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Hypocrites and Backsliders. H and B-037: Hypocrites and Backsliders: The Solution: Phase 1. Ps.138:2. " I will bow down before Your holy temple, and give thanks to Your name for Your loyalty and Your veracity; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name ”. Spiritual Death.
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Hypocrites and Backsliders H and B-037: Hypocrites and Backsliders: The Solution: Phase 1
Ps.138:2 • "I will bow down before Your holy temple, and give thanks to Your name for Your loyalty and Your veracity; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name”. LWBC 05-18-08
Spiritual Death Being and doing No! Mind of the spirit "Understanding = Appraisal process Darkness Mind of the Flesh Resides in Flesh LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life The Outline I. Human Nature and Human Birth A. Adam & Eve B. Sin and The Sin Nature C. Immaculate Conception 1. Genetics Lesson 2. The Virgin Birth LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life 2. The Virgin Birth a. Mary as a Type of Our Spirit in Regeneration 1. Announcement 2. Acceptance 3. Immaculate Conception LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life II. Divine Nature and Divine Birth A. Regeneration and the Divine Genetic Potential 1. Reservoir of Righteousness LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life III. Biblical Marriage as a Type of The Divine Birth (Regeneration) A. Betrothal 1. Preparation 2. Consummation LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life III. The Human Thinking Process A. Brain B. Soul/Consciousness 1. OCD and Henry Stapp 2. Brain Surgeon - Penfield C. Appraisal LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life C. Appraisal 1. Thinking Process 2. Appraisal Filters 3. Emotional Reaction LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life IV. The Human Nature, The Human Genetic Potential and the HAM's A. 1 Jn 2:16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world. 1. Desires of The Body 2. Desires of the Eyes 3. The Pride of Life LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life 1. Desires of the Body a. Sexual • Chemical 2. Eyes • Materialism 3. Pride of Life a. Religion b. Approbation c. Power LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life V. The Reservoir of Righteousness A. Spiritual Orientation 1. The Fruit of the Spirit 2. Character/Essence of God B. Doctrinal Orientation LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life B. Doctrinal Orientation 1. Mandates 2. Promises 3. Categorical Thinking LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life VI. The Human Genetic Potential A. Religion 1. Type 1: (Withdrawing) Peace 2. Type 2: (Assertive) Justice and Power 3. Type 3: (Compliant) Perfection LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life VI. The Human Genetic Potential B. Approbation 1. Type 1: (Withdrawing) Respect 2. Type 2: (Assertive) Admiration 3. Type 3: (Compliant) Appreciation LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life VI. The Human Genetic Potential C. Power 1. Type 1: (Withdrawing) Mental Control 2. Type 2: (Assertive) Avoidance Control 3. Type 3: (Compliant) Emotional Control LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life VI. The Human Genetic Potential D. Materialism 1. Type 1: (Withdrawing) 2. Type 2: (Assertive) 3. Type 3: (Compliant) LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life VI. The Human Genetic Potential E. Chemical 1. Type 1: (Withdrawing) 2. Type 2: (Assertive) 3. Type 3: (Compliant) LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life VI. The Human Genetic Potential F. Sexual 1. Type 1: (Withdrawing) 2. Type 2: (Assertive) 3. Type 3: (Compliant) LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life VII. The Divine Genetic Potential of Regeneration • Reservoir of Righteousness 1. Love 2. Joy 3. Peace 4. Patience 5. Kindness LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life A. Reservoir of Righteousness 6. Goodness 7. Faithfulness 8. Gentleness 9. Self Control LWBC 05-18-08
Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life • The Human Genetic Potential Continuum of Human Good and Human Bad • The Reservoir of Righteousness Alternatives LWBC 05-18-08
Spiritual Death 17So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. H & B-035 LWBC 05-11-08 LWBC 05-18-08 23
Futility Greediness Darkened Uncleanness Alienated Unbeliever Lasciviousness Ignorant Unfeeling The Unbeliever 9 LWBC 05-18-08
Eph 4:17 in the futility of their mind Rom. 1:21 but were made futilein their reasonings, Eph 4:17 & Rom. 1:21 LWBC 05-18-08
Do not walk as the Unbelievers walk… Futility Pointlessness Unrewarding Dissatisfaction LWBC 05-18-08
Eph 4:18 because of the hardness of their heart; Rom. 1:25 who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, Eph 4:18 & Rom. 1:18 LWBC 05-18-08
Stubbornness Futility "Because of the hardness of their hearts" (perfect passive participle) = "They received a stubborn anti-God attitude at birth" LWBC 05-18-08
Where’d you get that hard ole Heart? • Romans 5:12Because of this, even as through oneman the sin did enter into the world, andthrough the sin the death; and thus to allmen the death did pass through, for thatall did sin; LWBC 05-18-08
Where’d you get that hard ole Heart? • That is, when death entered the species,it went throughout the species, affectingevery cell of everyone. • The reason why death affects all, Paulsays, is that all sinned genetically inAdam. • Here Adam is looked upon as the federalhead of the race, and that when he sinned,all of humanity sinned in him. (Wuest) LWBC 05-18-08
Where’d you get that hard ole Heart? • ICor. 15:22It is in Adam all die, so inChrist shall all be made alive. • Rom. 5:15By reason of the trespass ofthe one the many died. • He obviously means thatthe entire humanrace was included in Adam,so that whenAdam sinned, all sinned; when theprocess of death began to ruinhim,itimmediately affectedthe entire race. LWBC 05-18-08
Where’d you get that hard ole Heart? • It is not oursinswhich stop us frominheriting the Kingdom of God, butourflesh and blood(1Cor. 15:50). • 1 Corinthians 15:50 (YLT)50 And this I say, brethren, that flesh andblood the reign of God is not able toinherit, nor doth the corruption inherit theincorruption. LWBC 05-18-08
Where’d you get that hard ole Heart? • And thus, at physical birth, every person isphysically alive but separated from God. • God is perfect, man is imperfect. • A perfect God cannot have a relationshipwith an imperfect creature. • Man, upon birth has an inherent “Anti-God Attitude” – Spiritual Death. LWBC 05-18-08
Where’d you get that hard ole Heart? • We cannot helpbeing“In Adam,”for thiscame by our first birth over which we had no control. • But we can helpstaying “In Adam,” foryou can experience a second birth - newbirth from above -that will put you “InChrist.” • This is why Jesus said,“You must be bornagain” (John 3:7). LWBC 05-18-08
Soul Diagram Being Thinking Deciding “and breathed into him the breath of lives and man became a living soul.” Gen 2:7 LWBC 05-18-08
The Human Condition Genetically transmitted LWBC 05-18-08
Attitude • An attitude is "a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor" (Eagly & Chaiken, 1993, p. 1). • Ephesians 4:18, with the perfect passive participle, says that we receive, with our Sin nature at birth, a negative attitude towards God. LWBC 05-18-08
Where’d you get that hard ole Heart? • Col 1:21 And although you at one time were estranged and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities… LWBC 05-18-08
Where’d you get that hard ole Heart? • It explains theWhy of Romans 3:11 • “There is no Jew or Gentile whounderstands, there is no Jew or Gentilewho seeks for God.” • Because it is not about Abraham, or Law,or conscience or creation’s wonder in Romans 1, butabout ourGenetics! LWBC 05-18-08
Spiritual Death • Ephesians 2:1-3: • "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest." LWBC 05-18-08
Eph 4:18 because of the hardness of their heart; Rom. 1:18 holding down the truth in unrighteousness. Eph 4:18 & Rom. 1:18 LWBC 05-18-08
Eph 4:18 because of the hardness of their heart; Rom. 1:21 because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, Eph 4:18 & Rom. 1:18 LWBC 05-18-08
Spiritual Death • The natural (Soul) man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are Spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14). LWBC 05-18-08 43
SIN Nature Soul Human Bad Human Good Old (Adam Genes) Man LWBC 05-18-08
The Sin Nature Human Bad Area of WeaknessHebrews 12.1 Sins borne at the cross – 1 Peter 2.24 W Weakness SIN NATURE Trend towardLasciviousnessMark 7.21-23 Trend towardAsceticismHebrews 6.1 Strength S Rejected and condemned at the cross – Titus 3.5 Area of StrengthIsaiah 64.6 Human Good LWBC 05-18-08
Spiritual Death - Mechanics The Human Good Factors • 1. Heart Hardened - Stubbornness • 2. Ignorance in them • 3. Alienated from the Life from God • 4. Understanding (Appraisal Process) Darkened • 5. Lifestyle of Futility of the Mind • 6. Past Feeling - Insensitive (Result of Stubborness) • 7. Gave themselves over • 8. Lascivious - Unrestrained • 9. Unclean - Impurity • 10. Greedy - Insatiable The Human Bad Factors LWBC 05-18-08
Stubbornness Darkened Ignorance Alienation Human Good Cycle Futility LWBC 05-18-08
Stubbornness Insensitivity Greediness Uncleanness Unrestraint Human Bad Reaction LWBC 05-18-08
Stubbornness Ignorance Insensitivity Futility LWBC 05-18-08
The Anti-God attitude results in Spiritual Ignorance • Romans 8:7-8 (NKJV)7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. LWBC 05-18-08