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from - Romans 8:38-39

Hymn #1

Hymn #2

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:

Our Pastor-Teacher is:

Robert McLaughlin - Grace Bible Church and Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries

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This ministry is non-denominational and is dedicated to teaching the Word of God from the original languages and making it available at no charge throughout the world.

OPTIONAL: On-line Bible – NASB95

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Unlike the bible study, these notes are not just for reading without watching the video. These notes are more designed to follow along during the sermon and to bring up the “hover pop-up scripture references;” if just hover doesn’t work, do a “control-left-click,” if that doesn’t work then look them up in your Bible when the Pastor asks everyone to turn to that passage in their bibles.

The Angelic Conflict - Part 52 - Point 14. - The Angelic Conflict In Human History Answers Basic Questions About Life.

A. Why the creation of man? Mankind was created to resolve the prehistoric angelic conflict.

B. Why sin? To resolve the angelic conflict all members of the human race must have the same free will as angels have.

In the original sin of man in the garden of Eden, there was the function of negative volition against a specific prohibition.

God said you could eat from any tree except one!

Satan said, “Has God said you shall not eat from any tree?”

God’s plan went on and God turned the curse into a blessing because at the cross, all human sin was judged while human good was rejected, Tit 3:5.

Tit 3:5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

The efficacious saving work of Christ on the cross is the basis for the strategic victory of the angelic conflict, Col 2:14-15; Heb 1:4-14, Heb 2.

If any accusation was made like how can a loving God cast His creatures in the lake of fire - the same loving God forsook His Son on the cross while He was bearing the sins of the whole world.

The cross broke the back of Satan.

At the cross that same character of God condemned His own perfect impeccable Son while bearing our sins.

Just as we use our volition to sin, we use our volition to choose for or against the plan of God.

Sin exists because God gave His creatures free will, and they have chosen from that free will to violate certain divine standards.

c. Why chaos on planet earth?

1Co 14:33 for God is not a God of confusion but of peace,

The chaos is only terminated by the Second Advent of Christ and His Millennial reign.

Satan does not have the power or the ability to control all the inhabitants of the world nor the ability to produce perfect environment on the earth.

Satan would love to have more people think that chaos exists because he is making it chaotic, rather than because he cannot control it!

Christian activism is a movement that is blindly and ignorantly trying to help Satan clean up his world and make it a better place to live.

Social engineering = trying to force Biblical principles on society.

Political engineering = trying to control the government with principles from the Bible.

To outlaw a certain segment of society because they do not adhere to Christian principles is a disaster.

The devil sponsors Christian activism because that is his way of getting believers involved in the improvement of the devil’s world.

Christian activism = Church-age believer is involved in temporal solutions to the problems of life when spiritual solutions are available.

Satan cannot improve on the laws of divine establishment.

He cannot duplicate God’s predesigned plan.

Satan does not have the power to provide for mankind in the way that he wants to, nor to delegate the necessary authority to the human race.

He cannot duplicate God’s grace provision in the believer’s escrow account.

Arrogance results in chaotic activism, crusades of morality, human good, evil, socialism, violence, distortion, and disaster.

Although Satan is the super-genius of all time, the world is too much for him to rule.

The chaos that exists is an expression of Satan’s failure to pull together under his great power the successful rulership of this world.

Every Satanic program and attempt to bless mankind in his kingdom always results in evil, human good, crusader arrogance, social engineering, socialism, communism, plus all the folly of rulers.

It’s questionable if Satan is really happy with all the resultant evil in the world, manifest in degeneracy, since Satan is trying to prove that he’s good and his system is as good as God’s.

The inevitable consequences of man’s involvement in Satan’s cosmic system is chaos -psychologically, socially, personally, nationally, and internationally.

Man’s folly in rejecting God’s plan - first at salvation, then in the PPOG - brings chaos, unfairness, evil and disaster into the world from both believers and unbelievers.

Angels watch to see if believers will get sucked into Satan’s plans and operations for the improvement of cosmos diabolicus, or if the believer will remain in the PPOG and have historical impact.

The works of Satan can only be destroyed or nullified by the believer’s function inside the PPOG under the omnipotence of the Holy Spirit.

The cross broke the back of Satan, while the believer’s function inside the PPOG destroys his philosophical attitude toward life.

Robert R. McLaughlin Bible Ministries

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Robert R. McLaughlin 2001

Hymn #3

Weekly Bible Study, December 25, 2023, The Doctrine of The Mental Attitude, Part 5.

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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] your 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, December 25, 2023, The Doctrine of The Mental Attitude, Part 5.

The Doctrine of The Mental Attitude, Part 5.

The Main Difference Between Living in the Cosmic System and Advancing to Spiritual Maturity.

This difference depends on the thought content in our soul. We ought to have this purpose: to become the most outstanding worshipper of God we could possibly be since that is what we will be throughout all eternity.

As we apply that correct mental attitude to our lives, it leads and motivates us to spiritual maturity. We begin to accustom ourselves, little by little, to worshipping Him. A worship, love and appreciation that is revealed by how we think, live our life, and spend our time, and results in how we use our time, talent, treasure, and spiritual gift for the cause of Christ.

It all begins with thinking and having the proper mental attitude and avoiding sloppy thinking, for sloppy thinking gets worse over time, not better! When we just think but don't follow through we will not prosper. Eventually we will be in the cosmic system. Once we get into the cosmic system and enter into reversionism, the arrogance skills hinder the function of divine viewpoint. Divine viewpoint of life requires three thinking functions:

1. Cognition which is both the act and the process of inculcation of Bible doctrine. The mental process or faculty of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.

2. Thinking which is the application of metabolized doctrine. Once understood and inculcated then there is thought and the ability to conclude and assume the proper thoughts needed, Rom 12:3 "think so as to have sound judgment, as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from doctrine."

3. Solving which is understanding and using the problem-solving devices by which we make accurate and correct application to experience.

The thinking of the mature believer is different from the generally accepted thought patterns of the world. Therefore, the believer is set apart as unique when he cracks the maturity barrier. Mental attitude includes the principles of life with which we operate. What we say and do is basically what we think, Notice what our Lord said about the Pharisees in Mat 12:34 "You generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart [or the mental attitude].

Look at Mat 15:7-8, "You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me.

You can say the right thing without thinking the right thing, we call that hypocrisy.

Psa 55:21 "His speech was smoother than butter, But his heart was war; His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords."

Thought, speech, and action are a reflection of our mental attitude and motivation in life, and the greatest battle we have in life is the battle in the soul.

There are three basic divine mandates related to our mental attitude and system of thinking.

1. The filling of the Spirit. We must be filled with the Spirit before we can make any real positive decisions in the realm of perception, metabolization and application of doctrine.

2. Perception of Bible doctrine. Gnosis must be transferred to the right lobe as epignosis in order for you to grow in the spiritual life.

3. The ten problem solving devices. Once filled with the Spirit, we perceive and metabolize doctrine, now we are ready to solve our problems with the ten problem solving devices.

This is why we need to learn to think right, to think His thoughts which are beyond our thoughts. Receive the thoughts of God and realize that this is our place of rest and refreshment.

In Isa 28:9 "To whom would He teach knowledge? And to whom would He interpret the message? Those {just} weaned from milk? Those {just} taken from the breast?" This was actually a complaint from the people about the simplicity of the message. They were not humble and receptive but arrogant and critical. Their sin was contempt for the manner in which God instructed them by the prophets, complaining that the messages were suited to children and not to adults, complaining that the simplicity and repetition of line upon line and precept upon precept being immature and silly. The rest that is spoken of in verse Isa 28:12 was to be found in Isa 28:10 "Precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, A little here, a little there."

Isa 28:12 "He who said to them, Here is rest, give rest to the weary, And, Here is repose, but they would not listen." In effect, in verse 9, they are saying, God treats us as children and deals with us as we deal with infants just weaned, repeating and inculcating the same elementary lessons, and teaching the mere rudiments of knowledge. But as we have seen time and time again, that is how the word of God is inculcated. That's what this passage is all about. God's method of teaching offends by its simplicity man's pride, (2K1 5:11-12; 1Co 1:23). Because they had rejected doctrinal teaching and line upon line, precept upon precept, and because they had refused to change their mental attitude, God was about to discipline them.

To them who will not understand the basic simplistic doctrines, God will speak still more unintelligibly, and by a sterner messenger.

Point 5. Thought, Speech, and Action are a Reflection of Your Mental Attitude and Motivation in Life.

This principle is brought out in the testimony of the shepherd and the sheep in Psa 23. "(A Psalm of David.) The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." The Basic English translation says "The Lord takes care of me as His sheep; I will not be without any good thing." David is saying because the Lord is my Shepherd, I have everything I need. It is impossible for anyone with perfect righteousness to lack anything. The justice of God sends forth life support and blessing to both winner and loser believers. It just so happens that the one who wrote this Psalm under the ministry of the Holy Spirit was a winner. So David says "I cannot lack." For the Lord is the one shepherding me. Remember sheep do not just take care of themselves as other animals do. Sheep require endless attention and personal care. And it is no coincidence that God has chosen to call us "sheep." The Lord Jesus Christ as our good Shepherd laid down His life for us. He is ever interceding for us in Heb 7:25 "He is able to deliver forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them." He guides us by the Holy Spirit and He is constantly caring for us. This is why David said in Psa 23:2 "He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters." This is life support for the sheep.

Many things about sheep correlate with humans magnificently. The strange thing about sheep is that it's almost impossible for them to lie down and rest unless certain conditions are present, there must be a definite sense of security and safety and freedom from fear, tension, aggravations and hunger. Therefore, God provides everything that His sheep need to give them rest.

Psa 23:2 "He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters or waters of refreshment and comfort."

Sheep require a consistent amount of water. However, unlike other animals they are totally dependent on their shepherd to find this water. God provides the quiet waters which we need to survive. The verse that correlates with our doctrine of mental attitude, Psa 23:3 "He restores my soul;" This is the principle of being renewed and refreshed through recovering from sin and it's effects. Having the soul restored means that even though we are in the care of the good shepherd, we have times when we need restoration. Here the Hebrew word means to bring back home again, recover, refresh, relieve, retrieve, return. David said this because our soul needs to be restored, including our mental attitude.

The mental attitude relates to your true personality and character. Character is developed through experiences of trial and suffering. Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these help instead of hinder, if one uses them rightly by having the proper mental attitude when you go through them.

However, the whole key is how you respond in your mental attitude, not how you react. Every trial endured and weathered in the right mental attitude makes a soul virtuous and stronger than it was before.

Character is revealed by your mental attitude in times of adversity, hardship, disaster, and even tragedy. Winners do not become winners when they win an event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. What we by studying God's word, filled with the Spirit, is preparing the mentality of our soul to handle anything that comes our way. We do that by repetitioin, by line upon line, precept upon precept, a little here a little there.

What a person thinks in his soul is what he really is. This is why courage and genuine humility are straightforward virtues, for they are virtues that hypocrisy cannot imitate. It's interesting that the one group of individuals that our Lord was so angry against, He called hypocrites. He taught that the scribes and the Pharisees were hypocrites who gave alms, prayed, fasted, tithed, they were overtly moral and righteous, they studied and taught the Bible, but their mental attitude was evil, Mat 6:2; 6:5; 6:16; 23:23; 23:25;

We can assume that hypocrisy is the ultimate form of wickedness because integrity can exist under the cover of all other failures and sins except hypocrisy. The hypocrite is really rotten to the core. A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but he also has no respect for himself.

Another concept of mental attitude is that every member of the human race has two personalities, a real personality and a pseudo-personality. When the two merge and become one, and you get rid of all the pettiness, mendacity and hypocrisy, you have advanced to the maturity barrier or you are through it. That's when you stop being a phony and you live in the reality of 1Co 15:10 "But by the grace of God I am what I am," Many people are held up in spiritual advance by the constant use of their pseudo-personality, either to impress people, to trick people up, or to satisfy their own arrogance.

You are never totally oriented to life until you have one personality, not two.

Another reason why our mental attitude is so important is we'll never be a well-rounded personality with a limited vocabulary. It takes words with which to think. The more limited your vocabulary the less developed your personality. Therefore, any spiritual system which demands technical thought improves your mind, personality, character, and if you are humble, it eventuates in honor, integrity, and occupation with Christ. Doctrine is important because words are stored up in the right lobe of the soul. No person's mental attitude or thinking ever exceeds his vocabulary. Vocabulary is divided into two categories, technical and non-technical.

Non-technical is vocabulary you need to get along in life. Technical vocabulary is what is required to succeed in particular areas or fields of life, these require studying and technical vocabululary. Studying is one of the most important functions in life.

Those who have taken physics know that there is a technical vocabulary. Or those who have taken archeology and anthropology know there is a technical vocabulary. There is a technical vocabulary in every professional field.

The point is that there is a technical vocabulary in Theology, in the study of God and the Bible, and once you are born again, you cannot get along on your non-technical "survival in life" vocabulary. That's why you have to come to Bible class and get technical vocabulary.

For example here is list of technical terms or vocabuluary: Hypostatic union, Dispensations, A fortiori, Angelic conflict, Anthropopathisms Anthropomorphisms, Cosmic one, Cosmic two, Dichotomous, Trichotomous, FLOT, Heart, Kenosis, Lapsarianism, PPOG, Rebound, Volition.

These are words that should be a common part of our vocabulary storage in our right lobe. Words that should be understood when used in the technical language of theology: "During the Dispensation of the Hypostatic union, the Angelic conflict took its greatest blow when The Lord Jesus Christ operated in Kenosis so that we could live in the PPOG, Rebound, and stay out of Cosmic one and Cosmic two, by using the Preblem Solving Devices on Forward Line of Troops of our soul. And this was all a part of the correct order of Lapsarianism when God ordained mankind to go from a Dichotomous being to a Trichotomous being and to glorify God from the Volition of his soul by loving God with all their heart. Therefore, God uses Anthropopathisms and Anthropomorphisms to reveal His love toward us.

The point is we are to continue to develop words because we have to develop technical words for things that exist. You have to keep up with advance in technical vocabulary. And it's true with anything in the world, everything in life that you want to enjoy, you have to know technical vocabulary.

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.

December 24, 2023; The Angelic Conflict - Part 51 is in HD Audio ONLY; with hover pop-up scripture references in Notes.

Please join us as we fellowship in the Word of God, listen to Christian Music, Pray in Christ’s Name, and Praise the Lord Our God in our Hearts and Minds.

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from - Romans 8:38-39

Opening Instrumental Christmas Hymn

Hymn #1

Hymn #2

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:

Our Pastor-Teacher is:

Robert McLaughlin - Grace Bible Church and Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries

Terms used by RMBM

Doctrinal Statement

This ministry is non-denominational and is dedicated to teaching the Word of God from the original languages and making it available at no charge throughout the world.

OPTIONAL: On-line Bible – NASB95

Sermon

NOTES

Unlike the bible study, these notes are not just for reading without watching the video. These notes are more designed to follow along during the sermon and to bring up the “hover pop-up scripture references;” if just hover doesn’t work, do a “control-left-click,” if that doesn’t work then look them up in your Bible when the Pastor asks everyone to turn to that passage in their bibles.

The Angelic Conflict - Part 51 - “Crowned with glory and honor” is not speaking of His resurrected body but His physical body which was without sin and impeccable.

1. It saved mankind!

2. It got back the crown that Adam lost.

The first Adam tasted the fruit and died spiritually; the last Adam tasted death and we live eternally.

for = gar = used to link the last sentence with the next one. It points to why Heb 1:1-14 and Heb 2:1-9 are true.

“it was fitting” = imp-act-ind - eprepen = to have inner fitness, to be totally equipped or suitable.

As a part of the victory in the angelic conflict and our Lord’s new position at the right hand of God the Father, God takes fallen humans and makes something out of them that causes Satan to grind his teeth!

1. Everything depends on God’s character and God’s ability.

2. God designed a perfect plan that man can have nothing to do with or else it is no longer perfect.

3. Legalism is the great enemy of Christ.

4. Satan cannot get into us through demon possession so he uses false doctrine and legalistic teaching to cause demon influence in our souls.

In the angelic conflict, Satan promotes human good within Christians to make them perform and improve his world!

“many sons” = believers in the Church-age only who are sons of God because of their union with TLJC [The Lord Jesus Christ], Mat 3:17; Eph 1:6, Gal 3:26-28.

glory = doxan = dignity and honor

author = archegon = the chief or supreme leader, the ruler, the prince, or the author.

Acts 3:15 But you put to death the Prince [archegon] of life, the one whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses.

Acts 5:31 “He is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince [archegon] and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.”

to perfect = aor-act-inf - teleiosai = to advance to completion, to finish; TLJC is completed when every son (Church-age believer) is presented to Him as His bride!

“Sufferings” is in the plural because He was judged for every single sin in the history of the human race!

“He who sanctifies” = pres-act-part - hagiazon = to make holy, to purify even mentally.

1Co 1:2, Heb 10:10 - every believer is sanctified or set apart for God.

sanctified = pres-mid-part - hagiazomenoi = to receive holiness and to be set apart by God.

Heb 4:13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

Psa 130:3 If you Lord marked iniquities, no one could stand!

TLJC is perfect and every believer is in union with Him!

to call = pres-act-inf - kalien = to call or to name.

1Co 2:16 - through the mind of Christ!

Behold = aor-mid-imp - idou = to look or to focus your attention!

“God has given” = aor-act-ind - edoken = to reward through giving.

In this angelic conflict, Satan holds man in his power, just like a jailer holds a prisoner until there is a true legal release.

“might deliver” = aor-act-sub - apallaxe = to release or to set free; or to deliver!

1. Jesus Christ became true humanity to do the will of the Father, Heb 10:5-10.

2. Jesus Christ had to become true humanity to be the Savior of the world, Phi 2:7-8; Heb 2:14-15.

3. Jesus Christ had to become true humanity to be the mediator between God and man, Job 9:2, 32-33; 1Ti 2:5-6.

4. Jesus Christ had to become true humanity to be our high priest, Heb 7:4-5,14,28; Heb 10:5,10-14.

5. Jesus Christ had to become true humanity to be a king and rule forever. He had to be the Son of David to fulfill the Davidic covenant to Israel, 2Sa 7:8-16; Psa 89:20-37.

suffered = per-act-ind - peponthen = to suffer, to undergo punishment.

was tempted = aor-pass-part - peirastheis = to test, to approve for good or bad, to test someone to determine their character.

pres-pass-part - peirazomenois = to test, to try the quality and character of an individual!

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Weekly Bible Study, December 18, 2023, The Doctrine of The Mental Attitude, Part 4.

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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] your 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!

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Weekly Bible Study, December 18, 2023, The Doctrine of The Mental Attitude, Part 4.

The Doctrine of The Mental Attitude, Part 4.

The Doctrine of Mental Attitude Part 3.

We have completed our first point in the doctrine of the mental attitude in which we noted distinctions between the human spirit and the human soul.

Point 2 in our doctrine is the Delegation of Divine Power as it Relates to the Change in Our Mental Attitude.

There is no substitute for perception and metabolization of Bible doctrine. The delegation of divine power to every Church-age believer is manifested and experienced when Bible doctrine is metabolized and deployed on the FLOT line of your soul. As we have seen this is a military acronym for the forward line of troops which protect the soul. These problem-solving devices are important because they give us the power and the ability to handle any problem in life. God has provided for us in grace everything it takes to transfer what is written in the Bible to the human spirit and then to the soul.

All forms of worship are a concentration test and whether you like it or not, all life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. That which cost little is less valued. We should try to become a person of values rather than a person of success and that begins with mental attitude.

Whether it's concentration on doctrine, the communion service or in prayer, it's all a part of the same thing, thinking. As you develop these spiritual habits of thought and concentration, there is a spiritual life that awaits you that goes beyond your understanding.

God has chosen to reveal his thoughts to us by means of the Spirit of God.

Co 2:12-14 "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world [the I.Q. of the world, the cosmic system] but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things [invisible assets] freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words or interpreting spiritual truths to spiritual persons. But a natural man [the soulish person, unbeliever or believer minus doctrine] does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised [discerned in a manner caused by the filling of the Spirit."

Now, this cannot just refer to an unbeliever or to a believer who is just minus the filling of the Spirit because you can learn doctrine even if you're not filled with the Spirit. You can understand and comprehend doctrinal thoughts even though it is not converted from gnosis to epignosis or to spiritual phenomenon. The ultimate goal is not learning doctrine, nor is it works or even applying doctrine. The ultimate goal is to have a personal relationship and fellowship with God. The goal of changing our mental attitude is to draw us closer to God. As we are kept dependent upon God, we will grow in His grace and knowledge which will lead us to a submissive, yielded life to him. We will have the attitude that our Lord had in Heb 10:9, "I come to do Thy will, O God," not, "What's in this for me?"

How far are we willing to go in submitting our life to God? Far to many so-called normal Christian today are being deceived when it comes to salvation, the filling of the Spirit, living the spiritual life. 1Jo 5:18-19 "We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one."

What are our limitations of obedience to God and His plan for our life, what could make us quit and lose our dedication and devotion for Christ?

What are the ends of abandonment that you would be willing to go to, the ultimate willingness of surrendering your plans and goals and dreams, for God's will for your life?

If a person has given his life to his Lord, it would be conflicting for the one who places his whole happiness, his whole being, in the hands of God alone, that they could continue to have a list of desires for their own happiness and wants. If we live for God because of true love for God, just because we love Him, we place all our happiness in God alone. Love alone should cause us to surrender up our will to the Lord. If it is

not love that produces submission, eventually that wrong motive will be revealed.

When the believer relinquishes his soul, his will, his all to his Lord, and desires nothing of himself and desires only God for the sake of God, that is the beginning of experiencing the life of God in the soul. Here is a state where there is no satisfaction for self as the final goal, the glory of heaven is not the motive, the blessings and rewards are the not the motive.

If I love God alone, I will desire God alone.

We must love Him without any end in view and even without expecting any emotional feeling present to strengthen us. We must love Him with total disregard to dry-spells and to times of abundance.

It is very important for you to fully be in fellowship concentrating during the next several paragraphs because of the two different spellings and meanings to the Greek word “love” [example: in English the word: read, [I will read the sentence] vs [I already read the sentence]. Also, the word “red” is pronounced the same as “read” but means a color.

In Jn 14:15, our Lord said "If you love Me, you will keep My commands." This is not the Ten Commandments because there are over 400 in the New Testament. However, we need to focus in on the word love which in the Greek here is agapao not phileo, agapao refers to a mental attitude love. The point is that when it comes to our mental attitude, love for God, this alone should cause us to surrender our will to Him.

There is a love for God that is also very personal, it is called phileo love.

Jn 16:27 "for the Father Himself loves you [phileo's you, loves you personally], because you have [phileo'd] loved Me personally, and have believed that I came forth from the Father."

The goal of agapao love, this mental attitude love, is to lead us to a phileo love or personal love for God and for The Lord Jesus Christ.

This is why 1COo 16:22 says "If anyone does not [phileo] love the Lord, let him be accursed. Maranatha."

Phileo love is actually a greater love in the sense that when it is directed toward God it is a more personal love developed from the mental attitude of agapao love. This is why Peter became grieved when our Lord gave him that test in John 21. Here we see the contrast between agapao love or the mental attitude love and Phileo the personal love. This is very vital if you are going to live the Christian way of life and enjoy the truth that sets you free. The average believer doesn't rightly divide the word of truth, they become confused concerning the way that they should love according to the Bible. The problem is there is no knowledge of the original language and why God the Holy Spirit chose to use two different words for love when He inspired men to write the Bible,

Let's look at this passge in the original language: Jn 21:15-17 "So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, {son} of John, do you love [agapao] Me more than these? He [Peter] said to Him, Yes, Lord; You know that I love [phileo] You. He said to him, Tend My lambs. He said to him again a second time, Simon, {son} of John, do you love [agapao] Me? He said to Him, Yes, Lord; You know that I love [phileo] You. He said to him, Shepherd My sheep. He said to him the third time, Simon, {son} of John, do you love [phileo] Me? Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, Do you love [phileo] Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You know all things; You know that I love [phileo] You. Jesus said to him, Tend My sheep."

The question is this: If God the Holy Spirit supernaturally directed the human writers of Scripture to put His complete message to mankind recorded with perfect accuracy in the original languages of Scripture, then why use two different words? There are two different meanings that He originally intended, if that's true, then why did the translators translate two totally different words, phileo and agapao, the same?

Actually, in the Greek language there are four basic words four love.

The most popular one is the word agape or agapao which refers to an impersonal love or a love from the mental attitude.

Then there is phileo love or a personal love which connoted personal attraction. This love can be good or bad depending upon where it is directed.

Then there is stergo love which means to feel affection for someone, especially parents or children and even for animals, it means to be lovingly devoted. Rom 12:10 "Be devoted [philostorgos] to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;" This too can be good or bad depending upon where it is directed.

The final type of love is eros love, that state which we call "being in love" or "the kind of love that lovers are in"

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We need to see the importance of understanding the mental attitude that we are commanded to have toward God which is the mental attitude of agapao love.

Agapao love is not a feeling or an emotion, it is a system of thinking that produces the greatest virtue of all, 1Co 13:13, proceeding from the mind, Php 2:2. When it is directed toward God, agapao love serves as motivation, 2Co 5:14. This is the love commanded of husbands in Ehp 5:25 "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her;"

A mental attitude of respect not personal love. This is why as a part of the first commandment we are commanded not to love God personally but to have a fear or respect or love for Him. In fact, even when the Ten Commandments were given in Exo 20:3-17, there's no command to love God in there.

To have given a commandment to love God personally would have been a violation of both the unbeliever's and believer's free will.

Agapao love is a mental attitude love of appreciation that may result in phileo love, personal love for God. Agapao love is the ability to love and respect someone you do not see, 1Pe 1:8 "and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,"

When you start to love someone you have not seen, it is because you have lined up with their thinking.

In Gal 5:22, agape love or this mental attitude love is the production fruit of the Spirit,

In Rom 5:5 agape love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

So in the passage we have been noting Jn 21:15-17 The Lord was asking Peter if he had that impersonal unconditional virtuous love, which emphasizes the virtue of the subject and not the object. And Peter knew and understood what the Lord was saying. The Lord was saying you cannot serve Me without this virtue or this impersonal unconditional virtuous "agape love." However, when virtue love is directed toward God ultimately it should lead to phileo, a deep personal love for God. This is why Peter became upset when the Lord kept asking this question. In verse 15, the Lord used agapao, He didn't use phileo. The Lord said "do you agape-love Me more than these"? He [Peter] said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love [phileo] You." Peter is a little disturbed. Peter used phileo which means I keep on loving you personally because of who You are. Our Lord said do you have impersonal unconditional love for Me, and Peter said, "Lord you know I love you personally."

As a result of his answer Peter receives a command! He [the Lord] said to him, "Tend My lambs." This is a command for all pastors to produce the action of the verb which is to feed new believers. "lambs" refers to baby sheep, analogous to the new believers. The Lord is saying to Peter, "if you really love me personally you're qualified to feed new believers" Peter is commanded to feed the Lord's lambs if he really loves the Lord. When the Lord asked Peter if he loved Him more than these, there is a very important principle here.

No man can function as a pastor-teacher with his eyes on people. The motivational virtue for the gift of pastor teacher must come from personal love for The Lord Jesus Christ. He said to him again a second time, "Simon, {son} of John, do you love [agapao] Me?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love [phileo] You." He said to him, "Shepherd My sheep." Iin verse 16, the Lord gives him a second command. "Shepherd My sheep." The word "shepherd" means to rule or clobber which is how the pastor-shepherd must function with some. He word sheep means the sophomores in the Christian life. These are the ones that have a little knowledge of doctrine and think that they have a lot. Here authority of the pastor now becomes a major issue in the believer's life.

In verse 17, we have a final question and command. He said to him the third time, "Simon, {son} of John, do you love [phileo] Me?" This time our Lord switched from agape to phileo. Peter was distressed because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I love [phileo] You." Jesus said to him, "Tend My sheep."

The Lord was making a point not only for Peter but also for the benefit of all future pastors in the Church-age.

The word for "tend" is bosko which is the command to moderately and prudently feed His humble sheep which is a reference to the seniors or the mature believers.

All you have to do for mature believers is teach them doctrine. In the sophomore stage as in verse 16, you have to use that stick a shepherd carries to guide them.

The shepherd has to whack the sheep at times to keep them from running off the cliffs. The pastor doesn't do that literally, he does that with his communication of doctrine. Once a person becomes a senior, he has developed enough humility to be teachable.

Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep.

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.

December 17, 2023; The Angelic Conflict - Part 50 is in HD Audio ONLY; with hover pop-up scripture references in Notes.

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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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Robert McLaughlin - Grace Bible Church and Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries

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The Angelic Conflict - Part 50 - Why the creation of man? Mankind was created to resolve the prehistoric angelic conflict.

Why the creation of man? Mankind was created to resolve the prehistoric angelic conflict. .

The ultimate triumph of man occurs in the world to come = a reference to the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ!

In the Church-age, Satan and his angels reign. In the Millennium, man will rule - Jesus Christ, the Son of David!

Luk 19:17 “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.’”

Luk 19:19 “And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’”

concern = pres-mid-ind - episkepte = to go and see the sick or to relieve those who are sick.

Mat 9:12 But when He heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.”

Mar 2:17 Jesus said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Man’s fall did not win the conflict for Satan, nor did it set God’s plan back; it actually sent it forward into the greater gear of “grace,” Deut 23:5.

This is a reference to the resurrection of Jesus Christ whereby all angelic creatures, including fallen angels, are subordinated to Him “in His humanity!”

In His deity, Jesus Christ is the creator of angels but, in His humanity, He was made lower than angels, Heb 2:7.

1Co 15:45-49 - describes only 2 members of the human race who came into the world under conditions of perfection without an O.S.N.

Eph 2:6 And He [God the Father] raised us up with Him [Jesus Christ], and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus.

Php 3:21, 1Co 15:53 - our resurrected body is greater than angels, so the church is the first to be raptured to receive resurrected bodies at the bema seat judgment!

Deut 32:4 The rock! His work is perfect, for all his ways are just; a God of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

“crowned” = aor-act-ind - estephanosas = to adorn with an honorary crown, to receive the approval of God.

Gen 1:28-30 - God gave the first Adam dominion over creation.

Heb 2:9 - “crowned with glory and honor” refers to the birth of TLJC which was just like the creation of the first Adam.

1Co 15:22 “In Adam all die, in Christ shall all be made alive”

At the Second Advent, when the Millennial reign begins, there will be believers on earth minus demons and unbelievers - this is the baptism of fire, Mat 24:40-41.

During the Millennial reign, the saints will rule in resurrection bodies just like the unseen forces now who run the world.

“All things being subjected to Him” refers to the human race, the angelic race, nature, weather, animals, and plant life.

“He left nothing that is not subject to Him” refers to the baptism of fire where all that is against Christ will be removed.

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