Eph 936, 942 11/23/88
A. Pre-Salvation and Post-Salvation Sinning.
1. All sins committed in the human race are divided into two categories: pre-salvation sinning and post-salvation sinning. Both categories of sins were judged at the cross.
2. The solution to all pre-salvation sinning is personal faith in Jesus Christ. At the moment we believe in Jesus Christ, all our pre- salvation sins are blotted out.
3. The solution to post-salvation sinning begins with the rebound technique, 1 Jn 1:9. When the believer uses the rebound technique and names or cites his sins of cognizance, his sins of ignorance are also forgiven.
4. Documentation for pre-salvation sinning.
a. From the standpoint of negative volition, Jn 16:8-9.
b. From the standpoint of heathenism, Rom 1:25-32.
c. From the standpoint of the unbeliever’s sin nature, Gal 5:19- 21.
d. From the standpoint of exclusion from God in the eternal state, Rev 22:19-21. 5. Documentation for post-salvation sinning.
a. Related to carnality, 1 Cor 3:1-3.
b. Related to fragmentation, 2 Tim 3:2-6.
c. Related to the sin nature, Rom 7:14-25.
d. Related to self-deceit, 1 Jn 1:8,10.
B. Illustration.
1. Eph 4:22, “With reference to your former lifestyle, you yourselves lay aside the old man [sin nature], you [believers] who are becoming degenerate [polarized fragmentation] on the basis of the lusts of deceit.”
2. Here, the “former lifestyle” indicates post-salvation sinning, determined by the context.
3. Rebound is the only way to check three things which are part of post-salvation sinning: implosion, explosion, and reversionism.
4. The plural of lust refers to power, money, approbation, sexual, chemical lust.
5. “Deceit” refers to implosion, explosion, reversionism, and cosmic involvement.
C. Pattern of Post-Salvation Sinning.
1. To implode means to burst inwardly, to succumb to the temptations of the old sin nature. You have an inward burst.
a. Here, implosion is used in a technical sense for succumbing to the sin nature’s trend toward legalism and self-righteous arrogance or toward antinomianism and lascivious lawlessness.
b. Implosion which follows the trend toward legalism includes many heresies which result from self-righteous arrogance; e.g., salvation by works, spirituality by works or by relativity, erroneous views about the Christian way of life and God’s protocol plan, total lack of grace orientation, substituting taboos, erroneous views about the canon of Scripture, not accepting the principle of verbal plenary inspiration of Scripture.
c. Implosion is the first step toward moral or immoral degeneracy. Implosion is self fragmentation.
d. If unchecked by rebound and doctrinal orientation, implosion becomes explosion.
2. Explosion is a synonym for fragmentation, caused by the believer pulling the pin of the grenade through sinning in the arrogance complex. Explosion results in polarized fragmentation.
a. If unchecked by rebound, explosion will give way to moral or immoral degeneracy, which cultivates a tyranny of evil.
b. The pin of the grenade includes the entire arrogance complex; e.g., jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, self-pity, hypersensitivity, hatred, anger, revenge motivation, revenge function, slander, maligning, gossip, judging, inordinate ambition combined with inordinate competition to undermine love, affection, friendship, romance, and marriage.
c. Fragmentation occurs in six categories.
(1) Self-fragmentation or personal fragmentation.
(2) Polarized fragmentation.
(3) Fragmentation of subjective arrogance.
(a) Unrealistic expectation is subjective preoccupation with self.
(b) Role model arrogance is subjective preoccupation with others. Role model arrogance is related to peer pressure in whatever the trend of one’s sin nature.
(4) Human relationship fragmentation.
(5) Emotional fragmentation includes fear, worry, anxiety, anger, hatred, violence, and murder.
(6) God relationship fragmentation.
(a) Failure to learn and to use the problem solving devices of the protocol plan of God.
i. Rebound technique.
ii. Filling of the Holy Spirit.
iii. Faith-rest drill.
iv. Grace orientation.
v. Doctrinal orientation.
vi. Personal love for God the Father.
vii. Impersonal love for all mankind.
viii. +H or sharing the happiness of God.
ix. Personal sense of destiny.
x Occupation with Christ, the priority solution.
(b) Failure to understand, metabolize, and apply the unique characteristics of the Church Age.
i. The baptism of the Spirit.
ii. The protocol plan of God.
iii. The unique equality factors under the computer assets of election and predestination.
iv. Our portfolio of invisible assets.
v. Our unique commissions of royal priesthood and royal ambassadorship.
vi. The unique mystery doctrine of the Church Age.
vii. The indwelling of all three persons of the Trinity.
viii. The unique availability of divine power from God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
ix. The dispensation of invisible heroes.
x The dispensation of historical trends.
© Failure to execute the protocol plan of God through consistent post-salvation epistemological rehabilitation.
(d) Failure to learn and to use your very own portfolio of invisible assets.
3. Reversionism is the result of implosion and explosion.
4. Reversionism is the final stage of cosmic involvement and reversionism resulting in moral or immoral degeneracy. Degeneracy is defined as decline from the normal standards of the protocol plan of God through implosion, explosion, and reversion. Therefore, the believer unchecked by rebound sinks into subnormal categories of personal sinning.
5. There are eight stages of reversionism.
a. Reaction and distraction.
b. Frantic search for happiness.
c. Operation boomerang.
d. Emotional revolt of the soul.
e. Permanent negative volition or permanent cosmic involvement.
f. Blackout of the soul.
g. Scar tissue of the soul.
h. Reverse process reversionism and either moral or immoral degeneracy.
D. The Momentum from Implosion to Explosion to Reversionism.
1. Implosion results in explosion or the fragmentation of the believer.
2. The fragmentation of the believer results in cosmic involvement and reversionism.
3. By the use of rebound, you can check implosion and explosion or fragmentation. 4. By the use of rebound, you can still check the first four stages of reversionism, though with greater difficulty.
5. But by the time you reach stage five of reversionism, permanent negative volition toward doctrine, you become permanently involved in the cosmic system.
6. At this point, you cannot tell the difference between the unbeliever and the believer in this permanent status quo. They cannot be distinguished in their thought pattern or modus operandi. The only difference between them is that one is going to heaven and one is going to hell.
7. In reaction to this phenomenon, believers become polarized toward the opposite trends of the old sin nature, and heresy reaches its peak.
E. The Guide to Post-Salvation Sinning.
1. Frequent sinning is the status quo of the believer who follows the pattern of implosion, explosion and the first four stages of reversionism. Frequent sinning is characterized by ignorance; therefore, failure to utilize the rebound technique.
2. Continuous sinning is the status quo of the believer who follows the pattern of implosion, explosion and ends up in the last four stages of reversionism.
3. Sporadic sinning is when the believer checks implosion, explosion and reversion by consistent use of the rebound technique of 1 Jn 1:9, followed up with the use of the other problem solving devices. In sporadic sinning, the believer decelerates into the pattern of post-salvation sinning, then recovers through rebound, and accelerates through post- salvation epistemological rehabilitation. Sporadic sinning is the status of the believer on his way to spiritual adulthood in spiritual adolescence.
4. Occasional sinning is when the believer checks implosion, explosion and reversion through rebound and the other problem solving devices. This is the status of the believer in spiritual adulthood. Occasional sinning is overcome by the following factors.
a. Perception and application of the problem solving devices of the protocol plan of God.
b. Learning and using the unique factors of the Church Age.
c. Consistent post-salvation epistemological rehabilitation; i.e., the perception, metabolization, and application of the mystery doctrine of the Church Age.
d. Execution of the protocol plan. The advance to spiritual adulthood: spiritual self-esteem or cognitive self-confidence, spiritual autonomy or cognitive independence, and spiritual maturity or cognitive invincibility.
e. Functioning as an invisible hero, becoming a part of the pivot, and turning around the declining client nation. This is tantamount to maximum glorification of God.
5. There is no possibility to be perfect in this life as long as the sin nature resides in your body.
F. Illustration of Implosion and Explosion: Irritation.
1. To irritate means to cite impatience or anger, to cause to induce impatience or anger, to exasperate, to annoy, to irritate to the point where self-control is lost.
2. Irritation is a good illustration of implosion. Under the protocol plan of God, the believer cannot be irritated by other people, only by self.
3. Of course, you always blame the object for irritation. But actually, irritation is an emotional sin of implosion, and you do it to yourself. Self-irritation is implosion.
4. However, in the implosion or fragmentation stage of post-salvation sinning, we inevitably blame our irritation on the object of our jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, anger, gossip, slander, maligning, or judging.
5. In reality, we as believers must take the responsibility for our own irritation, i.e., for our jealousy, bitterness, implacability, vindictiveness, anger, hatred, guilt, self-pity, revenge motivation and function, maligning and judging, and inordinate ambition and inordinate competition.
6. Self-irritation, self-jealousy, self-bitterness is the decision of the believer to pull the pin of the grenade. We always do it to ourselves, although there is always an object whom we blame.
7. Self-irritation combines the function of implosion with the function of explosion, so that we fragment. Unchecked by rebound, we will end up in reversionism. Unchecked reversionism results in either moral degeneracy or immoral degeneracy.
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R. B. Thieme, Jr.
Bible Ministries 5139 West Alabama, Houston, Texas 77056 (713) 621-3740
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