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Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word
Before we begin, only if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life) John 3:16, John 6:47 as a few examples; it is very important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so the Holy Spirit can teach you as to what your reading or hearing is true or false. To be taught by the Holy Spirit you must be filled with the Holy Spirit which means abiding in Christ. To place yourself in fellowship with God the Holy Spirit [also called abiding in the Christ], take a moment to simply name, cite or acknowledge [confess] your known unconfessed sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father). Why? Because you cannot grow spiritually if you’re not abiding in Christ [in fellowship with Him] when you take in bible truth.
1 John 1:9, says: “If we confess [meaning to simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known unconfessed sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins];” NKJV (New King James Version); we call this REBOUND; read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. Left click the following link to learn more and fully understand the doctrine of Rebound; which answers the question, why do I need to keep confessing my sins all the time? REBOUND
If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God, the promised Messiah, as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins; the issue for you is to simply exercise faith alone in Jesus Christ alone eternal life; when you do, you will instantly receive Eternal Life: John 3:16, 5:24, 6:47, 20:30, 31.
John 6:47 says: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life." NKJV
Notice again what Jesus said in John 6:47: "…he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." It doesn't say, "will have"; it says, "has." Therefore, the very moment you believe in Jesus Christ for His promise of everlasting life, you have it (it's really just that simple; nothing more and nothing less), and it can never be taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift (Ephesians 2:8c) of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.
John 3:14-15, 16, 17, 18, says: "14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." NKJV
Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for worship and learning God's Word. If there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:
Study to show yourself approved to God!
Grace Bible Church
Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries
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Weekly Bible Study, September 19, 2022, The Doctrine of Negative Volition. Part 2. Saul's negative volition and the witch of Endor.
INSTRUCTIOINS FOR AUDIO
From Week Ending 5-7-08; Sermon Audio Only [to hear audio, right click the previous red colored link and open in “New Window;” when link opens, the audio box is at the top left side of the page to start audio]; the audio doesn’t have a separate html link so the full notes can be seen their also, when finish with the audio, just X out of that window to reopen the original window to view notes there which have larger fonts and hover pop-up scripture links.
Negative volition is refusal of Bible doctrine divided into two categories.
A. Primary negative volition is refusal to assemble for Bible teaching, the rejection of your right pastor teacher and his authority.
B. Negative volition - refusal to transfer doctrine from the left lobe to the right lobe.
There is also the refusal of the faith-rest technique as a part of negative volition.
He fails to appropriate promises, to utilize doctrine which he has already learned, to utilize the principles and to mix them with his faith, Heb 4:2.
Saul went to the witch of Endor, held a seance, and still there was silence, until Samuel entered the scene.
Urim and Thummin
The real breastplate or the checkerboard, the Urim and Thummin, is with David.
Saul executed 85 priests, 1Sa 22:18, and the Ephod went with the one priest who escaped, Abiathar, 1Sa 22:22.
You have to have the real thing, the high priest and the breastplate, and Saul had neither.
When the backslider or the reversionist needs doctrine the most, he has it the least.
In verse 6, the reversionist or the backslider seeks miracles, signs and wonders in time of pressure. The reversionist or the backslider is totally thoughtless.
“I know you are busy but, I‘d like to take a few moments of your time.”
Translation: three hours of boring, dull, depressing conversation, usually a monologue.
Reversionists or backsliders are usually thoughtless; they are whiners, selfish, they lack sensitivity and common courtesy.
The first sign of a reversionist or backslider is his refusal to listen to the word of God.
Only believers with doctrine can survive the heartaches, the pressures, the catastrophes of life.
Saul lost the spiritual battle before he lost the physical or natural battle.
You never lose the visible without first losing the invisible.
Saul is now accepting necromancy which is the practice of supposedly communicating with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future.
He is in the last stages of reversionism, which is hardness of the heart, blackout of the soul, ending in physical death.
Contact with necromancers and mediums was specifically forbidden by the word of God, Lev 19:31.
Contact with necromancers and mediums was a sign of reversionism or backsliding and brought on divine discipline, Lev 20:6.
The believer who has negative volition toward doctrine will end up with the vacuum of the soul opening up and drawing in 1Ti 4:1, doctrine from demons.
The black-out of the soul plus the hardness of the heart causes the believer not to understand doctrine they have previously understood.
If Saul had been learning his doctrine he would have known and understood the book of Judges and how Gideon handled this same problem, and at this point it was one bit of doctrinal information he could have applied.
You never know when you are studying the word of God, what doctrine you are going to need.
If Saul had simply remembered what Samuel had taught him about Gideon he would have been victorious. 
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