A. Characteristics of God
1. Sovereignty
2. Perfect Righteousness
3. Perfect Justice
4. Love
5. Eternal Life
6. Omnipotence
7. Omniscience
8. Omnipresence
9. Immutability
10. Veracity
B. The Trinity – Three in Person.
1. God the Father
2. God the Son
3. God the Holy Spirit
A. The angels
B. The fall of Lucifer
C. The trial and appeal of Satan
D. The role of man in the angelic conflict
E. Strategies
F. How can a loving God condemn His creatures?
A. Body with
1. Old Sin Nature
a. Area of strength
b. Area of weakness
c. Lust pattern
d. Tendencies
2. Emotions
B. Soul with
1. Self-consciousness
2. Free Will
3. Mentality
C. Human spirit (only in regenerate)
A. Adam
1. Created
a. Physically alive and spiritually alive
b. Trichotomous: body, soul & spirit
2. Fallen
a. Physically alive but spiritually dead, having lost the human spirit
b. Dichotomy: body and soul
c. Acquired a sin nature in which he passed on genetically to his progeny.
B. The unregenerate man
1. Born physically alive but spiritually dead
a. Imputation by God of soul life to the biological life of man
b. Imputation by God of Adam´s Original Sin to the sin nature of man.
2. The body dies physically but the soul, without the human spirit, will live forever without God in the Lake of Fire.
C. Regenerate man
1. Born physically alive and spiritually dead
a. Imputation by God of soul life to biological life
b. Imputation of Adam´s Original Sin to the old sin nature
2. Believe in Christ as your Savior.
a. Born again
1) Receive a human spirit.
2) Are trichotomous as your father, Adam – body soul and spirit
b. God imputes His eternal life to man´s human spirit.
c. The physical body dies, but the soul and the human spirit live forever with God in a resurrection body.
D. Christ
1. Regarding His humanity (hypostatic union), Christ was born physically and spiritually alive.
a. Imputation of soul life to biological life
b. There was NO imputation of Adam´s original sin because He did not have an old sin nature, having been born of a virgin.
c. He was born as Adam was created-trichotomous with body, soul and spirit, therefore, spiritually alive.
2. The Cross
a. The spiritual death of Jesus Christ on the Cross, judged, as a substitute, for all the sins of the human race
b. TETELESTAI means “it is finished in the past with results that go on forever,” i.e., the termination of the judgment and spiritual death of Christ.
c. He voluntarily gave up his physical life when His Work was finished.
1) His soul went to Hades where the believers of the Old Testament resided.
2) His human spirit went to the third heaven with God the Father.
3. The Resurrection: resurrection body where His soul and spirit are reunited
A. Spiritually dead, not being able to communicate or have relation with God and incapable of resolving the problem
B. The barrier between man and God
1. Sin
2. Sentencing of payment
3. Physical Birth
4. Relative righteousness of man
5. Character of God
6. Position of Adan
C. Man’s solutions do not resolve his condition.
1. Human good
2. Effort to not sin
3. Prayer
4. Charity
5. Attend a church
D. God’s solution, the only solution – the Cross
1. Redemption
2. Unlimited Atonement
3. Expiation
4. Regeneration
5. Imputation
6. Justification
7. Propitiation
8. Position in Christ
A. 40 absolutes
B. The two circles of position and temporal experience
1. Position in Christ
a. By the baptism of the Holy Spirit
b. Never changes
c. The believer shares
1) His sonship
2) His inheritance
3) His royalty
4) His priesthood
5) His life, eternal life
6) His absolute righteousness
7) His election
8) His destiny
2. Position in the Divine Dynasphere
a. The sphere of
1) Divine power
2) The filling of the Holy Spirit
3) The Christian life
4) Walking in love
b. An absolute condition, inside and out
c. Leaving the sphere
1) Only by sin
a) Acting independently of the Plan of God
b) Categories: known and unknown
c) Examples by type:
(1) Overt sins
(a) Murder
(b) Robbery
(c) Sexual sins: adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bestiality, necrophilia, rape, incest pederasty, pimping
(2) Sins of the tongue: gossip, judging, defamation, slander, vituperation
(3) Mental or emotional sins: arrogance (self-justification, self-deception, self-absorption), pride, approbation, fear, worry, anxiety, panic, jealousy, bitterness, resentment, implacability, guilt, anger, hate, hostility, self-pity, malice, lust to hurt another, motivational vengeance, operative vengeance, inordinate ambition, inordinate competition
2) It is by saying “Yes” to the temptation of the sin nature and giving it the control of the soul.
d. The return to communion with God is via one road only: personally citing or naming the sin to God the Father.
1) The road of grace, as in salvation
a) Return to the cross
b) Claim the payment of the cross
c) Rebound from carnality
2) Three steps of grace and faith as related to sin
a) Cite it!
b) Forget it!
c) Isolate it!
e. Alternative to the Divine Dynasphere, the cosmic system
A. Phase 1: salvation
B. Phase 2: the believer in time
C. Phase 3: the believer in eternity
A. Absolute and relative
1. Absolute: in or out of fellowship with God
2. Relative: progression in Christian growth
a. Baby
b. Child
c. Adolescent
d. Adult
e. Mature adult
B. Two power options and the first two spiritual skills to live the spiritual life
1. The filling of the Holy Spirit
2. Perception, metabolization and application of Bible doctrine
a. Canonicity
b. GAP (Grace Apparatus for Perception)
1) Communication of orthodox doctrine by the designated pastor-teacher by God for each believer
2) Positive volition of the believer
3) Holy Spirit as the internal teacher and mentor
4) Option to believe or not
5) GNOSIS and EPIGNOSIS
c. Stream of consciousness
1) Compartments
a) Frame of reference
b) Memory center
c) Vocabulary storage
d) Categorical storage
e) Conscience
f) Momentum
g) Wisdom or application platform
1) Divine viewpoint in place of human viewpoint
2) Having the thinking of Christ
3) Grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ
C. The ten problem solving devices, the third spiritual skill
1. Premise: Adversity is inevitable; stress is optional.
2. The problem solving devices
a. Rebound from carnality, name your sin
b. Filling of Holy Spirit
c. Faith rest drill
d. Grace orientation
e. Doctrinal orientation
f. Personal sense of destiny
g. Personal love for God
h. Impersonal love for all mankind
i. Sharing the happiness of God
j. Occupation with Christ
D. Christian production
1. A result, not a means of growth
2. Fulfilling the role of
a. Ambassador of heaven
b. Royal priest
3. Includes various expressions of growth such as prayer and witnessing
4. Not a problem solving device
E. Spiritual skills
1. Pastor-teacher
2. Evangelist
3. Administration
4. Helps
5. Hospitality
6. Prayer
7. Giving
F. Goals of the spiritual life
1. Grow to the high ground of spiritual maturity
2. Receive temporal and spiritual blessings designed by God the Father in eternity past, tailor-made for each believer
3. Thus glorify the Lord Jesus Christ
G. Careful with the dangers of the spiritual life!
1. Not rebounding
2. Not taking in Bible doctrine daily
a. Distractions
b. Misplaced priorities
c. Reaction to the pastor
d. Negative to what the Word says
3. Alternative road to spirituality and growth . . . reversionism and its phases
a. Reaction and distraction
b. Frantic search for happiness
c. Operation Boomerang
d. Emotional revolt of the soul
e. Locked-in negative volition to doctrine
f. Blackout of the soul
g. Hardness of heart
h. Reverse process reversionism
4. Love of God expressed in the discipline of His children
a. Warning discipline
b. Intensified discipline
c. Dying discipline or the sin unto death
A. Prehistoric angelic conflict
B. The creation of man
C. Civilizations
1. Antediluvian
2. Postdiluvian
D. Dispensations
1. Dispensation of the Gentiles
2. Dispensation of Israel
3. Dispensation of the Hypostatic Union
4. Church Age
5. The Tribulation, the end of the dispensation of Israel
6. Dispensation of the Millennium
E. Destruction of the universe and the earth
F. The eternal state