Hypocrites and Backsliders

Hypocrites and Backsliders

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Hypocrites and Backsliders:

The Solution: Phase 1

Ps.138:2

• "I will bow down before Your holy temple, and give thanks to Your name for Your loyalty and Your veracity; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name”.

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Spiritual Death

Mind of the spirit

Mind of the Flesh

"Understanding = Appraisal

process

Being and doing

Resides in Flesh

No!

Darkness

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Hypocrites and Backsliders: Human Nature and the Christian Life

The OutlineI. Human Nature and Human Birth

A. Adam & Eve B. Sin and The Sin NatureC. Immaculate Conception

1. Genetics Lesson2. The Virgin Birth

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2. The Virgin Birth

a. Mary as a Type of Our Spirit in Regeneration

1. Announcement

2. Acceptance

3. Immaculate Conception

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II. Divine Nature and Divine Birth

A. Regeneration and the Divine Genetic Potential

1. Reservoir of Righteousness

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III. Biblical Marriage as a Type of The Divine Birth (Regeneration)

A. Betrothal

1. Preparation

2. Consummation

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III. The Human Thinking Process

A. Brain

B. Soul/Consciousness

1. OCD and Henry Stapp

2. Brain Surgeon - Penfield

C. Appraisal

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C. Appraisal

1. Thinking Process

2. Appraisal Filters

3. Emotional Reaction

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IV. The Human Nature, The Human Genetic Potential and the HAM's

A. 1 Jn 2:16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

1. Desires of The Body

2. Desires of the Eyes

3. The Pride of Life

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1. Desires of the Bodya. Sexualb. Chemical

2. Eyesa. Materialism

3. Pride of Lifea. Religion b. Approbationc. Power

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V. The Reservoir of Righteousness

A. Spiritual Orientation

1. The Fruit of the Spirit

2. Character/Essence of God

B. Doctrinal Orientation

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B. Doctrinal Orientation

1. Mandates

2. Promises

3. Categorical Thinking

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VI. The Human Genetic Potential

A. Religion

1. Type 1: (Withdrawing) Peace

2. Type 2: (Assertive) Justice and Power

3. Type 3: (Compliant) Perfection

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B. Approbation

1. Type 1: (Withdrawing) Respect

2. Type 2: (Assertive) Admiration

3. Type 3: (Compliant) Appreciation

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C. Power

1. Type 1: (Withdrawing) Mental Control

2. Type 2: (Assertive) Avoidance Control

3. Type 3: (Compliant) Emotional Control

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D. Materialism

1. Type 1: (Withdrawing)

2. Type 2: (Assertive)

3. Type 3: (Compliant)

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E. Chemical




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F. Sexual




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VII. The Divine Genetic Potential of Regeneration

A. Reservoir of Righteousness

1. Love

2. Joy

3. Peace

4. Patience

5. Kindness

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A. Reservoir of Righteousness

6. Goodness

7. Faithfulness

8. Gentleness

9. Self Control

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VIII. The Human Genetic Potential Continuum of Human Good and Human Bad

IX. The Reservoir of Righteousness Alternatives

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Spiritual Death

• 17So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

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The Unbeliever 9

Greediness

Uncleanness

LasciviousnessUnfeeling

Ignorant

Alienated

DarkenedFutility

Unbeliever

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Eph 4:17 & Rom. 1:21

• Eph 4:17• in the futility of their

mind

• Rom. 1:21• but were made futile in

their reasonings,

Do not walk as the Unbelievers walk…

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Eph 4:18 & Rom. 1:18

• Eph 4:18• because of the

hardness of their heart;

• Rom. 1:25• who did change the

truth of God into a falsehood,

Stubbornness

"Because of the hardness of their hearts" (perfect passive participle) = "They

received a stubborn anti-God attitude at birth"

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Where’d you get that hard ole Heart?

• Romans 5:12 Because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

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• That is, when death entered the species, it went throughout the species, affecting every cell of everyone.

• The reason why death affects all, Paul says, is that all sinned genetically in Adam.

• Here Adam is looked upon as the federal head of the race, and that when he sinned, all of humanity sinned in him. (Wuest)

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• I Cor. 15:22 It is in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive.

• Rom. 5:15 By reason of the trespass of the one the many died.

• He obviously means that the entire human race was included in Adam, so that when Adam sinned, all sinned; when the process of death began to ruin him, it immediately affected the entire race.

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• It is not our sins which stop us from inheriting the Kingdom of God, but our flesh and blood (1 Cor. 15:50).

• 1 Corinthians 15:50 (YLT) 50 And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption.

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• And thus, at physical birth, every person is physically alive but separated from God.

• God is perfect, man is imperfect. • A perfect God cannot have a relationship

with an imperfect creature.• Man, upon birth has an inherent “Anti-God

Attitude” – Spiritual Death.

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• We cannot help being “In Adam,” for this came by our first birth over which we had no control.

• But we can help staying “In Adam,” for you can experience a second birth - new birth from above -that will put you “In Christ.”

• This is why Jesus said, “You must be born again” (John 3:7).

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Soul Diagram

Thinking DecidingBeing

“and breathed into him the breath of lives and man became a living soul.” Gen 2:7

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The Human Condition

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Genetically transmitted

Attitude

• An attitude is "a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor" (Eagly & Chaiken, 1993, p. 1).

• Ephesians 4:18, with the perfect passive participle, says that we receive, with our Sin nature at birth, a negative attitude towards God.

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• Col 1:21 And although you at one time were estranged and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities…

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• It explains the Why of Romans 3:11 • “There is no Jew or Gentile who

understands, there is no Jew or Gentile who seeks for God.”

• Because it is not about Abraham, or Law, or conscience or creation’s wonder in Romans 1, but about our Genetics!

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Spiritual Death• Ephesians 2:1-3:• "And you were dead in your trespasses and

sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest."

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Eph 4:18 & Rom. 1:18



• Rom. 1:18• holding down the truth

in unrighteousness.

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Eph 4:18 & Rom. 1:18



• Rom. 1:21• because, having

known God they did not glorify Him as God,

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Spiritual Death

•The natural (Soul) man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are Spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14).

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Old (Adam Genes) Man

Human Good Human Bad

SIN Nature

Soul

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The Sin Nature

Human Good

Human Bad

Trend toward

Lasciviousness

Mark 7.21-23

Trend toward

AsceticismHebrews

6.1

SIN NATURE

Strength

Weakness

Sins borne at the cross – 1 Peter 2.24

Rejected and condemned at the cross – Titus 3.5

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WArea of WeaknessHebrews 12.1

Area of StrengthIsaiah 64.6H & B-037

Spiritual Death - Mechanics• 1. Heart Hardened - Stubbornness• 2. Ignorance in them• 3. Alienated from the Life from God • 4. Understanding (Appraisal Process) Darkened• 5. Lifestyle of Futility of the Mind• 6. Past Feeling - Insensitive (Result of Stubborness)• 7. Gave themselves over• 8. Lascivious - Unrestrained• 9. Unclean - Impurity• 10. Greedy - Insatiable

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Human Good Cycle

Stubbornness

IgnoranceAlienation

Darkened

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Human Bad Reaction

UnrestraintUncleannessGreedinessInsensitivityStubbornness

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Stubbornness

InsensitivityIgnorance

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The Anti-God attitude results in Spiritual Ignorance

• Romans 8:7-8 (NKJV)7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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Eph 4:18 & Rom. 1:21


ignorance that is in them,

• Rom. 1:21• … and their

unintelligent heart was darkened,

"Beware lest anyone take you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ" (Colossians 2:8).

Stubbornness

Insensitivity

Insatiability

Ignorance

Alienation

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