Grace Fellowship Church Pastor / Teacher James H. Rickard Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Memory Verse Phil 4:13, “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.”

The Upper Room Discourse John 13-16

John 13:18 3) God's Omniscience does not hinder or violate human volition.

Doctrine of Betrayal

9. The 10 Problem Solving Devices for protection or recovery from betrayal.

B. The Believer's Protection and Recovery through the 10 Problem Solving Devices.

1) Rebound - The confession of our sins 2) Filling of God the Holy Spirit 3) Faith Rest 4) Doctrinal Orientation 5) Grace Orientation 6) Personal Sense of Destiny 7) Personal Love for God the Father 8) Impersonal and Uncond. Love for Man 9) Sharing the Happiness of God 10) Occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ

7) Personal Love for God the Father (PLGF)

The Solution

a) The privacy of the believer's royal priesthood is the sphere for doctrinal conceptualism, not someone else giving you advice.

When the believer depends on others for counseling and guidance, he contradicts the divine system for true solutions.

The gift of Pastor-Teacher is designed to communicate to the privacy of your soul God’s Word which are true solutions.

b) Conceptualism is learning, thinking, and solving through Bible doctrine transferred from the pages of the Bible to your soul.

c) The spiritual life is a system of thinking through the agency of the Holy Spirit. John 14:26; 15:26-27

In solving, you deploy the PSDs on the FLOT line of your soul and you deal with your problems in the privacy of your own priesthood.

F. L. O. T. (Forward Line of Troops) 10 Problem Solving Devices

d) Six principles of application.

1) Application without truth is false.

1) Application without truth is false. 2) Application without fact is folly.

1) Application without truth is false. 2) Application without fact is folly. 3) Application from emotion is irrationality.

4) Application from arrogance is distorted thinking with jumbled emotion.

5) Application without doctrine is spiritual decline into the status of loser believer.

6) Application without virtue is love without motivation, capacity, verification, validity, or reality.

e) Capacity for loving God the Father does not come from emotional streaks of gratitude, but from the mechanics of the spiritual life.

Capacity for loving God is based on knowledge of doctrine rather than emotion, and the application the PSDs rather than emotional stimulation in the sphere of self-gratification.

f) With PLGF everything else in the spiritual life will fall into place.

As we move from spiritual childhood to adulthood we realize more of what God the Father has done for us and with that knowledge we love Him more every day.

Luke 12:28, “But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You men of little faith!”

Jude 21, “Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.”

Rom 8:28, “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”

James 1:12, “Blessed is the person who perseveres under testing; because when he becomes approved, he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him.”

1 Cor 2:9, “But just as it stands written, `Things which the eye has not seen, and it has not entered into the heart (right lobe) of mankind all that God has prepared for those who love Him.'”

2 Cor 13:14, “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with all of you.”

Grace Fellowship Church Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Tape # Betrayal, Pt 13 Upper Room Discourse, Pt 207 John 13:18; Rom 5:9-17; James 1:12; Jude 21 John 13:18; Rom 5:9-17; James 1:12; Jude 21 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2008