Jer 69, 3/7/71

DOCTRINE OF PRESSURE

A. The Bible teaches about pressure from slavery to the details of life. Negative volition toward doctrine destroys capacity so that the details of life do not satisfy. This leads to frustration and slavery to the details of life, as well as the emotional revolt of the soul.

B. There is also pressure from the guilt complex and the suppression of it, 1 Tim 1:5-6; 1 Tim 1:19-20; 1 Tim 3:9; 1 Tim 4:1-2.

C. There is pressure from scar tissue of the soul. This is the button that starts the emotional revolt, Eph 4:17-19.

D. There is pressure from failure to isolate sin, as taught in Heb 12:15. This failure leads directly to the emotional revolt of the soul.

E. A manifestation of the emotional revolt of the soul is found in pressure, which comes from rejecting authority in life, Jer 7; Mt 7:29-8:13.

F. There is pressure from rapid and accelerated construction of the edification complex of the soul, Jas 1:1-6.

G. There is pressure because of relationship with those under pressure, 1 Cor 12:26; Rom 14:7; 1 Sam 21; 1 Chron 21.

H. There is pressure from right man/right woman relationship. Eph 5:16 and 23 teach that there is pressure from rejection of right man. Jer 15:18 and 16:2 teach that there is pressure from no capacity to love the right man.

I. There is pressure related to divine discipline, Ps 38; Heb 12:6.

J. There is pressure from rejection of Bible doctrine, Jer 13.

K. There is pressure from the angelic conflict, 1 Pet 3:17, 1:12; Eph 3:9-13.

L. There is pressure to demonstrate the sufficiency of God’s grace, 2 Cor 12:7-10.

M. There is pressure to learn the value of Bible doctrine, Ps 119:67-68, 71.

N. There is the pressure of national disaster, Jer 15; Isa 59:15-21.

O. There is pressure from loss of norms and standards, i.e., emotional revolt of the soul, Jer 2:24-25.

P. There are seven general areas of pressure.

1. Malfunction of the soul, emotional revolt of the soul, scar tissue of the soul, destruction of the right lobe.

2. Malfunction of the body, in loss of health, disease, pain.

3. Social pressure, in loneliness, boredom, ostracism.

4. People pressure, in rejection, persecution, violence, invasion of privacy, maligning.

5. Weather pressure, being too hot, too cold, storms, disasters.

6. Privation pressure: hunger, thirst, exposure.

7. National pressure: warfare, depression, revolution, rioting.

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