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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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STUDY TITLE:
Weekly Bible Study, September 18, 2023, Enoch – Part 4
Pleasing God
So far, we have as a corrected translation of Heb 11:6* And
without doctrine resident in the soul it is impossible to please
Him. Pleasing God is accomplished by consistent, persistent,
positive volition toward doctrine. This simply means making
consistent decisions to take in doctrine, regardless of distractions, mental attitude sins, or of any circumstance in life.
If you desire to please God, you must make daily decisions to
take in doctrine.
As we enter into this principle you should ask yourself some very objective questions. After all, you are your
own priest, and therefore you are responsible for your own
life before God. The first question you should ask yourself is
“who are you trying to please in this life?”
If you’re not honest in answering this question there is no way you are ever going
to get straightened out with regard to what is important in
life. There are really only three possible answers to this question: Your either trying to please others, trying to please
yourself, or your trying to please God. Gal 1:10 “For am I
now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to
please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not
be a bond-servant of Christ.”
Col 3:22 Slaves [Labor], in all things obey those who are your masters on earth [obey human management on the basis of all things], not with external
service [eye service], as those who merely please men [people
-pleasers], but with sincerity of heart [the integrity of the
right lobe], fearing [making a role model out of] the
Lord. 1Th 2:4 “but just as we have been approved
by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak,
not as pleasing men, but God who examines our
hearts.”
Rom 15:1 “Now we who are strong ought
to bear the weaknesses of those without strength
and not just please ourselves.” Bearing the weaknesses of
the weak is maximum utilization of impersonal love, and total
tolerance in the area of non-essentials. Rom 15:2 [Let] each
of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.
For even Christ did not please himself; but as it is written,
“The reproaches of those who reproached You fell upon
Me.” This is a warning, because the more we advance in the
PPOG, the greater the danger that particularly in adolescence,
there will be the inflexibility that will cause violations of the
Royal Family Honor Code. That inflexibility can turn us
against friends and loved ones, and can cause us to be insensitive toward others. We become thoughtless, and rather than
hypersensitivity, the Royal Family Honor Code demands sensitivity and thoughtfulness of others.
Inevitably you have to come to the place (often
through discipline, tragedies, heartaches, and difficulties) in
which God is going to be pleased. You are here as His guest,
you are a member of the Royal family. You have a home, not
here, but in the Holy of Holies! The Christian way of life isn't complicated; it isn't filled with a lot of gimmicks. Often
commands are distorted into gimmick systems, such as the
commands to give, witness, or to pray.
However, these things are to be motivated by the balance in the soul between
the filling of the Spirit and Bible doctrine. These commands
are often turned into systems or standards of evaluation
whereby you and your peers evaluate other believers regarding how much you think they're doing for God. However,
everything that pleases God is related to Bible doctrine. 1Th
4:1 “Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the
Lord Jesus, that, as you received from us instruction as to
how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually
do walk), that you may excel still more.”
ENOCH—Doctrines of a Visible Hero
Pleasing God includes positive volition, it also includes facing certain tests
and passing them. Pleasing God includes the assembling of
yourselves together and recognizing the authority of the pastor-teacher.
Heb 11:6* And without faith it is impossible to please
Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and
that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. None of us can
please God without doctrine in the soul and none of us have
ever received doctrine in the soul without submitting to academic discipline. In Heb 11:6, the word for is the explanatory use of the Greek particle gar, which indicates why there is only one way to please God in this life. The phrase he who
comes is a present middle participle proserchomenon meaning to approach or to occupy oneself.
The translation then is for when one is occupied with [to Theo] the God.
The present tense is a customary present for what habitually occurs,
or may be expected to occur once you get positive. This
means that it is the Christian way of life to be occupied with
God. In the middle voice, God draws you to Himself, but
you must have positive volition toward doctrine to draw near
to Him. We can all get distracted for one reason or another,
for a short time, but the key is consistency, a way of life, because without Bible doctrine resident in the soul it is impossible to please Him.
Heb 11:6* And without doctrine resident in the soul it
is impossible to please Him, for he who is occupied with the
God must believe…The Greek word for must is the verb dei,
used for the compulsion of duty. It indicates the fact that no
matter where you go in life you're going to face the issue of
authority and discipline. Duty is the combination of authority
and discipline.
It also refers to an inner necessity growing
out of a given situation. In other words, this is actually a verb
of obligation, and there are two directions concerning obligations: First, refusing to place yourself in a position of obligation to others as Abram did in Gen 14:22-24.
Secondly, accepting your obligation to God for the many blessings He has
provided for you (Deut 4:32-40). The given situation is that
you are born again, you are a member of the Royal Family of
God, and your life has meaning, purpose, and definition! The
Word of God has given you objectives and definitions in life!
So far, our corrected translation of Heb 11:6* And
without doctrine resident in the soul it is impossible to please
Him, for he who is occupied with the God must believe. The
Greek word for believe is an aorist active infinitive of
pisteusai which means to believe, to be convinced of something so that you become dogmatic about it. The believer
must be convinced by Bible doctrine resident in the soul.
First of all, you expose yourself to a little doctrine, and it becomes resident in your soul. That doctrine must then convince you of the importance of going on with doctrine, you then get a little more of doctrine by your consistent intake.
That accumulation of doctrine in your frame of reference
convinces you to go on with doctrine.
When you get more doctrine you are tested, this testing comes in the form of people, things, thoughts, etc. In whatever area you are tested, the
doctrinal frame of reference says one thing, and the old sin
nature says something altogether different. The more doctrine you get in your soul, the more those inner resources dictate your volitional decisions.
Heb 11:6* And without doctrine resident in the soul it
is impossible to please Him, for he who is occupied with the
God must be convinced by resident doctrine that He is, and
that He is…In the Greek, the first He is, is the present active
indicative of EIMI which means He keeps on being, which
has to do with essence of God and the fact that God exists,
and has a plan.
The second He is, is not He is at all, but actually the present middle indicative of the verb ginetai meaning to become. So, He becomes something under the correct circumstances!
So, we should have, “that He is and He becomes.” You see, God is, that's a fact! He is, He always will be, but there are certain conditions in which He becomes something. The key to this verb is that it is an intensive middle, which emphasizes the part taken by the subject, the subject being God.
ENOCH—Doctrines of a Visible Hero
The form of the indirect middle stresses the
agent as producing the action of the verb, so we translate it
and that He Himself becomes. What is it that God the Father
becomes to us under certain conditions? God becomes a rewarder, which is the noun misthapodotes. This is a hapax
legomena, which means that this is a word that is only used
once in the Bible.
Heb 11:6* And without doctrine resident in the soul it
is impossible to please Him, for he who is occupied with the
God must be convinced by resident doctrine that He is, and
that He becomes a rewarder of those who seek Him. Doctrine tells us the reality of the existence of God, but the fact
that God is a rewarder is a potential, depending upon your
attitude toward doctrine. Doctrine is the basis for divine
blessing in your life. This is why we have so many passages
in the Bible where doctrine promises to bless us and reward
us. Pro 3:2 “For length of days and years of life And peace
[doctrine] they will add to you.”
Pro 3:16 “Long life is in her [doctrine's] right hand; In her
left hand are riches and honor.”
Pro 4:8 “Prize her, and she will exalt you; She will honor
you if you embrace her.”
Pro 8:21 “To endow those who love me with wealth [Doctrine
endows those who love it with wealth], That I may fill their
treasuries.”
Pro 9:11 “For by me your days will be multiplied, And years
of life will be added to you.” God becomes a rewarder, not
of all believers, but of those who seek Him, which occurs
through doctrine resident in the soul. If you have doctrine
resident in the soul, it is because you have been making decisions to seek Him. The phrase “those who seek Him” is a
present active participle ekzetousin, which means to diligently or earnestly seek. It means that something becomes so important in life that it crowds out other things, just as an obsession would.
It means that Bible doctrine, and its importance,
becomes an obsession in life that one continually and habitually seeks in the participial form. The verb therefore is used
for consistent positive volition toward Bible doctrine.
Those who diligently seek Him are the people who are monuments
of greatness in this passage, the super-grace invisible and visible heroes.
Rewards are given for works, but the works must be
the result of divine power in operation. For example, in Psa
19:11 keeping doctrine resident in the soul brings great rewards, “Moreover, by them [doctrines] Your servant is
warned; In keeping them there is great reward.” In Pro 22:4
rewards are given for humility and respect toward the Lord,
The reward of humility and respect for the Lord are riches,
honor and life. In Mar 9:41 rewards are given for the way
that you treat followers of The Lord Jesus Christ, “For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because of your name
as followers of Christ, truly I say to you, he will not lose his
reward.”
In 1Co 3:8 rewards are given for your labor and
work in God's kingdom, Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
The warning concerning the rewards for the
Church-age believer is also given in 2Jo 6-9 “And this is love
[virtue-love], that we walk according to His commandments
[the mystery doctrine of the Church-age].
This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that
you should walk in it [the PPOG]. For many deceivers have
gone out into the world [the TCNT translation says, many
impostors have left us to go back into the world or the cosmic
system], those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh [or in our human nature]. This is the [mark of
a] deceiver and the antichrist [those against Christ].
Watch yourselves, that you do [might] not lose what we have accomplished [your momentum and your spiritual growth] but that
you may receive a full reward [the imputation of your escrow
blessings in time and in eternity.]
Anyone who goes too far, [or who keeps advancing out of bounds] and does not abide[or remain] in the teaching of Christ [Bible doctrine] does not
have [fellowship with] God; the one who ades in the teaching [or the PPOG], he has [fellowship with] both the Father and the Son.”
Rev 22:12 “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is
with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done.”
The following link is to a good news message describing how one can receive eternal life: Ticket to Heaven, it was written for anyone not absolutely certain about their eternal future.
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