The doctrine of deposits

1. Definition. The noun paraqhkh is a compound of two words: para, the preposition, and the verb tiqhmi which means to put or to place. Put together we have to place something beside something or by the side of something. In the ancient world their banking system meant that each person had a certain urn or some kind of large box or chest, and it was placed beside his other chests in the particular bank vault. This was called paraqhkh or a deposit. So we have the concept of deposit in the ancient world very similar to ours except that we have a different system of administration in the paper work.

2. In our passage and in others the Greek word paraqhkh is used for spiritual truths. The believer makes a deposit with the Lord at the point of salvation — 2 Timothy 1:12. When a person believes in Jesus Christ, in effect faith in Christ is making a deposit. One little cc of faith in Christ and you have deposited your life in God’s hands forever. Your life is deposited in the plan of God, called grace, forever and it is a deposit that is totally secure. So we have the principle of eternal security.

3. God makes a deposit of doctrine in the believer. This deposit is Bible doctrine resident in the soul. It is preserved in the Word to be transferred to your soul — 2 Timothy 1:14.

4. This deposit is made through the doctrinal teaching of the pastor. In the mechanics of GAP every positive believer in Jesus Christ has right pastor. That right pastor is his only pastor. He is not to be compared with anyone else. Acts 17:2,3 — “… he deposited doctrine in them.”

5. The supergrace believer makes a deposit in phase two — 1 Peter 4:19. In times of adversity the utilisation of Bible doctrine makes it possible for you to produce divine good in adversity.

Principles:

a) The devil’s world is unfair and prejudiced. No believer should ever be blessed by the devil.

b) Some believers in reversionism are rewarded by Satan.

c) The battleground in this stage of the angelic conflict is the soul.

d) Consequently some supergrace believers staying away from reversionism endure maximum pressure in the devil’s world. They suffer because the devil is unfair, because the devil is prejudiced. And God permits a certain amount of adversity in the life of the supergrace believer because it is one way of producing divine good.

e) In the maximum use of the faith-rest technique, which is maximum application of resident doctrine, road blocks are removed by suffering. Certain believers under pressure must deposit their souls with Jesus Christ who, as the faithful creator, has provided both dying grace and surpassing grace as the basis for eternal reward.

f) By depositing their soul with the Lord in time of maximum pressure — persecution, suffering — the supergrace believer glorifies God to the maximum and produces in a short time enough divine good to receive fantastic decorations for all eternity.

g) The application of doctrine under pressure, the maximum use of faith-rest — road blocks are removed — that provides both dying grace and fantastic extra blessings forever and ever. This a specific application to the principle which is found in both Psalm 55:22 and 1 Peter 5:7.

6. The pastor or the seminary professor makes a deposit with his ministerial students. All ministerial students are male believers who have the gift of pastor-teacher. They get their first training in their local church. They may get their additional training in a formal academic pipe like a theological seminary. 2 Timothy 2:1,2. In Matthew 13:24, speaking of Jesus, He deposited another parable with them, saying… In other words, what Jesus taught in the parable they were to go out an teach in Israel.