1821 South River Road • St. Charles, MO 63303 Series: Is Jesus the Messiah? (CR14) Document: CR14-37 Page: 365 Lessons: 123 & 124 Date: Oct. 25, 2015 Grace Doctrine Church 1821 South River Road • St. Charles, MO 63303

Reversionism: Eight Stages 1. Reaction & Distraction: Wrong priorities, rejection of authority, lack of objectivity, hypersensitivity, retaliation due to perceived wrongs, bad decisions, self-fragmentation, addiction, preoccupation with self, no spiritual self-esteem. 2. Frantic Search for Happiness: Compensation for frustration, discouragement, and loneliness through power, pleasure, approbation, success, status symbols, sex, materialism. 3. Operation Boomerang: Failure to assuage the reactor factors associated with the frantic search for happiness causes these factors to be intensified. Frustration become rage; discouragement becomes depression; loneliness becomes desolation. 4. Emotional Revolt of the Soul: Reactor factors absent doctrinal thought including irrationality, egocentricity, instability, imbalance resulting in short-circuiting of GAP and doctrinal recall for application is neutralized. 5. Locked-In Negative Volition toward Doctrine: Doctrinal intake is shut down due to apathy leading to wrong priorities that favor the details of life; antagonism and personality conflicts with member of the congregation; failure to use GAP; unresponsive to doctrine; disorientation to logistical grace; malfunction of faith-rest. 6. Blackout of the Soul: A vacuum in the soul that causes human viewpoint, human good, and evil to be sucking into the soul which corrupts the thought process with doctrines of demons. Total disorientation due to the influence of evil. 7. Scar Tissue of the Soul: The buildup of false doctrines in the soul which shuts down any recall of doctrine. The rate of forgetting exceeds the rate of recall. Vocabulary is diminished, norms and standards degenerate, momentum halts; and wisdom is lost; all spiritual functions shut down. 8. Reverse Process Reversionism: The total influence of evil and divorcement from reality. What was previously considered right is now considered to be wrong and vice versa. It is the status quo of unrestrained and perpetual sinfulness, fragmentation, and excessive cosmic involvement. The believer is brainwashed by satanic propaganda. Adapted from: R. B. Thieme, Jr., “Stages of Reversionism,” in Reversionism, 2d ed. (Houston: R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries, 2000), 22−39. © 2000 by R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries. All rights reserved.

Process for Recovery from Reversionism FOUR SEQUENTIAL DECISIONS Metánoia: Recognition of your sinful status. Homologéō: Confession alone to God alone. Epígnōsis: Inculcation & facilitation of biblical truth Peripatéō: Application of your biblical inventory to life & circumstances. © 2013 by Joe Griffin Media Ministries. All rights reserved.

Grace Apparatus for Perception – Operation Z 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 HUMAN SPIRIT pneumatikÒj PASTOR LÒgoj HOLY SPIRIT did£skw SOUL HOLY SPIRIT TRANSFERS @ +V noàj kard…a Efficacious Grace Common Grace ACADEMIC UNDERSTANDING gnîsij* COGNIZANCE OF DIVINE THOUGHT ™p…gnwsij -V NEURAL NETWORK ASSOCIATION CORTEX: SHORT-TERM MEMORY. CEREBRAL CORTEX: LONG-TERM MEMORY (troci£: WHEEL-TRACKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS) * VOLITION CHALLENGED: NEGATIVE ( - ) or POSITIVE ( + )? © 2012 by Joe Griffin Media Ministries. All rights reserved.

The Old Sin Nature Test ˜ Carnality ˜ RESIDENCE IN THE DIVINE DYNASPHERE FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT VOLITION AS GUARDIAN AT THE GATE OF THE SOUL SOUL ˜ BODY Rebound or Resist Temptation VOLITION Indwelling Holy Spirit Genetic Old Sin Nature RESIDENCE IN THE COSMIC SYSTEM VOLITION AS THE SOURCE OF SIN Carnality Sin SOUL ˜ BODY Grieve and Quench Temptation VOLITION Genetic Old Sin Nature Indwelling Holy Spirit © 2002 R. B. Thieme, Jr. All rights reserved. From: R. B. Thieme, Jr. Christian Integrity. 3d ed. (Houston: R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries, 2002), 158‒59.

The Ten Problem-Solving Devices (The FLOT Line) Rebound: Confession Alone to God Alone (1 Jn 1:9) Filling of the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:16) Faith-Rest Drill (Rom 4:20-21) Grace Orientation (1 Pet 5:5b-6) Doctrinal Orientation (Rom 12:2-3) Personal Sense of Destiny (Rom 14:7-8) Personal Love for God (Rom 8:28) Unconditional Love for All Mankind (1 Cor 13:4-7) Sharing the Happiness of God (Jn 15:11) Occupation with Christ (Phil 1:20-21) © 2003 by R. B. Thieme Jr., Bible Ministries. All rights reserved. Adapted from: R. B. Thieme, Jr., “Victory over Fear—The Ten Problem-Solving Devices.” In Freedom through Military Victory, 4th ed., (Houston: R. B. Thieme, Jr. Bible Ministries, 2003), 69-78.

THE COMPUTER OF THE DIVINE DECREE OMNISCIENCE: God has eternally known all that is knowable. POTENTIAL: Things that could occur in human history but do not and therefore are not decreed. Sovereignty of God* Free Will of Man† ACTUAL: The absolute reality of events that do occur in human history. ROM CHIP PROM CHIP PRINTOUTS: Foreknowledge Predestination Election * God’s supreme authority and rule over all He creates. † The decision-maker of the soul. God has created a free will which can act independently of Himself. Adapted from “The Doctrine of the Divine Decree” in The Integrity of God, 4th ed. (Houston: R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries, 2005), 297ff. © 2005 by R. B. Thieme, Jr. Bible Ministries. All rights reserved.