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How to Start Winning Eph 6:11 Put on1746 the3588 whole armor3833 of God,2316 that ye5209 may be able1410 to stand2476 against4314 the3588 wiles3180 of the3588 devil.1228 Eph 6:11 Put on the full armor of God in order [for] you* to be able to stand firm against the tricks [or, cunning schemes] of the Devil.
Schemes (methodeia = Methodists) cunning acts, deceit, or crafty. This illustrates that Satan is the master of deception, illusion and lying. There is an implication of struggle (pale) which refers to hand to hand combat. The principles of warfare (Philippians 3:8) are the issue here: · Objective – to progressively win the angelic conflict everyday. · Offensive – to continually advance in the plan of God daily in order to win · Concentration (Phil. 3:13) the massive of force for decisive action focusing the mind, energy and everything on the objective, even when it necessitate to narrow down your lifestyle. · Economy of forces – the knowledge and skills of using the available materials on hand. It is not a call for the believer to wrestle with the devil or with the world but to rest in faith. God uses small things – in God’s hand, nothing is insignificant. · Mobility – is the combination of speed + flexibility + ease + poise. This is a walk by the Spirit, a walk by the Spirit, a walk of love, a walk in the light. · Cooperation – treason is unwilling to respond to the call of duty, to comply to certain demands of your country in time of war. · Security –is in the love of God (Rom. 8:32-39, Jude 21) · Surprise the enemy – · Communication with the GHQ · Pursuit of the enemy – Satan’s sense of timing seems perfect but it is not – only God’s timing is perfect.
Decision in the Christian life is execution of Bible doctrine into life’s application. The Lord Jesus Christ controls human history. The angelic conflict is being fought in the souls of believers. Everyday we make vital decisions that:
Every person has an allotment time of trouble with deliverance and solution. A person’s allotted time which includes certain amount of problems and sufferings –certain amount of remedy and deliverance is a regulated testing. Some principles related to crisis:
In every crisis there are 2 wills that works:
There are 2 decisions that we make that have effect on earth and human history:
We are product of our decision. Decisions are what make the will, from which we make decisions. From the mental attitude comes the will, will become decision, decisions become pattern, pattern becomes trends, trends become habit, habit become character.
Job 1:4-5 And his sons1121 went1980 and feasted6213, 4960 in their houses,1004 every one376 his day;3117 and sent7971 and called7121 for their three7969 sisters269 to eat398 and to drink8354 with5973 them. And it was1961 so, when3588 the days3117 of their feasting4960 were gone about,5362 that Job347 sent7971 and sanctified6942 them, and rose up early7925 in the morning,1242 and offered5927 burnt offerings5930 according to the number4557 of them all:3605 for3588 Job347 said,559 It may be194 that my sons1121 have sinned,2398 and cursed1288 God430 in their hearts.3824 Thus3602 did6213 Job347 continually.3605, 3117
Job 3:25 For3588 the thing which I greatly feared6343, 6342 is come upon857 me, and that which834 I was afraid of3025 is come935 unto me.
Satan sense of timing seems perfect – it seems that he is making the right move at the right time –but he is not. Satan is just like a thief that waits for the right opportunity. He waited for the grand party of Job’s children – merry making. Satan wanted Job to have mixed emotion of fear, anger and guilt.
Satan wanted all the disasters to bring fear and guilt upon Job. Every fear we nurse in our lives gives the enemy a workshop to create his plan. Evidence testing guarantees to be the worst possible time in your life. Satan always seeks to disrupt condition of peace and happiness because he hates us all.
Inner peace in the believer is the greatest evidence of divine power. It manifests the presence of God and His power. Note the:
Seven disciplines that produces peace:
What is the best way to make historical impact? Slow down and do the very thing that trouble Satan most – rest in the Lord. Everything God does in our lives comes from resting in the Lord. Satan is trying to destroy the peace in our soul by throwing terrible situation. To maintain spiritual poise under pressure takes a lot of toughness and strength of your soul. Satan applies three principles related to destroying his enemies:
When a servant (the one Satan left to bring shock and fear upon Job) reported that they… “slew the servants” (meaning violently attacking everyone – Job 1:13, 22), Satan was trying to raise fear upon Job. Satan uses violence to shock the believers.
Notice the phrase “while he was still speaking” – troubles come in package. Satan seldom sends one piece of trouble alone –he sends multiple –one after the other in rapid succession. He knows the shock of multiple blows. The army has the same principle: never fire at the target only once.
Satan loves to send calamity that looks as if it were an act of God. Notice the phrase “the fire of God” is actually a fire from Satan but mistaken by carnal believer and unbeliever as fire from God. The reversionists have not capacity and ability to seen the truth of God. The spiritual war is fought in the soul while the believer is in the physical world. All natural calamities are the result of creation being out of balance with the Creator. The creation out of harmony with God results to natural calamity.
Satan wants to malign the character of God through the mouth of God’s own children (Job 2:1-6). The majority of believers is without Bible doctrine and therefore is irritable against other believers, always complaining and murmuring just about anything. These believers have no spiritual integrity. Spiritual integrity refuses to blame God for the things that happened to him.
The Lord told Satan, “You incited Me against him to destroy him without cause” (there is no reason for divine discipline since Job was living the mature spiritual life inside the plan of God).
Whenever you say, “This is not fair”, you are becoming a witness for Satan. You are following his ideology and system of good and evil. There is no truce in the spiritual warfare, everyday is a battle, everyday we have the option to win glory for the Lord or glory for ourselves. The phrase “press on” (dioko) means to pursue, to set aside as priority. To “press on” phrase on has two meaning:
Satan wants God to destroy His own children (Job 2:6). After the faulty reasoning of Satan, God told the devil, “He is in your power” which means five important principles.
Our objective is to think in the unity of divine viewpoint. The only way to advance spiritually is by thinking Bible doctrine, not by doing human good work. God is far more concerned with our concentration on Bible doctrine. Our responsibility is to think Bible doctrine with concentration and not to aspire to do great things for God.
The satanic deception here is on the emotion, however in the spiritual life, how we feel is never an issue. Mental attitude refers to the function of human thought. Your mental attitude is what you think at any given time. It is the though content of your soul which God views as the real you. It is the thinking of the soul that becomes the battleground in the angelic conflict. It is the thinking of the soul that becomes the battleground in the angelic conflict. The life of every Church age believer has to do with his thinking, not with what he is doing.
The life of Church age believer is determined by 2 principles:
These principles work with each other not separately. A mental attitude of divine viewpoint – the thinking of God, is a part of the greatest delegation of divine power in the entire human history. It is the power of divine viewpoint in the right lobe. Ignorance of God’s plan is the result of lack of concern for the thought pattern. Those who failed in divine viewpoint lifestyle are under the two common problems of satanic policy:
Satan loves to recruit the people you love to destroy you. Satan has a job for every reversionist like Mrs. Job whom Job “nebalah”. Job told held, you speak like a foolish woman (that is nebalah- meaning to fade, to wither – someone who has withered all the positive volition toward God). The reversionists:
Suffering is part of the Christian life. There are 2 ways to suffer in the world:
Unnecessary suffering due to execution of divine discipline is preventable by motivation to learn Bible doctrine. Motivation to learn Bible doctrine is acquired by the grace of God, it is accelerated by application of doctrine and motivation is accomplished only by the grace of God (Jeremiah 29:13, John 7:117).
The Lord executes the sin unto death when the believer had a prolonged stayed in the cosmos diabolicus –prolonged residence, operation and advancement in the cosmic system and rejection of God’s plan of grace. The essence of reversionism is being independent (being separated, divorced) from God.
Philippians 3:19 whose end [is] destruction, whose god [is] the belly [fig., their appetite] and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who set their minds on the [things] of the earth.
Appetite is koilia which is referring to emotion. Whose god is their emotion. The emotion becomes your god whenever it dictates your thinking, decision and action. Emotion as:
Emotional revolt of the soul (EROTS) exists when a virtue is produce in the wrong place. For example, whenever love is produced in emotion. Take note that emotion resides in the mentality. Whenever the emotion rules the life of a person, his life manufactures self-induced miseries. God designed our life to be enjoyable through our emotion by putting it under the control of the right lobe. Disaster starts when emotion become the criteria for life.
Human volition commits:
The emotion becomes god to the believer when it abnormally rules the mentality giving way to neurosis and psychosis. The mentality has everything needed to control the emotion. The emotion is empty, hollow, containing no Bible doctrine, no common sense or ability to reason from rational and factual things.
2 Ways distractions of the reversionists:
4 Reflection of doctrinal concentration:
5 Categories of emotional complex of sins
Categories of personal sins:
16 Categories of verbal sins:
06/29/2007 |
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