Transcript PPT Notes - Grace Fellowship

Grace Fellowship Church
www.GraceDoctrine.org
Pastor / Teacher
James H. Rickard
Thursday,
June 12, 2008
Memory Verse
1 John 1:9,
“If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and righteous to
forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.”
The Upper Room
Discourse
John 13-16;
John 13:17,
Sharing
the Happiness of God
Principles of Sharing the
Happiness of God:
The Beatitudes
Mat 5:3-12
Three main sections
a) God's Plan of Salvation
and the new believer,
b) Advancing in the
Christian way of life,
c) Undeserved suffering of
the mature believer.
Suffering and
Spiritual Adulthood
PPS - Spiritual Self Esteem,
MT - Spiritual Autonomy,
ET - Spiritual Maturity.
b. Momentum Testing:
Rom 12:2-3; Phil 4:11-13;
Col 3:12 - 4:1, 12;
1 John 2:15-17
Prosperity is the most subtle
testing, because it is
preoccupation with the
blessings given to you by
God.
It is the pursuit of pleasure,
to the exclusion of the
priorities of integrity, both in
establishment and in the
Christian life.
Collective prosperity testing
challenges the society to
choose between truth and
hedonism.
Passing this test consolidates
the believer's scale of
values, making them
consistent with the Plan of
God.
It results in stabilizing the
right priorities of life, giving
capacity to enjoy prosperity
and receiving God's greatest
prosperity, the greater
blessings of time and
eternity.
c. Evidence Testing:
Job:all; Mat 4:1-11;
Eph 6:10-12; Zech 3:1-2 w/
Rev 12:10; Rev 2:8-11
Evidence Testing (ET)
comes when the believer
reaches the adulthood stage
of Spiritual Maturity (SM).
SM is the maximum
expression of the grace of
God utilized by the SM
believer inside the Plan of
God.
SM is cognitive
independence, which is
maximum perception,
metabolization and accurate
application of Bible doctrine
to life.
Independent of any form of
advice, counseling, or
human encouragement, but
not independent of
expository Bible teaching
from his right PastorTeacher.
He brings maximum glory to
God as an invisible hero
living the supergrace life.
ET is Satan's cross
examination of every
witness presented by God in
the historical trial of all
fallen angels.
Two categories of
Evidence Testing
Two categories of
Evidence Testing
a) Relationship to the Plan
of God test, illustrated by
our Lord, Mat 4:1-11.
Two categories of
Evidence Testing
b) The relationship to life
test, illustrated by Job.
In human history, man's
thoughts, motives, decisions,
and actions are entered as
evidence, exhibits,
precedents, and arguments
in Satan's appeal trial.
Every believer who attains
SM is a primary argument or
star witness for the
prosecution (God) against
Satan.
SM plus ET means
glorification of God to the
maximum in the historical
appeal trial of Satan and all
fallen angels.
Passing ET results in the
doubling of your escrow
blessings, Job 42:10-17.
As Mat 5:3-12 tells us, when
we do the will of God and
endure various suffering for
blessing, we will share in the
Happiness that is God.
Grace Fellowship Church
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Tape # 08-043
Sharing the Happiness of God, Pt 5
Suffering for Blessing, Pt 3
Upper Room Discourse, Pt 185
John 13:17; Mat 5:3-12; 4:1-11; Job
James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2008