1. Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard Tuesday, February 08, 2011 www.GraceDoctrine.org

2. Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.— Amen.

3. Memory Verse 2 Tim 2:4, “No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.”

4. John 16:1-6 The Importance of Preparedness.

5. John 16:4 The Importance of Recalling Bible Doctrine. Part 6

6. 1 Tim 1:5, “But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.”

7. Doctrine of Application When a believer has too much garbage in the subconscious he is extremely vulnerable to the functions of his sin nature and enters into a state of confusion.

8. C. Application of B.D. is Necessary to Overcome the Confusion of Satan’s Cosmic System.

9. Confusion is a feeling that you do not understand something or cannot decide what to do. It is a situation in which things are messy, badly organized, or not clear. It is mistaking one thing for another.

10. 1. The environment of confusion causes stress. If there is confusion in some area of life (the home, romance, friendship), then there is stress in that area.

11. Prov 23:7, “As a person thinks in his heart, so he is.”

12. Gal 6:3, “If anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.”

13. 2. Confusion demands concentration; bringing reality from Bible doctrine into the stream of consciousness.

14. 3. Your soul is a spiritual battlefield. What you think determines whether you are winning or losing.

15. Eph 4:23-24, “That you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.”

16. 4. You must learn doctrine before you can think doctrine. You can not think what you do not know.

17. Phil 2:5, “Keep on having this mental attitude in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”

18. 5. Thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance is confusion of mind which matches the confusion of life without Bible doctrine.

19. 1 Cor 10:12, “Therefore, let him who thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall.”

20. 6. Therefore, there is a Divine mandate given in Rom 12:2-3.

21. a. “Stop being conformed to this world” means to stop being in a state of confusion. The world thinks human viewpoint which causes confusion.

22. Phil 3:15, “Therefore, as many as are mature believers, let us continue objective thinking. Furthermore, if you have a different mental attitude in something, God will reveal that to you.”

23. Phil 3:16, “However, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.”

24. 7. Concentration on Bible doctrine in time of stress and confusion is mandated.

25. Col 3:2, “Keep thinking objectively about things above (Divine viewpoint) and not about things on the earth (human viewpoint).”

26. D. Application of B.D. is Necessary to Overcome when dealing with Cosmic Believers.

27. 1. When believers have too much garbage in the subconscious and have maximum scar tissue of the soul, there is nothing you can do to satisfy them.

28. 2. From the emotional complex of sins, such a believer may become irrational and confused.

29. 3. From the arrogance complex of sins, such a believer becomes bitter and implacable, jealous and vindictive, and self-righteous. There is nothing you can do to please them.

30. 4. Implacable believers must be treated in grace. You can not argue with an irrational person.

31. 5. Beware that you do not lose your own integrity or spiritual strength when interacting with such persons.

32. 6. This is where three factors in your life must synchronize.

33. a. You must have the foundation of humility. When you are criticized, there is always something you can learn from it, but you must have humility.

34. b. You must have the professionalism of understanding the mechanics of God’s will, plan, and purpose for your life, as well as the 10 PSDs.

35. c. You must have the spiritual strength to use the shield of faith, (Eph 6), in the environment of confusion and disaster.

36. 7. Implacable believers can only be treated by you in grace; for only God can deal with them. Leave them in the Lord’s hands. Compare 2 Cor 1:12; 1 Thes 2:10-12; Heb 13:18; 2 Tim 3:1-16 with Rom 12:9-21.

37. Grace Fellowship Church Tuesday, February 8, 2011 Tape # 11-016 The Importance of Preparedness The Importance of Recalling Bible Doctrine Upper Room Discourse, Part 468 John 16:4; Rom 12:1-3; 9-21; Eph 4:23; Phil 3:15-16 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2011