Transcript Grace Fellowship Church Thursday, January 27, 2011

Grace Fellowship Church
www.GraceDoctrine.org
Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard
Thursday, January 27, 2011
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.
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.”
John 16:1-6
The Importance of
Preparedness.
John 16:4
The Importance of
Recalling Bible
Doctrine.
Part 2
The recall of Bible
Doctrine is a source of
encouragement. Jesus
knows your persecutions
and helps you through
them in victory.
He forewarns His disciples
of coming persecutions,
Mat 5:10; 10:16; Luke
6:22f.
He shows the coming trials
in relation to:
1) Your ongoing faith and
ministry.
He shows the coming trials
in relation to:
2) His ascension and the
coming of the Holy Spirit.
He shows the coming trials
in relation to:
3) Your victory in
persecution as part of
producing Divine Good,
vs. 2 and 5.
John, gives a similar warning
to the church of Sardis, Rev
3:3-6, as a command for
believers to recall the
teachings they have received
and apply them.
The command is for
recovering from
reversionism and to defend
against falling in to
reversionism in the future.
Rev 3:5, “I will not erase his
name from the book of life.”
In Sardis a person’s name was
removed from the city register
before death if he had been
convicted of a crime.
If Christians refused to
denounce their faith in
Christ they were stripped
of citizenship and branded
as criminals.
To motivate and encourage
believers the Lord reminds
them of the safety of His
heavenly citizenship, and of
the acknowledgment He will
give before the Father and
angels.
Blotting names from the
Book of Life is never
applicable to a believer in
Christ because we are
secure in Him.
1 Peter 1:5; John 10:28-30
This shows the contrast
between what occurs in
Satan’s Cosmic System, to
the security the believer
has in the Lord.
Principles of Memory
(MNEMONEUO)
1. Memory is a vital
function of the mentality of
the soul related to your
capacity for life, happiness
and the absorption of Bible
doctrine.
2. It is the mental capacity of
retaining unconscious traces
of conscious impressions
and of recalling those traces
to consciousness with
attendant perception.
3. Memory includes the
power of retention and
recollection and is a part of
capacity for life.
4. It is also the function of
the mentality of the soul in
identification and
perception of what has
been previously learned.
5. It includes the concept
of “people living on” in
your soul; the perpetuation
of thinking about people
you love.
6. Memory is
commemoration, which is
the perpetuation of
knowledge of people or
any event.
7. E.g. the Communion Table.
We recall, by the Holy Spirit,
doctrines pertaining to the
uniqueness of Christ and His
work on the Cross related to
our entrance into the Plan of
God.
8. Memory is a part of
personal love toward God,
Eccl 12:1. You should store
good memories as a defense
against reversionism,
Psa 145:1-21.
9. Bible doctrine in the
memory center of the soul
must have number one
priority.
2 Peter 1:12-13
10. Repeated Bible
teaching produces memory
of doctrine. Stability comes
from remembering the
doctrine you have learned.
2 Peter 1:15
11. Doctrine in the memory
center is designed to orient
the believer to logistical
grace.
Psa 103:2
Psa 103:2,
“Bless the Lord, O my
soul, and do not forget all
His benefits.”
12. The importance of
doctrine in the memory
center is taught in Psa
119:16, 83, 93, 109, 141;
Prov 4:5.
Prov 4:5,
“Acquire wisdom! Acquire
understanding! Do not
forget nor turn away from
the words of my mouth.”
13. You cannot apply Bible
doctrine unless you
remember it. Acquire
doctrine, but don’t forget it.
14. Memory is also used as an
anthropopathism; ascribed to
God to encourage the believer
about divine faithfulness.
Lev 26:45; Judges 16:28;
1 Sam 1:11; Psa 10:12; 25:6-7;
Isa 38:3, Heb 6:10; etc.
Psa 25:6,
“Remember, O LORD,
Your compassion and Your
lovingkindnesses, for they
have been from of old.”
Psa 25:7,
“Do not remember the sins of
my youth or my
transgressions; according to
Your lovingkindness
remember me, for Your
goodness’ sake, O LORD.”
Grace Fellowship Church
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tape # 11-012
The Importance of Preparedness
The Importance of Recalling Bible Doctrine, Pt 2
Upper Room Discourse, Part 464
John 16:4; Psa 25:6-7; 145:1-21; Prov 4:5; 2 Peter 1:12-15
James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2011