The Book of Joshua

Joe Griffin

Joshua Introduction                  Joshua Lesson #1                    Sunday 1^st Session

This will eventually lead us to a study of the integrity of God. God tells Israel to “Go over the Jordan here” meaning that they needed to cross right there, and no a little further up or down. For 39 years, God has been trying to give the Jews this land, something promised to them in the Palestinian Covenant. From the Nile to the Euphrates River is promised to the Jews. However, the Jews need to have the capacity. Capacity comes from our consistence in doing our duty before God. In this, God can begin to release blessings to us. Joshua has succeeded Moses, possibly the greatest man in Scripture, unless you want to debate about the Apostle Paul. Ultimately the Jews will become flawed and they will never take all of the land that God has given to them. God does not tolerate certain things, like idolatry, rejection of authority, like rebellion and revolution.

The Jordan River is in a flood stage. The Jordan River loses 1000 ft. of altitude in flood stage. Normally, yoiu can walk across the Jordan. It can be as wide as 2 miles with a 500 ft. depth. When the water all dumps into this big crevice, the river is raging. They are going to cross right where God told them to cross. Normally, the first generation would have said, “No, it is too dangerous.” These people do not whine once. The 40 years of wandering is now over. A new trend will now emerge. The second generation will emerge and meet life’s battles head on and be victorious.

We will pick up there in the second session.

There appears to be about 10 minutes of dead air on the file after this.

Joshua Introduction                  Joshua Lesson #2                    Sunday 2^nd Session

We will begin our analysis on Tuesday evening.

Joshua Introduction                  Joshua Lesson #3                        Tuesday Session

We will only go as far as Joshua 13 and we may not even go that far. We need to learn the concept of being victorious in cosmos diabolicos. If the believer is won over by the cosmic system, they are defeated, unable to glorify Jesus Christ, and useless in this world.

We did s short survey of Genesis and Exodus so far.

Leviticus is filled with typology about a redeemed people, including service. People always think that this is this or that they can buy their way into heaven with something they have done. Sin does not cross their mind; they may try to do more good works than bad. Griffin worked with someone who thought his good deeds were better and more numerous than his sins.

No Bible class Thursday and we will cover this again Sunday.

Joshua Introduction                  Joshua Lesson #4                    Sunday 1^st Session

This was a communion Sunday.

Exodus is redemption from Egypt. Pharaoh represents Satan, as the ruler of this world, and the slavery of the Jews as slavery to the first husband, Satan. The Exodus generation desired to go back on several instances, because it is our natural desire to return to our sinful ways.

Leviticus is filled with typology filled with typology involving salvation, rebound and service. We reviewed the 7 major feasts practiced by Israel. Some have been fulfilled and some still remain to be fulfilled. Taking in the bread of the Eucharist is emblematic of our salvation, but also of the bread of life, the Scripture.

Pentecost is the birthday of the Church Age, the moment this new organism came into being. Stalks of barley tied together making a sheathe, these harvests, these farmers, are bringing in these sheaves, and this sheathe is raw, it has not been processed, no bread has been baked from it. However, in Pentecost, two loaves are waved before God. The loaves were baked with fire and they contrained leaven, but they are baked into one organism called the church. There are many members, but one body.

The Feast of Trumpets, which takes us to the 2^nd advent of Christ, which is typical of the gathering of Israel. Jews scattered all over the world would be gathered to Israel by the trumpets, and it would be determined just who of them would go into the Millennium. Matt. 24:31 Ezek. 

The Day of Atonement: annually, on this day, the High Priest enters into the first veil with the blood of a sacrificial life, and then he would enter into the Holy of Holies. He went in twice; he sprinkled blood on the seat for himself; and then he went outside, got blood for another sacrifice, and the blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat for the people, which covered the sins of the people for another year. The angels stood on the mercy seat looking down on the mercy seat when the blood had been sprinkled.

The day of national cleansing which occurs following the 2^nd advent. Jews who believe in Jesus as the Messiah will populate Israel into the Millennium. This was a time of repenetence and the sins of the people were covered for that year. They were not forgiven, per se, because this was pre cross. When Jesus goes to the cross, all of our sins are forgiven. Prior to this, our sins were covered. God looks at the blood of the sacrificial lamb, and the attention of the people was constantly being steered toward the Lamb to come. Someone will die for my sins; a lamb without spot and blemish.

Kaphar = to cover. The sins of all the people prior to the cross were covered. Pre-cross humanity sins were covered by this ritual. Man’s sin problem was eliminated by our Lord’s action on the cross.

Reconciliation is the removal of the barrier between God and man. The barrier is 7-fold, apparently. Removal of this barrier is called reconciliation. Where there once was enmity, now there is peace. The Day of Atonement has no significance following the cross. Christ, our Passover, has been slain for us. He is the atonement for our sins, not the animal. When all of these Jews are hauled in from all over the world by this trumpet blast, they are hauled into this area. All unbelieving Jews will be cast into torments, joining all other believers there. Believing Jews make up true Israel. They have the genes of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Rom. 9–11. The concept of this baptism of fire. These are the believing Jews who will populate true Israel. This is the only efficacious day of atonement to occur.

A passage speaking about type and antitype. A type is a person, thing or event which symbolizes another, particularly one which is to come. An antitype this a person, thing or event which comes about and was represented by the type.

The can have people standing near a wall and we can see their shadows; if you know the people, you can often recognize the shadow of the person. The Law is not always the reality, but a shadow of what is to come. A ritual or a type cannot make anyone perfect or satisfy God’s requirements. These rituals were done over and over again, not to make any one perfect, but to represent what Jesus Christ will do. We may do the same thing here—we may believe in Jesus Christ over and over again, or confess a particularly heinous sin over and over again; even though naming the sin once covers us, and believing in Jesus Christ covers us.

They crucify Christ afresh every Yom Kippur. It is impossible for bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when He comes into this world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering, You have not desired, but a body You have prepared for Me. Behold, I have come to do Your will.” The child’s brain is pre-wired for language, so even before speaking, they can understand grammar and syntax. Jesus speaks from His deity prior to birth. Propitiation did not occur because of the sacrifices of the animals.

The 7^th and final feast is the Feast of Tabernacles. The Hebrew word is sukkoth. The Greek word is skenopagia. This literall refers to a protective covering. It is associated with the camp of the Israelites first camp, called Succoth. It is celebrated 4 days after Yom Kippur. It is rendered, tent, booth, pavilion. It later came to refer to a temporary dwelling; they were always on the move; they were nomadic. These were the places where they lived when they moved through the horonada. These booths, these tents refer to God care and provision as they moved through the horonada. No matter what our circumstances, God takes care of our needs. We have confidence; we have Bible doctrine in the soul; we learn to live without fear. God has promised to be with us no matter where we go. If we have confidence in God, then we have courage. God is always with us. He protects us no matter where we go. What can man do to me? A coward is arrogant because he cannot take the pressure. Everyone can look cool and swagger about when there is no pressure. However, when there is pressure, we walk around slumped down, saying, “Don’t beat me any more.” Confidence means you know where you stand. Nothing in the devil’s world is a problem for you. A leader cannot be afraid of his circumstances.

There is a great movie out called Saving Private Ryan; the first 30 minutes of this movie shows the great sacrifice of our servicemen. This amplifies what they have done on our behalf. They fought, bled, left their families behind. That 30 minutes said it all. We walk out of that movie, we say, “We are not worthy of what has been done for us.” We do not have the gratitude for what has been done for us. There was not enough military training to bring these men to this point; these men had great spiritual confidence and great integrity and their integrity got them through this.

This feast is about us moving through a hostile environment, and God calls upon us to walk through the horonada, knowing He will provide. Prophetically, this speaks of the Millennial rest which will come to the Jews are their future ingathering. The tent provides an image of provision, protection from heat, storms and wind. This will be amplified by some other Scriptures in the second half.

Joshua Introduction                  Joshua Lesson #5                    Sunday 2^nd Session

Psalm 27:10: God will seal me in His tent. This same protection extends to the exigencies of comos diabolicus. No matter where you go, you will run into those who are involved in all kinds of sins; including gossip and maligning. We will leave the house and run into this or that person who is enraged about this or that. They are mad, they are jealous, they are envious. Will you allow these people, who are out of control, rob you of your happiness? Someone who cannot carry your water, you allow to bring you down. The imagery of the tent is in place. You have a covering over your soul; you have protection of your soul. Do you have confidence in what you know? Do you believe that justice is never denied? We can get rid of revenge motivation. We are not the one to seek justice. Vegence is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord. You do hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of men; you keep them separately in a tent from the vicious attacks of the tongue.

Griffin expects Congress to pass a law not allowing anyone to die. There will be a tent to provide protection from the heat of the day. In the Millennial reign of Christ, perfect environment and no one has to die. A person 100 years old will be looked upon like a child. The same God of Israel Who provided everything in the horonada will also provide for us in the Millennium. An ambassador represents his sovereign from a foreign land. He is subject to his sovereign. He must obey the laws of his host country, but he is under his own sovereign. We must use His game plan; we have a mission, orders, a game plan; and we make it though our life. Learn our orders, make application, and God takes care of the details. “You don’t have to worry; I am in charge; I have put a tent around you. You are an ambassador for the God of the Universe.

Paul refers to the body as a tent, in 2Cor. 5:1 We know that if the earthly tent [our body; a place where your soul is protected], which is our house, is torn down [physical death], we know that we have a house from God, a house not made with hands; it is eternal in the heavens.

The Feast of Tabernacles is a picture of God’s logistical support; the image of the human body supported by God.

The book of Numbers; the Midbar: This is the 4^th major point, the 4^th book of the Torah. Numbers presents a redeemed people, who have been taught a procedure for serving God through worship. They have been taught how to execute His plan by keeping His mandates.

Moses taught constantly for 40 years and only a few people of the 1^st generation paid attention to them. In Numbers, a number of people heard what Moses had to say, but they did not do it. Pastors think that people are going to follow everything that they say and people walk outside of the church and do nothing about it. The pastor might be taking notes, and take a lunch with someone and tell them how and why they are screwing up. This is none of the pastor’s business. It was not Moses’ duty to get upset. He presented process and procedure to a redeemed people, they did not care. People are being told the truth in client nation America and many are not listening. I’ve got my doritos and beer; is the ball game on? People don’t care.

Numbers provides the Israelites tests and challenges in order to help them to live the spiritual life. You will not do it in periods of prosperity. No problems; plenty of stuff. I’ve got my stuff, what do I need God for? There are periods of R and R for many of us, and that is a period of prosperity.

This prosperity in Bible class occurs for 4 hours at a time. This is a place where there is comfort occurs.

The book of Numbers documents the failures of Gen X. This is just like the believer in the Church Age and how they live their lives. They are failures. Joe Griffin has seen people sleeping in the congregation; and he has done it before the Colonet as well. People can hear the same thing and get a completely different take on it. He teaches the same thing, but people don’t seem to get it. You can be victorious if you have confidence toward God.

2^nd month of the 2^nd year to the 10^th month of the 40^th year. Leaving Mt. Sinai to the arrival of the plains of Moab on the eastern shore of Jordan.

This book illustrates God’s grace to all believers. Everybody gets grace. Everyone has shoes and clothes which lasted. They all had the Shekinah glory around them. No one had anything more than anyone elese in spiritual advantages. Unconditional logistics and protection. You have grace which flows on a daily basis from justice to our +R. If we do not follow God’s plan, He cannot bless us, he can only discipline us. This was to teach the Israelites to put their entire trust in God. They had to put all that they owned on their backs and move out to a desert designed to kill them. The first generation wiped out; and the 2^nd generation had iron in their souls and they took the land. We are engaged in battle in the angelic conflict just as these Jews were involved in conflict in their day to day lives.

They has Moses’ leadership, the direction of the Law, and the Shekinah glory; we have a parallel to this: the availability of the Holy Spirit, the teaching mniisry of the sh, and we have the completed canon of Scripture. There is no excuse if we don’t make it to San Jose.

Griffin teaches the same to everyone: some apply it and some don’t; some don’t even hear it. These Jews had all of these things, and Numbers could have been a history of how God’s people walkled in wheel tracks of righteousness into the Land of Promise. It took 11 days for them to get into the south of the land. There was the spy mission; and they could have taken the land immediately.

Numbers became a documentary of the failures of a redeemed, but rebellious people. They are saved, but they refused to execute the Christian way of life. We refuse to execute the Christian way of life. Hopefully we can emerge as the victorious generation.

Deuteronomy is the 5^th book. These are the words. This is Moses’ commencement address to the Sinai Military School and the Sinai Theological Seminary. Moses received it, he codified it, and now he presents it.

The title means the second Law; however, this is not an update, a redaction, or a change; but it is a reiteration and a summary of the Law given at Sinai. It is a review. His great emphasis is upon the imperative of obedience. You must obey God. Children are pre-wired to understand language; but they can only understand grammar and formulate words into sentences; when you enter this life with the ability to understand language, then the parent has to help the child organize their life into a conscience. This helps them to make good decisions internally, so they do not need outside forces continually applied. When you get the idea that the parents are in charge, and that they are building a tent of protection around you, and that they are trying to install this into the soul of the child, so he can handle life on his own. We learn about the old sin nature and how we lose the Holy Spirit. We learn how to have a faith rest approach toward life. We begin to understand what God has done for us. You move through the little problem, and you know what God can do for you. You face another problem,and you learn from the past how to face the new problems. You learn doctrinal rationales. You develop an inventory of ideas. The emphasis is upon the imperative of obedience. Israel’s compliance with divine mandates has to do with entering the land, taking the land and holding the land. It is the source of all blessings and rewards. Obedience is the source of all blessings and rewards. Noncompliance is the source of all discipline and cursing.

This is Moses’ last official public act before going to Mount Nebo to die. He recalls all of their experiences and intertwines their experiences with the Law. He salutes the tribes as he heads to Nebo to die.

Since obedience is stressed, Jesus Christ quotes deuteronomy quite a bit. In fact, it is quoted at least 96 times.

Genesis is the book of beginnings; Exodus is redemption from Egypt; Leviitus us rebound and redemptioni for service; Numbers is discipline for noncompliance and rewards for compliance; and Deuteronomy intertwines the law and experience.

Types and typology. As we study Joshua, there will be things there which will have impact and application.

Lewis Sperry Chafer: Vol. 3 soteriology from p. 116: a type is divinely purposed thing which anticipates its antitype and explains it. The sacrificial lamb at Passover representing Jesus Christ in His incarnation. The type does not establish the doctrine, but it is like a prophecy; but the reality establishes the doctrine. We can go back to the type to see the antitype illustrated. The type enhances the force of the truth set forth in the antitype. It amplifies, embellishes, and illustrates. We need the antitype to fully understand the type. We understand the Passover more through Jesus Christ, and we can go backward, and see what the idea was.

In vol. 1: Types and their antitypes form a unity which can only occur by means of divine revelation. A type is developed in centuries past; and fulfilled centuries later. The two come together to form a unity which no human being could come up with. No person could do something like this. A true type is the counterpart of its antitype. There are tons of things which God the Holy Spirit could have written about over 3000+ years of history. He chose to write about specific things. The Passover in 1440 b.c. is what God the Holy Spirit understand, but Moses did not completely understand it then. No man could have written about a type and matched it to its antitype. Even if the human mind could conceive the marvels of the antitype. There are too many details, too many nuances, to make this overall type what it is. No person could do that. The human mind, if it could conceive of this, could not do it. Typology demonstrates the Bible to be a book that man could not write, even if He would.

Joshua Introduction                  Joshua Lesson #6                        Tuesday Session

The Pentacteuch teches the plan of God through imagery. We noted the definition of Chafer, in soteriology, which Griffin is going to repeat.

P. 116 volume 3: A type is a divinely purposed anticipation which illustrates his antitype. A progressive revelation began with Moses and continued through to 1440 b.c.; and John ended the canon about 95 a.d. When God the Holy Spirit motivated Moses, incorporated in the first 5 books of the Bible, certain events took place, and these are types which describe something which would occur in the New Testament antitypes. They are related insofar as the very same body of truth is contained in each. Example is Jesus Christ as the Lamb sacrificed for us. The lamb sacrifices in the Old Testament is the type.

It is not the type which establishes the doctrine, but that is found in the antitype. The antitype serves to lift its type out of the commonplace. A true type is the counterpart of its antitype. Even if the hman mind could conceive the marvels of the antitype, he could not do this. A historical event has been selected by God and placed into the Bible to illustrate something in the future. This historical event occurs and is recorded in the Old Testament; and there is another New Testament event which matches up with it. Man could not take a piece of literature and make this work. The human mind cannot consistently record such events. You have two different writers, and they are separated by centuries, and what they write links up by type and antitype. How 40 different writers can coalesce in their thinking is something only God could cause. It requires a divine author. Typology illustrates something that man could not write if he would.

This is every passage in Scripture which deals with Joshua.

Joshua Introduction                  Joshua Lesson #7                      Thursday Session

We have already noted the typology found in the Pentateuch. We have looked at Joshua the man and now we are examining Joshua the book.

hoti + genaô = anyone who has been born. This has to do with the spiritual birth of the believer at faith alone in Christ alone. John wrote these epistles and the book of his name. He uses genaô in his own book as well. Born from above but translated born again.

Fundamentalist today has take on somewhat of a tawdry view, and there are a lot who have criticized the term born-again and Jesus is telling Nicodemus that he needs to be born again. The physical aspect is one thing; the spiritual is another. For God so loved the world, that whoever believes in Him will not die but have eternal life. The birth here is the spiritual birth from faith in Christ. The verb genaô is in the perfect tense, which results in a completed and finished result. The various uses of this perfect tense emphasize the completed action or the finished result. The intensive perfect here emphasizes the existing result. We now function and exist in an eternal status. It is a statement of eternal security. You do not lose your position due to eternal security. The passive voice means the believer receives the action of spiritual voice. The passive voice refers to the voice of grace. Our decision is to believe in Jesus, but as a result, other things occur to us. We receive the action of salvation. Our faith in Christ; our salvation is not of ourselves; it is a gift from God, so that no man can boast.

Rick said he has never saved anyone and the evangelist only communicates the gospel; the Holy Spirit does the saving. A circumstantial participle. When we believe in Christ and become a member of the royal family, we have the means to be victorious in the devil’s world. The only thing which is required of us is to be victorious in the cosmic system.

There are several updates and refinements and alterations that he is going to make in some doctrine (the cosmic system?). We have all of these assets which are necessary to subdue our nature. The victory here is stated by the present active indicative of nekao. It means to prevail, to overcome, to be victorious, to be a winner. The company Nike takes this from nikê, which comes from nikaô. This is a customery present tense, which notes what habitually occurs. They are immediately victorious over the cosmic system; it is a strategic victory. God always does this; every time we believe in Christ, he does this for us. We are given a tremendous amount of assets in order to fight in this war. The moment we are saved, all of these things come to us. The end result is that we are victorious over the cosmic system. The believer is victorious over κοσμος = world, cosmic system, the fallen world system of Satan. It refers simply to the planet. It always refers to the evil plan of Satan. This is introduced by the connective kai and the pronoun houtos. and this. Then the verb to be followed by nikê. This is the initial victory. This is the static present tense. This is our victory over the cosmic system. The action is produced by anyone who places their faith in Jesus Christ. Declarative indicative, which is historical and Biblical fact.

Aorist active participle of which has been victorious. The active voice produced by the believer’s positive volition. 1John 5:4: For whatever is born from God overcomes the cosmic system. And this is the victory that has overcome the world; our faith. The thing which gains the victory over the cosmic system is faith. Webster’s 20^th century dictionary defines opposite is putting something side by side....in opposition the second explains the first. Faith is in opposition to victory.

Joshua Introduction           Joshua Lesson #8 8/16/98             Sunday 1^st Session

We are now in Joshua the book.

There is a four-fold message in this book. God is faithful, even if we are faithless. Executing the Christian way of life, involves faith. James is a book to the believer and it deals with believers and their lives in phase 2. After salvation, we must have faith in the Word of God. Divine essence cannot coexist with sin; God does not associate with anyone involved with unconfessed and unforgiven sin. God loves the entire human race. In the Christian life, you have to deal with your accumulation of ideas from your previous life. God cannot have fellowship wtih someone who maintains a sinful lifestyle. He has given us an easy opt out through faith alone in Him alone. Churches continue to meet and doctrine continues to be communicated, but you cannot have trends established on our national horizon without them ballooning into major problems.

The 5 cycles of discipline, which affects the economy and the health of the people. God simply will not coexist with sin, individually or collectively. The Canaanites were so degenerate that they had to be removed from the earth. If God did not remove these Canaanites, they would have pulled Israel into their sins.

Typology—the literal warfare which takes place in the book of Joshua is related to the angelic conflict. The issue of faith application to life is one of the major themes of Scripture. In order to do this, we have begun to study 1John 5:4–6. Everyone who has been born from God is victorious over the cosmic system and this is the initial victory being victorious over the cosmic system, our faith. The believer enters into the operational power system. This new environment is energized. Supernatural information is communicated in the Scripture. Our volition is challenged to accept or to reject the information. This is a new environment. It is maintained by the believer’s faith in God’s plan. The are 8 categories of spiritual function in the Christian way of life.

Joshua Introduction           Joshua Lesson #9 8/16/98            Sunday 2^nd Session

1Cor. 3:1–3 1John 1:9 Eph. 5:18 for the power gate.

4.       Doctrine Gate/The GAP gate

If you cannot find a local church where doctrine is taught, you opt out for technological assistance. Griffin has just begun to provide doctrine on the Internet. You still have to make the decision to pursue truth. Whether you come or not, is your own spiritual choice. But if you stay home, then you must turn on the tape recorder or the computer.

The pastor attempts to provide an accurate analysis of the Scripture. The Holy Spirit will then teach this to our human spirit; this is a phenomena called pneumatikos. You can have academic understanding on what is taught if you are a believer and if the communicator accurately teaches the material. Then your volition comes into view here. At this point, you have γνσις, which is doctrine academically understood.

You may have an understanding of a doctrine, but not believe it. “First you have to feel sorry for your sins; and then, after believing in Jesus Christ, and then you have to press on to doing good works, and then you get close to the boundaries of heaven, and if you press the attack and do some really good stuff out to the end, and if God is feeling benevolent that day, He may let you in.” Those are the ones who claim you must work your way into heaven.

Example of the guy in the iron lung and Billy Graham. Now, you have to start doing good deeds and you must be baptized. This kind of thing makes no sense. It is faith alone in Christ alone. If you have academic understanding, then you have to believe it, and the Holy Spirit transfers it to the heart, which is where you have ἑπίγνωσις. This is wherre you understand the thinking of God. Only the Holy Spirit can make this real. Only the believer can utilize this system. God has given you a system to get this stuff into your soul. As spiritual growth occurs, momentum develops. From all of this, the believer has the power and the teachability to make the advance in the plan of God. Eph. 4:15–16 is the spiritual advance as a result of teaching.

Eph. 4:14–16: ...that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head, Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every individual does its part, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

Doctrine of demons. You need an inventory of ideas to identify these things, and to reject these doctrines, then you are pulled into Satan’s thinking. People in politics will get up every morning with the idea that they should stay in power, and that keeps them going; and they will tell you anything in order to get you to elect them.

We are to grow up, which all takes place at gate 4. Here is where you appropriate divine thought in your soul. Good decisions broaden future options; and bad decisions limit future options. It is your fault when you make bad choices. People will stand up in pulpits and tell lies, known as every wind of doctrine (they may not know these are lies).

In a search for truth, you may try out a few more churches. You might wander into a church, and midway through the session, people will leap up and run through the isle and speak in some rabid language.

When you get some advance going, you will develop some motivational and functional virtues which will accelerate you toward adulthood.

5 & 6. Gates 5 and 6: Motivational and Functional Virtues

What causes Griffin some road rage, are people who are driving the exact same speed, and he thinks, this guy needs to move up a skosh and then move into his lane. You’re already traveling the same speed; might as well be traveling in tandem.

God created Adam and Eve in the garden, naked, with no restraints. After sinning, they decided to get right with each other. They recognize that they have sinned, and then they decide to cover themselves with some vegetation. Fig leaves was probably not the type of leaf used. They make some sort of a summer jumpsuit out of fig leafs. They look at each other and they thought things were okay. God comes and says this won’t do, and he offered up a sacrifice. They thought if they were right with each other, that was enough. You must get right with God first; then you get right with your fellow man.

Example #1 confidence in God is a motivational virtue. The relationship with God has a motivational virtue, with is confidence. How do you get this way? Do you suddenly say, “I am confidence in God and I have no fear.” In order to get to this point, you must advance spiritually and from this inventory of ideas, you develop confidence in God. You are not supposed to develop confidence in God.

If we could get fear out of the souls of men, great things could be accomplished. Go back to a rationale called logistical support.

The problem at Kedesh Barnea was that they were afraid of the Canaanites; they were dumbstruck with fear. They needed confidence in God’s Word. They will take the land under Joshua. The mandate given to Joshua 4 times: “Have confidence and courage.” Confidence toward God goes hand in hand with courage toward man.

Worship toward God goes hand in hand with morality toward man. Do not get these things inverted. The primary activity in worship is the Word of God. “Do you not know” or “Are you ignorant, brothers?” There is also worship through giving, through prayers, through the Eucharist. We live in a world which functions in a system of capitalism. How does a non-profit group function in the capitalistic system? Freewill offerings; and when they are no longer provided, then God wants the doors closed. They’ve been there 13.5 years and never asked anyone for money.

You learn an appreciation for the character of God and for His personal modus operandi. You will begin to function in a moral function toward your fellow man (believer and unbeliever). This is motivated by worship in God. What happens when a society stops worshiping God, then there is less morality. Most of us have given up our tawdry ways; not because we are prissy prigs, but simply because there are certain things that we ought to give up. That does not properly represent Jesus Christ in the devil’s world. Muster up the moral courage to deny yourself. You get filled with the Holy Spirit and doctrine in the kardia; and pray to God to change your behavior patterns and your habits. It is possible to do; it happens all the time.

We can call this the Royal Family Honor Code, which we have studied before.

The motivational virtue of personal love for God sustains the functional virtue of unconditional love toward man. If a man says, I love God, but hates his brother, he is a liar. You are motivated to love God first; then you love man. Personal love stressed the object. Personal love stresses the object; and we can love God, because the object is perfect. God never gives us an occasion to quit loving Him. In order for personal love to be maintain, the integrity of the object must be maintained. What happens when you say, “I love you” to some person. Romance, for example. The opposite number might have some attributes that you like. She looks at him and he had teeth, hair, and a certain kind of car. As long as he keeps these things, he is set. “I love you, darling” means that I love you personally. People get married over this. Griffin speaks about pictures of their kids and him, and things have changed. Now, if she expected for him to keep his hair black, then things could be over. However, “I love you” when it depends upon the subject, then the object, it is a functional virtue love, and it is based upon honor; and that is unconditional love for all eternity. A Christian marriage is an advance on the divine institution of marriage.

For the believer, there are new mandates. “Love your wife” and this is unconditional love. And you are to love her as Jesus Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it. That is sacrifice; and that is until death do you part. I will give my life for you; I will go to war for you. In “Saving Private Ryan” it is not pointed out exactly why they fought. They were willing to sacrifice for freedom, fellow, soldiers, and for mom, dad, sisters and brothers back home. In a spiritual war, your wife becomes you #1 priority. The wife might end up loving her husband, but she is mandated to obey her husband. The word is a military term: υποτασσω = to submit to. The general in a senior ranking officer; but there are lower levels, and they all submit to him; and it does not demean anyone. Everyone has a common mission; there must be order and someone must be in charge. In a Christian marriage, the husband has been given senior ranking authority by God. He loves her and she respect him. It is hard to respect someone who does not love you; and hard to love someone who does not respect you. Divorce when one of those breaks down. They key is, personal love toward God. Joshua 1:6, 7, 9, 18: “Be of good courage.” Confidence in God is a motivational virtue. This generates the motivational virtue of morality toward man. Personal love toward God results in unconditional love toward man.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #10 8/20/98              Thursday Session

We are noting Joshua the book,

We have divine operating assets. You possess these things by imputation. When you are saved, you might be aware of one or two assets, but you have quite a lot to work with. We use computer technology and terminology to define the 8 functional gates.

Faith will be of major importance in the book of Joshua.

1John 5:4 Everyone who has been born from God

The first gate is the power gate, with is the filling of the Holy Spirit. 2^nd gate is faith rest. The new believer must make some doctrinal advance before getting to this point. He must rely on what personal integrity he has by establishment doctrine. The mandate for unconditional love.

This brings about a soul tranquility. Gate 3 is teachability through humility. His system requires that we learn His word. Rom. 12:3 notes the virtue of humility. We should have spiritual self esteem. God makes war against the arrogant but gives grace to the humble.

Spiritual momentum gate is gate 4. Gap.

Gates 5 and 6 work in tandem. Confidence in God is a motivational virtue. That motivational virtue supports the functional virtue of courage toward your fellow man. Isa. 41:10: Fear not, for I am with you. Do not anxiously look about, for I am your God. I will strengthen you with my right hand. This is a promise. Divine integrity requires that He back His promises.

Worship of God is a motivational virtue. We study the Word of God in order to know Him and studying the Bible is a motivational virtue. We may take this information and make applicationi in cosmos diabolicus. Then we function morally toward our fellow man. As you learn about God in Bible study, you begin to understand Who you are dealing with, and you develop personal love for Him. If the object of personal love is imperfect, then they will fail and you can go into iconoclastic arrogance. But this is impossible with God. He cannot fail and therefore, He cannot let you down. Unconditional love stresses the subject. You love others based upon your own integrity. If they sin or let you down, that is not an issue. The motivational virtue of personal love for God sustains the virtue of impersonal love toward man.

Having confidence in God results in courage toward life. Joshua is told to have confidence and courage 4 times in the first chapter of Joshua.

Gate 7 is momentum testing. God either permits the believer to be tested or He directly sends testing. Jesus Christ controls history and permits things to occur based upon volitional responsibility. Jesus Christ controls history on behalf of the pivot and He sometimes gets directly involved in the affairs of men. The weather systems of the world is one way which God involves Himself in our lives.

The law of volitional responsibility of others. Indirect or direct involvement still means the grace of God’s involvement in our lives. He accelerates our spiritual growth in momentum testing and we are encouraged to always use doctrine as we see that doctrine works. Nothing happens ahead of schedule or behind schedule. His plan is perfect for our lives. We get behind schedule when we drift off from our Bible study or we are distracted by legitimate things. Our eyes may be pulled by legitimate things. God never tests a positive believer beyond his capacity. 1Cor. 10:13–15. There is not testing from cosmos which we cannot bear. If we are tested and we cannot manage it, we are behind the 8 ball; we have apparently did not take in doctrine as we should have. In high school, it escaped Griffin that you must pass the test or you have to re-take it. If you don’t pass it, you are behind schedule. God has given you the time for doctrine, but you have not take Him up on it.

The next test will require more. So the next two will be dealt with next Sunday.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #11 8/23/98              Sunday Session 1

The believer can only enjoy God’s provisions as he appropriates them by faith. Whatever is born of God has overcome the world. Everyone who has been born from God is victorious over the cosmic system, and this is the initial victory which is over the cosmic system: our faith (1John 5:4).

The divine power system which operates at 8 gates, a computer form. These gates are combined in sequence or in combination for any number of gates. Gates 1–8 can work in sequence of in any combination.

This was all review. Satan is the ruler of this world; he rules over the cosmic system. If you think that you can control your environment while on planet earth, you are an alien here, and Satan dictates, operates and tries to manipulate your life through duplicity and deceit. Satan looks to manipulate our thinking and our function. Duplicity is especially used to belie one’s true intentions by your actions and words. You cause someone to accept true and valid something which is false. You give a false impression. He delude by obscuring the truth. In deceit, you often use charm and tactics of persuasion when you deceive. This is what places us in the cosmic system. There is an academy for this, which is the Satanic academy for cosmic didactics. They use duplicity and deceit. There are two major fields of study there: the arrogance complex, which is submissioni leads to man becoming preoccupied with Him.

‘I realize I am a scumbag and I rarely get anything right; but I don’t need to hear it from you.” In Bible class, we indulge in a serious operation. We are attempting to store in our souls information from the eternal logos. How to solve problems, how to think. All of this is fine until you run into someone else with a different list.

You must get to a level of growth to where you are willing to leave other people alone. “There are people in Alabama who choke back tears when they find out I’m a pastor.” It is madness when you seek to control and manipulate others. When you pass this course, you get to the point that you emphasize yourself over God and your own thoughts, opinions and rationales over Biblical truth.

There was a clique which manipulated Berachah church for 10 years; well-known all over. Then one day, they decided that self was more important than God. Anyone is susceptible to this. If you think you are some handpicked deligate by God to take care of the lives of others. Do you find yourself at a point where you emphasize your self over God and your own thoughts and rationales over Biblical thruth.

There is also the hatred complex. One guy in the paper thought we were so advanced in our thinking that we can advance past religion. Now that he has reached this high millennium of thinking and he assumes that he is a genius. These people are here for our entertainment and comic relief. He is in hatred. He is in opposition to God, Jesus Christ, God, the Bible. People have los their minds. We have been so far removed from the absolute standards of the Bible. Like, we can’t judge anyone. Judgment has to do with what is done on the cross. Forgiveness is gotten by faith alone in Christ alone; and then incrementally after that when we sin and name it. We have a spiritual code. An honor code.

Both these cosmix complexes exploit our bad decisions. There are two manifestations of them. First from the arrogance complex and then from the hatred complex.

Those in cosmic 1 arrogance are preoccupied with self. If you stay there long enough, you will move into cosmic 2 hatred, where you are opposed to God and His plan. A favorite of the talk shows is to ridicule the Christian coalition. No Christian organizationi should be involved directly with politics, buying and selling votes. God will take care of our business for us. Jesus Christ controls history; not Democrats and not Republicans. Jesus Christ controls history. He inventories the souls of the believers every day and He sees what is circulating there. There are enough who know the word. We have leadership today which is immoral. They are willing to lie and to deceive people and claim it is alright to lie under oath. I said I lied; now let’s move on. He was elected; so we deserve it. We bought 8 years; buckle up, winsock.

Those in cosmic 1 are preoccupied with themselves. Those in hatred become the enemy of God. Those in cosmic 1 emphasize self instead of God. Cosmic 2 emphasize human viewpoint instead of divine viewpoint. Those who graduate have Satan’s attitude at the fall. Satan was preoccupied with himself; he though he could take things over. Those who are arrogant think that they are greater and more important than God. This is exactly what Satan did. He saw himself as equal to God. I can manipulate others because I have a right to do it. Satan told Ishshah, God doesn’t want you to know what He knows. This is open opposition to God, and the first thing he assaulted was the Word of God, and he has not stopped.

Philosophy of Satan in the prehistoric angelic conflict. It is self-centered and preoccupied with self. He believed himself to be equal with God. If we develop a philosophy of self-centeredness. All judgment is given to the Son, who takes care of all violations against us.

If we face people testing or thought testing, we delegate this over to the supreme court of heaven. We are not to maintain anger, permitting it to move to bitterness, which is a chronic sin. People take a look at the circumstance, and saying, I am right and I should be given creat here.

We are supposed to get along with all men. Call me names; I am willing to take the hit here. It is a battle of thought when you allow others to draw you into the cosmic system. Stay in the system, learn the plan, and glorify Christ. We are priests and ambassadors; we don’t have time for this. If we develop hatred, then we have the philosophy of Satan. We develop human viewpoint over against divine viewpoint and hatred for others, rather than unconditional love. Through duplicity and deceit, Satan promotes this.

We have a society which constantly pits groups against one another. Instead of being e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. People cut from the same cut of cloth can’t get alone. The Bosnian can’t get alone; the Arabs can’t get alone. The Sunis and fighting against the Shia. Yet we are supposed to dump a slew of people into a pile here and all get alone.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #12 8/23/98              Sunday Session 2

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Principles from 1 John 5:4: Divine Power System, Gate 7: Momentum Tests 5-7; Gate 8: Santa Fé

Globalist concepts are just those who are driven to control everyone and they even want totalitarian ideas. Duplicity and deceit is Satan’s philosophy before man’s creation. He began to include the concepts of conquest by destruction and violence. The Christian way of life avoids violence; but believers will join the military to protect their country.

In cosmic 2 hatred, Satan is enslaved to doctrines of demons. As you advance in this system, the cosmic system offers several areas where it will draw you out of God’s system.

6^th area of testing is disaster testing. You could lose your job, friends, neighborhood, national disaster. A true disaster affects the mind. A loss of something you hold near and dear. It is a test which cand raw you out of the system. Loss of health; loss of a loved one. Disasters which are outside adversities. People younger than you will be lost; a personal loss.

Another category is mental attitude sins. You can become angry with God. Angry with Philip Morris because you were a smoker and you have revenge motivation and you hire lawyers. No one is allowed mental attitude sins; no believer has that right. You are taken out of the divine power system. Self-pity, anger, revenge motivation should not direct your paths. We all have disasters and they must be managed. The faith rest drill. It is a process by which we go from complexity to simplicity.

God knew about your problems in eternity past. You have no guarantees to how long you will live. You could die within the next year. If God’s plan is to take us out now, then we ought to be happy with that. So you need to make the best out of the time which you have left. God has plans for us for the entire time until He takes us home. Complexity #2 doctrinal rationales. You recognize that you are not to be afraid of this or that circumstance. God knows all things; He is omnipotent. I am a part of God’s plan. I can’t change it. So, I should orient and adjust. God knew about us and our problems from eternity past. If we are in a perfect plan, there is nothing wrong with us. There is the concept of election. We have been chosen by God to fulfil a privileged position in His plan. Since we have believed in Jesus Christ, then we have a plan to become a part of. If we grow spiritually, then we can function under escrow blessings. The second complexity. We do this for 4 hours a week and all that Joe has taught today has been taught in great detail previously. Robt E. Lee, when losing a certain battle, understood it to be God’s will. His job was to do his duty; if he does his duty and it does not work out like you want it to, then it must be God’s will.

Claiming promises develops a relaxed mental attitude. Through the filling of the Holy Spirit, you can concentrate of doctrinal rationales. The essence of God, the plan of God. The doctrinal conclusions creates for us in our souls an objective solution. It can be applied in national and personal disasters. This is the mental attitude of Joshua when entering into the land. When he led Israel into the land, faith in the revealed Word of God. This gave the Israeli army courage to take on these Canaanites, previously analyzed by their G2 team as giants. They did not use the doctrinal rationales developed for them. Have confidence and good courage is said 4 times in the first chapter.

The next bit of testing is the most difficult to deal with. A person who has everything that they want; a wonderful wife, children out of a 50's sitcom, great family reunions, banks filled with money. Who needs God? That is called prosperity testing. Unfortunately, it is all too common when a believer enters into personal prosperity, he loses track of the source of this prosperity. All of it can sometimes be put onto the person himself, thinking I did all of this! Who gave us the wonderful environment that we have today? The people who died for our great country. This means you have lost gratitude for God. Some people can have the capacity and thoroughly enjoy life, because they orient to everything as a grace gift from God. It is all grace; it is all from God; and they never get their eyes off of the source.

Joe Griffin was invited to Peoria to see Allison Krause and it was phenomenal bluegrass, and he grinned and loved every minute of it. When it was over with, he got to talk to them. And they are all believers. They have laptop computers. They have logos; they study Bible doctrine; and they did not want to talk music, they want to talk theology. There are vignettes in life that when they are over with, you think, “I have not had that much fun before.”

What happens when you are truly in prosperity testing. However, if you suddenly lose track of the source, you have failed prosperity testing. If you have more than you can say grace over, then realize that this is a test for you. God desires to enlarge the vignettes and they only come from capacity and you must remeber the source, Jesus Christ, who makes it all possible. One’s prosperity can become inverted to unhappiness. When these challenges come your way, you should not be distracted by them.

It takes an advance in cuisine growth to like some things like asparagus. You come across a bit of doctrine that sets you off, so just set it aside and then it can be eaten. There is system testing where we can become rebellious. Our job is to orient and adjust; the rest is God’s problem. The cosmic system: arrogance and hatred. Prosperity is the ultimate test. These are the 7 areas of momentum testing.

Santa Fe is Gate 8: believer’s daily walk in cosmos diabolicus. Varied and very surprising. They had no idea what problems they would encounter. Each day was a new adventure. You don’t know what devices you will apply tomorrow. There are many ways to get to Santa Fe. We all start at the same place and we all end up at the same place. The trip is more efficient if we stay on the trail. You cannot be wandering around in Montana if you want to get to Santa Fe. It is easier if you get into the wheel tracks of righteousness. On a good day, they might advance 10 or 15 miles. It might be boring or interesting. Dens of rattlesnakes, raging rivers, etc. However, as long as you stayed to the trail, you will get there.

We are heading toward spiritual maturity, via a system which Jesus Christ used, endorsed. Empirical sanctification; escrow blessings in time. This is accomplished by sharing the happiness of God. Escrow blessings in time.

The 7 Nike awards presented to winners for all of those who arrive safely at Santa Fe. Just as the Father [the Inventor of the system Who gave it to Jesus Christ to prove the system worthy which enabled Christ to function in His true humanity and He gave it to us] Jesus Christ used the other 8 problem solving devices. loves Me, so also have I loved you; so reside in My love. God is perfect and a perfect God can only love a perfect object. We have personal love toward God. If you execute My mandates [3^rd class codition] you will reside in the sphere of My love if you come into class and make that list and things occur which challenge you within this system, they have become a distraction and you lose. If you execute the mandates, you use unconditional love toward these people. You isolate these things and they do not become internal stress. I reside in His love. I have taught you these things in order that My happiness might be made full in you. Jesus Christ was happy throughout the incarnation. Heb. 12:1–2 He endured the cross, despising the shame. Jesus says that we can have the same happiness as He enjoyed as long as we can keep His mandates. In the cosmos, you will have opposition. Prosperity is primarily in the soul. When we have soul prosperity, we have tremendous advances. But take courage; I have overcome the cosmos.

Let’s go back to one of the areas of our previous studies: motivational and functional virtues. Motivation comes before we can function. Motivation must precede function. Confidence in God is a motivational virtue. How do you take courage? You must have a motivational virtue which gives us this courage? Jesus Christ overcame the cosmos. “You are in Me, I love you; you are in Me. Have confidence and good courage.”

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #13 8/25/98                               Tuesday

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Principles from 1 John 5:4; 1 John 5:5: Believers are Victorious over the Cosmic System

His foray into crusader arrogance. Editorial: Baseball, toss out those pills. No wishes Mark MaGuire ill. The Post accuses him of taking steroids. So, Joe sent Rush an email. The Scar tissue. Louis Post Dispatch has waxed self-righteous of MaGuire taking a legal, otc health supplement. The Post writer said that his use of this supplement sends a terrible message to the young people. This same paper does not condemn President Clinton for the message which he sends to young people, regarding the oral sex in the oval office. Now that his 15 minutes is over, we’ll get back into Bible class.

Inconsistency of thought is overcome by Bible doctrine. It reveals consistency in every area of life. We’ve been examining a going up against great challenges and being victorious. We need to believe the Word of God and then we need the courage to apply the Word of God to our daily lives.

“I have come to do Your will, O God.” Christ was able to maintain status quo spirituality while remaining in this power system. Sinning personally would have been the only way that He could have lost out or faltered. No errors; no sins. Jesus Christ actually proved the divine dynasphere would work in life in the cosmic system. On the cross, He received the imputation of our sins and we are given the very same power system that He functioned in Himself. He won the strategic victory over comos diabolicus. “These things I have communicated to you so that you might have prosperity. In the devil’s world, you will have oppression; but, nevertheless, take courage, because I have overcome the cosmos.” The initial victory is our faith in Christ.

 Who is the person victorious over the cosmic system as a result of faith in Christ? They are victorious at salvation through faith. ει μη = none other than when it is used in this construction. None other than him who has come to believe. They have victory which began at salvation and it continues throughout their lives, if they continue to use this in their Christian life.

Who is the one who is victorious in the cosmic system? None other than he who has come to believe that Jesus is the Son of God. And that is a statement of the gospel.

Jesus Christ was able to maintain His impeccability in the face of all kinds of pressures. He who is without sin, let hiim cast the first stone. Jesus is challenge to go with grace and love or to go with the Law. They tried to put him in such a position, and we will cover this next time.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #14 8/27/98                             Thursday

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Principles from 1 John 5:5: The Lord's Tactical Victories in the Incarnation, John 8:1-11, The Case of the Adulterous Woman

The initial victory over the cosmic system begins at faith in Christ. That is just the 1^st inning; but you must play all 9 innings; and you keep gaining tactical victories until you come out a winner.

The believer has problem solving devices and spiritual skills which can be utilized in the angelic conflict. Our Lord’s strategic victory at the cross was made possible by a series of tactical victories along the way.

As is always the case when competing factions disagree, competing factions compete for power. Not much is known about how these men organized themselves. The pharisees were more politically oriented and the scribes were more theologically motivated. They followed the Mosaic Law and attempted to follow it according to Jewish customs. A group of Rabbis sat down and wrote out their ideas about the Mosaic Law, and these ideas were compliled into what is known as the Talmud, which was put together over a period of 600 years. They viewed their traditions as equal to the Law. The Talmud is essentially a Rabbinic commentary on the Law.

Jesus was to fulfill the Mosaic Law and not the oral traditions; and that is the basis for most of the conflicts between Jesus and the pharisees. Most of them believed in a Messiah; they just did not know/believe that Jesus was the Messiah.

We cannot have tactical victories in the Church Age unless we depend upon our Lord’s victories in the prototype divine dynasphere. Our Lord was tempted to step outside of this system.

John 8:1–11 apologists for the president have become Bible quoting theologians. By refering it, Joe can kill two birds with one stone. Unless you are without sin, you cannot find fault with anyone else. How can we forgive someone if we are unable to fix blame for something which needs to be forgiven? John 7:53–8:11 and these verses are not a part of the original manuscripts. Not found in the earliest and best manuscripts of the book of John.

People do believe that this incident did take place and was added as a gloss.

Generally speaking, the mission of our Lord was to fulfill the mission of God the Father and to follow out the Mosaic Law. The Lord needed to adhere precisely to the law of Moses. “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law and the prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill the law.”

The booths were built by the people became a place which things were abused. A couple were caught in an act of adultery. This festival had become more or less sort of an October fest.

The oral tradition felt that capital punishment for some of these crimes were not really worthy of capital punishment. Jesus has been teaching love and grace on one hand; but He has to fulfill the Law, so they are going to see if He will bsay the aw is too harsh. He either must side with gracious teaching or with the scribes and pharisees.

The scribes and pharisees found a woman in the very act of adultery, and then they put her in front of Jesus. The death penalty came by stoning. 2 or 3 witnesses were required.

The ones who would throw the first stones would be the witnesses. Deut. 17:6–7: On the evidence of 2 or 3 witnesses, he who is to die will be put to death. Biblical jurisprudence is far superior to anything that man could come up with. Both the man and the woman were to be executed, but they only showed up with the woman. Apparently, they let the guy go. Jesus is not a member of any legal branch, so it is weird they would come to Jesus to get His opinion, as He has no authority to adjudicate this matter. However, they do this to test Him. The verb means to tempt in an effort to ensnare. They had hoped to have grounds to accuse Him. They want Him to agree with the oral traditions. They want to entrap the Lord. If He recommends that the woman be stoned, then He would be in compliance with the Mosaic Law. If He suggests to hold back on capital punishment, then He would agree with the Talmud (an oral tradition at this time). Jesus did not say anything, but He stoops down and began to write on the ground. He was teaching in the Temple which had a stone floor.

John 8:7–8: they continued to press Him for an answer. What do you think about this? They continued to badger Him. Then He says, “He who is without sin, let him be the first person to throw a stone.” These religious types had no intention of stoning her. They want Jesus to either take the side of the Law or to agree with the Talmud.

Whatever righteousness demands, justice must execute. The adulterer and the adultress must sure be put to death. Righteousness demands that justice be meted out. The Lord must recommend that this penalty clause be carried out or find a way to let her off in a manner which does not compromise divine integrity. What He did recognized both requirements.

He recommended that the woman be stoned, but not by her accusers but by anyone in attendance who is without sin.

This is misapplied to say, if someone is found in a sin, then no one can say anything about it. This would allow all forms of crimes to occur. Jesus gave us a standard to determine guilt or innocence and it is based upon 2 or 3 witnesses. There is a system involved here.

What about forgiveness? Are we not to forgive? No, sins are violations of divine righteousness and carry a punishment clause when they violate the law. Do not get these kinds of sins mixed up. We are not to forgive such sins and just let them go.

God forgives sins at salvation and incremental forgiveness by rebound. This forgiveness is based soul on the vicarious sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. God can and does forgive sins based upon the cross. Those who have the evidence to press charges have chosen not to do so. The oral tradition ignores this. The oral tradition would not stone someone for adultery. They were not going to press charges. The Lord chooses not to take up this sin with her. He expects her to take up a new behavior. Those questioning the woman began to wander out and only the Lord and this woman are left.

He asks her, “Woman, where are they who condemn you? From hereon in, leave and sin no more.” Jesus does not tell her that she is forgiven; she does not ask for forgiveness. Κατακρινω is the word used here. This word means condemnation. Confession and forgiveness are not mentioned here.

If someone commits a crime and they say that God has forgiven them, and therefor we ought for forgive them—that is not the case. Establishment authority means you have violated laws of the land. People do this to play on your emotions, asking you to do things which you are not capable of doing. God can forgive them and, if something was done to you, you can forgive them. Forgiveness means that wrongdoing was involved. A criminal can confess his sin, but this does not solve his problem with the state. There is nothing that we can do with either one of them. Condemnation is being discussed here.

The pharisees did not want to stone this woman.

Forgiveness from the Lord’s side requires faith in Him. The woman indicated that no one passed judgment on her or imposed any sentence upon her. Jesus does not have the authority to speak for the Jewish law; that is for the scribes and the pharisees; that is their hammer, not His.

Jesus was qualified to judge her; that is God and that is Christ. The woman calls Him Lord in v. 11. This indicates that the woman was a believer; and there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. He simply told her that He did not condemn her. He asked her, “Did no person here condemn you?” He then said, “Then neither do I condemn you.” He does not condemn her under divine law as she is a believer in Jesus Christ. He has the right to cast the first stone. He is the only one there without sin. He has the power to condemn her, but He does not. He admonishes her to sin no more.

The idea of transferring sin from one to another is implicit in salvation. Philemon was a citizen of Colossi and had come into contact with a prison in Rome. Paul evangelized Onesimos. However, Onesimos stole some property from Philemon, so Paul told him, So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me. If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account (Philemon 1:17–18). Accept him as a believer; his sins have been forgiven; accept him back. We forgive others and Christ forgave us. We do not hold people accountable for what they do to us. We cannot forgive people of their sins; that is God’s prerogative. Ελογεω = to charge one person’s debt to another’s account at the latter’s request. Justice demands that the debt be paid.

What Jesus is writing on the temple floor is a matter of conjecture. Some suggest it is a contract to pay for her sins. He did take on the debt of this woman. We can only assume that this woman did not commit adultery again. Those who brought her forward were willing to condemn her, but unable to apply the penalty clause. Jesus was the only one with the credentials to stone her, to condemn her; but since she was a believer, He could not do so. Rom. 13:1–2: Let everyone submit to governing authorities, for there are no authorities except delegated by God.

I must admit to being at a loss as to what any of this has to do with the book of Joshua.

The criminal believer still owes a debt to society which must be paid. The law can cast the stone of punishment, as ordained by God. Governmental authorities are not a cause for fear for those who obey the law.

Our Lord established the precedence which He had.

Tactical victories are not possible without precedent victories accomplished by our Lord first.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #15 8/30/98                             Sunday 1

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Principles from 1 John 5:5: Definition of "Son of Man" in Dan 7:13 & "Son of God," in Mt 16:16

Faith is an important concern in our lives; our salvation began with faith and our walk continues with faith. The strength has to do with what is in our soul.

1Jouhn 5:4–6: we have 3 spiritual skills and 10 problem solving devices. Who is the one victorious over the cosmic system? None other than he who believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. We begin by faith, but this is just the first inning and we must play all innings in a game. The only way to exploit one’s initial victory. Inside the divine power system, we have spiritual skills and problem solving devices and something else. We are able to benefit from our Lord’s strategic victory on the cross, but these are not possible without our Lord’s first powering up the divine dynasphere.

A passage is quoted today, “If you are without sin, you may cast the first stone” and people are taking this to mean that we cannot condemn crminal behavior because we are not perfect. When someone breaks a law, that becomes a crime, and that crime may be a sin as well. God does not forgive the sin of the unbeliever; he must go through Christ and employ faith alone in Christ alone. The believer may confess the sin to God, and God may forgive him the sin. In either case, the citizenry cannot simply forgive criminals for their crimes. We are not in the business of forgiving sins; that is God’s business. And the populace cannot forgive a person for a crime. Therefore, we are out of it altogether. We have delegated authority in our country so that a criminal is prosecuted and if a penalty must be applied, then the jury or judge determines that penalty.

None other than he who comes to believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

He began asking His disciples saying, “Who do the people say that, the Son of Man is?” (Matt. 16:13). And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; some say one of the prophets.” “And who do you say I am?” “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” And Jesus answered and said to him, “You are blessed because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but My Father who is in heaven.

12.     The Lord refers to Himself as the Son of Man. Peter calls Him the Son of God.

          a.       Note the use of the name Son. There is a title in Daniel 7:13–14: I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed. Daniel looks to Jesus offering to execute the plan to redeem man; and the Holy Spirit would inform and instruct believers. This is the agreement on how to execute operation reconcilliation.

          b.       This is prophetic of the Millennial reign of Christ. “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand; follow Me.” Few understood and believed. This was a target case of missed opportunity. Jesus then went to plan B.

          c.        When Jesus calls Himself the Son of Man, He is referring to this prophecy. He is saying, “That time has come; I am the One.” Jesus clearly understood what Daniel understood. The people that Jesus dealt with are Jews. All who wrote the Scriptures are Jews (except for Luke). When dealing with the pharisees, Jesus is dealing with people who know the Word of God, even though they distort it. The term Son of God is used for the undiminished deity of the Messiah. Peter understood, to some extent, the hypostatic union. Different distinct attributes, inseperably united with a true human resurrection body. The hypostatic union is forever. Christ is the first fruits of this resurrection.

          d.       Definition of terms is a must. Son is בֵנ in the Hebrew. Jesus Christ calls Himself Son of Man and Peter calls Him the Son of God. You have a Father and you have a Son. In this arrangement, Who is the authority. Those who understand authority know the Father has authority over the Son. However, as the Son of Man, . There is another definition of the word son; in Jewish usage, Son of God did not necessarily refer to subservience in Jewish usage. Equality and identity of nature. The essence of His true humanity; nature means essence. Subordinatioin is not involved, but equality of essence.

          e.       This idea is borne out in the Oxford dictionary. One who inherits the spirit or displays the character of some person. Webster: a person whose character partakes to strongly of some quality or characteristic as to suggest son and parent. Patrick Henry was one of our greatest orators and he never wrote anything down. Historians go to write things down about him and there are very few papers. When Patrick Henry would deliver a speech, he may have mentally organized his thoughts, but he did not write anything down. He came to be known as the son of thunder. His personality resonated with thunder.

          f.        Jesus said, “I am the last Adam to fulfill the prophecies spoken of Me” by taking on the title Son of Man  Jesus has the same essence as Adam. 1Cor. 15:45–47: Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

          g.       The Messiah cannot have mixed essence; His humanity was judged on the cross; His deity cannot be judged. In His true humanity, He could maintain residence and function inside the divine power system. He used 8 problem solving devices. Jesus suffered for our sins, sins He knew nothing about insofar as guilt is involved. There is no copout; no way to call down angels. He had a duty and He never waivered. All 8 of these problem solving devices were functioning at this time. He maintained unconditional love for all humanity. When you are placed under unfair and unjust circumstances, and personal love for God.

          h.       The definition of son is very important. He is not claiming to be subordinate to man, but He is equal with man and thus qualified to be man’s substitute on the cross. In His true humanity, He is not different from us. He had no genetic sin, and thus no imputed sin. He Who knew no sin was made sin for us. Jesus does not say that He is subordinate to man, but equal to man and qualified to be our substitute on the cross.

          i.         Jesus is not subordinate to God or the Holy Spirit. He is equal to God. The deity of Christ was not submissive on the cross; His humanity was submissive to God on the cross. He put Himself in a position where He was less than God and submissive to God. If we are in a position of high rank and a circumstance should arise in order to fulfill a mission so that we would take on alower rank and the submission that would come with it. Would you begin as the principal of a high school and allow yourself to be diminished to being a janitor at the same school.

          j.         In hypostatic union, our Lord was subordinate to the plan of God in the execution of operation reconciliation. Jesus could have gotten into the system or the plan and decide, “I cannot bear this;” or “I am unwilling to bear this.”

          k.        The willingness of God the Son to submit to God’s plan made our salvation possible. He began with God the Holy Spirit filling Him and He never lost that. Faith rest technique was involved; and He knew Bible doctrine and by age 10, He was teaching in the Temple. He never lost personal love for God of unconditional love for mankind when on the cross. All of this was sustained by the Holy Spirit and positive volition through His stream of consciousness. He was willing to subordinate Himself to this plan. Heb. 10:5, 7: Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;...Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.'" God required the true lamb of God; He did not require these little sacrifices. In order for Jesus to be true humanity, He had to have a body. God the Holy Spirit miraculously matched up 23 perfect chromosomes with Mary’s. Undiminished deity must be combined with a body. God receives credit for this and not Mary. I have come to do Your will, O God. Philip. 2:6–8: ...who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Jesus had a willingness to take on the plan of God and to take upon Himself a body. He empties Himself, which is kenosis. This does not mean that He did away with His deity; He voluntarily suspended the function of His divine essence. He took on the form of a servant made in the likeness of men. He remained obedient all the way to the death on the cross.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #16 8/30/98                             Sunday 1

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Principles from 1 John 5:5: The Two Essences of the Hypostatic Union

Joshua Introduction           Joshua Lesson #17 9/1/98                              Sunday 2

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Principles from 1 John 5:5: Review of Hypostatic Union & Power Systems; Justification, Romans 5:8-9; 4:5,8

1John 5:4–5: Everyone who has been born from God has been victorious over the cosmic system. Who is the one who is victorious over the cosmic system? None other than he who has believed in Jesus Christ.

Hypostatic comes from the hupo stasis in the Greek. He possesses the exact same essence of God and of true humanity. Adam was created without a sinful nature; therefore, He was a perfect human being, termed in Scripture as the Last Adam. The two essences; and Jesus Christ is different from God in that He is man; and different from man, in that He is God.

In Christ are two natures: divine and human. Inseperably united without mixture or loss of attributes. His humanity did not take on certain aspects of His humanity and His deity did not take on any human characteristics. The union is both personal and eternal. This union will last forever. Jesus Christ will be in this unified status forever. He is undiminished deity and true humanity. There is a special body designed for humanity in the eternal state and we call it the resurrection body.

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Do we not have more of a burden on ourselves, since we have a sin nature? The objective of each system is different. The objective of the prototype system was to fulfill the salvation plan. We cannot get inside our operational system unless we are saved. In the prototype, what is the process? The process is resistence to temptation with our problem solving devices. Jesus Christ used these same problem solving devices. Jesus Christ was asked to function within this system for 33 years without making a single mistake, even in cosmic diabolicus. He confronted individuals who hated Him and tried to trick Him. And He maintained His impeccability while managing these assaults from so many people.

Satan’s original name was Lucifer, and he, after his fall, became known as Satan or the devil.

We were not scourged; we did not have salt poured into our wounds; we were not required to carry our cross; and we do not have nails driven into our hands and feet. We did not face 9 trials held by people who hate us. The process for Jesus Christ was to maintain impeccability. He was to maintain all control. We have 10 problem solving devices; He used 8. Christ did not need to be occupied with Himself; and He did not sin, so He did not need rebound. We maintain spirituality and He maintained His impeccability.

We are not asked to be impeccable. The result of the protocol system; Christ arrived at the cross qualified to be our substitute. Our objective is spiritual maturity or experiential sanctification or glorification of Christ. This is a growth process; grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord’s result was to be our substitute on the cross. The conclusion to the prototype, the prototype system proved sufficient to achieve the objective of salvation. The operational system is sufficient for us to achieve spiritual maturity. The function within these systems is the same. Otherwise the gates to the system is the same.

There is also the mention of Christ being a mediator. He was uniquely qualified to be our mediator in the dispute between God and man. One who mediates between two parties with a view toward reconciliation. Jesus is equal to both parties: man and God; and only in this way could He properly deal with the dispute.

Rom. 5:8: God demonstrates His own love to us in that when we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

God demonstrates His own love to us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died as a substitute for us, much more therefore, having now been justified by His blood, we will be delivered from wrath by Him (Rom. 5:8–9). What made it possible for God to conduct a legal transaction where our sins could be imputed to Christ and not to us: it is in the phrase by His blood, which takes us to our next verse in 1John 5.

1John 5:4–5: For Everyone that has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the initial victory that overcomes the world, our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1John 5:6: This is He who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by the water and blood. And the Spirit is He who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

Joshua Introduction           Joshua Lesson #18 9/3/98                           Thursday 2

Introduction: Victory through Faith: 1 John 5:6; The True Humanity of Jesus: A Rebuttal against Docetic Gnosticism

We’ve been studying a passage which takes up our faith. In Joshua, faith will be the primary weapon that the people will use to take the land. John 3:16 tells us the our Lord’s work on the cross was for the entire human race. The justice of God is geared up; He cannot associate with sin. Righteousness demands righteousness; righteousness demands that justice be applied upon acts of unrighteousness. Our faith alone in Christ alone takes down the barrier and sets up a pipeline between God and man. Happy is the man to whose account the Lord does not impute sin. Christ paid the debt that we ran up at the cross. God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that when we were yet sinners, Christ died as a substitute for us.

I’ve been a very nice guy; or, my wrongdoing has been of a very minor nature. There will be justice and wrath brought upon these types. Rom. 5:9: we are no longer condemned; there is no punishment which will be laid upon us. We need to note that our last question was, what is it which allowed God to impute our sins to Christ rather than to us? 

Faith is a victory, and the first faith is placed in Jesus Christ; then it is toward the Bible.

Joe was punching through tv last night and he was punching around and came across the Discovery channel and it was a show all about cobras. They grow wild in Shri Lanka, and they grow up to 18 ft. and they are growing in and out of people’s houses. These people kept these cobras in the house and treated them as pets. They had enough venom to wipe out the entire community. They would handle this big snake and be passed around. Joe had his own feet up off the floor.

The Jews had faith rest, they had doctrine, and they had cobras. Yet, when they ran into cobras that began to attack them. These Jews should have had faith rest but they did not. Yet there are these Buddhists who have these cobras in their homes, but there was no faith rest involved.

If Joe deals with cobras, he is going to do it with faith rest. However, if he has have a chance, he will sprint.

V. 5 tells us who the object of our faith needs to be. This verse documents our Lord’s literal, physical death.

Our passage is documenting the initial victory in the cosmic system: faith in Christ. In v. 4 is our faith and the object is Jesus, the Son of God, in v. 5. In v. 6 we are given information that Jesus is truly the Messiah and confirms it with details in His physical death. John is very precise about all of this.

The custom was to break the bones below the knee, and the person could not longer hold himself up, and he would asphyxiate. John tells us about the blood and water in John 19 and in 1John. This one is He who came. The end result is emphasized.

We are fat dumb and happy here; we are looking for home run 62; we want that first from Mark Maguire.

1John 5:4–5: For Everyone that has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the initial victory that overcomes the world, our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1John 5:6: This is He who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by the water and blood. And the Spirit is He who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

Joshua Intro           Joshua Lesson #19 9/6/98 1John 5:4–6                   Sunday 1

Introduction: Victory through Faith: "Water & Blood" in 1 John 5:6 cp./w John 19:34, Physical Death cp./w Spiritual Death

Some of the great terms have been appropriated by holy rollers and distorted. Being born again is one of those terms. It describes our position with Christ; and our human spirit.

The fact that we can have victory over the fallen environment is the subject of this verse. There were spiritual assets which take us all the way to the death-shadow valley. Empiricism: you have to show it to me; rationalism: you must see that it makes sense to me. Faith can be placed in anything: science, mythology, the Word of God. We know that God wants to communicate with the human race; we have a cerebral cortex. We understand verbs. We can form sentences with some form of syntax. Children can process language almost from the beginning and they almost instinctively understand grammar and syntax. God communicates to us through language. Hebrew in the Old Testament and Greek in the New. When we learn concepts, then our volition is challenged to either accept it or reject it. We believe that the Bible is the Word of God. We must accept what comes from it as not only truth but as God’s message to us. The initial victory and the initial faith. We do not require that God prove anything to us. However, by His character, whatever He says to us, it should be the absolute truth.

1John 5:4–5: For Everyone that has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the initial victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

to say that He is God emphasizes His undiminished Deity. The are two essences and this must be for the Messiah. They must have undiminished Deity and true humanity.

1John 5:5: Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

V. 6 documents the literal physical death of Christ; and this helps us to distinguish between His physical and His spiritual deaths. We should remember that prophesies involving the first advent, that He must be equal to man and God to be a true mediator. The prophecies regarding the Messiah is He would be true humanity. And He woulddie for the sins of mankind through spiritual death (Isa. 53). The physical death on the cross was necessary so that He could be given His resurrection body.

Docetic gnosticism took Greek philosophy, mixed it in the eastern mystic religion and then to try to make that fit in with insipid Christianity. Dualism: all that is material is evil. There is a problem with the hypostatic union. Jesus Christ could not, in their opinion, be man’s Savior, because He is material essence; so they rejected the true humanity of Christ. If you cling to some false doctrine, it will, at some point, erode a true doctrine.

We must understand John’s words in relationship to Doscetic Gnosticism.

1John 5:6: This is He who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water only, but by the water and blood. And the Spirit is He who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

John understands this clearly; he knows that He is telling the truth.

1John 5:7–9: For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son.

The blood of the lamb is a type; Moses is a type of Christ who leads God’s people out of bondage, out of Egypt, which represents the world.

Joshua Introduction           Joshua Lesson #20 9/6/98                              Sunday 2

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Doctrine of the Blood of Christ: Definition; Significance of Animal Blood in the Old Testament

Joshua Introduction           Joshua Lesson #21 9/8/98                                Tuesday

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Blood of Christ: Animal Life in Its Blood, Lev 17:11; Typology of Mercy Seat & Ark of the Covenant, Ex 25:20,22

The literal blood of Christ does not save us; it is a phrase which makes reference to the spiritual death of Christ on the cross. There could be no atonement for sins apart from the atonement of blood. Nearly all things were cleansed with animal blood. There can be no forgiveness of sin apart from Christ’s work on the cross. The physical death of the animal is a type which portrayed the spiritual death. The physical death of the Levitical sacrifices to the spiritual death of Jesus Christ. The horns were used to tie and animal down; fire was underneath the altar. The animal was tied down. There was no escape at the point. The priest would put his hand on the head of the animal and on the head of the person, in order to transfer the sins. The image of the innocent animal being sacrificed for Christ and the forgiveness of our sins. The Jews understood that an innocent animal has to die violently in order for forgiveness to occur. The innocent animal being without spot and without blemish. Blood represents the death of the animal. A person dies when the soul exits the body rather than the blood; the blood exiting the body is the death of the animal. The violence and trauma of the animal’s death. The fire symbolizes judgment. The altar was the cross.

The Jews still do this called Yom Kippur. Sandy Kolfax and when he was in the World Series, he would not pitch on Yom Kippur. Every day is Sunday for the Christian. A guy who won’t sell anything in his stores on Sunday because that is the Sabbath.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #22 9/10/98                             Thursday

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Blood of Christ: Propitiation, Rom 3:25; Spiritual Death: Real & Substitutionary, Rom 5:12-14

This lesson seems to be broken.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #23 9/13/98                             Sunday 1

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Blood of Christ: Real Spiritual Death, Genetic & Imputed Sin, Rom 5:12-14

We were noting the spiritual death of Christ in the previous lesson. He was perfect; there was no way that He could sin. Jesus Christ through the enabling power of the Holy Spirit and through knowledge of the Word of God, all added to His ability not to sin. He was qualitifed to go to the cross and to be our substitute. Righteousness looks down and sees our sins associated with Christ. There is a breaking off of the relationship between the integrity of God and the humanity of Christ, and that is what occurred when Jesus took upon Himself our sins. God is perfect righteousness and a barrier is constructed between God and man. There is no way that mankind can remove this barrier unless God decides to do something about it. Jesus Christ, the 2^nd member of the Trinity, volunteered to take upon Himself our sin. He can only receive sins judicially, He cannot inherit a sin nature. He was qualified to go to the cross because He was sinless and He was our substitutionary sacrifice.

Real spiritual death, which applies only to mankind. The 2^nd kind is substitutionary spiritual death. When there is procreation. 23 chromosomes provided by the man, and he is the carrier of the sin nature. Through miosis and polar bodies, the Holy Spirit contributes 23 chromosomes which are without the sin nature. Adam’s trend to sin or the old sin nature is not found here. This begins with the very first cell. No matter how nice and cute your child is, they have a sin nature. This dna programs the old sin nature. That creates spiritual death. There is physical life and spiritual death. Totally depraved, separated from God; no fellowship.

Rom. 5:12: Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Adam sinned, he has a sin nature, and now he has a trend to sin. If you believe that the story in Genesis is some kind of an allegorical story to teach ethics, you have bought into a lie. Who among us has been deluded by these ideas? Joe has a theory: we have been fascinated by the fact that in our nation, there is a large number of people who do not understand right from wrong, unless something blocks them from doing what they want to do. Wrong is whatever keeps you from doing what you want to do. The majority of the people in the US now function under the 3 arrogance skills. All things may be approved, even if you have to rewrite the dictionary in order to do it. It is a desire and justification to sin, without any thinking towards what is right or wrong.

There is a trend to sin, and they begin with lust patterns. People can do corrupt and cruel things, and the next day stand up and proclaim wonderful humanitarian ideas. People can vacillate between the areas of weakness and areas of strength. All of this goes on in our country. There are a lot of people who can sympathize and orient.

The colonel caused a bit of a stir saying that there is no pivot left in this country. There is a select few who subscribe to the absolutes of Scripture; and a number who just give lip service and have no integrity under pressure. People don’t keep their word; they put themselves first; they hold things out and wiggle them around. There are absolute principles which are guidelines for our daily walk. Adam knew what he was doing and that began this whole nasty madness. Real spiritual death spread procreation because all sinned when Adam sinned.

V. 13 begins a parenthetical which runs through v. 17. To get the flow of this passage, jump from v. 12 to v. 18. Our personal sins do not condemn us before the eyes of God. That is simply adding coals to the fire.

Rom. 5:13–14: for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

V. 13 tells us that before the Law was given on Sinai to Moses, people did sin, but that sin was not the reason for their condemnation. Still, there was spiritual death ruling from Adam to Moses, and yet death reigned. There were some individual mandates given, but no universal revelation until Sinai. There was tradition and teaching angels.

I’ve got to say, I do not grasp exactly how this introduces us to Joshua.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #24 9/13/98                             Sunday 2

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Blood of Christ: Contrast between Adam's Original Sin & The Lord's Substitutionary Sacrifice, Rom 5:15-19

Sometimes we have things by way of genetics, and God has given us doctrine to deal with these things.

We have been noting substitutionary death and real spiritual death. 5 principles: Rom. 5 condemnation was not imputed due to personal sin. We sin as a result of our sinful nature. The imputation of Adam’s original sin is the basis of our condemnation.

Rom 5:12, 18: Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned...Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. Once you receive the justification of +R; and Griffith found this associated with 1John 1:9. That’s pretty goofy. When we receive His righteousness, that justifies us before God. We do not have to be justified again. We do need after salvation is confession and cleansing. The verse says we are cleansed, not justified.

Rom 5:19: For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.

Faith alone in Christ alone; all of our sins are transferred to Him and now we have His righteousness. The result of that is justification.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #25 9/15/98                               Tuesday

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Blood of Christ: Consequences of Original Sin; Substitutionary Spiritual Death, 1 Peter 3:18

Our spiritual death and total depravity is dependent upon our physical birth and the imputation of Adam’s original sin to our old sin nature. We were moving toward the substitutionary death of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is documented in Rom. 5:8–9: But God demonstrated His own love to us, in that, when we were yet sinners, Christ died for us [spiritually], the sacrifice and the taking on of our sins was part of a package of God’s love for us. Righteousness demands of justice that justice executes some form of judgment. God also has a divine love for the human race where He came up with a solution to our sin problem. Much more therefore, with greater reason is v. 9 true. Therefore, having now been justified by His blood This references back to the animal sacrifices of the Levitical code. we shall be deliver through Him. These are concepts related to the substitutionary death of our Lord Jesus Christ. This explains the conflict which rages in the invisible war. Isa. 14 and Ezek. 28 the fall of Satan and a third of angelic creation. He says that there is some method by which they could correct this error, but they rejected this salvation. There was the human race and we are given a chance to respond to Him in recovery. In the Church Age, we can put this aside by faith alone in Christ alone. The 2^nd husband is Jesus Christ, the empowerment given by the Holy Spirit; and we are able to refrain from falling back under the power of our first husband. When we fall back here, we play into the hands of Satan and we begin to imitate the life of the unbeliever. It makes necessary the 1^st advent of Christ. He is required to become an impeccable human sacrifice for the human race.

The loss of rulership of planet earth by Adam, the federal head of the human race. He had dominion over the entire population of the garden of Eden, including the animals and Eve. All the animals could file by and Adam could assign names to all of these. When He fell, he lost the federal headship to Satan, who therefore is the ruler of this world. A status quo of spiritual death and separation from God and we are helpless to extricate ourselves. God has allowed us an avenue of salvation, which is by unmerited favor. To reject God’s grace means that we think that we have come up in our own minds some alternate solution. The unbeliever seems to think that you acquire fellowship with God through human works or goodness or some sort of human merit. It is all the action of God, however, and we have nothing to do with it. We are helpless to extricate ourselves. After it is all explained to us, the Holy Spirit is through with His ministry for that moment. The Holy Spirit functions as a human spirit, allowing us to understand the gospel, where our volition is challenged. We can accept or reject it. Then the Holy Spirit stands back and permits volition to make a choice. Getting the gospel into the soul is called common grace. When this is believed, this faith is converted to ἑπίγνωσις and it is put into the heart. Therefore, this conversion of thought is called efficacious grace. That is the completed process of salvation. God has told us what it takes to be saved. We can reject this or accept it. This is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which makes all of this possible. We are helpless to extricate ourselves, so we are dependent upon an outside agency. You cannot be forgiven for the sin of unbelief. Therefore, we are left lost in our sins. We remain condemned and under the wrath of God.

We became dichotomous through Adam’s sin. We believe in Jesus Christ and we are given a human spirit where fellowship occurs and doctrine is stored. Adam was trichotomous when created, but lost the human spirit when he sinned. The concept of regeneration is being given a human spirit. This is because we go all the way back to Eden, to the fall; where Adam had generated within him a human spirit. He lost that thing at sin; that broke fellowship with God. Regeneration occurred when he expressed faith alone in Christ alone. Being the offspring of Adam means we are born totally depraved and we have to be regenerated as He was. When Adam sinned, he went from dichotomy to trichotomy.

The formation of the sinful nature in the cell structure of the human body was the result. This was then genetically transmitted by Adam. Our DNA coding includes a trend to sin. This has been going on from day one; no one escapes. It permeates the entire species. The fall formed this sinful nature. There must be some flaw in the DNA of Adam. This is why the virgin birth is necessary; Jesus Christ could not have a human father. That is the 4^th consequence of original sin.

Resultant production of personal sins passed along from father to child. The sin nature eventually shows up. This baby has a trend to sin and he got it from his daddy. When a child is born, he has a trend to sin inherited from his father all the way back to Adam. That trend to sin will produce personal sins.

The status of total helplessness to enter into a relationship with God on the basis of human good human works or human merit. There are a lot of people trying to be as good as they can get. They are born with a runner on first. Human works cannot overcome this. You were born with Ray Morgan on first base and you cannot get over that. Apparently this was an almost no-hitter during the time of Babe Ruth which cannot be a no-hitter because of Ray Morgan being walked and on 1^st base, even though he was thrown out when he tried to steal 2^nd base.

Adam’s action made what Christ did necessary. His true humanity was a substitutionary sacrifice, as well as the blood of Christ.

Back to Substitutionary death:

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #26 9/17/98                             Thursday

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Blood of Christ: "It is Finished!" John 19:30; Glay Posch's "Tetelestai!"; Literal Blood & Physical Death: Intro

We noted substitutionary death in the previous few lessons. The Holy Spirit’s point of contact with Jesus Christ was omnipotence and the contact of God with Jesus was justice. Physical death followed spiritual death. His death was sacrificial, it was substitutionary and is was spiritual. This was done while the Lord was still alive.

John 19:30: When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Jesus took a swallow of wine, probably to make Him able to speak. It was a sour white. Oinos is the word for good wine and oinos + myrrh is a 1^st century narcotic. It was used to deaden the pain of one of those who suffered some sort of injury. He was offered this mind-numbing mixture, but He refused it. Mark 15:23.

Sub-points follow:

Griffin is talking about Toscanini and Puccini and they go to the point at which he completed but it was not complete. Glay Posh was asked to put doctrinal lyrics to this and the result was most successful, which apparently they listened to on tape. Katy Tapping’s mother apparently passed away? 4 of them went along and Glay sung this. It appears to be called Tetelesti.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #27 9/20/98                             Sunday 1

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Blood of Christ: Events Surrounding the Physical Death of Christ

Doctrine of the blood of Christ. Spiritual death is paragraph C. Blood of Christ is a representative analogy. Type and antitype; prophecy and fulfillment.

Literal blood and physical fulfillment by Christ. 1John 5:6 took us to a study of the blood of Christ. Review: He pushed His head forward and willingly gave up His spirit. A pathologist would have to determine that His heart just stopped beating and that He died of His own volition. Anti-semitism in the south. The Jews crucified Christ and some blame them for His death. We all sinned and it is our sins which put Him on the cross. His physical death was His own responsibility. He surrender His soul and spirit. At this point, where our Lord surrendered His soul and spirit, His body remained nailed to the cross.

5.       A sequence of Sabbaths around the time of our Lord’s crucifixion. It was prophesied that He would be crucified at the Passover. John said, “Behold the Lamb Who takes away the sins of the world.” He was predicting that Jesus is our Passover. The Passover Satyr was celebrated by Himself and His disciples. Passion week: These days begin at 6 pm of the previous day for us. 6 pm to 6 pm for each day.

          a.       Tuesday: the Passover celebrated with His disciples Tuesday night (our Tuesday night) which is the beginning of their day.

          b.       Wednesday

          c.        Thursday

          d.       Friday

          e.       Saturday: after 6 pm on Saturday evening, our Lord was resurrected (which is actually Sunday).

          f.        Sunday

6.       Passover is the introductory day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which runs for 8 days. Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, the regular Saturday Sabbath, and then the Feast of First Fruits which follows the Sabbath after the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

          a.       Passover observed Tuesday night (their Wednesday beginning). He instituted the eucharist that evening. The next day is still Wednesday, and during the day of Wednesday, He was crucified. In the Jewish Calender, night comes before day. On the day of Wednesday, the Lord became our Passover Lamb, which takes place on the Passover. 1Peter. 1:18–19: knowing that you were not redeemed by silver and gold from your futile life, Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. This takes us back to the Jews leaving Egypt. Egypt represents the world and the Pharaoh represents Satan, ruler of the world. Passover meant that the 10^th plague would pass over them. Their faith in the Passover Lamb saved them and brought them out of the slave market of sin, and they are brought into the Hornada and they are brought into a difficult world within which to walk.

          b.       For the next 6 days, leaven is avoided and only unleavened bread is allowed. Leaven speaks of the presence of sin and it speaks of a species which needs a Savior. After you have been saved, you must walk according to the Holy Spirit. The feast of the unleavened bread teaches the Christian way of life. You do not have to submit to the power of the first husband. This is just an option. This is the Christian way of life, a 6 day festival. The resultant execution of the Christian way of life. You are to lead a life of unleavened bread. We do not stay unleavened for very long. We sin and introduce leaven into our life. But we can be restored to life in the Spirit. The environment of the divine power system is as perfect as the environment of the garden of Eden. Clean out your old leaven (confession of your sin to God). This brings you to a new life. Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Christ’s throat was not cut, His blood was not collected and taken anywhere. There is some notion that His literal blood was taken and spread on the mercy seat in heaven, but this is a myth and has no basis on fact or in Scripture.

          c.        The 3^rd Sabbath is a regular Sabbath, which is Saturday, beginning on our Friday evening.

          d.       The 4^th Sabbath is the First Fruits, which follows the Sabbath, so Firstfruits in on Sunday. This is Christ being raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who are asleep (1Cor. 15). By Adam came physical death and by Christ came life. There is an order to the resurrections. Christ is the firstfruits. Then those who are Christ at His coming. Do not ever think because times are bad, that the rapture is about to occur. Our times have nothing to do when the rapture will occur. Whenever bad times occur, people look to the skies and say, “Even so, come Lord Jesus.” Now, if you lived in Shri Lanka or Bosnia, you would have been expecting the rapture for hundreds of years. It has nothing to do with anything that we do; it has to do with God’s perfect timing.

7.       Jesus presented Himself as the Messiah and demonstrated His veracity by fulfilling all the prophecies of the Old Testament of the 1^st advent.

8.       Self righteous Jews were blinded by their myopic loyalty to keeping the Mosaic Law. The Jews keep the letter of the Law. Now, they could not execute Jesus on the Sabbath, so they have to have Rome act as their surrogate. Wednesday is preparationi for the rest of the week. All their ducks must be in a row for their feasts and they cannot leave Him on the cross past 6 in the evening which would be a Sabbath. They are keeping the letter of the Law, while observing their Lord and Savior die for them.

9.       The Lord became the ultimate Passover sacrifice. These Sabbaths occurred year after year in order to teach the need of a Savior, the coming of the Savior and His work.

10.     Ignoring the obvious, the Jews needed for Jesus to die on the cross before the beginning of the unleaven bread Sabbath, which began full-tilt that night.

11.     Passover was the first Sabbath in a set of Sabbaths.

12.     The next day was the day of preparation, and it was that day that Christ was crucified. The Jews needed to turn their attentions to the Feast of Unleavened Bread and they were not permitted by the Law to leave a corpse unburied. They wanted to dispose of the corpse as soon as possible. In crucifixion, people could last for several days to a week. The Jews did not want this man on the cross during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and they did not want to deal with disposing the body during a feast day. They wanted to hasten His death due to religious ritual.

13.     They appealed to the Romans to break His legs, which was done at that time to kill the one on the cross. John 19:31:

14.     Deut. 21:22–23 was their motivation: If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and you hang Him on a tree, his corpse will not hang all night on the tree, but you will bury him on the same day. He that hangs is accursed of God and you will not allow him to spoil your land. Death is required for some criminals.

15.     As the soldiers began to break the legs of the other two, they discovered the Lord was already dead. They broke the other men’s legs, but they came to Jesus, they did not break His legs.

16.     Breaking the legs of those crucified made it impossible for the victim to elevate himself to deal with the fatigue and pressure on the chest muscles, which kept you from breathing. You could stand and relieve the muscles. The chest would then tighten up, the muscles would become rigid, and the result was suffocation.

17.     This was not done to Jesus Christ, because He was already dead. Fulfillment of type (Ex. 12:43: this is the ordinance of the Passover). The concluding verse: you are not to break any bones of it. Psalm 34:22: He keeps all His bones; not one of them was broken.

18.     Next comes the critical event, which provides the Apostle John the evidence he needs to show that Jesus is true humanity, which was what the doscetic gnostics believed, and they could not get past a duality concept: that which is spiritual is good and that which is material is evil. Therefore, Jesus could not be material. They assumed that He was a phantom of some sort. He was an illusion, and apparition. You must accept the humanity of Christ to be saved. You cannot understand what He did if you do not realize that He is fully human. We must recognize that He is God and man in one person forever. Do not get it in your mind that Jesus is just a great guy. That does not make sense, because that would make Him a liar. Furthermore, He is offering salvation where He cannot deliver. A soldier pieces His side with a spear and John observed blood and serum. This is the somatic death of Christ and He did not bleed to death. There is some sort of talk show and someone called and asked about R. B. Thieme. Then launched into a dissertation as to what a looney Thieme is. They guy went on and on and railed about him. The problem in his mind was the blood. Griffin has been teaching this doctrine for the first time in about 14 years, and for 10 days, and apparently they are going for it. Blood flowing in His veins has no spiritual impact. He was identified with our sins, thus causing spiritual death to Him.

19.     John could only describe what he say in layman’s terms. He saw blood clots and a clear serum. He called it blood and water. He is writing as a layman, and he knows that this indicates that Jesus did not bleed to death on the cross.

Several questions have come to Joe about the sustaining of God the Holy Spirit, and he has taught this back in 1992 Easter.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #28 9/20/98                             Sunday 2

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Blood of Christ: Medical View of the Lord's Physical Death; Comparison of Figurative & Literal Blood of Christ

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Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #29 9/22/98                               Tuesday

The linking of the blood of the sacrifices with the death of Jesus Christ. The judgment of sin in the animals was symbolic and the blood was literal; with Jesus Christ, the blood is symbolic and the judgment is real. The spiritual death relates to our salvation and His physical death relates to our resurrection. The problem of sin is eradicated by the blood of Christ through redemption. All humanity is bought from the slave market of sin. Eph. 1:7 1Peter 1:17–18. Reconciliation is Christ’s work on the cross toward all mankind. This removes the barrier between mankind and God. God is not reconciled to man; God is propitiated toward man. Propitiation refers to the work of Christ on the cross directed toward God. Christ paid the price and God deemed this enough. Propitiation = satisfied.

10.     The sprinkling of blood is the means by which a person was ceremonially cleaned. Sins were not forgiven, but they were covered. This ritual takes care of the problem. The sprinkling of blood is the means by which the believer is ceremonially cleansed.

11.     What this ceremony accomplished temporarily is permanently solved by Christ’s death on the cross. Forgiveness occurred on the cross. Believers before the cross did not go to heaven at death, because sins were not forgiven until the cross.

12.     The figurative blood of Christ is redemption, propitiation and reconciliation. It dealt with the sin problem, our total depravity.

1John 5:4–6: For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

14.     The literal blood of Christ speaks of His somatic death. Christ is the first fruits of that resurrection. He could not enter into heaven in its human state, even though He was perfect and without a sin nature. His new body can function on earth and anywhere eles. So, physical death must occur. Physical death points toward resurrection. Our salvation had already been accomplished.

15.     The literal blood was proof positive that He was true humanity. A phantom does not bleed.

16.     This is an effective polemic against doscetic gnosticism. When people try to base their faith on some belief system must commit their faith to a replacement of Bible doctrine. The things which religions believe require more faith than simple Bible doctrine. People will sit around and dream stuff up, like Christ is a phantom. There are thoughts which require so much more faith than the deliver Word of God.

17.     The serum and blood clots mean that Jesus Christ did not bleed to death. If He had, His blood would have been in whole form. Therefore, after His death, His blood had begun to separate. From His own volition, He gave up His spirit. If an autopsy had been performed, the result would have been the heart stopped beating, based upon the soul leaving the body. When the soul is gone, the heart stops beating. The actual cause was volition. The spear in the side indicated that Jesus had already died physically. Christ on His own volition gave up His spirit. No one killed Jesus; He willingly gave up His own life. He took a drink of the oxys wine, and then shouted, “Finished” from the cross.

18.     His physical death was necessary in order for him to fulfill the firstfruits. He said there would be no sign apart from the sign of the prophet Jonah. 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the earth. This is only difficult for those who are negative toward the gospel. People will go out of their ways to explain some hokey idea they have dreamed up; like 1 minutes of one day, a full day and then 1 minute of the next day. That is not what was meant.

19.     His resurrection body was necessary before He could ascend and sit at the right hand of God. Jesus is in His hypostatic union right now. Our human resurrection body will be just like His. When we read that He is at the right hand of God, it is in His resurrection body. Our resurrection body is designed to exist in a perpetual state forever.

20.     Now that our Lord is seated in the true Holy of Holies, believers are guaranteed a future resurrection body just like His. We will see Him just as He is.

21.     Heb. 9 helps us to contrast between the literal blood of the animal sacrifices and the figurative blood of Christ. Heb. 9:13–14: For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. That collect blood took a person who was defiled and it covered those sins as a result of the animal sacrifice. The cleansing of the flesh was a covering of the post salvation sins by the blood of the animal. Aforitori kicks off v. 14. If this is true, then this is even more true. How could Christ endure and survive the judgment of sins; how could He endure. You cannot sin inside the power system. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit, there is not sin in your life. You step outside of the filling, and you can sin. Our Lord’s humanity bore our sins. That was the sacrifice. He and his true humanity paid our ransom. Through His eternal spirit, offered Himself without spot and without blemish to God. The only thing that makes it real and complete is that Jesus Christ kept His impeccability for those few hours. Forgiveness is ours when we confess our sins to God. We are separated from our dead works so that we can serve God. We have pieces of Scripture in order to communicate things like this. How is propitiation possible unless Christ procedes without flaw. If the blood of goats and bulls sanctifies for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ purify our conscience from dead works in order to serve the living God?

22.     The sustaining ministry of the Holy Spirit through the entire incarnation. Virgin birth to physical death. It is blasphemous to contemplate that Jesus did not somehow possess the Holy Spirit and was not inside the divine dynasphere. You can only get out of this by volition. To make the statement that Christ exited the prototype system. Impeccability was consistent throughout the entire incarnation. There was never a moment when He was sinful.

1.       Impeccability and Jesus Christ; He did not sin during the 1^st advent. His humanity was temptable (temptation is not the same a commission of sin).

2.       In His Deity, He is Non possi pecari = not able to sin.

3.       In His true humanit, He is Posi non pecari = able not to sin.

4.       It is apparent that Deity cannot sin. Because Jesus depended upon the filling of the Holy Spirit, He was able not to sin. How did He have the power not to sin? He had volition. When human life was created by the virgin birth, there is the possibility here that there is that theoretical possibility that volition could swing negative. What gave Him the power to no sin is the filling of the Holy Spirit in the prototype divine dynasphere. Sinning is outside the system, and volition takes you outside of the system. It is blasphemous to assume that we can commit sin while being guided by the Holy Spirit. While inside this system, you cannot sin in this system. You lose the filling and then you sin. Jesus Christ had volition, but He could not sin. He was born inside the system.

5.       Two reasons for the perfection of the humanity of Jesus Christ: union with deity in the hypostatic union (the divine nature cannot sin); and the humanity of Christ was inside the prototype system. The Lord’s point of contact with divine essence is the same as ours: omnipotence. That is the filling of the Holy Spirit; that is the power of the system. When you break that power, you lose the energizing power. That is why you cannot perform divine good when out of fellowship. The Bible becomes a light unto your path; the Holy Spirit walks along side of us as the paraclete.

6.       We ought to be able to conclude that we have a system to overcome our weaknesses. Utilizing the power packages which has been designed for us. We can get out of the wheel tracks of wickedness and move along in the wheel tracks of righteousness. There is a certain individual is constantly in the news and there is a believer who is dealing with the same sort of problem over and over again. We would do anything that we could, except that we have the Word of God which is a restraint upon our souls. That is the solution to this guy’s problems. The Word of God is alive and powerful, and His Word is the solution. Congress cannot fix this problem. There is nothing that anyone cand o about this problem. Even through the legal processes, it is still a problem. 2/3^rds of the people think it is okay. We are a degenerate client nation. We need to give God a reason to spare our nation just one more day. It is important that we understand these various things. Jesus faced direct challenges by Satan himself. The only time he comes out of hiding is when someone has the power to get something done. He indwelt Judas Iscariot. Satan indwells the Beast dictator of the Tribulation, who proceeds to go after a global government. These were people who could make major decisions in his favor. Satan has demons given to us; he has relegated that. Satan is a fallen angel; he is a created being and he can only be in one place at one time. If all the people who claim on Sunday tv that they are being assaulted by Satan that would be impossible.

7.       Heb. 4:15 He functioned apart from sin, although He was tempted as we are.

8.       With the Holy Spirit and the Word of God that we learn, we can take these things and remain sinless when inside the system. To make this system available to us, Jesus had to test drive it. He is one who has been tempted in all things as we are, but without sin.

9.       He remained in status quo impeccability.

10.     His impeccability is based upon the humanity of Christ utilizing divine operating assets. The sustaining omnipotence of God the Father; which includes the prototype divine dynasphere. Jesus did not buckle under to obvious problems which seemed to have human solutions (like food after fasting for 40 days). Then there is the delegated omnipotence of the Holy Spirit inside the system.

This is a good place to stop and get into these Latin words, and it is a change of pace. So we will resume Thursday.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #30 9/24/98                             Thursday

Jesus was able to retain His impeccability throughout the time on the cross. Our Lord Jesus Christ did not sin during the hypostatic union, even though His humanity was temptable. Indwelling and filling of the Holy Spirit; the circulation of Bible doctrine in the stream of consciousness. Then there is the maintenance of fellowship. We cannot sin while being within the system. In the prototype, He was able not to sin. There is the union with deity and the humanity of Christ resided in the divine dynasphere system. Our Lord was not only tempted as we are, but more so. He was pounded and pursued by the scribes and pharisees, pestering Him and hounding Him and trying to find Him to be wrong in any point; and then on the cross, He suffered all of our sins without sin. Throughout the incarnation, Jesus Christ remained in status quo impeccability. The delegated omnipotence of the Holy Spirit inside the power system.

We will take this up next time.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #31 9/27/98                             Sunday 1

Griffin has not yet taught the blood of Christ officially, but this may be the right time to do it. There was doscetic gnosticism during the time of Joshua, and that they did not believe in the humanity of Jesus Christ. He had to remain in fellowship throughout all the time prior to the cross and through being judged on the cross.

Some concluding points from before:

a mission, a goal and an objective, and He therefore had to opt out of using any of His divine attributes. His Deity said, “I have come to do Your will, O God.” If the Lord Himself can orient to the authority of God, then surely we can. He could have delivered Himself from the cross, but He chose not to, in order to remain loyal to the mission. He used the delegated omnipotence of the Holy Spirit to stay on the cross. The power enabling Him to maintain fellowship was the power of the Spirit.

He is going to review us from time to time. This sounds like we will review. He wants us to be able to put the armor on and to deflect the arrows of Satan.

There are the Semitic first cousins in the land which are Israel’s enemies. Almost just like them. Originally Hamites in the land. The 2^nd generation will meet the battles head on and they will be successful. A smaller population imitating 2^nd generation Jews. People today will tell you what is in their souls on national TV. This 2^nd generation has its faults, but the majority of them are in the program. Joshua was the chief of staff for Moses who trained them.

We have two options: to be a winner or a loser; to be victorious or to be beaten down. You have to eliminate the dross. Winners were those who made it into the land.

We are looking at the Pentateuch which chronicled the lives of certain individuals so that the plan of God is revealed to us via imagery. Take children, for instance. Since they do not know anything, they have to get some illustrations. They know what their parents tell them, friends and tv. They cannot write, spell, think, parse verbs. They learn by pictures and illustrations.

Griffin is terrified by prep school. He could not teach them. It is too hard. Terrified by a room filled with 4 year olds. God breaks through to these people by examples, by visual aids by pictures; and it is called typology.

Type is a divinely purpose anticipation which anticipates the anti type. The same truth or principle is embodied in each. Redemption itself is taught. The Passover Lamb reveals the blood of Christ. A type is something which represents something else, often from the future. The antitype is that which is represented. The type serves as a clear illustration of the antitype once the antitype occurs.

When we study the New Testament, we can turn to the Old and see that God was teaching this to us all along. At this point in time, there were only 5 books. Taking the land for us is the invisible war between Kansas City and Santa Fe. The strength which gets us there is Bible doctrine in the soul. We are kept on the trail by the 10 problem solving devices. These fight off the exigencies of life. Along the trail behind you will be the deaths of 1^st generation types. This is not the Millennium; and the people in this church are not going to be perfect.

Exodus deals with redemption from Egypt. The nation was delivered by faith in the sacrificial lamb, that this would save them from the Destroyer. Those who did not believe in this blood, had their firstborn killed. This is being pulled out of the slave market of sin. Pulled away from the first husband, who is exemplified by Pharaoh. Faith is a transitive verb; it must have an object. You must trust that Jesus is a person of integrity; He becomes the object of your faith. The Word of God become the object. Do you believe that it is immutable. Can you trust Him to back up His Word? Do you have that concept called faith.

Leviticus is the 3^rd book and it is filled with Typology which teaches worship, rebound and salvation. In the Levitical offerings and sacrifices the portrayal of salvation and rebound. In the feasts we find future events set up.

The Passover pictures the sacrificial death of Christ. It is deliverance from Egypt and a type of deliverance from sin.

The Unleavened Bread is #2 is a type for the two spiritual skills. No leaven, therefore no corruption. Where can we experience this? In the divine power system. We must eat the unleavened bread of the Word of God to maintain this system. This is the metablization of pure truth from the logos. The result is the Christian way of life.

The third is Firstfruits: this is the resurrection, which takes place when sheaves are brought to the Temple and they are waved toward heaven. This is a type of Christ and the subsequent harvest is the resurrection of the church.

The Pentecost, 7 weeks after Passover. The priest waves two loaves of bread before the Lord. This is after the barley has been made into bread; and there is leaven which is used to bake the bread. Because the church is not yet purified, the loaves contain leaven. But they are baked by fire, so the sin has been burned by fire. The two loaves are Jews and gentiles being made one in Jesus.

The feast of trumpets is the regathering of Israel at the 2^nd advent. This scattering takes place at the time of the Church Age and in the Tribulation.

The 6^th ritual is the Day of Atonement, which is typical of all the concepts surrounded the blood of Christ. We will pick up back right here.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #32 9/27/98                             Sunday 2

The Day of Atonement, which is a day of national cleansing, to parallel the Jews in the Millennium. The sins of the people are covered for that year. Covering is just a temporary measure, which is done in anticipation of the sacrifice of Christ. Once the cross was history, man became the beneficiary of reconciliation. You are indwelt by all 3 members of the Trinity. We always had the omnipotence of the Holy Spirit when filled with the Spirit.

Heb. 10:1: For the law, since it only has a shadow of good things to come, and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices, year by year, make perfect those who draw near. It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. “Sacrifice and offering you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for Me.” Then I said, “I have come to do Your will, O God.”

Origin of this feast is celebrated 4 days after Yom Kippur, and it is the Feast of Tabernacles (or booths) and this celebrated the dwellings where they lodged temporarily during this 40 years. Prophetically, this speaks of the Millennial rest.

Moses repeated now and again. Repetition is necessary in order for us to remember them. Numbers provided the Jews with tests and trials in order to train them to do something. Life is for training. You can become skillful by utilizing your spiritual assets. This book documents the failure of the first generation and shows that the 2^nd generation was willing to be trained.

Our learning curve is going to steep in the Millennium and we will learn a lot of doctrine.

Deuteronomy: Moses’ commence address to the Sinai Military school and the Sinai school of Government. This message was given to the second generation only. All Gen X is dead, except for Moses, Joshua and Caleb. Strength and courage are going to become very important in mid-October when we get that far. You need a superior system of power. Life wears you down and you must eventually submit to a higher power. Israel’s divine mandates.

Types and their antitypes occur, by the unity, in only such a way to be by divine omniscience. A true type is the counterpart of its antitype and being specifically Imagine taking instructions out of thin air and putting together a set of feasts and festivals and sacrifices, say in 1440 b.c. and imagine setting these up as types of things which would occur 1500 years later. At that time, another body of men would record a number events which perfectly interlock with that which is written 1500 years previously. Furthermore, some of these types and antitypes are still coming to light today. Typology demonstrates that the Bible is a book that man could not write even if he wanted to.

Joshua is Hoshea, which means salvation. He is the son of Nun and he is from the tribe of Ephraim. His name is very similar to Jesus, and Joshua can be seen as a type of Jesus, just as Moses.

Joshua is ordered by Moses to assemble a division of men to confront Amalek. They are victorious at Rephidim. Joshua was chosen by Moses to be his aide-to-camp. Moses was taught the entire Law by the Lord Jesus Christ assisted by a faculty of teaching angels. He obviously had to sleep now and again. Ex. 24:13 and both Moses and Joshua went together, Joshua as his assistant.

When God retired Moses, He had Moses promote Joshua as governor promoteable. Moses commissioned Joshua publically. It is a very trying time when leadership is replaced, especially with this people, who were not the best, but who did grow spiritually under Moses. Moses was like a Douglas McArthur to these men. Do not change leaders lightly. Change of authority ceremony. Deut. 31:23. “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the children of Israel into the land of promise.” Without faith and the system, you cannot make it. Joshua assumed command on the plains of Moab after a 30 day mourning period.

Then God tells Joshua to arise and lead these people in Joshua 1:1–2. Judges 2:8–9: Joshua died at age 110. When you acquire this kind of spiritual growth, your spiritual life is magnified and extended. We learn that when we are faithless, we do not hinder God’s faithfulness to us. There are 7000 promises (according to a book that Griffin has). When God makes a promise, there are no strings attached. A promise is where God says, I will do something. These are useless if you do not have faith in them.

1John 4:4: Whatever is born of God has overcome the world. Divine essence cannot coexist with sin. The Canaanites are so degenerate that God had to remove them from this earth. Often times people come under the hammer of God because they harass other believers. We have this goofy idea that the whole world can fall in love with each other. Griffin would love to go to their family gatherings.

God does not want the Jews to do according to their detestable things. They sacrificed their own children. They had their children involved in sexual activities in demonic activity.

We tell children today that perverted sexual activities are okay; and that people in high positions of authority can do it with impunity. Children have hormones and they are looking for an excuse.

If a CEO or a university president of a university had a female assistant which they had a inappropriate relationship with her, and still maintain their position, if it was a consensual relationship? Could a pastor do this? Could a college coach do this with a student? If you say yes, you cannot tell the difference between right and wrong. We are unable to understand or to distinguish between right and wrong.

The believer can only enjoy God’s gracious provisions if he appropriates them by faith. At this point we took up an exegetical study of 1John4 or 5.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #33 9/29/98                               Tuesday

This is still a review. We are emphasizing the concept of faith. We have an initial victory which occurs by faith alone in Christ alone. This initial victory occurs at salvation, which is a victory over the cosmic system. It can become an occasional home for us. We must function inside this system and we are energized by God the Holy Spirit. We can maintain this environment until we again sin. Each gate can be sequential but as we learn how to function under each, the brain is able to plug up with all the doctrines in the soul, giving us a great ability to think.

The power gate, which is being filled of the Holy Spirit. The very same power that we have is the same power which raised Jesus from the dead. 1Cor. 3:1–3. Carnality can be overcome by confession alone to God alone. 2 problem solving devices which can be used by the new believer: the new believer needs to be involved in some kind of Bible study. Salvation solves the problem of our eternal future. We need to know how to recover from personal sin. Basic Christian modus operandi begins to function as we grow. We claim promises in Scripture, which does not depend upon us or upon anything that we feel. God loves us and has given us His Son and has directed this love to us. This eliminates fear, worry and anxiety. Unconditional love. You do not have much integrity until you acquire this in Bible class. There are over 7000 promises in Scripture and we can learn to moderately get along with others through unconditional love. You cannot get along with anyone if you are arrogant. This is the freedom which develops from the absence of subjectivity. The way to check yourself out on your growth is, do you have unconditional love for others, are you current on rebound, do you have humility, do you claim the promises of God. Your agenda must be checked; God’s agenda must be assumed. We develop an orientation to grace. Grace says we are all her by the grace of God. We receive blessings from Him through a grace pipeline. Grace orientation keeps us from thinking that we are some sort of king of the mountain. Orientation to authority. Orientation to establishment. Orientation to doctrine is making it apply to your civic life.

Sound judgment is possible and it is acquired by faith. Peter says clothe yourselves with humility. He says to humble yourselves by the might hand of God. You do not get ahead of God’s plan. Do not get further down the trail than you are. We often times make too many plans as we move down the trail. We only need to plan to the next Bible class.

Gate 4 is spiritual momentum. When you are humble, you can be taught. What is communicated is doctrine. Imperative moods on function and practice in your life. There are negatives and positives and doctrines which are developed. We are able to be people smart and to keep from being deceived by everyone.

Some people will call Griffin and they call him up and ask him for food or money; and then he hears Bible verses quoted to him. They are rank strangers. Griffin knows the people in his flock and he will help them if they are hungry. You have to develop some system of standards. Who do you help in this life? Are they family members? You handle family members first. Then you help fellow members of the royal family. Then people you know. Eventually, it is rank strangers, which is a lot. They will badger you and beat you to death with Bible verses. What about this charity business? People will take the yellow pages and they will call every church on that list; and when the day is done, they have finished their work and they count up their money. You get momentum from these gates and you become teachable. You can make the advance.

Gates 5-6 are motivational and functional gates and virtues. Functional virtues are directed toward man and motivational virtues are directed toward God. You need not be afraid of anything which life has to offer. God’s promises are found in Scripture and we are able to identify them and we can have courage toward life and circumstances. When we worship God, we worship Him in Spirit and in truth. We can turn our spiritual growth around and direct it toward man, which is the functional morality towards man. Joshua was told to be strong and courageous. Confidence toward God is a motivational virtue which gave him courage toward man.

Momentum testing. It is an expression of His grace and he is offered the opportunity to accelerate his advance. Do not become unglued or unwound when problems enter your life. God never tests a positive believer past his ability.

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Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #34 10/11/98                            Sunday 1

Griffin talking about Virginia vacation. He plans to do more reviews. Periodic reviews.

Paragraph C: Joshua the book

We function on faith. We hve the very same doctrine in our Lord’s soul replicated in our own soul; and we have problem solving devices while encountering momentum testings in cosmos diabolicus. John 16:33: These things I have communicated to you in order that you might have prosperity. Take courage; I have overcome the cosmos. Morality does not cut it in the Christian way of life. You can be moral outside the operating system. But you cannot have Christian integrity outside that system. Faith is non-meritorious at salvation and it is non-meritorious after salvation. Knowledge pumps you up. You can quote back Scripture to save your life. You must make doctrine a part of your thought processes. They must be a part of your thinking and it require faith in the work. You believe these things work and you do not care about the details.

The initial victory of the cosmic system is faith in Christ. We begin the Christian way of life as a winner. We share in His victory at the cross. Post-salvation sins are forgiven by confession to God alone. Then you utilize doctrine to overcome the various momentum tests to the cosmic system. You use doctrine to defend your soul and to overcome the world, the flesh and the devil. This way, you maintain residence in the system. The believer in this system has divine operating assets. As a royal ambassador, you represent Christ to man. You can develop spiritual skills to maintain your efficiency. Neither the strategic victory or the tactical victories are possible without the precedent set by Jesus Christ.

Theologians constantly disagree about what the Scripture says. Some of those who pursued and hounded Jesus were these type. The Judaism coalition. Not much is known of their coalition, but they were a constant harassment to Jesus.

If you are without sin, you may cast the first stone; but if you are not without sin, then you are not qualified to find fault with anyone. If we cannot find fault with someone, how are we able to forgive someone? A wrong must be committed in order for that wrong to be forgiven. In any case, you are not to judge an individual for the sins they commit, but we can judge behavior. How can our children determine who they should or should not associate with. Where do we draw lines? Is it legitimate to reject certain behavior patterns. Anti-Semitism is a gross evil and it is the basis for the destruction of some nations. At the church, you cannot exhibit anti-Semitism. You have to use an inventory of ideas in order to judge the behavior of those in your periphery.

The name Jesus emphasizes His true humanity. Jesus the man is the revealed God of the Universe, the Son of God. We noted several things about this dual nature. When Jesus uses the word Son, it refers to Daniel and his night visions. With the clouds of heaven, one like the Son of Man was coming...to Him was given the.... A Millennium reign prediction. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand; associates Himself with the fulfilment of this prophecy from Daniel. This upset the Sanhedrin, the Scribes and the Pharisees. Son of Man refers to His humanity; Son of God refers to His Deity. Equality and identify of nature is the key here; not inferiority or subordination. This idea is born out in English. One who inherits the character or spirit of another = son. The essence is so close as to imply a father/son relationship.

Jesus is the last Adam, born as Adam was created. Adam fell; Jesus was born as Adam was before the fall. The use of this title is our Lord’s assertion that He is the Messiah. In hypostatic union, our Lord’s humanity was subordinate to the salvation plan of God. The willingness of Christ to subordinate Himself to this plan is the basis of our salvation. Heb. 10:5, 7 When He comes into the world, He will say, “Sacrifice you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for Me.” I have come to do You will, o God. Philip. 2: Although He existed in the form of God, He did not regard equality of God a thing to be grasped. He volunteered to take on this form. In this hypostasis, He emptied Himself. This is kenosis. It means to deprive oneself of assets. On occasion, when Jesus could have performed a miracle, He did not, if it was not in the plan. Even if a miracle could resolve an issue, He chose not to perform it. Kenosis is taking the form of a servant and being in the likeness of men. He revealed God to man. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself. We have the option through faith alone to access all those things associated with Christ’s work on the cross. We do not have to be angry; we do not have to be bitter. We can remain in that system and serve God without sin and without utilizing the arrogance skills. This is a phenomenal package. We have bee brought out of tyranny to the first husband. It is the title Son of God. Jesus means Jehovah is Salvation.

1John 5:4–5: Everyone who has been born of God is victorious over the cosmic system. Who is the one victorious over the cosmic system? None other than he who has come to believe that Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus Christ is the unique person of the universe. We will review the hypostatic union next time.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #35 10/11/98                            Sunday 2

if you don’t understand the hypostatic union, then you are not saved. God cannot be identified with sin; so we cannot see Jesus Christ as simply God. If you believe that Jesus Christ is God but not man, you are not saved.

In the person of Christ is two natures: True humanity did not take on aspects of Deity or vice versa; there was no loss or transfer of attributes. There was no loss of Deity and no aggrandizement of humanity. Jesus has eternal life from eternity past; and He has eternal life in His hypostatic union for all the future. In the person of Christ there are two natures, divine and human, inseparably united, without loss or mixture, designated in theology as the hypostatic union. He will exist forever in this hypostatic union. He possesses the exact same essence as the Father and man, and in this way, He is unique. He is different from God in that He is man; and different from man in that He is God. He is uniquely qualified to be our Mediator, who mediates between two parties with the idea of reaching a reconciliation. He is an authentic substitute for us in taking upon Himself our sins. By successfully arbitrating this case on the cross, we can have eternal life and eternal fellowship with God. It was His spiritual death by which He gave us a place with God. Because He was impeccable, without spot or blemish, He was able to serve as our substitute. God demonstrates in His love for us, that Christ dies as a substitute for us.

Limited atonement does not hold up under Biblical analysis. God unconditionally loved the world so much [perfect personal love requires a perfect object; if God is to love mankind, it must be unconditional] that it resulted in Him giving His Son, the uniquely-born One God will give the land to the Jews under Joshua and all they had to do was to believe that He would keep His Word. If we believe in Him, God would save us. God unconditionally loved the world so much, for the purpose of assuring us that whoever believes in Him Everyone who believe in Him will not perish you will go to hell if you do not believe in Him but you will have eternal life. You cannot use the words eternal life for something which will end. If there is some way that we can end our lives permanently, then this is a misuse of this word by God. Rom. 5:8: God demonstrates His own love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died on our behalf [or, as a substitute for us; instead of us].. The justice of God imputed our sins to Him instead of to us. He took the burden off of us. All this required of us was to believe in Jesus Christ. If you believe in His work, God will honor our faith and save our soul. He did this even though we were enemies. Logically, if He was willing to do this when we were enemies, then it is much easier for Him to do the greater for us, not that we are in Christ. That is Rom. 5:9. The most difficult has been accomplished; therefore, the less difficult is much easier for Him to accomplish. Πολους + μαλον = if the greater benefit has already been given, then the less will not be withheld. Eternal security is easier for God to accomplish than salvation to begin with. That is what this passage is about. It is easier for us to have eternal security than it is for us to have salvation. Eternal security is the easy thing; salvation is the difficult thing. Δικιοω = to be justified, to be vindicated. We have God’s righteousness. When sin is removed, all barriers are down. The sin problem was removed by Christ; any sin problem that we had was removed by the cross. Rebound is not a re-upping of our salvation; but it is restoration to spirituality. Once you receive +R, you can never lose it. Rom. 3:28: we conclude that man is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law. Our justification is by faith apart from the works of the Law. Nothing more is required from us than faith alone in Christ alone. Rom. 4:5: To Him who does not work for salvation, but believes in Him who justifies the unbeliever, his faith receives credit for the imputation of divine righteousness. Salvation by faith alone in Romans is clear; and some are so negative, they will run like a sprinter to James for faith without works is dead, which they will pull out of context and cling to. In James, it simply means that your faith is non-functional apart from works. The Word of God is the thinking of the Creator of the God of the Universe. You cannot say that “James trumps Romans.” They must coalesce. God is not disputing or contradicting Himself. There are those who say, you just cannot take it by the easy route. It was not easy for Christ. We are the beneficiary for His impeccable work on the cross. What more can be done than what He has done for us in the cross? Do we somehow place ourselves in the arena of perfect humanity and think that there is something that you can add to salvation. It is bewildering and arrogant.

God will not charge sin to our account, because... This is a technical, legal term for discharging a debt. Paul uses it to indicate that our sin is taken off of our books and moved over to Christ on the cross. Sins taken off and placed on Christ. +R is imputed and we are justified before Christ. That which allows Jesus to do this is by His blood, which is how we are justified.

After salvation we are brought into His life and given the power system which He used. We are dropped right into the power system which He tested and showed to be functional in this world.

1John5:4:For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.

1John 5:5: Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #36 10/13/98                              Tuesday

Laura Kay Tapping was born with the Elephant’s man disease; hers was primarily internal and it forms tumors on the inside. They are not malignant, but they are associated with this disease. Doctors thought she would live to be maybe 25; but she is 43. She does not have an adult IQ because of this disease. She has come to illustrate GAP. She is a mature believer, although she does not have an adult IQ. She understands her place in the plan of God and has a personal sense of destiny. There has been bleeding from 4 places in her brain. Her condition is unstable. With spiritual assets, you can advance in the plan of God, even without human assets. If you have ordered publications there, her job is to pull the books together and mail them to us. Whenever we receive something, she has taken care of it. She will take work home and she enjoys her work; and all of this is motivated by doctrine in her soul. She has a limited IQ and has still advanced spiritually. She will be among the winners if she advances to heaven. Katy is with her around the clock at St. Luke’s.

The people who take the land will do so because they have absolute confidence in the Word of God and they have absolute faith that God is able and faith that God’s Word will be backed by His integrity. God is capable. He will do what He says. Joshua will teach us these concepts. This is a framework study rather than a book study, so that we can understand the assets that we need to examine. Now we see the application by generation and one of the primary messages of the book of Joshua. Our faith victory is shown in 1John 5:4–6. This verse documents the literal, physical death of our Lord’s humanity. One of the key concepts which brings us to this is where John challenges the principles of doscetic gnosticism, which are those who do not believe in the humanity of Christ. His death could not be Substitutionary for us. Only Christ in His true humanity could have had this effect for us. Only a human being can experience somatic death. John provides his eyewitness account. It is the Holy Spirit Who bears witness, because the Holy Spirit is the truth. John is simply the amanuensis. Jesus Christ did not bleed to death on the cross. He made a volitional decision to give up His soul to the care of the Holy Spirit and his human spirit to the Father. Jesus said, “I have the authority to lay down My life and the authority to take it up again.” He was given the authority to end His life on His own volition. Luke 23:43, “You will be with me in paradise.” At death, a trichotomus separation occurred at that moment. He did not expire due to natural causes. He volitionally separated His soul from His body, thus exiting this life by His own volition. His sacrificial death was done; and He alse needed for His resurrection body to be prepared. The bleeding which occurred had no efficacious effect upon our salvation.

ἅιμα = blood. Arndt and Ginchrich point out that there is a figurative use of the blood of Christ. Blood makes reference to this expiatory sacrifice. They say, especially the blood of Jesus with respect to salvation. Kittel also speaks of this graphic phrase for this death of Christ in its soteriological meaning. Concepts which belong to the sacrifice do not mean that there are cultic applications tied up with the blood of Christ. You do not keep a cultic understanding of the blood. The early Christian representation is simply a metaphorical garment. It is put on top of certain doctrines in order for us to understand these doctrines. Early Christian representations. Clothes the thought of self-offering. Jesus Christ hanging on the cross and as our sins are imputed to Him, He is judged as a substitutionary sacrifice. The animal sacrifices are the type which are matched up with the antitype of Jesus Christ. The blood of Christ is the metaphorical garment. This represents this. Another source where the blood of Christ represents our Lord’s violent sacrificial death on the cross.

Hebrew word for blood is ד-ם. No atonement for sin without the atonement of animal blood. There was a sequence and system of sacrifice and rituals. Heb. 9:22 there was no forgiveness of sins unless there was a sacrificial blood offering. Nearly all things were cleansed with animal blood. Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. The saving work of Christ on the cross. Physical death of the animal is the type; the spiritual death of Christ is the antitype. Ritual must always point to reality. No matter how benign propaganda and evil may be, the ultimate destination and application is to some way contort the doctrines found in the Word of God. Everything is angelic conflict. If you take things just as face value, you will forget that there is something going on behind it. When he teaches concepts like these, those who are ardent subscribers to the animal rights movement, are appalled. Griffin understands being concerned with the animals. Animals are to be utilized us for work, for food, for companionship. However, here, animals were used to represent Jesus Christ. However, animal rights groups have mistaken animal notions. All the animals on a thousand hills are God’s and He created the animals for a number of purposes. Placing the hand on the animal’s head is a type; the animal is innocent; so is Christ. This depicts the impeccability of Jesus Christ. Many people are in heaven today because many animals gave their lives to illustrate these truths. The fire represented judgment in sacrifice. Lev. 17:11: The life of the flesh is in the blood. God had no restriction against eating animal meat; just animal blood. The blood was symbolic of our Lord’s spiritual death. It was a representative analogy. Part of the reason for this prohibition was related to the type?

Nephesh means life and means soul. Since an animal does not have a soul, we render this as life. It is the animal blood which makes the atonement. The animal does not have a soul; it has volition, but no volition tied to responsibility. The animal, with respect to a sacrifice, is innocent. The mercy seat was the golden lid sitting over the Ark of the Covenant. The contents of the box reminded the people of their sins. The mercy seat had golden cherubs at each end. On the Day of Atonement, the blood of the sacrificial animal was sprinkled over the mercy seat.

Hiloskomai means to appease, to show mercy, to pardon. God was satisfied with the work of Christ. Christ Jesus, Whom God has publically displayed with His blood, as His mercy seat (Rom. ). Jesus is the one which justice looks at. The animals were without spot and without blemish. God publically displayed Jesus Christ as His mercy seat on the cross. Divine justice identified our sins with Him and executed judgment upon Him. There were 3 hours of judgment and separation. Matt. 27:36: Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “My God My God, why have You forsaken Me?” The doubling of My God is emphatic. The phrase the blood of Christ in the New Testament makes reference to the literal blood of the sacrificial animals of the Old Testament.

Spiritual death:

Spiritual death is the separation from God in time and must therefore be classified as judgment. Two forms: real spiritual death in status quo sin and it applies only to mankind. Substitutionary spiritual death applies only to Jesus Christ. Real spiritual death began at the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. The sin nature is inherited and we have within every cell of our body a trend to sin. There are areas of weakness and strength. These are the things which we can expect to occur in our daily life. We can be neutralized by propaganda and knocked off our spiritual horse. We can be lured into some sort of human good operation. Rom. 5:12: just as through one man, sin entered into the world, and real spiritual death spread to all men, for all sinned when Adam sinned.

There was no reason for the death of Adam and Eve. The human body is designed for everlasting life. Science will tell us that.

1John 5:6: This is he who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #37 10/15/98                            Thursday

Real spiritual death is separation from God in a state of sin; which can only be applied to man.

There is also substitutionary spiritual death, which can only occur in Jesus Christ. 1Peter 3:18: For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,... Righteousness demands that anything related to sin be separate from God. Jesus Christ never lost association with the Holy Spirit and He never lost any other attribute of His perfection. It was this sacrifice and this judgment which provided our grace salvation. It is His spiritual death which provides us our salvation. Superficial people think that there was only physical death on the cross.

First, Jesus said, “Finished” and then bowed His head and gave up His spirit. Jesus took oxis wine, which was to quench thirst, and it was a favorite drink of lower classes and those wtih moderate incomes. By drinking this wine, the Lord did 3 things: the drinking of the wine fulfilled prophecy. He indicated that He was clearly alive. He was thirsty, and the contents of what He had to say had to be crystal clear. He needed to clear His throat and He would shout “Finished” from the cross so that all could hear.

The intensive perfect of this verb. This is the tense of completed action. Its basic significance is the progress of an act to the point of culmination. The subject is it; and that refers to the spiritual death of our Lord. There is a representative analogy related to the blood of the animals. His blood, His sacrificial death, is finished. When special attention is put on the result of the actions. The one word in the Greek should be rendered: “It has been finished in the past with the results that continue into the future.” Salvation is available to any who believe. That which has been completed is the blood of Christ. Our Lord was most definitely alive when He drank the wine and spoke this word.

The Lord’s literal blood is associated with His somatic death. There was a lot which is known about crucifixion and how it fluctuates from time to time. There is the locking of the knees to get the pressure off of the arms and wrists, and so that the person could breath. Jesus push Himself up, pushed His head forward, and then exhaled His spirit. Jesus was our Passover and there was the feast of the unleavened bread and the feast of firstfruits. Passover was the first of the time of week of unleavened bread. The Jews had to deal with the corpse, as this was their responsibility, they could not leave a corpse remain unburied after the sun went down. Anytime a corpse came down, it had to be dealt with. The Romans would break the legs of these 3, so that their bodies can be taken away. Deut. 21:22–23 You will not leave the corpse on the tree all night long. The legs of the first man was broken. When they came to Jesus, they saw that He was already dead. The breaking of the legs made it impossible for the person to stand, and take a breath. In that position, they could exhale; without legs to stand on, they could not stand. This fulfills prophecy.

Then there is something which documents that our Lord is human and that He is dead. John observes that there was blood clots and serum which came out (blood and water). John just described what he saw, not being a doctor. The dependent parts would be the heart and lungs, and out would come the coagulated blood. If someone died from excessive loss of blood, clots and serum will not form. Death cannot occur by bleeding to death, Jesus did not die physically for our sins. The perversion of the meaning of the blood is an attempt to obscure the importance of His spiritual death. We are born with a runner on first (the sin nature) and we must depend upon someone pure and faultless to suffer death in our place. We have genetic sin, imputed sin, and personal sin. This barrier has to be removed in order for us to have a relationship with God. Unlike the blood of the sacrificial animals, His literal blood has no significance. His literal blood reveals His true humanity, and John’s observation confirmed that He is true humanity and it distinguishes the shedding of blood from His spiritual death. Jesus died because He said, “I now dismiss my spirit and soul.” “Father, into Your hands, I commit My spirit.”

Paragraph E: a comparison between the literal blood of Christ and His spiritual death.

Every time we see the references to the blood of Christ, then we are referring to His spiritual death. The Jews attempted to keep every single detail of the Law, but without actually understand what it is all about. Judgment of sin did not occur until the cross. Our Lord’s substitutionary sacrifice is symbolic. The figurative term, blood of Christ, refers to His substitutionary spiritual death. His physical death relates to His resurrection; His spiritual death refers to His dying for our sins.

Redemption: Christ’s saving work on the cross. The slave market of sin means we are born imperfect. We have been delivered through the redemption of Christ. The unbeliever is redeemed by faith alone in Christ alone. Also, 1Peter 1:18–19. The sum total of all that Christ did on the cross. God is never reconciled; He is propitiated.

Propitiation: the work of Christ on the cross toward God. The spiritual death of Christ. God approves of our Lord’s work on the cross. God is satisfied with Christ’s work on the cross. Rom;. 3:24–25. The sprinkling of blood under the Law had to do with ceremonial cleansing of Israel. There was a ritual which managed this, which ritual was the Day of Atonement. When the angels looks down at the blood sprinkled there, they saw the evidence of an innocent sacrifice, and this resulted in atonement. Judgment did not occur until the cross. They had to execute this judgment year in and year out. In the Age of Israel, under the Law’s spiritual code, the ritual sprinkled blood on the mercy seat. There was an animal sacrifice which is burnt as well. These people believed in Jesus Christ as their Savior, and that is the spiritual life of that day. The literal blood is now permanently accomplished by the victory work of Christ. Everyone who has been born from God is victorious over the cosmic system. What is that initial victory is our faith, which is faith alone in Christ alone. Who is the one who is victorious over the cosmic system; none other that He who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus is equal to both parties in the dispute; and He could bring both sides together through His work. God is satisfied and man is reconciled. This one, Jesus Christ, is He Who came by serum and blood clots. This is an effective polemic against doscetic gnosticism. They considerred His appearance to be an apparition or an illusion. When you reject the truth of the Word of God, something mus take its place. People who reject Bible doctrine reject Jesus Christ then reject truth in general. You must accept some standard of guidance. There must be some guide in your mind. You make decisions from some inventory of ideas. When you reject the truth, then you suck in bizarre and confused ideas of those things which go on around you. Our country is driven by emotion and the 3 arrogance skills. Griffin will want to show us how the Clinton thing reveals the 3 arrogance skills. The current administration is not the problem, bujt a reflection of the people who put them there. He has to wait until this becomes an historic issue as opposed to a political issue. These pages which he will read from Thieme were written about 20 years ago and they are absolutely current. Without doctrine, you will believe something. Griffin does not know if there is enough doctrine to change the shift. The doscetic gnostics were willing to believe the most bizarre things, calling Jesus an illusion or a phantom. John documents the giving up of our Lord’s spirit; Jesus Christ existed in true humanity. Heb. 9:13–14: If the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a red heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, how much more will the blood of Christ with greater reason, who through His eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot or blemish to God, and through this, purify your conscience. You do not need a ritual; you do not need an animal. This purifies us from dead works. Jesus is in true humanity and He was plugged into the spirit’s through His omniscience. The doctrine of impeccability recognizes that our Lord Jesus Christ did not sin during the 1^st advent.

He had true humanity and it was temptable. He was non posse pecari = not able to sin; in His undiminshed deity, He was not able to sin = non posse peccari. Posse non peccari, which is able not to sin. When we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we are able not to sin. We do not win when we are in the system. We can have a pristine environment which takes us back to the garden of Eden prior to the fall. Perfection is perfection. We have it inside the divine power system. We can maintain this for 5, 10 or 15 seconds. You prolong the operational system and our residence in this environment. It is with doctrine that the Holy Spirit guides and directs us. There is more leadership and guidance and capacity. The more doctrine we know, the more efficient the Holy Spirit can be in directing our paths. Without this, believers will believe anything just as the unbeliever will believe anything. In the whole end of the thing, you get involved in human good. We give our hearts to easily to the ruler of this world, when the One Who loves us all will give us all. Impeccability is not capable of sinning. It is free from fault and blame. In the hypostatic union, you cannot be tempted. Humanity is temptable but impeccable. The residence and function inside the prototype. The very same environment which has been given to us for sometimes minutes at a time; and with doctrine, we can prolong minutes into hours and hours into days. If you take enough tylenol PM, you could conceivably get through two days inside the system. You can do it, but don’t get involved in the 3 arrogance skills and suggest that you are doing it. 1John 3:5: in Him there is no sin. 1Peter 2:24: He in His own body bore our sins on the cross. He made Him, Who knew no sin, was made sin for us. We believe that He is the Messiah figure. Faith alone in Christ alone grants us salvation.

Jesus could not sin inside the divine power system. When we are within this system, we cannot sin either. You must volitionally step outside of the power system in order to sin. Εν + αυτος in the neuter is in it; and in context, this is an environment of the power system. It is undergirded by personal love for God. Whenever we are in it, we are not sinning. When anyone sins (the customary present of habitual sinning), he has not seen Christ. Cosmic system nor has he known Him. As long as you are inside that operational system, you are not sinning.

There is the concept that volition guards the gate of the soul. There are the positive and negative poles. The sin nature is the origin of temptation. There are 3 categories. Temptation to sin, commit human good or to do evil. There is constant battering against this gate to sin; as long as there is a flot line of problem solving devices, you can resist these temptations. If there is the breach in the wall, the power of the Holy Spirit is cancelled; you no longer have spirituality, but carnality; and you are outside of the power system. As long as you stand guard at the gate, holding the fort, your soul is free of sin. You cannot sin inside this system. Anyone who resides in it is not sinning. When you agree, in your volition, to commit a sin, then, in a microsecond, you have stepped outside of the system in order to sin. Whether overt or mental, you have chosen to sin. Jesus never stepped outside of this system even when on the cross enduring the judgment for our sins.

At Joshua 37, at 59 minutes, there is a weirdness? I guess it is okay.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #38 10/18/98                            Sunday 1

Discussing Laura Kay Tapping’s disease, and she is experiencing brain bleeding.

As we move toward the 21^st century, it appears as though we are degrading the heroes which we have left. A national condition which lacks integrity and moral courage. We are entering into an era where we have no concept of truth or right and wrong. As we grow up, we learn concepts of right and wrong. Griffin was born in 1941, and he was raised in the 40's and 50's where there were real heroes.

A highlight to begin this story about a man who is a real hero. Griffin did not realize just what an impact this guy had on his life. Until we meet again is a story about Roy Rogers. He began as Leonard Sly. He left this world as the king of the cowboys. The 20^th century is best defined by the mid-century years. He was the hottest thing in the 50's; movies, tv, comic books. Second largest character only behind Walt Disney. When he showed up at country fairs, there would be record-breaking crowds. He was bigger than life. You cannot sell a television show today based upon values. He touches some things in people that they don’t know about themselves. A quote about the concept of heroes, which was known kn all places throughout the United States. But now we have a culture where children are denied the ability to admire. John Wayne was attacked by cynics; but they ignored Roy Rogers, seeing him as just a cowboy. He sowed the seeds of wholesomeness and character and honesty.

Griffin taught prep school in Houston and he tried to get across the idea that there are heroes outside of the Bible. The kids did not think that they could live up to the Bible heroes. So Griffin collected those who were heroes. They did have some real heroes that they came up with.

At this time, we will begin a study of a true Biblical hero. Joshua 1:1–4 is the command for conquest. Douglas MacArthur listed Joshua as being one of the greatest generals of history. Teddy Roosevelt quoted from this book often. The conquest of the land was probably quite accurate.

Joshua was in his 80's at the time that they began to conquer Canaan. He had wisdom and the power of the Spirit. He got to the point where he reevaluated his life in the light of God’s Word. The proper place for the believer is to get into Bible class. There should be no changes in your life until it is clear on the basis of doctrine what you ought to do. We do things on God’s timing, not ours; and by the power of the Spirit, and not ours.

God uses prepared men; the ages of such men is unimportant. He was under 40 years of training. God not only chooses certain men but He prepares them. When God removes a man from a position of leadership, He always has someone to take their place. Joshua never promoted himself; he did not volunteer, he did not politic for this position. Joshua went along with God’s timing. When Moses is removed, there will be a power vacuum. The people of Israel were prepared for this transition of leadership.

Joshua is not ensconced in power and authority over Israel. Joshua moment in history has now arrived. He is God’s man for the crisis. What qualifies him for this role is his genuine humility. We learn in Joshua 1:1, he is the Lord’s chosen warrior.

Griffin finds out that he upsets people globally with some of the things that we say. Super hypersensitivity: agree with me or I will be offended. The first generation were taught these things, and they rejected it. They wanted to return to Egypt.

You can be somebody because God has given us wondrous assets. Winning victory in the angelic conflict; it means to qualify for escrow blessings in heaven. Every Jew was promised the land. All they had to do was to get up and go into it. Do you have the courage to go in and take it? The whole first generation thought it was too hard; they did not think that God would really be with them. There are rivers to cross and mountains to climb and you cannot do it without trusting God.

The Jordan River is a serious river and it is in flood stage at this time. There is a huge drop; it is a mad, rush water at 17 cubic meters per second. They believe God and they crossed. They never questioned any of his orders. Confidence and courage are the keys to this book.

Joshua 1:1: After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant,

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #39 10/18/98                            Sunday 2

Joshua 1:2: "Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #40 10/20/98                              Tuesday

God has already given them the land, and for 40 years, He has been desirous that they would take it.

God knew that there would be a few who would follow Abraham in faith alone in God alone. He knew that God would come and establish His earthly kingdom. The fulfillment of the Palestinian covenant. Those who will populate Israel will be Jewish believers who survive the Tribulation. This promise applies to any Jew who will take God at His Word. The Jews could have come into the land at any time. They were fearful of taking the land in the first place. They whined and refused to die; then they stormed the place (Caleb and Joshua held back). Capacity is an issue; the 2^nd generation had the capacity. When you have absolute faith in God’s integrity and veracity, what He has for us is there for the taking. This kind of capacity begins with faith alone in Christ alone. They did not know Him as Jesus Christ. Capacity receives the conveyance of blessing, only when that same is place in the Word of God. You must use the same faith with saved you and place in the Word of God.

For 40 years, God waited to give them His promises. They had the promises, they did not believe it, so they did not go into the land. The Jews had an inheritance called the land. He told Moses, I will lead you in. He told the G-2 fellows, I will lead you in. The G-2 force determines what has to be dealt with. We can enjoy phenomenal blessing in the devil’s world. However, if we operate in fear, we will not go into the land. The 2^nd generation will take the land, for they believe the Lord. There is a capacity for victory. Joshua knows they have the mental inventory in order to seize and hold the land.

Whether you go to heaven or hell is based upon a volitional decision. Whether we inherit our escrow blessings is dependent upon our day by day volition.

The Amorites are merely one tribe which occupy the land. They had lived in the land for a long time.

Joshua 1:2: "Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.

44.     The 2^nd generation does not have the capacity to take all that God was willing to give. That is the story for the angelic conflict, for our life here on earth. What do you have the capacity to take? Then you need courage toward man and circumstances. You must move forward with courage and confidence. God has given you all, but you have nothing. The best any of them could do was Moses got a shot of it. Gen X had squat for capacity. We are afraid. We give our hearts too easily to the ruler of this world.

Joshua 1:3: Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.

Joshua 1:4: From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

Paragraph B: the provision for Conquest. Jesus Christ makes that statement to Joshua and He makes this statement to us as well. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. Do you believe it? That’s the hammer shot right there. The last thing on your mind is this concept. I will never forsake you; I will never fail you.

Joshua 1:5: No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #41 10/22/98                            Thursday

This is a repetition of an unconditional covenant. What the Jews will receive in the land, will not be a fulfillment of God’s promises, but only a partial fulfillment. When they fail in their endeavors, they are run out of the land.

The literal fulfillment of the land covenant, and that will come to pass in the Millennium. Client nation Israel will be populated by believers of the Old Testament in their resurrection bodies and Jewish believers who survive the Tribulation.

The Canaanite empire is made up of powerful tribes. You are crossing over the Jordan today to a place where the people are greater and mightier than you.

The iniquity of the Amorites is the iniquity of all the tribes. The predator nation which would rid their land of their inhabitants would be the new client nation Israel. Many of those in the land were considered to be giants.

Are the Old Testament promises applicable to New Testament believers? These sorts of statements provide the basis for Paul’s confidence and his facing such hostility of people and environment. Does this cause us to become frustrated or even afraid? God told Paul what He told Joshua. Acts 18:9–10: And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, "Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people." Do not be reticent to apply Bible doctrine to your life and do not be afraid to speak the gospel. There is nothing that the devil’s world is not capable of overwhelming, apart from Bible doctrine. The devil’s world can make you the most disgruntled person on this earth. We are to be content with what we have. Joshua 1:5 “I will never desert you and I will never forsake you.”

Joshua 1:3: Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.

Joshua 1:4: From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

We need to reflect on some of God’s attributes. Omniscience. There are two aspects: God knows all that will occur in human history, which is real history. This is what actually happens. All the rest of God’s knowledge become potential. When would your sorry ass be if you did not believe in Jesus Christ? What jail would you be in? What ditch would you be in? Or what church would you be being self righteous. But, without salvation, you would not be here. In the computer of divine decrees, God knows all possibilities; He knows the end from the beginning and He knows every detail of it. Griffin pretended that for Christmas, his prep school kids would get a truck for Christmas, and God would be able to tell where that wood for the truck came from, who made it, who shipped it, and what tree was cut down to make it. We have one chance to make every decision which we make, and every one goes into that prom chip and it is unalterable. What think you of Christ? There are man who say, “Yes, I believe in Christ” and they are placed into this prom chip. God was able to pull an inventory of all those who believed in Jesus Christ. Of all the people who live, there is a list of these people who believe in Jesus Christ. I will not conjole them; they may accept or reject the gospel of Jesus Christ. In eternity past, God knew all of this. This list which God knows about in eternity past, and He knows they are the elect, and He knew that He would bless them and how He would bless them. The blessings were developed in eternity past to be distributed. Some doctrines come from this. False doctrine says that God knew all believers in eternity past, and therefore somehow made a group of people believers and another group unbelievers. Human history is the playing out of all these decisions.

The several points given actually outline the divine decrees. There was the creation of a sub-angelic group of people, who have only free will in common with the angels. God did not decree in advance who would be saved, but that all would be free to choose.

Joshua 1:5: No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #42 10/25/98                            Sunday 1

These promises give Joshua and the people the courage necessary to take the land. They have the land, but then they are told to take the land. The first generation did not have enough courage to do this. At the moment of our new birth, we have a great many assets, but we never get to know these things which God has promised us unless we develop these assets.

1Peter 1:4–5 promises us an eternal inheritance. Eph. 1:3–4 is the inheritance of the escrow. In eternity past, God developed a perfect plan to resolve the angelic conflict. Those who believe in Jesus Christ would become the elect and those who did not would choose the Lake of Fire. We are free to accept or to reject the information. What are the asset associated with our great salvation; particulary our election and predestination.

27.     There was a specialized priesthood in the Age of Israel. No one else was a part of this priesthood. You have to be of the house of Aaron. In the Church Age, we are royal priests to God; we do not need an intermediary. We have all we need to survive on the guarantee of God. We cannot stem the flow of these logistics.

28.     There is a predetermined plan called predestination, which is a doctrine which is often contorted. The more we learn this predetermined plan, the more we understand our destiny. The purpose is to be baptized into Christ. He is our great High Priest and being in Him makes us royalty. One of the results makes us a member of royalty.

We develop the 4 spiritual mechanics in this system. There are slight differencs in the modus operandi, for instance, He did not need to use rebound. We can do because Christ did it. We have the same system. The opportunity is that we have the same system that He had. The power gates, teachability gate, impersonal love and personal love toward God, enforced humility, ultimately when you love God, you want to serve Him and you will adjust to His justice. Spiritual momentum, which is based up gap. We are emphasizing that confidence in God. People are a test; thought testing is internal and external; 2 categories of cosmic system testing; disaster testing, prosperity testing .the opportunity is the availability of this system. Griffin sent out a card with the 4. The old sin nature is functional and operational after salvation. We can therefore be carnal rather than spiritual. Walking in darkness versus walking in light. 1Cor. 2:1–16. That finite man can understand infinite thought is miraculous. How many people actually utilize the power options? It is imperative to use the filling of the Holy Spirit in order to grow. You cannot grow without the Holy Spirit. In the two power options, you develop spiritual IQ. The function of the 3 spiritual skills: the filling of the Holy Spirit; there are about 50 who show up on a Sunday. Griffin heard a tape of Thieme on Ephesians, and he understood about 4% of it, but that was more than he got from anywhere else. Momentum is based upon consistency. Doctrine based upon doctrine. Everything has to link together. With these skills, you begin to develop the problem solving devices, which is how you deal with the exigencies of your day. The soul must be protected from the internal agent, in opposition to our advance. It seeks to rob us of the Holy Spirit, suggesting that you do some sin for old time’s sake. The deployment of the 10 problem solving devices allows you to stave off these attacks. First power option, 1^st spiritual skill, and 2^nd problem solving device is the filling of the Holy Spirit. Grace orientation to life is important, because here we get to understand divine policy and relate it to our lives. No works, no merit, no talent, no emotion; no ability. If we were in an iron lung, your talents of abilities might not be important; but you can move to spiritual maturity in an iron lung. Everything depends upon God; everything depends upon the Word of God. We are spiritual by grace; we live by grace; and we die by grace. Doctrinal orientation to life. We have produced wisdom. And we can evaluate life from the divine viewpoint. Confidence then becomes the issue. That is developed at doctrinal orienation. “I have hope” really is “I have confidence.” Doctrinal orientation to life. The personal sense of destiny, where the immutability of God links up with us and our destiny is built upon this. We recognize that we are a royal priest. You don’t have to tell those in a church what you have done or go through an intermediary. We have confidence that we are in a perfect plan. What about our ambassador function? Do we come to church, get a booklet, and then go into a neighborhood. The Lord will put people in front of you; are you prepared to tell them the truth. A personal sense of destiny is necessary. Personal love for God is an advance problem solving device. You love the object. God is perfect; He can never be imperfect; and He qualifies to get our personal love. This is in tandem with unconditional love with your fellow man. You are able to manage fallen mankind. Sharing the happiness of God. Occupation with Christ; He is top priority in your life. 4^th spiritual mechanic is the execution of the adult spiritual life. Formula form. These concepts have to do with our spiritual growth. These levels of spiritual advance are part of our inheritance from Jesus Christ. He advanced through the system. It is ours at the moment of our salvation. Spiritual self-esteem is epistemological rehabilitation. Wheel tracks of righteousness replace wheel tracks of wickedness/sin. You first learn the doctrine of salvation, which is one thought. Hopefully, you get eternal security; then maybe you learn about to Holy Spirit. We build knowledge on knowledge, principle on principle, doctrine on doctrine. We do this over and over again. Our neuro network grows. Cognitive self-confidence. There is nothing which beats experience in life. You grow when you are challenged to make application. Then you see that doctrine works. Unconditional love toward mankind eliminates all kinds of problems in your life. No more scheming; no more revenge. We run into all kind of people, thoughts and systems which cause us to lose the filling of the Holy Spirit. We move back to the operational side of the spiritual life with rebound. Maybe you start berating people because you know stuff that others don’t. That is a form of arrogance, which often ends up taking you to suffering. Providential suffering prevents you from getting too arrogant. Spiritual autonomy is a stage of spiritual growth where you have capacity for happiness without being arrogant. Have you ever been just amused by other people instead of angry. It is not our job to tear down, but it is our job to build up.

Joshua 1:3: Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.

Joshua 1:4: From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

Joshua 1:5: No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #43 10/25/98                            Sunday 2

Spiritual autonomy kicks off the 2^nd stage of the Christian life. Outside adversities of life are neutralized by problem solving devices. This might be also described as spiritual self-sustenance. You are becoming an independent thinker and you can analyze and think and understand. So many people today cannot evaluated the affairs of their own life. Cognative independence is a wonderful place to be, because of the clarity of thought. No matter what is said, their rationalizations and thinking is flawed. When you reach spiritual autonomy, you reach cognative independence. You can have prosperity or adversity and still be happy. Happiness is based upon orientation to God. You take what comes to you for that day as God’s assignment for that day. Here’s your assignment and deal with that today. He gives us the ability to solve and deal with these situations.

Momentum testing: thoughts, people and disaster. By the time you begin to share this environment called the happiness of God. You have the capacity to manage it very efficiently. Christ did this for us and was our example. We have a system of assets which makes all of this possible. Spiritual maturity comes out of all this, as a result of momentum testing. Spiritual maturity + cognitive invincibility. You are invincible to anything that the world might offer. You are prepared for the ultimate test and the ultimate blessing. Not all people face evidence testing, which is part of Satan’s trial. He seeks someone out to put under maximum unfair pressure and suffering, and God allows that person to deal with these things with great courage and level-headedness. Job is an example of this, losing his family, health, wealth and friends. We know from the beginning that God allowed this. God allowed Satan to put all the pressure on Job that he wanted, with specific restrictions. All of these things were taken away from Job, and God told Satan, Job will remain loyal to me. Satan said, “Anyone will love You in prosperity, but not in adversity.” The blessings which come to the mature believer are phenomenal. God permits this so that the trial can reach its conclusion. You can be tested in your relations to God in the plan of God. You are in status quo carnality. If you are distracted by evidence testing, then you have lost the power options. As a result, you become disoriented to the plan of God. It’s not my fault, you point fingers, you deny, the blame others; and the mature believer can spiral down to reversionism as a result of evidence testing. Paul and Job are examples of those who succeeding in evidence testing. This is the gist of the inheritance that we have.

Joshua 1:3: Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.

Joshua 1:4: From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

Joshua 1:5: No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #44 10/27/98                              Tuesday

Our inheritance is associated with royalty. We are children of God; and since we are children, we are also heirs. In Christ, we have a number of assets that we share with Him. Old Testament saints had similar, but fewer assets. Certain Israelites were beneficiaries of a client nation with client nation status.

The Jews are presently dispersed throughout the four corners of the earth.

A promise of a great nation to come out of Abraham and that God would give them a permanent piece of real estate.

Gal. 3:15–18 To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ. This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

How can God fulfill the unconditional contract to Abraham? It can only be fulfilled if this applies to the spiritual descendants of Abraham, and not the physical ones. Just having a piece of land to call your own was not enough here.

Joshua 1:3: Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.

Joshua 1:4: From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

Joshua 1:5: No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #45 10/29/98                            Thursday

Abrahamic covenant; Palestinian covenant (which is the land grant). How can this be unconditional, if all of these individuals die.

Gal. 3:15–18 To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ. This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

Abraham was promised a huge piece of land, which extends all the way to the Euphrates. Paul applies this Roman legal concept to the promises made to Abraham and to his seed. This is seed in the singular, which is the point which Paul makes. The Lord is seen as the ultimate recipient of God’s covenant with Abraham.

How can God fulfill the unconditional nature of this contact with Abraham?

the Divine Intent of the Palestinian Promise to Abraham. We must first understand the lapsarian nature of the covenants of God. 1/3 of the angelic beings fell with Satan. Satan wanted to appeal the trial, saying, “How can God, Who made us as we are, cast us into the Lake of Fire?” The choice was there, they chose to rebel. In a summit conference, the Godhead decided to let the appeal trial go forward, and a lesser creation was brought onto the scene in order to resolve the angelic conflict. They were created perfect, and they had no conscience. Everything was right. They were a righteous people placed in a righteous environment. The volition had to be challenged, as it was with the angels. They were told that they could do whatever they wanted, but not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If we believe that we are part of a fallen society, we are a lapsarian. We believe that man, therefore, lapsed, or fell.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #46 11/1/98                             Sunday 1

The current thing that we are studying has to do with the inheritance. The real estate is the product of a promise, which promise lies with God. The Israelites do nothing; they are the recipients. So, what about the fact that those to whom the promise was made are now dead?

Gal. 3:15–18: To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ. This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

People thought that if they believed in Christ and then kept the Law, they would be saved and have a part of the kingdom. The Judiazers taught that the promise came through keeping the Law. Paul points out that the promise was made the Abraham and his seed, Who is Christ. The Law came 430 years later, and cannot overrule a contract between men previously made.

If the inheritance comes from keeping the Law, it is no longer the result of the promise. Jesus is the center of this promise. You cannot annul the contract or add anything to it; as it.

The family tree of Abraham was examined as well. How can God fulfill the unconditional nature of this contract? Therefore, it must based upon character. God allowed the fall in Eden, but He also provided a way of salvation.

God had Abraham move out into the Land of Promise. He left Chaldea under the faith rest drill. Gen. 15:7: I am the Lord Who brought you out of the Chaldeans to this land. Isaac was born to Abraham and Sarah when Abraham was 100 years old. We’ve already covered Ishmael and how he is not the heir to Abraham. The son of the bondwoman will always persecute the son of the free woman.

20 centuries in the future, our Lord’s humanity will be born. Gal. 4:4; Christ is born in the fullness of time. There had to be a system to confer the promise. Isaac’s line of descent goes through Jacob. The sons of Judah are followed out.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #47 11/1/98                             Sunday 2

Rom. 3 reexamined. The inheritance of God is only transferably by personal faith alone in Christ alone.

Rom. 9:3–8: For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named." This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

There is no implication that those in the bloodline of Abraham have any legitimate claim on the Land of Promise. The Arabs can make the claim that they came through Abraham. The claim of the 1^st century Jews that all those from the descendants of Abraham through the Law were inheritors of the land and all that God promised. Jews today now look back to the cross. The promise can only be kept through the physical birth of a Jewish Messiah. Griffin describes a synagogue that he went to with a circular auditorium. There were these columns throughout the auditorium, 12 of them, and they plug into the floor; and in the middle, there is everyone in the congregation. There is only one way for the promise to be kept, and that is through the physical birth of the Messiah, Who becomes a divine sacrifice for the human race. The promise given to Abraham to him and his seed was a permanent residence of a land soon to be revealed. You cannot posses the real estate of this life unless you have had I.

Abraham became the client of the nation Israel. The promise given to Abraham reveal the land to be given to him. This required eternal life, which is impossible in Abraham. Eternal life is impossible without a rebirth. There needs to be eternal life from the Messiah. Jesus Christ ratified the covenant, which proclaimed His arrival. Only those with the God of Abraham are the children of the promise. If anyone else is to enjoy this same fulfillment, then they need eternal life as well.

This eternal life is not available just to those with the genes of Abraham, but to those who have the spiritual life of Abraham. You need to be n the spiritual seed of Abraham. The Law does not invalidate a contract made a long time previous.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #48 11/3/98                               Tuesday

We are looking at the inheritance of Israel and the church. Jewish believers believed that, after you believed in Christ, you kept the law in order to gain the inheritance. God promises and we received. In Joshua, God kept saying, “The land I have given you.” The idea was, God had already given to the Jews; they just had to go take it.

Since the Law was given 430 years after the promises, then it cannot be a part of the promises made by God to Abraham.

Gal. 3:15–18: To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ. This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

Griffin hopes that he can instill grace orientation in his church before he dies. He talks about Y2K2 or whatever that was. In Matt. 6, God promised us that we will survive and that we will have something to eat and that everything is going to be fine.

In order for the Jews to advance, they have to believe God and go in and take the land. You have to win victories in the invisible war. There have been periods of times and places where just being a Christian could mean your dead.

What happens when we have all of these promises, but God is not going to die, and these promises are based upon someone who dies (at least, that is the analogy).

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #49 11/5/98                             Thursday

All that we have studied can be found in unger’s dictionary on Spiritual Inheritance. He will be quoted and his ideas will be amplified.

Gal. 3:15–18: To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ. This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #50 11/8/98                             Sunday 1

Laura Kay Tapping’s funeral is this coming week, which Griffin will attend. She was born in 1955. He reads an obituary. She received her promotion and is not absent from the body and is now face to face with the Lord. Her brother, grandparents and father will be welcoming her into heaven.

She was very limited due to the gene pool crap shoot and she took that and was able to max out the spiritual assets were given her. We have God the Son’s righteousness, His sonship and His destiny. Our Lord inherited all things. He was an heir of God. He rules over all things. He is the priest and our High Priest. We are joint heirs with Him. In order to serve God and Christ, the inheritance will provide an entire portfolio.

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1.       All those who cross over with Joshua are moving into the land promised to Abraham and to the Messiah, and by imputation at salvation, to them as well.

2.       As they enter the land, they are to assume a number of responsibilities and duties. Keep the law’s spiritual code, which had to do with whatever the priesthood functions happened to be; the feast days, the rituals, etc. All of these things were demonstrated through rituals. They were to found a government based upon the establishment code. They functioned under a theocracy for a great many years. God allowed them a king, but He also warned them against such a thing. God is fair and just, the ultimate ruler and magistrate, and they had the best of all possible worlds in a fallen environment.

3.       They were to construct a society to conform to such an order. The first 4 of the mandates have to do with functioning under a theocracy. They were to construct a society which adhered to the spiritual side of the honor code. Then forbidding of murder, perjury, and the lust for other people’s things.

4.       Function as a client nation by doing 4 things: evangelize the lost, teach doctrine to the saved; send out missionaries to heathen nations; and preserve and protect the Word of God. They already had the Law and they were adding to it, the book of Joshua. As this was reduced to writing, they were to defend and preserve it. They were to learn the contents as well.

5.       They were to teach their children these things as well. No society or culture or civilization can maintain the establishment concepts if it does not pass these thoughts down to the next generation. We have too many who do not understand our nation’s heritage. The recent movie Saving Private Ryan stirred some conversation, but it revealed that almost no one knew what happened at that time. Most knew the holocaust, but few knew what caused it; and most knew about the dropping of the Atom bombs; but they knew nothing of Normandy or of other WW2 facts. History moved forward, even though the Jews rejected our Lord.

          a.       In the meantime, while working toward the future generation when Messiah arrived; they were to destroy all religion. They were to execute or to deport all those who practiced other religions.

          b.       Those who enter with Joshua have no idea when Messiah will come.

          c.        As time passes, God systematically revealed information to the Jewish people so that they would be able to recognize Messiah when He appeared. The Lord said, “You are to study about Me in Moses, for Moses spoke of Me.” Also, “I am written about in the prophets and the psalms.” Our Lord was systematically revealed in a process known as systematic revelation.

          d.       The Naviim is the eschatology of the prophets. There already was the Torah. Under progressive revelation, more took place; and

          e.       By keeping the Law and orienting to revelation, they were keeping God’s Word. Daniel 9 gives us a time frame. That is a time scale which gives indicators when Messiah would come. All of these things which happen to Messiah are told in Isa. 53. He would be born of a virgin, out of the house of David, in the tribe of Judah, in Bethlehem. If they paid attention to the Bible, they would know about the Messiah and Who He was and when He would come.

          f.        In order to be a son of the promise, you must have the God of Abraham, and you get sonship via imputation. The promise was given to Abraham and his seed. The promise is not simply given to the bloodline of Abraham. It is a spiritual inheritance for all.

          g.       In the Church Age, we also receive our inheritance as an imputation at salvation. We are not involved in an earthly kingdom, but we are a part of a heavenly community. We are thus aliens here and we represent our absent Lord as ambassadors. God and Christ in the devil’s world, though citizens of a heavenly community. We Christians may not get it in our heads that we may control or manipulate the government. Everyone who serves, serves because God permits it. The deranged, the crazy, the misfits, and those who are flat wrong with bad ideas, God ordained and placed them there. We are privileged to observe, and under honor, we must observe. We will not denounce Christ; we will not denounce the Word of God; we will not cease evangelism; we will not turn away from the Scriptures. Right now, there is a little heat coming this way, but there is no one who tells us that we cannot do any of these things. Presently, we have no major problem.

          h.       Whereas the Jews awaited the earthly arrival of the Messiah, Church Age believers wait the arrival of the Lord in the air, to escort us into the environs of a heavenly community. When we go into a synagogue, we hear these things, the awaiting of the Messiah. The Jews then were looking for the Messiah, and they expected Him to set up an earthly kingdom. They expected that He could eliminate SPQR, to eliminate the Roman empire, to get rid of the Cæsar. Acts 2 is the Church Age. In the distant future, there will be the rapture of the church and this exit resurrection will give us a resurrection body. He will await us in the air. There will be a two-phrase resurrection, those who were dead are brought up and then we who are alive are caught up with Him in the air. There will be a royal awards ceremony associated with the NIKE awards. Those who maximize the spiritual life are near the front rows, and the rest of us watch from the back with heavy lenses. Then, after 7 years, we return with Christ, Who puts a stop to this. Those who have the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob will later go into the kingdom, as the end of the Tribulation. When you believe in Christ, you lose your earthly citizenship and take on a heavenly citizenship. At death, we have an interim body. As the jews were to become prepared for Messiah by executing their duties as per the Law. The general believer of the Old Testament; you have to blow off the idea of the enabling power of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. They were to learn the Scriptures; they were to rehearse it and repeat it, etc. they acquired confidence in God and they could develop courage toward life and circumstances. If you do not have the capacity in your soul—confidence in the Word of God—then you cannot be prepared for the Messiah. You must believe it, which requires confidence in the Word of God. Joshua was told to cross the river and take the land and to defeat Jericho. It is as if we have just been told to go across the ocean and to take the Middle East. And did anyone raise the question, how do we get across this river; what do we do about the women and children? You must have confidence in the one giving you the mandate.

          i.         Regardless of the dispensation or the content of one’s inheritance, that inheritance is imputed to the believer and becomes a reality when he expresses faith alone in Christ alone. Once we develop confidence in God, we then develop confidence in His promises.

          j.         It is one’s confidence that God keeps His promises which energizes courage to trust Him, to trust His provision and to trust His protection and to trust His plan.

Gal. 3:15–18: To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ. This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #51 11/8/98                             Sunday 2

The inheritances are completed in the previous session. Inheritance for Israel is covered in vv. 3–5. V. 4 begins the description of the real estate. V. 5 is the promise that no one can stand up against Joshua. The question arises, will Joshua be able to trust God as Moses did. The same coverage I gave Moses, I will give you. I will not fail you and I will nor forsake you. These are concepts which are offered up as a promise. You have to believe a promise in order to claim it. There are 7000 promises. All that Griffin did for 2 weeks was quote promises, with a little commentary.

Joshua is given a set of orders. Get ride of religion, cross over the Jordan, take the land. Joshua needs to be able to believe in the promises and then to claim them. Together, that gives you courage to act. The 2^nd paragraph is Joshua 1, and paragraph A is conquest.

Joshua 1:1–2: After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, "Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.

These promises were given to Joshua and the Generation of Promise just as they were given to Gen X. God’s integrity is what backs up His promises. There is real warfare going on between the Israelites and the Canaanites; and there is a real warfare going on for us as well.

God developed a perfect plan in order to resolve the angelic conflict. It was decreed that there would be the elect, whoever believed in Jesus Christ; and there would be the fallen; those who chose not to believe in Jesus Christ. The opportunity of election is the daily opportunity of logistical grace. We have all that we need to move forward in out physical life as well as our spiritual life.

Jesus Christ developed all 4 of the spiritual mechanics, and they were made a part of our spiritual inheritance. We became joint heirs with Christ through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We become a part of God’s household, and are therefore royal family. On the one hand, heirs of God, and on the other hand, joint heirs with Christ.

At this point, we emphasized the concept of inheritance, which is key to understanding what is going on in our spiritual lives. The land flowing with milk and honey. Moving in the land meant that they had to assume certain duties. Once Christ appeared, there would, ideally speaking, be a maximum number of believers who would believe in Him.

Paul refutes keeping the law in order to attain the inheritance as outright legalism. He explains that you can add to these conditions. The Law which came 430 years later does not invalidate a contract which came before. God gave the inheritance to Abraham by means of the promise. Paul proved his point in 4 verses that obedience to the law does not gain an inheritance for us.

In Galatians, we studied the word to ratify, to guarantee the fulfillment of a contract. God guarantees the fulfillment. The example is taken from Roman civil law. Διαθηκη = contract between two parties to attain some objective. There is no way to add to, to abrogate, to nullify the contract between God and Abraham. All the land that you see, I give to you and your seed forever. A real contract is thus established. These promises were established with Abraham. The Hebrew word for seed is ז∵ר-ה and σπερμα in the Greek. In the Hebrew, the word is never used in the plural. Zera is deliberately flexible enough to refer to one person, and Paul applies it to Jesus. He tells us that the singular must be taken literally. Paul informs us that the precise and intended person who was to inherit the promise was Christ. It can be better understood if we understand this as a promise made to a descendant or child of Abraham. How can God fulfill the unconditional nature of the contract.

God created a new race of people through which He could work. Abraham tries to get God to accept Ishmael to live before Him. God promises a son through Sarah. God did hear Abram’s desire concerning Ishmael, but God’ contract would be established with Isaac.

Isaac is weaned until age 3 and there was some sort of a party which was thrown at that time. Ishmael was making fun of Isaac and Sarah was pissed and said, “Get rid of them.”

the land will become the permanent possession of a future son of Abraham. For over 2000 years, this Jewish line of descent stands. In between, there must be this continuous line of descent. The Jewish line going down through Abraham to Christ. There are 2000 intervening years, and there is the nation Israel. The law was to be taught to every generation, and through progressive revelation, more information was given. It began with Abraham and culminated with Christ. Between the birth of Isaac and the birth of Jesus, there was a spiritual and real entity over which Jesus would rule. Messiah’s throne would be the throne of David.

Messiah would be a Jew from the tribe of Judah from the house of David. This was one of the promises. “I will raise up your descendant after you; He will build a house for My name and I will establish His kingdom forever.: Jesus Christ is the Son of David; and He fulfills all of the promises.

Joshua 1:3: Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.

Joshua 1:4: From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

Joshua 1:5: No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #52 11/10/98                              Tuesday

Griffin just returned from Houston for the memorial of Laura Kay Tapping. What the Colonel had to say and the background information and how she and her mother managed her physical problems. This will be available. It was not the type of event for someone who has just passed into eternity. It was a very joyous occasion. This would be an excellent evangelical tool. It was a very upbeat and happy time because of Laura Kay’s promotion and it was a celebration of the Lord’s victory over death.

Mostly we have been reviewing what we have already had in previous lessons. We got to the Davidic Covenant last time. There would be a sequence within a genetic line and later it was determined that the Messiah would come from the line of Judah and later, we know from the line of David. The Jews needed to get to a point where they were ready for Messiah to come and rule over them. Messiah’s throne would be His heritage. “When your days are over, and you lay down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant (seed); he will build a house for My name and I will established a kingdom for Him forever. All who have the capacity could enter into this rulership. Faith in the Messiah was not limited to the Jewish people. They were all to keep the mandates and directives found in the Law and gentiles could follow the Law as well. When the fulness of time arrived, they should have been prepared by the writings of their prophets to identify the Messiah. The Jews were give all kinds of information on how to recognize the Messiah; but Jews for the most part did not get this. It is the sinful nature; it is the blindness in the souls of man, who refuse to recognize the truth. In every generation, there are always a few by faith alone believe in the coming Messiah. These individuals inherit the promise by imputation. They will occupy Israel in their resurrection bodies. There are also those who have Abraham’s genes, but they do not trust in Jehovah Elohim. In order to be a part of the family of God and inherit this promise, you must believe in the Messiah. We are in the royal line of Christ, and our inheritance is far greater than that given to Israel. We have better things in the book of Hebrews. We are royal family.

Matt. 10:2–10: The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And proclaim as you go, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay. Acquire no gold nor silver nor copper for your belts, no bag for your journey, nor two tunics nor sandals nor a staff, for the laborer deserves his food. Matt. 15:21–28: And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon." But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away, for she is crying out after us." He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." And he answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire." And her daughter was healed instantly.

Jesus tells this woman that He was sent to the lost sheep of Israel. He is under plan A; He has not moved into plan B yet. The worst thing that you can be called in the 1^st century is a dog. The woman gives almost every identification of Jesus as she can. Lord, Son of David. She knows Who He is. She asks, “If I hear the word to the Jews and believe, can I not partake as well?” That is the essence of what she is saying.

Gentiles are not excluded; they may join up. In Romans, Paul is rolling along quite well. I wish that I myself might be accursed, if those who are my brothers according to the flesh understand and believe the gospel. Paul expresses his desire for his own genetic brothers. This is not to imply the Word of God has failed; it cannot fail. Abraham received the promise while he was a believer. He believed it so strongly, that he lived in a tent the entire time. He was waiting for an eternal dwelling. It was His kingdom. For not all who are descending from Israel are really Israel. All the descendants of Israel are not true Israel. Not all can have it because not all can express faith in Messiah. Not all who have descended from Israel are true Israel. “In Isaac, your seed will be called.” Arabs today claim that they can trace themselves back to Abraham, but the key is not physical descent. The Jews have had 4000 years to get this through their brains. Their problem is, they need to know that their problem is, they have not believed in Jesus Christ. They have had 4000 years to identify their Messiah. He is related to the Jews and Arabs through Abraham. They are all 1^st cousins. The descendants of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as the seed. When you accept Jesus Christ as Savior in the Old Testament, then you become a son of the promise. You must express personal faith in Christ.

There will be the 2^nd advent and a resurrection. There will be the royal award ceremonies at the Judgment Seat of Christ; which takes place coterminous with the Tribulation. We will all have an eternal future; we do not all have rewards.

Since the Tribulation begins with all unbelievers, the Tribulation will be the worst period of time ever. All these avenues will be used to get the gospel out during the Tribulation. There will be a resurrection. This will be all Old Testament saints. They are all those who believed in Messiah in the Old Testament dispensation. They will move into the Millennial reign of Christ. Those who return with Christ, they will assist Christ when He comes back to the earth, and He does this with the sword of His mouth.

What about those who are still alive at the end of the Tribulation? There will be Jews and Gentiles alive at the end of the Tribulation. Some will be taken and some will be left. Those who are taken are put into torments; those who are left will populate the earth. Jews will populate Jerusalem and Gentiles will populate various Gentile nations.

Messiah is the Old Testament word which is translated in the New as Christ.

The promises were made to Abraham and his descendant; the Scripture does not read, “And to his descendants, as in many; just one.” The promise as given to Abraham and his seed, Christ does not apply to all Jews. One must believe in Jesus Christ and receive sonship by imputation. There is no keeping the Law for salvation. Keeping the Law was mandated for all in Israel. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was known though the Law.

A never ending covenant has eternal ramifications; and we can only participate if we have everlasting life as well. You can only have eternal life through imputation by faith alone in Christ alone. A promise which contains the word forever means that eternal life is required.

Pre-salvation sins are forgiven when we have faith in Christ; and post-salvation sins are forgiven incrementally.

Some may have classified Laura Kay as a cripple. She had a spiritual IQ and she was able to transform that in her soul. She utilized every aspect of the 4 spiritual mechanics in her life and she took it as far as she could take it in her life. Although crippled physically; but she was not crippled spiritually. She took it to the limit spiritually. Most of us lack human restraints. We can max out the system. Laura Kay has embarrassed all of us. She has no limitations in her interim body now. In the dispensation of the church, you cannot activate any of this without rebound.

If all sins were forgiven on the cross, then why do we use rebound. Sins are judged on the cross and not forgiven. Christ did not forgive our sins on the cross; they were judged on the cross. You sins are removed as far as east is from west. If our sins have been judged in Christ, there is no penalty for them.

Rebound means that sin has interrupted your spiritual life and rebound allows you to resume your spiritual life. The brass cobra during the time of Moses. Look around and stare at that brass cobra and that kept you alive. You cannot access the system apart from rebound. If any others are to enjoy the same fulfillment, then they must have eternal life.

The Law, which came 430 years later, does not invalidate a promise given previously.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #53 11/12/98                            Thursday

Gal. 3:15–18: To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to descendants," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your descendant," who is Christ. This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

In a human contract, once was has been entered into, you cannot annul it or change the conditions. Much more so a contract or a promise from God. God’s integrity and veracity are on the line. Abraham had done all that was required of him, so that the promise must be fulfilled. This promise was given to Abraham and to the Lord and to all believers who will receive the promise through faith in Christ.

A promise never has an if clause. It is based upon the veracity of the one who makes the promise. The statement in the protasis is assumed to be true, even though the statement is actually a boldfaced lie. It is a debator’s technique and it must be understood in that way.

If the inheritance of the contract finds its source in keeping the Law, then it does not find its source in God’s veracity and integrity. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise. In this way, Paul has backed the Judaizers into a logical corner. Such a contract cannot be altered or annulled.

The promise which God gave is unalterable and unconditional. Jesus Christ will reign over client nation Israel. Nothing is required of the party of the 2^nd part, who receives the promise.

A similar promise is given to Joshua:

Paul’s coup degras: ...but God gave it [the land] to Abraham by a promise. The inheritance of the Old Testament saints involved a spiritual life under the 3 stages of the spiritual life. In order to fulfill our obligations as sons of God, we are granted certain assets which enable us to serve God in time.

Joshua 1:5: No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

There is nothing here which requires Joshua to do or say anything. God promises that He will always be with Joshua and he would never forsake Joshua.

Joshua did have a job to do; to take the land. Now, we all have 7000 promises given to us in Scripture. In the contract which we are noting, we have a promise made by God to Abraham; and Abraham needed to have believed in Christ first. Abraham was a believer long before he received this promise. God’s promises are only for those who have believed in Him.

Griffin goes back to Dr. Unger. Adoption means you recognize a person as an adult son; not a τεχκνον but a ὑιος. We are adopted into privilege. We are adopted as sons at the moment of salvation. Adoption is where a capable person was chosen to succeed another capable person. You can have a father and a first born son. However, this son can be seen as one who did not really have all that he needed to have. Perhaps a bad attitude as well. So, the patrician looks at this kid and says, “I don’t want him to have control over my estate; he will piss it away and my wife and daughters and other sons will be up shit creek.” The patrician notes the slave son, who has a lot of moxie and a lot of character, and he says, “That is the kind of attitude I like.” The one who is adopted is the son of the inheritance. When we believe in Jesus Christ, at the moment of our salvation, we are lower than dirt, we are slug slime, lower than dirt. Adoption can be conferred upon a natural child or upon someone outside of his family. A wise patrician can adopt anyone whom he considers worthy.

Similarly, just having the genes of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob does not mean that you will receive the inheritance, if you have not been adopted. We are in the dispensation of the ordinary man. There are spectacular men from the Old Testament and they were well-known believers of their day; however, today is the dispensation of the invisible hero.

Laura Kay Tapping was known world-wide; she fulfilled the plan of God. She took the system and maxed it out. It was a testimony to Laura Kay’s advance. She had limited assets and she took it to the limit.

Jesus Christ is the agent of adoption. In the fullness of time, God sent His Son, under the Law, born of a woman. We have power, under the enabling power of the Spirit. The Church Age believer is appointed an adult son; he is an heir of God; an aristocrat; a joint heir of Christ. Not only are we adopted into God’s family, but we are royalty. We are elevated to a position of aristocracy. We need to defend and preserve and hold out the Word of God in the midst of a perverted generation.

Our duty to the Jew in this dispensation is to give them the gospel. We have duties to perform as members of royal aristocracy. We are adopted into God’s royal family and we are also His heirs. We are in the plan of God and we are different from other believers in other dispensations. We are aristocrats; we are royalty. Great responsibility comes with our adoption. During the royal ceremony of adoption, everyone who might have been an heir but are not. The was a toga verillus and a signet ring. The son would hear his new legal name used by his father adopting him.

This brings us to Dr. Unger. The metaphor of the spiritual inheritance is celebrated by us being heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ. To our minds, heirship is nothing more than property by succession. The son, when the father dies, just inherits his stuff. There is natural selection. This idea of succession is inapplicable to God, as God does not die. There is a joint and equal heirship. When you believe in Christ, you are adopted as an adult son and you immediately inherit the assets. We are heirs of God. We receive something as a possession from Him. God has spoken to us in His Son, Whom He has made heir of all things. Heb. 11:9–10. Abraham dwelt in tents, looking for the city, whose architect and maker is God. God has a national adoption, which is the nation Israel. Israel is involved in a national adoption. They inherit the promise of being citizens. God adopted Israel as a nation and as a race. However, they cannot be adopted unless they are born again. The firstborn is usually the recipient of the inheritance, which is Israel according to a passage in Exodus?

The only way to possess the inherence is to have eternal life. With regards to this principle, Dr. Unger quotes Sir Henry Main. There are 3 statements which we noted. Though the physical person had deceased, but his legal person remains alive and continues through his heirs. He continues to live legally through his heirs. The testator continues to live on in his heirs. Legally, he never dies, and the inheritance. There is a species of copartnership. When the father dies, it is not correct to say that his heirs succeed to his property, but they take control of their own property. This way, incongruity disappears from the Pauline analogy. The heir was not to wait for the moment of his father’s decease. At physical birth, we are the heir of all the our father possesses. Our father continues to legally live on in his children, even after his death. The believer, regardless of the dispensation, becomes an instant heir. We become an heir to all that Christ possesses. We are joint heirs with Christ.

We have privilege and opportunity and we do not always use this to move forward. We inherit the father’s entire estate and property. Our citizenship is in heaven and we eagerly await a Savior. The promise is found in Joshua 1:5: No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

Joshua 1:1–2: After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, "Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.

Joshua 1:3: Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.

Joshua 1:4: From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

Joshua 1:5: No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #54 11/15/98                            Sunday 1

Whenever we run into those who offend us, abuse us, use us or insult us, we feel like we are justified in some sort of vengeance tactics in order to balance the books. Vengeance is Mine, says the Lord. Joshua and his legions will not function under any mental attitude sin.

Promises are necessary in order to remind you that the God of the universe is with you. Medals of honor have been won on emotion; but you cannot sustain this in the long haul without Bible doctrine in your soul.

Joshua 1:3–5: Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

1.       This is the first of 3 occasions when God tells Joshua to be strong and courageous.

2.       Not every believer can be strong and courageous. These people who invade Canaan will require courage.

3.       Qal imperative of chazaq, which means to bind together in order to strengthen. You may know salvation and eternal security, and that is not enough of an inventory of ideas to get anywhere. From your spiritual growth, you bind all of these doctrines together and this gives you strength. It is not just one or two doctrines which are key, but binding them together.

4.       The word for courage is amats which means to be strong, resolute, vigorous, to act with great spirit and undaunted courage.

5.       These words appear to be quite similar, but when they appear together, they become a formula of encouragement. They are used together as a team and together are a form of encouragement. The strength has to do with accumulated knowledge of Bible doctrine to a point of maturity. When you look at a mandate in Scripture; it is one thing to understand, and it is quite another to do it. It is great to understand the concepts; that is great; but it is quite another to do them. Deut. 31:6: Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid and do not tremble at them, for the Lord your God goes with you, for He will not forsake you.

6.       Griffin is using Joshua as a vehicle to teach a set of doctrines.

7.       Full appreciation of this phrase will contribute greatly to our understanding of Joshua.

8.       Let’s develop a set of principles on this phrase: be strong and courageous.

V. 7 is key to this whole chapter.

Joshua 1:6: Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.

Joshua 1:7: Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

I have your doctrine flowing throughout me. The book of the Law was written by Moses; it was the 5 books. If you are looking for the booty before the spiritual maturity, then you are looking to the left or the right.

Joshua 1:8: This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

We need to make a list of these 19 promises which are found here. Joshua will cross ahead of you (he is representative of Jesus Christ). The Lord will deliver them up before you. The Lord your god goes with you. He will not fail you and He will not forsake you. No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. God is with you wherever you go.

We also need a list of the mandates, which require strength and courage. You make application through the faith rest drill. Do not fear, do not be dismayed. Go with this people into the land and give it to them as their inheritance. Be strong and courageous. Give this people possession of the land. Be careful to do according to all the Law. This book of the Law will not depart from your mouth.

The mandate in Joshua 1:7: Be careful to do all the Law; do not turn from it to the right or to the left. Establish wheel tracks of righteousness; do not be distracted by your lust pattern. You will meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do all that is in it.

Laura Kay started at T&P from age 19 up. We have all of our faculties about us. We have the two power options and the problem solving devices. We have the power to execute it.

Joshua 1:9: Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #55 11/15/98                            Sunday 2

If we are going to fulfill God’s plan for our lives....

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #56 11/17/98                              Tuesday

Joshua 1:6: Be strong and courageous,...

Châzaq which means to bind together; amats = to be strong, resolute. These worse appear together as a team and are a formula of encouragement together. We have begun with the doctrine of be strong and courageous.

Deut. 31:6, 7, 33 Joshua 1:6, 7, 9 is where we find this phrase. There are a number of promises given by the Lord—about 18–20 and associated with these are mandates, around 15–20. The mandates centered around taking the land, we have noted promises and mandate and the formula . When these doctrines are affixed to mandates, we must have the courage to make application. We need the confidence that God will be with us and that confidence is built into our souls. This formula for encouragement becomes very important. In the Age of Israel there was a spiritual life which brought this into focus: the faith rest drill. If you have a mandate to do something which is difficult and challenging and dangerous, then there must be a set of promises associated with the mandate. We need to get to a point where we think on this level. The mandates follow and we are the execute the mandates. We have the courage to execute the mandates when we know that God is always with us and He is riding point before us.

A motivational virtue is always directed toward God. Confidence in God and courage toward man. Confidence in God is a motivational virtue which leads to the functional virtue of courage toward man. There can be no lasting courage without confidence toward God. We see that we have a motivational virtue. Isa. 41:10.

Worship of God is a motivational virtue which leads to the functional virtue of morality toward man. This is true Christian fellowship. There is no Christian fellowship and we must know what God’s thinking includes. We must learn these things as a set of principles by which we can deal with our fellow man.

We do not study man, we study God; we do not sing to men; we sing to God. Giving is to God; we are motivated to support certain ministries.

Personal love toward God sustains the functional virtue of unconditional love toward our fellow man. With the exception of the relationship between rm/rw and parents and children; and friends; the love which God possesses toward us is beyond our thinking and ablity to do.

Philip. 4:8 1Peter 2:9: ἁρέτη = virtue. Our human weakness is turned into strength.

Joshua 1:6: Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #57 11/19/98                            Thursday

there is this formula, be strong and courageous.

Paragraph A: description of this and where is it used: Joshua 1:6, 7, 9. From this lifestyle of righteous function, which Joshua had acquired, all of Joshua’s experience led to him accumulating a lifestyle of righteous function. He along with Caleb and Moses. He had confidence in God and in the promises in the Torah and the promises which he heard on the plains of Moab.

A mandate depends upon the volition of the person who receives the command. He may not do it for a number of reasons. Is this person capable of follwooing through with what God has required him to do. The person receiving the order must have confidence in the one giving the order. Confidence and courage come from his relationship to the one giving the orders. Joshua will have confidence in the Lord’s promises, from which will come the ability for him to carry out the mandates. Confidence in God is a motivation virtue, which motivates you in courage toward man. Courage implies assault and attack, and you must confront that consistently. One of the problems with doing what God wants you to do is that no one is going to like it. The functional virtue of morality toward man. When integrity is developed from a study of the Word of God, that results in an inventory of ideas based upon Bible doctrine. You need to understand the system and knowledge of this system gives you integrity.

Ke knuth Starr has been vilified and castigated by many, who seem to have turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to violations of our laws. This man has never once lost his composure, and this is because he is a believer in Jesus Christ . He understands at least the basic principles when dealing with these people. He has never raised his voice with these people. When you go out into the world, you will have opposition and you may not retaliate. You will not hold a grudge against those who offend you or attack you. It is not a true test unless you are truly a victim. You may not bear a grudge and you may not pursue vengeance, even mentally. This all comes from worshiping God; and that requires Bible study, day in and day out. This should be 1^st place in all of our lives.

Personal love toward God is a motivational virtue which gives us the ability to have impersonal love toward our fellow man. Once we have developed confidence in the Word of God, then we have courage toward man and circumstances. Confidence is the better translation for be strong.

Arêtê means marshal valor. Divine integrity and power are associated with arêtê, which is a mental attitude.

motivational virtues belong to your royal priesthood. Ambassordorship with your fellow man; priesthood is your relationship with God. In the case of confidence and courage, confidence is a virtue developed because of Bible study. It is important for us to see the proimses first. Confidence toward God is the invisible strength behind the visible strength of courage toward man. God’s promises are statements of eternal truth. They are kept by divine omnipotence. We can place our unwavering confidence in His promises. When we are issued mandates, we can muster the courage to act on them. It takes a leader who is prepared in every way to take on the tasks which are assigned to Joshua. You cannot put some people into leadership, because they won’t know what to do.

Joshua 1:6: Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #58 11/22/98                            Sunday 1

Joshua 1:6: Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #59 11/22/98                            Sunday 2

Joshua 1:7: Only be strong and very brave, so that you may take heed to do according to all the Law which Moses My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may act wisely wherever you go.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #60 11/29/98                            Sunday 1

The Law is what is in view here; the Torah has been reduced to writing and it is seen as a book, and it is the first completed section of the Bible. It is the Law of Moses. To decide how to translate shamar, which means to do carefully, to do with diligence, to take care of, to watch over, the guard against intruders, to concentrate on precepts in order to do them correctly; pay careful attention to the laws and statutes; guard or watch over. Our civil law used the term diligence, to involve prudence and care. They take care in the things which they do, the things which they own.

Joshua’s duty was to walk in the wheel tracks of righteousness. He had to maintain his confidence in the Word of God. You cannot apply the Word of God if you do not have confidence in it.

Example of a woman who has been in a church for 60 years and now she faces a personal tragedy which she cannot cope with. There is a failure either with her or with her pastor or a set of pastors.

Confidence is directed toward Bible doctrine which provides courage toward mankind. It will motivate you to submit to Bible doctrine when under pressure. You will be able to execute whatever mandate is coming from the Word of God. If there is no submission to the Word of God, there will be no execution of the plan of God.

Joshua was not just some rag-tag choice out of the Israelites there; he is one out of 600,000 who is up to the job. If you are willing to follow God’s Word, you will face opposition in subtle ways and in very overt methods.

As we discover absolutes, we make them a part of our inventory of ideas. Editorial today in the Compost dispatch about thinking in terms of absolutes. Those who live according to divine standards, will receive opposition. There is a man on the inside; the old sin nature, and it will oppose you. The sin nature is represented in many ways, and it is referred to a the flesh and as carnal. There is also hamartia in the singular.

Satan conquered the world when he caused Adam to fall. It is not his best work to have people sin, but sin can be useful to him. He attempts to control all mankind in his human good and evil. He has a huge army of demons with demon influence and philosophies which promote human good and evil. These are challenged by thought, people and systems testing, which require us to use problem solving devices. If you stay in the cosmic system , you will have a way of thinking which is closely associated with the cosmic system. There are also systems out there controlled by human good and evil. Our society challenges divine thought. Col. 2:8 see to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception according to the elementary thinking of this world rather than according to Christ.

Demon influence to conform to human good and evil, which is found in 1zTim. 4:1. To stay in the wheel tracks of righteousness and to focus on the doctrine, with courage to apply it, then you will have your eyes on the objective and you will have success. Joshua 1:7: Only be strong and very brave, so that you may perform extraordinary diligence to do according to all the Law which Moses My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may act wisely wherever you go.

Success will be to run the Canaanites out of Israel and to settle the Israelites in this land. He needs to have confidence and courage and he needs to put his face in the Torah.

Joshua 1:7: Only be strong and very brave, so that you may perform extraordinary diligence to do according to all the Law which Moses My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may act wisely wherever you go.

Joshua Introduction         Joshua Lesson #61 11/29/98                            Sunday 2

Joshua 1:7: Only be strong and very brave, so that you may perform extraordinary diligence to do according to all the Law which Moses My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may act wisely wherever you go.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #62 12/1/98                               Tuesday

In the Church Age, this has to do with the execution of the 4 stages of the spiritual life. There is the development of a system out of all this, and this is particularly true of the Church Age believer.

Development and advance in confidence in the spiritual life. 3 stages of the sophisticated spiritual life. Spiritual self esteem is the first stage of the sophisticated spiritual life. God does not just suddenly pour out something, and we suddenly have love for God. Unconditional love toward our fellow man is tested. We will be tested by others. Joe is beginning to recognize the reality of what he is teaching. We are aliens in the hostile devil’s world. We are more and more becoming different than the people with whom we must deal in these various areas. Griffin has recently tried to explain a few things to an unbeliever and to a believer who is immature. Griffin is trying to have a vocabulary inventory so that he can better communicate. However, this person heard something entirely different from what Griffin was saying; they were both in a different arena. Communication became very difficult with this guy. Confusion resulted. When you begin to advance, and you have advanced thoughts of Biblical truth, you will find yourself becoming more and more different from those around you. This can result in people testing and providential testing. You cannot fly off the handle; you cannot become haughty and arrogant; and you must understand that other people are functioning out of a different ball park. Unconditional love is one of the places where you are tested. You will be confident in your ability to deal with issues. If someone cannot understand you, that is there problem.

People have a completely different idea of what is right and wrong, fair and just, what should be accepted and what ought to be shunned. People who have become victims of abuse have become the culprit. We see this from time to time on tv in various cases brought before the judicial branch.

Prov. 19:8: He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who cherishes understanding prospers. You develop a pure relationship with God which does not depend upon blessings. The mature believer has maximum appreciation for all blessings. Paul knew how to enjoy blessing and going without. Being without is not greater testing that having a lot. Occupation with Christ is the key.

Doctrinal churches is where we learn God’s plan in an organized fashion. Confidence breed courage. No execution means no confidence, which means no courage which means no doctrine. Every day, at some point, Bible doctrine needs to be #1. Meditate on this day and night. Bible study. Griffin has notebooks at home going back to 1971.

Griffin taught some things and he has forgotten it. So, we have to keep up with it. Don’t let this Word escape from your mouth. Get up in the morning and give these troops orders. Here is the result of all that.

The purpose of Joshua is to take the visible warfare of his day and apply it to our invisible warfare today. Joshua needs to apply doctrine under pressure. Leadership cannot vary. He needs to be willing to go out in front of the troops, saying, :Here is the order of the day.”

Each stage of the reqires a different mental attitude. Spiritual self esteem is a cognitive self-confidence that allows personal love for God which provides the courage to show unconditional love for man. Rebound is a process and a procedure. Faith rest requires confidence in promises; confidence in the Word of God. Then you move to grace orientation. You come to the point of realization that this is an entire grace process. Doctrinal orientation. Grace orientation occurs through spiritual growth. That is a mental attitude. You develop mental attitudes associated with spiritual growth. Once you discover your spiritual gift, you are able to better function in it. You cannot get rid of your spiritual gift. You just have to pursue it. Griffin’s temporal destiny is to communicate the Word of God. There is nothing else which Griffin has the talent to do. What do you do? What is your destiny in the body of Christ. You begin to focus on the eternal future. We have eternal life and we have duties to perform now and in the eternal future. Love for the Father is a mental attitude; and love for your fellow man is a mental attitude. Spiritual autonomy has the confidence of cognitive independence. You can rule your own spiritual life. Cognitive independence producing an inner happiness which gives you the courage to face testing. There are guys who will go out and hit. When you are so good at what you do, you just go out and do it; almost blindfolded. Even at a family reunion, you can handle it. It is not worth it to join them in the cosmic system just because you have been abused. These people aren’t wroth it.

Spiritual maturity has cognitive invincibility. Unfair, unjust, undeserved treatment directed toward you. It may involve temporal things, loss of health; all undeserved. Do not take this personally; do not forget your training. Act as a witness for the prosecution. Stand up to it without sinning. Why did the Lord Jesus Christ sit in the Sandhedron and allow those men to accuse Him of all these false crimes. He was under evidence testing; a form of it. He knew His duty was to get to the cross; and not to win a court case.

Each stage of spiritual adulthood has its own type of glorification of Christ associated with it. Christ is formed in us is stage one. This is where you bring on the thinking of Christ. Eph. 3:16–17: That He would grant you to be strengthened in the inner man. This is so Christ can be developed in your stream of consciousness. Spiritual autonomy + cognitive independence. Development of spiritual maturity in Eph. 1:20: I will not be put to shame in anything, but Christ will be formed in my body.

The end result is maximum glorification of God in time and in eternity, which constitutes success in the Christian way of life. God can prosper a man whose happiness is not contingent upon your stuff.

What form does this success take? Is it material or immaterial? Absolute or abstract; temporal or eternal. We need to distinguish between two words in v. 8. Sakal.

There are two words we need to note: make your way prosperous (salia). It is not prosper; it is successful.

At the very end of v. 8: You will have good success. This is sakal again, just like v. 7. This can be success. Salia is prosperous.

In v. 7, Joshua submits totally to the divine mandates, he will have success. Insight into wise behavior. If you want to be successful, you need wise behavior. Sakal is acting prudently. Success is performance under pressure from an inventory of ideas that you analyze and mediate on.

Emphasize the end result in order to explain this word. Joshua must execute the plan of God. Ours may seem more complicated, but we have the filling of the Holy Spirit. My burden is not heavy; I will not fail your or forsake you. Sakal will emphasize wise thinking and action. Consistency and execution of the spiritual life; sophisticated spiritual life. It is okay that you have not made it to this or that level yet.

The faith rest drill is executed in 3 stages: the claiming of promises. Its function is to establish a tranquility of thought and stay with the program until you get there. The circumstance might cause you to become angry. Meditation upon doctrinal rationales. Concentration on certain doctrines allows you to develop a logical process. Go through your inventory until you figure out what applies. There may be one of more problem solving devices. Unconditional love for Fred, although that is not what you have in mind. “I just don’t want to do that.” You need to resolve this issue and put it in the hands of the supreme court of heaven. You may have great distaste for this person. You will be tempted to deviate. The more doctrine in the soul, the more wheel tracks of righteousness which you possess. You are able to develop a solution commensurate with your problem.

Guilt is a favorite sin of client nation America. You try to impress God with a works program. Concentration on pertinent doctrines allows you to form a Biblical solution to the problem. The more doctrine in the soul, the more easily you can develop a solution to your situation.

Doctrinal conclusion is what do I do now? That implies execution, which requires courage to do it. Whatever that solution is, you must have faith in the solution.

Sakal is intelligent knowledge, the process of thinking through a complex system of thoughts, and it is acting circumspectly and prudently. You are to execute these principles, and have courage under pressure to make the application.

Joshua 1:7–8: Only be strong and very brave, so that you may take heed to do according to all the Law which Moses My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may act wisely wherever you go. This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, and you shall meditate on it by day and by night, so that you shall be on guard to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall prosper your way, and then you shall act wisely.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #63 12/3/98                             Thursday

Joshua is being mandated to do several things. Success is noted down in v. 8. The word prosper is better translated success (שָכ-ל). The process of thinking through a complex system of thoughts, with a result of acting circumspectly and prudently. The mandate is to take the land; a success is taking the land. How do you get 7 different tribes of Hamitic cousins out of the land. To get to them, you have to cross a raging river. It is one thing to say, “Go do it;” and it is another thing to get it done. There is a consistency in thinking. Faith rest drill functional in 3 stages: claiming promises, which provides us with the tranquility to focus on the doctrine which we know. As we get the tranquility of thought, the doctrines we are reviewing are the ones which will help us out. As we consider these things, we can fall into fear: fear of crossing the river; fear of defeating these men, and fear of leading 600,000 men.

We need to be able to concentrate on solutions. Concentration on pertinent doctrines, which allow you to discern Biblical solutions. There are several pertinent solutions which appeal to your situation. Once you have evaluated and considered the circumstances, then you arrive at a solution, which is doctrinal conclusions and execution. The Biblical solution is found in phase III. Church Age application; Joshua didnot have the filling of the Holy Spirit, but he did have enduement. He received that at his commissioning.

Knowledge of absolute truth by having you knowing doctrine. You analyze in stage 2 the situation and the Holy Spirit brings a solution from doctrine, which is committing to a solution and acting on it. In each step, the level of one’s spiritual growth determines the size of the inventory consulted. If you know all 7000 promises, then you know them all. If you know 3 or 4, you have hardly nothing to work with. Griffin is going to go through a couple of verses in 1Cor. 2, and there will be a bunch of doctrines in these couple verses.

20.     Faith in the promises provides the tranquility of soul to concentrate on these doctrines. You cannot concentrate on these doctrines unless you have tranquility of soul. Fear is a sin and you have to confess it. Promises fail us because of our lack of faith. Holy Spirit cannot guide us out of fellowship. Claim the promises, think of the solutions under the doctrinal rationales. Confidence in the word and confidence in the promises eventually allow us to flush fear from the soul. This is why various forms of testing are important. It hones us for the battles ahead. Faith is the starting point for all of it.

21.     Faith in the doctrines provides the confidence to apply them to the situation which we face. Faith and confidence are opposite sides of the same coin. If you don’t have confidence, then you don’t have faith.

22.     Faith in the solution results in the execution of the solution. Our faith goes to the God of this Universe. It is all grace and the doctrine we concentrate is provided by a grace process; the courage comes from the enabling power of the Spirit and the doctrine which God gives us. This world is filled with far too many challenges.

23.     All along the way, we must have confidence. Confidence and faith gives us courage to execute the solution under pressure. It is all a package and we can get the solution together. Know them by heart. without faith to use them under pressure, you will never get around to executing the Christian way of life. Joshua is leading an army of believers; not all of them are mature believers. Everyone knows about Joshua. He has demonstrated that he can take an assignment and get the job done. Jesus was asked to take on our sins, even though He committed no sins; and this was unfair and unjust. It is all a great big package and you need to get it altogether, or it does not work.

24.     In the end, you make your decisions and you draw your conclusions based upon wisdom and insight accumulated in your stream of consciousness. This is a person functioning at least in the adult spiritual life.

25.     To assist you in remembering sakal; act wisely, which is a good way to render sakal. The end gain is to act wisely. This is acting based on Biblical solutions. Courage is required for us to act wisely. This is based on a Biblical solution discerned from doctrinal rationales. When we see the faith rest drill presented here, we actually see the end game; the activity of thinking through the doctrine which we know.

Joshua 1:7: Only be strong and courageous, so that you may perform extraordinary diligence to do according to all the Law which Moses My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it [wheel tracks of righteousness] to the right or to the left, that you may have success wherever you go.

All of this time, Joseph’s bones have been with them as they move about and they are going to bury Joseph’s bones in the Land of Promise.

Joshua 1:8: This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, and you shall meditate on it by day and by night, so that you shall be on guard to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will have success, and then you shall act wisely.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #64 12/6/98                             Sunday 1

3-fold mandate: Joshua is to constantly communicate the content of the Law over whom he has any sort of supervision. He is never to let principles of the Word of God escape his mouth. He is always to utilize the Word of God as his guide. Secondly, he is the mediate on it day and night. Thirdly, he is to perform extraordinary diligence in this.

Total reliance on the content of the law with an emphasis upon its promises. He needs to have a basis or a foundation, as well as divine instruction. The primary thing for him to have is the written canon.

If Joshua is to have confidence and if the written word is available to Israel, then these are the stepping stones to confidence. Under pressure, you need promises in order to have tranquility of thought. Joshua’s concentration upon doctrinal rationales. Success is bound up in these 3 mandates.

Seems like it was Solon who said, “None of these rules and regs may be changed” and then he took a 15-20 year vacation. He figured this way, he could keep things the way that they ought to be kept. Griffin saw a movie, which he does not recommend, “American History X’ about gangs in California at war with each other. He learned that, if you want to see a playing out of Eph. 4 of human viewpoint solutions and anger and revenge played out; it is the downside of what happens to the human soul driven by arrogance. Even those in the highest positions of authority are still under the Law.

Joshua 1:8: This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, and you shall meditate on it by day and by night, so that you shall be on guard to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will have success, and then you shall act wisely.

Joshua Introduction          Joshua Lesson #65 12/6/98                             Sunday 2

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