TERMS USED BY ROBERT R. MCLAUGHLIN BIBLE MINISTRIES
ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
The Abrahamic covenant is the unconditional covenant (agreement, disposition) between God as party of the first part in favor of Abraham and his progeny (all born-again Jews) as the party of the second part. This is a grace covenant from the justice of God. It promises a national land, Gen 12:1, 13:14, and a king from Abraham's line, Gen 17:5.
ADAM'S ORIGINAL SIN
Adam's original sin was disobedience to God's mandate in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the forbidden fruit resulting in spiritual death. Consequently, Adam's corrupt nature (See SIN NATURE) and spiritual death were passed to all mankind. See SPIRITUAL DEATH.
ADJUSTMENT TO THE JUSTICE OF GOD
Divine grace is administered through the essence of God. Ultimately, all blessing or discipline from God to us must be filtered through His justice. As goes the justice of God, so goes blessing or cursing to us.
ADOPTION
This is the Biblical connotation of adoption, which is based on the Roman aristocratic function of adoption in the time when the New Testament was written; it is not the same as our Twentieth century practice. In Scripture adoption means to be recognized by God as an adult son positionally at salvation (and an adult son experientially at maturity). The Latin adoptia is the exact equivalent of the Greek huiothesia, meaning to adopt as an adult son. Imputations at salvation are made as part of the ceremony of recognizing that we now have a plan and purpose in life. All believers become adopted as sons at salvation. Being in union with Christ, we are joint-heirs with Christ, and are therefore adopted at the moment of salvation, Gal 3:26.
A FORTIORI
A fortiori is a Latin phrase meaning "with stronger reason." It is a system of logic using comparison. It is a conclusion compared with some other conclusion or recognized fact as inferred to be even more certain or inescapable than the two conclusions it combines. For example, if you can do 100 push-ups, it follows a fortiori you can do 20 push-ups.
AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
The age of accountability is the point at which a person becomes conscious of God and able to understand the Gospel. See GOD CONSCIOUSNESS
AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST
An ambassador for Christ is the believer as a personal representative for the Lord Jesus Christ on earth.
ANGELIC CONFLICT
The angelic conflict is the result of prehistoric creatures being in opposition to God, which began with the fall of Satan and continued until all angelic creatures had made a decision for or against God. It refers to the two trials of Satan and fallen angels, one in prehistoric times, the other during human history, Mat 25:41, and Rev 20:10.
ANGELOLOGY
Angelology is the study of both elect and fallen angels.
ANTHROPOPATHISM
An anthropopathism ascribes a human characteristic to God, which God does not actually possess, and one that is not a divine attribute. The purpose of an anthropopathism is to explain a divine policy to man in terms of man's frame of reference.
ANTHROPOMORPHISM
Through language of the accommodation in the Bible an anthropomorphism ascribes to God human physical characteristics that He does not possess. This is used as a teaching device in order for man to understand God's divine policy, character and function on man's own finite level of understanding.
ANTI-SEMITISM
Anti-Semitism is a person, a group, an organization, or a nation which is hostile to the Jews.
APOSTASY
The falling away from the faith or falling away from the system of belief arrived at through the perception, metabolization and application of Bible doctrine, 2Th 2:3.
AREA OF STRENGTH
The area of the sin nature that generates human good or dead works. See HUMAN GOOD
AREA OF WEAKNESS
The area of the sin nature that tempts the believer to sin. Temptation becomes sin only when the volition acquiesces to temptation.
ASCENSION AND SESSION
The ascension is that doctrine of Christology pertaining to the transfer of our Lord's true humanity from planet earth to the third heaven in a resurrection body. The session is that doctrine of Christology pertaining to the glorification of our Lord's humanity at the right hand of the Father. These definitions presume your understanding of the Hypostatic Union. See HYPOSTATIC UNION
ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
The individual qualities or characteristics that are intrinsic to the essence of God. See DIVINE ESSENCE
BAPTISM OF FIRE
The baptism of fire is defined as the judgment of the Tribulational unbelievers at the Second Advent. They are removed from the earth and placed in fire for 1,000 years until the Last Judgment. Both Jews and Gentiles who are tribulational unbelievers are involved in this Second Advent judgment. This judgment takes place before the Millennium and includes unbelievers only. Mat 3:11-12, Luk 3:16.
BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
The baptism of the Holy Spirit is one of seven salvation ministries by God the Holy Spirit. In the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the omnipotence of the Holy Spirit enters the believer into union with Christ, making the Church-age believer a part of the royal family of God.
BLOOD OF CHRIST
While our Lord did some bleeding on the cross, He didn't bleed to death, nor does His literal human blood have anything to do with the phrase found throughout the New Testament, "the blood of Christ." Even Greek lexicons recognize this principle when defining the word haima, the Greek word for blood. The Arndt and Gingrich, Greek-English Lexicon, page 22, under haima in the paragraph describing the figurative use of the blood of Christ, says, "blood and life as an expiatory sacrifice; especially the blood of Jesus as the means of expiation." The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, edited by Gerhard Kittel, Vol I, page 175, "the ideas which the New Testament links with the blood of Christ, since the latter (New Testament), is simply a pregnant verbal symbol of the saving work of Christ." Since the symbolism of the blood is death, two categories of death experienced by Christ on the cross are examined in this doctrine. His somatic death refers to what happened to His literal blood; His spiritual death refers to what happened to His figurative blood. The somatic death of Christ looks forward to the resurrection, whereas the spiritual death of Christ looks back to our sins and spiritual death. It is His figurative blood that has to do with salvation.
BLACKOUT OF THE SOUL
Blackout of the soul is the status of the believer with negative volition to doctrine, which results in his involvement with the cosmic system.
BODY OF CHRIST
The phrase "body of Christ" is used to designate all Church-age believers in their relationship with Jesus Christ. Each person of the Trinity is related to the "body of Christ."
BOOK OF LIFE
The book of life is one thing in time and something different in eternity. It is a registry containing the names of every member of the human race in time. In eternity, it is the registry of all believers. When a person dies as an unbeliever, his name is removed from the book of life. Therefore, in eternity only the names of believers are in the book of life, Phi 4:3, Rev 3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12,15, 21:7. In eternity, this book also contains the new title of royalty for each mature believer.
CANONICITY
Canonicity refers to the books of the Bible that were divinely inspired and officially recognized as the Holy Scripture.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Capital punishment is the maximum use of jurisprudence under the laws of divine establishment. Capital punishment must be preceded by trial authorized from the judicial function of government. There must be an objective judge who can look clearly at true evidence; heresy and prejudice are rejected. When evidence points to a crime truly committed, there must be punishment such that the criminal suffers in dying, and others must see this for the purpose of restraint.
CARNALITY
The state of which the old sin nature controls the soul of the believer thereby grieving or quenching the Holy Spirit. This control over the soul is allowed through the free-will volitional decision of the believer.
CHAIN SINNING
Chain sinning is sin compounded by the feeling of guilt or condemnation because of sin committed.
CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM
There is a tremendous emphasis among evangelical Christians today to enter into activism, to practice social and political engineering. This arrogance manifests the fact that most Christians don't have a clue about the Christian way of life. Christian involvement in vigorous and often illegal activity to achieve political goals is another manifestation of this arrogance. Christians stick their nose into other people's business. Christians intrude into the privacy of other people. Christians violate the constitutional rights of other people.
CHRISTIAN DEGENERACY
Christian degeneracy is the decline to false or inferior standards, accompanied by loss of integrity and sinking into the subnormal status of fragmentation and reversionism. Degeneracy is the process of passing from the higher to the lower, to decline progressively.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Civil disobedience refers to the action of arrogance perpetuated against the laws of divine establishment. God sets up these principles of law for the protection, orderly function, survival and perpetuation of the human race during the period of the angelic conflict.
CLIENT NATION
A client nation is a national entity under the principle of divine institution number four, and is responsible for custodianship of the Word of God, Bible doctrine. Divine institution number four refers to nationalism and being patriotic to your Country.
COMMON GRACE
Common grace is the ministry of God the Holy Spirit in making the Gospel clear, perspicuous, and understandable to the person who is spiritually brain dead, i.e., to all unbelievers.
COSMIC ONE
Cosmic one consists of grieving the Spirit. In Cosmic one the believer becomes involved with sin or preoccupation with self, causing the believer to sin, hence exiting the predesigned plan of God (PPOG). Once in cosmic one the believer only need rebound, 1Jo 1:9, to get back in fellowship with God.
COSMIC TWO
Cosmic two consists of quenching the Spirit. This is man's exit from the predesigned plan of God by way of antagonism toward God and the plan of God. Cosmic two entails more than sin per se in that it moves into evil. Evil is more than sin; it is a system of thought based on disputes, rejection and contradiction to the Word of God. Evil attempts to frustrate the grace policy of God. This "human viewpoint" takes more than mere rebound to re-enter fellowship with God, it requires recovery as well. Recovery is the cleansing of the mind through consistent perception, metabolization and application of the accurate teaching of the Word of God.
COSMIC SYSTEM
The phrase the cosmic system involves both cosmic one and cosmic two and entails the overall objective of Satan in using mankind to prove his superiority over God. The cosmic system is the devil's multifaceted policy for achieving his goal by way of human viewpoint projected through the world system. The cosmic system refers to the Greek work kosmos. Satan is king of the world and its cosmic system.
COVENANTS
Covenants are a pact or agreement between two people that binds them mutually to an undertaking on each other's behalf. Theologically, it is used on behalf of relations between God and man and denotes a gracious undertaking on God's part for the benefit and blessing of mankind. It is specifically designed for those who by faith receive the promises of God and commit themselves to the obligations, which this undertaking involves.
CURRENT POSITIONAL TRUTH
Current positional truth is identification with Christ as He is seated at the right hand of God the Father in His resurrection, ascension, and session. Identification with His spiritual death means rejection of human good and evil. Identification with His physical death means separation from human good and evil. Identification with his burial means divorce from human good and evil.
DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST
Jesus Christ is eternal God. As a member of the Trinity, He always existed. There never was a time when He did not exist. He is coequal and co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, Col 1:15 and Heb 1:3. In eternity past, Jesus Christ had the same essence as the Father and Spirit. In time, He still had the same functions of deity, but He also became true humanity. Therefore, He is unique.
DEITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Trinity passages reveal the deity of the Holy Spirit as being coequal, co-eternal, and co-infinite with God the Son and God the Father, 2Co 13:14, Act 5:3-4, Mat 28:19, Act 2:38.
DEMON INFLUENCE
Demon influence is demonization of the soul and personality of the believer or unbeliever living in the cosmic system. There are degrees of demon influence. It depends on how long you reside in the cosmic system without the use of rebound. Demon influence is thought transference of demon doctrine to the believer or unbeliever in the cosmic system.
DEMON POSSESSION
Demon possession is defined as demon invasion of the body of the unbeliever only. Generally, this occurs through the phallic cult or some form of religion. In contrast, demon influence is the demon invasion of the soul with satanic thought. Satanic thought is not expressed in terms of evil but in terms of improving this world, doing nice things for your fellow man, and supporting crusades. It is false thinking comprising the policy and principles by which Satan operates.
DICHOTOMOUS
Dichotomous is the state of unregenerate mankind that consists of two component parts: body and soul.
DISPENSATIONS
A dispensation is a period of time in human history expressed in terms of divine revelation. The inerrancy of the Word of God is the source for looking at history from the divine viewpoint. Therefore, dispensation is a technical theological term used primarily by the apostle Paul in the presentation of the mystery doctrine of this Church-age. Dispensations are divine categories of human history; therefore, both the divine outline and the divine interpretation of human history. There are many interpretations of history, but the only accurate interpretation is dispensational. Dispensations are the vehicle by which believers living at a specific time in history can orient to God's will, plan, and purpose for their lives. God's plan is not the same for every dispensation. In fact, the plan is quite different in each dispensation. The most difficult and subtle plan to learn by a believer is the predesigned plan of God for the Church-age. Old Testament believers were under the ritual plan of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ was under the incarnation plan of God. A dispensation is defined traditionally as a period of time during which a particular revelation of God's mind and God's will is operative, and during which man is tested as to his obedience to that specific manifestation of God's will, purpose, and plan. The believer's orientation to both time and to human history is vitally necessary for understanding God's plan and God's purpose.
DIVINE DECREE
The decree of God is His eternal, holy, wise, and sovereign purpose, comprehending simultaneously all things that ever were or will be in their causes, conditions, successions, relations, and determining the certainty of their future.
DIVINE DISCIPLINE
Divine discipline is the sum total of punitive action taken by the justice of God in grace to correct, to punish, to encourage, to train, and to motivate the believer's free will toward the plan of God for all dispensations. Therefore, divine discipline is distinguished from divine judgment, in that discipline is for believers only, but judgment is directed toward all categories of the human race and angels under certain circumstances.
DIVINE ESSENCE
Essence is derived from the Attic Greek adjective ousia. The Doric Greek used a similar word, essia. The Latin word for essence, esse, came from the Doric Greek. Ousia and essia mean that which is one's own, a substance that belongs to one person, a substance being the inner nature, the qualities or attributes of a person. Essence is defined as the basic constituent of a thing, the intrinsic nature of something. Essence is defined as that in being which underlies all outward manifestations and is both permanent and unchangeable; it is the existence or actual being. Essence implies both being and identity. Essence refers to the qualities or attributes of God, attributes that have always existed.
DIVINE ESTABLISHMENT
God has ordained certain laws for the survival and freedom of the human race during the course of human history. Anarchy exists when segments of nations ignore these laws. The laws of divine establishment provide the freedom to fulfill the divine plan as ordained in the divine decrees under many types of government. The laws of divine establishment are designed and directed toward both believer and unbeliever. They operate from the fall of man to the Second Advent, as well as in the Millennium with some modifications in compatibility with perfect environment.
DIVINE GOOD
The Greek word agathos refers to Christian service or deeds performed by the believer who is filled with the Holy Spirit. It is only such deeds that are accepted by God. All else accomplished apart from the filling of the Spirit is human good and worthless to God.
DIVINE VIEWPOINT
Once the believer accepts the finished work of Christ on the Cross, he is to renovate his thinking through the inculcation of Bible doctrine. We are to acquire the mind of Christ and operate in the plan of God. In this way we are functioning in life with divine viewpoint, or the thinking of God.
DYING GRACE
Dying grace is defined as the death of the mature believer. It is the experience of physical death under special provision of grace whereby the believer involved experiences both blessing and happiness while dying. Dying grace can occur regardless of the amount of pain and suffering while dying. There could be maximum pain or a minimum of pain, but in either case there is maximum happiness and soul stimulation.
EDIFICATION COMPLEX OF THE SOUL
The edification complex of the soul is technical nomenclature found in the epistles of the New Testament for the attainment of spiritual growth and the building of a soul structure. The soul structured is built from perception, metabolization and application of Bible doctrine.
EFFICACIOUS GRACE
Efficacious grace is the ministry of God the Holy Spirit in making the faith of the spiritually dead person effective for eternal salvation. Common and efficacious grace emphasizes the total helplessness of the spiritually dead person. No matter what a spiritually dead person can do, it is not salvation. Salvation is accomplished by faith alone in Christ alone, the one thing that God the Holy Spirit can make effective, 2Co 6:1-2.
ELECTION
Election is the expression of the sovereign will of God in eternity past before the universe existed and before mankind lived on the earth. Election is the sovereign right of God over His creation. Election is a Biblical term that is applied to the believer.
ESCROW
An escrow is a written agreement entered into by three parties, the obligor, the obligee, and the depositary, for the transfer of certain benefits. The sealed agreement of the obligor, generally accompanied by the deed, bond, or chattel to be conveyed, is made contingent on some future happening or on the performance of some act by the obligee, and is delivered to the depositary and held by him pending the occurrence of that event or the performance of the required act by the obligee. When the event has taken place or the obligee has performed the specified act, the depositary delivers to him the agreement and the deposit is held. The depositary or custodian is allowed no discretion, but must follow strictly the terms of the agreement as it concerns the other two parties. There is an eternal escrow and there are three parties in that escrow. The obligor is God the Father, who has placed Himself under legal obligation in eternity past to provide two categories of special and unusual blessings, both temporal and eternal, for the obligee, the believer who fulfills the predesigned plan of God. The depositary or custodian is God the Son. In eternity past, both categories of blessings were deposited with our Lord Jesus Christ in escrow, pending the obligee's future advance to spiritual maturity. The obligee is every Church-age believer.
ESCROW BLESSINGS
Escrow blessings are infinitely superior to all other categories of divine blessings for both time and eternity. There are no set of circumstances that can hinder the conveyance of your escrow blessings in time. You will receive your escrow blessings as an adult believer even though the rest of the nation is falling apart around you. Escrow blessings are a metaphor designed to explain the ultimate blessings available to every Christian in time and eternity. A metaphor is the application of a phrase or a concept to an object or concept it does not literally denote in order to suggest a comparison.
ETERNAL LIFE
Eternal life is a grace gift received at the moment of salvation in which God imputes His own life to every believer that we may live forever with Him.
ETERNAL SECURITY
At the moment of salvation God imputes His absolute righteousness to every believer and declares him righteous or justified, Rom 3:21-28. If God excluded from eternal salvation anyone who possesses God's own righteousness, He would have to deny Himself and contradict His own pronouncement of justification. Therefore, our salvation is as strong as the essence of God Himself!
EVANGELISM
Evangelism is the spreading of the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according to the Scripture, and that as the reigning Lord He now offers the forgiveness of sins and the liberating gift of the Holy Spirit and eternal life to all who would simply believe on Him!
EVIDENCE TESTING
Evidence testing is Satan's cross-examination of every witness presented by God in the historical trial of all fallen angels. In human history, man's thoughts, motives, decisions, and actions are entered as evidence, exhibits, precedents, and arguments in Satan's appeal trial. Every believer who attains spiritual maturity is an argument or witness for the Prosecution against Satan.
EVIL
Evil is the policy of Satan as the ruler of this world. Evil is the modus operandi (method of operation) of Satan from the time of his fall throughout the angelic revolution and down to the point when he became the ruler of the world. Evil is Satan's failure to produce a system of good in mankind and society that would bring in a pseudo-millennium. Evil is Satan's system by which he administers the rulership of this world. Satan cannot restrain sin, therefore, he parlays human good into sin and evil.
EXPIATION
Expiation refers to all the doctrines that make up the finished work of Christ on the Cross.
FAITH
A non-meritorious system of perception based on confident trust in the authority and veracity of God, Jehovah Elohim, the Lord God!
FAITH-REST DRILL
The faith-rest drill is one of the ten problem solving devices of the predesigned plan of God for the Church. There are three categories related to the faith-rest drill: faith mechanics, faith functions, and faith execution. The faith-rest drill is that problem solving device used by believers in all dispensations for carrying and using the shield of faith.
FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
To make it from salvation to spiritual maturity requires the filling of the Holy Spirit and the daily intake of Bible doctrine. We already have perfect righteousness judicially imputed at salvation. At the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit indwells the body of the believer. Because the body is the headquarters of the old sin nature, the Holy Spirit sets up His headquarters in the body for counteraction. The battlefield is the soul. The filling of the Holy Spirit spearheads this counteraction and gives the believer the opportunity to be influenced and controlled by God the Holy Spirit.
FIVE CYCLES OF DISCIPLINE
God administers discipline to His client nation. He does this in five stages or cycles of discipline as found in Lev 26.
1. Loss of health, decline of agricultural prosperity, terror, fear and death in combat, loss of personal freedoms due to negative volition toward Bible doctrine, Lev 26:14-17.
2. Economic recession and depression, increased personal and individual discipline for continued negative attitude in spite of the first warning, Lev 26:18-20.
3. Violence and breakdown of law and order, resulting in cities being broken up, Lev 26:21-22.
4. Military conquest and/or foreign occupation, scarcity of goods (reduced to one-tenth of the normal supply), and the breaking up of families, Lev 26:23-26.
5. Destruction of a nation due to maximum rejection of Biblical principles, Lev 26:27-39.
FLAWS
Distinction must be made between genetic and environmental handicaps and flaws. Genetic flaws are the weaknesses with which we are born because of the old sin nature in the cell structure of the body. Environmental flaws are those that we acquire. In genetic handicaps and flaws, human volition is simply not involved. In environmental handicaps or flaws, human volition is involved. Genetic flaws often manifest themselves through impulsive actions. However, volition sometimes does become involved with genetic handicaps and flaws under certain pressures.
FLOT
"FLOT" is a military acronym for the forward line of troops. The Church Age believer must know when to use offensive action and when to use defensive action in the Christian way of life. Against Satan and all fallen angels, the divine commands call for defensive action. Offensive action related to the angelic conflict also relates to the execution of the predesigned plan of God for the Church. All angelic creatures, including demons or fallen angels, are watching every Church-age believer as they put on the full armor from God.
FOREKNOWLEDGE
Foreknowledge is an aspect of God's omniscience in which all things, past, present, future, eternal, material, intellectual, spiritual, and actual are known by Him! His foreknowledge simultaneously knows every situation as well as every actual decision made by all His people!
FORTY THINGS
In this dispensation only, God has provided forty things for the believer at the moment of faith in Christ. These are grace gifts from God at salvation. You receive these forty things at the very moment of salvation before you have had a chance to do anything! Therefore, you obviously receive these things by grace; you don't earn or deserve them.
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
The fruit of the Spirit is that which God the Holy Spirit produces in the life of the believer. "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." Gal 5:22-23.
GOD CONSCIOUSNESS
God consciousness is defined as the point at which a person becomes aware of the existence of God. It may also be classified as the point of accountability.
GODLINESS
Godliness is derived from the Greek word eusebeia, which connotes duty and responsibility of the royal priesthood to God under operation grace. The Greek word theosebeia means reverence to God or occupation with Christ.
GOSPEL
The Greek noun, euaggelion, is a compound substantive. Eu means good; aggelos means a messenger, an envoy is one who brings good news. It is also used for angels as messengers of God, but not here. Therefore, the word "Gospel" actually means "good news." God's good news to mankind, to unbelievers, is called the Gospel.
GRACE
Grace is all that God is free to do for mankind without compromising His divine essence. Grace means favor, kindness, and mercy. Grace is free, unmerited love and favor from God alone, not from our human works or because we are attractive to God. Grace is that in God which acts freely to save and bless mankind because all demands of holiness have been satisfied in Christ.
GRACE ORIENTATION
Grace orientation is being oriented to the grace policy of God through the inculcation of Bible doctrine under genuine humility and the teaching ministry of God the Holy Spirit. The grace-orientated believer does not judge others and always offers other believers privacy while minding his own business! Grace orientation offers to others the very grace that God offers to you!
GREAT POWER EXPERIMENT
This was the period of the incarnation of Christ in which the humanity of Christ set the precedence for the utilization of the divine power of the God Holy Spirit in living the Christian way of life. Every Church-age believer can operate under the very same power that sustained the humanity of Christ. It was in the great power experiment of the Hypostatic union (i.e., Christ incarnate) that Christ proved this power valid and feasible to each Church-age believer.
GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT
This is the final judgment for unbelievers only. It is here that all their good and evil will be evaluated and receive just condemnation. Condemnation, since they rejected the person of the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal savior. Judgment, because all the "good" deeds they performed were conducted in human power rather than in the power of the Holy Spirit, Rev 20:12-15.
HADES OR SHEOL
The Hebrew word Sheol originally meant in post-biblical Hebrew the deep parts of the sea. But both sheol and the Greek word hades are used to refer to anything that is subterranean and large. They are used for the vast subterranean place of the departed dead of the human race and the abode of certain fallen angels. Both sheol and hades are mistranslated "hell" which adds to the confusion. Hades was used from classical times for the underworld and the realm of the dead. Sheol is sometimes used for the grave, as in Gen 37:35, 42:38, 1Sa 2:6, and other passages.
HEART
The Biblical nouns for heart always refer to the right lobe of the soul, with possibly the exception of one passage in the Bible. The Hebrew lebh and the Greek kardia are both translated "heart." 1Sam 25:37 and 2Sam 18:14.
HEATHENISM
Heathenism is the apostasy of the unbeliever in the state of negative volition, described in 2Pe 2. Heathenism is the story of the unbeliever rejecting the Gospel, Rom 1:18-32.
HEIRSHIP
Heirship is based on sonship. You must be a son before you can become an heir. Huios means an adult son in Joh 1:12, Rom 8:16-17. If you are not in the family of God, how can you be an heir of God? To enter the family of God, you must have faith in Christ. The Lord is the heir of all things, and we share in all He has, Gal 3:26. Heirship is based on the death of another, Rom 5:8. Therefore, heirship of the royal family is based on the new covenant, Heb 9:15. To inherit from God, one must possess life from God, i.e., eternal life. 1Jo 5:11-12. So to be an heir of God, you must have His perfect righteousness and eternal life. All of the heirs of God have been justified by grace via imputed perfect righteousness from the justice of God, Tit 3:7.
HISTORICAL TRENDS
Even though history is the record of man's thoughts, decisions, actions and motivations, it is Jesus Christ who controls history. This is the first dispensation in which Jesus Christ controls history from His Hypostatic Union. There are two sources of judgment in history: the sovereign decisions of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the erroneous decisions of mankind.
HOPE
Hope is absolute confidence, total assurance, as well as comfort. It is our comfort in relationship to future things. Confidence about future things results in comfort. The source of hope is perception and metabolization of doctrine. Hope is not ignorance, uncertainty, or oscillation but confidence in God.
HUMAN GOOD
Human good must never be confused with morality or the legitimate production of the believer. Human good is the production of the believer in the cosmic system. Human good is not valid in God's eyes. Human good is the production of evil. Human good is the result of function inside the cosmic systems. It is often a reaction, e.g., helping someone because you dislike a person who wasn't helping that person, or showing someone how much better you are by your Christian production. People often give because they are unhappy. The believer performing human good can be motivated by cosmic one or cosmic two.
HUMAN SPIRIT
The human spirit is the immaterial part of man designed by God to convert, to store, and to utilize spiritual phenomena. The human spirit receives spiritual information that the Holy Spirit converts into gnosis (knowledge).
HUMILITY
Humility is the antithesis of arrogance! Without humility there can be no reception of truth! Without perception of truth there can be no spiritual growth, hence no spiritual life.
HYPOSTATIC UNION
The person of the incarnate Christ are two natures, inseparably united without mixture or loss of separate identity, without loss or transfer of properties or attributes, the union being personal and eternal. Since the incarnation, Jesus Christ is true humanity and undiminished deity in one unique person forever, this is called the hypostatic union.
I.C.E.
Isagogics: To fully understand the word of God, the Bible must be interpreted within the framework of isagogics, which is the historical setting.
Categorical: The Bible must be studied through the scrutiny of the particular doctrine as recorded throughout the Scripture, line upon line, verse upon verse, and category upon cate gory. Hence, Scripture must be used to interpret Scripture. No scripture can stand alone.
Exegesis: The Bible should be studied in the original languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek), with full context of the selected verse or verses, paying strict attention to grammar, syntax, and the etymology of the words form the original languages!
IDOLATRY
Idolatry is allowing anyone or anything to take a higher position in one's life above one's personal love for God. Idolatry points to an inordinate attachment or an extreme devotion to something or someone, which takes priority over that of the believer's personal love for God! Exo 20:3-5.
IMMINENCE
Imminence is the quality or condition of being about to occur. Imminence in the Church-age relates to the rapture of the church.
IMMUTABILITY
The attribute of God that describes His inability to change. He is not susceptible to or capable of change. He is absolute, unalterable stability.
IMPERSONAL LOVE
Impersonal love is a virtue love which emphasis the character of the subject (you) rather than the object being loved. Impersonal love emphasizes something in you rather than emphasizing something in the object of your love. A great example of impersonal love comes from God the Father in that when we were all yet sinners He loved us through the giving of His only begotten Son, Joh 3:16.
IMPECCABILITY OF CHRIST
Impeccability is the doctrine of Christology, which recognizes the fact that during the entire course of the dispensation of the hypostatic union, our Lord Jesus Christ did not sin though He was tempted in His humanity and the temptations were real.
IMPRECATORY PRAYER
This is a prayer in which justice is demanded for some form of persecution, antagonism, or hostility directed toward the one involved.
IMPUTATION
Imputation is the function of the justice of God directed toward mankind and relates to the plan of God for mankind. Imputation functions as an act of condemnation or blessing from the integrity of God to mankind. Imputation is the action of the justice of God whereby either condemnation or blessing is assigned, ascribed, attributed, superimposed or superinduced to another being. The believer advances in the plan of God with each imputation.
INCARNATION
The incarnation is the period of time Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Trinity, lived on earth in hypostatic union. The account of His life is recorded in the New Testament books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. See HYPOSTATIC UNION
INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is the permanent status acquired at the moment of salvation by Church-age believers. The Holy Spirit transforms their bodies into temples for the simultaneous indwelling of Jesus Christ. See SHEKINAH GLORY
INHERITANCE
See HEIRSHIP.
INORDINATE COMPETITION
Inordinate competition is the lust to exalt oneself over the decent regard for others and for God's will. It consists of self-promotion even to the harm of others!
INSPIRATION
God the Holy Spirit so supernaturally directed the human writers of Scripture, that without waving their human intelligence, individuality, literary style, personal feelings or any other human factor, His own complete and coherent message to man was recorded in perfect accuracy in the original languages of Scripture, the very words bearing the authority of divine authorship.
INTERCALATION
Intercalation means insertion. The Jewish dispensation was interrupted by the insertion of a new dispensation. The strategic victory of Jesus Christ at the cross, resurrection, ascension, and session at the right hand of the Father immediately demanded that the Jewish age be interrupted, and that a new dispensation be inserted.
INTEGRITY
Integrity is that characteristic which operates in impersonal love and functions under the royal family honor code.
INTEGRITY OF GOD
The integrity of God combines the divine attributes of righteousness and the justice to form God's holiness. This is the totality of divine perfection.
INVISIBLE ASSETS
The invisible assets are those divine assets provided by God the Father in eternity past for the execution of the predesigned plan of God in the believer's life. It is our invisible assets that we need to utilize to make our calling and election sure, 2Pe 1:9-11!
INVISIBLE HERO
The purpose of the great power experiment of the Church-age is to manufacture invisible heroes. The invisible hero is the product of Bible doctrine. The invisible hero advances to spiritual maturity. He executes the predesigned plan of God. He spends enough time inside the plan of God, under the ministry of his right pastor-teacher, to learn the principles of the mystery doctrine of the Church-age.
JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST
The Judgment Seat of Christ is the evaluation of all Church-age believers. "Judgment" can mean two things: condemnation and evaluation. In this context, it refers to evaluation. The Judgment Seat of Christ is a technical, theological term used to designate the evaluation of the royal family of God at the end of the Church-age after the rapture or resurrection of the Church. It is the evaluation of what use we made of logistical grace provision, the problem solving devices, and divine power. The evaluation is determined on the basis of the execution of the predesigned plan of God or the failure to do so. The purpose of the evaluation is to determine gain or loss of escrow blessings (rewards) for eternity. Gain comes from the exploitation, positive volition, and advance in the predesigned plan of God. Loss comes from cosmic living and failing to execute the Christian way of life as God's game plan for the Church-age believer. It also means your escrow blessings remain on deposit forever as a memorial to lost opportunity.
JUSTICE
The attribute of God that describes his infinite fairness in blessing, and rewards, along with judgment and condemnation.
JUSTIFICATION
Justification means a judical act of vindication. We are born under condemnation, being spiritually dead. Justification is an official judicial act that occurs every time anyone believes in Christ. The justice of God acts on our behalf pronouncing us justified, this means, having a relationship with God forever and having the perfect righteousness of God imputed to us. Justification is the judicial act by God, whereby He recognizes we have His perfect righteousness.
JURISPRUDENCE
Jurisprudence refers to the body or system of laws, or the science of law. A court is defined as a place where justice is administered, a place where the function of jurisprudence is designed to determine innocence or guilt. Under the concept of freedom, a person should be considered innocent until proven guilty.
KENOSIS
During the incarnation, our Lord voluntarily restricted the independent use of His divine attributes, which includes His omnipotence. He did this in compliance with the Father's plan for the strategic victory of the angelic conflict. The plan for the incarnation not only called for the judgment of our sins, the provision of eternal salvation for all members of the human race, but simultaneously for the strategic victory of the angelic conflict. The Lord Jesus Christ voluntarily took upon Himself true humanity in order to redeem mankind from sin, in order to propitiate God the Father, and to reconcile mankind to God.
LAKE OF FIRE
The lake of fire is the final destination for both fallen angels and unbelieving mankind. It is both literal and eternal. It was prepared originally for Satan and his angels, Mat 25:41. Unbelievers also go there, with no way out, Joh 3:18, 36, Heb 9:27.
LAPSARIANISM
Lapsarianism is all the decrees in eternity past; five are related to the purpose of God in election. Lapsarianism explains the logical order of these five decrees. Lapsarianism, from the word "lapse," refers to the fact that man is a fallen being. Under lapsarianism the five decrees of eternity past are related to the purpose of God in election. Therefore, the five concepts of lapsarianism are often called the five elective decrees. It explains the logical rather than the chronological order of the decrees. Although the entire decree is one thought in the mind of God, the principle of cause and effect is involved. The five decrees are:
1. Creation of all angels/mankind.
2. Permit the fall of angels/mankind.
3. Provide salvation for all mankind.
4. Election for believers and condemnation for unbelievers.
5. Salvation for anyone who believes in Christ.
LAST JUDGMENT
The Last Judgment is the alternative to salvation. In effect, it is facing God's judgment in eternity because you would not face God's judgment in time. The Last Judgment is the expression of the integrity of God toward those who reject Christ as Savior. It is the culminating judgment of human history in which every unbeliever of the human race is judged and sentenced to the lake of fire. They will stand before Jesus Christ who is the Supreme Court judge of heaven, Joh 5:22.This is also called the second death or the Great White Throne Judgment, Rev 20:12.
LEGALISM
Legalism is mans futile attempt to gain salvation or to continue in God's plan by way of some system of do's and don'ts, i.e., human good for the purpose of gaining God's approbation!
LIFE BEYOND GNOSIS
Gnosis is doctrinal information learned but not believed or metabolized. Once the doctrinal information is believed or metabolized it is converted into epignosis in the right lobe of the brain thereby becoming wisdom. And, it is by such wisdom that the "life beyond gnosis" is executed! Hence, this life is put into operation by the metabolization of Bible doctrine.
LOGISTICAL GRACE
Logistical grace is defined as divine planning, divine support, divine provision, and divine blessing, given by God, for the execution of the predesigned plan of God by the royal family for the fulfillment of God's will, purpose, and plan for your life.
LOVE
God's attitude of esteem and regard toward Himself and His concern, mercy, and benevolence toward His created beings.
MEDIATORSHIP
A mediator removes disagreement and estrangement between two parties. When both parties are antagonistic to each other a mediator brings them to a common goal or unity. Both parties must agree to the mediator, for he steps in between two parties as the equal to both. By so doing, reconciliation is established and a contract is made. To accomplish this, God the Father must be propitiated and man must be reconciled to God. Therefore, the mediator must redeem man to accomplish this. The Hypostatic Union qualifies Jesus Christ as the mediator between God and man. The mechanics are found in 1Ti 2:5-6, "For you see, there is one God in essence, one mediator between God and man."
MENTAL ATTITUDE
The mental attitude is the function of human thought. The life of every believer is determined experientially by two principles: what he thinks and what he decides. What you really are as a person is what you really think, not the way you appear to be on the surface or the way you are dressed. What goes on inside the invisible you, that is your soul. You are not always what you appear to be on the surface. Some people can hide their thoughts and some cannot. People can hide their thoughts and become masters of the practice of hypocrisy.
MENTORSHIP OF HOLY SPIRIT
This is the doctrine of God the Holy Spirit as the mentor or paraclete-helper of all believers.
MERCY
Mercy is an inherent attribute of God and is the expression of His grace policy toward all of His creatures as well as an expression of the Church-age believer's royal family honor code.
MESSIAH
Messiah literally means "the Anointed One" in Hebrew, parallel to "Christ" in the Greek, indicating Jesus' offices of prophet, priest, and king to Israel.
METABOLIZED DOCTRINE
Metabolized doctrine consists of taking the accurate doctrine already perceived in the left lobe and believing it. Once this truth is believed and metabolized, it is brought over to the right lobe as epignosis doctrine and ready for application.
METABOLISM, SPIRITUAL
Metabolism is defined as the sum total process in the building up of protoplasm and its destruction incidental to life. In other words, it is the chemical changes in the living cells by which energy is provided for vital processes and activities. New material is assimilated to repair waste material in living cells. Therefore, spiritual metabolism takes place in the spiritual realm.
METAMORPHISM
Metamorphism is an English noun derived from a Biblical Greek word, the verb metamorphoo, which means to change or to transform. This verb is used of our Lord's transformation on the Mount of Transfiguration in Mat 17:2. The English noun metamorphism is described as a striking or radical change of form or structure or substance. It is also defined as a striking alteration in appearance, character, or circumstances.
MILLENNIUM
The thousand-year reign of Christ on earth from His second advent to the end of human history, prophesied throughout the Old Testament and in Rev 20.
MOMENTUM TESTING
Momentum testing exercises the believer's spiritual autonomy through people testing, thought testing, system testing and disaster testing.
MORALITY
Morality pertains to the character, conduct, ethics, motivations, and integrity relating to the laws of divine establishment. Morality is conformity to the laws of divine establishment. It is the doctrine of duties and responsibilities toward establishment principles.
MORNING STAR
One of the names of the Lord Jesus Christ, Rev 22:16, and one of the blessings for the winner believer, Rev 2:26-28
MOSAIC LAW
The laws God gave to Moses which are made up of 3 Codices:
1. Codex I Freedom Code; the Decalogue or Ten Commandments.
2. Codex II Spiritual Code; which includes the complete shadow presentation of Christ and His saving work.
3. Codes III Establishment Code: civil statutes of Israel.
Codices III and I protected human life, freedom, privacy, and property. Codex II charged individual believers and communicators of God's Word with accurately presenting the Gospel and teaching of Bible doctrine within the nation.
MYSTERY DOCTRINE
The word "mystery" refers to the doctrine of the great power experiment for the Church-age. It is called the mystery because it was never revealed in Old Testament times.
NECROMANCY
Necromancy is a system of divination or a device for providing information, generally, future information. Necromancy is that system of divination that allegedly contacts the dead for information. The word is formed by combining the two Greek words, nekros meaning dead, and manteia meaning divination, to mean divination by contacting the dead, or seeking information from the spirits of dead persons.
NEGATIVE VOLITION
Negative volition is rejecting Bible doctrine. It is divided into three categories; refusal to assemble for Bible teaching, rejection of your right pastor-teacher and his authority, refusal to transfer doctrine from the left lobe to the right lobe. Basically, this is rejection of the message or rejection of application.
NEW SPECIES (NEW CREATION)
The Church came from the perpetuation of the great power experiment of the Hypostatic Union into the Church-age. It demands a new spiritual species for the utilization of all divine power. The new spiritual species originates from regeneration and the mechanics of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
NEW COVENANT TO THE CHURCH
This New Covenant to the Church is a spiritual legacy to the royal family of God and authorizes the royal priesthood. This covenant applies only to those who are born again in the Church-age. Hence, the New Covenant is God's grace disposition to the royal family in time and eternity.
OCCUPATION WITH CHRIST
Occupation with Christ is one of three problem-solving devices related to virtue-love. Occupation with Christ is the maximum function of perception, metabolization, and application; i.e., learning doctrine on a daily basis so that you advance to spiritual adulthood. This is the only way to execute God's plan, God's purpose, and God's will for your life. Occupation with Christ is defined as personal love for God the Son caused by perception, metabolization, and application, which manifests the fact that the mystery doctrine of the Church-age has been and continues to be the #1 priority in your life.
THE OLD SIN NATURE
Biblical documentation of the sin nature is found in Rom 5:12. "Therefore, just as through one man [Adam], sin [the sin nature] entered into the world, and [spiritual] death through [the] sin [nature], so [spiritual] death spread to the entire human race because all sinned [when Adam sinned]." The old sin nature is Adam's trend after the fall in action. Immediately after Adam sinned, two things occurred simultaneously. He had a new trend historically and spiritual death.
OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD
The Latin term omnipotence is taken from the Greek word pantokrator, and means all-powerful or almighty. It refers specifically to the power or ability attribute of God. It has the connotation of "ruler of all things," Omnipotence is the theological term to describe the unlimited, infinite and eternal power of the three persons of the Trinity.
OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD
Omnipresence of God literally means, "everywhere present" and describes God's attribute of eternal and simultaneous presence in every place. God is not subject to the limitations of space.
OMNISCIENCE OF GOD
Omniscience means "all-knowing" and describes God's attribute of complete knowledge of all things, including His foreknowledge.
OPERATION FOOTSTOOL
Operation footstool is the termination of the strategic victory of the angelic conflict when the Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth to establish His kingdom and removes Satan and all fallen angels. It constitutes the point at which Satan loses the rulership of the world to the Lord Jesus Christ, Psa 110:1, Eph 1:22, Heb 1:13, 10:13.
PALESTINIAN COVENANT
This is an unconditional or grace covenant. It is not based on human merit, but on the perfect essence of God. God gives on the basis of who and what He is, not who and what we are. This covenant is the sovereign disposition of God whereby God establishes an unconditional or declarative pact first with Abram and then with Israel. God obligates Himself under grace with the phrase, "I will." This covenant is a real estate blessing. It guarantees a certain portion of the land in the Middle East to Israel forever. The fulfillment of this covenant will occur at the Second Advent of Jesus Christ. It has never been fulfilled; it is future.
PARABLE
A parable is a short fictitious narrative that illustrates a principle of Bible doctrine.
PERSONAL SENSE OF DESTINY
A personal sense of destiny is God's meaning, purpose, and definition for the believer's life, which becomes stronger as he progresses through the three stages of spiritual adulthood. These three stages are spiritual self-esteem, spiritual autonomy or independence, and spiritual maturity.
PIVOT
The pivot is defined as the accumulation of mature believers living in a client nation, or under civil government, in a specific geographical location. While a pivot is composed primarily of mature believers, it may also include those positive believers whose momentum has carried them into spiritual adulthood. Technically, the pivot may include all believers who have fulfilled the principle of virtue first as their first priority in the plan of God. Believers in the pivot stand out in contrast to believers living in the cosmic system, whose arrogance from motivational arrogance results in self-righteous and crusader arrogance.
PLEROO
Pleroo is described as all of the following:
1. To fill up a deficiency. At salvation we are deficient of doctrine.
2. To fully possess. The believer must be fully possessed by the Holy Spirit and Bible doctrine before he can be fully possessed by the blessings of maturity.
3. To fully influence. The believer is fully influenced by Bible doctrine so that he can have capacity for blessing.
4. To fill with a certain quality. Doctrine is the highest quality with which the believer can be filled.
PLEROMA
Pleroma is all of the following:
1. Complete in itself.
2. Complete in quota.
3. Complete in quality.
4. Complete in duration.
POSITIONAL TRUTH
Positional truth is equivalent to positional sanctification. It is composed of retroactive positional truth and current positional truth. Positional truth is our relationship with Christ in the Church-age. It refers to the Church-age believer in union with Christ. It is the key to understanding the Church-age and the royal family. It is the basis for distinguishing between Christianity and religion. It can be defined as God the Holy Spirit at salvation entering us into union with Christ.
POST SALVATION EXPERIENCE
Post salvation experience is the life of the believer after salvation, 2Pe 3:18.
PORTFOLIO OF INVISIBLE ASSETS
The portfolio of invisible assets connotes the grace work of God the Father on your behalf in eternity past. God the Father found the way for His justice to provide perfect fantastic blessing to His righteousness without any compromise of His essence. In your portfolio of invisible assets God provided everything necessary for the function in life, dying, eternity, growing in grace, and the execution and fulfillment of the predesigned plan of God. The portfolio of invisible assets provides everything necessary for you to have a fantastic life through receiving your escrow blessings that glorify God. If you do not have a fantastic life, it's your own fault, never God's. All you need is positive volition, and God will direct you to the place where you can get the information.
POSITIONAL TRUTH
The Church-age believer in Christ is positionally superior to all angels, including the chief fallen angel, Satan, Heb 1:4,13-14, 2:9-11. It is in our position in Christ that we are to view ourselves. This is how God sees us! We are not to dwell on our condition!
PPOG
The predesigned plan of God. See PREDESTINATION
PREDESTINATION
Predestination is one of the many assets in our portfolio of invisible assets. Predestination is the provision of the sovereignty of God for you in eternity past to execute God's plan, purpose, and will for your life. God provided for you, under predestination, everything you need to execute His plan.
PREVENTATIVE SUFFERING
Preventative suffering has two categories:
1. Providential preventative suffering is short-termed suffering from the sovereignty of God for the benefit of the believer.
2. Punitive preventative suffering is related to sin. It punishes the guilty and warns the tempted believer to resist the temptation and avoid the sin or the flaw.
PRIVACY
Privacy is a state of being apart from the observation and company of others. It is the innate right of the human race to seclusion. It is that principle of freedom whereby an individual of the human race has the right to retire from the company of others, remaining in seclusion from the knowledge or observation of others. Privacy, property, and life are the basic concepts of happiness and freedom.
PROPITIATION
Propitiation is the God-ward side of the work of Christ in salvation. God the Father is satisfied with the sacrificial ministry of our Lord on the cross. Propitiation is the work of Christ on the cross that deals with the integrity of God. Propitiation means that our Lord satisfied God the Father. In propitiation the justice of God judges our sins and the integrity of God is satisfied with that judgment. Propitiation frees the justice of God to immediately give anyone who believes in Christ one-half of divine integrity, the righteousness of God. This is the down payment on our salvation.
PROBLEM SOLVING DEVICES
There are 10 problem solving devices:
1. The rebound technique.
2. The filling of the Spirit.
3. The faith-rest drill.
4. Grace orientation.
5. Doctrinal orientation.
6. A personal sense of destiny.
7. Personal love for God the Father.
8. Impersonal love for all mankind.
9. +H or sharing the happiness of God.
10. Occupation with Christ as the priority solution to life.
PROVIDENCE OF GOD
Providence is the divine outworking of all of the decrees, the object being the final manifestation of God's glory as your motives, decisions, thoughts, and actions are printed out each day, this becomes the outworking of the divine decrees. The doctrine of providence expresses the fact that the world and our lives are not ruled by chance, fate, or luck, but by God, who reveals the purpose of providence through the work of Christ on the cross and the revelation of that work in the doctrine of common grace.
PREDESIGNED PLAN OF GOD
God has a plan for your life. The name of that plan is the predesigned plan of God. The policy of that plan is grace. The precedence for the grace policy of God comes from the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union.
PUBLIC LIE
The public lie is the hate propaganda formulated by arrogant and ambitious people who lust for power and approbation. The public lie is to discredit the teaching of Bible doctrine and those who communicate it.
PSEUDO SPIRITUALITY
Pseudo spirituality is false spirituality based on man's system of rules or based on Satan's system of religion (cosmic II). They are both antithetical to the true spirituality of Christianity found in God's Word.
RAPTURE
While the Rapture is defined as the act of being transported, it is also defined as the state of being carried out of oneself. However, these definitions don't apply here. "Rapture" is used here in a technical theological sense for the resurrection of the royal family of God at the end of the church age.
REBOUND
Rebound is the grace function to the believer, which accomplishes the following results:
1. Restoration to fellowship.
2. Recovery of the filling of the Holy Spirit.
3. Reentry into the predesigned plan of God.
RECONCILIATION
Reconciliation is stated as a doctrine in 2Co 5:18, Eph 2:16, Col 1:20-21. Eirene is the Greek word that technically refers to the doctrine of reconciliation. "Peace" and "reconciliation" are synonymous terms in such passages as Eph 2:14, 15, 17, 4:3, 6:15. Part of the salvation work of Jesus Christ on the cross is reconciliation, Eph 2:16, 4:3, Col 1:20. All believers are reconciled to God the moment they believe in Christ, but the work of reconciliation actually took place on the cross. We are restored to friendship and agreement with God by the work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
RECOVERY
After involvement in sin and evil the believer rebounds, 1Jo 1:9, and then recovers the spiritual life by way of consistent perception and metabolization of accurate Bible doctrine! Eph 4:23, Rom 12:2.
REDEMPTION
Redemption emphasizes the fact that we are sinners, not only by choice or volition, but long before that we were sinners at the point of birth. For we had to be condemned before we could be saved. Redemption is viewed from the standpoint of a ransom paid on the cross for our salvation. Redemption views mankind as born into the slave market of sin through the imputation of Adam's original sin at birth. Redemption is the saving work of Christ on the cross by which He purchases our freedom or salvation. The payment of debt for this purchase is called the "blood of Christ," Eph 1:7, Col 1:14.
REGENERATION
Regeneration is a theological term. It means a second birth or being born again, as Jesus said in Joh 3:3, "Jesus answered and said to him, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a person is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'" Joh 3:7, "Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'"
RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS
Man's righteousness is adequate only in comparison or relative to other humans, but is totally inadequate when compared to God's absolute or perfect righteousness.
RELIGION
A system whereby man by his own efforts and merits attempts to gain salvation or the approbation of God. Christianity is a relationship with Jesus Christ, by grace through faith Eph 2:8-9.
REPENTANCE
The Greek transitive verb metanoeo means to change one's thinking, or to change the mind. The cognate noun metanoia, Rom 2:4, means a change of mind, a conversion, a turning away. Doctrinal viewpoint changes every bit of human viewpoint you've learned. All of us repented at the moment of salvation. Repentance connotes a decision based on mentality and it is rational, not emotional.
RESURRECTION
Resurrection means a person returns from the dead in a body of incorruption and never dies again. Resurrection is rising again from the dead in a human body, and never again being subject to death.
RETROACTIVE POSITIONAL TRUTH
Retroactive positional truth is different from current positional truth. In retroactive positional truth, we reject and are separated from good and evil, and divorced from the old sin nature. While identification with Christ in His physical death and burial connotes breaking the power of the old sin nature, it still doesn't give us anything new. When God takes away the old (retroactive positional truth), He substitutes the new (current positional truth), Rom 6:4, Eph 2:6.
REVELATION
The Greek word apokalupsis, meaning revelation, is defined as God making known to man what is otherwise unknowable. God has to reveal Himself to us. A material universe demands a creator. Man is the object of that creation. Therefore, communication from the creator to mankind is to be expected. So the noun apokalupsis implies unveiling, disclosure by God Himself regarding things previously unknown and things that cannot be explained.
REVERSE TRENDS OF HISTORY
The plan of God for the Church-age reverses the trend of history. This happens only where some form of leadership determines the course of history in the Church-age. The course of history in the Church-age is determined by the attitude of the believer toward Bible doctrine. No great person or leader or group can make decisions based on honor and virtue without the backing of that pivot of mature believers.
REVERSIONISM
Reversionism is an act of reversing or turning in the opposite way, or a state of being so turned. As believers we were designed to execute the predesigned plan of God. But in reversionism we turn the other way and cannot be distinguished from our pre-salvation status. We are believers thinking human viewpoint. Reversionism is the act of reverting to a former state, habit, belief, or practice of post-salvation sinning. Reversionism is a reversal of your priorities, your attitudes, your affections, the object of your personal love accompanied by the destruction of your impersonal love, and the change of your manner of operation and personality.
REVOLUTION
Revolution is the forcible overthrow of an established government or a political system by the people governed. Revolution is the overthrow by violence of duly constituted authority, resulting in a fundamental change in political organization, constitution, or government.
RIGHTEOUSNESS
Righteousness is the attribute of God that describes the absolute perfection of His character and Person.
ROYAL FAMILY OF GOD
A royal family is the family of a king, here our Lord. Jesus Christ is divine royalty as God. He is a sovereign king as part of the Trinity, possessing all the attributes of divine essence. The royal family of God is defined as every Church-age believer, regardless of his antecedence, background, race, classification, etc. All distinctions are erased at the point of salvation and reconciliation.
ROYAL FAMILY HONOR CODE
The royal family honor code is a system of spiritual integrity mandated by God and revealed by the mystery doctrine of the Church-age. The royal family honor code relates to your personal integrity in relationship to other people. In that sense, the honor code is a supplement to impersonal love for all believers and other pertinent problem solving devices of the predesigned plan of God.
ROYAL PRIESTHOOD
All believers in the Church-age are royal priests and represent themselves before God.
SABBATH
The seventh day of the week (Saturday) in which God ceased from His work of creation and declared the day blessed and holy, Gen 2:1-3.
SALVATION
The saving of mankind from the power and effects of sin by way of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
SANCTIFICATION
Sanctification is a technical theological term for the status quo of the royal family of God in three phases of the predesigned plan of God.
1. Positional sanctification is having eternal security. There is no way you can ever get out of your relationship with God.
2. Experiential sanctification is residence, function, and momentum inside the predesigned plan of God.
3. Ultimate sanctification is the believer in his resurrection body in the eternal state.
SCAR TISSUE OF THE SOUL
Scar tissue of the soul, also known as hardness of the heart, is the result of prolonged residence and function inside the cosmic system. See COSMIC SYSTEM
SEALING MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Sealing of the Holy Spirit guarantee's three things:
1. The guarantee of eternal salvation, Eph 4:30.
2. The guarantee of eternal security, Eph 4:30.
3. The guarantee of our portfolio of invisible assets, Eph 1:13, 2C0 1:21-22.
SECOND ADVENT
There are two advents of Jesus Christ depicted in the Word of God. The First Advent begins with the virgin birth and concludes with the resurrection, ascension and session. During the First Advent, Jesus Christ in Hypostatic Union accomplishes the strategic victory of the angelic conflict and the salvation of the human race. This strategic victory gives Him battlefield royalty. He must have a royal family to go with this royalty. Therefore, there is the need for the Church. The Second Advent is designed to reveal Him as both battlefield royalty and Jewish royalty. He returns to earth in resurrection body and Hypostatic Union.
SELECTION
Selection is a technical term related to the divine imputation of human life at the point of physical birth. God is the inventor of human life, just as He is the creator. At the moment of physical birth, God imputes human life to the format soul.
SHEKINAH GLORY
Jesus Christ, the Shekinah Glory of Israel, lived in the Holy of holies, Ex 25:21-22, Lev 26:11-12, Ps 91:1, Heb 9:5. His presence was manifest by a cloud above the tabernacle by day and a pillar of fire by night, so that the Jews could always tell when Jesus Christ was present in the tabernacle.
SIN
Sin is any mental, verbal or overt activity that violates the character and standards of God.
SIN NATURE
The sin nature is an integral part of every human being that resides in the cell structure of the human body. The sin nature was acquired originally by Adam at his fall and is subsequently passed down genetically to all mankind through copulation. The result is both spiritual death and total depravity of all humanity, except Jesus Christ. Because of the virgin birth, Jesus Christ was born without a sin nature.
SIN UNTO DEATH
The sin unto death is maximum punishment from God. It is fair, painful and terminates in physical death.
SLANDER
Slander is the spreading of the public lie, or any form of verbal gossiping, maligning, or judging anyone, Tit 3:2
SOTERIOLOGY
Soteriology is the theological study of the saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
SOVEREIGNTY
The attribute of God that describes His supreme authority and rule over all He creates.
SPIRITUAL AUTONOMY
Spiritual autonomy is a continuation of contentment or +H (sharing the happiness of God) as a major problem-solving device. It is the second stage of spiritual adulthood.
SPIRITUAL CHAMPION
The spiritual champion is a spiritually mature believer who advances through evidence testing and glorifies God, thereby becoming a champion in the spiritual realm!
SPIRITUAL DEATH
Spiritual death is the penalty of sin, and so given as a warning to our original parents in Gen 2:17, "dying thou shalt die." When they partook of the forbidden fruit, they died spiritually. The penalty was imposed at the fall of mankind. Spiritual death is defined as separation from God in a state of total helplessness with regard to any relationship with God. Spiritual death is humanity separated from God at birth.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS
The Greek noun charisma for spiritual gifts is based on the word charis, or grace. All spiritual gifts are a matter of grace! No gift is given based on God's foreknown merit of the believer. Charisma is primarily a Pauline expression, though it occurs once, 1Pe 4:10. The Holy Spirit sovereignly gives spiritual gifts to each believer at the point of salvation. A spiritual gift is never earned, deserved, or developed through any form of emotional experience.
SPIRITUAL IQ
Spiritual IQ has nothing to do with one's human IQ. At the moment of salvation each believer was given equal privilege and equal opportunity to execute the spiritual life by way of the power of the Holy Spirit. It is the power of God the Holy Spirit as our teacher that offers us our spiritual IQ!
SPIRITUAL MATURITY
The mature believer is someone who executes the plan of God for his or her dispensation. This is the third stage of spiritual adulthood.
SLAVE MENTALITY
Slave mentality is that mentality which is opposite to God's. The slave mentality is interested in security regardless of where it comes from. This type of thinking does not accept the responsibility that comes from true spirituality before God. The believer involved in the slave mentality is a prime target for satanic deception!
SPIRITUAL SELF-ESTEEM
Spiritual self-esteem is the foundation for the stability of the Christian life. Spiritual self-esteem is the believer's dependence on God's grace provision for stabilizing self and integrating self into the predesigned plan of God. This is the first stage of spiritual adulthood.
SPIRITUAL WARFARE
Our warfare in the Christian life is neither physical nor fleshly; it is invisible and spiritual! We are to use our God-given assets (Bible doctrine, filling of the Spirit, etc.) to battle the forces and deceit of the great deceiver, the devil. Bible doctrine resident in the believer's soul is the only weapon capable of withstanding the barrage of attacks from our great adversary the devil! 1Pe 5:7-9.
SPIRITUALITY
Spirituality is defined as the status of God the Holy Spirit controlling the soul of the believer. It is synonymous with the enabling power of the Holy Spirit inside the plan of God.
SOUL STRUCTURE
See EDIFICATION COMPLEX
SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
The sovereignty of God is His eternal, infinite, and perfect divine volition. The sovereignty of God is expressed in the divine decrees, manifest in the comprehensive divine interpretation of history called dispensations, and the unique plan regarding the Church-age.
SUBSTITUTIONARY SPIRITUAL DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST
Substitutionary spiritual death is separation from God in a state of perfection and impeccability. This applies to Jesus Christ. Christ died "spiritually" as a substitute for sin on our behalf, by this eternal life is offered to all mankind, Rom 5:8.
SUPERGRACE
Supergrace is maximum glorification of Jesus Christ. Supergrace is the status of spiritual maturity while ultra-supergrace is maximum growth and blessing attended by maximum suffering, which only intensifies the blessing. Supergrace is where the normal function of the royal priesthood and the production of divine good begin.
SUPREME COURT OF HEAVEN
The supreme court of heaven is open twenty-four hours a day. Jesus Christ is the Supreme Court judge, Joh 5:22. The qualification to be the Supreme Court judge is based on two principles:
1. Jesus Christ is God. He is co-equal with God, superior to mankind, and perfect mankind in one person forever. Jesus Christ is the perfect judge.
2. Jesus Christ is qualified to be our judge since He was judged for the sins of the whole world. Jesus Christ as God emphasizes his Hypostatic Union and His judgment for our sins on the cross.
SURPASSING GRACE
Surpassing grace is "that in the approaching ages, He might demonstrate His surpassing grace riches in generosity toward us in Christ Jesus." Eph 2:7. Surpassing grace is the optimum in spiritual achievement. It is the maximum place of blessing and reward, and the ultimate in glorifying Jesus Christ. Surpassing connotes something that is beyond supergrace and beyond time.
TABOO
Taboo is a prohibition arbitrarily imposed by a religious or social group. Taboos are not the basis for assessing sin.
TETRAGRAMMATON
Tetragrammaton means "four letters" and refers to the word JHWH, translated Jehovah or Yahweh. This proper name of Lord God in the Old Testament is used when referring to either one or all members of the Trinity. The Jews thought that this name was too sacred to utter so they used Adonai in place of JHWH.
THEOPHANY
A theophany is a manifestation of the person and work of Jesus Christ in His preincarnate state. This is a theological category for the appearances of Jesus Christ before the First Advent.
TOTAL DEPRAVITY
Total depravity means nothing in fallen man God can find pleasure in or accept. Our flesh is totally depraved in God's sight! Tit 3:5, Eph 2:8-9.
TONGUES
The gift of tongues was a temporary spiritual gift; so temporary that it was the first one to be discontinued in 70 AD, when Judah no longer existed as a client nation to God. Tongues were used at the beginning of the Church-age to warn Israel of the approaching fifth cycle of discipline and the end of Jewish client nations until the Second Advent of Christ.
TRANSCENDENCE
A theological term used to describe God as independent of and beyond the spatial limits of the created universe. No particular place can contain Him. He is in all places at all times. Psa 139.
TREE OF LIFE
The tree of life is associated with perfect life and environment in the Garden, as well as the perpetuation of the right relationship with God in the Garden, Gen 2:9, 3:22. Man does not see the tree of life again until the eternal state, Rev 2:7, 22:2-4. The tree of life is related to doctrine, Pro 3:18. Positive volition is related to the tree of life in Pro 13:12. The tree of life will be located forever in the New Jerusalem.
TRICHOTOMOUS
Regenerate mankind consists of three component parts: body, soul, and spirit. See DICHOTOMOUS
TRINITY
The trinity is a title given to the Godhead that consists of Three Members each holding a specific function. God the Father as the author of the plan, God the Son as the executor of the plan and God the Holy Spirit as the revealer of the divine plan.
TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION
The third heaven was where the triumphal procession of our Lord terminated. Our Lord's triumph proceeded through billions and billions of light years of space in the second heaven or stellar universe. The triumphal procession terminated with the Father's command to "sit down at His right hand." Only the true humanity of Christ actually sat down. The third heaven is also the place of all believers who have died.
TYPOLOGY
Typology is from the Greek word for form or pattern, which in biblical times denoted both the original model or the prototype and the copy that resulted. In the New Testament, the latter was labeled the anti-type, and this was especially used in two decisions:
1. The correspondence between two historical situations like the flood and baptism, 1Pe 3:21, or two figures like Adam and Christ, Rom 5:14.
2. The correspondence between the heavenly pattern and its earthly counterpart, i.e., the divine original behind the earthly tent/tabernacle, Acts 7:44, Heb 8:5, 9:24.
ULTRA-SUPERGRACE
Ultra-supergrace is the most advanced stage of spiritual maturity related to time, history, and the angelic conflict. Once the believer breaks the maturity barrier through the daily perception, metabolization, and application of bible doctrine, he moves into different spheres of spiritual maturity.
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
See IMPERSONAL LOVE
UNLIMITED ATONEMENT
The unlimited atonement is defined as the saving work of Christ on the cross. The burnt offerings of the Old Testament were accepted to make an atonement, Lev 1:4. However, animal sacrifices have no efficacy, Heb 10:4; only the perfect sacrifice of Christ is efficacious, Heb 9:26, 10:5-10. Atonement is the reconciliation between God and man, accomplished by the efficacious sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. Unlimited atonement and propitiation remove the barrier between God and man, so that every person in the human race can have eternal salvation.
UNPARDONABLE SIN
This is the one sin that cannot be forgiven even though Jesus Christ died for it on the cross, Joh 1:29, 3:18, 36. This sin is the rejection of Christ and His work on the cross. This sin is related to the convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit, Gen 6:3, Joh 16:7-11, Heb 10:29. Rejection of Christ is called "sin," Joh 16:9.
VERACITY
Veracity is the attribute of God that describes Him as absolute truth.
VIRGIN BIRTH
Since the old sin nature is passed down from the man in copulation, the seed for the formation of the body of The Lord Jesus Christ was implanted in Virgin Mary by way of the power of the Holy Spirit. God is the father of Jesus Christ and Mary was the mother. Mat 1:18, 22-25. The Gospel of Luke teaches us that the birth of Jesus resulted from a miraculous conception. Luk 1:26-38.
VIRTUE LOVE
See IMPERSONAL LOVE
VOLITION
Volition is Mankind's free will to make one's own decisions. God cannot and will never violate man's free will.
VOLITIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Volitional responsibility is the most common and the first cause for human suffering in general. Our emphasis here is on believers only. Every human being must take the responsibility for his own decisions and his own actions in life. You must understand that you can never blame others for your misery, your unhappiness, and your suffering. You take full responsibility yourself, based on your own wrong decisions related to your associations, your activities, your motives, and your functions in life.
WITNESSING
Witnessing is the communication of the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the unbeliever on a personal basis, known as personal evangelism. Witnessing therefore is the responsibility of every believer. The believer is responsible only to communicate the accurate information concerning the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross. The believer is not responsible to make anyone accept the information!