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Lessons AC 48 - 58 AC 48- 49: Personal Sense of Destiny (PSD) The Sixth Problem Solving Device
The apostle Paul human confidence was based on his worldly gains that formed as basis for human celebrityship (Philippians 3:5-6).
Examples worldly confidences that serve as basis of human celebrityship are:
Whatever human celebrityship that you keep above Bible doctrine will be the instrument of your own destruction.
Philippians 3:7 includes two big doctrines: Personal sense of destiny and occupation with Christ.
Renouncing or giving up any human achievements is not spiritual and not biblical. The only place where denial is required and effectual is when there is a conflict between a particular achievement and Bible doctrine. You don’t give up being great in some area to have personal sense of destiny and occupation with Christ.
You replace your attitude toward that area of greatness with occupation with Christ. It means that you cease to attach any importance to that which you may excel in and rob you with the privilege of being occupied with Christ.
There are several principles essential for understanding and fulfilling your personal sense of destiny (PSD). 1. PSD is a matter of priorities not giving up something.
When human success, promotion or achievements are put under their proper places in the light of personal sense of destiny and occupation with Christ, it glorifies the Lord Jesus in human history.
2. PSD is related to the omnipotence of God (Ephesians 3:20).
God can do all He wills to do, but He will not do all He can do. God does not and cannot do anything contrary to His essence. God cannot deny Himself. He cannot violate His own perfection by simply giving in to the capriciousness of man.
Divine omnipotence is always compatible with a right thing done in a right way. God is able to do anything that is compatible with His perfect divine essence. God never uses His omnipotence to make a right thing wrong or a wrong thing right.
3. PSD is the exclusive domain of the believers. All believers have PDS.
By His sovereignty, God determines something to come to pass unconditionally. Under the divine decree, most events or things are planned conditionally through the obedience or disobedience of man to the divine mandates under:
1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
Permitted disobedience makes life in this planet miserable. God provides blessing for positive volition and discipline for negative volition in each category of disobedience.
4. PSD begins at salvation.
At physical birth, God selected every human being to be a member of the human race. Every person has been selected by God to be alive because God has purpose for each human life, which is salvation (Job 33:4, Isaiah 44:2).
When a person believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, he received eternal life, his selection becomes election. At the point of election, the believer received two power options and ten problem solving devices.
5. PSD resides in the soul not in human success or achievements.
What and how you think determines your motivation and your scales of values. Happiness is not something you want but something you have related to your relationship with God.
Every time you succeed in any acquisition of lust in the soul to any form of stimulation, it is going to increase you unhappiness.
Satanic system puts too much importance on human achievement. False destiny is the cultivation of human dynamics motivated by achievements and measured by worldly success.
God’s plan and purpose for man is never frustrated by the negative volition of man. God frustrates the plans of man (Job 5:12, Psalm 33:10).
6. PSD is related to mental awareness concerning the plan and power of God.
7. The first sign of PSD is that the believer learns to take responsibility for all his decisions both good and bad.
8. PSD focuses on becoming a winner through offensive action and spiritual life.
PSD understands that volition must line up with the sovereignty and omnipotence of God. Environment and circumstances are not the issue.
9. PSD is a life beyond gnosis.
Unrealistic expectation is the futile function of arrogance. The execution of arrogance skills is sowing to the wind, resulting to miserable circumstances and unrealistic expectations which are reaping the whirlwind (Hosea 8:7).
10. PSD is a life beyond expectation.
Life beyond expectation is the awareness of the power and grace of God. To anticipate in our thinking or imagination is to use the mind in doctrinal rationale thinking. The awareness of this objective reaches its peak at the point of having PSD.
11. PSD depends on the grace provision and power of God.
False destiny is measured by human achievements or success. The only success that counts for the Church Age believers is the execution of the PPOG and the conveyance of escrow blessing in time.
Ephesians 3:8-9
God is not glorified by the function of human power. God’s glory demands the utilization of divine power. The hypostatic union of the humanity of Christ establishes precedence for the use of divine power in the execution of the PPOG.
12. The Lord Jesus Christ pioneered the spiritual life for the CA (Hebrews 12:2).
The Hypostatic union of the Lord Jesus Christ sets the precedence for the Church Age believer’s personal sense of destiny (Isaiah 11:2, Hebrews 9:14).
The Lord Jesus Christ relied on the power system that has been given to us. The believer’s three spiritual skills are:
To fulfill your PSD, you have to overcome the twelve basic distractions of the spiritual life by means of Bible doctrine:
13. Every CAB have double destiny.
The dual destinies of the believers are in time under the PPOG and in eternity under the escrow blessing. Through physical birth, God has a purpose for every human being. Through spiritual birth, God has destiny for you.
God has a purpose for every person born alive and that is salvation in Christ. God does not have destiny for unbeliever.
14. The believer can lose his PSD.
Luke 9:24-25
The word “save’ is not talking about salvation but being preserved or delivered from destruction. The word “life” does not refer to spiritual life but to psuche or soul-life.
There are two types of believers in this context. The first is one who thinks he found his life but kept his soul away from Bible doctrine, thus he will lose it. The second is one who is characterized as having lost his life on account for his relationship with God through Bible doctrine, thus he will save it.
The issue is not salvation but PSD. We cannot lose our salvation, we gain or lose PSD. The issue is losing soul life, which consists of human success, approval, acceptance, recognition and self-confidence.
They that found a life based upon rapport with God will find PSD. The negative volition believer who wishes to save his rapport with men will lose his PSD. The positive volition believer who wishes to loss his rapport with men and save his rapport with God will gain PSD.
Revelation 4:11, Isaiah 43:7, I Corinthians 6:19-20
Bible doctrine knits and holds the soul together in integrity and carries the positive volition believer to his objective of spiritual maturity.
The losing of the soul refers to shattering of the soul into many parts and control by OSN, cosmic system and details of life. The losing of the soul signifies that the believer has lost control over his soul being without PSD.
The gaining of the soul comes from rejection of human viewpoint and acceptance of PSD. The phrase “gains in losing” means to lose human celebrity-ship and gains PSD. The phrase “loses in the gaining” means to gain human celebrity-ship and loses PSD.
Hebrews 12:3
15. PSD is life free from panic.
Every crisis or adversity is an opportunity to be spiritual champion. Being panic or withdrawal from the crisis is a sin and evidence of lack of PSD.
PSD as illustrated by the visible heroes of the Old Testaments:
Abraham became a Jew at the age of ninety nine. He attained his PSD through the used of the revealed Word of God. His circumcision at age ninety nine was the sign of his PSD.
The Judaizers during the time of the apostle Paul confused salvation with the reality of salvation. They thought that salvation was gained by circumcision. The ritual of circumcision belongs to Israel only as post salvation experience of the attainment of a PSD (Romans 4:11).
16. From PSD comes the confident expectation with regard to what God has promises.
The believer with PSD does not look at the incapability of man but at the capacity of God.
17. The grace plan of God doctrine becomes very clear and essential for the next phases of the spiritual adulthood.
18. Majority of believers will never fulfill their destiny in time and in eternity.
19. If you live in you PSD, you have to overcome a lot problems and odds thing that seems to be against you trusting in the timing of God, total dependence of God’s power, and God’s resources.
Matthew 19:26, Luke 1:37: what is impossible with man is possible with God; the issue is not Abraham impotence but God’s omnipotence.
When you come to realize your PSD the first things you will encounter is a test because God wanted you to see your own helplessness.
20. PSD never looks at life from human failure and impossibility because of the power that comes from God.
21. PSD is the status where the believer accepts and recognizes the fact that whatever the Bible say, it is always right.
22. PSD does not look at the promises of God emotionally.
The loser believer follows these patterns:
23. PSD requires voluntary compliance to God’s command (Genesis 17:10-11).
24. PSD looks forward to the future under the grace of God (Hebrews 11-1-2).
25. PSD is related to the resurrection.
The promises in the context of Hebrews 11:9
The test of PSD: Are you going to believe what God requires and commands thought you do not understand it.
Hebrews 11:11, 13
26. From PSD, you have the capacity to believe and love God and love people based on Bible doctrine.
27. PSD is the capacity to see the invisible from a distance.
28. PSD does not end in time but continues in the eternal state.
The Church Age believers have destiny in time and destiny in eternity.
There are certain circumstances in which our destiny cannot be fulfilled. That circumstance gives too much importance to our human celebrity-ship and achievements.
Because of our PSD, God will remove us from those circumstances where our destiny cannot be fulfilled. God will remove us from those circumstances where human celebrity-ship is in conflict with Bible doctrine. Those places of human-celebrity-ship will destroy our PSD.
PSD and God’s perfect timing will teach every positive volition believer to:
29. God work behind the scenes as the believers fulfills their PSD.
God’s timing in the circumstances of life must precede God’s promotion. You have to be on God’s timing before you can ever be truly promoted.
30. Because of PSD, God promotes the advancing believer.
God promotes the advancing believer one step at a time. Those steps might take you to adverse circumstances just like the:
31. PSD is the capacity to against the majority (or common opinion, trends, or expectation).
32. To fulfill your PSD you have to be strong and courageous (1 John 4:4, Philippians 4:13).
In fulfilling our PSD, the Lord waits to develop the use of spiritual skills, and then He guides and uses us to fulfill His will. Spiritual skills must carry on to production skills.
33. The success of the CAB in fulfilling the will and of God for his life is in the fact that the Lord is with him (Joshua 6:27).
All the blessing that God has stored for us would be appropriated only after the conflict and conquest. The believer must win every conflict and conquer the territories previously occupied by the enemies removing the chance for them to return.
The Exodus generations are pictures of loser believers. The Conquest generations are the pictures of winner believers.
34. Every believer remains vulnerable even after he started living his PSD.
The most dangerous time of the spiritual life is the spiritual adulthood because it is there where you are identified and recognized by demonic principalities and powerful demons.
Under PSD, the spiritual battles are longer, the enemies are bigger, and it is where the CAB is tempted with discouragement (Psalm 102:23, 1 Corinthians 12:7-10).
The longer you travel the way to SM, the shorter the time left for you to remain in spiritual adulthood. The longer you remain in the PPOG, the longer you will remain in SM.
Entering into the adult spiritual life and dealing with spiritual warfare will take a long time. Don’t expect it to be easy and never look for the shortcuts.
35. Satan and the kingdom of darkness will do whatever they can to stop every CAB from fulfilling their PSD.
When you start to fulfill your PSD, Satan will try to press you into the cosmic molds.
36. PSD recognizes in grace that God does the work and we cannot help God.
PSD never loses sight of the fact that God does the work, He doesn’t need help, we need His.
37. The CAB fulfills his PSD and prospers in any situation or circumstances in life.
The environment and circumstances are not the issue.
38. The fulfillment of your PSD starts initially from your positive volition toward God manifested by a childlike obedience.
We cannot force people into a course of action when it comes to Bible doctrine. In most cases, God respect human volition.
The Lord Jesus Christ alone can satisfy the soul and fill the emptiness of the heart. Spiritual satisfaction begins at salvation and finds it fulfillment in the soul of the spiritually mature believer. The SMB has maximum metabolized Bible doctrine in his soul.
Matthew 4:4
Metabolized doctrine is eating the Word and assimilating it into the soul. Eating is responding to our need. In the physical life what you eat matters, talking about good food and nutrition will not result to good heath. Eating is personal and no one can do the eating for you.
The “Manna” or “Bread from heaven” related to unbelievers refers to the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 16:31) concerning salvation. For the believers, Manna is Bible doctrine (1 Corinthians 2:16).
The apostle Peter was instructed (John 21:15-17) by the Lord Jesus Christ to take care of the believers in three different spiritual statuses:
The Lord Jesus Christ commanded us to “eat His flesh” and “drink His blood” (John 6:53).
Common outward evidences of pseudo – spirituality which are land mines that distort and distract the believer’s PSD:
Joshua 11:18
Upon entering PSD, the adult believer will realize he is a new spiritual setting. Joshua found himself in the midst of the northern campaign (analogous to spiritual adulthood) where the battles are longer, the enemies are bigger, and the encounters are longer. There is no spiritual shortcut to the objective of SM.
Because the battles are longer the believer can easily feel weak and tempted with discouragement. (Psalm 102:23). The believer must totally depend on God’s power and resources in his weaknesses. The believer must utilize his two power options (the indwelling Holy Spirit and Bible and the resident, metabolized and functional bible doctrine in his soul).
Entering into spiritual adulthood and dealing with spiritual warfare will take a long time. The long and hard battles are designed by Satan to keep the believers from fulfilling their PSD. The demonic forces will do whatever they can to stop you from entering the promise land (spiritual maturity) and fulfilling your PSD.
Joshua 11:15-20 gives some important analogies with the CA mystery doctrines:
Before Joshua entered the promise land he had to face and win over the seven evil nations. The seven nations refer to seven assaults against the soul of the advancing believer:
Metabolized Bible doctrine produces the vital power and resistance against these satanic fronts (Joshua 1:8-9).
Courage and confidence from Bible doctrine precedes victory in spiritual conflicts, power to conquer the enemies, capacity to handle the blessings and happiness to enjoy the tactical victories and blessings.
Demoralization and fear precedes dispossession and defeat. Before any significant victory, there is courage and confidence. Before any defeat there is fear. Demoralization is the lack of courage produces by Bible doctrine.
Authority – orientation is very important for preparation for conquest.
Joshua 12:7-24 mention 31 kings which are analogous to principalities and powers of Ephesians chapter six. Each of these kings has its own style of distracting or destroying the advancing believers.
In fulfilling our PSD, the Lord waits for the believer to develop his utilization of the three spiritual skills. PSD requires voluntary compliance to God’s commands related to the fulfillment of your PSD.
Joshua 24:14-15
You cannot force people into a course of action when it comes to Bible doctrine. Human volition must agree, accept and apply the plan and will of God.
Your spiritual advancement does not depend on your pastor-teacher who just the communicator of Bible doctrine. The grace and doctrinal oriented pastor is a gift to the local church (Eph. 4:11-13). The pastor teacher can provide you doctrine as far as your positive volition can go. J. R. Cherreguine Bible Doctrine Ministries
AC 50: Advancing Toward the Objective Preparing For Winning the Battles Ahead
James 4:6, 10 –God exalts the humble. As the believer move closer to the objective, he will realize the importance of genuine humility.
Steps of humility:
All war presuppose human weakness and but Satan seeks to exploit it. Every CAB must know his enemy as much as himself. Know your weakness and find the remedy from the power of God. Know your enemies strength and find how he may use it against you.
If you are advancing in the plan of God, you can count every kind of opposition from the enemy and your bonus from God, undeserved suffering for blessing (USB). USB are fabulous manifestation of God’s grace for spiritual adult believer. In military warfare, only major engagements involving all one’s force leads to major victory and only great victory pave the way for great results.
Wherever a great and positive goal exists, a great battle is not the most natural but also the best means of attaining it.
Shrinking from a major decision by evading such battle carries its own punishment. If you fail in one test, you have to go through it again and again until you pass it.
Failure can come only by neglect and lack of concentration.
As the scales of battle grows so does the number of additional events or circumstances that are decided by it.
In each stage of spiritual adulthood, the testing ground intensifies to induce an even further stage of growth since the believer possesses more power to endure and overcome the incoming pressures.
The power or strength of the believer is not derived from sufferings but from his application of bible doctrine in each stage of suffering. At each stage of USB, the believer gains more power from each victory.
God’s plan is very exciting if viewed with proper attitude (Philippians 3:15). “Have this attitude” express the powerful and dynamic mental attitude required at evidence testing.
Although the believer has grown-up spiritually it does not means that he has out-grown his area of weakness. Everyone has an area of weakness and God will reveal the need for a change by teaching the believer total dependency on Him.
You cannot approach SM with an attitude of arrogance. Any manifestation of arrogance brings failure. It does not matter what stage of spiritual growth you are at because you can flunk any test of USB due to self-righteous arrogance (SRA) or emotion.
In every generation there will be certain number of positive volition believers who will reach spiritual maturity which is usually very small group. Majority of believers fall out of the rank and become casualties in the angelic conflict.
To become a winner believer, start asking yourself; “What is my purpose here on earth?” If your answer is to be thought well by people, you have a long way to go. If your answer is to be thought well by God, you have to pass a long succession of tests.
Nobody will attain the ultimate goal of SM without aggressively pressurize his way forward and executes the triple D (decision, discipline and determination).
Human history is a display window of God’s perfect magnificent character and gracious towards Satan, all the fallen angels and entire human race. Man are created to be recipient of God’s grace and not to sink in Satan devious schemes.
The resolution of the angelic conflict does not depend with the angels but with man’s exercise of volition for or against the Lord Jesus Christ and for or against God’s plan.
How does the CAB continue to advance in rank?
Satan’s power of persuasion is convincing today as when he deceived one third of the angelic hosts. Satan and his advocates use clever persuasion in deceiving people. Bible doctrine is never persuasive but often rejected by the intellectuals of this world.
Satan has twofold claims of argument related to suffering of man:
The issue in Satan’s argument is:
The Lord Jesus Christ has proven that Satan was wrong and so with the visible heroes of both the Old and New Testament.
Satan is licensed to determine the type, intensity, duration and collaborators he will use for USB of all spiritually mature believers.
Far above all creatures, Satan was given tremendous assets before his fall but rejected those assets.
Satan has no legitimate case since he manufactured his own problem and blame God for it. He alone is to be blamed for his miseries and failure. He is not a victim of his injustice as all reversionistic believers claimed.
What Satan wants to see?
The division that results to the categorization of angels into elect and fallen, and of man into believers and unbelievers is through the exercise of freewill and not of the sovereign will of God.
Satan is trying to convinced man that independence from God is not arrogance. The reversionistic TV preachers are chief advocates of this teaching.
The Lord Jesus Christ advanced through different stages of spiritual growth:
The most fantastic power system to a particular group of believers was distributed to the Church Age. Between the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of the church Age believers lies the most marvelous power system given to man.
The humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ demonstrated how to live the spiritual life by the power of God the Holy Spirit and the power of the Word of God.
In His humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ voluntarily refrained from using His own divine power – His deity. He remained impeccable while on earth through total reliance on God’s provisions and power.
As the Lord Jesus Christ refrained to use His deity while in his humanity, we are to refrain from using our human power.
In humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ, His testing were far greater than we could ever bear (Hebrews 4:15). His existence were far more difficult than our own lives (Hebrews 9:14).
Majority of believers become casualties in the angelic conflict because of two reasons:
The word “tempted” (peirazo in Greek) which means to test, to examine one’s faith (Matthew 4:1).
Matthew 4:4 is God’s promise given to the believers guaranteeing that He will sustain them in the world. The problem arises when:
Matthew 4:4 emphasizes several things:
God’s challenge: Prove the Word of God Satan’s challenge: Prove the things of the world J. R. Cherreguine Bible Doctrine Ministries
AC 51: The Helmet of Salvation Protecting the Vital Installation
The head houses the mentality; it must be fully protected during the combat. The head is where the soul resides, and where the heart functions.
The helmet of salvation (HOS) is analogous to metabolized Bible doctrine learning under academic discipline. Every CAB has responsibility toward Bible doctrine by way of PMA. To take the HOS is analogous to PMA of Bible doctrine.
The flaming missiles or fiery darts of Satan are designed to drive away or confuse the spiritual soldier from divine battle plan and create his own battle plan. Those who decided to get out of God’s battle plan are the spiritual AWOL who is Satan’s favorite target.
The head is Satan primary target. The enemy attack with the dart of weariness enough for the spiritual soldier to give up the entire battle even before any encounter take place.
All discouragement and failure has its hatching point in one’s system of thinking. The Cab must be able to handle all pressures without allowing it to become stress in the soul.
Satan moves with accuracy and precision, having calculated every move and making sure that everything works according to his plan. Nothing can thwart the plan of Satan aside from the plan of God.
Satan works on the personality of every believer using the very people that surround his life in order to wear him down.
Spiritual maturity is the capacity to keep standing at all times holding the ground which he has conquered. A SMB is one who is fully equipped, skilled, and capable to hold his ground at all times.
Confident to stay with the Truth at all times and courage to face all the enemies based on the metabolized doctrine resident and functional in the souls.
HOS requires discipline in mental training. The word “dechomai” means to receive favorably and to welcome the Word of God at all times. The CAB must allow the entry of Bible doctrine to the soul at any given time.
The HOS is not a burden but a protection. Wearing the helmet calls for three functions:
Acts 7:11, Proverbs 8:30, 1 Timothy 4:7
Do not allow anyone or anything robs you of your time with God’s Word, but disciplines yourself for the purpose of godliness. Spiritual discipline turns the HOS into visible and tangible protection.
How do you “put on” or “take” the HOS? The believer put on the HOS through daily discipline in PMA of Bible doctrine. Bible doctrine in the soul is power. Metabolized Bible doctrine is power.
Proverbs 15:14 –The mind of the intelligent seek knowledge (Bible doctrine). Proverbs 18:15 – The mind of the discerning (prudent) acquires knowledge (metabolized doctrine) and the ear of the wise seek knowledge (Bible doctrine).
Isaiah 26:3 HOS gives the believer confidence to handle all the pressures in life. Spiritual confidence is based on dependency on Truth. Human confidence is a system of self-improvement based on dependency on other.
Biblical confidence is a virtue developed in predestination based on the Word of God. The secret of spiritual confidence is respect for God.
Biblical confidence prevents the CAB from being manipulated by people. It is never threatened by shortcomings, mistake, and errors or by anything or by anyone.
Spiritual confidence is the ability to handle the unsolvable problems, while remaining occupied with the person of Christ.
The HOS allows the CAB to have a relaxed mental attitude, to be spiritually self-sustained and fully concentrated on Christ. The HOS gives the positive volition believer:
Three tenses of salvation:
Glorifying God requires wisdom and understanding. Verbal expressions or words invented by men do not glorify God. God is glorified by meeting our every need in His grace and never by human system of works.
God is the one who is glorified; we are the beneficiaries of His blessing. God is glorified when His justice is free to bless us. What frees His justice to bless us is our capacity developed in spiritual growth by that which He is has supplied.
Pressure cannot penetrate the HOS. Pressures penetrate your soul when you are without the HOS.
Satan is never after the left lobe of the soul but with right lobe where Bible doctrine is received, perceived, believed and understood. Satan wanted to remove Bible doctrine (being the norms and standards), empty the frame of reference with Bible doctrine, and abolish every stored doctrine.
The believers are commanded to forget the past and press forward with spiritual expectation. Satan tempts the believer to look back and become miserable and lonely.
The HOS will deliver you from satanic attacks not unless you are carelessly not wearing it.
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1Th 5:8 But _we_, being [of the] day, let us be sober [or, clear-headed], having put on [the] breastplate of faith and of love, and [as] a helmet, [the] hope [or, confident expectation] of salvation.
Biblical confidence is the declaration of independence of the believer’s royal priesthood from human viewpoint and human good works. Spiritual confidence is the status of solving the unsolvable problems of life using the pertinent bible doctrine.
Spiritual or biblical confidence is total dependency on God’s power, perfect plan and resources for the stabilization of self and integration of self into predestination.
Biblical confidence is not threatened by criticism or opinion of others in regards to their dedication to Bible doctrine.
Glorifying God depends on three basic elements: reception, retention and recall of bible doctrine. These triple R depend on your understanding of the ten unique factors of the Church Age:
The HOS gives the believer confidence in the following areas:
The term fullness of Ephesians 3:19 refer to the CAB attainment of spiritual maturity.
With courage before men and confidence toward God, the CAB must believe that he can fulfill God’s plan for his life. The believer concern for the hour is not doing the plan of God but preparing himself to fulfill God’s plan by daily consistent intake of Bible doctrine.
God’s plan for the believers is divided into two stages:
Majority of believers put limitation on God in three ways:
The ignorant believer will received approval and recognition from Satan since these three factors falls under the program and policy of Satan.
What glorifies God is what He has done and what He gives (Revelation 4:11)
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