Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard Sunday, March 13,

The Doctrine of Emotional Revolt of the Soul

John 16:5, “But now I (Jesus) am going to Him (God the Father) who sent Me, and yet not one of you (the disciples) asks Me, ‘Where are you going?’”

John 16:6, “But because I have said (taught) to you all these things, sorrow (inward stress) has completely filled your heart (right lobe of the soul).”

Strength (Human Good) Weakness (Personal sins) Immoral Human Good “ends justify the means” Moral Human Good “means justify the ends” Immoral Sin and Evil Approbation Sin and Evil “going along with the crowd” Asceticism (Legalistic) Lasciviousness (Ultra loose living) OldSinNature

Principles: 1. As a result of E.R.S., the outward pressures of life become inward stress on the soul.

2. By the time a believer reaches E.R.S. all Divine power provided for them by the grace of God, for the execution of God’s Plan, has been rejected.

3. The power of God the Holy Spirit, designed for execution of the Divine mandates, has now become grieving and quenching the Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30; 1 Thes 5:19.

4. Only understanding and using the rebound technique can recover the filling of the Holy Spirit, and no one in a state of irrationality does it right.

5. The power of the Word of God has been rejected through negative volition toward Bible doctrine as manifested in the first 4 stages of reversionism. (Reaction and Distraction, Frantic Search for Happiness, Operation Boomerang, E.R.S.)

6. The believer is helpless to execute the mandates of God in the energy of the flesh. The Plan of God is supernatural and can only be executed by supernatural power from God. 1 Cor 2:12-16; Eph 5:1-21

7. The believer in E.R.S. is locked in with negative volition towards God, His Word, His Plan and His people; having one or more personality disorders that delude the reality of life.

8. The E.R.S. believer is typically under one of the three stages of Divine discipline, 1 Cor 11:27-32, including self-induced misery.

9. As long as the E.R.S. believer is alive, there is a possibility of recovery through the application of the Rebound Technique (1 John 1:9) and a crash course into the Word of God; …

… but this is typically unlikely to occur.

5. Adversity is inevitable (we all have suffering); stress is optional. It depends on your own volition as to whether you will have Suffering for Blessing or Stress in your soul.

Grace Offering

Grace Fellowship Church Sunday, March 13, 2011 Tape # Emotional Revolt of the Soul Personality Disorders Upper Room Discourse, Part 482 J ohn 16:6 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2011