True Spirituality

1. True Spirituality Introduction Background (Objective Context of Spirituality) Technical Development Three Considerations of True Spirituality (Rejected-Slain-Raised) Three Spiritual Categories of Men Three Conditions of True Spirituality Key Passages Spirituality versus Spiritual Growth Summary

2. The Three Conditions of Spirituality Yieldedness “Do not quench the Spirit” 1 Th 5:19 Confession “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit” Eph 4:30 Walking in the Spirit “…walk in the Spirit” Gal 5:16

3. Yieldedness The foundation of true spirituality.

4. The Three Conditions of Spirituality Yieldedness “Do not quench the Spirit” 1 Th 5:19 Confession “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit” Eph 4:30 Walking in the Spirit “…walk in the Spirit” Gal 5:16

5. Sin HVPT vs. DVPT Sin as of the essence of man Sin as an individual act The relationship of confession to yieldedness

6. The Three Conditions of Spirituality Yieldedness “Do not quench the Spirit” 1 Th 5:19 Confession “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit” Eph 4:30 Walking in the Spirit “…walk in the Spirit” Gal 5:16

7. “confess” o`mologe,w HOMOLOGEŌ HOMOS/LEGŌ same to speak lit. “to say the same thing” Admitting something by way of agreement with another.

8. He That is Spiritual Lewis Sperry Chafer pp. 71, 85 “So, also, it is an issue only of known sin; for no person can deal intelligently with unknown sin. This first condition of true spirituality is centered upon definite matters. It is sin that has, by the grieving of the Spirit, become a distinct issue; for the term "grieving the Spirit" refers as much to the heart experience of the one in whom He dwells as to the personal attitude of the Spirit toward sin. The issue is, therefore, a well-defined wrong, about which the child of God has been made conscious by the Spirit. Such known sin must be dealt with according to the exact direction of the Word of God…. “The blessing [of fellowship] does not depend upon sinless perfection: it is a matter of not grieving the Spirit. It is not an issue concerning unknown sin: it is an attitude of heart that is willing always instantly to confess every known sin. ‘If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.’ The Christian who fully confesses all known sin will have removed one, if not all, of the hindrances to the fullest manifestation of the Spirit.”

9. True Spirituality Francis A. Schaeffer pg 57 “Now the question arises, whether we could expect to have perfection, either totally or even for this one moment. And I would suggest that such an expression simply gets us caught in a swamp, in which we have endless discussions concerning some abstract idea of complete victory, even in this ‘one moment.’ The phrase that often is used is that we can have freedom from ‘all known sin.’ But I feel that as we consider first the Word of God and then human experience, we must understand that there is a problem in the word ‘known,’ and also a problem in the word ‘conscious,’ if we talk of ‘conscious’ sin. The problem in using both or either of these words is the fact that since the fall man has habitually fooled himself. We fool ourselves deep inside our subconscious and unconscious nature. “The more the Holy Spirit puts his finger on my life and goes down deep into my life, the more I understand that there are deep wells to my nature. …We are like the iceberg: one-tenth above and nine-tenths below. It is a very, very simple thing to fool ourselves, and that is why we must question this word ‘known.’ If I say I can have freedom from all ‘known’ sin, surely I must acknowledge the meaningfulness of the question: What do I know? Until I can describe what I know, I cannot go on meaningfully to ask whether I can have freedom from ‘known’ sin. As the Holy Spirit has wrestled with me down through the years, more and more I am aware of the depths of my own nature, and the depths of the results of that awful fall in the Garden of Eden.”