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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 as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus, The Christ alone for eternal life [salvation] and you will be saved [receive Eternal Life] the very micro second you believe in Him:
John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV
Notice again what John 6:47 says, “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 Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.
John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness [Num 21:4-9], even so must the Son of Man be lifted up [the cross], that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 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. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 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 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:
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Internet Church Service – August 20, 2023; The Angelic Conflict - Part 33 is in HD Audio ONLY; with hover pop-up scripture references in Notes.
The Angelic Conflict - Part 33 - Point 9. - The Importance of the Hypostatic Union -
Satan did everything in his power to try to destroy the humanity of Christ through temptation, attempted assassination, and to keep him from reaching the cross.
The first one is the temptation to rely on self rather than the ministry of Holy Spirit, Mat 4:1-4, Luk 4:1-4.
When a believer reaches spiritual maturity, Satan is permitted by God to cross examine every witness that God enters into the historical phase of the angelic conflict!
“tempted” = peirazo = to make proof of, test, scrutinize, examine, try to test one’s faith, virtue, or character by enticement to sin or to act independently of God.
If a conflict does not exist, why was an inferior creature, Satan, allowed to put our Lord through a test?
2Co 2:11 Make sure no advantage be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
If the humanity of Christ even sins once during this test then He cannot go to the cross and die for the sins of the whole world, so He will be tempted far beyond anyone of us!
Heb 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things, yet without sin.
In evidence testing and the angelic conflict, God the Holy Spirit is not the one who puts us to the test, He is the one who leads us to the test!
James 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.
The devil is the agent who does the cross-examination in evidence testing!
This is Satan’s attempt through cross-examination to discredit those believers who reach spiritual maturity!
“Ei huios ei tou Theou” = “If you are the Son of God, and you are”
“you are” = pres-act-ind - eimi = Satan recognized that Jesus was the Son of God!
Will TLJC [The Lord Jesus Christ] use His power and operate independently of the power of the Holy Spirit, or rely on God to meet His needs?
If Jesus Christ used His deity and His own power to satisfy His hunger, then He has stepped outside of the PPOG [The Predesigned Plan of God for your life], the power system provided by God the Holy Spirit!
It is committing the same sin that Satan did originally - choosing self-will over God’s will.
By persuading the deity of Christ to act independently of the indwelling Holy Spirit and the PPOG, our Lord in hypostatic union would be acting independently of the plan of God the Father.
Kenosis = during the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union, our Lord Jesus Christ voluntarily restricted the independent use of His divine attributes in compliance with the Father’s plan.
During the First Advent, TLJC depended on the power of the Holy Spirit, Bible doctrine, and PSD’s [Problem Solving Devices], and gave up any independent exercise of certain divine attributes while living among men with their human limitations.
Being full of grace and doctrine (John 1:14), the humanity of Christ extrapolated from His own soul, problem-solving devices.
He concentrated on the problem-solving devices to prevent the conversion of the outside pressure of adversity into the inside pressure of stress in the soul.
The filling of the Spirit, the faith rest drill, grace orientation, doctrinal orientation, a personal sense of destiny, personal love for God the Father, impersonal love for all mankind, and sharing the happiness of God.
Our Lord did not depend on His deity to execute the Father’s plan, He depended on the One who provided the plan, on what the Father provided.
He refused to function independently of the Father’s plan.
The temptation to solve the problem of hunger by a miracle, rather than function under the doctrinal principle that the Holy Spirit led Him here and God the Father will provide for Him.
As long as God the Father has not removed the suffering, He intends for the humanity of Christ to bear it!
If God doesn’t remove it, He intends for you to bear it!
Would the humanity of Christ pass this test by refusing to use His own power independently of the plan of God?
You can leave the plan of God for your home, the details of life, marriage, business, social distraction, friends, pleasure, personal goals and ambitions, etc.
2Ti 2:4 “entangled in the affairs of everyday life” Luk 8:14 “choked with worries and riches and pleasures of this life and you bring no fruit to maturity.”
Spiritual maturity + passing evidence testing = glorification of God to the maximum in the historic extension of the angelic conflict.
Instead of performing miracles under His own power, our Lord used the greatest power ever known; He used Bible doctrine in all three parts of his testing.
When God performs a miracle, it requires only His sovereignty [will].
To apply Bible doctrine and advance in the plan of God through the use of that doctrine is the greatest power and the highest function that any member of the human race can attain.
Bible doctrine is the very thinking of Jesus Christ, 1Co 2:16, and it is the word of God, a reference to God Himself, John 1:1.
Robert R. McLaughlin Bible Ministries
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Robert R. McLaughlin 2001
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