The doctrine of rebound

1. Rebound is a technical term for the believer’s restoration to fellowship and recovery of the filling of the Spirit.

2. The concept of rebound.

a) Rebound must be understood in the light of relationship with God — Jeremiah 3:13. Rebound has to do with temporal relationship with God.

b) Rebound must be correlated with positional truth by the royal family of God — Romans 8:1.

c) The frame of reference for rebound is the efficacious death of Christ on the cross being judged for our sins. The spiritual death of the Lord Jesus Christ solves the problem of the old sin nature’s area of weakness which produces sins. These sins were poured out on Christ and judged. When a believer commits a sin he either knows it was a sin or he does not in the case of an unknown sin. But whether he knows it is a sin or not he still does it from his volition, and that sin was poured out upon Christ on the cross and judged. When the believer commits a known sin he names that sin to God. That sin was judged on the cross, he is forgiven immediately. He also at the same time is forgiven the unknown sins. 1 John 1:9; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:7; 2 Corinthians 5:21.

d) Rebound means restoration to fellowship with God plus the recovery of the filling of the Spirit. When we are in fellowship we are controlled by the Spirit. How effective the filling of the Spirit is depends upon the stage of our spiritual growth. Proverbs 1:23; Ephesians 5:14 cf. 5:18.

e) Eternal security is a prerequisite to understanding the rebound technique — Romans 8:38,39. The believer sins after salvation but such sin is carnality, not loss of salvation — 1 Corinthians 3:1-3; 1 John 1:8,10.

3. The mechanics of rebound.

a) You confess a sin to God — 1 John 1:9. The Greek word for confess is o(mologew and it means to cite or to name, it does not mean to feel sorry for. It has no emotional connotation.

b) Isolation of sin — Hebrews 12:15.

4. The alternative to rebound. This is simple. If you do not want to name your sins to God and be forgiven the alternative is twofold: carnality and/or reversionism. They are the results of rejecting the rebound technique — 1 Corinthians 11:31. Hebrews 12:6 is the inevitable result of failure or neglect of rebound.

5. There is also a discouragement to rebound. Legalism is the enemy of rebound. Luke 15:11-32; 2 Corinthians 2:5-11.

6. The technique belonged to the Old Testament saints as well as to the royal family of God in the Church Age — Psalm 32:5; 38:18; 51:3,4; Proverbs 28:13.

7. Some biblical synonyms for rebound. Confess or name it — 1 John 1:9; Judge self — 1 Corinthians 11:31; “Yield” in the aorist tense — Romans 6:13; 12:1; Lay aside every weight — Hebrews 12:1; Be in subjection to the Father — Hebrews 12:9; Lift up the hands that hang down — Hebrews 12:12; Make straight paths — Matthew 3:3; Hebrews 12:13; Arise from the dead — Ephesians 5:14; Put off the old man — Ephesians 4:22; Acknowledge thine iniquity — Jeremiah 3:13. 8. There is a principle of helping others to rebound — Galatians 6:1. There must be an accompanying mental attitude — Matthew 18:23-35. Grace orientation must always be applied — Colossians 3:13. There is a reward for helping other members of the royal family to rebound or to use the technique — James 5:19,20.