistréphō</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> (ep-ee-stref'-o).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This word is more closely aligned with the
meaning of the Hebrew word <i><span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">shûwb</span></i><span style="mso-font-width: 95%;"> (shoob); i.e. <i>a turning</i> <i>from or unto</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><i>Epistréphō</i> (ep-ee-stref'-o) is
used both in the sense of <i>turning from</i> and <i>turning unto</i> in I
Thessalonians 1:6-10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words,
God’s intent in true repentance is to <i>turn from</i> doctrinal corruptions
and unrighteousnesses of any kind and <i>reciprocally turning to</i> doctrinal
correctness (“the faith”) and righteousness as defined by the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 95%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">“</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">6 </span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And <b>ye became followers of us, and of the Lord</b>,
having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: <sup>7</sup>
<b>So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia</b>. <sup>8</sup>
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia,
but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we
need not to speak any thing. <sup>9</sup> For they themselves shew of us what
manner of entering in we had unto you, and <b>how ye <u>turned to</u> God <u>from</u>
idols <u>to serve</u> the living and true God</b>; <sup>10</sup> And <b><u>to
wait for</u></b> his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, <i>even</i>
Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come” (I Thessalonians 1:6-10).<span style="mso-font-width: 95%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To
understand repentance, we must understand that there is <b>a</b> singular
action of repentance of sin and “dead works” unto SALVATION, which is once in
the event of being “born again.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is also repentance of sin and “dead works” unto SANCTIFICATION, which must be
constant and continual throughout the believer’s life before practical
sanctification can be produced through the filling of the Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <b>reciprocity of repentance</b> (<i>from</i>
and <i>to</i>) is found in Romans 6:11 extending God’s expectations in the explanation
of repentance through verse sixteen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“8</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28077";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Now if we be
dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28078"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28078";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">9</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28078";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth
no more; death hath no more dominion over him. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28079"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28079";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">10</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28079";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> For in that he
died, he <b>died unto sin once</b>: but in that he liveth, <b>he liveth unto
God</b>. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28080"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28080";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">11</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28080";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <u>Likewise</u> <b>reckon ye also yourselves to be
dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord</b>. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28081"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28081";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">12</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28081";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that
ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28082"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28082";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">13</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28082";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Neither yield ye
your members <i>as</i> instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield
yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members <i>as</i>
instruments of righteousness unto God. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28083"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28083";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">14</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28083";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> For sin shall
not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28084"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28084";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">15</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28084";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the
law, but under grace? God forbid. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28085"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28085";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">16</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#28085";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Know ye not,
that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom
ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness” (Romans
6:8-16)?</span></span></div>
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unrighteousness is complete, sincere repentance.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means
honest, transparent confession of the wrongdoing (unrighteousness) to God and a
complete turning from the unrighteousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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a turning away from and abandonment of the unrighteousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Repentance of unrighteousness must be
accompanied by a turning to righteousness (doing what is right).</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John the Baptist brought this accusation
against many who came to him to receive his “baptism of repentance.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He refused to baptize them if they had not
repented of their unrighteousness and turned to living righteously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He required from them evidentiary change
manifesting genuine repentance (“fruits worthy of repentance”).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25033"><sup>7</sup> Then said he to the
multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who
hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25034"><sup>8</sup>
<b>Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance</b>, and begin not to say
within yourselves, We have Abraham to <i>our</i> father: for I say unto you,
That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25035"><sup>9</sup> And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the
trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down,
and cast into the fire. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25036"><sup>10</sup> And the people asked
him, saying, <b>What shall we <u>do</u> then?</b> </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25037"><sup>11</sup>
He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, <b>let him impart to
him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise</b>. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25038"><sup>12</sup> Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said
unto him, Master, <b>what shall we <u>do</u></b>? </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25039"><sup>13</sup>
And he said unto them, <b>Exact no more than that which is appointed you</b>. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25040"><sup>14</sup> And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying,
And <b>what shall we <u>do</u></b>? And he said unto them, <b>Do violence to no
man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages</b></a>” (Luke
3:7-14). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>When any individual, or any local
church, allows a person to receive forgiveness and restoration to fellowship without
bringing “forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance,” that individual or
local church, becomes complicit in that person’s unrighteousness.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, allowing this is not right
(righteous).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is wrong (unrighteous). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Repentance apart from actual evidence of
turning from the sin is just meaningless words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#3297"><sup>15</sup> <b>Ye shall do no unrighteousness
in judgment</b>: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the
person of the mighty: <i>but</i> <b>in righteousness</b> shalt thou judge thy
neighbour. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#3298"><sup>16</sup> Thou shalt not go up and down <i>as</i>
a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of
thy neighbour: I <i>am</i> the LORD</a>” (Leviticus 19:15-16). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">Psalm fifty-one is
David’s psalm (song) of repentance published for the world to read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Psalm is entitled, “</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">A Psalm of David, when Nathan the
prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David had committed the sin of adultery,
which deserved a death sentence under the Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>David then had Bathsheba’s husband Uriah sent to the front of the battle
where he would surely be killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
account of this horrid affair of selfish indulgence is recorded in II Samuel
chapter eleven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point of the writing
of Psalm fifty-one is that David is no longer foolishly try to conceal from men
what God already knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;">“</span><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">7</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> Purge me with hyssop, and I shall
be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. <sup>8</sup> Make me to
hear joy and gladness; <i>that</i> the bones <i>which</i> thou hast broken may
rejoice. <sup>9</sup> Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine
iniquities. <sup>10</sup> Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right
spirit within me. <sup>11</sup> Cast me not away from thy presence; and take
not thy holy spirit from me. <sup>12</sup> Restore unto me the joy of thy
salvation; and uphold me <i>with thy</i> free spirit. <sup>13</sup> <b><i>Then</i>
will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee</b>”
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>It is very apparent from the next
few verses of Psalm fifty-one that David understood the seriousness of his offenses against God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He understood he
had committed sins worthy of death (Psalm 51:14).</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also apparent from verse seventeen that
David understood the true desires of God in genuine repentance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God knew David’s heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no way that David could pretend repentance
according to what he understood and stated in Psalm 51:17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David knew repentance was not just words from
his mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God was evaluating his heart
attitudes for genuineness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">“<sup>14 </sup>Deliver me from
bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: <i>and</i> my tongue shall
sing aloud of thy righteousness. <sup>15</sup> O Lord, open thou my lips; and
my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. <sup>16</sup> For thou desirest not
sacrifice; else would I give <i>it</i>: thou delightest not in burnt offering. <sup>17</sup>
<b>The sacrifices of God <i>are</i> a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.</b> <sup>18</sup> Do good in thy good
pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. <sup>19</sup> <b>Then</b>
shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering
and whole burnt offering: <b>then</b> shall they offer bullocks upon thine
altar” (Psalm 51:14-19).</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>David’s words in Psalm 51:18 tell us
that David’s main concern was not for his own life, but rather for “Zion.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David was willing to accept his due penalty
for the benefit of Zion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David saw the
promises of God as significantly more important than his own miserable
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Zion” is the reign of Messiah
over the nation of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Genuine
repentance from the heart ALWAYS sees the purposes of justice (righteousness)
greater than one’s own life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Jesus is
to reign over Zion, Jesus must be Lord of the heart before He is Lord of the
real estate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Genuine repentance
ALWAYS surrenders to God’s will. </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Esau and Judas are examples of false
repentance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In both instances it appears
there is a change of mind about the things they did but ONLY as those things
impacted their futures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both lost what
they could have had because of grievous shallowness and failures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hebrews
12:4-17 addresses the issue of regret for the consequences of failure without
being accompanied by regeneration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
was true of both Esau and Judas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
both regretted what they had done because of the loss of blessing to them
without having been “born again.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, their repentance was just worldly and not godly
(God-ward).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman bold" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">God chastens His children to bring them to godly repentance where they
regret from their hearts the grief their sin causes God not just their lost of
blessings in this world or in the Kingdom Age</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regretting the grief that the
believer’s sin causes God and turning from that sin because of that regret is
the primary criterion for genuine repentance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Only the genuine child of God can understand this kind of sanctificational
repentance because it extends from the foundation of salvational repentance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this kind of repentance, there is deep
regret for the grief and pain sin causes to God rather than mere regret for the
loss of blessings to the sinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 95%;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 85%;">“</span><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">4</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> Ye have not yet resisted unto
blood, striving against sin. <sup>5</sup> And ye have forgotten the exhortation
which speaketh <b>unto you as unto children</b>, My son, despise not thou the
chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: <sup>6</sup>
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth <b>every son whom he
receiveth</b>. <sup>7</sup> If ye endure chastening, <b>God dealeth with you as
with sons</b>; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? <sup>8</sup>
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, <b>then are ye
bastards, and not sons</b>. <sup>9</sup> Furthermore we have had fathers of our
flesh which corrected <i>us</i>, and we gave <i>them</i> reverence: <b>shall we
not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live</b>? <sup>10</sup>
For they verily for a few days chastened <i>us</i> after their own pleasure;
but <b>he for <i>our</i> profit, that <i>we</i> might be partakers of his
holiness</b>. <sup>11</sup> Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be
joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it <b>yieldeth the peaceable fruit
of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby</b>. <sup>12</sup>
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; <sup>13</sup>
And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of
the way; but let it rather be healed. <sup>14</sup> Follow peace with all <i>men</i>,
and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: <sup>15</sup> <b>Looking
diligently</b>{<i>careful examination</i>} <b><u>lest</u> any man fail of the
grace of God</b> {<i>the idea here is to come short of genuine salvation by a
false repentance and therefore a false faith</i>}; lest any <b>root of
bitterness</b> {<i>poison;</i> <i>the Jews called every poisonous plant a
bitter</i>} springing up <b>trouble <i>you</i></b> {<i>in the ways poison
affects the body</i>}, and thereby many be defiled; <sup>16 </sup><b>Lest</b>
there <i>be</i> any fornicator, or <b>profane person, as Esau </b>{<i>because
he crossed over from mere unbelief into apostasy and reprobation</i>}, who for
one morsel of meat sold his birthright. <sup>17</sup> For ye know how that
afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, <b>he was rejected</b>:
for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears”
(Hebrews 12:4-17).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 93%;">Disregarding God’s
operations in the conviction of sin, righteousness, and judgment by refusing to
genuinely turn from a life of sin to pursue a life of righteousness is the
manifestation of an unrepentant heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
Proverbs 1:20-33 warn of the very consequences similar to Esau and Judas for
anyone living as if God does not care about sin – REPROBATION! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 93%;">In Proverbs 1:20-33,
“wisdom{<i>s</i>}” speaks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “wisdom”
in Proverbs 1:20 is actually plural and is a word use to personify the <i>voice
of God</i> crying out to the world describing every variety of His expectations
of moral and ethical excellence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
will listen, hear, and respond by obeying the instructions from God’s voice describing
“wisdom{<i>s</i>}.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They too will
receive the blessings from that obedient response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others will ignore the instruction of God and
reap the consequences of their willful ignorance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 93%;">“<sup>20</sup> <b>Wisdom </b>{<i>as
the voice of God’s Word or the Spirit of God speaking constantly to the human
conscience</i>}<b> crieth without</b> {<i>joyfully not woefully</i>; <i>the
intent of the word is the hopeful expectation of fulfillment in hearing of the potential
for moral and ethical excellences of character in God’s expectations through
hearing and heeding</i>}<b>; she uttereth her voice </b>{<i>giving assignment
and moral obligation</i>}<b> in the streets </b>{<i>the implication is
universally, consistently, constantly, and publicly</i>}<b>: <sup>21</sup> She
crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the
city she uttereth her words,</b> {<i>the omnipresent and constant operations of
God’s Spirit calling men to fear God and repent of sin</i>} <i>saying</i> {<i>there
is a particular and peculiar message</i>}, (Proverbs 1:20-21).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 93%;">The implication of
Proverbs 1:20-21 is that God is hopeful about people lost in the darkness of
spiritual blindness to His existence and His will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God has not given up on humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although man is lost in the darkness, God has
not left them alone in the darkness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
leads the lost and blind back to Him with the “voice” of His “wisdom” through
the constant operations of His omnipresent Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is hopeful that sinners will hear His
voice and follow the direction of His voice to His gift of redemption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, when believers began to repeat
what they have believed from God’s Word and the convictions of His Spirit upon
their lives, they too join with the voice of God and become magnifications of
that voice to the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 93%;">We cannot comprehend
the loving “voice” of God’s Spirit constantly speaking to our consciences
because we cannot comprehend the depth of our own spiritual ignorance nor the
sinfulness of sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We cannot comprehend
compassion connected to the “wisdoms” of God crying out in the darkness of
spiritual ignorance for sinners to return home through the door of redemption
offered “by grace” and entered “through faith.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The cry of wisdom is more than a cry to come home or to believe that <i>home</i>
really exists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cry of wisdom is the
hope of God crying out to sinners to be reconciled to Him and restored to
righteous living <i>before</i> Him and <i>with</i> Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sinners being restored to the image of God in
which humanity was originally create is the joyful and hopeful cry of God’s
wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">Sadly, sinners love
their sin and the ignorant are ignorant because they are lazy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How long will the ignorant love their
ignorance, even though their ignorance continues them in hopelessness and
damnation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How long with the deceived
love their deception before they realize the disastrous consequences to
themselves and their generations?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
one thing to be seduced, but it is another thing all together to love the
consequences of the seduction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How long
will the foolish listen to the voice of seduction and temptation while ignoring
the plea of wisdom to hear God’s voice of hope and possibility?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most sinners do not even hear the question,
let alone understand the plea from God that asks the question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The question is a preface to God’s command to
repent (“turn”, Proverbs 1:23).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 89%;">“<sup>22</sup> <b>How long, ye
simple ones</b> {<i>spiritually ignorant and indifferent to God and therefore easily
seduced into sin</i>}, will ye love simplicity? and <b>the scorners</b> {<i>there
is hatred and mockery implied in the word ‘scorner’</i>} <b>delight</b> {<i>find
pleasure or joy</i>} <b>in their scorning</b>, and <b>fools </b>{<i>the
unbeliever</i> <i>who sees no will or authority higher than his own</i>}<b> hate
knowledge </b>{<i>the foolish Hedonist sees Biblical knowledge with great
distaste, odious, and as an enemy to his pleasure seeking</i>}? <sup>23 </sup><b>Turn
</b>{<i>shûwb</i>} you at <b>my reproof</b> {<i>God’s correction of a wrong and
hopeless pathway of life choices</i>}: <b>behold</b>, {<i>look then upon what
God will do in His correction and see it as necessary</i>} I will pour out my
spirit unto you, {<i>then</i>} I will make known my words unto you. <sup>24</sup>
<b>Because</b> {<i>there is that moment when invitation must turn to justice;</i>
<i>the cause of their corrections and failures to find joy in their pleasures
of sin</i>} <b>I have called</b>, and <b>ye refused</b>; <b>I have stretched</b>
out my hand, and <b>no man regarded</b>; <sup>25</sup> But ye have set at
nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: <b><sup>26</sup> I also
will laugh at your calamity</b> {<i>as an extension of God’s correction</i>}; I
will mock when your fear cometh; <sup>27</sup> When your fear cometh as
desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and
anguish cometh upon you {<i>whatever God must do to get sinners to listen to
the voice of wisdom is God’s longsuffering love</i>}. <sup>28</sup> <b><u>Then</u>
shall they call <u>upon</u> me </b>{<i>the voice of desperation to escape the
consequences of judgment is not the same as the voice of genuine repentance
because the voice of desperation lacks the cry for reconciliation to God and
redemption of the soul wanting only the pain to end; turning <u>from</u> sin
must be accompanied with turning <u>to</u> God</i>}<b>, but I will not answer;
they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me </b>{<i>many want the God
of blessings, but few want the God of holiness or the holiness of God</i>}: <sup>29</sup>
<b>For</b> {<i>because</i>} that they hated knowledge {<i>why He does not
answer</i>}, and {<i>because they</i>} <b>did not choose the fear of the LORD</b>:
<sup>30</sup> They would <b>none</b> of my counsel {<i>still no repentance</i>}:
they <b>despised all</b> my reproof {<i>the truly repentant loves God’s
corrections</i>}. <sup>31 </sup><b>Therefore</b> {<i>consequences</i>} shall
they eat of the fruit of <b>their own way</b>, and be filled with their own
devices. <sup>32</sup> <b>For the turning away</b> {<i>their rejection of
repentance and therefore conversion</i>} of the simple shall slay them, and the
prosperity of fools shall destroy them. <sup>33</sup> <b>But whoso</b> {<i>another
whosoever</i>} hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from
fear of evil” (Proverbs 1:22-33).</span></div>
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<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Castellar",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Judgment Seat of
Christ</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UIQYIB-ffVg/XgoxJ6atNzI/AAAAAAAAEsI/mH7TjwWrNbc8sBu4Tl2wRbSpX-k0KgRowCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/judgment-of-god.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1296" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UIQYIB-ffVg/XgoxJ6atNzI/AAAAAAAAEsI/mH7TjwWrNbc8sBu4Tl2wRbSpX-k0KgRowCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/judgment-of-god.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our
lives are composed of thousands of links connected by thousands of touches from
the lives of others over our lifetimes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Those touches of interaction shape us into the people we become.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes those touches are long spans of
time like parents with children and children with parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes those touches encourage us,
motivate us, challenge us, and help us to love life and enjoy it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes those touches by others hurt us,
discourage us, drag us down, and make us feel worthless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes our touches upon others lives bring
more pain than help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In whatever manner
we live our lives, we are going to be touching thousands of other lives to
various degrees every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those touches
must be careful touches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those touches
should be considerate touches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God did
not save us to be <i>cannon balls</i> crashing through the lives of everyone
around us doing more destruction than construction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Truly good intentions will always be truly
careful intentions.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>8</sup>
We are confident, <i>I say</i>, and willing rather to be absent from the body,
and to be present with the Lord. <sup>9 </sup>Wherefore we labour, that,
whether present or absent, <b>we may be accepted of him</b>. <sup>10 </sup>For <b>we
must all appear</b> before the judgment seat of Christ; that <b>every one</b>
may receive the things <i>done</i> in <i>his</i> body, according to that he
hath done {<i>outcomes</i>}, <b>whether <i>it be</i> good or bad</b>. <sup>11 </sup>Knowing
therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men {<i>to be ‘born again’ and to
live carefully for Christ</i>}; but we {<i>all</i>} are made manifest unto God
{<i>no act, thought, or motive is hidden from the sight and knowledge of us by God</i>};
and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences” (II Corinthians
5:8-11).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Augustus Strong said, “</b><span style="color: #202020;"><b>Holiness
is the inherent opposition of God to all that is sinful.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b> </span>Yet, in God’s opposition to all that is
sinful, there is a gentleness and compassion about His operations of grace that
seeks to lovingly draw His opposition to His side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In God’s opposition to all that is sinful,
there is no compromise or bending of His will in complacency to sin or
sinners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are living today, you
have experienced the firmness of His gentleness in His thousands of thousands
of touches upon your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every one of
His touches were His gentle nudges upon your freewill to make a choice that
would be best for you and those you touch with your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If sinners are not sensitive to God’s
touches, we are like a billiard ball that never ends up in the hole God
intends, but just haphazardly crashing into every other ball on that table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>All the touches in all the links of links that make up
the chain that we become must be somehow controlled by our own spirits or the
hurtful and painful touches from others will shape us into cynical critics who
become the kind of people that hurt, destroy, and discourage those we touch
with our words and lives.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b> </span>The touches of
God’s Spirit upon our lives are intent upon shaping us into the kind of links
that join to the links of other’s lives with very positive touches that are
encouraging, uplifting, and the guiding lights of thousands of careful, gentle
touches. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The touch of God’s Spirit upon
our lives is intended to shape us in such a manner that we can be used of Him
to touch the lives of others to bring them to walk with us as we walk with
Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bible calls this MINISTRY.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><b>Ministry involves Biblical
knowledge, spiritual wisdom, gentleness, kindnesses, and spiritual integrity
that can only be produced through a very intimate relationship with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biblical knowledge is knowing what to
say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biblical wisdom is knowing when to
say it and with what voice or mannerism should be connected to saying it.</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biblical wisdom controls Biblical knowledge
lest truth comes forth with the force of water out of a fire hose just knocking
everyone off their feet pushing them away from us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These qualities of Biblical knowledge, spiritual
wisdom, gentleness, kindnesses, and spiritual integrity are qualities of
character that must be carefully and meticulously cultivated through spiritual growth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we are careless, these qualities will not
be fully developed and our touches on the lives of those that cross our paths
will be worthless, or worst, maybe hurtful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><b>The point of saying all this is the
preface to whether the Judgment Seat of Christ can be something we look to with
joyous anticipation or with great trepidation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></b>When the qualities of Biblical knowledge, spiritual wisdom, gentleness,
kindnesses, and spiritual integrity are NOT the cultivated qualities of our characters,
the Judgment Seat of Christ will not be a pleasant experience for any
believer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the qualities of Biblical
knowledge, spiritual wisdom, gentleness, kindnesses, and spiritual integrity are
NOT the cultivated qualities of our characters the judgment of our works done
in the flesh will end up a pile of ashes of shame at our feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The
Judgment Seat of Christ is also called the Bema Seat.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Judgment Seat of Christ is the place
where the Church Age believer-priest’s works are judged (not their sins) by
their High Priest Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Judgement Seat takes place in Heaven. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
time is after the resurrection/glorification of those “in Christ” called the
Rapture, which begins the “judgment of the nations” on earth called the <i>seven-year
tribulation</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Judgment Seat of
Christ is <i>payday</i> <b>for the faithful works of faithful believer-priests</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be wise to predetermine what those
works are supposed to be according to <i>the job description</i> given us by
our Great High Priest because it defines faithfulness in the work expected from
us by Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
a pastor, one of my concerns about standing before my Great High Priest and
having my works judged by Jesus is how well the congregations given me to lead
were perfected for the work of the ministry (Ephesians 4:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pastor will be held accountable for
teaching the whole counsel of God AND for the manner by which God’s Word is presented
to the hearer’s ears (Hebrews 13:17).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
will not be responsible for anyone’s decisions to obey the truth taught unless some
aspect of a carnal personality purposely injured someone spiritually causing a
person to reject of the truths taught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
if the pastor had a bad spirit and still taught the truth accurately, the pastor’s
bad spirit does not lessen any believer’s responsibility to learn and obey the
truth taught (<b>remember Jonah</b>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
would rather someone go to Hell angry with me for some truth or warning I have given
than for him to go Hell never having heard me say anything. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being silent about truth is the most subtle form
of self-deception when it comes to faithfulness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
the new human sovereign over the creation of God, Jesus’s righteous judgment of
the earth, and all that is of the earth, is part of His restored redemption of dominion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, Jesus is the Name given the eternal
Son of God in His union with humanity in the incarnation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Therefore, Jesus will judge with both
human and divine knowledge that goes far beyond the testimony of human understanding
(Isaiah 6:3).</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the Word of God
declares “with righteousness shall he judge” (Isaiah 6:4), there is a depth of
divine understanding of the events of human interactions that we cannot now
even begin to comprehend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>1</sup>And
there shall come forth a <b>rod out of the stem of Jesse</b> {<i>the promised
incarnation of JEHOVAH in Messiah</i>}, and <b>a Branch shall grow out of his
roots</b>: <sup>2</sup>And the spirit of the <b>LORD</b> {<i>JEHOVAH; omniscience,
omnipresence, and omnipotence</i>} shall rest upon him, the spirit of <b>wisdom</b>
and <b>understanding</b>, the spirit of <b>counsel</b> and <b>might</b>, the
spirit of <b>knowledge</b> and of <b>the fear of the LORD</b>; <sup>3</sup>And
shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall <b>not
judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his
ears</b>: <sup>4</sup>But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and
reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth
with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the
wicked” (Isaiah 6:1-4).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Superficial
teaching of theology and superficial teaching of the Gospel has created a mass
of professing Christians with no spiritual discernment and no fear of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have rightly been taught that every sin
has been already judged in the body of Jesus Christ and the penalty of that sin
has already been paid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, they
have NEVER been taught that they will be judged for their “works” (the way they
used their new life in ministry) after they were “born again” (the way they
used their new life in ministry). The judgment of the “born again” believers “works”
is accountability for the Blood investment Christ made to redeem your wretched
soul from the bondage of death and Hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, it is “your reasonable service” (works, Romans 12:1) to present
your life to Jesus to live through you for the rest of your time in this body
of flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Reasonable service” means that
letting Christ live His life through your life is expected of you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the basis of the Judgment Seat of
Christ and what defines the difference between “rewards” and standing in <i>a
pile of ashes</i> of <b>burnt “down”</b> dead works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point is that all that you have <b>built-up</b>
on the foundation of your salvation through ministry will be <b>burned down</b>
to ashes if what you have <b>built up</b> is built in your own power or for
your own glory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Judgment Seat of Christ is the time when Christ rewards faithful believers for
faithful works of ministry when put to the test of fire coming from the evaluation
of those “works” by Jesus Christ. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<sup>14
</sup>If <b>any man’s work</b> {<i>of ministry</i>} <b>abide</b> {<i>is not
consumed by the fire of righteous judgment</i> <i>because the work was done
according to God’s commands in truth; righteously</i>} which <b>he hath built
thereupon</b> {<i><u>built up</u></i>; <i>upon the foundation of salvation by
grace through faith in Christ alone; I Corinthians 3:10</i>}, <b>he shall
receive a reward</b>. <sup>15</sup> <b>If any man’s work shall be burned</b> {<i><u>burned
down</u> to ashes</i>; <i>is consumed by the fire of judgment because it was
done carnally or unrighteously outside of the parameters of truth or contrary
to the commands of Christ</i>}, he shall suffer loss {<i>of reward</i>}: but he
himself shall be saved {<i>this judgment</i> <i>has nothing to do with his
salvation</i>}; yet so as by fire” (I Corinthians 3:14-15). </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Many Christians have some very strange notions about
what will earn them rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many Christians think if they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">don’t drink, chew, or go with girls that do</i>,
God will reward them for the lives they lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Scripture teaches us in many places that what constitutes earned rewards
is the <b>fruit of souls won to Christ and of disciples (followers) made for
Christ</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holy living and separation
are merely a part of what constitutes “abiding” in Christ in order to release
the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit of God upon our “work of the ministry”
(even God cannot bless what you do not do).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Rewards
for faithful service are spoken of often in the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ gives us considerable detail regarding
rewards for the faithful in the parable of the “talents” in Matthew 25:14-30
(He expects “fruit’).</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uniquely, the
context takes on both the sense of <i>encouragement</i> and <i>warning</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Apostle Paul uses similar language in II
Corinthians 5:1-11 as he speaks about the ‘judgment seat of Christ,” concluding
with the statement in verse 11; “Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we
persuade men” (dealing with the carnal and selfish lifestyles of the
Corinthians) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">God inspires the use of metaphors
relating to the ancient Greek Olympic games/contests to refer to the spiritual
rewards from the Lord Jesus at the Bema/Judgment Seat of the “King of kings and
LORD of lords” awarded to His faithful servants at the beginning of the Kingdom
Age. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of those uses is in II Timothy
2:1-7 and another is in I Corinthians 9:24-27.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If we look at all these texts inductively, we see that these “crowns,”
or rewards for faithful service, will determine the <b><i>prominence of the
positions</i></b> of Church Age believers as “kings and priests” during the
Kingdom Age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Telling professing
believers to be “faithful” without defining faithfulness is being unfaithful.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#29829"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">“<sup>1</sup> Thou therefore, my
son, be strong <b>in the grace</b> {<i>supernatural enabling</i>} that is in
Christ Jesus. </span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#29830"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29830";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">2</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29830";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, <b>the
same</b> commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#29831"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29831";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">3</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29831";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#29832"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29832";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">4</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29832";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of <i>this</i>
life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#29833"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29833";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">5</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29833";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> And <b>if a man also strive </b>{<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">athleo</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">; <i>ath-leh'-o; compete</i></span>} <b>for masteries</b> {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lit., the victor’s crown</i>}, <b><i>yet</i>
is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully</b> {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">legitimately or according to the rules</i>}. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#29834"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29834";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">6</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29834";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> The husbandman {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God;</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">John 15:1</i>) that laboureth <b><u>must be</u></b>
first partaker of the fruits {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
firstfruits of glory belong to God</i>}. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#29835"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29835";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">7</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29835";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"> <b>Consider what I say</b>; and
the Lord give thee understanding {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spiritual
comprehension</i>} in all things</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">” (II Timothy 2:1-7). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the
metaphor of II Timothy 2:5, the Word of God tells us essentially that a person
might appear to have won a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">victory</i>
but will yet not be “crowned” as a Victor if that person does not compete
according to the exact specifications regarding the competition that is
entered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The critical statement defining
the specifications for being “crowned” is actually found in II Timothy2:1 in
the phrase; “be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Therefore, the believer’s ministry
that will bring spiritual reward MUST be done within the confines of a strict
interpretation and application of what the Word of God teaches regarding the
doctrine of Grace (the supernatural enabling of the believer who has yielded
his will to the indwelling Holy Spirit of God; Romans 6:11-13).</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because there is such errant teaching regarding the doctrine of Grace by
many from both the Legalists and the Liberals within professing Christianity,
the vast majority of professing believers will be found looking for Crowns at
the Bema Seat, but will instead find themselves in shame before the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sadly, many
Christians have lived their Christian lives in the power of the flesh
(Legalism).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They think they have been faithful,
and they think that they will receive rewards at the Bema seat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, they will discover that they have
spent their lives building up a pile of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kindling</i>
for the Judgment Seat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kindling of
“wood, hay, and stubble,” from ministries lived in the power of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">flesh</i>, will bring much shame at the Bema
Seat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carnality is more than living <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sinfully</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">worldly</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carnality exists
anytime we live in the power of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">flesh</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Conception
Announcement from God</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">Birth announcements are common in our day and
age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I am not aware of anyone
ever sending forth a <i>conception announcement</i>, especially before that
conception has happened. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">God does not do things the way humans
do things.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This <i>conception announcement</i> of Luke
1:26-38 is unique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is unique because
it gives details of the baby to be conceived that go far beyond anything any
person might be able to imagine regarding a future child and that child’s
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every aspect of this <i>conception
announcement</i> is connected to fulfilments of prophecies both in the birth of
Jesus and His future accomplishments extending into the New Heaven/Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">Nine different specific prophesies
are to be fulfilled in the conception and life of Jesus as announced by the
angel Gabriel to Mary in Luke 1:26-38.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were many other prophesies
fulfilled by Jesus, but these nine encompass all of the others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">The
Jesus in which you rest your faith MUST BE the Jesus of the Bible.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">“<sup>26</sup> And in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">the sixth month</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;"> {<i>Hebrew calendar month
Elul: sometime in August/September; if this was the time of conception, Jesus
would have been born nine months later in April/May closer to time of Passover</i>}
the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, <sup>27</sup>
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">To a virgin<sub>1</sub></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">espoused</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;"> {</span><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 98%;">perfect, passive, participle</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">} to a man whose name was Joseph, of the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">house of David<sub>2</sub></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">; and the virgin’s
name <i>was</i> Mary. <sup>28</sup> And the angel came in unto her, and said,
Hail, <i>thou that art</i> highly favoured, the Lord <i>is</i> with thee: blessed
<i>art</i> thou among women. <sup>29</sup> And when she saw <i>him</i>, she was
troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this
should be. <sup>30</sup> And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou
hast found favour with God. <sup>31</sup> And, behold, thou shalt conceive in
thy womb, and </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">bring forth a
son<sub>3</sub></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">, and shalt </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">call his name JESUS<sub>4</sub></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">. <sup>32</sup> He </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest<sub>5</sub></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">: and </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">the</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">Lord
God shall give unto him the throne of his father David<sub>6</sub></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">: <sup>33</sup> And </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever<sub>7</sub></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">; and </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">of his
kingdom there shall be no end<sub>8</sub></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">. <sup>34</sup> Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing
I know not a man? <sup>35</sup> And the angel answered and said unto her, The
Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow
thee: therefore also</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;"> that
holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God<sub>9</sub></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">. <sup>36</sup> And, behold, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">thy cousin Elisabeth,</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">she
hath also conceived a son in her old age</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. <sup>37</sup>
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">For with God nothing shall be
impossible </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 98%;">{<i>which extends far
beyond two miraculous pregnancies</i>}. <sup>38</sup> And Mary said, Behold the
handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel
departed from her”<b> </b></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-width: 98%;">(Luke 1:26-38).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Why is
there such animosity, mockery, and ridicule about the teaching of a virgin
conceiving a child?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a subtle
undermining of “the faith” in all of this called Religious Humanism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Religious Humanism is a non-theistic ethical
cultural development which evolved into what today is called <i>Political Correctness</i>.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Religious Humanism is a non-theistic religion demanding
a moral ethical code apart from any absolutes established by God in His inspired
Word (Relativism).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Religious Humanism
would then develop into Secular Humanism as an ever-changing <i>fluid</i> <i>view</i>
of a constantly evolving <i>cultural moral ethic</i>.</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This eventually must develop into pure <i>Amoralism</i>,
i.e. <i>nothing can be said to be right or wrong according to any theistic
absolutes.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The foundation of Religious
Humanism began <b>within</b> professing Christianity with the <i>questioning</i>
of the verbal, plenary inspiration of the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would evolve into Secular Humanism moving
many people into Atheism and the theory of Evolution abandoning the Bible as
little more than <i>religious mythology</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Part of the evolution of Religious Humanism
was the attempt to explain the Bible in non-miraculous terms, which came to be
known as Naturalism.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the miraculous events of the
Bible had to be explained through natural means or be relegated to being just stories
that were mere myths or exaggerations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>One
of these first denials was the denial of the miraculous virgin conception of
Jesus.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naturalism and Religious
Humanism were originally the outgrowths of varying degrees of theological liberalism,
which began with <i>Higher Criticism</i> and <i>Lower Criticism</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Higher Criticism began to approach
the Bible as just another book written by human authors and inculcated with
human motives of the control of the masses of people by imposing the absolute
will of a god upon society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although Higher
Criticism was presented to the world as merely a new <i>scholarly</i> and <i>philosophical
</i>approach to establishing the validity and trustworthiness of the Bible, its
covert agenda was intent upon undermining the authority of the Bible and
destroy any foundations for moral and doctrinal absolutism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the foundation of Higher Criticism
is predominantly UNBELIEF.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As corruption
always does, this came forth into professing Christianity at thousands of
levels and constant waves of new questions bringing ever increasing doubts
about the trustworthiness of the Scriptures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Lower Criticism was presented as
the <i>attempt to rediscover the original wording of the Bible texts</i>.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, there is an undercurrent of unbelief in Lower Criticism in the
preservation of the inspired Words of God by God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This led to <i>Textual Reconstructionism</i>
through a system of subjective rules called <i>Eclectic Textual Criticism</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you spell <i>Eclectic Textual Criticism</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>B <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>G <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>U <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>S!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Almost every new translation of the Bible into English since the
translation of King James Version has been translated from a corruption of the
Bible from one of the many variations of <i>reconstructed texts</i> through <i>Eclectic
Textual Criticism</i> done by people who do not even believe the Bible is the
inspired Words of God (<i>latest Eclectic Text is NA<sub>25</sub> UBS<sub>3</sub>
and they are still working on more revisions</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One of Liberalism’s first questions of doubt was aimed
at the validity of the Bible’s claim of a virgin conceiving a child from God
without a human father.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This attacked Christianity at the
foundational level of the birth of a sinless Redeemer and salvation as a gift
from God received through faith in the finished propitiation of God’s wrath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a {<i>the</i>} virgin shall conceive {<i>while remaining a virgin</i>},
and bear a son, and {<i>the virgin; i.e., while still being a virgin; Matthew
1:25, ‘knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son’</i>} shall
call his name Immanuel </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">{<i>Theanthropic</i>
<i>union</i>}</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">” (Isaiah 7:14).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The reason that the first line of
attack against the absolutes of the Bible was against </b>t<b>he virgin
conception of Jesus is because the virgin conception of Jesus is an incredibly
important truth.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, without an
understanding of the spiritual significance of the purposes of God in
redemption of lost sinners spiritually blinded and living in the darkness of
spiritual ignorance, we could never grasp the necessity of a sinless Saviour
born into lost humanity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The spiritual
ramifications of the virgin conception of Jesus are incredibly simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are only complex because understanding
them is like describing a rainbow to a blind person who has no point of
reference as to what you describe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
person living in the total absence of light with no knowledge of even the
concept of what light is certainly cannot grasp the concept of beauty in the
multiplicity of colors and shades of light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the complexity involved in explaining the Gospel to lost people
spiritually blinded by sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blind people
are naturally skeptical about things intangible to their functioning
senses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">“<sup>1</sup> Therefore seeing <b>we
have this ministry</b>, as we have received mercy, we faint not; <sup>2</sup> But
have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor
handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth
commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. <sup>3 </sup>But
if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: <sup>4</sup> In whom <b>the
god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not</b>, lest
the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine unto them” (II Corinthians 4:1-4).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Why did Jesus need to be born into
humanity rather than merely appear as a thirty-year-old man in human form?</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus needed to be conceived and born into the humanity of the first
cursed creation to <i>blast open a spiritual door</i> of opportunity for
sinners to be “born again” <i>out of this fallen genesis</i> and into the <i>New
Genesis</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this understanding, His
sinless life is as equally important as His substitutionary death for sinners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus was “made {<i>became</i>}. . . <i>to be</i>
sin for us” (II Corinthians 5:21). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What this means is that Jesus took on a human sinless
body (<i>union</i>), lived a life of righteousness in that body, and then went
to the Cross of Calvary where God poured out all His wrath upon the sins of humanity
upon the body of Jesus.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the <i>single </i>once-for-all <i>act</i>
of His substitutionary crucifixion, the sinless One <i>became</i> “sin for us”
(II Corinthians 5:21)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In doing this solely
by the grace of God, Jesus bore the full wrath of God on our sin in His body on
the tree (“propitiation”) so sinners could be provided a doorway out of this
cursed creation <i>into the New Creation</i> through “faith in His Blood”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In the virgin conception of Jesus, His sinless life,
His vicarious death for sinners, and His resurrection from out of the dead, Jesus
literally <i>blasted a spiritual door out of the condemnation of God’s cursed
first creation into the light of the glory of God’s New Creation</i>.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That <i>doorway</i>
of escape is also a <i>doorway</i> of entrance. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A sinner enters through that <i>doorway</i> by
repenting of sin and “dead works,” and then resting in the accomplishments of
the death, burial, and resurrection of a sinless Saviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Explaining this Gospel is the “ministry of
reconciliation” to which Paul speaks in II Corinthians 5:17-21.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the
world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed
unto us <b>the word of reconciliation </b>{<i>the way out and the way in</i>}”
(II Corinthians 5:19).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>1</sup>
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. <sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2 </sup>In my Father’s house are many mansions:
if <i>it were</i> not <i>so</i>, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place
for you. <sup>3 </sup>And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, <i>there</i> ye may be
also. <sup>4 </sup>And whither I go ye know, and <b>the way ye know</b>. <sup>5</sup>
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we
know the way? <sup>6</sup> Jesus saith unto him, <b>I am the way, the truth,
and the life</b>: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:1-6).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The virgin conception of Jesus is as equally important
as the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus if we are to understand the
propitiation of God’s wrath upon sin “by grace” and the justification of sinners
“through faith.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Leading a sinner to the understanding of all of this
is what it means to lead a soul to Christ. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sinners must be led to the understanding of
this “light” because they are still spiritually blind to the light of the
Gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, even though the
spiritual light of the New Genesis is shining brightly through the door which is
Christ, sinners must be guided to the understanding of the existence of that
door and lead through that door by faith; repentance, belief, confession that
Jesus is LORD, calling on His Name to be “born again,” and receiving Jesus as
Lord in His indwelling Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Without the virgin conception of Jesus, a sinless Savior
does not exist. </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Jesus had an earthly father, He than would
also possess an inherent sin nature as all other mere humans (Romans 5:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Jesus is not sinless, He cannot
vicariously bear the sins of the world in His body because His death would simply
pay Hs own sin penalty (Romans 6:23) and God could not be vicariously
propitiated (I John 2:2).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Jesus did
not possess God-kind righteousness, He could not gift (impart; II Peter 1:4) God-kind
righteousness to the believing sinner in justification upon His death, burial, resurrection,
and glorification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus was virgin born
into this cursed Genesis so that “by grace . . . through faith” in His life,
death, burial, and resurrection you can be “born again” into the New
Genesis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">“<sup>14</sup> And the LORD God
said <b>unto the </b>{<i>Satan in the</i>}<b> serpent</b>, Because thou hast
done this, thou <i>art</i> cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of
the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days
of thy life: <sup>15</sup> And I will put <b>enmity</b> {<i>hostility or warfare;
the ‘mystery of inequity’</i>} between thee {<i>Satan in the</i> <i>serpent and
his spiritual corruption of Adam’s seed by infecting Adam with a sin nature,
which Adam would pass on to every one of his descendants</i>} and the woman,
and between <b>thy seed</b> {<i>the corrupted nature/spirit of Adam of which Satan
and his emissaries seek to destroy with constant evil temptations contrary to
the righteousness of God thereby creating enmity and hostility between God and
humans</i>} and <b>her seed</b> {<i>the egg of the woman that does not pass the
sin nature forward, of which enmity is constantly mitigated and softened by God’s
redemptive love for humanity</i>}; <b>it </b>{<i>the seed of the woman and the
first promise of the sinless Messiah born without the ‘seed’ of man</i>} shall <b>bruise</b>
{<i>completely crush</i>} <b>thy head</b> {<i>satanic dominion over humanity in
that humanity has been infected seminally with the satanic nature of rebellion,
pride, which are the roots of all sin; the crushing of the satanic dominion of
the seminal passing of the sin nature would end in the progeny of the Messiah
born without the ‘seed’ of a fallen man providing an avenue for a new
primogeniture through the New Birth into ‘the regeneration’</i>} and <b>thou</b>
{<i>the serpent’s infective venom of a sin nature that insures all infected by
it with ultimate and painful death</i>} <b>shalt bruise</b> <b>his </b>{<i>the
seed of the woman, who is Messiah, born without the corrupted seed of a man</i>}<b>
heel </b>{<i>wound; refers to the crucifixion of Messiah, which is simply viewed
as the viper biting the heel of the person stepping on the serpent’s head to
destroy the serpent and end his threat to humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The resurrection of Jesus from the serpent’s
bite brought victory over the poison of the sin nature that infected all
humanity unto death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The FACT of Jesus
having been resurrection out from the dead is the declaration of victory over
Satan’s death-hold upon humanity offering every ‘born again’ person the blessed
hope of the surety of being resurrected out from the dead and glorified as was
Jesus glorified as the ‘firstborn’ into the New Genesis</i>}” (Genesis 3:14-15).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Understanding
that Genesis 3:15 is referring to the “seed” of the woman without the corrupted
“seed” of fallen man to be the promised Messiah/Redeemer is certainly the
meaning of “the virgin” in Isaiah 7:14.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah 7:14 is the explanation of Genesis
3:15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The historical context is a
warning to unbelieving king Ahaz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">“Therefore the Lord himself shall
give you a sign; Behold, <b>a</b> {<i>the</i>}<b> virgin</b> shall conceive {<i>while
remaining a virgin</i>}, and bear a son, and {<i>the virgin; i.e., while still
being a virgin; Matthew 1:25, ‘knew her not till she had brought forth her
firstborn son’</i>} shall call his name Immanuel {<i>Theanthropic union</i>}”
(Isaiah 7:14).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The historical context of Isaiah’s “sign”
of “the virgin” giving birth to a child that has no earthly father is said to
the wicked king Ahaz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahaz’s genealogical
future was rapidly being decimated and eradicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appeared as if the hope of the
continuation of the Davidic line reigning over Judah would end with Ahaz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Pekah slew 120,000 valiant men of Judah in one day, ‘because
they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers,’ Zichri of Ephraim slew the
king’s son Maaseiah, and Azrikim the governor of his house, and Elkanah next to
the king. Israel carried captive 200,000, and much spoil, to Samaria.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=931265740727391506#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Isaiah’s prophetic statement to Ahaz
was simply that God’s promise of the continuation of the Davidic throne would
not be through the “seed” of Ahaz, or through the “seed” of any other man for
that matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fulfilment of the Davidic
throne promise would be through the Messiah being born through the “seed” of “the
virgin.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>No <u>male</u> descendant of
David would be required in the conception and birth of the promised Messiah!</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How important then is belief in the
virgin conception to the Gospel of Christ?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The answer is unequivocal that without the virgin conception of Jesus
there can be no Gospel because without the virgin conception of Jesus we have
no Saviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not enough that Jesus
was a good person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not even enough
that Jesus lived without sin all of His life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If Jesus had an earthly father, Jesus received a sin nature from that
earthly father no matter who that earthly father might have been or from what genealogical
line that earthly father was descendant (Romans 5:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any compromise of the virgin conception of
Jesus is an attack at the foundation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in that the
Gospel of Jesus Christ DEMANDS a sinless Saviour BOTH in the absence of acts of
sins and the absence of a sin nature. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ
Jesus had to be a NEW KIND of man to become the primogeniture of a New Creation
of which He became the “firstborn” of this New Genesis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">“<sup>17 </sup>Therefore if any man
<i>be</i> {<i>‘born again’</i>} <b>in Christ</b>, <i>he is</i> a new creature:
old things are passed away; behold, all things <b>are become </b>{<i>perfect –
once for all forever, active, indicative – a matter of fact</i>} <b>new </b>{<i>new
of a different kind</i>}. <sup>18</sup> And all things <i>are</i> of God, who
hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the
ministry of reconciliation; <sup>19</sup> To wit, that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them;
and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. <sup>20</sup> Now then
we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech <i>you</i> by us: we
pray <i>you</i> in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. <sup>21</sup> For
he hath made him <i>to be</i> sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be
made the righteousness of God in him” (II Corinthians 5:17-21).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">There can be no “new creation” or “new
creature” without a new, sinless “last Adam” (I Corinthians 15:45).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The union of God and man must be restored in
true redemption and the ONLY way that can ever happen is for sinners to be “born
again” out of the cursed creation and into the New Creation “in Christ.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the indwelling of the Spirit of
Christ upon the event of being “born again” as a gift of grace received through
faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The indwelling Holy Spirit is
the “seed” of the New Genesis “in Christ” that destines every “born again”
believer for a new body in the New Genesis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></b>All of this emphatically connects to the virgin conception of Jesus
and the birth of a new kind of human being where the union of God and man once
again becomes possible through the New Birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">“<sup>35 </sup>But some <i>man</i>
will say, <b>How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?</b> <sup>36</sup>
<i>Thou</i> fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: <sup>37
</sup> And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall
be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other <i>grain</i>: <sup>38</sup>
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to <b>every seed his own
body</b>. <sup>39 </sup>All flesh <i>is</i> not the same flesh: but <i>there is</i>
one <i>kind of</i> flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, <i>and</i>
another of birds. <sup>40</sup> <i>There are</i> also celestial bodies, and
bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial <i>is</i> one, and the <i>glory</i>
of the terrestrial <i>is</i> another. <sup>41 </sup> <i>There is</i> one
glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the
stars: for <i>one</i> star differeth from <i>another</i> star in glory. <sup>42</sup>
So also <i>is</i> the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is
raised in incorruption: <sup>43 </sup>It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in
glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: <sup>44 </sup>It is sown
a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and
there is a spiritual body. <sup>45</sup> And so it is written, The first man
Adam was made a living soul; <b>the last Adam <i>was made</i> a quickening
spirit</b>. <sup>46 </sup>Howbeit that <i>was</i> not first which is spiritual,
but that which is natural; and <b>afterward that which is spiritual</b>. <sup>47</sup>
The first man <i>is</i> of the earth, earthy: the second man <i>is</i> the Lord
from heaven. <sup>48</sup> As <i>is</i> the earthy, such <i>are</i> they also
that are earthy: and <b>as <i>is</i> the heavenly, such <i>are</i> they also
that are heavenly</b>. <sup>49</sup> And as we have borne the image of the
earthy<b>, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly</b>. <sup>50 </sup>Now
this I say, brethren, that <b>flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God</b>;
neither doth corruption inherit incorruption” (I Corinthians 15:35-50).</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=931265740727391506#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="color: black;">Fausset, Andrew Robert; <i>Fausset’s
Bible Dictionary</i>, <span class="sssmallerfont1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">SwordSearcher\Modules\Fausset.ss5book, Module
file time: 7/31/2011 7:15:26 PM UTC.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black", serif;">Blessed Mary</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<b>“Blessed art thou among women” is God’s statement about
Mary the mother of Jesus.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of
all the false teachings being taught about Mary, many pulpits have become
silent about her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “blessed” is
not intended to bring worship to Mary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
word “blessed” simply reveals the <i>high favor</i> of God upon her life in
that she was chosen to be the mother of the Messiah, <b>not the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mother of God</i>.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God has no beginning or ending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary simply contributed the <i>humanity</i>
to the theanthropic union existing in the Person of Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus is both perfect God and perfect
man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although Mary should not be
worshiped, she must have been a remarkable young lady.<br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“<sup>26</sup>
And in </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">the sixth month</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
{<i>Hebrew calendar month Elul: sometime in August/September; if this was the
time of conception, Jesus would have been born nine months later in April/May
closer to time of Passover</i>} the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city
of Galilee, named Nazareth, <sup>27</sup> To a virgin espoused to a man whose
name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name <i>was</i> Mary. <sup>28</sup>
And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">thou
that art</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> highly favoured</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,
the Lord <i>is</i> with thee: </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">blessed <i>art</i> thou
among women</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. <sup>29</sup> And when she saw <i>him</i>, she
was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this
should be. <sup>30</sup> And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou
hast found favour with God. <sup>31</sup> And, behold, thou shalt conceive in
thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. <sup>32</sup>
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God
shall give unto him the throne of his father David: <sup>33</sup> And he shall
reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no
end. <sup>34</sup> Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I
know not a man? <sup>35</sup> And the angel answered and said unto her, The
Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow
thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be
called the Son of God. <sup>36</sup> And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she
hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her,
who was called barren. <sup>37</sup> For with God nothing shall be impossible. <sup>38</sup>
And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">be it unto
me according to thy word</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. And the angel departed from
her”<b> </b></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">(Luke 1:26-38).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Obviously, Mary’s family was a godly family </b>(<i>but
without Halos, which is pagan in origin</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her older cousin Elisabeth was also chosen of God to give birth to the
first prophet in over four hundred years (Luke 1:36, John the Baptist, who was
the forerunner of Christ).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Why did
the Lord choose Mary?</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was she some
type of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">super-saint</i> who lived a life
of sinless perfection?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, she was just
a fine young lady who loved the Lord with great commitment and dedication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know this is true from the text we have
just read (Luke 1:38).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Mary is a
tremendous example of what God can do with any young lady completely dedicated
to DOING the will of God.</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>According to Luke 1:26, Mary lived in the village of
Nazareth and was <i>espoused</i> to a carpenter by the name of Joseph.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nazareth was an unremarkable city in the
history of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Scriptures (and
much of history) were silent about Nazareth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even after Jesus began His ministry, the city of Nazareth was hardened
in their hearts to who Jesus is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of
its citizens rejected Jesus as their Messiah.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>16 </sup>And he {<i>Jesus</i>}
came to Nazareth, <b>where he had been brought up</b>: and, <b>as his custom
was</b>, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to
read. <sup>17</sup> And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet
Esaias. And when he had opened the book, <b>he found the place where it was
written</b>, <sup>18</sup> The Spirit of the Lord <i>is</i> upon me, because he
hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, <sup>19</sup> To preach
the acceptable year of the Lord. . . <sup>28</sup> And <b>all</b> they in the
synagogue, <b>when they heard these things</b>, were filled with wrath {<i>they
understood that Jesus was claiming to be the Messiah to which Isaiah spoke</i>},
<sup>29</sup> And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the
brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
<sup>30</sup> <b>But he passing through the midst of them went his way</b>” {<i>we
are not told how this was accomplished, but to consider that Jesus passed
through a mob of men who were intent upon killing Him untouched as <b>not </b>miraculous
is foolishness</i>} (Luke 4:16-19 and 28-30).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The fact that Mary was not yet fully married, tells us
she was probably a very young girl between thirteen and fifteen years old.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although she was a teenager, by today’s
standards, her daily routine would have involved all the things of an adult
woman in that her culture viewed her as an adult at that age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would have spent her days surviving by carrying
water, cooking, cleaning, and taking care of household chores and small
children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would have worked from
sun-up to sun-down. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Like any other young lady about to be married, she
probably thought about her pending marriage and her future with her new husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She thought about living in her own home and
having her own children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>In the
middle of all Mary’s plans, an angel of God appears (Luke 1:26-28). </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mary’s life was going to have a major interruption in her
plans for the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is always what
happens to a life when God calls a person to His service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her plans were going to have to be set aside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her life was going to change
drastically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is often the case when
God calls someone to be used for special ministries (like pastors, missionaries,
evangelists, or believer-priests).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although she had plans for her life, God had other plans (since God does
not force His will on anyone, He would give her the choice, Luke 1:38).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mary would become the one woman (out of the thousands of
thousands of women before her) who would be the one to bear and birth the
Messiah (Luke 1:30-33).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Did this make
Mary the <i>Mother of God</i>?</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No,
God is eternal and without beginning or end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mary was one of God’s created beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She cannot be the mother of her own Creator.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mary is called the mother of Jesus in the Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never is she called the <i>Mother of God</i>.
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would be the means through which the
eternal Son of God would step out of the glory of eternity and into time and
humanity of a fallen Creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
genetic humanity of Jesus came through Mary (the sin nature is passed seminally
through man, Romans 5:12; Jesus had no earthly father).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Jesus has a beginning in history at His
conception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before that He eternally
existed as the Son of God.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus <i>became</i>
His Name in His <i>union</i> with mankind through birth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>1</sup> In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. <sup>2</sup>
<b>The same was in the beginning with God</b>. <sup>3</sup> All things were
made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John
1:1-3).</span></div>
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glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory <b>which I had with thee
before the world was</b>” (John 17:5).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>15</sup> Who is the
image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: <sup>16</sup> For
by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible
and invisible, whether <i>they be</i> thrones, or dominions, or principalities,
or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: <sup>17</sup> And he is
before all things, and by him all things consist” (Colossians 1:15-17).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There are some people who teach that Mary (like Jesus) was
immaculately conceived and that she (also like Jesus) was born without a sin
nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">If Mary was immaculately
conceived that would mean she would be God’s daughter, with no earthly
father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scripture tells us this was not
so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is due to a misunderstanding of
two verses of Scripture; Matthew 1:16 and Luke 3:23.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“And Jacob begat Joseph
the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ” (Matthew
1:16).</span></div>
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to be about thirty years of age, being (<b>as was supposed</b>) the son of
Joseph, which was <i>the son</i> of Heli,” (Luke 3:23).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In Matthew 1:16, the father of Joseph is listed as
“Jacob.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Luke 3:23, Joseph’s father
is listed as “Heli.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did Joseph have two
fathers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, the genealogy of the Gospel
of Luke is Mary’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As was the custom,
Joseph is stated as the head of the household.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Joseph became the son (in-law) of Heli by marrying Mary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heli was Mary’s father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thereby, Heli retains his genetic heritage
through the descendants of Joseph and his daughter Mary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is important because Mary’s lineage goes
back to king David.</span></div>
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would not have needed a Savior.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet
she acknowledges that God was her Savior.</span></div>
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rejoiced in God my Saviour” (Luke 1:47).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Was Mary a <i>perpetual virgin</i> as some people teach?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">No, the Bible does not teach that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, it teaches that she was not.</span></div>
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Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and
took unto him his wife: <sup>25</sup> And knew her not <b>till</b> {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">assumes a later time when he did</i>} she
had brought forth her <b>firstborn</b> son {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">assumes
a second-born</i>}: and he called his name JESUS” (Matthew 1:24-25). </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Jesus had half-brothers
and half-sisters, because He shared the same mother with them.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>2</sup> Now the
Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand. <sup>3</sup> His brethren therefore
said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may
see the works that thou doest. <sup>4</sup> For <i>there is</i> no man <i>that</i>
doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou
do these things, shew thyself to the world. <sup>5</sup> <b>For neither did his
brethren believe in him</b>” (John 7:2-5).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Greek word used for “brethren” is <i>adelphos</i>
(ad-el-fos’).</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The meaning is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">from the same womb</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although
this word can be used for brethren nationally or brothers and sisters in
Christ, the statement of John 7:5 clearly states these “brethren” were
unbelievers at this point in time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Matthew 12:46-50 also gives addition clarification to the meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>46</sup> While he
yet talked to the people, <b>behold, <i>his</i> mother and his brethren stood
without</b>, desiring to speak with him. <sup>47</sup> Then one said unto him, <b>Behold,
thy mother and thy brethren stand without</b>, desiring to speak with thee. <sup>48</sup>
But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are
my brethren? <sup>49</sup> And he stretched forth his hand toward his
disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! <sup>50</sup> For
whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my
brother, and sister, and mother” (Matthew 12:46-50).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus had four half-brothers
and at least two half-sisters. </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>1</sup> And he went
out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him. <sup>2</sup>
And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many
hearing <i>him</i> were astonished, saying, From whence hath this <i>man</i>
these things? and what wisdom <i>is</i> this which is given unto him, that even
such mighty works are wrought by his hands? <sup>3</sup> Is not this the
carpenter<b>, the son of Mary</b>, the <b>brother</b> of <b>James, and Joses,
and of Juda, and Simon</b>? and are not his <b>sisters</b> here with us? And
they were offended at him” (Mark 6:1-3).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Is Mary another Mediator between man and God as some
people teach?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">No, Jesus is the only Mediator
between God and man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet Roman
Catholicism, contrary to the clear testimony of Scripture, teaches the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mediatrix</i> and </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Coredemptrix</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">of Mary</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“For <i>there is</i> one
God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (I Timothy
2:5).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Nowhere in Scripture is anyone told to pray to Mary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, we are not even told to pray to
Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are told to pray <b>to</b> the
Father <b>through</b> the Son (our Mediator and High Priest, Who provides
access to the ‘throne of grace’ by His once for all forever sacrifice of
Himself).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“After this manner
therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name”
(Matthew 6:9).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“For through him {<i>Jesus,
our Mediator and High Priest</i>} we both have access by one Spirit unto the
Father” (Ephesians 2:18).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Just because of all these false beliefs about Mary
exist, that does not mean she ought to be an embarrassment to Bible believing
churches.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is a remarkable
example of dedication and discipleship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
mother of Jesus gave up the life she had planned for herself to be a servant of
God with almost everyone questioning her integrity all of her life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>After hearing this announcement by the angel Gabriel
and understanding the ramifications of this pregnancy, Mary still consented to
God’s will for her life.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means
she consented to the will of God knowing that she would face the possibility of
losing her espoused husband and the life she had planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means she consented knowing that she
might face public humility, shame, ridicule, and possibly death by stoning for
being pregnant before she got married.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Yet in the face of all this she says, “be it unto me
according to thy word.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God would
give the world Jesus, through the virgin Mary, to one day die on the Cross to
pay the death penalty for the sins of mankind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is God’s supreme example of giving to mankind.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Mary is the example of the sacrificial presentation of
our bodies as a ‘living sacrifice.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mary gave herself to the Lord’s will so all that did happen could
happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is a supreme example of
mankind’s giving to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the
kind of giving that should be the testimony of every Christian’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you given your life to Jesus in that
way?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Can you honestly say with Mary, “be it unto me according
to thy word.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is a decision and one
God wants every Christian to make.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have
you consented to God’s will being done in your life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give your life to the Lord this season.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Just tell the Lord, “whatever You want me to do, I will
do it.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If You want me to be a
preacher, I will try to be the best one I can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If You want me to serve You in some foreign
land as a missionary, I will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If You
want me to serve You in my local church, I will serve You with all my body,
mind, and will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will try to be the
best Sunday school teacher, soul winner, King’s Kids leader, deacon, and/or piano
player that I can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord, I will no
more give you second best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is my
life Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I give it to you to use
twenty-four hours a day.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When you present your life to the Lord as a “living
sacrifice,” there are no areas of that life that do not belong to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your life, and every moment of it, is a
living sacrifice dedicated to <b>doing</b> the will of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>This is how servants think.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The Christian that repents (turns from)
sin, <u>must</u> turn to become an obedient servant or only half of repentance
of accomplished.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is what Paul
pleads with every Christian to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>1</sup> I beseech
you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, <i>which is</i> your reasonable
service. <sup>2</sup> And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what <i>is</i> that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (Romans 12:1-2).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Romans 12:1-2</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is
not for a special elitist group of spiritual super-saints.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is God’s expectation of ALL
believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is your life a living
sacrifice to serve the Living God?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
kind of life is defined as “service” (Romans 12:1).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is defined as separation from the world
and unto God (Romans 12:2).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Presenting
yourself a living sacrifice to God may cost you <u>your</u> plans for the
future, but it will bring you into <u>God’s</u> plan for the future</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i> He has served the Lord for over 50 years.</i>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-74807662224698372182019-12-10T09:27:00.001-06:002019-12-10T09:27:16.320-06:00ATTITUDES FOR REVIVAL<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why We are Failing the Great Commission</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chapter Twenty-eight</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">ATTITUDES FOR REVIVAL</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 95%;"><b>Scenario:
two children of the same age are caught doing something completely wrong.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b> </span>One of these children was raised in a
Christian household where he was taught the Word of God and was a believer
clearly understanding the boundaries between right and wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other child grew up in a moral vacuum
absent of any moral ethic having never taught the child what was right and what
was wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From which of those two
children would you expect righteousness and whose failure was the most
heinous?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This scenario is to what Peter
speaks in I Peter 4:17; </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">“For the time <i>is come</i> that
judgment must begin at the house of God: and if <i>it</i> first <i>begin</i> at
us, what shall the end <i>be</i> of them that obey not the gospel of God?”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God expects MORE from His children than He does from the lost and
ignorant children of the world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THIS IS
NORMAL!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Revival is the <i>supernatural working</i> (blessing) of God <i>upon</i>
and <i>through</i> the life of a consecrated and sanctified believer-priest who
seeks to do the will of God as revealed by the Word of God with the passion and
love of Christ intent upon solely glorifying God. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The portion
of Scripture called the <i>Sermon on The Mount</i> is probably the single
portion of Scripture that best establishes the New Testament theology of
revival and the <i>criteria</i> necessary for any real revival to ever take
place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Revival is
quenched by BAD ATTITUDES and activated through repentance.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Many local churches have experienced
revival at various times in their history to varying degrees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oftentimes revival on smaller scales is not
even recognized as revival, but the reality is that any act of God’s blessing
on a life is to some degree revival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Revival
is God’s life (<i>the Shekinah; glory</i>) shining out of the darkness of sin and
corruption through a believer’s life.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Every sunrise reminds us of the way things ought to be!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The longer that light shines, the more
evident is the revival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this
statement is true, then Christ’s statement in Matthew 5:16 is a command for
revival in the lives of all believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Our
theology of revival (what we believe God’s Word teaches about the matter) will
determine how we seek revival and how we interpret the events surrounding
revival.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could spend much time
discussing inaccurate theology regarding revival and therefore the
misinterpretation of those times when revival was evident on large scales or we
can simply try to establish a Biblical theology regarding revival and
re-interpret those times of revival according to that theology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I choose to do the latter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not argue with the historical fact of
those times of revival. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I do
disagree with the establishment of a theology of revival based upon the
interpretation of the events of revival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The opposite should be true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
should establish a theology of revival and then interpret the events of revival
from that theology.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">The Lord uses the word “blessed” nine times in Matthew 5:1-12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Therefore, we must conclude its meaning to be very
significant to the purpose of His teaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is from the Greek word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">makarios</i>
(mak-ar'-ee-os).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The simplest dictionary
definition would be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">happy</i> or<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> joyful</i>, but <b>that does not give the
whole meaning behind the word. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
real emphasis is not on the joy as much as it is on the <b>source of that joy</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The joy is the result of the supernatural
working of God in one’s life because a person has become what God wants him to
become.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blessed</i> is the result of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">being
</i>right with God.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Being right
with God results in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">doing </i>what God
says to do and God supernaturally working through that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">doing</i>.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Theologically, <i>blessedness</i>
is a state of existence within the realm of God’s “working all things together
for good” (Romans 8:28).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The nine uses
of “blessed” in Matthew 5:1-12 define <b>the conditions necessary for a
believer to enter into God’s realm of blessedness</b> and are the details of
what God means by the qualifier of “all things work together for good <b>to
them that love God</b>” in Romans 8:28.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The
nine uses of “blessed” define what loving God means.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first step towards revival is when
believers get their hearts right with God. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting our hearts right with God is what the
nine “blessed” of Matthew 5:1-16<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> are
about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Revival ALWAYS begins with repentance in the mind and heart and then
moves to the feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">“<sup>1 </sup>And
seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">his disciples came unto him </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">{<i>inner circle truth for ‘born
again’ believers only</i>}:<sup> 2 </sup>And he opened his mouth, and taught
them, saying,<sup> 3 </sup></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Blessed</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">are</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> the poor in spirit</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">: for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.<sup> 4</sup> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Blessed <i>are</i>
they that mourn</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">: for they shall be comforted.<sup> 5</sup> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Blessed <i>are</i> the meek</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">: for they shall inherit the
earth.<sup> 6</sup></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> </span></sup></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Blessed <i>are</i> they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">: for
they shall be filled. <sup>7 </sup></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Blessed <i>are</i> the merciful</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">: for
they shall obtain mercy.<sup> 8 </sup></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Blessed <i>are</i>
the pure in heart</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">: for they shall see God.<sup> 9</sup> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Blessed <i>are</i> the peacemakers</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">: for they shall be called the
children of God.<sup> 10</sup> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Blessed <i>are</i> they which are
persecuted for righteousness’ sake</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">: for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.<sup> 11 </sup></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Blessed are ye, when <i>men</i>
shall revile you, and persecute <i>you</i>, and shall say all manner of evil
against you falsely, for my sake</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">.<sup> 12</sup> Rejoice, and be
exceeding glad: for great <i>is</i> your reward in heaven: for so persecuted
they the prophets which were before you.<sup> 13 </sup>{<i>now begins the
outcomes of being ‘salt’ and ‘light’<sup> </sup>because a ‘born again’ believer
maintains these attitudes of repentance</i>} </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Ye are </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">{<i>present
indicative; a fact of your present state of existence in the realm of
blessedness</i>}</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> the salt of the earth</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">: but if
the salt have lost his savour {<i>the distinctions necessary to blessedness</i>}
, wherewith shall </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">it</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;"> {<i>‘the
earth’</i>} be salted? </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">it</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;"> {<i>the
‘salt’</i>} is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be
trodden under foot of men.<sup> 14 </sup></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Ye are </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;">{<i>present
indicative; a fact of your present state of existence in the realm of
blessedness</i>}</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> the light of the world.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;"> A city
that is set on an hill cannot be hid.<sup> 15 </sup>Neither do men light a
candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light
unto all that are in the house.<sup> 16 </sup></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Let your light</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;"> {<i>the
distinctions necessary to blessedness</i>} so shine before men, that they may
see your good works, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">and glorify your Father</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 85%;"> which is
in heaven”<b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">(Matthew
5:1-16).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b><span style="mso-font-width: 89%;">The
first essential to a theology of revival is to differentiate between the
blessings upon the children of Israel in the Old Testament (Mosaic Covenant) and
what happens in the New Testament (the New Covenant; a dispensational
hermeneutic).</span></b><span style="mso-font-width: 89%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the Day of Pentecost, a new dispensation
began with a New Covenant governance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Day of Pentecost came fifty days after the resurrection of Jesus
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On that day, God’s Spirit came
into the world in a unique way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
a critical truth to a New Testament theology of revival and blessedness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the covenants that God makes are made
with believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are always
sanctificational in nature and define conditions necessary for believers to be
blessed of God and live in “fellowship” with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 89%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Salvation
brings the sinner into the <i>potential for blessedness</i> from God but does
not automatically give those blessing to the believer.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a major difference between the gift
of eternal life in salvation and that eternal life issuing from the saved
believer’s body through the indwelling and filling of the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Practical sanctification is essential to
blessedness from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of the nine
uses of “blessed” in Matthew 5:1-11 define <i>attitudes</i> (<i>be-attitudes</i>
that lead to actions) necessary to practical sanctification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 89%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>In the
Old Testament, the Shekinah glory of God descended upon the Tabernacle to give
a visible evidence of God’s presence to the children of Israel.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, <u>before</u> the Shekinah glory of
God descended on the Tabernacle, every other item of service of the tabernacle
had to be put in order (Exodus 40:1-38).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>All those various elements that made up the whole of the Tabernacle
complex were essential elements for the children of Israel to live in
fellowship with their Redeemer and to have His blessing upon them.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although each aspect of the Tabernacle was
only typical of a spiritual reality, each was an essential element for
maintaining fellowship with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>This
is the substance of the Sermon on the Mount!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 89%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Living
in fellowship with God, the “blessing” aspect of the Mosaic Covenant and the
New Covenant beatitudes, is the essential and common truth to both New
Testament revival and Old Testament revival.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The difference between how that fellowship is
achieved and maintained in these two different periods of history
(dispensations) is <b>fundamentally different</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is evident that maintaining fellowship
with God in the Old Testament was very complex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the Day of Pentecost all of that changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A new dispensation of grace began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Shekinah glory of God descended upon the
Tabernacle of God just as in the Old Testament, but that Tabernacle was now the
body of a believer <i>individually</i> and <i>corporately</i> (the “body of
Christ”).</span></div>
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sometimes hear this new doctrine of the Spirit without really taking into
consideration the overwhelming and broad ramifications of the responsibilities
it relates to the believer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me try
to illustrate it for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 89%;">“<sup>1 </sup>In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth.<sup> 2 </sup>And the earth was without form,
and void; and darkness <i>was</i> upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters.<sup> 3 </sup>And God said, Let there be
. . . : and there was. . .” (Genesis 1:1-3).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b><span style="mso-font-width: 85%;">When
the Word of God says He “created,” it means He brought something into existence
that did not exist before and He made it out of nothing.</span></b><span style="mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is said
that a group of scientists one day came before God and told Him that they were
so advanced in their knowledge that they did not need Him any longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, God told them to show Him their
progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They proposed a contest to
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They and God would each create a
man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best one would win the
contest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God agreed and the scientist
reached down and grabbed a handful of dirt to create his man to which God
immediately said, “Oh no, you need to get your own dirt.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When God
created the heaven and the earth, it required power beyond human comprehension,
let alone ability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the creation, God
simply released some of What He is to generate His thoughts into a physical
reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something was <u>not</u>
created from nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something was
created from the will of the power of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>When God’s
glory descended upon the Old Testament Tabernacle, that visible reality was
evidence to God’s redeemed that the power of God was present with them.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That power of God was and is the Person of
the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That power of God made
evident in the Shekinah glory was the same power of God that spoke the heaven
and earth into existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">On the Day of Pentecost, it was
that same Shekinah glory that descended upon all believers indwelling them and
immersing them into the spiritual <i>living temple</i> of “lively stones” to
which the Bible refers as the “body” of Christ making each of believer part of
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Creation</i> “in Christ.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SELAH</span></div>
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about that truth. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dispensation
of grace (enabling power) centers on the reality of the indwelling presence of
the infinite power of God in the body of every believer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The power of God is the Person of the Holy
Spirit that spoke the heavens and earth into existence now resides in the body
of every person who has been “born again” of the Spirit of God (regenerated).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means, if you have been saved, you are
part of the New Creation “in Christ” and the Shekinah glory of God lives in
you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The
simplicity of New Testament revival is that when your life is lived in
fellowship with God, beginning with the nine <i>be-attitudes</i>, the Shekinah
glory will begin to shine through you. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deciding to generate the nine <i>be-attitudes</i>
is where the command to “let your light so shine before men” <b>BEGINS</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is what Christ means in Matthew 5:16
when He says, “Let your light so shine before men. . .”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shine when our lives are right with God
(Matthew 5:3-12) and the indwelling presence of the Shekinah glory of God in
the Person of the Holy Spirit reveals Himself in the “fruit of the Spirit” <b>through</b>
our lives (Galatians 5:22-23).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It seems
apparent that early Christians understood the singular importance of living in
habitual fellowship with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
importance of living in habitual fellowship with God is communicated in John chapter
fifteen by the word “abide” and it is directly connected to the blessing of God
upon the production of “fruit” through the believer’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>All historical revival is marked by a
return to holiness, prayer dependency on God, and a right relationship with
God.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This always resulted in many
people coming to trust in Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anytime people start getting saved, revival is happening at some level
in a person’s life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Anytime people get saved it is the
<i>result</i> of revival in a believer’s life.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>A person getting saved is the “fruit” of
revival and should not be confused with the act of revival.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revival is when a person brings his mind, his
heart, and his very soul into harmony with God and His Word (the nine <i>be-attitudes</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The focus of revival must be on a right
relationship with God beginning with a complete change of attitudes about God
and sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The right relationship with God
is the focus of the change of attitudes (repentance), not the “fruit.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Three realities must exist in a
believer’s life before revival can happen.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1.
</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The believer must know the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s truth reveals what sin is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God truth reveals how God wants us to
live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We cannot <i>do</i> what is right
until we <i>know</i> what is right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God’s purpose in teaching us truth is to restore the image of Him
distorted by the fall so that we might once again have proper worship of Him
(doxologically) and a relationship with Him in holiness (deontologically).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Study <b>to shew thyself approved</b> unto God, a
workman that <b>needeth not to be ashamed</b>, rightly dividing the word of
truth” (II Timothy 2:15).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>16 </sup>All scripture <i>is</i> given by
inspiration of God, and <i>is</i> profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness:<sup> 17 </sup><b>That the man of
God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works</b>” (II Timothy
3:16-17).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2.
</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The believer must translate known
truth into doing (obedience from the heart, James 1:22-25).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how much truth you know, unless you
<i>put flesh on that truth</i> by doing it, nothing is accomplished through
that truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one will ever get saved
by you knowing the Gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People get
saved by hearing and heeding the teaching and preaching of the Gospel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>22 </sup>But be ye doers of the word, and not
hearers only, deceiving your own selves.<sup> 23 </sup>For if any be a hearer
of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face
in a glass: <sup>24 </sup>For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and
straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.<sup> 25</sup> But whoso
looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth <i>therein</i>, he
being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed
in his deed” (James 1:22-25).</span></div>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The believer must be right with God
through the confession and repentance of sin and yielded to a cooperative
partnership with the indwelling Holy Spirit (I John 1:3-9).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Fellowship” is the Bible word for this
cooperative partnership with the indwelling Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a group of believers come together in
this cooperative “fellowship” a synergy is created and their combined “light .
. . cannot be hid.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">“<sup>3 </sup>That which we have
seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also <b>may have fellowship with us</b>:
and truly our fellowship <i>is</i> with the Father, and with his Son Jesus
Christ.<sup> 4 </sup>And these things write we unto you, <b>that your joy may
be full</b>.<sup> 5</sup> This then is the message which we have heard of him,
and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.<sup>
6 </sup><b><u>If</u> </b>{<i>every ‘if’ relates to a necessary condition of
reality</i>}<b> we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness,
we lie</b>, and do not the truth:<sup> 7 </sup>But <b><u>if</u></b> we walk in
the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the
blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin<sup>. 8 </sup><b><u>If</u></b>
we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.<sup>
9 </sup><b><u>If</u></b> we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us <i>our</i> sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (I John
1:3-9).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Understanding this trilogy for
revival helps us understand why revival is a rare commodity in many
churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is rare in many churches
because this trilogy rarely exists consistently in the lives of believers.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing truth will not produce “fruit” until
the believer lives known truth and he cannot live that truth until he is right
with God and allowing the indwelling Holy Spirit to live through his body
(Romans 6:11-13).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>11 </sup>Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to
be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.<sup>
12 </sup>Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey
it in the lusts thereof.<sup> 13</sup> Neither yield ye your members <i>as</i>
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as
those that are alive from the dead, and your members <i>as</i> instruments of
righteousness unto God” (Romans 6:11-13).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>This trilogy of spiritual
essentials is the subject matter of John 15:1-13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also the subject matter of the <i>Sermon
on the Mount</i>. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>1 </sup>I am the true vine, and my Father is the
husbandman.<sup> 2 </sup>Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh
away: and every <i>branch</i> that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may
bring forth more fruit.<sup> 3</sup> Now ye are clean through the word which I
have spoken unto you. <sup>4 </sup>Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye,
except ye abide in me.<sup> 5</sup> I am the vine, ye <i>are</i> the branches:
He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for
without me ye can do nothing.<sup> 6 </sup>If a man abide not in me, he is cast
forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast <i>them</i>
into the fire, and they are burned.<sup> 7 </sup>If ye abide in me, and my
words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.<sup>
8 </sup>Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be
my disciples” (John 15:1-8).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The
struggle to make this spiritual trilogy for revival a consistent reality of our
life is the struggle for the Christian life</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In most part, it is a struggle within us and
our corrupted thinking and attitudes due to our fallen natures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is why Christ leads off His <i>Sermon on
the Mount</i> in Matthew chapter five with the <i>be-attitudes</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a difficult struggle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a struggle to possess and process the
“heart” of God through our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>This
struggle is what defines the “warfare” of the Christian life.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This struggle is what produces true spiritual
growth in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some individuals
grow to live such consistent lives that they produce many disciples for Jesus
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Apostle Paul was one such
individual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can see his understanding
of this struggle by reading Romans chapters six, seven, and eight as well
Ephesians 5:1-18 and 6:10-18.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
struggle for the <i>be-attitudes</i> was a priority to Paul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Most Christians do not gain the <u>discipline</u>
of a consistent life lived in this trilogy.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have occasional bursts of light like a flashbulb going off and <i>som</i>e
“fruit” is produced. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, if we want
to be <i>spiritual</i> <i>lighthouses</i> producing “much fruit,” we need to
learn to habitually “hunger and thirst after righteousness.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Seeking
the face of God and living in fellowship with Him must become the central
motivating force in our lives.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
the Bible speaks of the believer being “filled” with the Holy Spirit, God is
not talking about “filling” the believer to the maximum capacity of that
believer’s body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the believer is
“filled” with the Holy Spirit, the believer is “filled” with the infinite power
of the Creator God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the believer is
“filled” with the Holy Spirit, the infinite creative power of God begins to
overflow in his life in all three areas of the trilogy of revival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Truth</b> is understood and lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Fellowship</b> with God is evident in
everything that believer does and says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>“Fruit”
is produced.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Souls come to Christ
when that believer tells others of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The “fruit” of the Spirit is evident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>Regeneration of the lost and transformation of the saved take place.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When the
Holy Spirit of God controls every aspect of our lives, the Shekinah glory of
God within us will burst forth as “light” into the darkness of this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The believer’s life will be a bright light
shining in the darkness guiding men to find Christ and His wonderful gift of
salvation bringing glory to God the Father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Letting our light shine means getting our selfish desires, attitudes and
practices of life out of God’s way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Carnality
and/or doctrinal compromise, to any degree, stops the overflow of His
transforming power that God’s wants to flow into and through our lives.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Why did God
create billions of stars and thousands of galaxies of stars and planets?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God created these majestic lights in the
heavens simply for humanity to look up and see them and wonder at the majesty
of the Being that put them there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>You
are intended to be a <i>up-close</i> light of His majesty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>The Spirit of Christ is the “true Light”
that “lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (John 1:9). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">“<b>Let </b>your light so shine
before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is
in heaven” (Matthew 5:16).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc"; font-size: 18.0pt;">The Cup of Blessing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The believers at Corinth had been
saved out of idolatrous paganism.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The problem was that they were integrating the worship practices of
idolatrous paganism </span></div>
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into Christian worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This happens in almost every culture where people have been saved from
false religious beliefs to come to rest in the Gospel of Christ and receive the
gift of salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Therefore, the integration of false worship practices
from various false religions have been universally corrupting worship for
thousands of years continuing to do so even into modern times.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point is
that practices that are culturally acceptable in diverse cultures that are
connected to false worship are not to be accepted and integrated into
Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The integration of pagan worship practices into
Christianity is what Paul addresses in I Corinthians chapter ten.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul addresses
this by addressing the fact of the <i>Jewish roots</i> in Biblical Christian
worship and thereby addresses that Christian worship has NO ROOTS IN PAGAN/IDOLATROUS
WORSHIP PRACTICES.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the primary
subject of I Corinthians chapter ten as Paul deals with the Lord’s Supper coming
out of Jewish Passover and <b>not</b> the licentious fertility cultus of the pagan
Love Feasts (I Corinthians 10:1-14). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">However, in discussing the <i>Jewish roots</i> of<i> </i>Biblical
worship, we must be EXTREMELY careful not to drift to the extremes</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> being advocated in the <i>Hebrew Roots Movement</i>,
the <i>Sacred Name Movement</i>, <i>Messianic Judaism</i>, or the <i>Worldwide
Church of God</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All these <i>movements</i>
corrupt the distinctiveness of Biblical Christianity by bringing emphasis upon aspects
of the Old (Mosaic) Covenant rather than the <i>dispensational transitions</i>
in worship and service under the New Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>15 </sup>I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I
say. <sup>16</sup> <b>The <u>cup of blessing</u></b> which we bless, is it not <b>the
communion </b>{<i><span style="color: black;">koinonia; physically representative
of the spiritual union in partnership in ministry with Christ</span></i><span style="color: black;">}</span></span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt;">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">of the blood of Christ</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">? <b>The bread which we break</b>, is it not <b>the
communion</b> {<i><span style="color: black;">koinonia; physically representative
of the spiritual union in partnership in ministry with Christ</span></i><span style="color: black;">} </span>of <b>the body of Christ</b>? <sup>17</sup> For we
<i>being</i> many are one bread, <i>and</i> one body: for <b>we are all
partakers of that one bread</b>. <sup>18</sup> Behold Israel after the flesh:
are not they {<i>the priesthood of Israel</i>} which eat of the sacrifices
partakers of the altar? <sup>19</sup> What say I then? that the idol is any
thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? <sup>20</sup>
But <i>I say</i>, <b>that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they
sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have
fellowship with devils. <sup>21</sup> Ye cannot drink the <u>cup of the Lord</u>,
and the <u>cup of devils</u>: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and
of the table of devils</b>. <sup>22</sup> Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?
are we stronger than he” (I Corinthians 10:15-22)?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>There are four “cups” being addressed
in I Corinthians 10:15-21, although only three are mentioned specifically (</b>the
cup of wrath, the “cup of blessing,” the “cup of the Lord,” and the “cup of
devils,”). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The practical and theological
depth of what God is addressing in I Corinthians chapter ten and eleven is rather
overwhelming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the things of
which God speaks are foundational to understanding what is involved in the
celebration of worship in the Lord’s Supper as a “fellowship” of communion
between true believers in Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Without understanding the practical ramifications of
the theological depth addressed by Paul in these two chapters of Scripture, the
Lord’s Supper is reduced to empty worship and a meaningless ritual.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the
believer who wants to truly worship the Lord Jesus in the Lord’s Supper as God desires
must labor to understand the practical and theological depth to which a
believer enters in participation in the Lord’s Table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each aspect of the elements of the Lord’s
Supper are intended to remind the believer of what Christ has ALREADY
accomplished on the believer’s behalf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>4</sup> The LORD <i>is</i> in his holy temple,
the LORD’S throne <i>is</i> in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the
children of men. <sup>5</sup> The LORD trieth the righteous: <b>but the wicked
and him that loveth violence his soul hateth</b>. <sup>6</sup> Upon the wicked
he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: <b><i>this
shall be</i> the portion of their cup</b>” (Psalm 11:4-6).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“For <b>in the hand of the LORD <i>there is</i> a cup</b>,
and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but
the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring <i>them</i> out, <i>and</i>
drink <i>them</i>” (Psalm 75:8).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>17 </sup>And the seventh angel poured out his
vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven,
from the throne, saying, <b>It is done</b>. <sup>18</sup> And there were
voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as
was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, <i>and</i> so
great. <sup>19</sup> And the great city was divided into three parts, and the
cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, <b>to
give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath</b>”
(Revelation 16:17-19).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Although not mentioned in I Corinthians 10:15-22, the<b>
cup of God’s wrath</b> is the “cup” to which Jesus refers in Matthew 26:39; “let
this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou <i>wilt</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In Matthew chapter twenty-six, Jesus celebrated the
last Passover and the first Lord’s Supper with His disciples.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the substance
of <i>practical and</i> <i>theological transition</i> from the beginning of
Matthew chapter twenty-six to the end of that chapter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The transition is from <i>incompletion</i> in
the Old Testament (Mosaic Covenant) type to <i>completion</i> in the New
Testament (Covenant) fulfillment of the type.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is to what Paul refers in I Corinthians 11:25, where Jesus says; “For
this is my blood of the new testament {<i>covenant</i>}” (Matthew 26:28).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Shortly after Jesus explains the real spiritual
significance in the Passover as typical of His death to satisfy God’s wrath
upon sin and remit sin’s penalty (Romans 6:23), Jesus agonizes in the garden of
Gethsemane over the torture He would bear in His body and soul to redeem
sinners from the penalty of their sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">On three separate occasions of prayer, Jesus petitions
His Father for another possible avenue of redemption for sinful humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the connecting link to what Peter
declares to the Jews in Acts 4:12: “Neither is there salvation in any other:
for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter’s statement in Acts 4:12
tells us he NOW comprehended something he did not yet understand in Matthew
chapter twenty-six at Gethsemane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>36 </sup><b>Then</b> {<i>after the last Passover
and institution of the Lord’s Supper</i>} cometh Jesus with them unto a place
called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and
pray yonder. <sup>37</sup> And he took with him Peter and the two sons of
Zebedee, and {<i>Jesus</i>} <b>began to be sorrowful and very heavy</b>. <sup>38</sup>
Then saith he {<i>Jesus</i>} unto them {<i>Peter, James, and John</i>}, <b>My
soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me</b>.
<sup>39</sup> And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed,
saying, <b>O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:
nevertheless not as I will, but as thou <i>wilt</i>.</b> <sup>40</sup> And he
cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep {<i>they did not have a clue
to what was about to happen in the death of Jesus let alone the depth of
accomplishment in which His death would immerse them</i>}, and saith unto
Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? <sup>41</sup> Watch and pray,
that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed <i>is</i> willing, but the
flesh <i>is</i> weak. <sup>42</sup> <b>He went away again the second time</b>,
and prayed, saying, <b>O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me,
except I drink it, thy will be done.</b> <sup>43</sup> And he came and found
them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. <sup>44</sup> And he left them,
and <b>went away again, and prayed the third time</b>, <b>saying the same words</b>.
<sup>45</sup> Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on
now, and take <i>your</i> rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man
is betrayed into the hands of sinners” (Matthew 26:36-45).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The cup of wrath is the curse of God upon sin.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is an
assumption of understanding of the propitiation of God’s wrath in the celebration
of the Lord’s Supper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason there is
an assumption of understanding of the propitiation of God’s wrath in the celebration
of the Lord’s Supper is because the Lord’s Supper is ONLY FOR “BORN AGAIN”
believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, before a person
can be “born again,” that person MUST UNDERSTAND that God’s wrath has been once
for all and forever satisfied and the penalty of sin has been once for all and
forever remitted through the substitutionary death of Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>JESUS DRANK IT ALL FOR YOU!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The failure to understand the propitiation of God’s
wrath in Christ emptying that cup of wrath by drinking it for the believing
sinner is a critical manifestation of a person having never understood the
Gospel and therefore having never believed/rested in the Gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord’s Supper as a memorial of the death,
burial, and resurrection of Jesus is absolutely meaningless apart from a
practical and theological understanding of the satisfaction of the wrath of God
upon sin in God’s propitiation and the remission of sin’s penalty in the vicarious,
once for all forever offering of the Blood of Jesus in His death on Calvary’s Cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>24 </sup>Being <b>justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus</b>: <sup>25</sup> Whom <b>God
hath set forth <i>to be</i> a propitiation through faith in his blood</b>, to
declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the
forbearance of God; <sup>26 </sup>To declare, <i>I say</i>, at this time his
righteousness: that <b>he might be just, and the justifier</b> of him which
believeth in Jesus” (Romans 3:24-26).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>13 </sup>Christ <b>hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us</b>: for it is written, <b>Cursed <i>is</i>
every one that hangeth on a tree</b>: <sup>14</sup> That the blessing of
Abraham {<i>salvation as a gift offered by grace and received through faith</i>;
<i>Ephesians 2:8</i>} might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we
might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” (Galatians 3:13-14).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>18</sup> Forasmuch as ye know that ye were <b>not
redeemed with corruptible things</b>, <i>as</i> silver and gold, from your vain
conversation <i>received</i> by tradition from your fathers; <sup>19</sup> But <b>with
the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot</b>:
<sup>20</sup> Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you, <sup>21</sup> Who by him do
believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; <b>that
your faith and hope might be in God</b>” (I Peter 1:18-21).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>21</sup> For even hereunto were ye called:
because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should
follow his steps: <sup>22</sup> Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his
mouth: <sup>23</sup> Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he
suffered, he threatened not; but <b>committed <i>himself</i> to him that
judgeth righteously</b>: <sup>24</sup> Who <b>his own self bare our sins in his
own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness</b>: by whose stripes ye were healed” (I Peter 2:21-24).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The cup of God’s wrath becomes the “cup of blessing”
to the believing Christian because Jesus completely emptied the cup of God’s
wrath when He bore God’s wrath in His body on the tree.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, for
the “born again” Christian understanding and resting in the propitiation of God’s
wrath in the “once for all/forever substitutionary death of Jesus Christ, the
Cup of Wrath becomes the Cup of Blessing and consecration to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this transition, the Cup of Wrath becomes
the “cup of salvation” (Psalm 116:13) and the “cup of blessing.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>12 </sup>What shall I render unto the LORD <i>for</i>
all his benefits toward me? <sup>13</sup> <b>I will take</b> {<i>bear, to lift
up or exalt through testimony and life</i>} the <b>cup of salvation </b>{<i>The
very taking of the ‘cup’ was to lift up praise and thanksgiving to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the ‘cup of salvation’ became a ‘cup
of blessing’ God</i>}, and <b>call upon the name of the LORD</b> {<i>implies
recognition of position as in</i> <i>Genesis 4:26 records the time when
believers began to take God’s Name upon themselves as children take their
father’s sir name</i>}. <sup>14</sup> <b>I will pay my vows</b> {<i>keep my
promises especially regarding sanctification in living as a professed child of
God before the world</i>} unto the LORD now <b>in the presence of all his
people</b> {<i>as a faithful testimony to God</i>}. <sup>15</sup> Precious in
the sight of the LORD <i>is</i> the death of his saints. <sup>16</sup> O LORD,
truly I <i>am</i> thy servant; I <i>am</i> thy servant, <i>and</i> the son of
thine handmaid: <b>thou hast loosed my bonds</b>. <sup>17</sup> I will offer to
thee <b>the sacrifice of thanksgiving</b> {<i>the ‘cup of blessing’ or
thanksgiving</i>}, and will call upon the name of the LORD. <sup>18</sup> I
will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people, <sup>19</sup>
In the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. <b>Praise
ye the LORD</b>” (Psalm 116:12-19).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The “cup of blessing” is a cup of thanksgiving and
praise to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone understanding the once
for all forever gift of salvation offered to sinners “by grace” and received
solely “through faith” will surely offer a blessing to God in thanksgiving and praise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To participate in the Lord’s Supper without
this jubilation and praise is the primary meaning of participating in the Lord’s
Supper before God that defines the failure of the person who “eateth and
drinketh unworthily” (I Corinthians 11:29).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To eat and drink WITHOUT praise and thanksgiving removes the whole idea
of the communion of praise and thanksgiving in the “body” of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This “cup
of blessing” God is thanks and praise to God for ALL that is gifted to the
Church corporately as a New Priesthood and all that is gifted to the sinner in
the gift of “complete” salvation (Colossians 2:10).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can a sinner understand the once for all
forever remission of the sin penalty gifted “by grace . . . through faith” and
not be bursting with jubilation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such
failure is a complete contradiction of the “cup of blessing” directed towards God
in the celebration of the Lord’s Supper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The dictionary meaning of the word <i>Eucharist</i> (Greek, <i><span style="color: black;">eucharistía</span></i><span style="color: black;">) means to
be <i>thankful</i> or <i>grateful</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
thankfulness is the communion of the Lord’s Supper that should be evident in
every believer who participates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The meaning of the “cup of blessing” has a twofold
root.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The “cup of blessing” refers to the family Jewish Passover cup now
transferred to a cup of jubilation in the Lord’s Supper in the family of a
local church of “born again” believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the Old Testament celebration of the Passover, the Jewish households
individually celebrated as a <i>family of individual believers</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Passover celebration was not a Temple
celebration or one administrated by the priesthood of Israel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Passover was a household celebration
administrated by the heads of every household.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Jewish Passover was a memorial celebration
reminding the Jewish believers of the time when the “death angel” passed over
the household that had applied the blood of the slain lamb to the doorposts and
lintels of the doorways into their houses (Exodus chapter twelve).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only those with in the households having
applied the blood of the slain lamb, and those individuals who had eaten of the
flesh of the slain lamb, would be delivered from the death angel’s passing
over. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the “fellowship” to which
Paul equates the participants in the Lord’s Supper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In the Old Covenant, the head of every household would
offer a prayer of thanksgiving for the Passover Lamb and the blood of the slain
Lamb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True faith understood that the
thanksgiving was for what God did for those expressing faith in the slain Lamb
and the grace of God in His passing over their households.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no sacramental merit in the slain
lamb other than its typology of the “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
world” (Revelation 13:8 and Genesis 3:15). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “cup of blessing” was much more than one
man offering a prayer of thanksgiving to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The “cup of blessing” was the head of the household leading that
household in all of them giving thanks to God every time they celebrated the
Passover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The “cup of blessing” in the Lord’s Supper is a very
similar “communion.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord’s Supper
is a local church ordinance to be celebrated within the context of the “fellowship”
of a local church assembly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A local
church assembly was often called a “fellowship.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<b>The cup of blessing which we bless, is it
not the communion</b> {<i>partnership or fellowship in the shared benefits</i>}
of the blood of Christ? <b>The bread which we break, is it not the communion</b>
{<i>partnership or fellowship in the shared benefits</i>} of the body of Christ
{<i>commonality</i> in <i>the New Creation</i>}” (I Corinthians 10:16)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In the “cup of blessing,” the participants <i>give the
Eucharist</i> <u>to</u> God (blessing God through thanksgiving to God).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the “cup of devils,” the participants <i><u>receive</u>
the Eucharist</i> (a blessing from the idol).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the <i>sacramental view</i> of the Lord’s Supper (<i>Eucharistic
view</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the <i>sacramental view</i>
of the Lord’s Supper, the emphasis is upon what the participant <b>receives
from the idol</b> in a <i>blessing of expectation</i> of what <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">the idol will do</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the <i>ordinance view</i> of the Lord’s
Supper, the emphasis is upon the blessing of thanksgiving given to God for what
He has <b>ALREADY DONE</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The “cup of devils” is a reference to the drink
offering poured out to the idol to which pagan sacrifices were offered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A portion of the “cup” was poured out on the
ground or altar before the idol and the rest of the contents was shared by all
the participants in the worship of the idol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The participants then believed they were sharing in the blessing the
idol put upon the wine or strong drink in the cup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As the participants drank the wine or strong drink in
the cup, they believed they were taking the idol’s blessing and receiving the spirit
of the idol now in the wine into themselves.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drunkenness in alcohol intoxication
was interpreted as the presence of the spirit of the idol now within the body of
the participant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The blessing was the
belief that they were taking the spirit of the idol into their bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>This foolishness is the source of the supposed
presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the sacramental merit of eating and
drinking the elements of the Lord’s Supper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is absolute paganism.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christianity
was already being paganized by the nonsense of this integration of pagan ideas into
the Lord’s Supper by the church at Corinth before 60 A.D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Anyone believing in either the spiritual or corporeal<i>
</i>presence of Christ in the elements of the Eucharist (Lord’s Supper) thereby
hold to this corrupted, pagan, and <i>sacramental view</i> of the ordinance.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ordinance
is thereby totally corrupted and anyone participating with that belief
regarding the ordinance “eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh
damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body” (I Corinthians 11:29).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The emphasis in I Corinthians 10:6-14
is a reminder to the Christians at Corinth not to integrate pagan and idolatrous
ideas and practices of worship in with Biblical doctrines and practices of
worship.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is always a danger of
interpreting Christian ordinances according to corrupted beliefs to which
people have held before they came to trust in Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gift of salvation does not immediately
erase all false doctrines or corrupt practices from the believer’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the responsibility of every believer’s
individual study of the Word of God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>15 </sup>Study to shew thyself approved unto
God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
truth. <sup>16</sup> But shun profane <i>and</i> vain babblings: for they will
increase unto more ungodliness” (II Timothy 2:15-16).</span></div>
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<i>He has served the Lord for over 50 years.</i>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-40011296404821145562019-11-28T11:08:00.002-06:002019-11-28T11:08:58.521-06:00The Nuances of Worship
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">Although everything a believer does
in his/her relationship with God is an expression of worship, the local church
assembly is NOT primarily a <i>worship center</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worship should never be reduced to a few
hours a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The three primary and
purest forms of worship that happened every day within the life of any believer
are personal Bible study and living what is learned (II Timothy 2:15), singing
“psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” (Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16), and
winning souls/making disciples (Matthew 28:18-20; fulfilling the Great
Commission).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although all three of these
aspects of worshiping God are primary to the assembling of the “saints”
(believer/priests) in what we call a church service, the primary purpose of
assembling the “saints” (believer/priests) is for <b>instruction in knowing and
living</b> the Word of God through teaching and preaching the Word of God
(Ephesians 4:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A problem is created
when the emphasis is upon teaching and preaching God’s Word without any
emphasis upon worshiping God from the heart is minimized; <b>MAINTAINING THIS
BALANCE IN FOCUS IS ESSENTIAL.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Perhaps the
central purpose of life and the creation of humans with eternal souls is for
humanity to individually prove to the angels their own spiritual worth and
integrity before God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This big picture
is certainly the purpose of the book of Job</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">“<sup>6 </sup>Now there was a day
when the sons of God {<i>angels</i>} came to present themselves before the
LORD, <b>and Satan came also among them</b>. <sup>7</sup> And the LORD said
unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From
going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. <sup>8</sup> And
the LORD said unto Satan, <b>Hast thou considered my servant Job, that <i>there
is</i> none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that
feareth God, and escheweth evil?</b> <sup>9</sup> Then Satan answered the LORD,
and said, <b>Doth Job fear God for nought?</b> <sup>10</sup> Hast not thou made
an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every
side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased
in the land. <sup>11</sup> But <b>put forth thine hand now, and touch all that
he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.</b> <sup>12</sup> And the LORD
said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath <i>is</i> in thy power; only upon
himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the
LORD” (Job 1:6-12).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">God created innumerable angelic
spiritual beings with enormous powers and then made those beings subordinate to
humanity with one command; “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let <b>them</b> have dominion {<i>to subjugate, to reign, to rule over</i>}”
(Genesis 1:26 and 28).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">The question from the very beginning
of the fall is simply a worship question:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"> Will humanity submit to God’s sovereignty, obey
Him, love Him, and worship Him regardless of the circumstances of life now
under the fall into satanic dominion and God’s curse upon the first creation. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">When we think of words like
rejoice, praise, or thanksgiving, we almost always connect these verbs to
something good God <u>has done</u>.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very seldom do we
ever think in these terms just because of the privilege of knowing God or just
because of <u>Who God is</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, this
latter use of these verbs is the predominant use of these verbs in the
Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do we only rejoice because things
are going the way we think they should be going?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do we only praise God because all is well in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whoville</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does God only deserved to be thanked when He
has done something that we deem to be a blessing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">Did you know that within the
Levitical priesthood at the time of king David, of the 38,000 priests, 4,000 of
them (about 10%) were commissioned with doing nothing but making praise music
with the musical instruments David had invented for that purpose</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over
Israel. <sup>2</sup> And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with
the priests and the Levites. <sup>3</sup> Now the Levites were <b>numbered from
the age of thirty years and upward</b>: and their number by their polls, man by
man, was <b>thirty and eight thousand</b>. <sup>4</sup> Of which, twenty and
four thousand <i>were</i> to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and
six thousand <i>were</i> officers and judges: <sup>5</sup> Moreover four
thousand <i>were</i> porters; and <b>four thousand praised the LORD with the
instruments which I made, <i>said David</i>, to praise <i>therewith</i></b>”(I
Chronicles 23:1-5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Music itself is a creation of God gifted to humanity.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is
harmony in all of God’s creation that naturally comes forth in a symphony of
praise to God’s glory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Joseph S. Exell says of music:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<span style="color: black;">If we allow music any
rights of its own, they must be based upon its claim to give expression which
is beyond the power of words, and to utter conceptions which thought cannot
formulate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has the power to take them
out of the surroundings even of the deepest thoughts, to lift their aspirations
where nothing else can go, to carry them into the presence of a power of
harmony and order more fundamental than the skill of the hand or the logic of
the mind can represent.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=931265740727391506#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Praise music was the music of the
sanctified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The music played was
accompanied by a chorus of “singers.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When it was played in the Temple and was truly worshipful, it not only
moved the hearts of God’s people, it moved God Himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can we imagine what it must have been like to
have been in a song service like the one described in II Chronicles 5:11-14?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>11 </sup>And it came to pass, when the priests
were come out of the holy <i>place</i>: (for all the priests <i>that were</i>
present were sanctified, <i>and</i> did not <i>then</i> wait by course: <sup>12</sup>
<b>Also the Levites <i>which were</i> the singers</b>, all of them of Asaph, of
Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, <i>being</i> arrayed in
white linen, <b>having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end
of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with
trumpets</b>:) <sup>13</sup> It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and
singers <i>were</i> as one {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">playing and
singing in harmony</i>}, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking
the LORD; and when they lifted up <i>their</i> voice with the trumpets and
cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, <i>saying</i>, For <i>he
is</i> good; for his mercy <i>endureth</i> for ever: <b>that <i>then</i> the
house was filled with a cloud, <i>even</i> the house of the LORD; <sup>14</sup>
So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the
glory of the LORD had filled the house of God</b>” (II Chronicles 5:11-14). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We should regularly remember that a
central purpose of the solemn assembly of believers is to sing and play music to
the praise of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sing and play TO
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He should be our focus and the
purpose of song and music of PRAISE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
should think of the song/music parts of our services as sanctified believers
calling out in invitation to God to come and fill our services with Himself;
for the Shekinah glory of the LORD to fill “the house of God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very easy for song services and music
to miss this focus all together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not
talking about standing and swaying with our hands raised in some kind of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">zombie-like</i> trance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am speaking of music and singing that is already
filled with praise in our thoughts and hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The music does not put those thoughts there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We put those thoughts of praise there and we
sing to God those thoughts of praise, rejoicing, and thanksgiving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do not do that so our hearts will be
moved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do that to move the heart of
God and to be a blessing to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If our
thoughts are not filled with praise, rejoicing, and thanksgiving to God, God
will not be stirred or blessed by our external mechanics of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">worship</i> (so called).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Can we imagine what the choir of the
redeemed will be like in the presence of God and His throne?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is partially described in Revelation
chapter five.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A choir of millions of
millions of believers will sing with the purest of worship in the most perfect
harmony ever heard?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add to that the
choir of the harmony of all other created beings; <b>can we imagine such a
choir?</b> (If you are “born again,” you will be part of this Choir!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;">“<sup>6</sup> And I beheld, and,
lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the
elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes,
which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. <sup>7</sup>
And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the
throne. <sup>8</sup> And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four <i>and</i>
twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, <b>having every one of them harps</b>,
and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. <sup>9</sup> <b>And
they sung a new song</b>, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open
the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy
blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; <sup>10</sup>
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the
earth. <sup>11</sup> And I beheld, and <b>I heard the voice of many angels
round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them
was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands</b>; <sup>12</sup>
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power,
and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. <sup>13</sup>
<b>And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the
earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying,
Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, <i>be</i> unto him that sitteth
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever</b>. <sup>14</sup> And the
four beasts said, Amen. And the four <i>and</i> twenty elders fell down and
worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever” (Revelation 5:6-14).</span></div>
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sanctity before God was the criterion for worship music to be accepted by
Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only sanctified/consecrated priests
were allowed to sing in the Temple worship services (II Chronicles 5:11)</span></b><span style="mso-font-width: 90%;">.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
Amos chapter six, God decried the worship music of the unsanctified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a passage similar to Christ’s epistle
to “church of the Laodiceans” (Revelations 3:14-22).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There must be genuine sincerity about
sanctity before worship is acceptable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">“<sup>1 </sup>Woe to <b>them <i>that
are</i> at ease in Zion</b> {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they rested
or leaned upon God’s promises to Abraham</i>}, and trust in the mountain of
Samaria {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because it was an impregnable
fortress</i>}, <i>which are</i> named {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">well
known</i>} chief of the nations {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God’s
elect nation</i>}, to whom the house of Israel came! <sup>2</sup> Pass ye unto
Calneh {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">brought under Assyrian
enslavement BC 794</i>}, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">brought under enslavement by <span style="color: black;">Jeroboam II and then by Assyria</span></i><span style="color: black;">}</span>: then go down to Gath of the Philistines {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">brought under enslavement by Uzziah}</i>: <i>be
they</i> better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? <sup>3</sup>
Ye that put far away the evil day {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God’s
pending judgment</i>}, and cause the seat {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reign
or</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">habitation</i>} of violence to
come near {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the idea is they held their
sins near while considering their punishment far off</i>}; <sup>4</sup> That
lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the
lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; <sup>5</sup>
<b>That chant to the sound of the viol, <i>and</i> invent to themselves
instruments of musick, like David</b>; <sup>6</sup> That drink wine in bowls,
and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: <b>but they are not grieved for
the affliction of Joseph</b>. <sup>7</sup> Therefore now shall they go captive
with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched
themselves shall be removed” (Amos 6:1-7).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">Praise, rejoicing, and thanksgiving
cease when we begin to focus on our own lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anthropocentricity</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a disgusting thing to view in
anyone’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the child that
cries when he does not get what he wants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His crying turns a request into a demand made through manipulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice how thankless people are that practice
manipulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice how nothing really
satisfies them for any length of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Notice that they are happy only when the circumstances of life produce
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no real joy in their
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point is that we are thankful
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stuff</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">things</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We rejoice when good
things happen or when things go our way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We praise God for blessings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
do we ever praise God just for being God?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do we ever praise God for what He does not give us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do not get what we deserve!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, God protects us from what we deserve
– His wrath!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">“<sup>1</sup> </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">To the chief Musician for the
sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Choir
of female virgins, i.e.-sanctity</i>}.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;"> God <i>is</i> our refuge and strength, a very present help
in trouble. <sup>2</sup> Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be
removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; <sup>3</sup>
<i>Though</i> the waters thereof roar <i>and</i> be troubled, <i>though</i> the
mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. <sup>4</sup> <i>There is</i>
a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy <i>place</i>
of the tabernacles of the most High. <sup>5</sup> God <i>is</i> in the midst of
her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, <i>and that</i> right early. <sup>6</sup>
The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth
melted. <sup>7</sup> The LORD of hosts <i>is</i> with us; the God of Jacob <i>is</i>
our refuge. Selah. <sup>8</sup> Come, behold the works of the LORD, what
desolations he hath made in the earth. <sup>9</sup> He maketh wars to cease
unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in
sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. <sup>10</sup> Be still, and know
that I <i>am</i> God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in
the earth. <sup>11</sup> The LORD of hosts <i>is</i> with us; the God of Jacob <i>is</i>
our refuge. Selah” (Psalm 46:1-11). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">“Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness
delivereth from death” (Proverbs 11:4).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 85%;">When we finally understand who God
is, we will finally understand true worship and praise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, our hearts will be so full of praise,
worship, and thanksgiving that even our eyes will well up to His glory!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our knees will bow to His majesty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our hearts will demand that our lips shout
forth - Hallelujah! There will be jubilation in the Day of Jubilee!<span class="uficommentbody"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=931265740727391506#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> Exell,
Joseph S. The Biblical Illustrator. London: SwordSearcher Software 6.1.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Why We are Failing the Great Commission</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Chapter twenty-seven</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Rejected Ambassadors of Reconciliation</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">In II Corinthians chapter five, the Apostle Paul
addresses the Ambassadorship of the priesthood of all believers (II Corinthians
5:16-21) and accountability for that ambassadorship at the Judgment Seat of
Christ (II Corinthians 5:1-11).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
summary statement between these two realities is found in II Corinthians
5:14-15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">There are two types of rejections of the ambassadorship
of all believer-priests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The first is
the rejection</b> of the message from Christ that is communicated by these
messengers to the world to which they are sent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The world rejects the message and persecutes the messengers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the most common rejection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Second, there is the rejection by the ambassadors
themselves</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> of the
responsibility to communicate the message given to them by Christ to
communicate to the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second
rejection is to what Paul warns about in II Corinthians 5:10-11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Believers have little control over what the
world does with the message given to us by Christ to communicate to the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, nonetheless, we are
responsible to broadcast that message on the widest scale of possibilities of
our influences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simply because the
common response of the world to messages from God is to kill the messengers is
no excuse for unfaithfulness by the messenger to the message. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the context of the warning given in II
Corinthians 5:14-15. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>DO NOT MISS THIS
CONTEXT!</b></span></div>
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“<sup>14
</sup>For the love of Christ {<i>to truly love Christ and to love what He loves</i>}
constraineth us {<i>restrains, holds us together, and compels us to
faithfulness</i>}; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were
all dead: <sup>15</sup> And <i>that</i> he died for all, t<b>hat they which
live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for
them </b>{<i>since Christ died for the believer, the very least we can do is
live in ‘Christ’s stead’ vs.20</i>}, and rose again {<i>to release His Spirit
to indwell the believer and enable the believer</i>}” (<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">II Corinthians 5:14-15)</span>.</div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Most of the God’s communication to us comes to us in the
Holy Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book is God’s inspired
record of human history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bible is
written to professing believers who begin in ignorance of God, willful,
existing in various degrees of unbelief and disobedience, and usually living in
extreme carnality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of God’s written
communication is ignored and seldom read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most of God’s communication is the historical record of His interaction
with unfaithful people who professed faith in Him to some degree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">In I Timothy chapter three, after Paul gives God’s
qualifications necessary for pastors and deacons to serve in these leadership
positions, Paul gives the central ministry and purpose for the assembly of
believer-priests he addresses as “the church of the living God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is what Peter addresses to believers as
individual sanctuaries of God living in their individual bodies and corporately
as the living temple of living stones (I Peter 2:5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul then gives a descriptor of every local
church as the “pillar and ground of the truth.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In I Timothy chapter three, Paul is certainly referring to local churches
as embryos of the “general assembly” for the Kingdom Age because he makes every
local church responsible for examining the qualifications of their pastors and
deacons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">In most part, most people completely misunderstand the
metaphor given in “the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the
truth.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ancient temples were a construct
of immense quarried rocks that necessitated a solid foundation upon which they
were constructed/installed/stacked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
of the reasons most temples were constructed on mountain tops is because
mountain tops were solid rock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The solid
rock of these mountain tops became the floors/foundations for the
construction/stacking of these enormous quarried/shaped stones constructing
walls, pillars, and a roof of quarried stones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The solid rock floors/foundations were referred to as “the ground” or <i>stay</i>
of the building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">The second element in the construction of these temples
were colonnades (rows) of pillars often reaching seventy feet into the sky (the
height of a seven storied building).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These pillars were a pile of huge shaped stones stacked and interlocking
one upon the other each weighing many tons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Every stone within the construct of these pillars needed to be carefully
selected, shaped, leveled, and plumbed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
portrays the care necessary to the individual discipleship of EVERY
believer-priest making up the construct of the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Failure in discipleship of any individual
would create a weak spot that weakens the integrity of the whole
structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is to what Paul refers
in the statements, “</span>how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of
God” and<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “</span>without
controversy great is the mystery of godliness” (I Timothy 3:15). <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><sup>14 </sup>These things
write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: <sup>15</sup> But if I
tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the
house of God, which is <b>the church of the living God, the pillar and ground
of the truth</b>. <sup>16</sup> And without controversy great is the mystery of
godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of
angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into
glory” (I Timothy 3:14-16).<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">The central purpose of the solid foundation and the
exacting specifications for the colonnades of pillars was to be able to
maintain the support of the huge stones that would become the roof of the
temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The roof is a metaphor for the
eternal truths of God’s revelation given to the world in God’s inspired words
of His Holy Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Supporting the “truth”
is the basis for the quality detailed construct of every individual stone in
the colonnades of pillars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This metaphor
is the picture of the “line upon line” principle of establishing truth in every
generation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><sup>9</sup> Whom shall he
teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? <i>them that
are</i> weaned from the milk, <i>and</i> drawn from the breasts. <sup>10</sup>
For precept <i>must be</i> upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here a little, <i>and</i> there a little: <sup>11</sup> For
with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people” (Isaiah
28:9-11).</div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Most of the population of the world outside of Israel was
completely ignorant of the one true God and were immersed in the corruptions of
the sexually perverse idolatry of the pagan fertility cults.</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even the Jews continued to slip back into these corruptions of the
“mystery of inequity” on regular occasions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The priests of God failed to teach the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then God sent prophets (preachers) to the
willful and disobedient professors of belief to warn them of the consequences
of disregarding the commandments of God to which they had agreed to obey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are seeing parallels of this ignorance within
Christianity in these “last days.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">The true prophets of God were disregarded and even
murdered for preaching the revelations given them from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The true prophets of God were more preachers
than writers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The prophecies given to us
are the written form of God inspired messages (sermons) they preached
repeatedly as they traveled from city to village throughout the nation of
Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">False prophets arose in abundance giving messages
contradicting the messages of the true prophets even denigrating the true
prophets as extremists and false prophets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The false prophets gave false messages from God that condoned the carnal
licentious practices of the people, telling the people things they wanted to
hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even God’s preachers’ warnings
against the false prophets went unheeded by most people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>False prophets emphasized nationalism apart
from the spiritual qualities of separation from idolatry and unto
godliness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Separation from idolatry and
unto godliness were the constant focus of all true prophets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel as a nation was always secondary to
God because <i>nationalism</i> was irrelevant apart from a spiritual
relationship with God (“vain oblations,” Isaiah 1:13).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">All of this defines the “mystery of inequity” against
which every true and genuine believer is commanded that he “</span>should
earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">” (Jude 1:3). </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before faith can be truly “the faith,” that
faith must be based upon the correct understanding of God’s inspired Words that
generate a right relationship with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the <i>front line of warfare</i> upon which the faithful
preacher and every faithful believer battles against a constant barrage of corruption
from “the mystery of inequity.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Failing
to understand this warfare makes a professing believer more a part of the
problem than a part of the solution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">In the Old Covenant, not every prophet was a priest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not every priest was a prophet in the sense
of receiving direct revelation from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, every priest was supposed to be a preacher/teacher of the Word
of God as well as continually reminding the people of the messages of the
prophets retelling what God had done and what God still was going to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This too becomes the responsibility of all
New Covenant believer-priests (all “born again” believer of the Church
Age).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An untrained and undiscipled
priesthood is doomed to unfaithfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Herein
we discover the root of failure in modern Christianity.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Isaiah is commanded of God to preach to the children of
Israel the messages that God gave him through direct revelations from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, God told Isaiah the exact
words He wanted Isaiah to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah
did not just write what God said on sheep skins and parchment to then be sent
to every household in Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah
traveled throughout the land and the people and preached these truths
repeatedly everywhere he went.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
truths then became the responsibility of individual hearers to disseminate to
everyone within their own realm of influence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">However, Isaiah’s preaching came with an instruction book
from God on Homiletics</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">
(the science and art of preaching/teaching).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God expected Isaiah’s communication to be passionate, specific,
confrontational, and instructional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
instructions from God to Isaiah about preaching are detailed in Isaiah
58:1-2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<sup>1</sup> <b>Cry aloud</b> {<i>to
call out to someone loudly with your voice to get their attention; urgently and
passionately in order to compel to obey</i>}, <b>spare not</b> {<i>without
restraint, reservations, or prejudices in respect towards persons</i> <i>or the
positions they hold in life</i>}, lift up thy voice like a trumpet {<i>make
sure everyone hears the warning and understands the meaning of the trumpet’s
sounding</i>; <i>‘</i></span><i>For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who
shall prepare himself to the battle?’ I Cor. 14:8</i><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">}, and <b>shew <u>my people</u> their transgression</b> {<i>The
prophet/preacher is required to speak with specificity regarding failures and
sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word ‘shew’ means to stand in
bold opposition against the corruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God viewed His ‘people’ in moral revolt against His Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah, and all preachers/priests, are
commanded to expose that moral revolt against the character and nature of God’s
holiness in every detail of minutia.}</i>, and <b>the house of Jacob their sins</b>
{<i>the intent of the preaching is to confront the hypocrisy of ritual and
practical externalism without any genuine repentance of the sins.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>This religious and ritual hypocrisy was
greater than the sin itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
addressed this problem in the very first message to Isaiah to give the children
of Israel. ‘</i></span><i>Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination
unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away
with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.’ Isaiah 1:13</i><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">}. <sup>2</sup> <b>Yet they seek me</b>
daily, and <b>delight to know my ways</b>, <b><u>as</u></b> {<i>semblance</i>} <b>a
nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God</b> {<i>nothing
real or genuine in their repentance; no substance to it</i>}: <b>they ask of me
the ordinances of justice </b>{<i>seeking solutions</i>}<b>; they take delight
in approaching to God</b> {<i>This all describes semblance without substance;
no genuine life changing repentance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is absolute foolishness and self-deception for anyone to think this kind of
hypocrisy of religious externalism is somehow going to be acceptable and
blessed of God.</i>}” (Isaiah 58:1-2).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">In Isaiah 6:1-8, God gives Isaiah a vision of Himself
upon the throne in Heaven where the “seraphim . . . </span>cried unto another,
and said, Holy, holy, holy, <i>is</i> the LORD of hosts: the whole earth <i>is</i>
full of his glory” (Isaiah 6:3).<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>King Uzziah dies just before this
vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His son Jotham had reigned in
his stead when Uzziah was stricken with leprosy by God for pride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah’s call to prophesy came two years
before Uzziah’s death that happens in Isaiah 6:1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Isaiah 6:1-8 is one of the most revealing and sobering visions
of the character and nature of God in the Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vision shook Isaiah to the core of his
being humbling him before God; “</span>Woe <i>is</i> me! for I am undone;
because I <i>am</i> a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people
of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts” (Isaiah
6:5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">It is this vision of God that is the foundation of
equating Isaiah as the <i>Paul of the Old Testament</i> (II Corinthians
12:1-10).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaiah’s faithfulness to
preaching was unwavering after this vision of God in His sovereignty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After God gives Isaiah this spectacular
vision in Isaiah 6:1-8, then God commissions Isaiah with his preaching
responsibilities to God’s people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
this deep-seated understanding and faith in Who God is that establishes the
foundation of moral responsibility for every believer’s commission to fulfill
the Great Commission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is out of this
understanding of the sovereignty of a holy God and our accountability to Him in
faithfulness to His commands that true obedience is birthed into this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><sup>9 </sup>And he said, <b>Go,
and tell this people</b>, {<i>the message of God to the people is as follows</i>}
<b>Hear ye indeed</b>, but understand not; and <b>see ye indeed</b>, but
perceive not. <sup>10</sup> Make the heart of this people fat, and make their
ears heavy, and shut their eyes {<i>the intent is that the children of Israel
would harden themselves to what God was saying and the continual preaching of
the faithful prophet would become a heavy weight of judgment upon their hearts</i>};
lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with
their heart, and convert, and be healed. <sup>11</sup> Then said I {<i>Isaiah
to God</i>}, <b>Lord, how long?</b> And he {<i>God</i>} <b>answered</b>, Until
the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the
land be utterly desolate, <sup>12</sup> And the LORD have removed men far away,
and <i>there be</i> a great forsaking in the midst of the land {<i>keep
preaching</i> <i>until there is literally no one left to listen</i>}” (Isaiah
6:9-12).<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Isaiah’s ministry would span the lives and the <i>roller-coaster
ride</i> of spiritual devolution and corruption from Uzziah, to Jotham, to the
pagan Baalist Ahaz who passed his own children through the sacrificial fires to
Moloch (II Chronicles 28:3), and then back to revival under Hezekiah (Isaiah
1:1).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within this <i>roller-coaster ride</i>
of spiritual devolution and corruption would rise the opposition to the message
of the true prophets by the <i>ear-ticking</i>, culturally relevant placating
messages of the false prophets who simply told the people what they wanted to
hear with no mention of God’s condemnation or any call to repentance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Isaiah prophesied for sixty-two years from 760 to 698
B.C. seeing revival under king Hezekiah in his last few years of ministry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point of this is that he was faithful to
God’s Word through the thick and thin of political corruptions leading through
spiritual apostasy under the leadership of Ahaz to spiritual revival under the
leadership of Hezekiah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The faithful
messenger is concerned only with being faithful to the message given him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There can be no faithful <i>mouth to ear to
heart</i> transposition of truth from one generation to another apart from
being faithful to the message and to a personal relationship with the God of
the message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Herein lays the great corruption of the priesthood of all
believers of the New Covenant by “the doctrine of the Nicolaitans” (Revelation
2:16 and 16) and why the Church is failing the Great Commission. </span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “the doctrine of the Nicolaitans” was the
creation of the <i>clergy/laity division</i> within professing Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ hated “the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans” because it corrupted the priesthood of all believers making it
easy for false teachers to gain control and propagate their false
doctrines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>In other words, by A.D. 96
and the giving of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle John, like the
false prophets in the Old Covenant, most of Christianity had become dominated
by false teachers who then denigrated, radicalized, and marginalized those
faithful preachers who were faithful to the message.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The responsibility for the transposition of
the truth of the message of God from one generation to the next under
Nicolaitanism had now become the responsibility of a few, not the
responsibility of the many; the “Church.” </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jeremiah was the last of the faithful prophets to Judah
prior to the captivity.</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jeremiah prophesied to Judah from 629-588 B.C
beginning his ministry sixty-nine years after Isaiah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ten Northern Tribes had already gone into
Babylonian (Chaldean) captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Three more generations of Jewish kings have passed into
history before Jeremiah comes on the scene. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Zedekiah was the last of the pre-exile
kings who was carried to Babylon after eleven years of a puppet reign under the
Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jeremiah
remains in Jerusalem witnessing God’s final judgment<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> upon Judah in the Babylonian captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Ezekiel (595-574 B.C.) is already in Babylon having been taken
with the ten Northern tribes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ezekiel
witnessed what God said He would do <b>from</b> that captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daniel is also in Babylon under exile (607-534
B.C.).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daniel would spend the whole
prophesied seventy years of captivity in captivity to live long enough to see
the remnant returned to Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">This historical context is incredibly critical to
understanding the difference between being a faithful prophet/preacher and an
unfaithful prophet/preacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spiritual
and political circumstances are irrelevant to faithfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although there were <i>ups and downs</i> in
the spiritual and political atmosphere of Israel, what defined faithfulness to
God’s Word remain a constant among the faithful prophets/preachers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apart from this historical context, Jeremiah
chapters twenty-three and twenty-four would have little meaning to us or be
able to give us the intended understanding of what defines faithfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1
</span></sup><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Woe </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">{<i>a pronouncement of pending doom; curse</i>}<b> be
unto the pastors </b>{<i>corrupted, unfaithful priests and false prophets</i>}<b>
that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!</b> saith the LORD. <sup>2</sup>
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel <b>against the pastors</b> {<i>corrupted,
unfaithful priests and false prophets</i>} that feed my people; Ye have
scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I
will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. <sup>3</sup> And I
will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven
them {<i>the regathering of Jews during the Tribulation</i> <i>through the
preaching of Jesus as Messiah by the 144,000 saved, sealed, resurrected, and
glorified from the twelve tribes of Israel</i>}, and will bring them {<i>saved
Jews from the Tribulation</i>} <b>again to their folds</b> {<i>various land
distributions in the Promised Land</i>}; and <b>they shall be fruitful and
increase </b>{<i>marry and produce children and thereby multiply</i>}. <sup>4</sup>
And <b>I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them</b> {<i>refers
to a new Melchizedekian priesthood in the priesthood of all Church Age
believers from the Church Age</i> <i>grafted into Israel at the beginning of
the Kingdom Age</i>}: and <b>they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither
shall they be lacking</b>, saith the LORD {JEHOVAH; <i>because Jesus will reign
in omnipotence over the Kingdom Age through His glorified priesthood with a
‘rod of iron’</i>}” (Jeremiah 23:1-4). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We are rapidly seeing our culture being converted from
Amoralism due to Secular Humanism into Immoralism due to total Atheism and
rampant unbelief in the existence of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are few differences between the cultural outcomes of Amoralism and
Immoralism except the complete intolerance of any moral absolutes and any form
of strict moral codes of ethics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amoralism
and Immoralism create an anti-Christ and an anti-God culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True and Biblical Christians are rapidly
being viewed as the enemies of this evolving culture (Paganism without physical
idols).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The so-called <i>Christianity </i>of Post-modernism is
more secular than it is sacred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The falsities of <i>Ecumenical Christianity</i> (now <i>Pluralism</i>)
demand the acceptance of a degree of veracity for all beliefs and all forms of
worship. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This corruption is very similar to what was going on
in Israel during Isaiah’s and Jeremiah’s prophecies against Israel and her
false prophets. </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The false prophets and corrupted priests
(“pastors”) were validating all forms of worship and the integration of pagan
practices into Judaism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This unholy,
worldly nonsense in professing <i>Christianity</i>, daring to call itself by
the Name of Christ, is the continuing evolution of false salvation decisions
unaccompanied by any form of genuine repentance of sin or false doctrines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When false teachers demand that nothing is to
be called false and wrong then everything must be considered righteous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the outcome of “having a form of
godliness, but denying the power thereof” (II Timothy 3:5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>History is repeating itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><sup>9 </sup><b>Mine heart
within me is broken because of the prophets </b>{<i>Jeremiah<b> </b>prophesied<span style="color: black;"> under the reign of kings Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim,
Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah, which moved from revival under Josiah to complete
compromise under Zedekiah.</span></i><span style="color: black;">}</span>; all my
bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, <b>because
of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>{<i>Jeremiah lived through and personally
experienced the horrors of the siege, captivity, sacking, and destruction of
Jerusalem</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>The reasons God
allowed all this carnage is now described in verses 10-17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice the cause is directly connected to
people refusing to hear the true prophets and heaping to ‘themselves teachers
having itching ears,’ II Timothy 4:3</i>} <sup>10</sup> For {<i>because = cause</i>}
the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the
pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and
their force <i>is</i> not right. <sup>11</sup> <b>For </b><i>because = cause</i>}
<b>both prophet and priest are profane</b>; yea, in my house have I found their
wickedness, saith the LORD. <sup>12</sup> Wherefore their way shall be unto
them as slippery <i>ways</i> in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall
therein: for I will bring evil upon them, <i>even</i> the year of their visitation,
saith the LORD. <sup>13</sup> <b>And I have seen folly in the prophets of
Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err</b>. <sup>14</sup>
<b>I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit
adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that
none doth return from his wickedness</b>: they are all of them unto me as
Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. <sup>15</sup> Therefore thus
saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
and make them drink the water of gall: <b>for from the prophets of Jerusalem is
profaneness gone forth into all the land.</b> <sup>16</sup> Thus saith the LORD
of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you:
they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, <i>and</i> not out
of the mouth of the LORD. <sup>17</sup> <b>They say</b> <b>still</b> unto them
that despise me, <b>The LORD hath said</b>, Ye shall have peace; and <b>they
say</b> unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No
evil shall come upon you” (Jeremiah 23:9-17).<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
we transition from Jeremiah chapter twenty-three into the ten verses of
Jeremiah chapter twenty-four, we see that there are extensive long-term
consequences to compromise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“<sup>1
</sup>The LORD shewed me, and, behold, <b>two baskets of figs</b> <i>were</i>
set <b>before the temple of the LORD</b>, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah {<i>Coniah; Jerimiah 22:24, 28, and
37:1</i>} the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with
the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. <sup>2</sup>
One basket <i>had</i> very good figs, <i>even</i> like the figs <i>that are</i>
first ripe: and the other basket <i>had</i> very naughty figs, which could not
be eaten, they were so bad” (Jeremiah 24:1-2).</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In Jeremiah
24:1-2, God presents two different harvests of “figs” in two different levels
of the captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first “figs” were
the best and ripest of the harvest and would be the source from which the
returning remnant of faithful would be birthed in the last generation of the
seventy-years of the Babylonian captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These “figs” are therefore called “very good figs.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b>The second basket of figs came
from the third harvest and often came very late in the season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were seldom ripe enough to be any good
for eating</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The captivity of the
first “figs” was accompanied by repentance and revival of real passion for the
things of God and love for God among many Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The later captivity under <span style="color: black;">Zedekiah</span>’s
reign of those at the greatest level of compromise and disassociation from the
heart and mind of God was not accompanied with repentance and a change of
heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, these people in this
level of the captivity are called “bad,” “naughty,” and even “evil” figs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing could turn their sour hearts to
sweetness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They would not hear, see,
understand, or be turned from their wickedness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This is very similar to the
Laodicean church of Revelation chapter three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They would not see that what they thought they were is not anywhere
close to what God knew they were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“<sup>14</sup>
And unto the angel {<i>pastor or messenger</i>} of the church of the Laodiceans
write; These things saith the <b>Amen</b>, the <b>faithful and true witness</b>,
the beginning of the creation of God; <sup>15</sup> <b>I know</b> thy works,
that thou art neither cold nor hot: <b>I would</b> thou wert cold or hot. <sup>16</sup>
So then <b>because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot</b>, I will spue
thee out of my mouth. <sup>17</sup> <b>Because thou sayest</b>, I am rich, and
increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: <sup>18</sup> <b>I
counsel thee</b> to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich;
and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and <i>that</i> the shame of
thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, <b>that thou
mayest see</b>. <sup>19</sup> As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten {<i>rejoice
in your rebuke because there is still hope of repentance if chastisement is
still taking place</i>}: <b>be zealous</b> {<i>this is the ‘rebuke;’</i> <i>present
tense = habitually be; this is the opposite of being ‘lukewarm.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Greek word translated ‘zealous’ here
comes from a root word meaning to boil.</i>} therefore {<i>get some passion for
godliness</i>}, and <b>repent</b>” (Revelation 3:14-19).</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>He has served the Lord for over 50 years.</i></span>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-49503290114898722642019-11-11T08:55:00.000-06:002019-11-11T08:55:30.874-06:00Transforming Transfusion Preaching<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">God has Ordained the Foolishness of Preaching</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Transforming</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <i>Transfusion
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<b>Undoubtedly, the first epistle to
the Corinthian believers is an epistle defining the scope of Biblical
repentance.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aberrations of
carnality addressed by the epistle were not to be allowed to continue and were
to be addressed by the leaders of the local congregation through
“preaching.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of the sixteen separate chapter
divisions in the first epistle to the Corinthians in our KJV Bibles, fourteen
of those chapters rebuke and reprove the Corinthian believers (“saints,” I
Corinthians 1:2) for carnality, false doctrines, sinful attitudes, and false
practices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The epistle is a sermon
preached on preaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The gospel” to which the epistle
refers is all that the death, burial, and resurrection/glorification of Jesus
accomplishes for the believing sinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
extends far beyond salvation from Hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Included in this salvation is the salvation of the believer’s life from
waste through practical sanctification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The future glorification of the believer’s body is also included in this
<i>good news</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much of what the first
epistle to the Corinthians addresses will be lost if we do not understand that
the good news extends into all three of these aspects of a believer’s
salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">I Corinthians 1:17 immediately divides the <i>hearers</i>
of the <i>good news</i> into two distinctly different <i>apposing</i>
categories</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> (<i>appose</i>:
to place something in proximity to or juxtaposition with something else).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the understanding and believing sinner
these accomplishments are truly <i>good news</i> resulting in the manifestation
of the creative power of God in the regeneration of a lost sinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the unbelieving sinner these
accomplishments are just “foolishness.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
preacher of the <i>good news</i> may not understand to which category of <i>hearers</i>
he is preaching until they respond to the preaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vast majority of the epistle is addressed
to those who view Paul’s preaching on practical sanctification as “foolishness.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the aspect of the “gospel” that the
Corinthians were rejecting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>This is
the primary in a series of appositions.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Paul is beginning to develop a presentation
of ideas that attempt to bring the intangible realities of the invisible dimension
of the spiritual into sight through a faith understanding of that invisible reality</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Within the invisible spiritual dimension, known only through faith and
the teaching of the Spirit (I Corinthians 2:9-16), there are no grey areas
between righteousness and unrighteousness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within the invisible spiritual dimension there
is just <i>darkness </i>and <i>light</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is just <i>black and white</i> with
no confusion about <i>right and wrong</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>This is the discerning understanding of the spiritual dimension that God
wants His Spirit to teach all believers.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;">But the natural man receiveth not the things of the
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know <i>them</i>,
<b>because they are spiritually discerned</b>” (I Corinthians 2:14).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spirit filled preaching and Spirit-filled
hearing of that preaching is to bring the believer into a full understanding of
all things spiritual in both apposition and opposition to the carnal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Carnality always begins with <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">misunderstandings</span> of the spiritual
existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Life transfusion</i>
preaching will ALWAYS be <i>life transformation</i> preaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Another differentiation in the first chapter of first
Corinthians is the apposition between the “wisdom of God” and <i>worldly wisdom</i>
(“wisdom of words,” (I Corinthians 1:17).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>The “wisdom of God” is a purely spiritual thing defined as the
communication of <i>the heart and mind of God</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this kind of preaching, the purpose is not
so much about merely communicating God’s truths, but rather the spiritual transfer
and integration of the heart and mind of God from a Spirit-filled communicator
to a Spirit-filled receptacle in another person whose heart is prepared to
receive the <i>transfusion</i>.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>A
Spirit-filled receptacle has open ears and an open heart. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">This is a <i>transfusion</i> rather than a mere <i>transference</i>
because when the <i>transfusion</i> of the heart and mind takes place, that <i>transfusion</i>
transforms the life into which the heart and mind of God is <i>transfused</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This <i>transforming transfusion of the heart
and mind of God</i> (“the wisdom of God”) is the purpose and goal in true
spiritual preaching of God’s Word. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">For preaching to be spiritually <i>effective</i> it must
be spiritually <i>infective</i>.</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Preaching is much more than the
transference of mere <i>intelligentsia</i> (facts).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only a believer can prepare himself to be the
spiritual receptacle for this <i>transforming transfusion</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This miracle of <i>transfusion </i>can never
happen against the believer’s will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
other words, this <i>transfusion</i> cannot be forced down another person’s throat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This spiritual dynamic of teaching/preaching
is to what Paul speaks in the first two chapters of his first epistle to the
Corinthians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trying to fill a receptacle
without ensuring that the receptacle is opened is an operation in futility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be very careful it is not your carnal spirit
and your bad attitude that closes the receptacle of deposit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<sup>17 </sup>For Christ sent me not
to baptize, but <b>to preach the gospel</b>: not with wisdom of words, lest the
cross of Christ should be made of none effect. <sup>18</sup> <b>For the
preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto <u>us</u>
which are saved it </b>{<i>‘the preaching of the cross’</i>}<b> is the power of
God.</b> <sup>19</sup> For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the
wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. <sup>20</sup>
Where <i>is</i> the wise? where <i>is</i> the scribe? where <i>is</i> the
disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? <sup>21</sup>
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, <b>it
pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe</b>. <sup>22</sup>
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: <sup>23</sup>
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the
Greeks foolishness; <sup>24</sup> But unto them which are called, both Jews and
Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. <sup>25</sup> Because
the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger
than men. <sup>26</sup> <b>For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many
wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, <i>are called</i>: <sup>27</sup>
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and
God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are
mighty; <sup>28</sup> And base things of the world, and things which are
despised, hath God chosen, <i>yea</i>, and things which are not, to bring to
nought things that are: </b><sup>29</sup> That no flesh should glory in his
presence. <sup>30</sup> But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, <b>who of God is
made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption</b>:
<sup>31</sup> That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory
in the Lord” (I Corinthians 1:17-31).</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">In I Corinthians 1:17, we are immediately confronted with
a harsh apposition between mere ritualism and the transference of real
spiritual life through truth communication (<i>transforming</i> <i>transfusion preaching</i>).
</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“For Christ sent me not to baptize, but <b>to
preach the gospel</b>: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ
should be made of none effect.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
ritual of water baptism transfers NOTHING to the believing participant in the
ritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is complete foolishness to
think that there is a <i>spiritual pill</i> we can take or some <i>magical
ritual</i> in which we can participate that will transfigure us from the carnal
into the spiritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, this is exactly
how the legalist thinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Paul is addressing the great fallacy of the <i>magic pill
philosophy</i> to become spiritual proposed by the legalist.</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This nonsense proposes that there is some transference of spirituality,
conversion, or forgiveness through participation in some religious ritual as
proposed in the idea of Sacramentalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
ritual baptism was the <i>magic pill</i> that could accomplish transference of
spirituality, conversion, or forgiveness then Paul would have been preaching
water baptism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did not!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Paul preached and taught “the gospel” of salvation from
Hell through the propitiation of God’s wrath upon sin in Christ upon “the cross
of Christ.”</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul preached and taught “the gospel” of
salvation from Hell through the impartation of God-kind righteousness to the
repentant believing sinner through the indwelling Spirit of Christ
(justification).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul preached and
taught “the gospel” of salvation of a believing sinner’s life through yielding
to the indwelling Spirit of Christ in obedience to God’s will to live a
sanctified life before God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul preached
and taught “the gospel” of salvation unto the ultimate glorification of the
believer’s body and deliverance from the very presence of sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">The “gospel” Paul preached and taught involved specific
details defining the spiritual operations of God in all three aspects of a
believer’s salvation</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of these three aspects of a believer’s
salvation could ever be viewed as anything but precious and powerful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a view of preaching brought incredible
delight to those whose ears were opened spiritually and whose hearts were a
readied receptacle for what God offered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They certainly would not be treated as “foolishness.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">All three aspects of a believer’s salvation are carefully
defined and explained (“preaching of the cross”) in the sixteen chapters of the
first epistle to the Corinthians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>I
Corinthians 1:17-31 is foundational to the unfolding of all of this.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we miss this foundational understanding of
<i>transforming</i> <i>transfusion preaching </i>in the first two chapters of
this epistle, we will also miss the <i>spiritual transfusion</i> of the <i>heart
and mind of God</i> intended for us through such careful explanation/preaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the true believer, the believer that
believes every Word of the Bible is inspired of God, God’s ordination of
preaching His Word is to spiritually transform the believer from the heart to
the feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This outcome is what defines <i>transforming</i>
<i>transfusion preaching</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If spiritual
transformation is never achieved, <i>transforming</i> <i>transfusion preaching</i>
is not accomplishing its purpose due to some form of shutdown in that believer’s
communication and reception of truth processing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There must be a compulsive desire for
spiritual transfiguration that begins in the heart of the believer thereby
opening the receptacles of the mind to the Spirit of God’s teaching ministry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">Necessities for Transforming</span></i></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <i>Transfusion Preaching</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">1.
<u>Real</u> Faith</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Real faith believes deeply in the reality of God and His
love for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real faith understands that
God has communicated His will for His “born again” children solely through His inspired
Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, real faith loves
faithful preaching, teaching, and thorough explanation of the Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loving faithful preaching, teaching, and
thorough explanation of the Bible is the first manifestation of a person’s
genuine love for God because it is ONLY through studying God’s Word can we know
God’s will, what God loves, what God hates, and what God’s plans are for us and
our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real faith hates anything
that corrupts true knowledge of God. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<sup>103</sup> How sweet are thy
words unto my taste! <i>yea, sweeter</i> than honey to my mouth! <sup>104</sup>
Through thy precepts I get understanding: <b><u>therefore</u></b> I hate every
false way” (Psalm 119:103-104).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<sup>126</sup><i> <b>It is</b></i><b>
time for <i>thee</i>, LORD, to work</b>: <i>for</i> they have made void thy
law. </span><b><sup><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">127</span></sup></b><b><u><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Therefore</span></u></b><b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> I love thy commandments</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> above gold; yea, above fine gold. <sup>128 </sup><b><u>Therefore</u></b>
I esteem all <i>thy</i> precepts <i>concerning</i> all <i>things to be</i>
right; <i>and</i> <b>I hate every false way</b>. <sup>129</sup> <b>Thy
testimonies <i>are</i> wonderful</b>: <b><u>therefore</u></b> doth my soul keep
them. <sup>130</sup>The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding
unto the simple</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">. </span><sup><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">131</span></sup><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <b>I opened my mouth, and panted</b>: for I
longed for thy commandments” </span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">(Psalm 119:126-130)</span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Unfortunately, most of what many call <i>faith </i>these
days is really not faith at all because it is not solely sourced in orthodoxy
coming from a right understanding of the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When faith is real, <i>transforming
transfusion</i> will take place through any type of genuine devotional
interaction with the Word of God. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real
faith does not require someone to plead with you to read your Bible, to attend
the services of your local church, or to long for the preaching of the Word of
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of these things are what define
and manifest real faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without the
reality of these compulsion, faith is artificial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<sup>1 </sup>Now faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. <sup>2</sup> <b>For
by it the elders obtained a good report.</b> <sup>3</sup> Through faith we
understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which
are seen were not made of things which do appear. . .<sup> 6 </sup>But <b>without
faith <i>it is</i> impossible to please <i>him</i>: for he that cometh to God
must believe that he is, and <i>that</i> he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him</b>” (Hebrews 11:1-2 and 6).</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">2.
Real Faith generates Real Love</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Real faith and real love for God want what God wants more
than anything else in this world.</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real faith wants
to live in “fellowship” with God and become part of His redemptive purposes
through the “work of the ministry” (Ephesians 4:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Real faith generates a compulsion to talk
with God (prayer) and to hear from God by reading His Word and passionately
listening to His Word taught and explained.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Real love for God wants fellowship with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real love is consumed with knowing God
personally and intimately. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In really loving
God there is an inner compulsion to walk with God, worship God, live with Him
in the minutia of life wanting every aspect of our being to be filled with all
that God is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Real love of God is
ALWAYS defined and manifested by being consumed with FAITHFULNESS to Him and to
His Word.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<sup>162 </sup>I rejoice at thy word, as one
that findeth great spoil. <sup>163</sup> I hate and abhor lying: <i>but</i> thy
law do I love. <sup>164</sup> Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy
righteous judgments. <sup>165</sup> Great peace have they which love thy law:
and nothing shall offend them. <sup>166</sup> LORD, I have hoped for thy
salvation, and done thy commandments. <sup>167</sup> My soul hath kept thy
testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. <sup>168</sup> I have kept thy
precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways <i>are</i> before thee” (Psalm
119:162-168).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<sup>15 </sup><b>If ye love me, keep my
commandments</b>. <sup>16</sup> And I will pray the Father, and he shall give
you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; <sup>17</sup> <i>Even</i>
the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not,
neither knoweth him: <b>but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be
in you</b>. <sup>18</sup> I will not leave you comfortless: <i>I will come to
you</i>. <sup>19</sup> Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but
ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. <sup>20</sup> <b>At that day ye
shall know that I <i>am</i> in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you</b>. <sup>21</sup>
He that <b><u>hath my commandments, and keepeth them</u></b>, he it is {<i>this
reality</i> is he} <b>that loveth me</b>: and he that loveth me shall be loved
of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him {<i>doctrine
of spiritual reciprocity manifested in transforming transfusion</i>}” (John
14:15-21).</span></div>
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Real Faith plus Real Love results in Real Ministry</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Real faith and real love ALWAYS result in spiritual “works”!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is these spiritual “works” that define
true faithfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real faith and real
love ALWAYS overflow “unto good works,” the “work of the ministry.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them” (Ephesians 2:10).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real faith and
real love understand that the believer has an obligation in a vocational
calling of real ministry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<sup>26</sup> For ye <b>see your
calling, brethren </b>{<i>the holy and royal priesthood of all Church Age believers;
I Peter 1:9</i>}, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty,
not many noble, <i>are called</i>: <sup>27</sup> But <b>God hath chosen</b> the
foolish things {<i>morally headless; moral blockheads</i>} of the world to
confound the wise; and <b>God hath chosen</b> the weak things {<i>morally weak because
they are morally ignorant</i>} of the world to confound the things which are
mighty; <sup>28</sup> And <b>base things</b> {<i>without kin; of unknown descent</i>}
of the world, and things which are despised, <b>hath God chosen</b>, <i>yea</i>,
and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: <sup>29</sup>
That no flesh should glory in his presence. <sup>30</sup> <b>But of him are ye </b>{<i>priests</i>}<b>
in Christ Jesus </b>{<i>the believer’s eternal High Priest</i>}, who of God is
made <b>unto us</b> {<i>positionally</i>} wisdom, and righteousness, and
sanctification, and redemption: <sup>31</sup> That, according as it is written,
He that glorieth {<i>rejoices in something</i>}, let him glory {<i>rejoice</i>}
in the Lord {<i>being able to serve as part of the New Creation ‘in Christ’</i>}”
(I Corinthians 1:26-31).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Paul’s first rebuke to these “saints” (sanctified priests)
is found in I Corinthians 1:10-13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is the springboard for the next fourteen chapters of rebukes and reproofs (corrections).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<sup>10 </sup>Now <b>I beseech you</b>
{<i>parakaléō;</i> <i>pleading</i>}, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that <b>ye all speak the same thing</b>, and <i>that</i> <b>there be no
divisions</b> {<i>schisms</i> <i>creating different elitist prejudicial sects
according to who baptized them</i>} among you; but <b><i>that</i> ye be perfectly
joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment</b>. <sup>11</sup> For
it hath been declared unto me of you {<i>apparently not by the pastors, one of
which was Apollos; vs.12</i>}, my brethren, by them <i>which are of the house</i>
<b>of Chloe</b> {<i>either this information came to him from someone from this
household or most likely the problem was sourced in this one family where this
spirit of contention and elitist prejudice was being produced</i>}, <b>that
there are contentions</b> {<i>arguments, quarrels, debates </i>} <b>among you</b>
{<i>Why didn’t the rest of the congregation put a stop to this nonsense?</i>}. <sup>12</sup>
Now this I say, <b>that every one of you saith</b> {<i>the wicked and carnal elitism
generated out of a false belief about having a superior baptism based upon who baptized
someone now permeated the whole congregation</i>} I am <b>of</b> Paul; and I <b>of</b>
Apollos; and I <b>of</b> Cephas; and I <b>of</b> Christ. <sup>13</sup> <b>Is
Christ divided?</b> was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name
of Paul” (I Corinthians 1:10-13)?</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">This rebuke of I Corinthians 1:10-13 is quite a statement
considering Paul’s introductory salutation defining the commonality of all
believers “in Christ” as representative priests before God.</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In I Corinthians 1:2-9, Paul establishes the communion (commonality) of
all Church Age believers “in Christ” as believer-priest and their common supply
of enabling grace for servanthood ministry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>Understanding what is being communicated in I Corinthians 1:2-9 is
critical to understanding the context of everything else said in the first
epistle to the Corinthians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<sup>2 </sup>Unto the <b>church of
God</b> {<i>an assembly of believer-priests</i>} which is at Corinth, to them
that <b>are sanctified</b> {<i>this is the outcome of perfect, complete sanctification
before God by justification and the impartation of the righteousness of Christ
through the indwelling of the Spirit of Christ</i>} <b>in Christ Jesus</b> {<i>the
New Creation through Spirit baptism</i>}, called <i><s>to be</s></i> <b>saints </b>{<i>sanctified
ones; referring to their ministry as priests before God</i>}, with all that in
every place call upon the name of <b>Jesus Christ our Lord</b> {<i>as all
believers’ High Priest in the literal Holy of Holies in Heaven; refers to the
believer-priests praying to the Father in the Name of Jesus</i>}, both theirs
and ours: <sup>3</sup> Grace <i>be</i> unto you, and peace, from God our
Father, and <i>from</i> the Lord Jesus Christ. <sup>4</sup> I thank my God
always on your behalf, <b>for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus
Christ</b> {<i>this is their common potential for righteousness, illumination,
and spiritual power in the enabling grace given to every believer priest in the
indwelling Spirit</i>}; <sup>5</sup> That <b>in every thing</b> {<i>commonality
in every spiritual aspect of potential</i> <i>through the enabling of the
indwelling Spirit</i>} <b>ye</b> {<i>plural; everyone</i>}<b>are enriched</b> {<i>enabling
grace;</i> <i>spiritual wealth of unlimited spiritual resources</i>} by him, in
<b>all utterance</b> {<i>includes thinking, reasoning, resulting in right
doctrine and the communication/explanation of right doctrine</i>}, and <b><i>in</i>
all knowledge</b> {<i>based upon the trustworthiness of their common
Teacher/Illuminator; I Corinthians 2:9-16</i>}; <sup>6</sup> {<i>verses 6-9 provide
a list of commonalities that belong to every believer-priest</i>}<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed
in you {<i>plural; everyone</i>}: <sup>7</sup> So that ye {<i>plural; everyone</i>}
<b>come behind in no gift</b> {<i>there is commonality in the gift of the
Spirit, but there are ‘diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit,’ I Cor. 12:4;
‘differences of administrations, but the same Lord,’ I Cor. 12:5; and ‘diversities
of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all,’ I Cor. 12:6</i>};
<b>waiting for the</b> {<i>second coming; the rapture first and then returning
with Jesus to rule the Kingdom Age</i>} coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: <sup>8</sup>
Who <b>shall also confirm</b> {<i>future, active, indicative; the final and complete
stabilization of the believers in their glorification and eradication of their
sin natures</i>}you {<i>plural; everyone</i>} <b>unto the end</b> {<i>until the
end of theChurch Age</i>}, <i>that ye may be</i> <b>blameless</b> {<i>not to be
called into account for failures</i>} in <b>the day of our Lord Jesus Christ</b>
{<i>referring to the Judgment Seat of Christ; II Cor. 5:10</i>}. <sup>9</sup> <b>God
<i>is</i> faithful</b> {<i>God will always do what He promises</i>}, <b>by whom
ye</b> {<i>plural; everyone</i>} were <b>called unto the fellowship</b> {<i>the
‘fellowship of the mystery,’ Ephesians 3:9, in the priesthood of all believers
as ‘workers together with God,’ II Cor. 6:1</i>} of <b>his Son Jesus Christ our
Lord</b> {<i>within and</i> <i>under the Sovereignty of the Lordship of Jesus</i>}”
(I Corinthians 1:2-9).</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">It is not the preacher’s responsibility to make you love the
Word of God or even to make you love preaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is totally on you.</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Loving the Word of God and
loving the preaching/teaching/explanation/application of the Word of God is a
choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That choice is dependent almost
totally upon the reality of your worship of God and the value you give to intimately
knowing Him and His will for your life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">If the three </span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">necessities for <i>transforming transfusion preaching</i>
are not genuine then transformation will not take place: real faith, real love,
real passion to change lives (passion and compulsion to do the “work of the
ministry”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif; mso-themecolor: text1;">If these three necessities are not real, nothing about the professing
Christian will be real either, for these three necessities define real
Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any thing LESS is just pretense!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><sup>3 </sup>We give thanks to
God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, <sup>4</sup>
<b>Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love <i>which ye
have</i> to all the saints</b>, <sup>5</sup> For the hope which is laid up for
you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; <sup>6</sup>
Which is come unto you, as <i>it is</i> in all the world; and <b>bringeth forth
fruit, as <i>it doth</i> also in you, since the day ye heard <i>of it</i>, and
knew the grace of God in truth</b>: <sup>7</sup> As ye also learned of Epaphras
our dear fellowservant, <b>who is for you a faithful minister of Christ</b>; <sup>8</sup>
Who also <b>declared unto us your love in the Spirit</b>. <sup>9 </sup>For this
cause we also, since the day we heard <i>it</i>, do not cease to pray for you,
and <b>to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding</b>; <sup>10 </sup>That ye might <b>walk
worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and
increasing in the knowledge of God; <sup>11</sup> Strengthened with all might,
according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with
joyfulness</b>” (Colossians 1:9-11).<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></div>
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<i>He has served the Lord for over 50 years.</i>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-43210319338008878842019-11-04T08:10:00.001-06:002019-11-04T08:11:59.839-06:00The "Fellowship of the Mystery" versus the "Mystery of Inequity"<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc";">Why We are Failing the Great Commission</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Chapter twenty-five</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Life is an Investment of Time in the
Eternal</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> The "Fellowship of the Mystery" versus the "Mystery of Inequity"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ygBMxw4mPk0/XcAxGUiqqfI/AAAAAAAAEng/fQnmFXm87MwBnyN9tEGmL_FCUjbA1WAPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/mystery%2Bof%2Binequity.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="420" height="303" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ygBMxw4mPk0/XcAxGUiqqfI/AAAAAAAAEng/fQnmFXm87MwBnyN9tEGmL_FCUjbA1WAPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/mystery%2Bof%2Binequity.png" width="400" /></a></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>For
what <i>is</i> your life? </b>This is
the age-old question. This is the
question of James 4:14. The question of
James 4:14 simply put is: “What is the purpose of life? Why do I exist?” A mere “under the sun” perspective of the
purpose of life is purposeless and narcissistic. For the selfish person, life is empty of
meaning and devoid of anything other than satisfying the lusts of the
flesh. Fleshly lusts are only
momentarily satisfied when four chemicals are released into our brains by our
bodies creating <i>feelings of happiness</i> (Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins). God created our bodies to produce these
natural chemicals and for us to experience the feelings of happiness
accompanying their release into the <i>pleasure centers</i> of our brains. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, when people become preoccupied with things that
trigger the release of these chemicals into the <i>pleasure centers</i> of
their brains, this pursuit is something known as Hedonism. Hedonism is the <i>pursuit of
pleasure; sensual self-indulgence</i>.
The Hedonist (or <i>Sensualist</i>) believes Heaven is a place to enjoy
all the pleasures available at the whim of any moment. Solomon explains the Hedonist’s view of life
in the book of Ecclesiastes. Solomon
gives us a list of his pursuits to fulfill the pleasure centers of his brain in
Ecclesiastes chapter two. Men are still
trying Solomon’s failed experiments thousands of years later and are still
learning the same things Solomon learned.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Solomon records the conclusion of
his Hedonistic experiments with the words; “all is vanity and vexation of
spirit” (Ecclesiastes 1:14). This
statement simply means a carnal life is empty of purpose and frustratingly
unfulfilling. <b>This is known as the <i>Fatalistic</i>
view of life.</b> We do not need to
personally pursue each of Solomon’s many <i>carnal happiness experiments</i>. We can just read the results of Solomon’s
experiments and the conclusions given to us by God in His inspired Words. The conclusion summary is simple: <b>TRY TO CARNALLY
FULFILL YOURSELF AND YOUR LIFE WILL BE REMAIN UNFULFILLED AND SHALLOW! In other words, do not waste your time on any
of these experiments. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<sup>14
</sup>There is <b>a vanity</b> {<i><span style="color: black;">something
transitory and unsatisfactory</span></i><span style="color: black;">} </span>which
is done upon the earth; that there be just {<i>saved people living righteously</i>}
<i>men</i>, unto whom <b>it</b> happeneth {<i>they die</i>} according to the
work of the wicked; again, there be wicked <i>men</i>{<i>unsaved people living
unrighteously</i>}, to whom <b>it</b> happeneth {<i>they die</i>} according to
the work of the righteous: I said that this also <i>is</i> vanity. <sup>15</sup>
Then I commended mirth, <b><u>because</u> a man hath no better thing under the
sun </b>{<i>the <u>this life only</u> or <u>this world only</u> view of
existence; Existentialism</i>}, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for
<b>that shall abide with him</b> {<i>the only thing that lasts is the memories
of joyous self-indulgence</i>} of his <b>labour the days of his life</b> {upon <i>what
he spent his gained resources</i>}, which God giveth him under the sun”
(Ecclesiastes 8:14-15).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Solomon’s
experiment with Hedonism and Existentialism lasted most of his lifetime.</b> He wasted his life on carnal experiments that
discovered truths from which every person can learn if we will just read his conclusions
given us by the inspiration of God. We
should make it our careful concern and consideration not to waste what Solomon
learned through the waste of his life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Solomon was asked by God in I
Kings 3:5; “Ask what I shall give thee.”
We all remember that Solomon asked for wisdom to discern right and wrong;
“Give therefore thy servant <b>an understanding heart</b> to judge thy people, <b>that
I may discern between good and bad</b>: for who is able to judge this thy so
great a people” (I Kings 3:9)? Solomon
understood the grand responsibility of leadership decisions and the impact of
those decisions upon millions of lives. <b>Your
decisions carry an equal weight of responsibility. </b>You are leading the next generations who
will then lead their next generations.
You are beating down the pathways through the <i>wilderness of sin</i>
upon which they will walk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A great deal of Solomon’s
wisdom was gained through Solomon’s carnal life decision <i>experiment failures</i>. This is the lesson of Ecclesiastes: YOU CAN
LEARN FROM ANOTHER PERSON’S SUCCESSES AND FAILURES IN LIFE. </b>Learning to “discern between good and
bad” can be taught by the careful explanation of God’s Word, or these things
will be learned through life’s failures repeated over and over again until we
learn them. <b>Repetition is the mother
of learning.</b> If you do not learn
from your failures, you will be doomed to experience them again and again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ecclesiastes is <b><i>a life
lesson</i></b> about gaining the wisdom that it took Solomon a lifetime of
failures to learn. God gives us that
wisdom in the book of Ecclesiastes free to us and without the pains that
accompany those failures. However, these
lessons of wisdom that Solomon learned not only cost him dearly, these lessons
of wisdom that Solomon learned cost his family dearly. Most of Solomon’s children and descendants
lived in total rejection of God, ignorant of salvation by grace through faith,
or any pursuit of righteous living. Most
of Solomon’s generations lived in pagan Hedonism and died to go to Hell. We need not make the same foolish carnal experiments
as Solomon. Our generations need not be
destined for the same destiny of Solomon’s generations if we are to ask God
early in life: <b>what is the purpose for my existence? </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ecclesiastes chapter twelve is the
final record of Solomon and his conclusion about the singular fulfilling
purpose and objective of life.
Ecclesiastes chapter twelve is an old man speaking to the young about
what God taught him about life through a lot of failed experiments; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<b>Remember</b>
{<i>be mindful; keep God at the forefront of your decisions and devotional
thinking</i>} now <b>thy Creator </b>{<i>you are God’s creation for God’s
purposes</i>} in the days of thy youth, <b>while </b>{<i>before</i>}<b> the
evil days</b> come not {<i>the physical decay of old age of which he describes
in verses 2 through 7 and you cannot serve God as you could when you were young</i>},
nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have <b>no </b>{<i>sensual</i>}<b>
pleasure in them</b> {<i>left in my later</i> <i>years of life; <b>Hedonism
never gives what it promises</b></i>}” (Ecclesiastes 12:1).</span></div>
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</sup>Let us hear <b>the conclusion of the whole matter</b>: Fear God, and keep
his commandments: for this <i>is</i> the whole <i>duty</i> of man. <sup>14</sup>
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether <i>it
be</i> good, or whether <i>it be</i> evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14).</span></div>
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most people, life is just a series of ultimatums that must be obeyed <i>or else</i>. What a sad existence. This certainly does not describe a life of
faith.</b> A life of faith is a passion
for the pursuit of the knowledge of God through the knowledge of God’s
Word. <b>However, the passion to know
God and His Word then immerses the believer in God’s loving passion and purpose
of revelation to reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to make
disciples (Christ-followers) out of those saved; who then possess the same
passions.</b> To transfer knowledge of
truths without a passion for the souls and lives of people is a corruption of
the purpose for the teaching of those truths. </span></div>
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Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and
continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: <sup>14</sup> Whereas ye
know not what <i>shall be</i> on the morrow. <b><u>For what <i>is</i> your life</u>?
It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away</b>.
<sup>15</sup> For that ye <i>ought</i> to say, If the Lord will, we shall live,
and do this, or that. <sup>16</sup> But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all
such rejoicing is evil. <sup>17</sup> Therefore to him that knoweth to do good,
and doeth <i>it</i> not, to him it is sin” (James 4:13-17).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Passionate communication,
whether it is written or proclaimed, without communicating God’s purpose for
that passion is just sensationalism. As
sensual sinners, we relish in sensationalism.</b> Sensual sinners want to be excited until that
enthusiasm comes with moral responsibilities.
Then, those moral responsibilities bring us under the discomfort and
guilt of conviction. Truths that stir
your soul must move your heart to move your feet or you are just an emotional sensationalist!</span></div>
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learned to produce the <i>feelings of worship</i> without the accompanying
moral responsibilities of the passion for righteousness before God and without
a passion for the lives and souls of the lost.</b> All of this creates an <i>appearance</i> of
worship and an <i>appearance</i> of godliness, but nonetheless it is
false. Such people present “a form {<i>appearance</i>}
of godliness, but denying the power” of godliness (<i>the supernatural power of
God released into the world through true godliness</i>; II Timothy 3:5). Such people have no real passion for
godliness nor any real passion for God.
They certainly have no passion for righteousness or any real passion for
winning souls or making disciples. <b>We
know this true because of their easy willingness to compromise the doctrines of
salvation and separation from worldliness to gather a crowd of people.</b> Such people can barely define what
worldliness is let alone define was it is to “love not the world, or the things
of the world” (I John 2:15). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The <i>power of godliness</i>
is to what Paul refers in Ephesians 3:9 as the “fellowship of the
mystery.” In another place, he refers to
this <i>power</i> as “the mystery of godliness” (I Timothy 3:16).</b> The <i>power of godliness </i>will never be
generated apart from a personal passion for godliness in a believer’s
life. This is an conditional essential,
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Ephesians 3:9, the Apostle Paul
begins to address his intent of the text by the words “to make all <i>men</i>
see what <i>is</i> <b>the fellowship of the mystery</b>.” This teaching will continue through the end
of the epistle with another reference in Ephesians 5:32 – “This is a great
mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” <b>This addresses the priesthood of all
believers “in Christ”</b> in “the work of the ministry” to which every believer
is being <i>perfected</i> (Ephesians 4:12). We might say that Ephesians 3:9 is the <i>introduction</i> to “the mystery” while
Ephesians 5:32 is the <i>summation</i> of
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Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints {<i>priests;</i> <i>sanctified
ones set apart unto the ‘work of the ministry’</i>}, is this grace given, that
I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; <sup>9</sup>
And <b>to make all <i>men</i> see</b> what <i>is</i> the fellowship of the
mystery, which <b>from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God</b>, who
created all things by Jesus Christ: <sup>10</sup> To the intent that now unto
the principalities and powers in heavenly <i>places</i> <b>might be known by
the church the manifold wisdom of God</b>, <sup>11</sup> <b><u>According to the
eternal purpose</u></b> {<i>the New Creation</i>} which <b>he purposed</b> <b><u>in</u>
Christ Jesus our Lord</b>: <sup>12 </sup>In whom we have boldness and access
with confidence by the faith of him. <sup>13</sup> Wherefore I desire that ye
faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory” (Ephesians 3:8-13).</span></div>
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then is “the fellowship of the mystery” of which Paul speaks? “The fellowship of the mystery” is the “one
flesh” of the New Genesis through salvation and regeneration of lost souls. </b> <b>“The fellowship of the mystery” </b> is “the eternal purpose {<i>the New Creation</i>}
which he purposed <u>in</u> Christ Jesus our Lord.” “The fellowship of the mystery” is the
ultimate glorification of all “born again” believers as the literal family of
God. <b>“The fellowship of the mystery”
is the intimate, personal, interdependent relationship of all believers within
a family partnership in the “work of the ministry” </b>(preaching the Gospel
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paul describes this “fellowship of the mystery” in
Ephesians 4:2-6 - “<sup>2 </sup>With all lowliness and meekness, with
longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; <sup>3</sup> <b>Endeavouring to
keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace</b>. <sup>4</sup> <i>There is</i>
one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; <sup>5</sup>
One Lord, one faith, one baptism, <sup>6</sup> One God and Father of all, who <i>is</i>
above all, and through all, and <b>in you all</b>.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, all believers are made part of
something much larger than themselves or the petty little mundane issues of <i>drama</i>
with which we so often preoccupy ourselves.
<b>This “fellowship of the mystery” is the present-day responsibility
for the believer to keep at the forefront of everything he does in this
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<span style="font-size: large;">The “fellowship of the mystery” is spiritual warfare
against any thing and everything that opposes God’s purposes in the redemption
and salvation of souls lost in sin and corruption. The “fellowship of the mystery” is spiritual
warfare in discipleship that teaches saved people the will of God, the love of
God, and the enabling grace of God through “fellowship” with Him. The “fellowship of the mystery” is the purest
and ultimate goal of Biblical evangelism – restoring God-kind righteousness in
the world through the lives of believers fully yielded to and trusting in God’s
will. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Fellowship” is from the Greek
word <i>koinonia </i>(koy-nohn-ee’-ah). <i>Koinonia</i>
is a working partnership, joint participation in some work or effort, or
sharing the distribution of personal resources.
This “fellowship” is experienced both on an individual level with Jesus
Christ and a corporate level with other believers within the context of a local
church ministry. We must be careful to
retain these two different perspectives in understanding the supernatural
elements involved in the “fellowship of the mystery” - <i>personal</i> fellowship with God and <i>corporate</i> fellowship with God. </span></div>
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individual Christian’s part and the part of every local church of
believer-priests in the “fellowship of the mystery” (Ephesians 3:9)</b> is
God’s solution to “the mystery of iniquity” (II Thessalonians 2:7). In other words, these two <i>mysteries</i> are in opposition to one
another in both their methodologies and outcomes. The “the mystery of iniquity” is a working
network of evil that opposes all that God proposes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The “the mystery of iniquity”
is to what Paul refers in Ephesians 6:11 as “the wiles of the devil.” In
Ephesians 6:12 “the mystery of iniquity” is described as “<u>against</u> principalities,
<u>against</u> powers, <u>against</u> the rulers of the darkness of this world,
<u>against</u> spiritual wickedness in high <i>places</i>.”</b> Most Christians are <i>babies</i> when it
comes to understanding the dangers that they oppose or even the dangers that
oppose their ministries. They ignorantly
align themselves with “spiritual wickedness” even disguised as worship of
Jehovah. Thereby, they ignorantly turn
something designed to be <i>good</i> into <i>evil</i> and something designed to
bring <i>light</i> into <i>darkness</i>.
This is the warning of Christ to the multitudes that followed Him
looking for the sensational and miracles; “Take heed therefore that the light {<i>the
spiritual eye of the soul</i>} which is in thee be not darkness {<i>blinded by
doctrinal corruption</i>}” (Luke 11:35).
Understanding the enemy against which we fight, and the devices he uses,
is critical to understanding the absolute essential to living in fellowship
with God fully yielded to the indwelling Spirit of Jesus Christ. </span></div>
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</sup>Finally, my brethren, be strong <b>in the Lord</b>, and in <b>the power </b>{<i>sovereign
dominion</i>}<b> of his might </b>{<i>‘fellowship of the mystery’</i>}. <sup>11</sup>
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to <b>stand against</b> the
wiles of the devil. <sup>12</sup> For we wrestle <b>not against flesh and blood</b>,
but <b>against </b>principalities, <b>against </b>powers, <b>against</b> the
rulers of the darkness of this world, <b>against </b>spiritual wickedness in
high <i>places</i>” (Ephesians 6:10-12).</span></div>
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iniquity” is the phrase “the world” (I John 2:15). The phrase “the world” is used by God to
describe the cursed original creation now fallen under the dominion of “the
devil,” cursed to ultimate destruction, and presently being demonically
influenced by varying degrees of evil to bring it to a <i>global government</i>
composed of everything evil and <i>antichrist</i>. </span></div>
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Love not <b>the world</b>, neither the things <i>that are</i> in <b>the world</b>.
If any man love <b>the world</b>, the love of the Father is not in him. <sup>16</sup>
For all that <i>is</i> in <b>the world</b>, the lust of the flesh, and the lust
of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of <b>the
world</b>. <sup>17</sup> And <b>the world</b> passeth away, and the lust
thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever” (I John 2:15-17).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The phrase “the world” is a phrase that describes <b><i>Antichristism</i></b>,
which is another word that refers to “the mystery of inequity.” This is to what God refers in Isaiah 5:20
with a proclamation of condemnation; “Woe unto them that call evil good, and
good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter
for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” God
seeks to bring clarity of His will and righteousness with Biblical revelation
(truth). The “mystery of inequity” seeks
to bring confusion (“hath God said,” Genesis 3:1). </span></div>
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<b>Let no man deceive you by any means</b> {<i>regarding
the rapture of the Church and the second coming of Jesus to the earth</i>}: for
<i>that day shall not come</i>, except there come a falling away first, and
that man of sin be revealed {<i>who now works in the shadows and darkness
because the world is blinded to the spiritual realm because of the fall and the
curse</i>}, the son of perdition {<i>the
antichrist</i>}; <sup>4</sup> Who <b>opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God</b>, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. <sup>5</sup> Remember ye not,
that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? <sup>6</sup> And now ye
know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. <sup>7</sup> <b>For
the mystery of iniquity doth already work</b> {<i>how the fallen angels influence and corrupt by using humans and why God
simply does not immediately intervene and bring His judgment upon them</i>}:
only he who now letteth {<i>restrains</i>} <i>will let</i>, until he {<i>the
Holy Spirit as he came to indwell believers on the Day of Pentecost and since</i>}
be taken out of the way {<i>at the rapture of the Church, the Spirit’s
restraint upon the “mystery of inequity” will be removed as the Church is
removed</i>}. <sup>8</sup> And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the
Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming: <sup>9</sup> <i>Even him</i>, whose coming is after
the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, <sup>10</sup>
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; <b>because
they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved</b>” (II
Thessalonians 2:3-10). </span></div>
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“mystery of iniquity” (II Thessalonians 2:7)</b> is an undercurrent of evil
that seeks to corrupt everything that is righteous in the world and everything
good that humanity seeks to do. This is
what defines worldliness and the all-encompassing corruption of all humanity
through doctrinal deception, human sexuality, human emotions, and the
corruption of every desire of the heart towards complete selfishness. Therefore, anyone involved in the “work of
the ministry” understands without reservation the meaning of the statement “the
mystery of iniquity doth already work.”
In other words, <i>Antichristism</i> is actively alive in the world and
is converting the masses to its doctrines.
What are its methodology and goals?
The methodology of “the “mystery of iniquity” is “with all <b>deceivableness
of unrighteousness</b> in them that perish” and its objective is “because they <b>received
not the love of the truth that they might be saved</b>.” </span></div>
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“mystery of iniquity” is to what Paul refers in Ephesians 6:11-12. The “fellowship of the mystery” (Ephesians
3:9) is to what Paul refers in Ephesians 6:10.
The word <i>light</i> is often used
to describe the person living within the “fellowship of the mystery.” The word <i>darkness</i>
is often used to describe the person living within the “mystery of
iniquity.” Most Christians believe they
are totally committed to the “fellowship of the mystery” of Ephesians 3:9. Satan is getting a lot of <i>mileage</i> out of <i>Christians</i> these
days. The truth is that Christians are
often involved in worldliness in various degrees, which activities really
nullify their influences on the glory of God.
Varying degrees of worldliness in the Christian’s life make him more a
part of the <i>darkness</i>, than he is a
part of the <i>light</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Never
underestimate what the “mystery of iniquity” will be able to accomplish with
one selfish moment of self-indulgence in your life. Never underestimate what the “mystery of
iniquity” will be able to accomplish when a Christian gives in to his lusts for
one day or even one hour. The “mystery
of iniquity” will magnify those few moments of selfish indulgence in ways you
cannot imagine and to degrees of which you will never be aware. Therefore, Paul warns us about the “mystery
of iniquity” in Ephesians 6:10-12. </span></div>
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point of the warning of Ephesians 6:10-12 is that Christians can become major
contributors to the “mystery of iniquity” if they fail to live in fellowship
with Christ “and in the power of his might.”
This is what happens when moral standards are lowered, when Christian
ethics are compromised, and when holiness is no longer the priority of the
Christian’s living. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When doctrinal purity is
compromised, the believer’s <i>walk in light</i>
is also going to be compromised. When
the believer’s <i>walk in light</i> is
compromised, that believer becomes part of the “mystery of iniquity” to the
degree that compromise negatively influences another person’s separation from
worldliness. The point is not just that
the forces of evil, the “principalities … powers … the rulers of the darkness
of this world … spiritual wickedness in high <i>places,</i>” corrupt our
influence on glorifying God. The point
is that the Christian loses the supernatural strengthening of the Lord and “the
power of His might.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>The
“mystery of iniquity” is an all-encompassing phrase that refers to the
collective corruption of truth, theology, moral righteousness, behavioral
ethics, human sexuality, progressive permissiveness towards immorality, and
satanic influences that are completely invisible until they become embodied and
expressed through a corrupted life.</b>
The important thing for every Christian to understand is that until we
are glorified and completely delivered from our sin natures, we are going to be
part of the “mystery of iniquity” to some degree. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ONLY REMEDY for this
corruption of our natures is complete yieldedness to the indwelling Holy Spirit
and the revealed will of God in the Word of God. <b>Since this is an absolute reality, how
important is it for you to understand your Bible and be fully established in
right doctrine (orthodoxy)? Since right
living can only exist if one has right doctrine, how important is making sure
you have right doctrine? What nuance of
God inspired Scripture becomes unimportant or insignificant? Since most newly “born again” people come to
a local church with a <i>boat load</i> of
false doctrine, how important is it to find a local church that does not
marginalize doctrine so as to maximize numerical growth? </b>Any person who marginalizes doctrinal
purity for the purpose of some type of <i>pseudo-unity</i>
exposes himself as a major contributor to the “mystery of iniquity.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The “mystery of iniquity” extends
far beyond religious apostasy within Christianity. The “mystery of iniquity” extends into the
areas of paganism, Atheism, and into every fiber of world politics. By the end of every Dispensation of God,
every <i>New Beginning</i> by God, the “mystery of iniquity” becomes an
all-encompassing force of evil that literally has captured and engulfed almost
every aspect of world culture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is the ultimate goal of the
“mystery of iniquity” in every Dispensation to conquer the “fellowship of the
mystery” to which Ephesians 3:9 refers. <b>We
have numerous occurrences of the “mystery of iniquity” engulfing and dominating
the world. However, in every occurrence,
God intervened with a <i>New Beginning</i> and with a successful remnant of
faithful believers. This was certainly
true just before the Great Flood of Genesis 7:17-24.</b> Genesis 6:5-12 tells us of the moral
environment of the world just prior to God’s judgment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<sup>5
</sup>And GOD saw that the wickedness of man <i>was</i> great in the earth, and
<i>that</i> every imagination of the thoughts of his heart <i>was</i> only evil
continually. <sup>6</sup> And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart. <sup>7</sup> And the LORD said, I will
destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and
beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me
that I have made them. <sup>8</sup> But Noah found grace in the eyes of the
LORD. <sup>9</sup> These <i>are</i> the generations of Noah: Noah was a just
man <i>and</i> perfect in his generations, <i>and</i> Noah walked with God. <sup>10</sup>
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. <sup>11</sup> The earth also
was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. <sup>12</sup>
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, <b>it was corrupt; for all flesh
had corrupted his way upon the earth” </b>(Genesis 6:5-12).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, Noah would plant a
vineyard shortly after the Great Flood, make wine from the grape juice, get
drunk, and carelessly expose his nakedness to his son Canaan. In that transgression, Noah would become a
major contributor to “the mystery of iniquity.”
He would curse Canaan and divide his own household. Such a division was an operation of “the
mystery of iniquity.” Although most of
humanity was killed by the flood, “the mystery of iniquity” remained and
continued to corrupt humanity by using humanity’s sinful innate corruption of
the human nature. Therefore, an ongoing
major contributor to the “mystery of iniquity” is the fallen sin nature still
engrained within every believer should that believer not habitually yield
control of his will to the indwelling Spirit of God. Any time, and to whatever degree of
compromise, a believer fails to live totally surrendered to the indwelling
Spirit will be the degree to which his/her life contributes to the “mystery of
iniquity.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Our inability to see God, or
know Him in any other way than faith, causes us some grave misunderstandings of
God purposes.</b> For instance, why
would an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Creator want to formulate a
partnership with His creatures in “the work of the ministry”? Why would such a perfect and holy Being want
to have anything to do with people who, by their very nature, are a
contradiction against His character and nature?
We will never understand the “fellowship of the mystery” to which Paul
refers in Ephesians 3:9 until we understand that God must make us righteous and
sanctify us unto holiness before the “fellowship of the mystery” can ever
actually happen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The answers to any of these questions
regarding why God would have anything to do with sinners is always answered by
one word –GRACE. God wants all sinners
to be saved AND live in fellowship with Him because “God is love.” The “fellowship of the mystery” is once a
sinner is saved then God’s love and grace begin to flow through the believer
who is in fellowship with God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<sup>7
</sup>Beloved, <b>let us love one another: for love is of God</b>; and <u>every
</u><b>one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God</b>. <sup>8</sup> <b>He
that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love</b>. <sup>9</sup> In this was
manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten
Son into the world, that we might live through him. <sup>10</sup> Herein is
love, not that we loved God, but <b>that he loved us, and sent his Son <i>to be</i>
the propitiation for our sins</b>. <sup>11</sup> Beloved, <b><u>if</u> God so
loved us, we <u>ought</u> also to love one another</b>. <sup>12</sup> No man
hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, <b>God dwelleth in us, and
his love is perfected in us</b>. <sup>13</sup> <b><u>Hereby</u></b> know we
that we dwell in him, and he in us, <b>because he hath given us of his Spirit</b>.
<sup>14</sup> And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son <i>to
be</i> the Saviour of the world. <sup>15</sup> Whosoever shall confess that
Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. <sup>16</sup> And
we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. <b><u>God is love</u>;
and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him</b>.” (I John
4:7-16).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In I Timothy 3:16, Paul refers to
the “fellowship of the mystery” as the “mystery of godliness.” Paul then
explains in that same verse how God’s gracious benevolence provides the
believing sinner with the gift of <i>God-kind
righteousness</i> (justification) and <i>positional
sanctification</i> (set apart to serve Him).
All of this happens “by grace through faith” in the finished work of
Jesus the Christ, the incarnate, dead, buried, resurrected, and glorified Son
of the living God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<sup>14
</sup>These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: <sup>15</sup>
But if I tarry long, that <b>thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave
thyself in the house of God</b>, <b>which is the church of the living God</b>,
the pillar and ground of the truth. <sup>16</sup> And without controversy great
is the <b>mystery of godliness</b>: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in
the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the
world, received up into glory” (I Timothy 3:14-16). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The point of I Timothy 4:16 is
that no one can achieve <i>God-kind
righteousness</i>. No one can be godly,
or like God in righteousness, to be either saved or sanctified. True faith understands the impossibilities
regarding achieving God-kind righteousness and yields those realities to the
Holy Spirit. Faith understands the
hopelessness and helplessness of the <i>righteousness
dilemma</i>. We cannot be saved apart
from having <i>God-kind righteousness</i>
and, once we are saved, we cannot be used by God unless we practically live in <i>God-kind righteousness</i>. Therefore, the only solution to humanity’s <i>righteousness dilemma</i> is the gift of the
grace of God that gifts the sinner the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Secondly, the only hope of ever being used of
God to combat “the mystery of inequity” is to understand the gift of grace
enabling that is provided to any believer who will completely yield his body,
soul, and spirit to the indwelling Holy Spirit of God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The issue of the word “mystery” in
the Word of God is <i>the invisible
supernatural aspect of what is happening</i>.
Therefore, “the mystery of inequity” is humanity’s inability to see and
understand the forces of evil in fallen angels (demons) that are manipulating
the corruption of all that is righteous and holy in the world. This is something only Bible believers can
know about and understand to any degree.
We certainly will not learn about “the wiles of the devil” from the
secular schoolbooks and apostate religious leaders who deny the verbal, plenary
inspiration of Scripture. These people
become partners in “the mystery of inequity” because they deny the verbal,
plenary inspiration of Scripture. How
can anyone know what “the mystery of inequity” is about if they refuse to
believe the revelation that exposes the mystery? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The “fellowship of the mystery”
to which Paul refers in Ephesians 3:9 is the supernatural partnership that is
necessary between a believer and God before any believer can bare spiritual
fruit to the glory of God.</b> We cannot
see this partnership because it is invisible to our eyes. We can only know of its availability by faith
in God’s Word. Also, we can only know
that we have this fellowship with God in the “work of the ministry” by
faith. We can see the manifestation of
this fellowship with God through the “fruit of the Spirit” (Galatians
5:22-25). We can also see that God is
using us to bring souls to Christ and disciple believers (John 15:12-8). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What <b>is</b> visible (<i>knowable</i>)
to us in our own lives is complete yieldedness to the will of God, total
commitment in personal separation from worldliness and unto God, and the
all-consuming desire of our hearts to magnify God within the <i>realm of our influence</i>. If Jesus is the Lord of our lives, He will be
the Lord of the <i>realm of our
influence. </i>Then, the “fellowship of
the mystery” will be evident within the <i>realm
of our influence.</i> When Christians
live in the “power of His might,” the <i>realm
of our influence </i>becomes the realm of God’s influence through our
lives. Such a miracle is an invisible
mystery seldom experienced but by a small minority of Christians. Sadly, such a miracle is an invisible mystery
seldom <i>even known</i> about by the vast majority of Christians. Those believers will live out their lives
without ever really being part of the miracle that is evangelism and disciple
making. They will never experience the
fruit of the “fellowship of the mystery” because they will never comprehend
that God wants to partner with them in the miracle of bringing souls to
salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jesus taught several parables in
Matthew chapter thirteen that provide an overview of the outcomes of the
“mystery of inequity” and the “fellowship of the mystery.” The point of these parables is that there are
invisible spiritual forces in the world that work through their influence upon
human beings. One of the central means
by which the “mystery of inequity” is affective is the corruption of the Gospel
of salvation as a gift given “by grace through faith.” In Matthew 13:36, Jesus explains this in the
parable of the “tares” sown among the “wheat.”
There are only two messages of salvation in the world. One will guarantee condemnation and the other
will guarantee salvation and eternal life.
The first false gospel is salvation by “works” (Moralism or Ritualism). The second and only true Gospel is salvation
as a gift of God’s grace received through faith in the finished work of Jesus
Christ. The first and false gospel will
put you in the category of the “tares.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Dr. Lance Ketchum serves the Lord as a Church Planter, Evangelist/Revivalist. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>He has served the Lord for over 50 years.</i></span>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-12220246281441504302019-10-21T08:31:00.000-05:002019-10-21T08:31:19.341-05:00Trial by Fire (Division)<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Why We Are Failing the Great Commission</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chapter Twenty-four</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Trial by Fire </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">(Division)</span></b></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Truth is the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Truth is reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is
facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is black and white; right
and wrong.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is the kind of light that casts no
shadows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth exposes anything and
everything of contradiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth has
no preferences or prejudices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is
what truth is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is an unbending
“rod of iron.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is impersonal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is accurately judgmental without any
bias.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth has no concern about
feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth just tells it like it
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is often cutting and hurtful
because truth must be honest, or it ceases to be truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">For
this very reason, God commands believers to speak “the truth in love”
(Ephesians 4:15).</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When asked, “does this dress make
me look fat,” truth answers, “you are what you are.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love’s answer says, “You are beautiful in
ways far beyond the dress you wear</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love sees
beyond the truth without distorting the truth or misrepresenting the truth.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love sees other truths that comfort without
lies or corruption of the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love can
see qualities with compassion and can communicate truth with concern about how
that truth touches a person’s feelings and emotions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love knows that truth often hurts, but love
wants to soften those hurts with an embrace or a smile of acceptance and
understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth can be a slap in
the face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love seeks to make truth a
gentle, healing, soothing caress that can be received with a sigh of relief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Most
people despise the tensions that accompany disagreements about truth.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other people relish in confrontations and
emotional drama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They cultivate such
nonsense at every opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They seek
this type of drama on television and in the movies they watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They enjoy it and are entertained by it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is abnormal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Living righteously amid the curse of sin and interacting
with sinful people can be, and often is, extremely difficult, even
painful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The pain of living righteously is
increased exponentially when you love others and you know the only solution to
the pains in which they live is about getting them to accept the very truths
they have already rejected.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is painful to see such people
spiritually decimated by life choices that emaciate them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have closed their eyes from seeing the
truth of the choices that cause their pains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They have stopped their ears from hearing the Words of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a scenario is described by God with the
words “</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">the voice of one crying in the
wilderness<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">” (Matthew 3:3).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None the less, the “voice” must “cry” for
there is no hope apart from the truth getting to their hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The “fire” of God’s judgment has already been “kindled.”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only remedy to stop that “fire” are the
tears of genuine repentance of sin and doctrinal lies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then a person can step into the middle of
God’s “fire” of judgment knowing he will be purged of his sin and find relief
from his self-inflicted pains of sinful life choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25509"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">49</span></sup></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25509";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <b>I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will
I, if it be already kindled?</b> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25510"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25510";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">50</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25510";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> But I have a
baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25511"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25511";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">51</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25511";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <b>Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?</b>
I tell you, Nay; but rather division: </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25512"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25512";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">52</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25512";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> For from
henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two
against three. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25513"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25513";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">53</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25513";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> The father shall
be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against
the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against
her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25514"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25514";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">54</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25514";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud
rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25515"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25515";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">55</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25515";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> And when <i>ye see</i> the south wind blow, ye say,
There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25516"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25516";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">56</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25516";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <i>Ye</i>
hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it
that ye do not discern this time? </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25517"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25517";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">57</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25517";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <b>Yea, and why
even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?</b> </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25518"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25518";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">58</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25518";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> When thou goest with thine adversary to the
magistrate, <i>as thou art</i> in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be
delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee
to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#25519"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25519";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">59</span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#25519";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou
hast paid the very last mite</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">” <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Luke 12:49-59).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As God
allows a local church to be tested by stress and by the conflict of division,
He is trying the hearts of those who profess to love Him and who profess to be
disciples of Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the ways God
tests our love for Him is by how we deal with one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two spiritual qualities are being tested:
TRUTH and LOVE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Truth,
by itself, could care less about a person’s feelings or what another person
thinks about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is impersonal.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is just truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is just harsh reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, when we think of Biblical truth, this
kind of truth is intended to be accompanied with certain character traits
called the <i>communicable attributes</i> of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few of these <i>communicable attributes </i>are
described with such words as love, compassion, mercy, and grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although Biblical truth will never compromise
itself or bend in contortion to accommodate sinful practices or desire,
Biblical truth understands the sinner’s propensity for sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although Biblical truth will never be
complicit with sin, love will be patient and walk sinners out of the darkness
of lusts and away from the destructive evils of sin and selfishness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great dilemma is ignorant people do not
understand the danger of living in false doctrines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>33 </sup>Little children, yet a little while I
am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye
cannot come; so now I say to you.<sup> 34 </sup>A new commandment I give unto
you, <b>That ye love one another; as I have loved you</b>, <b>that ye also love
one another</b>.<sup> 35</sup> By this shall all <i>men</i> know that ye are my
disciples, if ye have love one to another” (John 13:33-35).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Discipleship
is teaching the truths Jesus taught.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Discipleship is teaching sinners to live righteousnessly by learning to
yield to the indwelling Holy Spirit Who will then enable those yielded sinners
to live as righteously as Jesus taught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Discipleship
is spiritual surgery and it is ALWAYS done without anesthetics.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, discipleship requires a person to
be careful and loving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Discipleship is
time consuming, tedious, painful, and stressful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Discipleship is taking pigs and getting their
natures changed through conversion/regeneration, and THEN teaching those
converted pigs to appreciate the difference between “pearls” of truth and wallowing
in their own filthy mire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>As
any skilled tradesmen knows, there are many tools in his toolbox and the chosen
tool must fit the occasion.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before
choosing a tool, he must remember he is working on a human soul with real
feelings, mistrusts, and trepidations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is a time to use the sledgehammer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is a time to use the finish hammer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is time to use the chain saw and there
is time to us the finish saw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is
time to use a bone saw and there is time to use the surgeon’s scalpel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>A disciple
maker can only lead people in doing what is right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He cannot do right for them.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the stress of trials and the struggle to
establish truth in the lives of sinners, the whole of a local church is being
tested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pastor is being tested as to
his faithfulness and loyalty to God and His truths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The congregation is being tested as to their
faithfulness and loyalty to God and His truths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The easy thing for anyone to do is walk away from the stress of it all
and the tensions created by willful, sinful people. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walking away and abandoning ministry is always
the wrong thing to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Truth
always establishes what is righteous (right in the eyes of God).</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop to think about various divisions that
exist between people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the
central factor in almost every division you can think of?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The central factor in almost every division
is the age-old question: <b>What is truth?</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Truth establishes what is right (righteousness) and who is right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is what division is usually over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth also establishes what is wrong (sin)
and who is wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, truth coupled
with love is never willing to leave it at that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Truth coupled with love continues to <b><i>pray and plead</i></b> even
when truth is resisted and/or rejected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Truth
coupled with love DOES NOT GIVE UP!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Anything
that is not morally right is morally wrong and anything that is morally wrong
is sin. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sin needs to be dealt with
as sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Compromise with sin and sin will
absorb you into itself, because compromising truth is sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes courage to take a stand for what is
right and to do what is right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Division
will often result even when righteousness prevails, if the parties involved
cannot agree to do what is right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>This
is the way it should be.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact,
the Scriptures command this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
called the doctrine of separation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
one believer refuses to do what is right, we are commanded to separate from him
and to separate him from our partnership in “the work of the ministry.” “Can
two walk together except they be agreed” (Amos 3:3)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This defines the test of faithfulness and
loyalty to truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">multiple-choice</i> test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">true
or false</i> test.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Now I beseech you, brethren, <b>mark them which cause
divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and
avoid them</b>” (Romans 16:17).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>3 </sup>If any man teach otherwise, and consent
not to wholesome words, <i>even</i> the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to
the doctrine which is according to godliness;<sup> 4</sup> He is proud, knowing
nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy,
strife, railings, evil surmisings,<sup> 5</sup> Perverse disputings of men of
corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: <b>from
such withdraw thyself</b>” (I Timothy 6:3-5).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>8 </sup>For ye were sometimes darkness, but now <i>are
ye</i> light in the Lord: <b>walk as children of light</b>:<sup> 9</sup> (For
the fruit of the Spirit <i>is</i> in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)<sup>
10</sup> Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.<sup> 11</sup> And have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove <i>them</i>.<sup>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#29317">12</a></sup><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#29317";"> For it is a
shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.</span><sup>13</sup>
<b>But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light</b><u> </u>{<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">brought into the open</i>}: <b>for
whatsoever doth make manifest is light</b>” (Ephesians 5:8-13).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>6 </sup>Now we command you, brethren, in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, <b>that ye withdraw yourselves from every <u>brother</u>
that walketh disorderly</b>, and not after the tradition which he received of
us.<sup> 7</sup> For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved
not ourselves disorderly among you;<sup> 8</sup> Neither did we eat any man’s
bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we
might not be chargeable to any of you:<sup> 9</sup> Not because we have not
power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us. . .<sup> 14</sup>
<b>And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no
company with him, that he may be ashamed</b>.<sup> 15</sup> Yet count <i>him</i>
not as an enemy, but admonish <i>him</i> as a brother” (II Thessalonians 3:6-9
and 14-15).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Corinthian church is the first
recorded example of trial by fire (<i>division</i>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Like
a parent with an unruly, rebellious child, most local churches (people) are
embarrassed by division and strife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
fact is that every baby requires the parenting that teaches personal
disciplines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are we astonished by
sinners sinning and living carnally when they have never been “born again” and
discipled (taught personal, spiritual disciplines). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a child exposes character flaws, parents
are gifted by God and opportunity to correct those character flaws through teaching
and discipline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THIS IS HOW IT IS
SUPPOSED TO WORK! When the child we love is unruly and rebellious, we do not
just abandon that child and go get another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instead, we patiently, lovingly, compassionately, and tenderly confront
the little monster and try to make the necessary corrections in both attitudes
and actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Changing attitudes is
ALWAYS the most demanding and difficult. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Changing attitudes is about changing <i>WANT
TO</i>.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>1 </sup>And I, brethren, <b>could not speak unto
you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal</b>, <i>even</i> as unto <b>babes</b>
in Christ {<i>when immaturity and infantile practices are manifested in a
person’s life, such a person exposes himself/herself as a ‘babe’</i>}.<sup> 2</sup>
I have fed you with milk {<i>know when milk is needed</i>}, and not with meat {<i>know
when meet is needed</i>}: for hitherto ye were not able <i>to bear it</i>,
neither yet now are ye able.<sup> 3</sup> For ye are yet carnal: <b>for whereas
<i>there is</i> among you envying, and strife, and divisions </b>{<i>manifestations
of spiritual immaturity and infantility</i> <i>having NOTHING to do with a
person’s physical age</i>}, <b>are ye not carnal, and walk as men?</b><sup> 4</sup>
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I <i>am</i> of Apollos; are ye
not carnal?<sup> 5</sup> Who then is Paul, and who <i>is</i> Apollos, but
ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?<sup> 6</sup>
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.<sup> 7</sup> So
then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God
that giveth the increase.<sup> 8</sup> Now he that planteth and he that
watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his
own labour.<sup> 9</sup> <b>For we are labourers together with God: ye are
God’s husbandry, <i>ye are</i> God’s building</b>.<sup> 10</sup> According to
the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid
the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But <b>let every man take heed
how he buildeth thereupon</b>.<sup> 11</sup> For other foundation can no man
lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.<sup> 12</sup> Now if any man
build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;<sup>
13</sup> Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it,
because it shall be revealed by fire; and <b>the fire shall try every man’s
work of what sort it is</b>.<sup> 14</sup> If any man’s work abide which he
hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.<sup> 15</sup> If any man’s
work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet
so as by fire” (I Corinthians 3:1-15).</span></div>
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of what Christ said in Luke 12:49-53.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Trials by “fire” will continue until refining and purification takes
place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Purification is defined by what
is left after the “fire.”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Although
trials by fire are usually painful, they are also necessary to the purging/purification
process of a local church.</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since
God’s purpose is <i>purification</i> and <i>refining,</i> He will continue to
repeat whatever needs to be done to get <i>purification</i> and <i>refining</i>
accomplished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people will resist
discipleship and being established in spiritual <i>doctrines</i> and <i>disciplines</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although God is patient and merciful with
such people, as should be every disciple maker, He must keep His local churches
pure of false doctrine and sinful carnality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have
watched many local churches go through trial by fire, pastor after pastor, split
after split, until the church either is willing to do what is right or it burns
out in a smoldering heap of ashes of wood, hay and stubble.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to I
Corinthians 3:13, the focus of God’s trying of a local church, or His trying of
the lives of individual Christians, is to test <i>quality,</i> not <i>quantity</i>
(“what sort it is”). </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What was going on at Corinth that
necessitated God’s trial by fire for purification and refining?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carnality in every shape, style, and color
was going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They were bragging about who baptized them (I
Corinthians 1:10-17).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were a bunch
of <i>intellectual idiots</i> who gloried in their humanistic wisdom before men
(I Corinthians 1:20-31).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They criticized
and challenged Pastoral authority and refused accountability (I Corinthians 4:9-21).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many were indifferent to personal holiness,
were tolerant of sin in their own lives, and in the lives of others, and were
unwilling to practice church discipline (I Corinthians 5:1-13).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They
were suing each other in public courts and bringing reproach on the Name of
Christ rather than settling the matter in the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The church had become a social club and the
meetings became an excuse for <i>fellowship</i> (I Corinthians 11:1-34).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To top it all off, there was a group of
spiritual elitists who were pretending to have spiritual gifts they did not
possess to gain influence in the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The result of all this selfish carnality was “envy, strife, and
divisions.”</span></div>
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truth here is simple.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any
division/purging that is not the result of major, fundamental doctrinal
differences is <b>always</b> the result of carnality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The solution to the division is equally
simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Declare war on carnality.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deal with the carnality according to the <i>Matthew
18 principle</i> until the carnality is gone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Church must centrifugate on Jesus
Christ, getting people saved, and preparing saved people to live for Christ (I
Corinthians 3: 10-11).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">If a church is ever going to
continue in the future to be what it was in its inception, it necessitates that
each succeeding generation maintain its focus on keeping Jesus Christ at its
center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></h1>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Everything
built upon the foundation of the doctrine of Christ must center on Jesus
Christ, not men.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When bringing glory to Christ is not the goal
of everything done by every person in a local church, someone just laid a brick
of flesh (‘wood, hay, and stubble”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People looking for personal glory do not build solid local
churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only people whose sole desire
in life is to glorify their Lord Jesus Christ build solid local churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Standing for truth demands that we stand against
doctrinal error.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Standing for truth with
cost us friendships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the
discipled believer understands one central, overwhelming truth; “Ye {<i>spiritual</i>}
adulterers and {<i>spiritual</i>} adulteresses, <b>know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God</b>? whosoever therefore will be a
friend of the world is the enemy of God” (James 4:4). </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Although the “fire” of I Corinthians
3:13</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <b>primarily refers to the
Judgment Seat of Christ, God will regularly test every local Church by fire
(“Every man’s work shall be made manifest” (I Corinthians 3:13).</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the
Lord come, <b>who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and
will make manifest the counsels of the hearts</b>” (I Corinthians 4:5).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When a local church is made up of spiritual people who
have learned to <b>do</b> what is right, a <i>trial by fire</i> (division) will
be quickly dealt with and will pass off the scene (pretty much) unnoticed by
most people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>That church will be
purified.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, when <i>trial by
fire</i> comes to a church made of people living in the flesh, it will spread
because those people will be unwilling to confront it and <i>put out</i> the
“fire.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(They usually just want to <i>manage</i>
it.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This church will be consumed by
degrees until people learn (or are willing) to confront sin and discipline
sinners.</span></div>
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is your part in insuring that your local church is purified and refined rather
than burned to a heap of ashes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1. </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Work hard at staying <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christ
centered</i>, rather than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">man centered</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2. </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Do what is <i>right</i> regardless of what it costs you personally.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">3. </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ask yourself one simple question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>What does God’s Word tell me to do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then do that!</b></span></div>
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<i>Numerous studies and series are available free of charge for local churches at:
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<i>Dr. Lance Ketchum serves the Lord as a Church Planter, Evangelist/Revivalist. </i><br />
<i>He has served the Lord for over 50 years.</i>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-49987140850817366552019-10-07T10:08:00.001-05:002019-10-07T10:08:27.599-05:00II. The Church of the Broken-Down Wall <br />
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<span class="4a6n"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Every local church is ordained of
God to be a living organism for discipleship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If any local church fails at that mission, that local church has failed
in its missional purpose of evangelism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="4a6n"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Discipleship is “perfecting the
saints” (the priesthood of all believers) in KNOWING and LIVING the Word of
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, discipleship is about
teaching right “doctrine” (II Timothy 3:16-17) and teaching believers to “walk
in the light” (<i>right doctrine</i>) (I John 1:7) enabled by the indwelling
Holy Spirit (<i>grace living</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="4a6n"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The “</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">mystery of iniquity<span class="4a6n">” (II
Thessalonians 2:7, the demonic influences of all levels of evil in the world)
oppose discipleship at every possible level and in every way possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, EVERY believer MUST be involved in
the command to “</span>fight the good fight of faith” (I Timothy 6:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="4a6n">EVERY believer MUST be
involved in the command to “</span>fight the good fight of faith” because he <i>fights</i>
for his own discipleship survival and for those he seeks to disciple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To compromise “the faith” to any degree makes
the compromiser part of the <span class="4a6n">“</span>mystery of iniquity.<span class="4a6n">”</span></span></div>
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<span class="4a6n"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In most part, modern Evangelical
Christianity has lost what it means to disciple people and “</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">fight the good fight of faith” (I Timothy 6:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="4a6n">In most part, modern
Evangelical Christianity has been overcome with <i>crowd gathering</i> tactics as
opposed to <i>disciple making</i>.</span></span></b><span class="4a6n"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to
gather crowds and keep crowds coming, certain divisive truths must be
ignored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to gather crowds and
keep crowds coming, the Gospel message must be made <i>more inclusive</i>
creating a façade of salvation and a greater façade of spirituality without any
specificity regarding what is sin and what is worldliness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>1</sup> Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the
grace that is in Christ Jesus. <sup>2</sup> And the things that thou hast heard
of me among many witnesses, <b>the same commit thou to <u>faithful men</u>, who
shall <u>be able</u> </b>{<i>to arrive, capable, or seasoned; refers to a
trustworthy change of successors in faithful teachers</i>}<b> to teach others
also</b>. <sup>3</sup> Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of
Jesus Christ. <sup>4</sup> <b>No man that <u>warreth</u> entangleth himself
with the affairs of <i>this</i> life</b>; that he may please him who hath
chosen him to be a soldier. <sup>5</sup> And if a man also <b>strive for
masteries</b>, <i>yet</i> is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully” (II
Timothy 2:1-5).<span class="4a6n"></span></span></div>
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<span class="4a6n"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Modern Evangelical Christianity no
longer strives to <i>master </i>the teachings of Jesus or to bring the human
nature under the Lordship of Christ.</span></b></span><span class="4a6n"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The metaphor
Paul uses in II Timothy 2:5 is the Greek Olympic games and the stringent
training necessary for an athlete to compete SUCCESSFULLY hoping to be a
winner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before any individual could hope
to be declared the <i>master</i> of his event, he needed to know the rules of
the game in which he competed AND he needed to master his own body to train it
for the extreme requirements necessary to the competition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the metaphor Paul uses to describe
the necessities for fighting “</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">the
good fight of faith” (I Timothy 6:12).<span class="4a6n"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="4a6n"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">TESTS OF FELLOWSHIP</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="4a6n"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Many
Evangelical churches no longer require <i>agreement</i> on specific doctrines
or practices before people can become part of the “fellowship” (<i>working
partnership</i>) of a local church’s ministries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such agreements negatively reduce the size of
the <i>crowds</i> that will attend and the size of the offerings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Local churches that are <i>people builders,</i>
and not just <i>crowd gatherers</i>, understand that there must be foundational
doctrinal unity upon which a local church can grow (not <i>unanimity, or
perfect agreement on EVERYTHING</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These foundational requirements are usually spelled out in a local church’s
Constitution and By Laws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This TEST OF
FELLOWSHIP is to what a local church’s <i>Constitution and By Laws</i> are
often referred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>TEST OF FELLOWSHIP is
defined doctrines to which a person must agree, defined practices to which a
person must pursue, and other practices from which he must abstain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="4a6n"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">WHY ARE SUCH THINGS NECESSARY?</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="4a6n"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">First, stating what a local church
believes upfront is honest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christians
should be honest and not covert about beliefs. </span></b></span><span class="4a6n"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often, when new believers become part of a
local church, they come in ignorance of doctrine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many come to Christ and a local church with
innumerable false doctrines and having had many immoral practices condoned by
false teachers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THESE THINGS MUST BE
CONFRONTED AND ADDRESSED PRIOR TO BECOMING PART OF THE WORKING MINISTRY
(FELLOWSHIP) OF A LOCAL: CHURCH.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
count oneself as part of the functional family of God comes with specific
truths and exacting requirements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a
local church wants to <i>walk with God</i>, all local church members must agree
to a specific, Bible defined destination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span class="4a6n"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1 </span></sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hear this word that the LORD hath <b>spoken against
you, O children of Israel</b>, against the whole family which I brought up from
the land of Egypt, saying, <sup>2</sup> You only have I known of all the
families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. <sup>3</sup>
Can two walk together, except they be agreed {<i>general principle here applied
to the nation of Israel and God; ‘can two people walk together except they
agree on the same destination’</i>}” (Amos 3:1-3)?<span class="4a6n"></span></span></div>
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<span class="4a6n"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In a
discussion with a person moving to another city about a local church that his
family was attending, he brought to me that local church’s doctrinal
statement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The doctrinal statement was
one sheet of paper written in a size 16 font to fill the page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The individual said there was <i>nothing in
the doctrinal statement with which he disagreed</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a simple reason for this: THERE WAS
NOTHING IN THE DOCTRINAL STATEMENT BUT VAGARIES AND AMBIGUITIES.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this scenario, there can be no <i>experts</i>
on what the Bible teaches, and everyone’s interpretation must be considered
equally as viable as anyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><u>PRACTICUM</u>:
if this is what defines “unity of the Spirit,” then the preacher must stay in
the Gospels and avoid the epistles at any cost!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><u>This is not “the faith.</u>” </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="4a6n"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Beloved,
when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, <b>it was
needful</b> {<i>absolutely essential</i>} for me to write unto you, and <b>exhort</b>
{<i>parakaléō; to call to nearness or to the comfort of righteousness</i>} <i>you</i>
that ye should <b>earnestly contend</b> {<i>epa prefix;</i> <i>agonizingly
struggle</i>} for <b><u>the faith</u></b> {<i>things/doctrines believed</i>} which
was once {<i>for all time</i>} delivered unto the saints {<i>as guardians and
preservers for which each will be held accountable</i>}” (Jude 1:3).<span class="4a6n"></span></span></div>
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<span class="4a6n"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">GROWING OUR FAITH: Goals never set are goals seldom
reached</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="4a6n"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Faith is the ability to see and
understand things that are not empirically detectable or otherwise known
(Hebrews 11:1).</span></b></span><span class="4a6n"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the Bible teaches us that “</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">faith <i>cometh</i> by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God” (Romans 10:17).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="4a6n">Your limited vision from your side of reality is completely
inadequate to God’s view from His side of reality! His Word gives us His view
from His side of reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>TRUST HIM!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However again, to gain God’s view of reality
from His Word, a believer must rightly divide “the Word of truth” (II Timothy
2:15).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To wrongly divide “the Word of
truth” is worse than total ignorance because it leads a person to look and
think in a wrong direction with a false hope for outcomes that will never
happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, it is essential for
pastors to “</span>labour in the word and doctrine” (I Timothy 5:17).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is indeed “labour” to accurately study and
interpret the Word of God and it is equally laborious to teach the Word of God
to people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It must be a labor of love!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The words “in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:13) refer to
those baptized by/with the Spirit into the <i>New Genesis</i>, of which Christ
has dominion.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the words “in Christ” refer to the
Church Age believer’s <i>share in the dominion </i>in the <i>New Genesis</i>
“in Christ.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All Church Age believers,
both Jews and Gentiles together now, have been brought into an intimate
relationship <i>in service</i> that no other believer since Adam has ever
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>We who <u>were</u> “far
off are <u>now</u> made nigh by the blood of Christ” (Ephesians 2:13).</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The intent here is that this perfect, once for
all sacrifice of Jesus brings all believer-priests into extreme <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nearness</i> to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a blessed privilege was never even
considered by anyone other than the Old Testament priests who served within the
Temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can barely grasp an
understanding of this new privilege afforded to every believer by the words “in
Christ.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Jesus is our High Priest and
we are “in Christ.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Therefore, we
have the intimate privilege of immediate and direct access to the Father’s
throne of grace “in Christ.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one
vicarious blood sacrifice of Jesus affords every believer this intimate access
to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This intimate access to God is
something Christians often take for granted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This truth is also a privilege greatly abused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>14 </sup>Seeing then that <b>we have</b> a great
high priest, that <b>is passed</b> into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let
us hold fast <i>our</i> profession. <sup>15</sup> For we have <b><u>not</u></b>
<b>an high priest</b> which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities; but was <b>in all points tempted like as <i>we are, yet</i>
without sin</b>. <sup>16</sup> Let us <b>therefore</b> come boldly unto the
throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and <b>find grace to help</b> in
time of need” (Hebrews 4:14-16). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>10 </sup>By the which will we <b>are</b> {<i>positionally
and perfectly</i>} sanctified {<i>perfect, passive, participle</i>} through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ <b>once <i>for all</i></b>. <sup>11</sup>
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins: <sup>12</sup> But this man, after
he had <b>offered one sacrifice for sins for ever</b>, sat down on the right
hand of God; <sup>13</sup> From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made
his footstool. <sup>14</sup> <b>For by one offering he hath perfected </b>{<i>positionally;
perfect, active, indicative</i>}<b> for ever them that are sanctified</b>. <sup>15</sup>
<i>Whereof</i> the {<i>indwelling, illuminating</i>} Holy Ghost also is a
witness to us: for after that he had said before, <sup>16</sup> This <i>is</i>
the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, <b>I
will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them</b>; <sup>17</sup>
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. <sup>18</sup> Now where
remission of these <i>is, there is</i> <b>no more offering for sin</b>” (Hebrews
10:10-18). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The statement of Hebrews 10:16 – “I will put my laws
into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them” is intended to reveal
that the New Covenant believer is a walking, breathing, living New
Testament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This contrasts with the <i>tables
of stone</i> upon which God etched His Word in the Old Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><u>Now</u>, God has put His living Word into
living people to be <i>living testaments</i> to the miracle of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Creation</i> “in Christ Jesus.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you believe these truths, they change
the way you worship, the way you pray, and the way you serve the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least they should.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they do not, perhaps the real question
must be turned to examine the reality of your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Creation</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>14 </sup>For he is our peace, who hath made {a,
a, p}<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=931265740727391506#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
both one, and hath broken down {a, a, p}<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=931265740727391506#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
the middle wall of partition <i>between us</i>; <sup>15</sup> Having abolished
{a, a, p}<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=931265740727391506#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a>
in his flesh the enmity, <i>even</i> the law of commandments <i>contained</i>
in ordinances; for to make {a, a, s}<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=931265740727391506#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a>
in himself of twain one new man, <i>so</i> making {pr, a, p}<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=931265740727391506#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a>
peace; <sup>16</sup> And that he might reconcile {a, a, s}<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=931265740727391506#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a>
both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain {a, a, p}<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=931265740727391506#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a>
the enmity thereby: <sup>17</sup> And came and preached peace to you which were
afar off, and to them that were nigh” (Ephesians 2:14-17).</span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What is Paul describing
in these four verses in Ephesians 2:14-17?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We miss what Paul says if we do not see salvation as an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">event</i> and sanctification as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">progressive</i>.</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem lays in seeing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">regeneration</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">salvation</i> as synonyms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
are not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salvation is an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">event</i> that enters a person into the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">process</i> of “the regeneration.”
Positionally, all that has happened to Christ Jesus has already happened to the
believer <b><i>positionally</i></b> (Colossians 2:10-12). Justification is not
a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">process</i> that includes practical
sanctification (progressive transfiguration; Romans 12:1-2). Justification is
an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">event</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In the Old Testament,
before Pentecost, God-kind righteousness was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">imputed</i> to the believing sinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the New Testament, after Pentecost, God-kind righteousness is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">imparted</i> to the believing sinner through
the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (II Peter 1:4).</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our soul <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">has
been</i> saved, our life (spirit) is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">being</i>
saved, and our body <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">will be</i> saved
(resurrected/glorified).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“And the very
God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and
body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (I
Thessalonians 5:23).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These truths are
equally true for both “born again” Jews and “born again” Gentiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Together they form one new <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">body</i> called the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Church</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The “new man” of
Ephesians 2:15 is not the individual Christian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The context demands we maintain our view of the two corporate entities
of <u>nation of Israel</u> and Gentiles now coming together to form a “new man”
in <u>the Church</u>. </span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Body Principle</i> is a metaphor with Christ
as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Head</i> and all “born again”
believers after Pentecost as the “body.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This context continues from Ephesians 1:22-23.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must be extremely careful not to abandon
this context in Ephesians chapter two and throughout the rest of the epistle to
the Ephesians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">22 </span></sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And
hath put all <i>things</i> under his feet, and gave him <i>to be</i> the head
over all <i>things</i> <b>to the church</b>, <sup>23</sup> Which is his body,
the fulness of him that filleth all in all” (<span class="uficommentbody">Ephesians
1:22-23)</span>.</span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">12 </span></sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">For as
the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body,
being many, are one body: so also <i>is</i> Christ. <sup>13</sup> <b>For by one
Spirit are we all baptized into one bod</b>y, whether <i>we be</i> Jews or
Gentiles, whether <i>we be</i> bond or free; and have been all made to drink
into one Spirit. <sup>14</sup> For the body is not one member, but many” (I
Corinthians 12:12-14).</span></div>
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Aorist, Active, Subjunctive ; the mood of possibility or potential</div>
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Present, Active, Participle</div>
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Aorist, Active, Subjunctive ; the mood of possibility or potential</div>
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Aorist, Active, Participle</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk20727102"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why Are We Failing the Great Commission?</span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk20727102;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chapter Twenty-two</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk20727102;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Church of the Broken-Down Wall </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk20727102;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Ephesians 2:14)</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Essentially: "DO NOT ENTER GENTILES"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In Ephesians 2:14, God’s Word informs us that Jesus
Has “</span><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">hath broken down
the middle wall of partition</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <i>between us</i>”<i> {Jews and Gentiles}. </i></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This text
reveals some great and undeserved blessings from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Most people expect God’s blessings without
ever trying to be a blessing to Him. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This delusion should never be part of a true
believer’s view of the Christian life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The fact is that ONLY those truly trying to be a blessing to God and
live for Him should ever expect to be blessed by God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly, <b>most true blessings from God are
spiritual, not material</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Matthew chapters five through seven are the <i>blessings
and curse</i> instructions for believer-priests (the Church) of the <b>New
Covenant</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>These governing
principles cannot be ignored or minimized if a believer-priest, or local church
of believer-priests, want to be blessed of God.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because these truths are minimalized and
marginalized, most believers expect blessings from God of which they really
have no investment and for which they have no hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Expectations of God’s blessings while
living in contradiction to the conditions for those blessings is radically
delusional.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The difference between
Old Covenant expectations of believers and New Covenant expectations is that
those expectations are HIGHER UNDER THE NEW COVENANT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>3 </sup>Blessed <i>are</i> the poor in spirit: <b>for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven</b>. <sup>4</sup> Blessed <i>are</i> they that
mourn: <b>for they shall be comforted</b>. <sup>5</sup> Blessed <i>are</i> the
meek: <b>for they shall inherit the earth</b>. <sup>6</sup> Blessed <i>are</i>
they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: <b>for they shall be
filled</b>. <sup>7</sup> Blessed <i>are</i> the merciful: <b>for they shall
obtain mercy</b>. <sup>8</sup> Blessed <i>are</i> the pure in heart: <b>for
they shall see God</b>. <sup>9</sup> Blessed <i>are</i> the peacemakers: <b>for
they shall be called the children of God</b>. <sup>10</sup> Blessed <i>are</i>
they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: <b>for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven</b>. <sup>11</sup> Blessed are ye, <b>when <i>men</i> shall revile
you, and persecute <i>you</i>, and shall say all manner of evil against you
falsely, for my sake</b>. <sup>12</sup> Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: <b>for
great <i>is</i> your reward in heaven</b>: for so persecuted they the prophets
which were before you” (Matthew 5:3-12).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In I Peter 2:5, God speaks of <b>all</b> Church Age
believers as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">living stones</i> making up
a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">living temple</i> for the indwelling of
the living God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>In the “living stone”
metaphor,</b> <b>God wants us to see a remarkable truth that reflects possibilities
in numerous dimensions of impossibilities.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is beyond us to imagine a stone that grows and moves on its own
accord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stones normally do not grow and
they certainly do not move unless operated upon by some outside force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly, although God is omnipresent, we
would not think that it important to Him to dwell in stones, living or
otherwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>We must see the
supernatural nature of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Creation</i>
within this metaphor of <i>the Church</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>1</sup> Wherefore <b>laying
aside</b> {<i>casting off or away</i>} <b>all </b>malice, and <b>all</b> guile,
and hypocrisies, and envies, and <b>all </b>evil speakings, <sup>2</sup> As
newborn babes {<i>singular and individual</i>}, <b>desire</b> {</span><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">intensely crave</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">}
</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">the <b>sincere </b>{<i>undeceitful
or unadulterated</i>} milk of the word, <b><u>that ye may grow thereby</u> </b>{<i>‘ye’
is plural, therefore corporate church growth</i>}: <b><sup>3</sup> If so be</b>
ye have tasted {<i>Psalm 34:8</i>; <i>‘</i></span><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">O taste and see that the Lord is good,’ just as a baby once having
tasted his mother’s milk cries for it again and again</span></i><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">} <b>that the Lord <i>is</i> gracious</b>
{<i>a blessing God</i>; <i>to have tasted of the truths of grace that lead a
person to a salvation decision and removal from the curse, must thereby create
a longing to continue to drink of the goodness of God through the study of
God’s Word</i>}. <sup>4</sup> <b>To whom </b>{<i>Jesus</i>}<b> coming, <i>as
unto</i> a living stone </b>{<i>refers to the incarnation of God into humanity</i>},
disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, <i>and</i> precious, <sup>5</sup> <b>Ye
also, as lively stones </b>{<i>living clay; regenerated</i>}, are <b>built up a
spiritual house</b> {<i>‘the Church of the firstborn,’ Hebrews 12:23</i>}, an
holy priesthood, <b>to</b> {<i>the intended purpose of this new priesthood</i>}
<b>offer up spiritual sacrifices</b>, <b>acceptable to God by Jesus Christ</b>
{<i>the believer’s High Priest;</i> <i>Romans 12:1-2</i>}. <sup>6</sup> <b><u>Wherefore</u></b>
also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner
stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. <sup>7</sup>
<b>Unto you therefore</b> which believe <i>he is</i> precious: but <b>unto them
which be disobedient</b> {<i>the unbelieving, Jesus rejecting Jews and all
unbelievers inclusively</i>}, the stone which the builders disallowed, <b>the
same is made the head of the corner</b> {<i>of the New Creation and ‘church of
the firstborn’</i>}, <sup>8</sup> And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of
offence, <i>even to them</i> which <b>stumble at the word</b> {<i>corrupted
priesthood of Israel and all corrupted by works salvation today</i>}, being
disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. <sup>9</sup> But ye {<i>the
‘church of the firstborn’</i>} <i>are</i> a chosen {<i>vocationally as the new
Melchizedekian priesthood</i>} generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation,
a peculiar people; that ye <b>should</b> <b><u>shew forth</u> the praises of
him</b> {<i>the primary occupation of believer-priests</i>} who hath called {<i>vocationally</i>}
<b>you out of darkness</b> {<i>the cursed creation and ignorance</i>} <b>into
his marvellous light</b> {<i>the New Creation and enlightenment through
Scriptural knowledge</i>}: <sup>10</sup> Which in time past <i>were</i> not a
people, <b>but <i>are</i> now</b> the people of God: which had not obtained
mercy, <b>but now have obtained mercy</b> {<i>verb tense and voice means at the
moment conversion in the individual’s event in being ‘born again’ ‘by grace
through faith’ in Christ</i>}” (I Peter 2:1-10).</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Stones</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> metaphorically
represent men “dead in trespasses and sin” (Ephesians 2:1; Colossians 2:13) and
powerless to any hope of living righteous lives apart from a complete
transformation of their existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The
fact that they are living stones represents the fact that they are still human,
sinners, and that their transformation will not be complete until they are
fully glorified. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">indwelling</i>
of the Holy Spirit is what makes these stones <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">living stones</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">filling</i> of the Holy Spirit is what makes
it possible for sinful beings to live righteously in this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">indwelling</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">filling</i> of the Holy Spirit is
what makes it possible for any local church to be holy before the Lord and to
become a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">holy Temple</i> in which the
Lord may dwell and be worshiped “in Spirit and in truth.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are depths of truth in this metaphor
that make the incomprehensible operations of God comprehensible in some small
way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The metaphor helps explain how
it is possible for believers to become “workers together” with God (II
Corinthians 6:1).</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Early in the three-year ministry of Jesus, we find Him
talking with a woman at a well near the city of Sychar in Samaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The well was known as “Jacob’s well.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This well was a Jewish historical landmark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this point in history, the well was being
used primarily by the citizens of the city of Sychar – all Samaritans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>At Jacob’s well, Jesus foretells of a
remarkable coming transition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worship
would no longer be through the Mosaic Covenant and through the sacrifices and
holy days in Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Believers
everywhere could worship God directly “in spirit and in truth.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>21</sup> Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe
me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at
Jerusalem, worship the Father. <sup>22</sup> Ye worship ye know not what: we
know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. <sup>23</sup> But the hour
cometh, <u>and now is</u>, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father
in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. <sup>24</sup>
God <i>is</i> a Spirit: and <b>they that worship him must worship <i>him</i> in
spirit and in truth</b>” (John 4:21-24).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It
is to this <i>dispensational transition</i> that Paul speaks in Ephesians
2:11-22.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>11</sup> Wherefore remember,
that ye <i>being</i> <b>in time past</b> Gentiles in the flesh, who are called
Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by
hands; <sup>12</sup> That at that time ye <b>were</b> without Christ, being
aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of
promise, <b>having no hope</b>, and <b>without God in the world</b>: <sup>13</sup>
<b>But now</b> in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes <b>were</b> far off <i>are</i>
made nigh by the blood of Christ. <sup>14</sup> For he is our peace, who hath
made both one, and <b>hath broken down the middle wall of partition</b> <i>between
us</i>; <sup>15</sup> Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, <i>even</i> the
law of commandments {<i>Mosaic Covenant</i>} <i>contained</i> in ordinances;
for to make in himself of twain one new man, <i>so</i> making peace; <sup>16</sup>
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having
slain the enmity thereby: <sup>17</sup> And came and preached peace to you
which <b>were afar off</b>, and to them that were nigh. <sup>18</sup> For
through him <b>we both have</b> access by one Spirit unto the Father. <sup>19</sup>
Now therefore ye <b>are</b> no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; <sup>20</sup> And <b>are</b>
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself
being the chief corner <i>stone</i>; <sup>21</sup> In whom all the building
fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple {<i>of living stones</i>} in
the Lord: <sup>22</sup> In whom ye {<i>plural, collectively as the Church
constructed of saved Jews and saved Gentiles</i>} also <b>are</b> builded
together for an habitation of God through the Spirit” (Ephesians 2:11-22). </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As “born again” believers, there is a Divine
expectation that the descriptors of what we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">were</i>
(Ephesians 2:11-12) should not be the descriptors of what we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are</i> as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">new creatures</i> (Ephesians 2:13-22).</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ephesians
2:13-22 speak of a new potential that is available to all “born again”
believers in Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ignorance and
selfish carnality keep believers living in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">natural</i> and from living in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">supernatural</i>
aspects of their new existence “in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:6).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In their ignorance and selfish carnality,
people confuse happiness with joy and moments of worldly pleasures for
fulfillment of their soul’s needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those
fleeting moments of happiness and pleasure leave their lives empty of anything
that has any lasting merit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They cannot
understand why their Christianity <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does
not work</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their Christianity <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does not work</i> because their Christianity
is not real Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">All true Jews saw themselves at war with all Gentiles.
</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, most of the Jews at the time of
Jesus hated king Herod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Herod was an
Idumean (from the country of Edom) governor of Judea who was appointed governor
by the Roman Empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All true Jews hated
this but tolerated it as long as they were allowed freedom to worship as they
saw fit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gentiles were not allowed
inside the Temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a Court of
the Gentiles outside of the Temple, but they were not allowed beyond the <i>Soreg
Inscription</i> written in Greek. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“No foreigner is to enter the barriers surrounding the
sanctuary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He who is caught will have
himself to blame for his death which will follow.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Only faithful Jewish men and women were allowed beyond
the <i>Soreg Inscription</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only faithful
Jewish men were allowed <i>inside</i> the Court of the Israelites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were walls separating these various <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">courts</i>, which in turn separated
believers from unbelievers in allowing entrance beyond the <i>Soreg Inscription</i>
from the Court of the Gentiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
faithful believers require ritual washings before being allowed entrance to the
inner courts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus even condemned what
was being allowed in the Court of the Gentiles before the <i>Soreg Inscription</i>
saying they had made His “house a house of merchandise” (John 2:16).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The wall upon which the <i>Soreg
Inscription </i>was place was known as “the middle wall” to which Paul refers
in Ephesians 2:14.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">lie of the “false
teacher” is that God really does not care how you live your life.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The argument
for liberty to the point of license is the argument of the “false
teacher.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This type of “false teacher”
is the most dangerous of all corruptors for he redefines purity in aberrant
ways that appeal to the person who does not want to make the personal
sacrifices necessary to moral and practical purity before God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, God gives the strongest of
warnings against this type of “false teacher” (II Peter 2:1). <span class="4a6n"><b>Perhaps
the greatest aberration of Christianity is to take the Name of Christ without
seeking to live the life of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trying
to do God’s work in the power of the “old man” is a primary reason why the
Church is failing the Great Commission!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“But there were false prophets also among the people,
even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in
damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon
themselves swift destruction. <sup>2</sup> And many shall follow their
pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of”
(II Peter 2:1).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>18 </sup>For when they speak great swelling <i>words</i>
of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, <i>through much</i>
wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. <sup>19</sup>
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of
corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in
bondage. <sup>20</sup> For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the
world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are
again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than
the beginning. <sup>21</sup> For it had been better for them not to have known
the way of righteousness, than, after they have known <i>it</i>, to turn from
the holy commandment delivered unto them. <sup>22</sup> But it is happened unto
them according to the true proverb, The dog <i>is</i> turned to his own vomit
again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire” (II Peter
2:18-22).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As already said, the emphasis between the words
“circumcision” and “uncircumcision” in Ephesians 2:11 is the <b>sanctity
offered to the believer within a covenant with God</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remaining within the conditions of the
covenant was the requirement for sanctity before God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Do not confuse sanctification with
salvation.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sanctification is defined
in Ephesians 2:10 – “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus <b>unto
good works</b>, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Mosaic Covenant also defined how someone, once
defiled, could be once again purified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Circumcision was the Jewish sign of those governed by the “commonwealth
of Israel” in the Mosaic Covenant (Ephesians 2:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “commonwealth” is from the Greek
word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">politeia</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">pol-ee-ti'-ah</span></span>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The most basic meaning of the word “commonwealth”
is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">polity</i>, defining how a community
of people is governed.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other
words, <b>those of the “circumcision” agreed to be governed by the polity
defined by the Mosaic Covenant given to the nation of Israel.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Gentiles, “who are called uncircumcision”
by the Jews, were outside of the Mosaic Covenant and outside of the <i>polity</i>
and <i>governance </i>of national Israel (Ephesians 2:11).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Gentiles were “aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no
hope, and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “aliens” means the Gentles were <i>non-participants</i>
in the <i>governing polity</i> of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were “strangers” regarding the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants and
therefore ignorant of both <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">salvation</span></b>
“by grace through faith” and <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">sanctity</span></b>
through the purification of blood typified in the sacrifices of the Mosaic
Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Without these messages
regarding salvation and sanctification, the Gentiles had “no hope” and were
“without God in the world” (Ephesians 4:12).</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“But now in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:13) – these
glorious words of hope burst forth like the Sunrise out of the pitch-black
darkness of night.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, the extreme spiritual darkness in the
world was due to the failure of Israel to maintain her separation from
worldliness and sanctification unto God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God would begin with a new remnant of faithful believers in the Apostles
of Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>They would be the
first generation of hundreds of generations of “born again” Christians with a <i>missional
vision</i> to reach the word with the message of redemption through the
ministry of reconciliation as personal ambassadors of Jesus Christ. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The point of this statement of “but now in
Christ Jesus” is that those that are “born again” ought to cease living as
fallen beings.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is now another
option that is radically new and radically wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can now live to the glory of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The supernatural workmanship of God “in
Christ Jesus” is working in our lives to the potential end of producing
God-kind righteousness through our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“For he hath made him <i>to be</i> sin for us, who
knew no sin; that <b>we might be made </b>{<i>cause to become</i>}<b> the
righteousness of God</b> in him” (II Corinthians 5:21).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The words “might be made” are all
translated from the Greek word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ginomai</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ghin’-om-ahee).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word means <i>to become</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It is present tense and
subjunctive mood (the mood of <i>potential</i> or <i>possibility</i>); therefore,
the word “might” is provided to represent the subjunctive mood.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point is that there is no reason or
excuse for a “born again” believer to live as a fallen creature any
longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Living as a fallen creature is a
complete contradiction of our new potential “in Christ Jesus.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Two Natures of the Believer</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Chapter Eight</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Power Loss</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The filling of the Spirit of God is
prefaced by <i>hungering</i> and <i>thirsting</i> “after righteousness”
(Matthew 5:6).</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is practical
righteousness in the believer’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
believer wanting the purest form of intimacy with God wants what God wants in
his life – PRACTICAL RIGHTEOUSNESS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
paradox that is soon discovered is that the more a believer pursues the
righteousness of God, the more he discovers how short he comes from ever truly
reaching that goal (Romans 3:23).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although
the believer <i>hungers and thirsts</i> for <i>Godkind </i>righteousness, he
comes to understand the pursuit is futile as long as he is still in human and
fallen flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Understanding all of this
brings the believer to understand the dilemma of practical sanctification apart
from the filling of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>In this dilemma of God’s
expectation of perfect righteousness, we are confronted with the same problem
in practical sanctification as we are in God’s requirement of people possessing
perfect <i>Godkind</i> righteousness before anyone can enter His presence.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know from Scripture, in the doctrine of
salvation, that <i>Godkind</i> righteousness can NEVER BE ACHIEVED, but only
RECEIVED.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This <i>Godkind</i> righteousness
IS the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the “born again” believer’s body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Practical righteousness never be ACHIEVED
by keeping the moral Law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Practical
sanctification can only be ACHIEVED through a partnership (“fellowship”) with
the indwelling Spirit of God.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Practical
<i>Godkind</i> righteous can only be RELEASED through the believer’s life
through the “filling” of the Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This “filling” of the Spirit cannot happen until the believer totally
surrenders his will to the indwelling Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There the pursuit of <i>Godkind </i>righteousness demands the pursuit of
the most intimate personal relationship possible between two beings – the
FILLING OF GOD’S SPIRIT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1</span></sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <b>If ye</b> then be risen with Christ, {<i>then</i>}
seek <b>those things which are above</b> <i>{‘on the top,’</i> <i>above or
beyond; the things of the Spirit in your new existence ‘in Christ’</i>}, where
Christ sitteth on the right hand of God {<i>as the believer’s representative,
perfect, sinless High Priest</i>} . <sup>2</sup> <b>Set your affection on
things above</b> <i>{‘on the top,’</i> <i>above or beyond; the things of the
Spirit in your new existence ‘in Christ’</i>}, <b>not on things on the earth</b>.
<sup>3</sup> For ye are dead {<i>positionally; Romans 6:6</i>}, and your life {<i>lifetime
of sinfulness</i>} is hid {<i>perfect, passive, indicative</i>} <b>with </b>{<i>implies
an intimate personal connection</i>} Christ in God {<i>positionally</i>}. <sup>4</sup>
When Christ, <i>who is</i> our life {<i>positionally</i>}, shall appear, then
shall ye also appear with him in glory {<i>practically</i>}” (Colossians
3:1-4).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pursuit of this most
intimate of relationships with God through the kind of faith that is willing to
<i>totally trust</i> God and <i>totally yield</i> one’s life to the indwelling
Spirit is what defines hungering and thirsting after righteousness in Matthew
5:6; “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Blessed
<i>are</i> they which do <b>hunger and thirst after righteousness</b>: for <b>they
shall be filled</b>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ONLY people
that will ever be filled with the Spirit in the truest sense of the theological
meaning are those </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">willing to <i>totally
trust</i> God and <i>totally yield</i> their lives to the indwelling
Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the primary arena of the
“trying of your faith” described in James 1:2-8).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James 1:7 tells us there is <b>a loss of
power</b> with God (God’s blessing) for those wavering in their willingness <i>totally
trust</i> God and <i>totally yield</i> their lives to the indwelling Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>2 </sup>My
brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations {<i>various
kinds of life trials</i>}; <sup>3</sup> Knowing <i>this</i>, that the <b>trying
</b>{<i>proving or testing</i>} <b>of your faith</b> worketh patience. <sup>4</sup>
But let patience have <i>her</i> perfect work, that ye <b>may be perfect and
entire, wanting nothing</b>. <sup>5</sup> <b>If any of you lack wisdom</b>, let
him ask of God, that giveth to all <i>men</i> liberally, and upbraideth not;
and it shall be given him. <sup>6</sup> But let him ask <b>in faith</b>,
nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with
the wind and tossed. <sup>7</sup> <b>For let not that man think that he shall
receive any thing of the Lord</b>. <sup>8</sup> A double minded man <i>is</i>
unstable in all his ways” (James 1:2-8).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">When God says,
“count it all joy,” He wants us to understand that He is working to bring us to
a <i>functional maturity</i> and faith in Jesus Christ that can trust Him
through every situation in life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
doing this in a faith partnership through various kinds of testing, trials, and
difficulties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few of the things with
which we are tested are:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Doubt</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Temptations</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Anger</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">4.
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Wrath</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">5.
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Obedience</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">6.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Self-control</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">7.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Love </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">8.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Works</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> False Prejudices</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>God
wants moral responsibility and spiritual responsibility in His children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yet, God knows that believers cannot be
morally responsible and spiritually responsible without Him help (<i>grace-enabling</i>).<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>God wants all fleshly patterns to be cast
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Counting” trials and difficulties
a necessity to accomplish those ends is part of God’s <i>growth process</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>You are to become a partner with God in
His making you a <i>TELEIOS</i> Christian: spiritually mature, complete,
entire, and lacking nothing (James 1:4).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">How is a mature Christian spiritually
defined?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James defines it in five areas.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> A mature
Christian is a person who is aware of the innate nature of sinfulness due to
his fallen nature and is constantly in the process of resisting and
overthrowing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This person’s faith in
God grows stronger every day and is becoming unwavering.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">2.
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">A
mature Christian is a person who is becoming soul conscious with genuine
concern for people.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> A mature
Christian is a person learning to live by prayer and use prayer as an effective
tool to realize spiritual goals.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">4.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> A mature
Christian is a person who knows how to use a trial, using it to learn and teach
everything that can be gained from it.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">5.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> A mature
Christian person has learned not to view conflict as a problem, but as an
opportunity to teach and learn. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a
result, a mature Christian becomes spiritually alert to God’s working in difficulties
and trials.</span></div>
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God’s perfecting work never ends, can we ever say we are “perfected”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes, but not the way man defines
perfection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the book of James, God
will give us several spiritual fronts on which He wants us to grow (to
advance).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the “perfect”
(mature) Christian is the person who is constantly working to grow on all
fronts, without exception, in his Christian growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Growth
becomes the measurement of maturity, and that maturity can exist at many
levels.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We expect a six-year-old to
act like a six-year-old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We expect a thirteen-year-old
to act like a thirteen-year-old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
sometimes we expect a six-year-old to act like a thirteen-year-old and a thirteen-year-old
to act like a thirty-year-old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is
unfair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also unfair when a thirty-year-old
acts like a thirteen-year-old or a thirteen-year-old acts like a six-year-old. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
the church, the latter is usually the problem more than the former.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not that we expect too much, but that
we expect too little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A thirteen-year-old
Christian ought to know and live better and more consistently than a six-year-old
or a two-year-old Christian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>God
allows trials to come into our lives to test our growth levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wants to know our spiritual strengths and
weaknesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>God is constantly
testing us for spiritual integrity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
is looking for gaps in our growth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
is what James 1:2-4 is saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In every
circumstance of life, God is working to perfect us and our ability to look to
Him for the spiritual resources to be victorious over our flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is power WITH God! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God wants us to live in dependence upon Him in
spiritual partnership to be victorious over our flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To understand all of this is to understand
the blessing and curse of the New Covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“The just shall live by faith” dependence upon their partnership with
God to be victorious over the “flesh.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is very PRACTICAL THEOLOGY!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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incredible shallowness of understanding the spiritual dynamic of power with God
through practical sanctification has created an incredible superficiality in
the lives of professing Christians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is NO POWER with God apart from the filling of the Spirit of God
through abiding “in the Vine.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>1</sup>
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. <sup>2</sup> Every branch
in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every <i>branch</i> that
beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. <sup>3</sup>
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. <sup>4</sup> <b>Abide
in me, and I in you</b>. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it
abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. <sup>5</sup> I am the
vine, ye <i>are</i> the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same
bringeth forth much fruit: for <b>without me ye can do nothing</b>. <sup>6</sup>
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and
men gather them, and cast <i>them</i> into the fire, and they are burned. <sup>7</sup>
<b>If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you</b>, ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you. <sup>8</sup> Herein is my Father glorified, that
ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples” (John 15:1-8).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">To argue that the conditions defined in John 15:1-8
and the Sermon on the Mount cannot be for Church Age believers because they are
presently <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">impossible</i> conditions, is
ridiculous.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they are intended only for glorified
believers, as some argue, they will not be needed in that glorified believers
will be delivered from the corruption of the flesh in their glorified
bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they are intended only for Kingdom
Age believers living in fleshly (non-glorified) bodies, what would be the
difference between those Kingdom Age believers and Church Age believers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be just as impossible for them to
live up to these conditions as it is for Church age believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">impossibility</i> is the main emphasis of the understanding of the
doctrine of Grace (God’s supernatural enabling through the indwelling and
filling of the Holy Spirit).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We must grasp the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">impossibility</i>
of producing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spiritual fruit</i> apart from
the blessing of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unity</i> with Jesus
Christ through the filling of the Spirit of God. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then perhaps Church Age believers could
finally grasp the essential essence of the total yieldedness (Romans 6:11-13).</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Total
yieldedness is necessary before the Priesthood of any believer can be used of
God so that we can be consecrated by our High Priest, Jesus Christ, to be used
in the “work of the ministry” to which we are perfected (Ephesians 4:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a matter of fact, without the
supernatural enabling of the indwelling Christ, the believer “can do
nothing.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The conditions of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blessing and curse</i> of the New Covenant (Matthew chapters five
through seven) are not based upon perfection in sinlessness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These conditions of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blessing and curse</i> of the New Covenant are intended to reflect an
important reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Being right with
God is conditioned upon a proper understanding of what we are and who we are
apart from the supernatural operations of the indwelling Spirit of God from
within us through our lives.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once a
believer understands the depth of his own degradation in corruption, only then
can he understand that what God merely wants is for fallen sinners, now saved
by grace, to have a complete <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">change of
heart</i> regarding what he wants God to do through their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if we could somehow never commit an act
of sin again for the rest of our lives, every believer still thinks about sin,
is tempted by certain sinful desires, and is emotionally corrupted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are the issues upon which Matthew
chapter five, six, seven and Luke 6:20-49 expound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">God simply wants us to WANT what He wants and depend
upon Him to accomplish what He wants through us.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, there
must be a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">turning from</i> our corrupted
emotions, our perverse desires, and outward acts of sin, but there also needs
to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">turning to</i> God in a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">declaration of dependence</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This defines the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">altar work</i> that needs to be done before the Throne of Grace by the
broken sinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> There
must be a declaration of the sinner’s understanding of his <i>spiritual
brokenness</i>.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> There
must be a declaration of the sinner’s understanding of his <i>spiritual
helplessness</i> in meeting God’s expectations.</span></div>
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must be a declaration of the sinner’s <i>dependency upon the indwelling Spirit</i>
to supernaturally work through the yielded believer’s life.</span></div>
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must be a <i>determination to live in unbroken fellowship</i> with Christ
through the continual communication of the above three things during each
moment of the day.</span></div>
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must be a <i>determination to be a vocal witness for Christ</i> and a
willingness to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ at the first moment an
opportunity arises.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">According to John 15:7</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">, we <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">must</span></b> “abide in Christ” to have our <b>PRAYER</b>
answered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The place where answers to
prayer are received is always the “abiding” place in Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God cannot, and will not, answer any prayer
that is contrary to His will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only
way we can know God’s will is when His “Words abide” in us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we can pray in God’s will.</span></div>
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importance of what Jesus teaches in John 15:1-8 will probably never be fully
realized until after we are dead, glorified, and finally standing before the
Judgment Seat of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we will see
the outcome of all those moments of selfish inconsideration when we lived for
carnal pleasures and worldly pursuits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">In John 15:4. Jesus said, “</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Abide in me, and I in
you.”</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “abide” is an aorist, active,
imperative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, the believer
is COMMANDED to abide in Christ and to ensure that Christ abides in the
believer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “abide” means <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to stay</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">remain</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>To not abide in
Christ is a serious act of sinful disobedience.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">The context of John
15:1-8 demands we understand the meaning is to do whatever is required to
ensure that we live in continuous <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spirit-filled
fellowship</i> with Jesus Christ.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
believer’s will must be so fully surrendered to Christ that their two wills
seems as one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This reality should be the
condition of the heart before any person makes any request to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a person wants intimacy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">with</i> God before He wants things <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">from</i> God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>This factor defines living faith.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anything less is simply a foolish attempt to
manipulate God into doing what we want Him to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What depth of ignorance and unbelief do such
attempts manifest in the lives of those trying to do such foolishness as trying
to manipulate God?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">John 15:7 connects
this responsibility to the blessing of answered prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in
you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice that in John 15:7, Jesus defines that
living in unbroken fellowship with Him necessitates that His “words abide in”
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, this is not some
metaphysical spiritual experience without definitive parameters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not the acceptance of some <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anything goes</i> syncretistic religious expression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The necessity that Jesus’ “words abide in” us
defines pure Christianity; the Word of God living through the believer’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">What is the first
question you ask yourself when you do not receive answers to your prayers?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you FULLY surrendered?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you have any area of known disobedience to
God’s Word in your life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you sought
the counsel of someone you respect spiritually?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Will you give this person permission to speak to you frankly about these
questions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>What really defines the
prayer of faith?</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is faith somehow
disconnected from our walk with the Lord?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The redundant pattern of Scripture is that faith has more to do with <i>the
way</i> we live our lives than it is about anything else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>7 </sup>But the end of all
things is at hand {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the Church Age is the
“last days”</i>}: be ye <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">therefore</b>
sober {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">of a sound mind meaning
doctrinally sound; understanding the timetable of the second coming keeps
believers from fretting the events and affairs of the world</i>}, and watch {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stay free from intoxicants</i>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">keep your mind clear and sober</i>} unto
prayer.<sup> 8</sup> And above all things have fervent charity <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">among yourselves</b>: for charity shall
cover the multitude of sins.<sup> 9</sup> Use hospitality one to another
without grudging.<sup> 10</sup> As every man hath received the gift, <i>even so
</i>minister the same one to another, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">as
good stewards of the manifold grace of God</b>.<sup> 11</sup> If any man speak,
<i>let him speak </i>as the oracles of God; if any man minister, <i>let him do
it </i>as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be
glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and
ever. Amen” (I Peter 4:7-11). </span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">In I Peter 4:7-11, we see several
words that describe the overflow of the Spirit of God that manifest His
indwelling power flowing through our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>There are seven ministry areas of the Christian life that are
intimately and intricately connected to having a right working relationship
with the Lord.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Understanding these
words is critical to understanding how God releases His power through our lives
in ministry to one another. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">1. Sobriety</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">: from the word <i>sophroneo </i>(so-fron-eh'-o),
meaning <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sound of mind</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thinking</i>. Sound mindedness comes from <i>thinking
things through </i>and taking into consideration all the Truths of God’s Word
as they weigh upon any given subject or situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Sophroneo </i>was a word that described a
person who did not allow his mind to come under the influence of alcohol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is very much what Jesus means when He says,
“</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">my
words abide in you” (John 15:7).</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">2. Watch unto prayer</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">: the word “watch” is from the word <i>nepho
</i>(nay'-fo), meaning to abstain from wine drinking and connecting sobriety
(right mindedness) with prayer (God-dependency) in power with God in all
matters of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Contradistinctively,
failure in <i>nepho </i>(abstaining from wine drinking or any similar worldly
practice) would disconnect the believer from power with God. Worldly desires
manifest a <i>weak mind </i>(the opposite of a <i>strong </i>or <i>sound mind</i>).
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">3. Fervent charity</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">: literally, unceasing sacrificial
love for other true believers. The idea is the willingness to make extreme
sacrifices for one another, to help one another grow in grace, and to escape
the <i>shackles </i>of our own selfishness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The words “charity shall cover the multitude of sins” in I Peter 4:8 is
a quote from Proverbs 10:12. “Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all
sins.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea is that our love is not
constantly stirring up the <i>dunghill </i>of a fellow Christian’s past
failures of which he has confessed and that have been forgiven. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">4. Use hospitality</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">: from the word <i>philoxenos </i>(fil-ox’-en-os),
it simply means <i>being fond of guests</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Christians ought to enjoy the company of other Christians and “use
hospitality” to encourage one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Notice this comes with the qualifier, “one to another without grudging”
(grumbling or complaining about having to do it).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, “God loveth a cheerful giver” (II
Corinthians 9:7). Hospitality costs both time and money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If love does not cost us something, we have
not loved. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">5. Minister “the gift</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">:” “gift” is from <i>charisma </i>and
“minister” is from <i>diakoneo </i>(dee-ak-on-eh'-o). In other words, God did
not give us the supernatural gift of spiritual enablement to consume upon
ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has <i>gifted </i>us with
the intent we will use that “gift” and spread it as a resource to the widest
possible scale of our influence “as good stewards of the manifold grace of
God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice, there is a <i>stewardship </i>involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stewardship means we will be held accountable
for this “manifold grace of God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
accountability defines the Dispensation (stewardship) of Grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salvation is a gift of grace, but with it
comes overwhelming spiritual responsibilities for which we are accountable to
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He expects “fruit.” </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">6. Speech</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">: “If any man speak, <i>let him speak
</i>as the oracles of God” (I Peter 4:11).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The word “the” is not in the Greek text in front of the word
“oracles.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It should read, “Speak as
oracles of God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea is like the
“thus sayeth the LORD” proclamation of the Old Testament prophets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea is that you are not communicating
some philosophical idea or some great thought from your own mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no option for debate or
dissension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth is to come forth from
the mouth of the prophet of God, as if God is speaking Himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, when you are speaking forth the
Word of God, you are to do so with the authority of its Author. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">7. Ministry to the glory of God</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">: “If any man minister, <i>let him do
it </i>as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be
glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and
ever. Amen” (I Peter 4:11b).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We often
hear the word <i>charismatic </i>used to describe people who can <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">attract</i> large crowds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often, these types of people are
self-glorifying <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">empire builders</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are like fly paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fly was just looking for a place to land
to get something to eat and then he found himself <i>stuck</i>. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">When God uses the word <i>charisma</i>,
He uses it in the context of His supernatural enabling of a believer for the
“work of the ministry.”</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This <i>gift of grace</i> is never to be used
for some guy to build himself an empire of loyal followers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s <i>gift of grace</i> should be used to
make followers (disciples) of Jesus Christ where all that we do is intent upon
bringing God glory - revealing Him in all His wondrous attributes to a blind,
cursed, and dying world of sinners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes there is a narrow line between a man building himself a
kingdom and a man working to win souls and make disciples for the Kingdom of
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That line is sometimes difficult to
discern.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>7 </sup>But the end of all
things is at hand {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the Church Age is the
“last days”</i>}: be ye <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">therefore</b>
sober {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">of a sound mind meaning
doctrinally sound; understanding the timetable of the second coming keeps
believers from fretting the events and affairs of the world</i>}, and watch {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stay free from intoxicants</i>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">keep your mind clear and sober</i>} unto
prayer.<sup> 8</sup> And above all things have fervent charity <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">among yourselves</b>: for charity shall
cover the multitude of sins.<sup> 9</sup> Use hospitality one to another
without grudging.<sup> 10</sup> As every man hath received the gift, <i>even so
</i>minister the same one to another, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">as
good stewards of the manifold grace of God</b>.<sup> 11</sup> If any man speak,
<i>let him speak </i>as the oracles of God; if any man minister, <i>let him do
it </i>as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be
glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and
ever. Amen” (I Peter 4:7-11). </span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">In I Peter 4:7-9, God gives an
admonition to believers within a local church <i>union </i>about living during
the <i>last days</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Church Age
Dispensation will end with the death of every lost soul on the face of planet
earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only the lost that enter the
Tribulation and then repent of sin and trust in the finished work of Christ for
their redemption during the seven-year Tribulation, will enter the Kingdom Age
Dispensation alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every other person
who has received <i>the mark of the Beast </i>will be destroyed by the glory of
the coming of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this view in
mind, the believer should carefully follow the admonitions of I Peter 4:7-9. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">Along with what we are told in
Revelation chapters four through nineteen and numerous other prophecies, this
is the world view of every Christian who believes in the imminent (any moment)
second coming of Jesus Christ.</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;"> This is the looming <i>dark cloud </i>of God’s promise of
His unleashed wrath in His judgment of the nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the theological foundation of the any
moment pending reality to which the words: “<sup>7 </sup>But the end of all
things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.<sup> 8</sup>
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall
cover the multitude of sins.<sup> 9</sup> Use hospitality one to another
without grudging” (I Peter 4:7-9) are addressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps if we truly understood this <i>any
moment </i>pending reality, we might begin to take these words seriously.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">The word “end” in I Peter 4:7 is from
the Greek word <i>telos </i>(tel’-os).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This word refers to <i>the point aimed at as a limit </i>or <i>the point
of terminati</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">on</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Church Age Dispensation is the next to
the last age of God’s longsuffering grace upon this fallen creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then comes the “day of wrath” that Paul
speaks of in Romans 2:5: “But after thy hardness and impenitent heart
treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the
righteous judgment of God. . .”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
the future <i>horizon </i>that all Church Age believers must constantly keep in
their sights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must keep this prophecy
as part of <i>today’s </i>possible realities.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">This scenario is equally true of
local churches where the “meat” of Bible doctrine has been removed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take the definitive Truths of God’s Word away
from the admonitions to a local church and you take away the spiritual
nutrients that lead us to power with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A believer cannot “abide” in the Words of Christ if he is ignorant of
those Words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although that local church
may look like and act like it is growing, it is dying of malnutrition at the
same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only hope for the lost souls
of this world is for Christians to live the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christ-life</i>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">Every Christian is commanded to be both “salt” and “light” in
this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, the Christian that is
not empowered by the indwelling Holy Spirit will be <i>savorless salt </i>and <i>hidde</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">n </i>or <i>covered </i>“light.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point is that we are going to be
“lukewarm” if we are not willing to make some extreme, radical changes in our
priorities and how we live this new life we have “in Christ.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before we fool ourselves into thinking that
we have achieved some type of success because we have convinced a large group
of people to <i>join </i>our multitude, we better examine what kind of
multitude we <i>really are </i>and what we are <i>trying to become</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus tells the crowds following Him to take
careful consideration of the personal costs of being a TRUE DISCIPLE in Luke
14:25-35.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>If you are willing to pay
the price, DO NOT take the title!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>25 </sup>And there went great
multitudes with him: and <b>he turned, and said unto them</b>,<sup> 26</sup> If
any <i>man </i>come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and
children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be
my disciple.<sup> 27</sup> And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come
after me, cannot be my disciple {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this
refers to the kind of total surrender to Christ that is willing to die for the
mission of Christ</i>}.<sup> 28</sup> <b>For which of you, intending to build a
tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have <i>sufficient
</i>to finish <i>it</i>?</b><sup> </sup>{<i>Carefully consider the personal
costs of being a true disciple of Jesus.</i>}<sup> 29</sup> Lest haply, after
he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish <i>it</i>, all that
behold <i>it </i>begin to mock him,<sup> 30</sup> Saying, This man began to
build, and was not able to finish {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">count
the cost before calling yourself a disciple, or Christian</i>}.<sup> 31</sup>
Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first,
and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh
against him with twenty thousand?<sup> 32</sup> Or else, while the other is yet
a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">count the cost before calling yourself a
disciple, or Christian</i>}.<sup> 33</sup> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">So
likewise</b>, <b>whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he
cannot be my disciple.</b><sup> 34</sup> Salt <i>is </i>good: but if the salt
have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?<sup> 35</sup> It is
neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; <i>but </i>men cast it out
{<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">worthless for the purpose it was created</i>}.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>He that hath ears to hear, let him hear”</b>
(Luke 14:25-35).</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">The eyes of faith see every task or
difficulty in life through the possibility of grace enablement.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Confession of
sins and cleansing of “all unrighteousness” is the first essential to being
grace enabled by the indwelling Christ (I John 1:7-9).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prayer is the medium through which confession
is communicated and the grace of cleansing is received.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This defines the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cleansing of the vessel</i> through which Christ and the Christ-life
flows through us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a moral
obligation as children of God to live clean lives according to the teachings of
Jesus Christ; i.e. the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">This is what I Peter 4:10 refers to
as being “stewards of . . . grace.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As every man hath received the gift, <i>even so</i>
minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of
God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt;">The word “stewards” translates into the practical
reality of <b>accountability </b>for this supernatural spiritual endowment of
power that is given to all true believers “born again” of the Spirit of God. </span></div>
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the believer can experience sickness that is not the direct result of
chastisement for some sin in his life, he cannot experience sickness that is
not the direct result of God’s curse upon sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sickness and death are parts of the curse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">But above all things, my brethren, swear
not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but
let your yea be yea; and <i>your</i> nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">hupokrisis</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">;
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hypocrisy or dissimulation</i>}</span>. <sup>13</sup>
Is any among you <b>afflicted</b> {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">undergoing
some hardship or difficulty</i>}? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing
psalms. <sup>14</sup> Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the
church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the
Lord: <sup>15</sup> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And the prayer of
faith shall save the sick</b>, and the Lord shall raise him up; and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">if</b> he have committed sins, they shall
be forgiven him. <sup>16</sup> Confess <i>your</i> faults one to another {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">humbling ourselves to avoid having people
think of us to highly</i>}, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pray one
for another</b> {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">present imperative; when
people know that we all struggle with the same temptations, this prompts us to
continually pray one for another</i>}, that ye may be healed. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The effectual fervent </b>{<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">grace supernaturally enabled and energized</i>}<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> prayer of a righteous man </b>{<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this is practical sanctification not
justification</i>}<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> availeth </b>{<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">enables</i>}<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> much</b>. <sup>17</sup> Elias was a man subject to like passions as we
are {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he had a corrupted and sinful nature</i>},
and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth
by the space of three years and six months. <sup>18</sup> And he prayed again,
and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. <sup>19</sup>
Brethren, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">if any of you do err from the
truth </b>{<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wander away from living the
Word</i>}, and one convert him {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">turn him
around or bring him back to the path of Truth trough persuasion and repentanc</i>e};
<sup>20</sup> Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error
of his way {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">from his wandering away from
living the Truth</i>} shall save a soul from death {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the death here is the death of the Christ-life, not eternal damnation</i>},
and shall hide a multitude of sins {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
intent here is that love refuses to see the failures of the past that have been
repented and forgiven as present realities</i>}” (James 5:12-20).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>It
is the responsibility of every local church member to lovingly help other
believers within their local church context and the whole community of Christ
to live godly, Christ-like lives – to abide in His Word.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The central objective of the local church,
consisting of individual believers united together by salvation and the New
Covenant responsibilities, is to ensure that the Words of Jesus are being lived
through our lives (John 15:7) by grace through faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any person that has a vested interest in the
Kingdom of Christ will seek to abide in the Word of God and want the Word of
God to be lived through his live by the enabling grace of the indwelling
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">By the time of the
writing of the epistle of James, about thirty years had passed since the
resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many people had begun to
take many of the practical truths of the Word of God for granted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those who have been Christians for many
years or for young adults and teenagers who have grown-up in the faith, there
is a natural tendency to begin just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">going
through the motions</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>People
come to their local church’s services with many different things on their
minds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They think about the friends they
will see, the songs they will sing, if their kids will set still, or the <i>potluck</i>
dinner after services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many of us
stop to remind ourselves that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">today we
will meet with our God</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many
planned and prepared to worship Him? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>I
think we get into such routines so often that we give little, if any, thought
to the presence of our God in what we do.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even when we pray, we often say the words without any real consciousness
of the presence of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our minds
think about all those around us and what we are saying, but we are not
consciously aware of the presence of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We read and study our Bibles without consideration that God is intending
to speak to us through the Words on the pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We witness to others without any awareness of the presence of the Holy
Spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
James 5:13, God states that our conscious awareness of the presence of God in
our lives is measured by our attitude towards Him when we are either
“afflicted” or “merry,” under difficulties or blessings, by what we do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is in the arenas of<b> </b>PRAYER and
PRAISE that God measures the depth of our spiritual integrity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When “afflicted,” do we pray with a real
conscious dependence on the Lord?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
we are blessed, do we praise God from the depths of a grateful heart.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Afflicted” is a
general term for suffering, misfortune, or troubles (James 5:13).</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>It
is the same word used in James 5:10 to describe the difficulties of the Old
Testament prophets.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trials produce
emotional reactions such as stress, worry, anger, and fear that sometimes bring
a person into depression when not dealt with properly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These can all be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">by-products</i> of AFFLICTION.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The question is, do these things promote prayerful dependency upon the
Lord in faith?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can either PREVENT
or PROMOTE spiritual growth, depending on our response to difficulties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will determine if we will abide in the
Word or flee from the pathway of righteousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">James 5:13-18
completes the full circle in the quest for the integrity/wholeness of our faith
begun in God to James 1:2-11.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>2
</sup>My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; <sup>3</sup>
Knowing <i>this</i>, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. <sup>4</sup>
But let patience have <i>her</i> perfect work, that ye may be perfect and
entire, wanting nothing. <sup>5</sup> If any of you lack wisdom {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the real treasure in life</i>}, let him ask
of God, that giveth to all <i>men</i> liberally, and upbraideth not; and it
shall be given him. <sup>6</sup> But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
<sup>7</sup> For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the
Lord. <sup>8</sup> A double minded man <i>is</i> unstable in all his ways {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the context implies the pursuit of worldly
wealth that is temporal as opposed to godly, biblical wisdom that is eternal</i>}.
<sup>9</sup> Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: <sup>10</sup>
But the rich, in that he is made low: because <b>as the flower of the grass</b>
he shall pass away. <sup>11</sup> For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning
heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace
of the fashion of it perisheth: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">so also</b>
shall the rich man fade away in his ways” (James 1:2-11).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our response to
affliction, suffering, misfortune, or trouble<b> </b>should be to look for the
growth opportunity through which to gain godly wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must learn to pray through these
difficulties in that such afflictions reveal the temporality of our existence
in the flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>In God’s plan,
affliction always has a purpose.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Affliction
takes the person who has grown complacent towards the Lord, or who has become
apathetic towards the things of God and focuses his attention on the PERSON of
his faith, Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little
spiritual meat from a simple spiritual truth: when we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">forget</i> that we are living in the presence of a holy God every
moment of our lives, when we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">forget</i>
Him when we worship, sing, or pray, we have fallen into a trap of Satan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have become preoccupied with the things of
this world. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Let me ask you,
did you stop to consider the condition of your heart and life <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">before</i> reading God’s Word?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you have a time of self-examination, confession,
repentance, and cleansing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you sing
the hymns, is your mind wandering to other things, or is it focused on bringing
glory and praise to our heavenly Father?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Are you thinking about what you are going to do later, a problem at
work, your kids, or is your heart and soul fastened upon the wonderful grace of
Jesus, His mercy and goodness?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the
tithes and offerings are collected, what are you thinking?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How little? The burden of it all?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or are you worshiping the Lord, praying that each dollar given might be
used to magnify and glorify His Name a thousand-fold with souls won and lives
changed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <b> </b></span><b>Something
here describes every one of us.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see
friends, how easy it is to slip into the snare of the devil and forget our
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we forget God, we not only
have slipped into the snare of the devil, but the whole concept of worship is
lost as a practice of our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ensuring
that the Word of God abides in us is the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">first
step</i> to answered prayer!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<i>He has served the Lord for over 40 years.</i>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-5101352453700217282019-09-16T09:02:00.001-05:002019-09-16T09:02:16.732-05:00You Know Better than That!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Chapter Twenty-one</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You Know Better
than That!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>For most of professing Christians, who have spent their
lifetimes wading in the shallows of doctrinal truth, every truth seems “deep”
and over their heads.</b><span> </span>The Epistle to
the Hebrews was written to professing Jewish Christians sometime before 70 A.D.
<span> </span>Therefore, the historical context is within
about thirty years after the crucifixion/resurrection of Jesus.<span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>According
to Hebrews 5:12-14, central to the problems addressed by the epistle to the
Hebrews was the doctrinal ignorance rampant among Jewish believers at this time
period.</b><span> </span>Although they had made a
profession of faith in Jesus Christ, many were being seduced into returning to
the Mosaic Covenant thereby abandoning their New Covenant responsibilities of
the priesthood of all believers.<span> </span>The
epistle to the Hebrews confronts this inconsistency of <i>Mosaic Covenant</i> <i>Christianity</i>
as equal to “unbelief” (Hebrews 4:6). <span> </span>This
is a very serious situation that would impregnate Christianity with false
doctrines that continue to this day in Replacement Theology.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<sup>12 </sup>For when <b>for the time ye ought to be
teachers</b>, ye have need that one teach you again which <i>be</i> the first
principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and
not of strong meat. <sup>13</sup> <b>For every one that useth milk <i>is</i>
unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe</b>. <sup>14</sup> But
strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, <i>even</i> those who <b>by
reason of use</b> <span>have their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil” (Hebrews 5:12-14).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif;">Jewish believers in the
epistle to the Hebrews are being addressed as <i>hypothetical </i>unbelievers
because their practices of faith in Christ are inconsistent with the necessity
of understanding the “finished” propitiation of God through the crucifixion and
shed Blood of Jesus.</span></b><span> </span>This
doctrinal error is posited as “unbelief.”<span>
</span>Therefore, religious practices MUST be consistent with doctrinal truth
or the inconsistencies reveal unbelief and false faith.<span> </span>Such inconsistencies are to be confronted
evangelistically and corrected because such people are still living in unbelief
and therefore still lost in their sins.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The word
“faith” as used in the Bible ALWAYS connects to the PRACTICES OF BELIEFS.<span> </span>Faith NEVER refers to mere beliefs apart from
corresponding practices.</b> <span> </span>This
corruption of the meaning of “faith” is confronted in almost every epistle in
the New Testament.<span> </span>Biblically, the
practices of religion and life MUST be in alignment with the correct
understanding of Bible doctrine.<span> </span>Paul
addresses this definition of “faith” as “doctrine” eight times in I Timothy,
four times in II Timothy, and four times in Titus (16 timers in all three
epistles).<span> </span>These are the three Pastoral
Epistles establishing the correlation between true, Biblical faith with right
doctrine.<span> </span>James’ epistle does the
same.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The problem
addressed in Hebrews 5:12-14 is serious regarding why the Church is failing to
fulfill the Great Commission for two main reasons.<span> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1.</b> The main responsibilities of the new priesthood
of all believers in the New Covenant are to <b>evangelize</b> <b>the lost</b>
bringing them to faith in Christ and to <b>disciple</b> the newly “born again”
believers in knowing and living the Truths of God’s Word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2.</b> The failure to understand the distinction
between the nature of the unfinished work of redemption in the <i>shadowy</i>
sacrifices of the Mosaic Covenant, at which the Mosaic Covenant merely <i>pointed
its finger</i>, manifested a serious misunderstanding of the “finished” nature
of the New Covenant in the Blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ.<span> </span>This problem manifests unbelief in the
“finished” work of the propitiation of God and the gift of God-kind
righteousness to the believing sinner.<span> </span><b>This
failure reproduced itself in generation after generation.<span> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30280"><sup><span>13 </span></sup></a><span><span>Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of
God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30281"></a><span><sup><span>14</span></sup></span><span><span> But every man is tempted, <b>when he is drawn away of
his own lust, and enticed</b>. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30282"></a><span><sup><span>15</span></sup></span><span><span> Then when lust
hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30283"></a><span><sup><span>16</span></sup></span><span><span> <b>Do not err, my beloved brethren</b>. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30284"></a><span><sup><span>17</span></sup></span><span><span> Every good gift and every perfect gift {<i>everything
that is good and righteous</i>} is from above, and cometh down from the Father
of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30285"></a><span><sup><span>18</span></sup></span><span><span> Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, <b>that
we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures</b>. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30286"></a><span><sup><span>19</span></sup></span><span><span> <b>Wherefor</b>e, my beloved brethren, let every man
be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30287"></a><span><sup><span>20</span></sup></span><span><span> For the wrath of
man worketh not the righteousness of God. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30288"></a><span><sup><span>21</span></sup></span><span><span> <b>Wherefore</b>
lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with
meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. </span></span><sup><span>22</span></sup><span> But <b>be
ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves</b>. <sup>23</sup>
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man
beholding his natural face in a glass: <sup>24</sup> For he beholdeth himself,
and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30292"><sup>25</sup> But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty,
and continueth <i>therein</i>, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of
the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed {<i>James is not referring to
works <b>FOR</b> salvation, but rather the works <b>OF</b> born <b>OUT OF</b>
genuine salvation; Ephesians 2:10</i>}. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30293"><sup>26</sup> <b>If
</b>any man among you <b><u>seem to be religious</u></b> {<i>appears to be a</i>
<i>practitioner of ‘the faith’</i>}, and bridleth not his tongue, <b>but
deceiveth his own heart</b>, this man’s religion {<i>practices of ‘the faith’
thereby revealing genuineness or hypocrisy</i>} <b><i>is</i> vain</b> {<i>empty
or worthless</i>}. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30294"><sup>27</sup> <b>Pure religion and
undefiled before God and the Father</b> {<i>works OF the genuinely ‘born again’
person</i>} is this {<i>two general examples are given</i>}, <b>To visit</b> {<i>for
the purposes of relieving their distress</i>}the fatherless and widows in their
affliction {<i>distressed condition; repeated many times in the Old Testament
books; Deuteronomy 10:18; Psalm 68:5, 82:3; and Isaiah 1:17.<span> </span>This defines moral responsibilities to those
in need before the eyes of God and before the world.</i>}, <i>and</i> <b>to
keep himself</b> {<i>this defines moral responsibilities for</i> <i>himself
before the eyes of God</i>} unspotted from the world</a>”<span> (James 1:13-27).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><b>This statement and warning of James cannot be over
emphasized;</b> “But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is
dead” (James 2:20)?<span> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif;">In other words, professed
faith in God’s Words without a corresponding obedience to those Words in the
way we live before God and the world is self-deception in the worst form. </span></b><span> </span>Such a person will ultimately discover he was
never truly “born again,” but that discovery will be TOO LATE!<span> </span>This does not imply that someone that was
truly “born again” had somehow lost the gift of salvation.<span> </span>The implication is that their faith was never
in the objective facts of the accomplished “finished” Cross work of Christ
manifested by His resurrection from the dead.<span>
</span>Salvation is a gift and once it is received “through faith,” it is eternally
sure.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Bible
says, as a man “thinketh in his heart, so <i>is</i> he:” (Proverbs 23:7a).<span> </span>God is not talking about <i>what </i>a person
thinks, but <i>the way</i> he thinks.</b><span>
</span>The <i>way</i> a person thinks will determine what kind of person he
will be.<span> </span>God wants to change the <i>way</i>
we think, not just <i>what</i> we think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<sup>3 </sup>For though we walk in the flesh, we do not
war after the flesh:<sup> 4</sup> (For the weapons of our warfare <i>are</i>
not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)<sup> 5</sup>
<b>Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against
the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ</b>;<sup> 6 </sup>And having in a readiness to revenge all
disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled” <span>(II Corinthians 10:3-6).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><b>The <i>way</i> a person thinks determines how he sees
himself, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk19100547">how he sees </a>other people, and how he sees
life in general.</b><span> </span>A few good examples
of this are some of the famous painters in history.<span> </span>As we look at their work, we can get a
glimpse into their minds to see the way they think.<span> </span>Vincent van Gogh was a troubled man and his
paintings reflect the <i>way</i> he thought.<span>
</span>His paintings are a continuum of distorted images occupied with the base
things of this world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>Pierre Renoir’s impressionism is that of blended colors
without clear-cut lines and distinctions.<span>
</span>Michelangelo’s art was occupied with the details of muscle, movement,
and body construction.<span> </span>Rembrandt van
Rijn was a portrait artist who painted people in dark shadows and colors.<span> </span>Perhaps he saw the sinister darkness behind
everyone.<span> </span><b>The works of these men
reflect the <i>way</i> they thought. </b><span> </span>James says we can also see the <i>way</i>
another believer thinks when we look at his Christian work (<i>how he practices
his Christianity; living faith</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><b>Sometimes the truths of Scripture are viewed as <i>ivory tower ideologies</i>.<span> </span>For people who think this way, the Bible is a
book of things to know, but are so far beyond man’s abilities they could never
be realized.</b><span> </span>However, God uses the
words of Scripture to detail His expectations for our lives; not in abstract
ideologies, but in practical realities.<span> </span><b>What
God gives us to know, He expects us to do.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><b>The epistle of James details the practical realities of
the Christian life.<span> </span>These practical
realities define Christianity by what we do (<i>not by what we know</i>).</b><span> </span>This little epistle takes all the apparent <i>ivory
tower ideologies</i> and translates them into grassroots realisms expressed in
the works of the professing Christian.<span> </span>The
epistle of James takes those truths out of the mind (<i>knowing</i>) and
translates the knowledge into a reality of Christian ministry (<i>doing</i>).<span> </span><i>Whenever our Christianity fails, it fails
in the transition from knowing to doing. </i>This outcome of <i>false faith</i>
is what defines the corruption of the doctrine of repentance to mean merely <i>a
change of mind</i>.<span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif;">Pure religion (true living Christianity/faith) is
not expressed in flowery speeches and beautiful words, but in concrete tangible
actions of ministry (James 1:22 & 27).</span></b></span></div>
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by practice, not knowledge.</b><span> </span>The
things listed in James 1:26-27 are intended as a <b>few examples</b>.<span> </span>The three things listed in these two verses
are a <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif;">beginning, not
an end in themselves.</span></b></span></div>
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tongue, denies his profession (<i>beliefs</i>) by his practice (vs. 26).</span></div>
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to other believers in need, denies his profession by his practice (vs. 27a).</span></div>
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separated from the world and separated unto God, denies his profession by his
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deceive themselves about the reality of their Christianity (James 1:22), maybe
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span> </span></b>Dr. Bob Jones Sr. once said, <i>“You can’t be religious
without religion; you can’t be Christian without Christ; you can’t deliver the
goods unless you got the goods to deliver.<span>
</span>You can’t get water out of a dry well, so quit putting on.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span> </span>If your Christianity is one of<i> knowing </i>without <i>doing</i>,
it is not Christianity at all.</b><span> </span>If
your Christianity never ministers to your neighbor’s need, it is not
Christianity.<span> </span>If your Christianity never
seeks to bridge the gap between broken relationships and unforgiveness, it is
not Christianity.<span> </span>If your Christianity
is not constantly aware of the lost people around you and does not do
everything possible to personally share the <i>words
of life</i> in the Gospel of Christ with them, it is not Christianity.<span> </span>If any one of these is true of your life,
your Christianity is not real.<span> </span>It is
nothing but a conglomerate of <i>ivory tower
ideologies</i>.<span> </span><b>If this describes the
reality of any person’s <i>faith</i>, it should be the greatest concern for
every believer-priest.</b><span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>“Doers of the Word” translate the wonderful truths of God’s Word into
the practice of their lives.<span> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span> </span></b><span>“</span><b>Doers of the Word” become a vehicle to
transport God’s love, God’s mercy, and God’s grace to the souls and lives of
lost people.</b><span> </span>This is what defines
“doers of the Word.”<span> </span>It is <i>hands on</i>
Christianity.<span> </span>“Hearers only” are people
with their heads in the work, but not their hearts and hands.<span> </span>God’s Word is an instruction book for
ministry.<span> </span>He never intended for us to <i>know</i>
what He wants without <i>doing</i> what He wants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Everyone has dreams.<span> </span>Many people can get a vision of what God
wants for their lives.<span> </span>However, every
great Christian became great not because of ideas, dreams, or visions, but
because they did whatever needed to be done to translate their ideas, dreams,
and visions into realities.<span> </span>They were “doers
of the Word”, not mere <i>ideologues</i>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span> </span>Modern day Christianity seems content to bask in the glory
of the successes of years gone by while failing to translate their own personal
faith into the practical reality of doing.</b><span>
</span>Read James 1:21 again; “Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and
superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which
is able to save your souls.”<span> </span>The reason
for this duplicity of contradiction between <i>professed faith</i> and <i>living
faith</i> is because the knowledge of the Word of God is <i>head knowledge</i> only.<span> </span>Faith
in God’s Word is not being “engrafted” (integrated) into the practices of life.
<span> </span><span>This
is to what Christ is referring in Revelation 3:14-19 in His message to the
Laodicean period of Church history.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span> </span>How can a professing Christian determine if he is just a <i>hearer
only</i> or a <i>doer</i>?</b><span> </span>To whom
are you reaching out to minister and what are you doing to accomplish the Great
Commission?<span> </span>Is there real and tangible
evidence of concrete spiritual growth and change in your life?<span> </span>Is it measured by <i>what you have learned</i>
(<i>knowledge</i>) or by <i>what you have learned to do</i> (<i>doing</i>)?<span> </span>If there is no measurable spiritual growth,
determined by personal ministry and practical faith (work), your Christianity
is merely intellectual. <span> </span>In other more
direct words, your faith not Biblical faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><b>Real Christian faith is always a working, practicing
faith (<i>doing</i>).</b><span> </span>The word faith
never separates beliefs from practice.<span>
</span>The word faith means we practice what we believe.<span> </span>This is always the meaning of faith in Hebrew
and the Old Testament.<span> </span>For instance, if
you believe all mankind is condemned to an eternal hell, real faith compels you
act (“works<span>,” James 2:14-20) upon that
belief.<span> </span>If your professed Christianity
(“faith”) does not act upon your belief, your professed faith is “dead, being
alone” (James 2:17 &20).<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span> </span>When it comes to the real Christian faith, there is no such
thing as an <i>armchair Christian</i>.</b><span>
</span>Real Christian faith does not allow for <i>spectators</i>.<span> </span>In real Christianity, everyone must be a
participant.<span> </span>Stop praying for a burden
for people and begin to do what God tells you to do.<span> </span>When you begin to do the<i> work of the
ministry</i>, you <b>will</b> have a burden for people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><b>How then do we escape this façade of image over
substance; the pursuit of knowledge without an equal effort at living what we
learn?</b><span> </span>Here we enter the spiritual
struggle common to all true believers with the desire to live for the Lord and
produce fruit for the Lord – PRACTICAL SANCTIFICATION. <span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span>The greatest enemy of the believer is not Satan.<span> </span>He is the Destroyer and the accuser of the
brethren, but he is not the believer’s greatest enemy.<span> </span>The believer’s greatest enemy is his own
fallen, corrupted sin nature, the OLD MAN.<span>
</span>The “old man” can never be spiritual.<span>
</span>The “old man” can never be righteous because he is conceived a sinner
and is born a sinner.<span> </span>The “old man” can
never be anything but a sinner.<span> </span>Being
“born again” adds the Holy Spirit’s Person to the believer’s body thereby
enabling that believer to live righteously and obey God’s Word.<span> </span>The Bible word for this enabling of the
indwelling Spirit is “fellowship.”<span> </span><b>“Fellowship”
with God empowers the “born again” believer through yielding to the indwelling
Spirit of God and is the ONLY solution to carnality!<span> </span>To KNOW this truth and not DO THIS TRUTH, is
pure self-deception.<span> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28106"><sup>14 </sup>For we know that the law
is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28107"><sup>15</sup>
For that which I {<i>want to</i>} do I {<i>the ‘old man’ or sin nature</i>} allow
not: for what I {<i>the new ‘born again’ man</i>} would, that do I{<i>the new
‘born again’ man</i>} not; but what I{<i>the new ‘born again’ man</i>} hate,
that do I {<i>the ‘old man’ or sin nature</i>}. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28108"><sup>16</sup>
If then I {<i>the new ‘born again’ man</i>} do that which I {<i>the new ‘born
again’ man</i>} would not, I {<i>the new ‘born again’ man</i>} consent unto the
law that <i>it is</i> good. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28109"><sup>17</sup> Now then it is
no more I {<i>the new ‘born again’ man</i>} that do it, but sin {<i>the ‘old
man’ or sin nature</i>} that dwelleth in me. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28110"><sup>18</sup>
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to
will is present with me; but <i>how</i> to perform that which is good I find
not. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28111"><sup>19</sup> For the good that I would I do not: but
the evil which I would not, that I do. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28112"><sup>20</sup> Now
if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin {<i>the ‘old man’
or sin nature</i>} that dwelleth in me. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28113"><sup>21</sup> <b>I
find then a law </b>{<i>a spiritually governing principle</i>}<b>, that, when I
would do good, evil is present with me.</b> </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28114"><sup>22</sup>
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28115"><sup>23</sup>
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28116"><sup>24</sup> O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from
the body of this death? </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#28117"><sup>25</sup> I thank God through
Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but
with the flesh the law of sin</a>” (Romans 7:<span>14</span>-25).</span></div>
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pursuit of knowledge without an equal effort at living what we learn</b><b><span lang="EN"> is more than a very difficult endeavor.</span></b><span lang="EN"><span> </span>It
is an impossible endeavor apart from the enabling grace of God.<span> </span>We cannot do this is our own strength.<span> </span>This is a supernatural work requiring
supernatural abilities.<span> </span>We must be
constantly cognizant of that fact.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our
Lord,<sup> 3</sup> According as his divine power hath given unto us all things
that <i>pertain</i> unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that
hath called us to glory and virtue:<sup> 4</sup> Whereby are given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of
the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through
lust” (II Peter 1:2-4). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN"><span> </span>The essential truth of the supernatural
enabling (grace) of a “born again” believer through total surrender to Christ permeates
God’s instruction to believers in the epistle of James about living the
Christian life and producing God-kind righteousness and spiritual fruit through
our lives.<span> </span><b>Since the Scriptures are
redundant with this truth, it must be a truth of which most Christians are
ignorant. <span> </span>Or, this is a truth most
Christians simply ignore.</b><span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN">Therefore, we have two probable problems for
why we fail to escape</span> the façade of image over substance and the pursuit
of knowledge without an equal effort at living what we learn.</b><b><span lang="EN"></span></b></span></div>
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to us than the reality of our Christianity.<span>
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more important to us than actual fruit being produced to the glory of God
through the truths that we live and proclaim. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN"><span> </span><b>This brings us to the
place of an honest evaluation of our Christian lives before God.<span> </span>It is a critical evaluation in that apart
from it our lives will never escape</b></span><b> the façade of image over
substance and the pursuit of knowledge without an equal effort at living what
we learn.</b><span> </span>Unless we are brutally
honest with ourselves about image over substance and knowledge over living
truth, we will be doomed to live our lives in the shadows of spiritual
obscurity and fruitlessness.<span> </span><span lang="EN"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>He has served the Lord for over 40 years.</i></span>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-87401575928456749922019-09-02T09:54:00.001-05:002019-09-02T09:54:27.291-05:00Rightly Divided<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk18308054"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why Are We Failing the Great Commission?</span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk18308054;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chapter
Nineteen</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk18308054;"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rightly Divided</span></b></span></div>
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“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed {<i>before God;</i> <i>exegetical work</i> <i>cannot
be shamed because of its thoroughness</i>}, <b>rightly dividing the word of
truth</b>” (II Timothy 2:15).</div>
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<span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">Paul speaks to the central responsibility of all
generations of pastors and disciple makers in this text – “<b>rightly dividing
the word of truth.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul has already
commanded pastor Timothy; </b>“And the things that thou hast heard of me among
many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to
teach others also” (II Timothy 2:2).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>How
can the command of II Timothy 2:2 be fulfilled apart from fulfilling the
command of II Timothy 2:15?</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Rightly
dividing the word of truth” is correctly understanding and carefully exacting
God’s will by interpreting the details of what God has revealed in His inspired
Words of the Holy Bible (II Timothy 3:16-17).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is NOT WORK FOR NOVICES (I Timothy 3:6).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b>A pastor
should have a thorough knowledge of God’s Word and a detailed understanding of
the doctrines that the Bible teaches. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A pastor should be able to immediately discern
false doctrine and be able confront it while defending the <i>sheep</i> against
the <i>wolves</i> that are trying to destroy them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The very reason why God calls His children
“sheep” is because they are ignorant and defenseless against the trickery of
the <i>wolf</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i>sheep</i> need
to learn to trust the shepherd God appoints over them to defend them and watch
over them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-width: 95%;">Obviously, if God’s Word can be “rightly divided” (<i>interpreted</i>),
it can be wrongly “divided (<i>interpreted</i>).</span></b><span style="mso-font-width: 95%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In choosing
a local church (<i>a discipleship training center</i>), a person is choosing a <i>shepherd</i>
that he is willing to trust with “rightly dividing the word of truth.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>CHOOSE CAREFULLY and CHOOSE WISELY!</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The great difficulty is that most people are
making this choice out of ignorance of God’s Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly, the <i>filters</i> through which
most people make these choices are often false doctrines that they already
believed and false presuppositions to which they already hold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think of the difficulties this presents to
the genuine pastors of local churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Think of the struggle in trying to help people know the truth while
struggling with their own mistrusts of pastors and their own misconceptions
about the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A major aspect of the <i>organization</i> of a local church
is the “gifts” (Ephesians 4:8) of men God has given to lead and train the
saints (Ephesians 4:12) coming to be discipled.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God calls these men to preach and calls them to
a locality having given them the empowering of the special gifts of <i>teaching</i>,
<i>leadership</i>, and <i>organization</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These gifted and called of God men have <i>a mandate from God</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are to bring the saints to functional
spiritual maturity, so each believer is prepared to do the “work of the
ministry” (Ephesians 4:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b>Although II
Timothy 2:15 is a command for all believer-priests to be able to fulfill their
roles as disciple makers through their own study of God’s Word, the command is particularly
sobering for pastors.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pastors are
the first line of defense within a local church against doctrinal error and its
infiltration into the body of believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Secondly, if pastors are not “rightly dividing the word of truth,” they
cannot teach, equip, and mature their congregations “for the work of the
ministry” (Ephesians 4:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If pastors are
not “rightly dividing the word of truth,” they will propagate false doctrines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If pastors are not “rightly dividing the word
of truth,” they force their opinions upon lives and create people that follow
them rather than follow the teachings of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are some of the greatest concerns of a godly
pastor who studies “to shew” himself “approved unto God, a workman that needeth
not to be ashamed {<i>before God; Judgment Seat accountability</i>}<i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<b>Imagine if
you can, the difficulty in protection people against the cultural and
theological; aberrations facing the average, but totally ignorant baby
Christian in these last days.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
person coming into the church in our era is infected and effected by many of
these corruptions in various degrees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This means these people are corrupted by these false teachings and
philosophies in various degrees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
the work of the pastor and disciple maker to be able to discern and diagnose these
corruptions and teach the truth of God’s Word to correct them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below
is a list of the primary adversaries:</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">1.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Relativism/Humanism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Pluralism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">3.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Ecumenicism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">4.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Covenant Theology</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">5.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Replacement Theology</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">7.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Pentecostalism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">8.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Cults</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">9.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Soft Separatism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">10.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> New Evangelicalism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">11.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Salvational Legalism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">12.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> Sanctificational
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">13.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"> Church Growth Movement</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">14.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"> Contemporary Music</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">15.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"> Easy Believism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">16.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"> Easy Prayerism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">17.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"> Only Believism </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">18.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"> Corruptions of Inspiration</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">19.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"> Universalism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">20.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"> Sacramentalism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">21.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"> Baptismal Regeneration</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">22. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">Neo-paganism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">21. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">Pantheism/Spiritism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">22. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">Hedonism</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">23. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">Humanistic Psychology</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">24. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">Pornography/Fornication</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">25. </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;">The Pharmaceutical Culture</span></div>
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<b>These are
just the <i>tip of the iceberg</i>!</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are hundreds of other variations and combinations of all these
corruptions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the world into
which the <i>believer-priest</i> must minister the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, “perfecting the saints for the work
of the ministry” (Ephesians 4:12) is an overwhelming responsibility and
difficulty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the faithful pastor
talks about <i>wolves</i> trying to destroy the <i>sheep</i>, these are what <i>wolves’
teeth</i> look like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>These are a <u>few</u>
false beliefs that corrupt “the faith.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b>Growing means <i>doing</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not everyone is willing to become <i>doers of
the Word</i>. </b></div>
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“<sup>21 </sup>Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and
superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which
is able to save your souls. <sup>22</sup> But be ye doers of the word, and not
hearers only, deceiving your own selves” (James 1:21-22).</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Hearing the Word of God, whether in its reading or in
its preaching, without a </b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif; text-transform: uppercase;">predisposition</span> to obey EVERY aspect of its
instruction is the most subtle of all forms of self-deception.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Word of God defines “the faith” and establishes
the practices of “the faith” in holiness before God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one would have “the faith” that saves the
soul without obeying what the Word of God says to receive that salvation
(repent, believe, confess, call, and receive the LORD Jesus).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one will save his life from ruin and waste
apart from learning the Word of God and OBEYING the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When the <i>organization</i> of a local church (those men
listed in Ephesians 4:11) does their jobs and people follow their God ordained leadership,
the church becomes a <i>growing organism</i> (“the edifying of the body of
Christ,” Ephesians 4:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word
“edifying” is from the Greek word <i>oikodome </i>{oy-kod-om-ay'}, which refers
to <i>the act of building something up</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It refers to that work of the ministry that promotes another’s spiritual
growth in the application of truth in a life unto holiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The church cannot become a <i>growing
organism</i> until it becomes a <i>disciplined organization</i> of functionally
mature believers (<i>perfected/equipped saints</i> doing the <i>work of the
ministry</i> and <i>following Biblical leadership</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is God ORDAINED!</div>
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“Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit
yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account {<i>Judgment
Seat accountability</i>}, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: <b>for
that <i>is</i> unprofitable for you </b>{<i>Judgment Seat accountability</i>}”
(Hebrews 13:17).</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hebrews 13:17 is the last admonition in the epistle to the
Hebrews before the concluding salutations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is an important admonition in that the believing Jews had already
been admonished to abandon the Temple Order of Judaism and the leadership of
the Old Covenant Priesthood of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Hebrews
13:17 redirects them to their new responsibilities and allegiance to their new
God appointed leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God does not
leave believers without God-ordained and appointed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shepherds of their souls</i>. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Obey them that have the rule over you, and
submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give
account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that <i>is</i>
unprofitable for you” (Hebrews 13:17). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Hebrews
13:17 leads us into four areas of individual responsibility of New Covenant
believers regarding their own spiritual growth. </b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1. Obedience to pastoral leadership and discipleship (Hebrews 13:17)</b></div>
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<span style="mso-font-width: 97%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There is <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">no doubt</span></b> that the word “obey” in
Hebrews 13:17 is used to signify the authority given to pastors over the formal
members of a local church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the
Greek word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">peitho</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">pi’-tho),
translated “obey,” can have a number of meanings, the context along with the
use of the words “submit” and “rule” would give us the meaning of <i>ascending
to authority</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, the intent
is to “obey” and submit to their leadership regarding </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">the authority of correct doctrine</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and the disciplines of
“the faith.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 97%;">hegeomai</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 97%;"> (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">hayg-eh’-om-ahee), which refers to </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-font-width: 97%;">authoritative leadership</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 97%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can mean </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 97%;">to command with authority</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-width: 97%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pastors both govern and lead
with the authority of the Word of God as they apply the interpretations of the
Word of God to the issues and practices of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Word of God does not speak to every new
cultural nuance of worldliness or carnality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For instance, the Word of God does not say - <i>thou shalt not smoke</i>
<em><span style="background: white;">Marijuana</span></em>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the Word of God gives us a governing
principle for these kinds of issues in I Corinthians 6:12, “</span><span style="mso-font-width: 97%;">All things are lawful unto me, but all things are
not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under
the power {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">control</i>} of any.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-width: 90%;">Every local church requires at least one spiritual
leader, who has a deep understanding of the Word of God, and who can interpret
cultural nuances according to the general principles revealed in the Word of
God.</span></b><span style="mso-font-width: 90%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These kinds of decisions should not be left
in the hands of consensus (majority rule).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, a local church must be extremely careful in their examination
of the man of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They must carefully
examine him regarding his Scriptural qualifications for the position of
authority they give him when they acknowledge he is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God-called</i> to be their pastor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the acknowledgement that he is their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God-called</i> pastor, they are also acknowledging their
responsibilities to “obey” his doctrinal leadership and “submit” to the
authority of this divinely appointed position in the local church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This admonition leads us to the second
admonition – “pray for us.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-font-width: 97%;">2. Praying for pastors and their
ministries (Hebrews 13:18-19)</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-font-width: 97%;">“<sup>18 </sup>Pray for
us: for we trust {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are convinced</i>} we
have a good {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">correct or proper</i>} conscience
{<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">moral consciousness or perception of
what is right</i>}, in all things willing to live honestly {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">morally honorable</i>}.<sup> 19</sup> But I
beseech <i>you</i> the rather to do this, that I may be restored {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">reconstituted in health, home, or
organization</i>} to you the sooner” (Hebrews 13:18-19).</span></div>
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<span style="mso-font-width: 97%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hebrews 13:19 takes the
statement of Hebrews 13:18 beyond a request to a plea to fulfill an obligation
to pray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe this refers to the
Apostle Paul specifically, especially due to the context of Hebrews 13:23 in
the reference to “<i>our</i> brother Timothy is set at liberty.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spiritual leaders face the onslaught of both
satanic opposition and extensive temptations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-width: 97%;">Spiritual leaders struggle with issues of
discouragement, defeat, and all that accompanies trying to minister to people
who often rebel against their leadership and resist the teaching of the Word of
God.</span></b><span style="mso-font-width: 97%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people are untrusting, and others simply
refuse to submit to God’s appointed authorities over their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are those who mistrust spiritual
leaders because a spiritual leader has abused them in the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How would you like someone to mistrust you
because of someone else’s failure?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-font-width: 97%;">3. People working with diligence
towards their own spiritual maturity (“perfection,” Hebrews 13:20-21) </span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-font-width: 97%;">“<sup>20</sup> Now the
God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great
shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,<sup> 21 </sup>Make
you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is
wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom <i>be</i> glory for
ever and ever. Amen” (Hebrews 13:20-21).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="mso-font-width: 97%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif; mso-font-width: 90%;">Just like
the resurrection and glorification of Jesus, spiritual growth is a supernatural
work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spiritual growth requires
individual participation/cooperation in the <i>operations of God</i>.</span></b><span style="mso-font-width: 97%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word
“perfect” in Hebrews 13:21 is from the Greek word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">katartizo</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">kat-ar-tid'-zo).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the
word means </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">to make complete or
thoroughly complete</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, there is a
background intent regarding </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">restoring
to wholeness something previously broken</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The statement that follows (“</span></span>in
every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in
his sight”) implies this perfection is the thorough spiritual equipping of a
believer for the purposes God intends in doing the “work of the ministry”
(Ephesians 4:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-font-width: 97%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Therefore, the
implication of the admonition is that the believer ought to be making his own
concerted effort to involve himself in the supernatural work of discipleship
God has ordained for his life through the operations of the local church and
God’s ordained leadership.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
believer can only bring glory to God through a life that has been thoroughly
equipped to minister in doctrinal soundness and a walk that is pure from
worldliness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word “amen” is a
concluding admonition to a hypothetical response from those admonished –
meaning <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">so let it be</i>!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-font-width: 97%;">4. “Suffer {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hold yourself against or to; i.e., be accountable for living</i>} the
word of exhortation” (Hebrews 13:22)</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-font-width: 97%;">“<sup>22</sup> And I
beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a
letter unto you in few words.<sup> 23</sup> Know ye that <i>our</i> brother
Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.<sup>
24</sup> Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They
of Italy salute you.<sup> 25</sup> Grace <i>be</i> with you all. Amen. <i>Written
to the Hebrews from Italy by Timothy</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">”
(Hebrews 13:22-25).<i> </i></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Although the epistle to
the Hebrews is a lengthy admonition, its message is simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The New Covenant believer has a superior
position than the Old Covenant believer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To this superior position is attached more extensive responsibilities.</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
other words, the New Covenant believer has a higher level of accountability,
and therefore culpability, for all the commandments given to Him by the Lord
Jesus Christ and His Apostles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are to
preserve the Word of God by translating it into the <i>language of living </i>as
James 1:22 commands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a central
obligation of every local church – holding one another accountable to <i>learn</i>
and <i>live</i> the Word of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">Why Are We Failing the Great
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Chapter Seventeen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Defining Departure from the Faith</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span><b>One of the greatest transitional
evidences of genuine Christianity in a person’s life is the immediate change
from selfish Narcissism to selflessness and preoccupation with the spiritual
needs of others.</b><span> </span>This is the
transition we see in the lives of the Apostles once they received the
indwelling and filling of the Holy Spirit of God in Acts chapter two.<span> </span>This characteristic of true (Biblical)
Christianity is presently no longer an evident reality or expectation of what
is Biblically defined as “the faith.”<span> </span>Yet,
in Paul’s epistles to Timothy, he warns that in “the last days” there will be a
departure from “the faith” (Christianity) characterized by selfishness.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span><b>The</b> Word of God repeatedly
refers to the teachings of the Bible as “the faith.”<span> </span>Discipleship is teaching “the faith.”<span> </span>In other words, discipleship is not just
teaching the Bible.<span> </span><b>Discipleship</b>
is TEACHING WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES!<span>
</span>Discipleship is teaching RIGHT DOCTRIINE – ORTHODOXY.<span> </span>Right doctrine (orthodoxy) is the <b>one
correct understanding</b> of what God says to do through understanding the
information He provides to us in the holy Bible.<span> </span>There is just ONE correct faith (Ephesians
4:5).<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>1</sup>
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye <b>walk worthy</b>
of the vocation wherewith ye are called {<i>the priesthood of all beli</i>evers},
<sup>2</sup> With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, <b>forbearing
</b>{<i>put up with</i>}<b> one another <u>in love</u></b>; <sup>3</sup>
Endeavouring {<i>make every possible effort</i>} <b>to keep</b> {<i>guard
against loss or ruin</i>} the <b>unity</b> {<i>oneness or sameness; key phrase</i>}
<b>of the Spirit</b> {<i>Although God retains a person’s individuality, there
are certain things that the Spirit of God is doing the same in everyone’s
life.<span> </span>God is a Spiritual tri-unity and
expects His children to grow into that tri-unity}</i> <b>in the bond of peace</b>.
<sup>4</sup> <i>There is</i> <b>one</b> body, and <b>one</b> Spirit, even as ye
are called in <b>one </b>hope of your calling; <sup>5</sup> <b>One</b> Lord, <b>one</b>
faith, <b>one</b> baptism, <sup>6</sup> <b>One</b> God and Father of all, who <i>is</i>
above all, and through all, and in you all. <sup>7</sup> But <b>unto every one
of us is given grace</b> {<i>supernatural enabling of the indwelling Holy
Spirit</i>} according to the measure of the gift of Christ” (Ephesians 4:1-7).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Ecumenicism teaches the <i>possibility</i> that there are
many <i>gods</i> with many <i>names </i>and many <i>doctrines</i>.</span></b><span><span> </span>Ecumenicism teaches we cannot be confident
that any religious writings can be considered perfectly reliable. Therefore,
all religious writings and mythologies must be given some degree of
credibility.<span> </span>This teaching is a complete
contradiction against Ephesians 4:1-7). Ecumenicism teaches that every belief
system is <i>a faith</i> that must be equally considered and given respect and
viability.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="sdzsvb"><b>Ecumenicism is a broad
definition of Christianity defined by terms like nondenominational</b></span><b>,
<span class="sdzsvb">nonsectarian</span>, <span class="sdzsvb">universal</span>, <span class="sdzsvb">all-embracing</span>, <span class="sdzsvb">all-inclusive.</span></b><b><span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>The Roman Catholics think they have “the faith.”.<span> </span>Yet, they hypocritically claim to be Ecumenical.<span> </span>The Lutherans think they have “the faith” in
Luther’s Large Catechism, but they too are hypocritically Ecumenical.<span> </span>The Pentecostals and the Charismatics claim
they have “the faith,” but they too are hypocritically Ecumenical.<span> </span>The Seventh Day Adventists and the Mormons
claim they have “the faith,” but now both of these groups want to be accepted
into <i>Evangelical Christianity</i> (and are accepted by many).<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>When has someone departed “from <u>THE</u> faith”? </span></b><span><span> </span></span><span style="color: black;">This is the
Emergent church of modern-day Christianity.<span>
</span><b>This is </b></span><b>Laodiceanism</b><span style="color: black;">
describe in Revelation 3:14-22.<span> </span></span><span>The word “depart” in I
Timothy 4:1 is from the Greek word </span><i><span style="color: black;">aphístēmi</span></i><span style="color: black;"> (af-is'-tay-mee), meaning <i>to instigate a revolt</i> or <i>to
desert</i>.<span> </span>We are witnessing these events
of the “</span><span>latter
times</span><span style="color: black;">” characterized by selfishness and
desertion “from the faith.”<span> </span></span><span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>1 </sup>Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly, that in <b>the latter times</b> some shall <b>depart <u>from
the faith</u></b>, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; <sup>2</sup>
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; <sup>3</sup>
Forbidding to marry, <i>and commanding</i> to abstain from meats, which God
hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know
the truth. <sup>4</sup> For every creature of God <i>is</i> good, and nothing
to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: <sup>5</sup> For it is
sanctified by the word of God and prayer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><sup><span>6</span></sup><span> If thou put the brethren in
remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ,
nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast
attained. <sup>7</sup> But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise
thyself <i>rather</i> unto godliness. <sup>8</sup> For bodily exercise
profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise
of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. <sup>9</sup> This <i>is</i>
a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. <sup>10</sup> For therefore we
both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the
Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. <sup>11</sup> These things
command and teach. <sup>12</sup> Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an
example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in
faith, in purity. <sup>13</sup> <b>Till I come, give attendance to reading, to
exhortation, to doctrine</b>. <sup>14</sup> Neglect not the gift that is in
thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the
presbytery. <sup>15</sup> Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to
them; that thy profiting may appear to all. <sup>16</sup> <b>Take heed unto
thyself, and <u>unto the doctrine</u></b>; continue in them: for in doing this
thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee” (I Timothy 4:1-16).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>In his next epistle to Timothy, II Timothy 4:1-14 defines
Fundamental Christianity with its objectives.</span></b><span><span> </span></span><b><span lang="EN">Fundamental Christianity is simply defined
as a spiritual struggle, consistently and constantly fought on two spiritual
battlefronts.<span> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“For,
when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled
on every side; <u>without</u> <i>were</i> fightings, <u>within</u> <i>were</i>
fears” (II Corinthians 7:5).<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The two battlefronts of every
Christian’s life are “fightings” from “without” and “fears” from “within.”<span> </span><b>From “without”</b> come the external
struggles for truth and the temptations that allure the believer into sin and
seduce him into spiritual adultery and/or doctrinal compromise breaking his
“fellowship” with God and breaching the enabling of the Spirit of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>From “within”</b> come <span lang="EN">both the </span>lusts of the flesh that
want the things we are tempted with and the carnal emotions of a fallen nature
that struggles with the issues of the heart such as pride, fear, worry, envy,
hatred, manipulation, bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness again breaking
his “fellowship” with God and breaching the enabling of the Spirit of God.<span> </span>However, the greatest <span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">internal
problem is the fears of the outcomes of being faithful to our missional
objectives – preaching the Gospel and making disciples of Jesus.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"><span> </span>The
struggle/battle of a <i>militant Christianity</i> is against the forces of
wickedness from satanic external influences and the carnal, enmity of our own
fallen natures against all that is godly, true, honest and above reproach.<span> </span>This struggle of <i>militant Christianity</i>
is a struggle for our own integrity before God so that His power, residing
within us, might be released upon the world through the testimonies of our
lives. <span> </span>These battlefields establish the
militancy of the Christian life.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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Fred Moritz in a workshop entitled <b>“Stand
For Fundamentalism . . . And Against Attempts to Change It”</b> lists five
traits that Non-Fundamentalist commonly identify with Fundamentalism (as quoted
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN">“1. </span></b><span lang="EN">An emphasis on inspiration, infallibility,
inerrancy, and authority of the Bible<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN">2. </span></b><span lang="EN">An opposition to Modernism<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN">In order to understand why <i>militancy</i> (<i>fighting against the
erosion and degeneration of “the faith”</i>) is necessary, we must first define
why it is a fundamental aspect of Christianity.<span>
</span>(Fundamental Christianity is defined by ALL the fundamental truths that
define New Testament Christianity, not by a list of <i>major</i> doctrines.)<span> </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 95%;"><span> </span></span></b><span lang="EN">William Ward Ayer, in a speech to the National
Association of Evangelicals in April 1956 (as quoted in Louis Gasper’s book, <b>The
Fundamentalist Movement </b>(Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, 1981 reprint)
gives an excellent definition of Fundamentalism:<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">“Fundamentalism represents a resurgence of ancient
practices, which began not with Martin Luther but at Pentecost.<span> </span>Fundamentalism is apostolic, and the doctrine
of justification goes back to Paul.<span> </span>That
branch from which the fundamentalist movement sprang lived obscurely through
the ages and had never been completely silenced even in the Dark Ages . . .
What fundamentalism did was awaken the slumbering apostolicism from lethargy.”<b><span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN">If we accept this definition (and I do),
Fundamentalism is about maintaining and defending the historic, apostolic, New
Testament Christianity.<span> </span>Fundamental, New
Testament Christianity is steeped in terms of <i>militancy</i>.</span></b><span lang="EN"><span> </span>Therefore, if we believe the Bible is
authored by God (and not men), we must believe that God purposely chose <i>militant
</i>terms to both describe and define New Testament Christianity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-font-width: 95%;">“<sup>11 </sup>But thou, O man of God, flee these things;
and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.<sup>
12 </sup><b>Fight the good fight of faith</b>, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto
thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many
witnesses” (I Timothy 6:11-12).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">There is a <i>movement</i>,
whether acknowledged or not, in modern Bible believing Christianity (Fundamentalism)
to <i>move away</i> from its historic <i>militancy</i>.<span> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-weight: normal;">I believe this
to be the result of theological reactionism to the obnoxious, mean spirited and
unloving attitude displayed by many professing Fundamentalists of the
past.<span> </span>(This is a fair criticism of
Fundamentalism, but it is not a justifiable reason for abandoning it.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Secondly, I believe the <i>movement away</i> from a
militant Fundamentalism is due to our natural tendency for self-protection and
our desire for sociological acceptance.<span>
</span>(<b>Fundamentalism has been denigrated by our society.</b><span> </span>It is easier for us to disassociate ourselves
with this negativity by trying to redefine ourselves than it is to define and
defend historic, militant Christianity.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>In the last forty years, I have watched the development of a <i>pacifist
Christianity</i> that has not only lost the concept of the <i>fight for the
faith</i></span></b><b><span lang="EN"> and against worldliness</span><span>; they have
adopted a form of neutralism towards the enemies of Biblical <i>militant</i> Christianity
and towards the carnal influences and advances of this world.</span></b><span><span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>The
Bible has a consistent warning to the pacifist Christian.<span> </span>Satan destroys the lives of his
captives.<span> </span><b>A Christian cannot be
neutral, he cannot surrender, and he cannot make peace with the forces of evil.</b></span><span lang="EN"><span> </span></span><span>The
goal of the “mystery of inequity” is annihilation.<span> </span>Let down your guard for a moment and they
will take your head off.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>What many
Christians consider neutralism, God considers surrender and treason.<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>“<sup>34 </sup>Think not that I am come to send
peace on earth: <b>I came not to send peace, but a sword</b> {<i>division</i>}.<sup>
35</sup> For I am come to set a man <b>at variance</b> against his father, and
the daughter <b>against</b> her mother, and the daughter in law <b>against</b>
her mother in law.<sup> 36 </sup>And <b>a man’s foes <i>shall be</i> they of
his own household</b>. <sup>37 </sup>He that loveth father or mother <b>more
than me</b> is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter <b>more
than me</b> is not worthy of me.<sup> 38</sup> And <b>he that taketh not his
cross</b> {<i>willingness to die as a faithful witness</i>}, and followeth
after me, is not worthy of me.<sup> 39</sup> He that findeth his life {<i>saves
it for his personal selfish purposes</i>} <b>shall lose it</b>: and he that
loseth his life {<i>uses and sacrifices it for Christ’s purposes</i>} for my
sake <b>shall find it</b>” (Matthew 10:</span><span lang="EN">34</span><span>-39)</span><span lang="EN">.</span><span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-font-width: 90%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN">To take up the Cross of Christ is military
terminology defining the essence of the Christian faith.</span></b><span lang="EN"><span> </span>The Cross of Jesus Christ is the banner under
which the soldiers of the Cross fight.<span>
</span>Therefore, the very nature of this symbolism identifies Christianity as <i>militant</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>For
some reason, many Christians have decided to be at peace with </span><span lang="EN">the Satanic </span><span>world system against which Christ is at war.<span> </span>For some reason, many Christians have
redefined Christianity away from a <i>militant warfare</i> with real casualties
to <i>playground mentality</i> where they think they can be <i>weekend warriors</i>
who draw their blessings but never need to take any real risks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Even though we may not have realized it, when we accepted God’s gift of
salvation and became a child of God by rebirth, we were joined with the family
of God in a fight against the forces of evil for the lost souls of all of mankind.<span> </span>It is not a game we play.<span> </span>The stakes are far too high.<span> </span>We cannot be at peace with those who are at
war with Christ (Matthew 10:37).<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>1. </span></b><span>To
take Christ’s side is to take truth’s side.<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>2. </span></b><span>To
take truth’s side is to take the side of righteousness.<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>3. </span></b><span>To
take the side of righteousness is to take the side of “Light” against
“darkness.”<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN">4</span><span>. </span></b><span>To
“take up the Cross” is a proclamation of spiritual militancy against anything
contrary to the truth it stands for.<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Central to the
revival of any local Church is the return to a <i>militant Christianity</i>.<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>The
struggle of the Church militant is both a struggle to <b>maintain truth</b> and
a struggle <b>for the lives and souls of people</b>.<span> </span>Why did God choose to give of the words of
Paul to Timothy in II Timothy 2:1-4?<span>
</span>Paul understood the overwhelming responsibility of the transfer of
doctrinal truth without compromise (“the whole counsel of God”) from one
generation to the next (II Timothy 2:2).<span>
</span>Whatever truth is compromised by one generation is usually lost to the
next generation.<span> </span>Every “jot and tittle”
must be fought to </span><span lang="EN">be </span><span>retained or that ground will be
lost in the battle for the lives of the next generation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Even if we personally and
individually stand for Christ throughout our lives but fail to transmit the “whole
counsel of God” to the next generation, we will not have one person to take up
the <i>banner of the Cross of Christ</i> and fight on for proceeding
generations.</b><span> </span>We can expect the Cross
of Christ to become battle-scarred and worn when it is constantly carried in
the battle for truth, but it is a sad testimony to the generation that
purposely removes large portions of it so it will not be such a heavy load to
bear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><b>Many
professing Christians are so entangled with the affairs of this world that they
have little time and less desire to <i>fight the fight of faith</i> (II Timothy
2:4).</b><span> </span>Such a person will never be a <i>militant
Christian</i>.<span> </span>Such a person will never
have the time for evangelism (the <i>fight for souls</i>) or discipleship (the <i>fight
for lives</i>).<span> </span>A real <i>soldier of the
Cross</i> understands his purpose in life.<span>
</span>It is not to get rich or to be famous.<span>
</span>It is to <i>fight the fight of faith</i> and fight to the death if
necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold",serif; mso-font-width: 95%;">II Timothy is the mission’s statement of the Church
militant (II Timothy 4:1-8).<span style="color: black; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>The
statement of II Timothy 4:1-8<b> </b>is the inspired Word of God written by the
hand of an old battle-scarred warrior by the name of the Apostle Paul.<span> </span>He was writing from a prison cell where he
was waiting to be executed for being a <i>militant Christian</i>.<span> </span><b>Paul was passing the banner of militant responsibility
from one generation to the next.</b><span> </span>It
is the lifelong responsibility of every soldier of the Cross to pass his banner
to many others in the next generation who will take up their Cross and fight
on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>The non-militant, “seeker sensitive” Christianity of today seems to think
the purpose of the Church is to avoid any <i>doctrine</i> that is divisive or
controversial or that which contradicts the lifestyles of those they seek to
reach.<span> </span>That is what Paul refers to by
the words “itching ears” (II Timothy 4:3).<span> </span></span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span><span> </span></span></b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dr. Lance Ketchum serves the Lord as a Church Planter, Evangelist/Revivalist.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">He has served the Lord for over 40 years.</span>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-36081910647251275862019-07-29T10:17:00.000-05:002019-07-29T10:17:22.348-05:00“Quench Not the Holy Spirit”<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Why Are We Failing the Great Commission?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chapter Sixteen</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“Quench Not the Holy
Spirit”</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">People who
have had a loved one die know what it means to grieve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We grieve for someone according to the degree
that person is loved and the degree we were involved in that person’s life. </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We grieve over the death of a loved one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We grieve over the sickness of a loved and
the pain a loved one suffers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can
even look upon someone’s suffering with empathy and compassion, feeling to some
degree the pain they feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, somehow,
we cannot connect these aspects of our beings with the character and nature of
God in Whose image we are created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
sees people that He loves in pain, grief, and suffering and is moved with
compassion for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God grieves over the
predicament into which sin has brought humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We have
little comprehension of God’s love for us even as sinners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor can we comprehend the degree He is involved
in our lives before and after our salvation.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, we cannot comprehend the depth of His grief when His “born
again” children sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God does not view
the physical death of one of His “born again” children with grief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death of one of God’s “born again” children
is <i>graduation day to glory</i> and a time of rejoicing for all of Heaven,
including God. <b>“</b></span><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Precious in the
sight of the LORD <i>is</i> the death of his saints” (Psalm 115:16).</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death for a
“born again” believer is the moment of DELIVERANCE to the glories of
Heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From God’s perspective, it would
be sad if that person would have to return to this wicked world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Understand all of this and you will understand
the shortest verse in the Bible; “Jesus wept” (John 11:35).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But when he saw the multitudes, <b>he was moved with
compassion on them</b>, <b>because they fainted</b>, and were scattered abroad
{<i>dispersed;</i> <i>disorganized and therefore endangered</i>}, <b>as sheep
having no shepherd </b>{<i>pastor; no one to watch over them</i>}” (Matthew 9:36).</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">As soon as
Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she immediately went out to meet Him, <i>“</i>but
Mary still sat in the house” (John 11:20).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Mary
was despondent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She withdrew from the
Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today we would say she went into
the bathroom and locked the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe
she was sending a message to the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was telling Him,<i> if you don’t care about me, I don’t care about
you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Martha took the direct (and
proper) approach in communicating her feelings (John 11:21-22).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Martha was ashamed of the
way Mary treated the Lord (John 11:28).</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Martha went to Mary “secretly” (</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">privately).</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, in Mary’s state of mind, it would have done no good to rebuke
her (perhaps more harm would have been done).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instead, Martha speaks directly to Mary’s unwarranted concern that the
Lord <i>doesn’t care</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She says, “The
Master is come, and calleth for thee.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>SPEAK
AT THE LEVEL OF YOUR CONCERN!</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Say
what needs to be said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus wanted to see Mary.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He wanted to communicate what He was going to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wanted to comfort her like He had just
done with Martha (John 11:23-27).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, until she came and communicated her concerns, He could not help
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Therefore, Jesus sent
communication to Mary from Martha.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Be
the voice of God when necessary! </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
is always trying to communicate with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is always trying to <i>keep the lines open</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are the ones who close the doors of
communication with God and lock ourselves away behind them and away from the power
of His Word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">As soon as Mary heard that Jesus was concerned about her,
she “quickly” ran to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>We do not
know how people will respond to the truth, but we know they can never respond
if they never hear it from you.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>SPEAK THE TRUTH IN LOVE (I Timothy 2:7).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In John 11:32, Mary communicates her concern and her complaint against
the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Where have we heard this
statement before?</b> (Read John 11:21 again; “</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother
had not died.”</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>We do not know if Martha
infected Mary with this bad attitude or if Mary infected Martha (I think it the
latter).</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary may have been bowing
at His feet on the outside, but on the inside, she was standing, shaking her
finger in His face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“<sup>33
</sup>When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which
came with her, <b>he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled </b>{<i>because
they did not understand the blessings in the death of a saint</i>}, <sup>34</sup>
And said {<i>in despondency</i> <i>over their spiritual ignorance and resulting
unbelief</i>}, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. <sup>35</sup>
<b>Jesus wept</b>. <sup>36</sup> Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! <sup>37</sup>
And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind,
have caused that even this man should not have died? <sup>38</sup> <b>Jesus
therefore <u>again</u> groaning in himself cometh to the grave.</b> It was a
cave, and a stone lay upon it. <sup>39</sup> Jesus said, Take ye away the
stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this
time he stinketh: for he hath been <i>dead</i> four days. <sup>40</sup> Jesus
saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, <b>if thou wouldest believe, thou
shouldest see the glory of God?</b> <sup>41</sup> Then they took away the stone
<i>from the place</i> where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up <i>his</i>
eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. <sup>42</sup> <b>And
I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I
said <i>it</i>, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.</b> <sup>43</sup>
And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, <b><u>Lazarus, come
forth</u>.</b> <sup>44</sup> And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and
foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith
unto them, Loose him, and let him go. <sup>45</sup> Then many of the Jews which
came to {<i>mourn with</i>} Mary, and <b>had seen the things which Jesus did,
believed on him </b>{<i>and now you understand why Mary anointed His feet with
oil and wiped His feet with her hair in John 12:3</i>}. <sup>46</sup> <b><u>But
some</u></b> of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what
things Jesus had done. <sup>47</sup> Then gathered the chief priests and the
Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. <sup>48</sup>
If we let him thus alone, all <i>men</i> will believe on him: and the Romans
shall come and take away both our place and nation” (John 11:33-48).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Jesus was
grieved in His Spirit (John 11:33, 35, and 38).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“Groaned”
is from a Greek word that means <i>He was upset</i>, even angry about the
attitudes of these ladies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to
John 11:37, these ladies had probably infected many other people with this
murmuring and complaining spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Their
spirit communicated a lie about Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Jesus
was so deeply grieved in His Spirit, He “wept” (John 11:35).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">What
should have been a deeply moving experience and exhibition of the faith of
people who professed to love the Lord and trust Him was reduced to a burden in
that He had to prove Himself even to followers (John 11:38).</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Martha still is questioning the Lord’s abilities (v
39).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus must remind her again of Who
He is (John 11:40).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What should have
been a joyous event for Jesus instead became an agony for Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think we see this reflected in the commands
of Jesus in verses 39 and 44.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There are many things that grieve the Lord besides the
disobedience of open rebellion or sinful thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Other things that grieve the Lord are
things like unbelief, complaining against Him, and the unwillingness to trust
Him with our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus is grieved by
our apathy and complacency.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
“stone” on the tomb of Lazarus represents much more than the seal on a dead
man’s grave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It represents our doubt,
worry, anxiety, despair, fear, discouragement, and unbelief, all the attitudes
that grieve the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “stone”
represents everything in our lives that says to the Lord,<i> You are not what
you claim to be.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>“Said I not . . . if thou wouldest believe . . .” (vs.
40).</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is the one thing that
grieves the Lord Jesus the most; the unwillingness of professing believers to
believe Him (NOT <i>IN</i> Him, but truly believe what He says) and to trust
Him with our everyday lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Winning
souls is not a priority of our lives because we really don’t believe Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we believed Him, nothing would be more
important than communicating to the world the truth about Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unbelief comes wrapped in subtly
self-deceptive packaging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hypocrisy is
an occupation that wears many masks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30289"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">22 </span></sup></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#30289";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves. </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30290"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#30290";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">23 </span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#30290";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">For if any be a
hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural
face in a glass: </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="#30291"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#30291";"><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">24 </span></sup></span><span style="mso-bookmark: "\#30291";"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">For he beholdeth
himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he
was</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">” (James 1:22-24).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Modern
Christianity has redefined the word faith to merely mean believing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This concept of faith is totally foreign to
the Hebrew (Jewish) understanding of faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>In the Hebrew concept of faith, to believe something means to ALWAYS
do what is believed.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way a
person lives is radically changed by what he believes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; text-transform: uppercase;">If BElieving without doing is your definition of faith, </span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; text-transform: uppercase;">what you have is not faith at all!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When confronted by the death of a loved
one, do not be deceived into being angry with God. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be angry with Satan! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is Satan that brought death into God’s
perfect creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The message of John
chapter eleven is that when faith is real, death is not permanent, and your ACTIONS
should CORRESPOND. </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>We often miss the teaching of a portion of Scripture,
not because we fail to see or understand what the text reveals to us, but
because we fail to see the obvious things that are missing that should be
there.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance, John chapter
four is one of those texts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ is
trying to teach His disciples (and all of us) an important lesson in
evangelism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This lesson is both about a
vision for evangelism and spiritual requirements for its accomplished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Every local church must be dependent upon the Holy
Spirit if they are ever going to be effective in evangelism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must learn to see through the eyes of God’s
compassion.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means each member
of a local church must be filled with the Spirit of God, yielded to His
directing, and following His leadership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When Christians fail to be what they ought to be because they fail in
this area of their life, they <i>grieve</i> the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, this results in much broader
ramifications for the local church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
any member of a local church lives in such a manner as to <i>grieve</i> the
Holy Spirit, he <i>quenches</i> the Holy Spirit in the local church.</span></div>
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Spirit.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Quench” is translated from
the Greek word <i>sbennumi</i> (sben'-noo-mee).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It simply means to extinguish, suppress, stifle, or quench.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word picture is that of pouring water on
a fire to extinguish it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>In quenching
the Spirit, the Spirit’s potential for both light and heat is removed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Spirit-filled Christian SHOULD be <u>both</u>
light and heat!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Some Christians want
to be light with no heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others are
just heat with no light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There is balance between light and heat in the
Spirit-filled believer’s life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The word “quench” is in the <i>imperative mood</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means it expresses a command to the
hearer to perform a certain action by the order and authority of the one
commanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not express an <i>invitation</i>
to do something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an absolute
command requiring full obedience on the part of all hearers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, this is an expression of singular
and utmost importance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If any local
church wants to succeed in evangelism this command <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">must</span></b> be obeyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do not quench the Spirit of God in your
life!</b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Christ never lost track
of His purpose on earth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To do the will
of God MUST be every believer’s priority!</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>5 </sup>Wherefore
when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest
not, but a body hast thou prepared me:<sup> 6</sup> In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.<sup> 7</sup> Then said I, Lo, <b>I
come</b> (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) <b>to do thy will</b>,
O God” (Hebrews 10:5-7).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Christ had
a purpose in this life.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His life was
consumed with that purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was sent
to earth on a <i>search and rescue mission</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His purpose was the redemption of lost souls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>That purpose was always before His face.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every action in His life was seen through
that purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His life was driven by
that purpose.</span></div>
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life of Christ.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every waking hour of
His life was consumed with the salvation of souls. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though He was the Son of God, He spent
much time in prayer telling His Father what He was going to do and asking for
His help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although He was God, He was
also man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In His humanity He needed the
power of God on His life to fulfill His purpose in life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are sent with that same purpose. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“Then said Jesus to them
again, Peace be unto you: <b>as</b> my Father hath sent me, <b>even so send I
you</b>” (John 20:21).</span></div>
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what is expressed in John 4:4, “He must needs go through Samaria.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shortest route to Galilee from Judea was
through the country of Samaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
most Jews made a detour around Samaria to avoid contact with these people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ did not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a passion for the lost. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>15 </sup>And it
came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and
sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many,
and they followed him.<sup> 16</sup> And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him
eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he
eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?<sup> 17</sup> When Jesus heard
it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but
they that are sick: <b>I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance</b>”
(Mark 2:15-17).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>If Christ had not lived His life yielded to the leading
of the Holy Spirit and yielded to the will of God, neither His purpose nor His
passion would have been accomplished.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Until we realize that truth in <b>our</b> lives, we will never be
focused enough to fulfill the commission of God for our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All Christians have a purpose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, it is our passion for Christ that
will motivate us to fulfill our purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the priority of evangelism; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">our
passion for souls will flow out of our relationship with Christ.</b></span></div>
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for passion.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They pray for a burden
for souls, but it never comes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Passion
comes from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>God’s passion comes
from a right relationship with Him.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A burden for souls flows from a heart that views people through the
passion of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is only one way
that will happen, when our lives our controlled and empowered by God’s
Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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were not wandering aimlessly from one place to another. </span></b></div>
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day of His life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this portion of the
plan of Christ, He was teaching His disciples a lesson about viewing every
mission in life through the overall purpose of their calling in Christ (“as the
Father hath sent me, so send I you”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Every
Christian needs to learn this lesson</b>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“For the Son of man is
come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The vision
that sees through the eyes of purpose and passion sees the potential for a
harvest in every soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In John chapter four, the
Samaritan woman would become the vehicle Christ would use to bring most of the
city of Sychar to salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mission
of evangelism is accomplished through <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">referrals</i>,
one satisfied person telling others how to get the new life Christ has given
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Spurgeon said, evangelism is
just “one beggar telling another beggar where to get bread.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When the Samaritan woman went back to Sychar, she went back
referring people to Christ because she was infected with Christ’s purpose and
with His passion for souls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She viewed
Christ as a Person with genuine concern for her and her soul.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Purpose
without passion will always result in dead works and a fruitless
Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>C</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">ommunicating the Gospel can be
nothing more than dead ritualism when it is done in the flesh and without Christ’s
passion for souls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The disciples went to
Sychar and failed to bring people to Christ because they did not see their
lives through the eyes of their overall <b><i>missional purpose</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason they failed to fulfill their
purpose was because they did not have Christ’s passion for souls.</span></div>
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the eyes of their purpose in Christ, they needed a change of heart
(passion).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without passion, Christianity
dies and evangelism dies with it (even when it is attempted). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>1 </sup>Though I
speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become
as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.<sup> 2</sup> And though I have the
gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I
have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am
nothing.<sup> 3</sup> And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though
I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing” (I
Corinthians 13:1-3).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Passion is not about
feeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Passion is about having the
heart of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">When our
lives are consumed with being like Christ, living for Christ, and being
faithful to Christ, our lives will be consumed with His purpose and filled with
His passion for souls.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>4 </sup>Abide in
me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in
the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.<sup> 5</sup> I am the vine, ye
are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth
much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing” (John 15:4-5).</span></div>
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four months, and <i>then</i> cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up
your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest”<b> </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(John 4:35).</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Christians are always waiting for God to do something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is <u>always</u> doing something.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>God is usually waiting for believers to do
what He has commanded so He can bless them with His power.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When our lives are consumed with being like
Christ, God will open our eyes to see what He is doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When our lives see every moment through the
eyes of His purpose and with the passion of His heart, we will become involved
with harvesting the souls He has already made ripe. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>When we are in the flesh to any degree, we quench the
Spirit of God in our lives.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the
Spirit is quenched, our eyes are darkened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God’s workings are no longer visible and <i>ripe fruit</i> soon becomes <i>rotten
fruit</i> because it is never harvested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How many souls have <i>withered on the vine</i> because our eyes were
focused on the things of this world rather than the things of Christ? </span></div>
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a passion for souls, dear Lord, A passion to save the lost; O that thy love
were by all adored, and welcomed at any cost . . . How shall this passion for
souls be mine? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord, make Thou the
answer clear; Help me to throw out the old life-line to those who are
struggling near.” </span></div>
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(the fire of God’s Spirit burning within us) and the leading of the Spirit of
God we will never see who they are. </span></div>
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he <b>unto his disciples</b>, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers
are few; </span><sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">38</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he
will send forth labourers into his harvest.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">” (Matthew 9:37-38).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Disciples
are Christ-followers.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True Christians are
personally involved in His mission, preaching His message of redemption,
possessing His passion for people, and are willing to die for His
purposes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>These are the
characteristics of true DISCIPLES called CHRISTIANS </b>(Acts 11:19).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dare not to take this honored title of
CHRISTIAN upon yourself until these characteristics are the everyday testimony
of your living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These characteristics
are antithetical and contrary to the ambiguous, shallow vagueness of the
modern-day use of the word <i>Christian</i> that identifies Christ-professors
with <i>nothing </i>and <i>everything</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<i>He has served the Lord for over 40 years.</i>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931265740727391506.post-43018701632957781462019-07-22T08:54:00.003-05:002019-07-22T08:58:50.768-05:00Grieving the Lord and Stifling His Spirit<br />
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<span style="font-family: "bradley hand itc"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Why Are We Failing the Great Commission?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chapter Fifteen</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Grieving the Lord and
Stifling His Spirit</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">John
chapter eleven is a faith reality check point.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though we believe in God and a spiritual
<i>existence/dimension</i> called eternity, our mortality can barely grasp our
immortality intellectually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are so
anchored to this empirical “under the Sun” existence, our understanding and
grasp of the spiritual is almost non-existent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This weakness in our faith vision of reality creates a spiritual impotence
that disconnects the professing believer from seeing and understanding the hidden
workings of God within our existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Simply because we cannot physically sense the
spiritual and eternal does not mean we are separated from that existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We co-exist in both the spiritual and
physical dimensions at the same time.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Physical death simply separates the physical
body from the spiritual aspects of who and what we are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Faith understands these
things.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faith
understands that there are spiritual powers that transcend the physical,
earthly limitations that exist within this temporal creation “under the Sun.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The
differences in personalities between siblings has never ceased to amaze me.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Children, raised in the same home by the same
parents all under similar circumstances, can still be as different as strangers
from different countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">This dynamic of individuality is an aspect of the
spiritual that transcends into the physical world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, the individuality of
spiritual characteristics is as diverse as the individuality of human fingerprints
and DNA sequencing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This
is certainly true of the siblings recorded in John chapter eleven; Lazarus,
Mary, and Martha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In John chapter eleven, we are given the account of Jesus raising Lazarus
from the dead. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also have a detailed
accounting of Lazarus and his two sisters, Mary and Martha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus used the death of Lazarus to teach Mary
and Martha (as well as all Bible believers) about His power over death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus purposefully waited two days after
hearing about Lazarus’s death before He began the journey to Bethany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Jesus wanted everyone to
know the <u>difference</u> between His ability to raise the dead and heal the
sick.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus wanted
everyone to know FOR SURE that Lazarus was DEAD!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>1 </sup>Now a
certain <i>man</i> was sick, <i>named</i> Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary
and her sister Martha.<sup> 2</sup> (It was <i>that</i> Mary which anointed the
Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was
sick.)<sup> 3</sup> Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he
whom thou lovest is sick.<sup> 4</sup> When Jesus heard <i>that</i>, he said,
This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God
might be glorified thereby.<sup> 5 </sup><b>Now Jesus loved Martha, and her
sister, and Lazarus</b>.<sup> 6</sup> When he had heard therefore that he was
sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was” (John 11:1-6).<sup>
</sup></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>33</sup> When Jesus
therefore <b>saw her weeping</b>, and the <b>Jews also weeping</b> which came
with her, <b>he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled</b>,<sup> 34</sup> And
said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.<sup> 35</sup>
Jesus wept”<sup> </sup>(John 11:33-35).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>The reason Jesus “groaned in the spirit, and was
troubled” was because the weeping of these people revealed the ignorance and
lack of faith in His Creator abilities.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Their faith just did not grasp the Being with which they were
communing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are the limitations you
put upon God’s abilities?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think
the limitations of your faith about God’s capabilities grieve Him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weak faith is often due to ignorance, but it
is more often due to the unwillingness to accept and believe in God’s unfathomable
abilities that transcend all physical and human limitations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weak faith creates a false and weak god.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weak faith is victory by degrees for the
forces of evil because weak faith seldom attempts what God commands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="4a6n"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Failure should never be an excuse to stop trying. The
“mystery of inequity” is powerful opposition to good.</span></b></span><span class="4a6n"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our new life in Christ is engulfed by the darkness of the curse. Poke a
hole in the darkness and let your light shine through!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In Ephesians chapters four, five and six, God instructs
believers about the intricacies of a <i>life of faith</i> in what it means to “walk
in the Spirit.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul builds to the point
of making a statement about the lack of a <i>faith-life</i> that fails to consistently
“walk in the Spirit” by his statement in Ephesians 4:30; “And grieve not the
holy Spirit of God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He begins this
instruction about the <i>faith-life</i> of the “just” living the <i>faith-life</i>
by walking in the Spirit with an all-encompassing statement Ephesians 4:1-3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A believer’s failure here is the same as what
grieved the Lord in John 11:35 causing Him to weep over the weak faith of even
the best of his disciples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>1 </sup>I
therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye <b>walk worthy of the
vocation wherewith ye are called</b>,<sup> 2</sup> With all lowliness and
meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; <sup>3</sup> <b>Endeavouring
to keep the unity of the Spirit</b> {<i>a faith vision reality</i>} in the bond
of peace” (Ephesians 4:1-3).</span></div>
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gives specific instructions with tangible details of what it means to <i>walk
in the Spirit</i>.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just before He
instructs about the responsibilities of our Christian walk in various roles and
relationships, He interjects a dramatic statement about our responsibility in
our personal relationship with the Holy Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is the springboard for His instruction regarding all other
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not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.<sup>
31</sup> Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil
speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: <sup>32 </sup>And be ye kind
one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s
sake hath forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:30-32).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Most Christians seldom consider that the way we live and the
things we fail to grasp by faith can grieve the Spirit of God.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we fail to do what John 11:21 and 32 say
(as well as chapter five and chapter six of Ephesians), we touch the heart of
God in a way that brings Him great grief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Failure to believe is as great a failure as blatant unbelief; perhaps even
more so because failure to believe never really moves us or anyone else in the
direction God intends for us to move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Failure to believe ALWAYS results in spiritual stagnation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“<sup>7</sup> Then after
that saith he to <i>his</i> disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.<sup> 8</sup>
<i>His</i> disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone
thee; and goest thou thither again?<sup> 9</sup> Jesus answered, Are there not
twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because
he seeth the light of this world.<sup> 10</sup> But if a man walk in the night,
he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.<sup> 11</sup> These things said
he: and after that he {<i>Jesus</i>} saith unto them {<i>the strongest
disciples</i>}, <b>Our friend Lazarus sleepeth</b>; but I go, <b>that I may
awake him out of sleep</b> {<i>God’s view of dead ‘born again’ people is merely
a separation of the body from the spirit/soul</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>The spirit/soul have eternal life the moment
the believer is ‘born again.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
believer’s body is viewed as merely in the sleep of death until it is
resurrected, recreated, and glorified.</i>}.<sup> 12</sup> Then said his
disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.<sup> 13 </sup><b>Howbeit Jesus
spake of his death</b>: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest
in sleep.<sup> 14</sup> Then said Jesus unto them plainly, <b>Lazarus is dead</b>.<sup>
15</sup> And I am glad <b>for your sakes</b> that I was not there, <b>to the
intent ye may believe</b>; nevertheless let us go unto him” (John 11:7-15).<sup>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We do not
like it when life does not fit into our <i>little plan</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Often our <i>little plan for life</i> must be
completely toppled before we ever become aware of the <i>God-factor</i> in our
existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What must God do to get us to
look at what only faith can see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Lazarus
is dead.<sup> 15</sup> And I am glad for your sakes” (John 11;14-15). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, this is a faith reality check! </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">In most
cases, every believer suffers from the lack of real faith.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We require great miracles performed before
our eyes by God before we truly believe in God’s abilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our prayer life often reflects the real
weakness of our faith and our vision of hope for what we expect of God each
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is critically important for
believers to confront the weaknesses of our faith in God if we ever really hope
to see our lives blessed in fulfilling the Great Commission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are very much like the father of the demon
possessed child in Mark 9:14-29, where the father in utter destitution and
desperation cries out hopelessly, “</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And
straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, <b>Lord, I
believe; help thou mine unbelief</b>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">all</span></b> live
somewhere between belief and unbelief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is what I call <i>Inbetweenism</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">One aspect
of the fall of mankind in sin is that we have lost touch with the heart of God.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are amazed at all His wonderful
attributes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wonder at the holiness of
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are overwhelmed at His capacity
to love such wretched creatures like ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We stand in awe of His power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
fall at His feet amazed at His grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yet there is one attribute of God we seldom consider.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>God grieves when His children live
selfishly and sinfully. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, <b>God
grieves also when His children live in ignorance of what He has so fully
revealed through His inspired Scriptures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ignorance <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">always</span> generates
some degree of unbelief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>I wonder
how many times my life and ignorance has brought tears to God’s eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder how many times my life and ignorance
has broken His heart and grieved Him in His Spirit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, it is NEVER enough to simply be
remorseful about past failures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We MUST
repent and begin to correct those failures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Seldom do children realize the pain they cause their
parents when they choose to live selfishly.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This new life “in Christ,” that God has given us, is not about us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Selfish people cannot see the grief they
cause in the lives of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doing and
getting what they want is so important, they are blinded to the pain it causes
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even when they are aware of the
grief they cause, they do not consider it important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another person’s pain is inconsequential
compared to their own enjoyment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><u>The
reason</u>: THEY DO NOT FEEL THE PAIN THEY CAUSE!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Selfish people cannot see that<b> s</b>piritual
failures pass <i>under the bridge</i> and into the past with no consideration
of the damage and scars they leave on the present and the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inconsistencies of faith are like whirlwinds
that blow in, destroy and make a mess, then pass on to somewhere else with no
consideration of the damage they have done BECAUSE WHIRLWINDS ARE HEARTLESS AND
FAITHLESS.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Although God’s emotions are never out of control, none
the less they exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God has feelings
too.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our lives can bring Him joy or
grief. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we <i>walk in the Spirit</i>
in obedience to our heavenly Father’s will, we bring Him joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we do not, we bring Him grief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can we imagine God’s love for fallen sinful
creatures, professing to believe in Him, but give little or no consideration to
the constant pain His relationship with us and our constant inconsistencies brings
to His heart? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We profess to love the
Lord while seldom considering His heart for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>When Christians live in careless selfishness, we grieve
the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such lifestyles are a contradiction
against a <i>faith-life</i> before the eyes of God.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In John chapter eleven, we have the record of
two ladies whose attitudes towards the Lord grieved Him in His Spirit to such a
degree it brought Him to tears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
each of the disciples had similar problems with their faith vision of possibilities!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary and Martha are simply physical examples
of everyone of us and our lack of genuine faith in Christ’s abilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To Jeremiah’s fatalistic and hopeless view of
the future of the pending Babylonian captivity, like Thomas’s view in John
11:16, God responds “</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Behold, I <i>am</i>
the LORD, the God of all flesh: <b>is there any thing too hard for me</b> (Jeremiah
32-27)?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Fatalism, cynicism, and pessimism are all equal forms of
unbelief.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real faith is the ability
to see passed life’s circumstance and see the spiritual good God is purposing
(Romans 8:28) through those difficulties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Thomas {<i>Aramaic for ‘twin’</i>}, which is called Didymus {<i>Greek for ‘twin</i>’},
unto his fellowdisciples, <b>Let us also go, that we may die with him</b>.<sup>
17</sup> Then when Jesus came, he found that he had <i>lain</i> in the grave
four days already.<sup> 18</sup> Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about
fifteen furlongs off:<sup> 19</sup> And many of the Jews came to Martha and
Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother {<i>Jesus waiting long enough
for a crowd of mourners to gather and the body of Lazerus to seriously begin to
decompose</i>}.<sup> 20 </sup>Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was
coming, went and met him: but Mary sat <i>still</i> in the house.<sup> 21</sup>
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not
died.<sup> 22</sup> But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God,
God will give <i>it</i> thee.<sup> 23</sup> Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother
shall rise again.<sup> 24</sup> <b>Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall
rise again in the resurrection at the last day.</b><sup> 25</sup> Jesus said
unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live:<sup> 26</sup> And whosoever liveth and
believeth in me shall never die. <b>Believest thou this?</b><sup> 27</sup> She
saith unto him, <b>Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of
God</b>, which should come into the world” (John 11:16-27).<sup> </sup></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The
subject of this story is as much about Martha and Mary as it is Lazarus being
raised from the dead (John 11:2). </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Transpondency is the capacity to listen beyond
what is said to hear and understand what is not said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not allegorizing what is said, but
merely seeing the invisible spiritual aspect of the communication hidden from
those deaf to the spiritual.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John 11:2 tells us of a different Mary than the one we see
in John chapter twelve, where Mary anoints the feet of Jesus with expensive oil
and wipes His feet with her hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
John 11:2, God wants to remind us of the Mary of John 12:1-3 before He shows us
the Mary of John eleven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In John eleven,
Mary was upset with the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was
angry, hurting, disappointed, and full of resentment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is what happens when we can only see life’s
disappointments through our “under the Sun” perspective of life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a perspective will ALWAYS produce short
comings in our view of God’s love and such a perspective will ALWAYS bring
grief to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span>From her “under the Sun” perspective of life, if Jesus would just have
come when He was asked to come, He could have healed Lazarus and prevented his
death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did He delay?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopelessness, resentment, and bitterness were
consuming her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can imagine the
thoughts going through her mind: <i>Jesus doesn’t care about us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is too busy for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said He loves us, but if He loves us, He
would have come right away.</i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Jesus had a faith
building plan that transcended Lazarus, Martha, or Mary (John 11:4 and 11-15).</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“O the depth of the
riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his
judgments, and his ways past finding out” (Romans 11:33)!</span></div>
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your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Jesus was training twelve men to be the foundation
stones of His Church.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raising Lazarus
from the dead was part of their <i>training program</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They <b>needed</b> to see that physical death
was not an end to their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before He
created heaven, earth and all that are in it, He had planned this day in the
history of the world to increase the faith of these disciples. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often, such lessons require considerable
inconveniences for the people needing these life lessons of faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real faith changes life perspectives and
doing that is not an easy task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Don’t ever forget that God’s plan transcends the human
predicament.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing we learn from this text
is that God’s plans do not transcend the human predicament in the sense they
are above or beyond pain or suffering, because God is involved in our pain and
suffering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He chose to join Himself to
the human predicament.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man deserves his
predicament, God does not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fallen
nature views the human predicament with man at its center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man’s needs and wants then become the focal
point of history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this mindset, God
exists only to alleviate pain and eliminate suffering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, the proper faith perspective of life
sees God entering the human predicament due to the curse and sharing the pain
caused by the fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is grieved by
sin and the suffering sin causes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is
separate from the sin but is not separate from the people suffering from its
consequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The plan of God in this chapter of history was for mankind
to understand His powers transcending even death itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God exists OUTSIDE of the human predicament,
but not FROM the human predicament.</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The plan
of redemption draws mankind to God in faith whereby He removes them from the
existence of the human predicament and into His existence. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Jesus loved Martha, Mary
and Lazarus (John 11:5).</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Do not miss the<i> </i>“therefore”<i> </i>in John 11:6; because
Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, He purposely waited two days until
Lazarus was dead before He began the four-day journey to Bethany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>These people (and many others) NEEDED to
see this miracle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>These three people
were chosen to be an intricate part of God’s plan in bringing many people to
saving faith (John 11:45).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Facing death
and seeing loved one’s die for their faith was going to be a regular part of
their Christian experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<i>Dr. Lance Ketchum serves the Lord as a Church Planter, Evangelist/Revivalist. </i><br />
<i>He has served the Lord for over 40 years.</i>Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407932936189262291noreply@blogger.com0