6/24/81; 7/4/81
A. Residence Mandates.
1. Jn 15:9-10, “Just as the Father loves Me, so also I have loved you. Reside in My love complex. If you keep My mandates, you will reside in the sphere of My love complex, just as I have fulfilled the mandates of My Father and I reside in the sphere of His love complex.”
2. Eph 5:2, “And be walking in the sphere of the love complex.”
B. Functional Mandates. 2 Jn 6, “And the love complex is this: that we should keep walking according to His mandates. Now the mandate is this, as you have heard from the beginning, His mandate is that you should keep walking in it.”
C. Mandates by Gates.
1. Gate 1.
a. Eph 5:18, “Be filled with the Spirit.” Whether grieving or quenching the Spirit, you are always indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
b. Gal 5:16, “Walk by means of the Spirit.”
c. Eph 4:30, “Grieve not the Spirit.”
d. 1 Thes 5:19, “Quench not the Spirit.”
2. Gate 2. All mandates related to basic problem solving devices, such as the use of rebound, the faith-rest drill, hope 2 and 3, etc.
3. Gate 3.
a. Lk 14:11, “For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.”
b. Jas 4:6-8, “God makes war against the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble. Submit, therefore, to God; resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.”
c. 1 Pet 5:5-6, “Clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God makes war against the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that He may exalt you at the proper time.”
4. Gate 4.
a. 2 Jn 4-6, “I was very pleased because I had discovered that some of your children continue their momentum by means of doctrine even as we have received a mandate from the Father… And the love complex is this, that we should keep walking in compliance with His mandates. And this is the mandate, just as you heard from the beginning, that we should keep walking in it.” All commands regarding learning Bible doctrine belong to this mandate.
b. 1 Thes 5:12-13, “But we request you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you and have charge over you in the Lord, and give you instruction. And that you esteem them very highly in the sphere of the love complex because of their work.”
c. Eph 4:11-16, “… but by the teaching of doctrine in the sphere of the love complex, you [pastor] may cause them [royal family] to grow up by the all things [of doctrine] with reference to Him who is the head. For Whom, all the body being joined together and being taught categorically by every joint of supply according to the operational power in measure, one pastor for each part, resulting in an edification complex belonging to himself in the sphere of the love complex.”
5. Gate 5.
a. Eph 3:19, “And to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
b. 1 Pet 1:8, “Even though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with happiness which is inexpressible and full of glory.” 6. Gate 6.
a. Jn 13:34, “I give you a new mandate, that you love one another even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”
(1) Impersonal love ignores sinfulness, hostility, pettiness of others.
(2) It motivates the Christian way of life, the royal family honor code.
(3) It is the foundation for all capacities.
(4) It is the key to relating the believer’s lifestyle to the doctrine resident in his soul.
(5) The royal family honor code demands the function of impersonal love to sustain the personal love of a few as well as for dealing with the hostilities of humanity in general.
(6) Impersonal love is the honorable motivator causing human volition to make right decisions which open up options for more and greater decisions.
(7) Impersonal love is the stabilizer of enforced and genuine humility. It is the basis for objectivity under pressure, and the doctrinal solution to various testing.
(8) Impersonal love insulates the believer from injustices. It protects the believer from being distracted by sinfulness, human good, and evil in others. Impersonal love protects the believer from his distraction problems.
b. Jn 15:12, “This is My mandate, that you love each other as I have loved you.”
c. Jn 15:17, “I command you these things that you might love each other.”
d. 1 Pet 3:8, “Finally, let all be harmonious, love as brethren, kind hearted and humble in spirit.”
e. 1 Jn 3:23, “Furthermore, this is His mandate, that we believe in the name of His Son, and that we love each other just as He gave us a mandate.”
f. 1 Thes 4:9, “Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need of anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.”
g. Heb 13:1, “Let brotherly love continue.”
h. Rom 12:9-10, “Make it a matter of honor to give precedence to others.”
i. 1 Pet 1:22, “Since you have in obedience to doctrine purified yourselves for [resulting in] a non-hypocritical love, fervently love one another from the right lobe.”
j. Rom 13:8, “Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another. For when he loves the other, he fulfills the Law.” The purpose of the Mosaic law is to produce a code of honor for impersonal love.
k. Rom 13:10, “Love works no evil to a neighbor.”
7. Gate 7. All the mandates related to continued momentum and passing momentum testing in the protocol plan of God.
8. Gate 8.
a. Jn 15:11, “I have taught you these things that My happiness might be in you and that your happiness might be completed.”
b. 1 Jn 1:4; 2 Jn 12; Rom 14:19, “Consequently, we pursue those things related to prosperity and those things related to the edification complex.”
c. Rom 15:2, “Let each one of us accommodate his neighbor for the purpose of the good to edification.”
d. 1 Jn 2:3, “By this doctrine we know that we have come to know Him, if we continue to keep His mandates.”
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