1969 Basics

R. B. Thieme Jr.

Eph. 4:17    Scar Tissue of the Soul Special (Intro to Basic Doctrine)           1/21/69

This is a transition from exegesis to basics

One of the greatest strategies of the Christian life is for a person to believe in Jesus Christ and then go on negative toward doctrine. The great tragedy of the Christian life is ignorance of Bible doctrine; the greatest virtue is knowledge of Bible doctrine.

Many of you will fall by the wayside. Other things are more important to you. The thorns choke out the concept of grace. If you stick it out, every Tuesday night, night by night, you will profit by it.

This is the 15^th basic class or so. It begins with a lot of enthusiasm and bodies. But you aren’t going to get with it.

We’ll begin with scar tissue of the soul. Most of those here began by faith in Jesus Christ. He gave us 34 things at the moment of salvation. You are 34 + misery. A billion years from now you will have the same 34 things. You can be on negative signals from then on.

The evangelist does not tell you to come forward and be miserable. You may get one or two, but those are weirdos.

The Greek is complex, but the message is simple. In case he loses us along the way, If you go on negative volition toward doctrine, you can be the most miserable person in the world. Whether you are miserable or happy depends upon a facet of your soul.

He began with God before, but now he begins with the soul. What we really are is inside the skull, and the skull is designed to be extremely strong. The real you is inside, the soul. The soul has self consciousness, mentality, volition (the big issue of the Christian life; you are constantly making decisions); emotion (the appreciatory), conscience (norms and standards); and the old sin nature (the distorter of life and the basis of spiritual death).

The woman has a set of responders. The woman is the glory of the man, and the man is the glory of God. There should be a touching of the souls before the touching of the bodies.

Eph. 4:17: This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the emptiness of their mind,...

Paul uses a word which causes the reader to sit up. Τουτο λεγω ουν and then there is the long verb μαρτυορομαι = which means to make a solemn statement (without any injection of humor). It excludes anything which is superficial, anything which is light, and anything which is humorous.

No church would hire a pastor like Paul today. He was unattractive and he had a high, squeaky voice. He would not be cast in Hollywood as any part in the clergy. Paul tells them to get their eyes on the message.

He then says, do not imitate the unbeliever. Do not walk as the Gentiles walk. These Gentiles are unbelievers who are in a frantic search for happiness. The more they search, the more they seek, they cannot get it. They see a woman, and they reach for her, and happiness is gone; they see a bag of money and reach for it, and happiness is gone. How many times have you said, “If I just had this or that, I would be happy.” And as soon as you got it, you were just as miserable. The Gentiles are making a frantic search for happiness and the believer acts just like the unbeliever. The believer searching for happiness and he is not happy.

There is God, a member of the opposite sex, friends, and the details of life. These are the things which some chase after. Did you ever stop chasing after happiness and just sit down and relax and happiness will come to you.

Μετιοτης = emptiness, the vacuum created in the soul by negative volition toward doctrine. False doctrine, religion, legalism, the emphasis upon the details of life, mental attitude sins, etc. are sucked into the soul. This causes the believer to walk like a Gentile frantically searching out happiness.

A vacuum is created in the mentality of the soul. Negative volition in the νους sucks in false doctrine and kooky thinking. As a believer, if you go on negative volition toward doctrine, you will be miserable; and your soul will be a vacuum which will suck in every false doctrine. Scar tissue of the soul will develop and it will destroy the perspective of phase 2.

The thinking part of the mind is going to be definitely hurt by the vacuum. Having the understanding darkened. Διανοια = thinking through, understanding. This refers to the conscious part of the mind where you do your actual thinking. Periphrastic σκοτιζω = blackout. Perfect tense means this is permanent. Passive voice, this is received by going on negative toward doctrine. The believer who rejects Bible doctrine has a permanent blackout in phase 2 which causes him to be disoriented to the grace of God.

Another word for thinking: καρδια = heart, thinking. 1Chron. 29:18 has the thoughts of his heart. Kardia was used here in the LXX (the Septuagint). This is a blackout of doctrine which will result in scar tissue of the soul which will lead to unhappiness of the soul. The concept of love under these categories. Category 1 love toward God; category 2 love toward the opposite sex; category 3 love is friends.

He turns into a phoney; he runs around and says God willing and all this phoney stuff that you hear. The concept is, if you do not know Bible doctrine, then you cannot respond to the perfect love of God. Scar tissue of the soul comes from ignorance of doctrine. It comes from negative volition to doctrine.

When you have a blackout of doctrine, the thinking part of the soul is blacked out, pseudo love toward friends, toward God toward the member of the opposite sex. All you need to be unhappy as a believer is having a blacked out mind. All you need is the right combination.

In v. 17: a person on negative volition toward doctrine; he is suffering a resultant blackout of the soul, called ματιοτης. There is the vanity of the mind (νους). You have a mind where you do your thinking. The frontal part of the lobe is δισνοια. There is something in the mind: falso doctrine, emphasis on the details of life, religion; it goes through cosmos diabolicus and picks up all the false concepts like a vacuum. The principle is that you become a disoriented believer. This is described by being alienated, described by απατριολα = to be alienated from an ultimate source; to be estranged. If you have accepted the plan of God, you are not estranged. These are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Son of God. After this, you are in the life of God. Billions of years ago, God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit all had +H (perfect happiness). There is a tremendous stability here. He had to develop a plan where man could enjoy happiness. He provided the salvation at phase 1. God wants man to have happiness in time, in phase 2; even as man would in phase 3, which is eternity. Man has happiness through knowledge of Bible doctrine. When there is no happiness, there is great misery. This means estrangement from the plan of God, which is the word alienated.

How it is possible to have a blackout of the soul? To be a child of God and yet be alienated from Him? As a result, you are ignorant of doctrine.

Δια + the accusative = because of ignorance. A total lack of understanding. Αγνοια = no knowledge, ignorance. If the believer is on negative volition, then he has ignorance of doctrine in the soul. Now there is a vanity of the soul, a vacuum of the soul, and it sucks in any false doctrine. This is why believers get caught up in the tongues movement or some other sort of emotionalism; or emphasis on the details of life. This means alienation from more grace. In other words, if you are ignorant of Bible doctrine, you are disoriented to the plan of God. You are not capable of love the right person designed for you; you will be miserable with the details of life. Mental attitude sins produce self-induced misery. Health, sex, social life, status symbols, which things are not wrong in themselves. However, all these things will make you miserable, if you are negative toward doctrine.

Our of ignorance comes unhappiness or misery. You have to decide tonight whether you are going to stay with it. The message is simple. Knowledge of doctrine will produce great blessing. You can be a believer for the next 50 years and be miserable for all that time, simply because you are estranged from the plan of God, phase 2.

Eph. 4:17–19: This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vacuum of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness [scar tissue] of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to licentiousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. ...

Because of the scar tissue of the heart; because of the callousness of the heart.

1Chron. 29:19: O Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the intent of the thoughts of the heart [the mentality of the soul] of Your people, and fix their heart toward You....

The Greeks used the heart to refer to the entire thinking. It is the source of our conscious life, which is the mentality of the soul.

Διανοια = understanding, the thinking part of the mind. This is blacked out because of ignorance of doctrine. Having become alienated or estranged to the life of God in them because of the scar tissue of their heart. The heart is the mentality of the soul. Here is the existence of the scar tissue of the soul.

There is a complete blackout of doctrine, which results in disorientation; alienated form the life of God. Because of these things, there exists in the soul, scar tissue of the soul.

Eph 4:19: ...who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to licentiousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

The negative volition toward doctrine sucks in false doctrine, which blacks out the soul, wiping out happiness. Notice that ἀγαπ love (mental attitude love) is impossible with scar tissue of the soul. We are still saved, still members of the family of God. This leads to an over. Απαλγεω = to be hardened, to be indifferent to doctrine. As a believer, you become searching for happiness. You see a doll, a bar, a tv program; there is happiness; you see a house; there is happiness. You become more and more scarred and happiness becomes more elusive.

Scar tissue of the soul causes you to betray yourself. You could not be more stupid than to betray yourself. You betray yourselves over the lasciviousness, promiscuity. This word takes up the slack for fornication and adultery. In the old days, adultery was for adults. One academic word, promiscuity. Ultimately, everyone who is lonely thinks that their happiness lies with going to bed with a member of the opposite sex, except for the few weirdos who go in for homosexuality. After a few drinks, a woman looks like Madonna and she had H written on her head for elusive happiness.

As a pastor, Bob is only concerned with getting a point over to us. “And if I bump into somewhere, then just pretend you don’t know me.” Scar tissue of the soul is developed by lasciviousness, which is the Greek word αλσεγηα, which is the lust to do these things, but without following it through.

Prov. 6:32: He who commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding [doctrine]; he who does so destroys his own soul. Such a man does not realize that God has provided the right woman, which means a good sex life, as well as great rapport and conversation. You can either faith rest it and wait, or be promiscuous and build up scar tissue. The one who does this betrays himself to lasciviousness.

How do you destroy your soul? Soul of a girl, she is a believer but with no Bible doctrine, and she has some scar tissue on the soul through ignorance and she is about to get some more; and she had volition, and already plans to go to bed with this guy. At least she has norms and standards in this particular field, and she is about to cut into her conscience. She has apertures for the right man where these would line up; he would make her a woman and turn her into the glory of the man. When these apertures are open, she has great happiness. A man’s capacity for happiness is different from the woman. The woman can have great capacity for happiness. If she has scar tissue over these apertures, then she cannot have a fulfilled life even with her right man. Load up these apertures with scar tissue and you have had it when it comes to happiness.

Don’t look at these next two verses till we get there. If you look down now, I know you are in trouble. There are two ways for scar tissue to be formed on the apertures of the soul. They are formed on the inside through the friction and through promiscuity on the outside.

The soul is neglected when there is a physical relationship and the apertures are covered with scar tissue. The body of the believer is the temple of the Holy Spirit. When there is no involvement of the soul, the soul puts up scar tissue and seals itself off from the body. God knows what He is saying when He warns us about this.

The next word is εργασια = to make a business of something. When you get into promiscuity, you have made a profession of uncleanness. The soul is not clearn and now is becoming covered with scar tissue. Increased scar tissue on the soul. Frantic search for happiness, which comes up next: with greediness, which is πληονιζια = an insatiable, unsatisfied desire or lust. Happiness is just around the corner and it isn’t there. You go around the corner, and it isn’t there. Instead of faith rest, which is God’s provision, she is constantly walking around the next corner looking for happiness.

Eph. 4:19: ...who having developed scar tissue, having betrayed themselves to promiscuity, making a business of uncleanness in the sphere of unsatiable lust.

Category 2 love is used illustratively here to explain why God does not allow promiscuity. It is important to understand this for our own happiness.

The whole problem begins with being negative toward doctrine. Then you set up a vacuum in the soul, which sucks in false doctrine, and scar tissue over your soul; and you keep building up scar tissue through promiscuity, and then you chase after more happiness, which builds up more scar tissue.

Bob wants to get to the solution:

Eph 4:20 But you have not so learned Christ,

μανθανω = to learn doctrine. Christ is no longer here, but He has left His thinking behind and we learn this through being negative toward doctrine.

1^st class condition, which means they have heard Him.

Eph 4:21 ...if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:

The whole purpose of church is to come together and have privacy. This is not the NAV system where someone checks out your daily acts. We are to make decisions under the privacy of the priesthood.

You have heard Him and you have been taught [in an assembly of people] by Him. Bob has to know his subject, but he does not need to know the members of his congregation. Those in his congregation have privacy. No good when someone has to bully you into a course of action, good or bad. as the truth is in the Jesus. Bob is to provide us with the ability to remove scar tissue.

Tuesdays, Bob is going to teach us how to remove all of this scar tissue. On Bible doctrine can remove us from a very bad situation.

2Tim. 1:12  Scar Tissue of the Soul Special (Intro to Basic Doctrine)           1/28/69

Last week, we began the introduction to the basic series; we look at the solution to it tonight.

You’re here tonite, will you be here next time, some of you yes and some of you know. Are you Phygellus or Onisiphorus.

Negative introduction last week; the positive introduction this week.

He left out v. 11, which is a teacher, and that is Bob’s responsibility to us; to communicate Bible doctrine; basic Bible doctrine. If you persist, week after week, and these things will be organized categorically for us. You can be spiritually self-sustaining provided that you are a believer in Jesus Christ.

2Tim. 1:12–17: For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep safe what I have committed to Him until that Day.

2Ti 1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

2Ti 1:14 That good thing which was committed to you, guard it by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

2Ti 1:15 This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

2Ti 1:16 The Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;

2Ti 1:17 but when he arrived in Rome, he sought me out very diligently and found me.

A teacher is not someone who superimposes on you his own norms and standards, a teacher is not someone to gets into your private business; and a teacher does not bully you into a course of action.

You are a believer priest and you have freedom to live your life as unto the Lord. Neither I or a church or any group of believers have the right to bully you into some course of action. No group of believers can tell you what to wear, or what you do.

Anyone who criticizes you for anything is out of line. You are welcome to wear slacks, shorts or, if you have the nerve, a bikini. Some of you don’t like that. This building is not sacred and many things have been worn in here.

You can’t tell someone you don’t like what they wear and their hair is too long or too short; there are a lot of things I don’t like. You can come in with a ton of makeup and sometimes that is very helpful. People who come in have just as much right to be here as you have, and you need to know that it is none of your business.

There is just one thing that you have in common—Bob is the teacher. Come prepared to take notes and to assimilate doctrine. There is one authority; and “I don’t want you to have any idea of anything else. And if I speak dogmatically and you don’t like it, it is too bad. If you stick around, then I am going to teach you.”

Most of you have been exposed to manners and some of you probably having excellent manners. When you are in the auditorium, then you should have enough poise, training and decorum to keep your mouth shut, unless you have a legitimate question.

There are two categories of believers: the believers who never make it, but are loved by God: P and H (Phygellus and Hermogenes). They are loved by God but will never advance. Some of you are born again but you just don’t have enough to stay with it. There might be a good party on Tuesday night; there might be a good fight on Tuesday night. Whatever it is, Tuesday night will be attacked.

On the other side of the fence, there are those who stick it out. You can ask yourself these questions academically and it is no one else’s business but yours.

“I don’t give whether you come or not. You may think you are doing me a great favor by coming or not. This puts you on a basis with the Lord. I’ll stand here and talk to myself if necessary. I know 3 people I can get in here no matter what. Don’t every take a patronizing attitude with me either. What I am think might surprise you.”

Those with a religious background have trouble sticking it out. If you come from a church with a program, and you get points for this or that, you won’t stick it out unless you shed your religion.

I suppose you have all been swimming with a bathing suit. The greatest swimming in the world is diving into the water off Catalina Island without anything on. You are going to have to learn how to swim without the phoney self righteousness of religion. You are a priest and it is between you and the Lord. You may have a good excuse to cut out, but you don’t ever have to make an excuse to me ever.

There are believers who stuck it out and learned and those who did not.

2Tim. 1:12a: Because of which cause, which is because Paul is a teacher. “All missionaries and are evangelists and all pastors are human. Being a human being like yourself, I have a sin nature like you, and you may think that you have discovered it, but you don’t really know. I’m a pastor-teacher and I did not earn it and I did not deserve it.” I suffer these things [which refers to his second imprisonment]. ...but I am not ashamed... The real check for psueo love is are you ashamed? You happen to be with a crowd and it is not the in-think to express a relationship with Christ, are you ashamed? When you go to the barracks, are you ashamed? Επεισκυνομαι is someone who is a phoney. What Bible doctrine will do is knock the phoniness right out of you. One of the benefits of this class is an relaxed mental attitude. Christianity is filled with psuedos. Other categories of love: a member of the opposite sex, family, parents, even the details of life. The whole system of cosmos diabolicus is to make you a phoney. You’re a social climber, you’re phoney. You’re nice to people you can’t stand; you’re a phoney.

Paul is not ashamed because he has learned Bible doctrine. He has two sets of apertures which have been opened by knowledge of doctrine and he can respond to God and he is not ashamed; Paul is saying that he is not a phoney.

One of the worst things brought into Christianity is sincerity; the sincere people Thieme has known are phoney. Sincerity at best has standards which come from emotion. Standards from God will be called doctrine. A principle from God, Bible doctrine.

2Tim. 1:12b: For I know which is οιδα = knowledge in the frontal lobe. whom I have believed which is the perfect tense for πιστευω. There is an object and a subject and it is in the perfect tense. God has a plan for every member of the human race and that begins in eternity past. Paul knows Who he believed in, Jesus Christ, which occurred 25 years ago. The result is he remains a believer forever. Paul said I know and this is the basis for the capacity to love God. You must learn Bible doctrine in order to love God. and I have received confidence which is the perfect passive indicative of πιστευω = to have faith in; to have confidence in. The objective of this course is confidence as a believer. You may have no confidence in anything at all, and maybe it is because you are smart and maybe because you are dumb. The believer here receives confidence.

Paul has knowledge of the One in Whom he has believed and, because of this, he has confidence. This is the whole principle. I have confidence in a person; I have confidence in God; I have confidence in His character; and I have confidence that He is able.

2Tim. 1:12c: and I know that He keeps on having inherent power [who continues to be able to]... Paul knows that God is eternal life, immutability and veracity, omnipotent, righteousness and justice. He knows that God cannot change and welsh on an obligation. He knows that God has the ability to do what He says. We will learn God’s character in this course. Once you get to know God as a believer, your capacity to love God will improve. You have a lot of bad impressions of God, no impressions of God. God is not how you think He is at all. Most of you cheapen God. You think that with 10% of your earnings dumped in an offering plate will impress Him. God is not a genie and God is not cheap. I told you that you will have to get rid of your religion. You think there is something you can do and something you can say, to impress Him, you have cheaperned God. But you cannot find all of this out in one night. This passage will get us ready and it will also be the last time that we see some of you.

Φυλασσω = to guard, to watch over. God guards us; He has the power and omnipotence to guard. But why did he let me marry this bum or do this or that. God is a gentleman; and He guards us when we make some of the most jackasss decisions that anyone can make. We have all made some lousy decisions. He guards us when we go absolutely contrary to His plan for our lives. When you believed in Jesus Christ, you had no idea how great His character is. He has the power to guard that which we have committed to Him.

Παραθηκη = a deposit. ...to preserve my deposit against that day. You will have those 34 things today and forever. When you believed in Jesus Christ, you have deposited your soul with Him; you may be a good Christian or a lousy Christian, but you may be carnal or spiritual; but whatever, in one second of time, you cannot lose that deposit. I am sure there are deposit slips that He would like to lose. However, He cannot throw any of them away.

2Tim. 1:13 Present active imperative Keep on having this means to stick it out; night by night; every Tuesday night. The command is to keep on having. When you get yourself in a jackpot, what do you want? You want someone to wave a magic wand and to take it away. You want circumstances to change right away, or awhile ago, or in a NY minute. God usually does not do that. Next Tuesday night, keep on; party of the year; keep on; next time, you and your husband have a fight; keep on (come in separate cars if necessary). The word form is ὑπολυτοσις = a delineation, a pattern, a standard. ὑὐιαιγων = pure, uncorrupted. the pattern of pure [uncorrupted] doctrine... What corrupts doctrine? Someone sticking their nose into your business. Some of you have a lot of goofy idea, and Thieme is going to say a lot of things which will make you mad. Keep on having the pattern of uncorrupted doctrine. which you have heard... The aorist tense is a point of time. You can hear each Tuesday. You can only hear where you are here. Hearing is only a means of learning; it all depends; if you are on negative, you hear it, but you are negative. You can hear, but you are not learning. Hearing is a means of learning, but not the end. Some are sitting here and you can’t wait to get out of here. You’re on a trade out; and you will do that with her if she does something with you. Some of you are listening intently to tell her how I’m wrong; just come in and try to straighten me out. From the immediate source of me. in faith a love which are in Christ Jesus.

Two things will indicate positive volition. In faith and love; faith represents the faith rest technique and love represents the filling of the Holy Spirit. They will keep you on track, no matter what Thieme says or does. You may think the pastor needs to be mealy mouth.

There is a great stabilizer, which is being in Christ Jesus. One of the things which gives you some strength is being in Christ. This is your stabilizer.

2Tim. 1:14 that good deposit [doctrine] which was committed unto you, guard it by the Holy Spirit who lives in us. 3 things involved with doctrine: listening, faith and love. What are you going to do with it? You will keep or guard it. Φυλασσω = to keep, to guard. When you guard it and preserve it, then you apply it. You apply it by means of the Holy Spirit which lives inside of you.

2Tim. 1:15 αποστρεπω = to revolt against, to repudiate, to reject. This you know, that all those in Asia have rejected [turned away against] me, among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

Phygellus means a fugitive; and he is obviously a fugitive from Bible doctrine. Paul was once his friend, but he has pseudo love with no stability. Hermogenes = to be born of Mercury [the god of speech]. Apparently Hermogenes was a speaker. He is glib, he has the gift of gab, but he has no doctrine to back it up. Maybe you can’t wait to get out of here; that is your privilege.

2Tim. 1:16 The Lord gave [aorist active optative; the optative is Paul’s personal wish for a true friend; and God gave mercy to him in eternity past] mercy [grace in action] to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often [frequently, many times, consistently] refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain;... And this mercy was not just to Onesiphorus, but to his entire family. A parent can learn doctrine and God will provide for the children. There is a direct relationship between a person learning doctrine and blessing to their children. This cuts off that age old excuse. “I can’t come to Bible class because I have to stay home with my children; I have an answer for that, but it is profane...that is the sorriest weakest excuse I have ever heard.” Don’t ever walk up to Bob and apologize about not coming to class because of your kids. Onesiphorus is probably dead at this time. We don’t know what he has done; but when you learn doctrine, you are providing a spiritual heritage for the next generation. Mercy is grace in action.

Have you ever been refreshing to anyone else in the human race or are you a pain in the neck. There is a necessity for learning Bible doctrine. We cannot afford my believers who are a pain in the neck.

Αναψυχω = to breathe again; to refresh, to revive. When you learn Bible doctrine, you are going to be refreshing to those around you. It may be in the office, the home or in the barracks; but you will have a ministry of refreshment to others.

When Onesiphorus went to Rome, he looked up Paul and refreshed him. In Rome, he was not ashamed. This is true love; category #3 love.

Onesiphorus had a true friendship with Paul, he has cat #1 love for God, and he had a great family. God the Holy Spirit gives him one of the highest honors that a person can receive. This is person who is famous in God’s sight. You life is involved with people and whether you are auld lang signe or not; and Tuesday night is for doctrine, so that you can be refreshing to someone before you die. What a tragedy for a believer to be a phoney to someone. This is where you need Bible doctrine. In v. 18, the Lord has given to him.

2Tim. 1:17–18 but when he arrived in Rome, he sought me out very diligently and found me. The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that Day; and you know very well how many ways he ministered to me at Ephesus.

Onesiphorus is a regular believer; he is not a preacher, an evangelist; he was the man in the pew. He can be a source of refreshment and blessing. You can sit in the pew and be a jackass, but there are jackasses in the pulpit. You can be negative, but there are people in the pulpit who are negative.

1Cor. 3:1                         Basic Bible Doctrine Lesson #1                      circa 2/4/69

This begins a basic training course. Our textbook is the Bible. Basic doctrine is found in the doctrine. The you will need to familiarize yourself with the Bible. It is filled with houses and streets. “You do not lose face by looking up something in the index around here; not unless it takes an nour.”

By way of introduction, a few propositions:

No one is asking you to buy andthing and no one has passed out a card asking you to put your name on it. No one is selling anything. Whether you show up or not, that is between you and God. Now that you are here, you might as well be reasonable about it and relax. No one is going to hit you up for money or ask you to join anything. You have nothing to give Bob; he is there to give you something. You have been looking around for a catch.

The religious types are the worst. Religion blots out the plan of God. God’s plan is totally opposed and antagonism to religion. Religion is the worst thing which ever happened to this world. God’s plan is anti-religion. Religion is designed by Satan to make you prejudice against the plan of grace. The objective is the develop the plan of God.

God exists, God reveals, what God reveals makes sense, God has a plan, God has a plan for us; I owe God a hearing.

Most everyone here probably has believed in Jesus Christ. God is very well organized. It is necessary as individual believers get organized to receive organized information. If you are planning on a number of other things, hating someone, with lust for someone, with vindictiveness or jealousy; that means you are disorganized. If this is the case, you cannot learn God’s plan until you learn this technique. Assuming that most of you are believers in Jesus Christ. It is important to teach rebound first, so that we can understand the plan of God. He is going to start with us when we were born and the rebound technique.

When we were born, we became a real person with a soul. Inside of our soul was the sin nature which put us behind the 8 ball with God. At some point, we become aware of our existence. Someone calls us by our name and we respond; and we see ourselves in the mirror and we know who we are. All counscious thinking is done with vocabulary. We begin with a vocabulary which is devoid of content. You have no way to say you are hungry; so you open your mouth and let columns of air to come through. The first time you want to indicate your displeasure—a pin sticks you from your diaper. You also have emotion. Some feel loved and some do not, and psychology tries to tell us this or that. A baby has no teeth and no norms and standards. We are born with a full-blown old sin nature. The first bit of nomenclature is the old sin nature. Everyone is born with one. Passed down through the father in copulation. No matter what the kid looks like or acts like, every baby has an old sin nature. Babies always look beautiful to mothers. Bob thought Bobby looked horrible. “Is that my son?”

Colonel held up a football for Bobby; and the funniest thing was to listen to those guys, and they were all trying to say something nice about Bobby, and Thieme said, “He looks like hell, doesn’t he?” Generally, most people have to take the attitude that babies are beautiful and littl children are nice; but that is human viewpoint. However, God doesn’t like babies. “Father, we really have something in common.” One exception: Jesus Christ. It has nothing to do with what they look like, but because babies have old sin natures, which means they are born spiritually dead. All members of the human race are born unlovely to God. We are all born spiritually dead, except for Jesus Christ. It is erroneous that you get a sin nature when you first sin; God already dislikes us prior to that. When we are born as babies, we have done nothing, good or bad. A part of the soul is the old sin nature. Eph. 2:1: and you were made alive who were dead in tresspasses and sin. Rom. 5:12 From God’s standpoint, we are dead.

the first thing a child says is “Momma” and then “dadda” and then “No” or “I won.’t” Hello, old sin nature; there is it. The old sin nature has an area of weakness and all sins eminate from this area of weakness. 3 categories: mental attitude sins: pride, bitterness, vindictiveness, guilt, self-pity. These are the most devastating sins in life. This is the worst category of sins. And every member of the human race will sooner or later have mental attitude sins.

One ground rule in this class: play poker, even if I walk all over you. I don’t know many of you personally and I don’t follow you around; but I can tell what you are thinking at time. So, relax. You might be a real heavy mental attitude sinner. Don’t feel alone. Everyone has an old sin nature. Inside of this old sin nature, there is no one apart from Jesus Christ, who has not committed lots of mental attitude sins. This is a category. What you think can be a sin.

Sins of the tongue is the 2^nd category. One match, one ash and you can burn down a forest. One spark and the whole forest can be burned down.

The 3^rd category are overt sins, and they generally have to do with someone else: murder, adultery, drunkenness.

Some of you may have taboos from your background which you think are sins. If you think there are things that you cannot do, like chewing bubble gum is a sin; then you are wrong. You have a trend toward asceticism, and you may wear all black and think that God is not pleased with people who smile. Mentions Ned Sparks a movie star who could pull this off.

Personality is not a sin; having a personality is not sinful. Some of you have a very happy personality; some are intense; some are relaxed, and some are in between (dour); you may have a very obnoxious personality to others. It is not a sin to smile or to frown or to keep a straight face. It is not sinful to wear red or black; or to follow your own inclinations with regards to dress. It is not sinful for women to wear slacks, even though some of them look like you know what. “Some of you have a hard time because I have already stepped on your prejudices. You don’t like that I am not preaching sin.” The sin nature is in the soul and you cannot see the sin nature.

You have a right to your privacy; but God can see your old sin nature moment by moment. God can see all sins that you commit, overt and hidden.

The old sin nature has an area of strength; and it produces good, and we call that human good. God does not like sin or human good, because they both come from the old sin nature. I am sure you have been around someone who was right and you were wrong and you loved them for it. Bob grew up with a self righteous sister and very prissy and it irritated Bob to know a prissy, self righteous female. Bob can recall many times when she was right and he was wrong and he did not like her at all and did not like that at all. Bob remembers disliking his sister more than anyone else, and clenching his fist, and his dad saying, “You lay a hand on her and I will tear your head off.” Bob felt the same way about libs who are trying to save the world. God despises human good; and that is not even a literal translation. Every old sin nature has trends: toward lasciviousness or asceticism. Generally, people move in one direction or the other. This is why there are those who are playboys and others who are Mahatma Gandhi types. What God does not do is, He does not touch that old sin nature. You walk right into the Christian life with a full-blown old sin nature. Whatever trends you have in the old sin nature and however your old sin nature operates, there is nothing you can do to change it. When your old sin nature is in control, one of those trends tends to be predominant.

Now, after salvation, you have committed perhaps 100,000 sins and they are knocked out. Jesus Christ died for those sins. All of your sins were poured out on Him and judged. However, after you accept Jesus Christ as Savior, you might live for 50 years and commit a million sins, on the other side of the cross. You will commit more sins as a Christian than you did as an unbeliever, if you were saved early. Jesus Christ died for all of our sins and, at the cross, He rejected human good. The plan of God always operates on divine good and never on human good. Religion does more talking about human good and it cranks out more human good; and religion offers all of these things which we should do in order to impress God. All the human good in the world will not save one person. Human good stinks to God.

Maybe before salvation, you performed 100,000 acts of human good; and maybe after salvation, you perform a million acts of human good. However, God will not allow even 1 unit of human good into heaven.

There is also the lust pattern in the human race. Lust is a desire. Sometimes it is an insatiable desire. You might desire recognition; you might desire sex, you might desire money. Approbation lust is why some kids take dares. You may do something particularly physical at a party to get attention. Approbation lust is a motivation in life and sometimes you like to organize those who give you attention; that is power lust. As life develops, there is sexual lust. There is always the desire for things; materialism lust.

When you accept Jesus Christ as Savior, God makes you a new creature. Stilll, you walk inito the Christian life with an old sin nature. So you walk into the Christian life with something old and something new. God’s attitude does not change toward the old sin nature. It still cranks out sins and it still cranks out human good and it is still motivated by lust. And, on the other side of the cross, someone wants you to stand up and give a glowing testimony a week after you have been saved. They’ll get the captain of the football team or the social butterfly, etc. That is public relations. That is a gimmick. The first thing you want with a baby, is you don’t want them to make any noise; you want them to be quiet.

Just because a new believer is a VIP does not mean that God feels any differently about them. We all have the sin nature but we have different ways of showing it. One of the 34 things which God gives us at salvation is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. All you will learn with no doctrine, is how to hide the old sin nature. You learn to cover the old sin nature. You learn the ground rules. You will develop into a world’s prize phoney and any intelligent unbeliever can spot them right away. You know there is no change there; you still have the sin nature. In order for you to avoid hypocrisy. There is no operation which can remove the old sin nature. It is not removed. One of the things which causes the ascetic to have trouble is, the evangelist said I’d always be happy and I would not sin any more and then I wonder, what is going on? And this person goes back and tries it again and again; and all he needs is briefing. He just needs to be straightened out.

The old sin nature is capable of lust motivation; it can produce 3 categories of sins. There is nothing which God can use of the old sin nature in the Christian life. When a person is under the control of the old sin nature, after the cross, he is called a carnal Christian. Carnal is an old English word which means fleshly. The flesh is sometimes used to refer to the old sin nature. The carnal Christian is any Christian when he sins.

You may be shocked the first time you sin after salvation; but there is an answer. When a person learns how to fly, they go up and they learn the basic parts of the plane and how these things perform a variety of functions. You get strapped in. This is the wheel; then they take you for your familiarization ride. But once you are in the air, you must know stall recovery. It depends on how dramatic they will be. A lot of them like to force the stick forward and horseback on it and sit on its tail and the student is turning green, and turn it into a hammerhead. Or suddenly, that hum stops, and the plane starts going down. The plane has a bad attitude. A disastrous attitude. The instructor teaches you this so you don’t break your neck and his as well. He teaches his student how to recover from a stall with lots of altitude. And taking off and landing, which you might think are first, are not first at all. Bob can’t teach you anything else until he teaches stall recovery. You cannot learn spiritual phenomena when under the control of your old sin nature.

1Cor. 3:1: And I, brothers [members of the family of God; you might be in a family, but you do not call everyone in your family brother this or sister that; that sounds phoney; it is corny and there is nothing corny about the Christian way of life], could not speak to you as spiritual and you might say, well who is spiritual? Then what is spiritual? A feeling like being on cloud 54 talking to angels and God. That’s junk. Spiritual is being filled with the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not control your life, then you are carnal. You can be spiritual with a sinus headache. You can be spiritual and have a headache; you can be sleepy, you can be alert. You have to be controlled by the Holy Spirit to learn Bible doctrine. The most difficult thing in flying is holding a perfect course with bad weather and cross winds. Holding your altitude and a course is the most difficult thing in flying. And you don’t learn that by an instructor taking you up for a couple split s’s or barrel rolls. but as unto carnal Every believer priest must learn to rebound. The biggest handup to Bible doctrine is being out of fellowship. even as unto babies in Christ;... You have spirituality or carnality. Paul cannot get through to them when they are out of fellowship. When they are out of fellowship, he cannot bring them back. You cannot beat them back in. You don’t work your way back in. You do not pay money to get back in. There is a stall recovery technique.

To get carnal, all you have to do is commit one sin. You stay under the control of the Holy Spirit until the first time that you sin. You keep your old sin nature. You stay out and continue to sin and to do acts of human good; and you stay there until you rebound. Since they are still carnal. for whereas among you there is envying and strife Notice how they are out of fellowship due to mental attitude sins and because of jealousy, you seek revenge, you seek to hurt, you seek to judge. Strife is the antithesis of relaxation. Inside of the bottom circle you can have an relaxed mental attitude. Outside, you flare up with mental attitude sins. and divisions. Aren’t you carnal and walk as men? Everyone brings their sin nature into the Christian life. When you are controlled by your old sin nature, you walk or live like an unbeliever. You may act like a religious unbeliever or like an irreligious unbeliever. Like a kooky one or a smart one. Your enemy, the old sin nature, is built-in; it is born it. It will not end until you use your stall recovery.

The word believe means non-meritorious thinking. The word confess means to cite or to name something. They are both compatible with the plan of God. Grace is God doing something for us. Man simply receives in a nonmeritorious manner what God provides. So salvation is begun at the point of grace, the cross, for by grace are you saved. The 20 year old commits 100,000 sins before the cross. He is saved, but he is jealous. He is in a stall. Jealousy does not come alone; there will be other sins which join it. The believer is now said to be carnal. He has not lost his salvation. God loves him; love maximum. He is under discipline here, and he must recover. The first word is if; a 3^rd class condition. You must decide what you will do. When you do it, you are on positive volition; and when you refuse to go that route, you are on negative volition.

!John 1:9 If we cite [or name, or identify] our sins [to God] and God always responds in grace. Simply name your sin to God. Every believer priest must have privacy to live his life unto God. He committed adultery and he had someone killed; but he said against You and You only have I sinned. He is faithful [consistent] and just [God is just because He has already judged that sin on the cross; God the Father judged that sin right there. to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Now that is a summary of the rebound technique. Before 7:45 next Tuesday night, think over your sins and name them before starting Bible class.

1Cor. 1:2                         Basic Bible Doctrine Lesson #2                    circa 2/11/69

What we do with the information from Bible class is our own private business. You can enjoy it, you can ridicule it. Every believer in Jesus Christ is a priest, and every believer-priest has the right to orient to the plan of God or be ignorant of the plan of God; or to disengage from the plan of God. Bob’s job is to lay it on the line.

If you came of your own volition, fine, and you will end up with daily happiness. If someone pressured you into coming, don’t get feisty with me. I don’t want to get into an argument with you, but if you do, I will knock you right into the ground. You don’t expect a minister to talk that way because you think the minister is supposed to be a rug that you dust your feet on to impress your friends. Every time I begin a basic course, there is at least one smart aleck who wants to get feisty. We have lots of exits. We are not going to ask you for a dime. If you have a legitimate question, raise your hand and I will answer your questions. However, this is not a place for public counseling. Ron and Buddy Dano do the counseling.

I have information for you and in about 90 days, you should be pretty well briefed.

Rebound technique is where we started. It is not the logical beginning, but the operational beginning. Maximum perspicacity of spiritual phenomena is based upon the rebound technique.

Rebound involves 3 verbs: confess it (1John 1:9)), forget it (Philip 3:13) and isolate it (Heb. 12:15).

1Co 1:2 To the church of God [believers] that is in Corinth, to those sanctified sanctify means to be set apart. in Christ Jesus, being in Christ is positional truth; all believers are in Christ; all of the Corinthians are said to be sanctified and scar tissue apart in Christ Jesus. As a believer you may have thought you have lost your salvation at one time or another and you may have weird concepts about your own spiritual life, e.g., I am a horrible believer or I am a great believer. However, bear in mind, there are a lot of unbelievers in this world who are a lot better than you are. Part of this basic course is to point out what kind of a believer you are; are you a growing believer or are you some kind of a self righteous jackass. Some of you have tried a number of things, like a points program. Perhaps you got into the tongues system, and, afterwards, you had depression; you went from ecstatics to depression; there is no consistency. God has provided a way fo ryou to have true love in 4 categories. The first informational point begins with believing in Jesus Christ and being placed into Christ.

Perhaps you have repented, so I will give you point 1 again. Repent means to change your mind; not to feel sorry for anything.

Summary: 1John 5:11–12 We share His eternal life; and share His righteousness; we share His election; we share His destiny (Eph. 1:5); we share His Sonship; we share his heirship (we are joint heirs; we are heirs of God);.and we are priests, which means that we are in full-time Christian service. Every believer is in full-time Christian service. As a priest, we have the right to serve God, the right to rebound. Every believer does this for himself; every believer avoids public confession of sin. Sharing sins. We have the right to pray, the right to give, the right to rebound—all because we are in Christ. We are given these experiential things based upon positional truth.

This brings us right back to rebound. You are yet carnal and walkl as men, so I coul dnot communicate meat to you, but only milk.

1John 1:9: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. How we feel about a sin is inconsequential. It is how God feels about the sin which is important. The sin which we know, we confess; or sins. When you accept Christ as Savior, you still have an old sin nature, and you still sin, and you still sin deliberately. When you sin, you name the sin. Why does God forgive us this sin? Christ paid for our sins; our sin went to court at the cross; it was poured out on Jesus Christ on the cross. He is faithful; which means that He forgives us our sins every single time. He cleanses us from all unrighteousness. He also died for the unknown sins, and God forgives us for those.

A certain man had two sons. They were his sons at the beginning. One of them was the prodigal son; and the other was the elder brother. The father divides out their inheritance. After getting an inheritance, the prodigal son takes this cash and goes to a foreign country and he lives it up. It is so bad, he finds himself eating pig slop. He realized that his father’s servants eat better than this. So, he goes to return to his father. He is always his father’s son. Bob Thieme was very angry with Bob and sometimes he was very proud. In Beverly Hills, they lived next door to a house being built, and the contractor caught Bob tearing the place up, the day before Christmas. He invited the contractor in, gave him a drink; wrote him a check; and then, after he left, he beat Bob so that he did not sit down until after New Years. He also used to sit on the bench watching Bob play football; until a ref missed a call, and Bob Sr. went out and punched the ref.

So, the elder brother hears this party going on, and the party is for the brother who returned. And the elder brother got out of fellowship; but the prodigal son was back in. They are both sons of their father.

You might be self righteous and you might be a prodigal son type; but you both get back into fellowship the same way—naming your sins.

Coming back a week from Tuesday night.

1Cor. 1:2b called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

Heb. 12:12         Chain Sinning Basic Bible Doctrine Lesson #3       circa 2/25/69

Confess it, forget it, isolate it. The 3 principles. 1John 1:9: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Philip. 3:13 Forgetting those things which are behind

Heb. 12:12 Isolation of sin

All sins were judged at the cross; and our Lord rejected human good from the cross. When the believer confesses or names his sin, God forgives that sin and He cleanses us from all unrighteousness. The sin is named, that sin was judged on the cross; God is faithful, meaning that He does the same thing every time. There is volition. Maybe we will confess our sin and maybe we will not.

We have union with Christ; we share the righteousness of Christ and we share the life of Christ. When we sin, we are out of fellowship. Every believer is either spiritual or carnal. The only way to get back in is to confess that sin. We can confess our sins and get right back out of fellowship 60 seconds later.

God cannot do anything else but forgive a sin which we have named to Him. It is impossible for God to do anything other than forgive us. Once God has forgotten a sin, we have no right to try to remember it. We are dealing with a confessed sin; it is forgiven and it is blotted out, and, for the moment, we are restored to fellowship. God forgets a sin, no matter how bad it is; you may have a nagging mother-in-law, nagging wife or nagging husband, and they remember this sin. God has forgotten it. There are always unknown sins associated with these and they are forgiven. You cannot earn it; you cannot deserve it. This is the only way to get forgiveness.

The background for rebound is, we are priests and everyone has the right to represent themselves before God. If you are 1 degree above an idiot, you can name your sins to God; and if you are genius, you can get back into fellowship by naming your sins. God’s plan works for all IQ’s. It is not as hard as driving a car. This used to be difficult; and driving a car is difficult compared to rebound.

Don’t add anything to rebound: confess and beg and come crawling to God and beg Him and beg Him and beg Him. The plan of God is grace all the way. When Jesus said, It is finished, it was done in the past with results that continue forever. God did not slip up on any sin that you have committed. He paid for every single sin on the cross. Since the day we have accepted Christ as Savior, for the rest of your life, no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to commit a sin which was not judged on the cross. Our blessing depends upon 1John 1:9. Bob uses rebound every day, and sometimes while teaching class; he might spot someone in the audience and he wants to go down there and clean up on them. And he knows this works both ways. You don’t need this class if you only sin once or twice a month; you need a padded cell.

If suffering continues after rebound, then that suffering is designed for blessing.

The verb is ανορθοω = to straight again; to restore again to straightness or to vigor; to re-erect; to reinvigorate; to rebuild a structure. In the ancient world, the hands hanging down refer to a believer out of fellowship. He cannot produce under the divine plan. This becomes a synonym for the rebound technique.

Heb. 12:12a: Therefore lift up your drooping hands

Bob was working on a ranch; he mounted up and they went way out in the country. He noticed that everyone had their hands upu in the air. Bob thought it was too weird. Bob was disgusted.

People would load with the hands and arms. They would become tired and their hands would hang down. The emphasis is upon production. God has a plan for your life. His plan for our life is absolutely perfect.

The weak knees is also an inability to work.

When you find the word lest, it is a negative purpose clause. That plus a negative.

Heb. 12:12b–13a and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet,

You have to get back into fellowship. His plan for our life goes nowhere until we are back in fellowship. By an act of volition, you put yourself back into the plan of God.

Εκτρεπω = to turn aside, to swerve. This is to swerve away from the plan of God. Chain sinning is not a run of sin in our life. Out of this sin, which has already been forgiven, come other sins. Whatever other sins we commit are not involved.

Chain sinning is lighting one sin off another sin. The mental attitude sin in v. 15 is bitterness which pops up due to another sin. It may lead to a series of sins. You start with a forgiven sin. Bob knows Christians who have been Christians for 30 years because they light one sin off another and they never grow up. Bob knows a woman in California who is like this. She might say, rebound does not work.

Mental attitude sins are the worst category of sins. These sins produce self-induced misery. We make ourselves miserable. Out of these spring all kinds of sins. Often, this begins as a little spark in a church and it burns down the whole forest.

Εκτρεπω is in the aorist tense. With a negative: does not swerve. It is at the point of time when we confess a sin. Subjunctive mood means potential.

Even with the right person in cat. 2, with pseudo love, you will never properly love someone.

Whether you are restored or not depends upon whether you use 1John 1:9 or not. These things may come back. The final answer is to grow up. This is to develop new habits to orient you to society. You develop new factors so that you can deal with an adult society. You can be an adult man who plays with lead soldiers, but you don’t do it publically. Bob supposes that all the ladies here had dolls. What happened to that sweet little girl in pigtails who played with dolls? She grew up. When Bob was a little boy, he had a big red rattle. Believe it or not, he gave that up. He has not played with a rattle for at least 48 years. You might ask him, why, and the only answer is, he has grown up. Other things are more attractive. Mental attitude sins can be handled with spiritual growth. There is no shortcut; there is no one-shot panacea. There is Bible class Tuesday after Tuesday after Tuesday.

Let’s say that Bob gave a scathing denunciations of red rattles and dolls. Bob’s job isn’t to get us to give up anything. He is giving us information so that we can grow up and what we do when we grow up is between us and God. You may come back in a few months and say, Damn, I don’t have a taste for red rattles anymore.

Heb. 12:13b so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather let it be restored [healed]. Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled.

Heb. 12:13             Rebound Basic Bible Doctrine Lesson #4             circa 3/4/69

Sounds like a full house.

A quote is taken from the Septuagint. The first phrase actually means to put your feet into the existing wheel tracks.

Synonyms for rebound: confess, judge yourself, yield, present your body is the same word as yield; a one-shot dedication is 100% totally useless. Top circle, accept Christ and you are in fellowship; bottom circle you are in and out of; in and out of fellowship.

Bob was outu of fellowship immediately. He got out of fellowship so quick, he wasn’t sure he was even saved. Bob went to a pastor and the pastor said, yield, yield; so Bob went out and sinned again. The next pastor said yield and come to prayer meeting; and Bob found out that they did not know what they were talking about.

If [3^rd class condition] we name [or, to acknowledge, to cite] why can you simply name your sin and that puts you back into fellowship? Because Jesus died for our sins; each time, God does the same thing because He is faithful.

Some may be wondering why these people are coming in late, and some people drive 50 or 60 miles to Berachah; however, the ones who are late just come from the apartments across the way.

Confess, yield, judge yourself, lift up the hands which hang down, make straight paths, lay aside every weight, be in subjection to the Father of Spirits and live. The need for synonyms simply vary in emphasis. Some passages emphasize this and some that. Various aspects of rebound, and different aspects covered in different passages.

Confess it, forget it [since God forgets it, we can do no less], isolate it. Εκτρεπω = to swerve out of the path. Occupational hazard is chain sinning. The believer continues to sin.

Several ways covered the other night of how to chain sin. From a blotted out sin, you start to sin again. You accumulate. Chain sinning comes from chain smoking. A chain smoker never uses a lighter or a match; he lights one cigarette on another. This is a technical principle based upon a confessed sin.

Bitterness. You are involved in a sin with someone else, but you become bitter toward them, and you become antagonistic and you become bitter and then you malign and gossip; then the guilt complex. When you commit some kind of a sin, like abortion. “I’ve had all kinds of people come in—women—and they had an abortion 12 years ago, and they associate every problem in their life with the act of 12 years ago. There is emotional instability; she remembers it; her conscience has been seared, and there is not just a guilt reaction, but a complex of sins is set up. The worst thing you can carry around with you is a guilt complex. But you say, “I’ve done some terrible things; I will match you any day.” You get up, dust yourself off, and get on with your life. We are here. We are still alive. When you confess your sin, God forgives you. He does not forgive us because we beg or promise Him we will never do it again. We might as well be realistic about these things. We simply name it. You are saying, “That is a license to sin.” It is a license to serve.

Public confession of sin can set off a wave of sins. The congregation maligns and gossips and they are angry; and a congregation does not have the ability to forgive you. The pattern is sin, divine discipline; and discipline might continue, but it is now designed for blessings.

Discussing your sins with other people. You need to observe the privacy of your own priesthood. David committed adultery with Bathsheba, he got her husband murdered; but when it came to rebound, he said, “Against You and You only have I sinned.” The rest of the world may no about your sin and even though God forgives you, you may or may not be forgiven by the congregation of believers. One of Bob’s jobs as a pastor is to kick people off the backs of others. Everyone has a right to their own privacy; and God does not need any help when it comes to disciplining others. It is amazing: God does not need help.

Attempting to judge others and to discipline them; parents have the right to discipline their children. Grandchildren don’t have the right to discipline their grandchildren; you already had your chance. When God judges, He is fair; and He knows all of the facts.

Triple compound discipline. Anytime you go to judge someone else, behind that judging is another sin of some sort. Some mental attitude sin. Out of mental attitude sins like jealousy, you malign, you judge, and you gossip. Judging is assigning to someone else sins, real or imagined. In so doing, you have special divine discipline designed for you. The sins that you name is triple compound discipline. Operation patsy. Blaming others for your sins and failures. If you don’t know many people, you can blame God.

Spreading your controversies with others; after having a fight, going around and telling everyone else your side of the story.

Implacability which develops vindictiveness toward others. Pseudo love toward a member of the opposite sex. Or, you have no friends. With pseudo love, you’re not going to have any friends.

The sin is forgiven immediately; aorist tense. You can confess a sin and it is blotted out. But you can get right out of fellowship again through chain sinning.

Διοκω = to move toward a goal, to seek after something, to aspire to something. The principle behind rebound is grace. Therefore, how do you orient to grace? One is peace; He is our peace.

Heb. 12:13a ...and make straight paths for your feet,

Heb. 12:13–14 ...and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather let it be restored [healed]. Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

In the human spirit there is a shelf marked Soteriology. These are applied to the mentality of the soul. God planned it; the Son removed the barrier. Positional sanctification; we don’t earn it and we don’t deserve it. Carnal Corinthians. Present active participle which carries the weight of a command, because it is habitual. This is the stall recovery. Επισκοπεω = looking diligently; over seeing, a commander taking responsibility for his command. The Greeks used this as a military term for an inspector. We must take the responsibility of continuing in our sin. Forgiven sin is forgotten sin. God forgets it so we must forget it.

All chain sinning is accomplished with a mental attitude sin. You begin with αγαπη love, which is a relaxed mental attitude. You don’t hate anyone; you are not upset or vindictive. You either have mental attitude sins or you have a relaxed mental attitude. The latter means that you isolate the sin. You perpetuate αγαπη love. You must take responsibility for yourself, for your own life. Lest introduced two negative purpose clauses. That no one fails the grace of God. Then απο, which introduces the grace of God.