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from - Romans 8:38-39
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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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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 54 - Under undeserved suffering, the believer is challenged to use the PSD’s to grow in grace, orient to the plan of God, and advance to spiritual maturity where we can glorify God in the angelic conflict.
(a) Preventative suffering is added to spiritual self-esteem, the first stage of spiritual adulthood, to strengthen it to the point of spiritual autonomy or independence. .
This is a form of suffering designed to make the individual stronger within and increase his personal love for God. .
This is designed to push you from spiritual self-esteem to spiritual autonomy, the next stage of spiritual growth. .
1. Insults = slander and people testing. .
2. Distresses = pressure and thought testing.
3. Persecutions = system testing. .
4. Difficulties = stress and disaster testing. .
(b) Momentum testing is given to strengthen the believer’s impersonal unconditional love toward others, so the believer can advance to spiritual maturity. .
Preventative suffering is designed to strengthen your personal love for God and increase your dedication to Him and His plan for your life. .
Momentum testing is designed to strengthen your impersonal love for man; you have to be mistreated by people and remain in impersonal love toward them in spite of what they do to you. .
In spiritual autonomy, there is a stronger and increased contentment, capacity for life, and capacity for happiness as a result of combining spiritual self-esteem with providential preventative suffering.
The key to this contentment is impersonal love for all because others’ imperfections and mistakes will not be a source of unhappiness to you.
If you, in spiritual autonomy, have unconditional love toward all mankind, you have the most fantastic capacity for personal love toward those in your periphery.
Impersonal love is the key to solving people testing and the problems of interaction with people.
Impersonal love solves system testing, which involves relationships with people in authority over you.
Impersonal love is a major characteristic of spiritual autonomy and the means of passing momentum testing.
In people testing, spiritual autonomy’s grace orientation = tolerance from impersonal love toward all. People can no longer get you down.
(c) Evidence testing is given for the mature believer to glorify God to the maximum in the angelic conflict.
a. Relationship with the Holy Spirit, Mat 4:1-4.
b. Relationship with the Word of God, Mat 4:5-7.
c. Relationship with the plan of God, Mat 4:8-10.
a. Loss of prosperity, Job 1:1-22.
b. Loss of health, social life, and attractiveness, Job 2:1-10.
c. Loss of friends and having them malign and judge you, Job 2:11-42:17. .
Suffering is an extension of the angelic conflict to see if the believer will learn from metabolized doctrine and utilize the dynamic grace provisions designed in eternity past.
Robert R. McLaughlin Bible Ministries
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Robert R. McLaughlin 2001
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