Lessons AC 59 - 66

Pages 173 – 209

AC 59: Facing and Winning the Enemies Fronts

4 Basis of the believer’s decision:

·        Understanding that the Lord Jesus Christ controls history

·        Understanding the role of Satan in the cosmic system

·        Understanding the purpose of man

·        Understanding the believer’s goals in life

The believers without metabolized Bible doctrine in the soul end up doing the will of Satan. They will repeat the original sin of Satan that is arrogance or independence from God. The believer’s life outside the PPOG (protocol or pre-designed plan of God) will live in 3 operational phases of cosmic system:

• Human good work
• Dead works
• Evil

While in the cosmic system, the believer must have the answers to these questions which are essentials to interpretation of history.

• Why God created the human race and placed them on earth?
• Why God allowed evil and sin to remain active on earth?
• Why God allowed disorder, confusion and chaos to exist on earth?
• Why human suffering exists?
• Why God gave the Church Age believer (CAB) the mystery doctrine?
• Why Satan is trying to establish his kingdom through chaotic activism?

The primary ambition or objective of the CAB is to lose his love for the world and for the things of the world. Every CAB should focus on appropriating the divine power and not in cleaning up the mess of the world. What is strength of character?

• Strength of character is build by doctrinal structure in the soul not by human operation in the cosmic system.
• Strength of character does not consist of powerful feelings but of the resident, functioning and operating doctrines in the soul.
• Strength of character sticks to one’s conviction and objective.
• Strength of character is not legalism or inflexible but constant changes in opinion but inflexible in his doctrinal conviction.
• Strength of character sticks to his objective with dedication, devotion and determination.

Every CAB has the opportunity to act as witnesses for God in the angelic conflict. What is your role in the AC? Are you a witness for God or for Satan? You have to realize four things:

• We are in the midst of a battle
• We are involved in the spiritual warfare
• We have an objective to reach
• We are to hold fast to the objective in the midst of opposition, adversity and distraction.

Warnings for Church Age believers:

• Every CAB who lives by the truth of doctrine will make enemies (Gal. 4:16)
• Every positive volition believer will face opposition
• Every Cab who is devoted to the communication of BD will be hated and assaulted by both ranking demons and religious people.

2 Corinthians 12:7

The CAB adherence to his spiritual objective should never be disturbed even by the most powerful emotions. You have to win every battle in three fronts:

• Self (OSN) - the emotion that unbalanced the believers
• People  - everyone that Satan might use to distract or destroy you
• Demons – the  unseen forces behind fierce struggles

Satan will do everything to unbalance the believer through violence, hatred, enmity, or derision from people you least expect.

To survive and win tactically, every CAB needs 2 indispensable qualities:

• A thought pattern which retains understanding of the truth even in the most ferocious hour
• A courage to follow where truth leads (that is spiritual determination)

Determination limits the agonies of doubt and perils of hesitation.

Glorifying God is receiving the best and highest from escrow blessings. Do not pass up the best and settle for the least. Every decision for the world is a decision against God which rejects His grace provisions, power and protection.

Where your security does comes from? Where do you draw your power? The CAB should not be overwhelmed by what he accomplished but by what God has accomplished.

The energy or power that comes from God will overcome every human limitation. We do not approach the PPOG with laziness, familiarity or negative mental attitude.

J. R. Cherreguine Bible Doctrine Ministries

AC 60: Spiritual Fruit Bearing

3 Categories of righteousness related to the Christian life

• Positional – imputed
• Functional – experiential
• Productive righteousness

Philippians 1:11 - fruit (karpos) of diakaiosune refers to the total fulfillment of the spiritual progress called productive righteousness.

Productive righteousness is an experiential righteousness which takes place in the believer’s life through the utilization of the 3 spiritual skills.

The 3 spiritual skills are:

• Filling of the Holy Spirit
• Metabolized Bible doctrine in the soul
• Execution of the PPOG

We do not pursue the righteousness of God since it is imputed by His justice.

We act upon the imputed righteousness for the further function of experiential productive righteousness in time.

PR is primarily the production of the spiritually advancing or mature believer from the execution of the PPOG.

PR is produced by the balance of the residency filling of the Holy Spirit and metabolized Bible doctrine in the soul (John 4:24).

The utilization of MBD through application of the ten problem solving devices (PSDs) is the basic for the development of PR.

Productive righteousness (PR) = Perfect happiness (+H)

PR is what the positive righteousness (+R) of God in you can accomplish if you fulfill the PPOG in your life.

What causes the believer’s loneliness or unhappiness? Not the circumstances, not situation, not the things but the lack of Bible doctrine in the soul. There is no true happiness in life without capacity produced by MBD in the soul.

Functional righteousness is not produce by knowledge of Bible doctrine but by utilization of that knowledge.

God made the believer perfectly righteous to produce divine good so He can bless us and therefore in blessing us He is glorified.

A religious service (pseudo Christian service) is fulfilled by human power, ability, resources and personality. Spiritual service (true Christian service) is fulfilled by divine power, resources and wisdom.

3 conditions that allowed the production of spiritual fruits in the life of the believer:

• Consistent perception, metabozation and application (PMA) of BD
• Spiritual momentum
• Correct mental attitude

John 15:1-8

There are 4 keys to productive righteousness

• Spiritual status quo (directive will of God via the filling of the Holy Spirit)
• Constant and progressive momentum in the PPOG
• Attainment of spiritual maturity
• Spiritual impact

God can only accept one policy that is grace. God can only reward one system of belief, which is faith.

How can God bless the believer without compromising His perfect essence?

• By imputing His righteousness to the believer at the point of salvation (Romans 5:1)
• By making the believer justified before Him (Col. 1:24)
• By blessing daily those He justified by grace through faith.

Our justification made us beneficiaries of His personal love and grace blessings (1 John 4:10-11).

The OT believers received only the imputed righteousness of the Father. God wants to do three things through the life of the believer:

• Glorify Himself
• Resolve the angelic conflict
• Give the highest and best to every elect

No training is required for the imputed righteousness but we do need training in experiential righteousness. The majority of believers are not fruit bearing because they lack spiritual skills.

Without the execution of the first spiritual skill, all the production of the CAB becomes dead works.

PR is an option in the spiritual life depending on the use of the spiritual skills. Majority of the believers tends to invent their own productive skills resulting to spiritual retrogression.  They thought that ministerial service is the way to please God.

Dead works is always related to self-righteousness. Everything the CAB do apart from the grace of God is abomination to God.

PR is the only system of “work “energized by the Holy Spirit and motivated by BD that is acceptable to God. PR is synonymous to divine good work and work of perfect righteousness.

John 15:1-8

Christians must avoid “Christian service” until he is in the process of utilizing the spiritual skills and problem solving devices.

The sovereign will of God will not line up with man’s free will until the functions of the spiritual skills are in line.

Principles related to spiritual fruit bearing

• Spiritual growth is the results of the first 2 spiritual skills.
• Fruit bearing is never a means but the results of spiritual growth.
• PR is the result of spiritual skills preceding production skills.
• Production skills do not bear fruit apart from spiritual skills.
• When fruit bearing is the results of out God’s given spiritual skills them God is glorified.
• Human good is when the believer produces anything as results of demonic power.
• In His grace God provided the means of compliance to His perfect divine standard through the spiritual skills.
• The greater part of fruit bearing is hidden from man and visible only to God who is glorified by these works of perfect righteousness.
• When production skills replace spiritual skills it always ends to disaster.
• The fruit of PR brings glory to God - Colossians 1:10.
• PR is the application of Bible doctrine.
• God has provided everything we need to produce PR.

By imputation, every CAB is in perfect righteousness (+R) and by experience the believer must live in PR. The lack of PR means temporary shame at Bema and lack of eternal rewards.

What blasphemes the character of God in the life of believers? The answer is human viewpoint thinking.

Why the believers are more vulnerable to failure after some types of spiritual victory?

·        The believer is little bit off guard and spiritually passive.

·        The believer is thinking that his past victory will give him future victory.

·        Satan increases his attack on the believer.

Why God commanded us not to worry? (Philippians 4:6-7)

• Prolonged stress and anxiety leads to mental problems or mental illness.
• God has all the solutions to our problems.
• We are not given the privilege to worry (worrying is outside God’s plan).
• God is offering His best and highest to His children.

Human viewpoint converts pressure into stress and stress into miseries.

What is the greatest problem of the believer? The answer is human persistence to get in God’s way by helping Him along side in accordance to human power, resources and timing. Our greatest problem is that we are always ready to help God do His plan and purpose in our life.

We must let God come through for us in His time. God is never in need of our assistance and support. Our part is to have MBD in the soul.

There are two motivations in the world with their respective basis and source of support.

• Divine motivation based on divine viewpoint
• Human motivation based on human viewpoint

We must make a clear distinction between academic knowledge and applied knowledge, between gnosis and epignosis, between knowledge and understanding.

An analogy:

• The food in the store is analogous to a local church with a doctrinal-grace oriented pastor who teaches BD.
• The believer must come and take the food home, prepare and cook it. The positive volition believer (PVB) comes and takes the doctrine.
• The food must be served at the table and eaten. The PVB receive and believe the doctrine by faith.
• The stomach digests the food inside the body and distributes its nutrients. The Holy Spirit processes and transfers the doctrine from the mind and stores it in the soul.

Outwardly, the only thing visible to the human eyes is the reception of Bible doctrine. The proof of retention and recall of Bible doctrine is known when the believer is confronted with adversity or problem.

J. R. Cherreguine Bible Doctrine Ministries

AC 61: Hope in Action

Who can live without some form of anticipation that their circumstances in life are going to change. Anticipation is either realistic or mere possibility. Anticipation is either wishful thinking or hope.

Wishful thinking is a false confidence that anticipates that things are going to change in the future. It is thinking that some twists of events or circumstances are going to happen from action taken by man or brought by fate.  Wishful thinking dwells in self deception and stagger in emotions.

Hope or confident expectation in God is based on divine character and never dependent on man.

Hope (elpis) in Plato time means: I know things will turn out OK!

In 19^th century: I think things will turn out OK!

In 20^th century: I wish things would turn out Ok, but I am not really sure!

Anyone can wish for a good future when things are great but only hope can think of a good future in the midst of adversity.

Weak believer (those with no or minimal doctrine of salvation only) live by sight being exploits by their emotions. Strong believer (those with MBD in their souls) lives by faith motivated and guided by the resident Holy Spirit.

Positive volition toward Bible doctrine (PVTBD) plus the reception, retention and recall of BD (RRR of BD) results to utilization of God’s grace.

Hope is the monopoly of the believers:

• Hope₁ is the hope of salvation realized at the moment the person believed in Christ.
• Hope₂ is the hope of reaching spiritual maturity
• Hope₃ is the hope of eternal rewards in eternity

4 words developed by Plato that express hope:

• Aesthesis which means perception
• Mneme refers to memory
• Prosdokia

The hope of the loser believer is to be relieved from adversity and miseries in the world. The hope winner believer is to glorify Christ by receiving the blessing in time and blessing of eternity. There is no hope₂ and hope₃ without MBD in the soul.

Hope requires endurance and patience. For that reason God designed undeserved suffering for blessing (USB) for spiritual advancement. Hope is that which that keeps us going in suffering and adversities. PVTBD produces energy that keeps us moving forward and upward in hope.

Hebrews 6:10-20

Fortitude –courage comes from perception, metabolization and application (PMA) of BD under pressure. The amount of confidence you have in the integrity of God is the amount of hope you have in your life. Hope anticipates the integrity of God with regards to the future. God is the author of all categories of hope.

The various times in your life when you operated in hope (confidence) in God adds to your cord of faith. The strength or limitation of your cord of faith is determined by the frequency of your usage of faith. Faith that is not utilized in daily application is dead faith – dead hope.

Hope has to do with trusting in God’s Word or BD. We are to lay hold of the hope set before us.

The subject of hope (the Word of God) is the anchor of the believer’s soul (Hebrews 6:19). Anchor (ankuran) is that which keeps us safe, stable and secure.

What is the believer’s anchor, MBD in the soul or the deceptive words of men (human viewpoint)?

Hope₂ is the first tactical objective of the spiritual life which includes the mastery of the mechanics of the spiritual life and absolute trust in the nature of God.

Hope as problem solving device functions through recall of pertinent BD. Hope brings comfort, tranquility and right perspective as solution.

Good expectation comes from MBD circulating in the soul. If the soul is filled with doctrine and continues its residency, momentum and function in the PPOG, good expectation is guarantee.

Bad expectation results from emotional revolt of the soul, locked in negative volition, under black out and scar tissue of the soul. If the soul is under emotional revolt of the soul, scar tissue of the soul or black out of the soul, it results to wishful thinking or bad expectation.

J. R. Cherreguine Bible Doctrine Ministries

AC 62: Seared Conscience

The peace of God (eirene) guards:

·        The frame of reference -the entrance to the soul

·        The memory center –the area for recall of BD

·        The conscience – norms and standards center

How do you keep your conscience clear? (Hebrews 9:14)

1 Tim 1:19 having faith and a good conscience, which certain [ones] having pushed away [fig., rejected], suffered shipwreck concerning the faith.

The term shipwreck refers to spiritual loser in sin unto death in regard to their faith.

The conscience either excuses or accuses us. It is the mental faculty by which one distinguishes between right and wrong.

The conscience urges the individual to do what he recognizes to be right. It restrains him from doing that which he recognizes to be wrong.

The conscience needs protection from:

• Hardening (hardness) of the heart
• Black of the soul
• Scar tissue of the soul
• Becoming seared

The searing of the conscience, the buildup of the scar tissue in the soul, the blackening of the soul, and the hardening if the soul is the goal of the demonic warfare. 

The conscience is designed by God as a very sensitive gauge or indicator of spiritual status. Therefore, the conscience needs to be kept sensitive to the things of God, because Satan wanted to make it seared, callous or defiled.

The searing of the conscience starts out very subtle and unsuspecting.

The sin of omission: the conscious or not conscious moment when we do not operate in the plan of God. The gradual but continuous rejection of BD will eventually make the conscience to become insensitive, apathetic, and negative toward the things of God.

The searing of the conscience can happen at nay stage of spiritual growth.

The case of David

“But David stayed” (jashab) means that he had no intention of ever going. He was not in the geographical will of God (2 Samuel 11:1). “When kings go out to battle” there was a neglect of responsibility on his part. There was no justified reason for him to stay in the palace. He was bored and unhappy because he was outside the plan of God.

Boredom leads to depression, stress of the soul and sleeplessness. Insomnia in most cases is spiritual problem curable without medicine and psychiatrist (2 Samuel 11:2). 

Seared conscience leads to destruction of spiritual integrity. Nothing is sacred, honorable or respectable for the seared conscience.

David still has his authority but he had lost his integrity (2 Samuel 11:3). Authority without integrity is not only abusive, irrational and unrealistic but also full of hatred.

Satanic operation for searing the conscience begins by dragging the believer in the wrong place at the wrong time. Where is the wrong place?

• Anywhere the plan of God is not operational.
• Anywhere outside the will, plan and purpose of God.

Satan cannot infiltrate your soul with human viewpoint or demonic doctrine if you are inside the PPOG. Strategically, Satan initiates the ambush outside the geographical will of God.  Those spiritually AWOL are the immediate victims.

Why David wanted Bathsheba? As of that time, David had 7 wives and 10 concubines.  Later on, he took more wives. Polygamy was forbidden during his time (Deut. 17:17).

The searing of the conscience has basic prerequisites:

• A chain of bad decisions
• Habitual sins of omission
• Prolonged carnality (revisionism)
• Being in the wrong place (not in the geographical will of God)
• Thinking human viewpoint –using human solutions
• Defilement in the cosmic system

“Took her” (laqach) means to carry away by force and “lay with her” means to have sex several times. David raped her several times.

David being in the wrong place had no concern for:

• God’s word, God’s plan and will
• The army – his soldiers
• His people

A person with seared conscience cared only for self. Seared conscience results to abuse and misuse of authority hurting the loyal people to him.

Titus 1:15 All things indeed [are] pure to the pure, but to the ones having been defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure, _but_ both their mind and their conscience [are] defiled.

The only way to cover up the first crime is to commit more crimes. To commit more crimes you need some partner in crime that calls for conspiracy.

2 Samuel 11:5 and the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

If your soul is not garrison by BD, you are up for development of a defiled or seared conscience. The believer continuous rejection of God’ warning and call for rebound will make his soul insensitive and hardened. This results to hardening of the soul. The root of the problem is arrogance.

David later on wrote about seven things that the Lord hates (Proverbs 6:16-19), the seven sins that he committed in the case of Bathsheba.

1. Arrogance eyes – refers to David negative mental attitude
2. Lying tongue – David flattery for Uriah (flattery is first degree deception)
3. Hands that shed innocent blood – the murder of Uriah
4. A heart that devised wicked plan – David’s conspiracy
5. Feet that run rapidly (to evil) – David on the rooftop scheming for a crime
6. A false witness who utter lies – David lies to cover his devious footpath
7. One who spreads strife among brothers – David ordering Joab to assign Uriah on the front line

Arrogance ruins good people.

The grace of God recognized David’s PVTBD and MBD in his soul not his personal sins. In the same way, God is interested only with the believer’s positive volition and metabolized doctrine and never with personal sins.

The issue of personal sins was totally paid in full at the Cross by the Lord Jesus Christ.

The purpose of occasional adversity which God sends to advancing and mature believers is to keep us going and prevent boredom. Familiarity of routine results to boredom (which is lack of interest) becoming insensitive, passive for God’s will.

Familiarity of routine can easily results to boredom. Laziness casts into a deep sleep (Prov.19:15).  David let his men fight the enemies in the same way Saul let David fight Goliath.

When it comes to spiritual responsibility, delegation is not a leadership quality. Majority of pastors and preachers act like executive, they assign or delegate every dirty things to their subordinate.

Bathsheba purified herself as mandated by Codex 3 (Leviticus 15:18). Both David and Bathsheba knew Leviticus 20:10.

Seared conscience is very hypocrite.

2 Samuel 11:7 and when Uriah was come unto him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

 Why evil is much more devastating than personal sin.

Uriah is extremely happy man and a successful soldier until his murder. He died under the perfect timing of God (Psalm 68:20).

David pays off in ten years time at five installments of divine discipline.

• A child died after birth
• A son raped his daughter
• A son murdered his own brothers
• A son conspired against David
• David became a lunatic for a year

A seared conscience is a destroyer of life. Arrogance is not just a sin but a system.

2 Samuel 11:8  And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king.

David ordered Uriah to violate three the codes of Israel:

·        Go home – military code

·        Copulate – Jewish officer code

·        Drink and have sex – honor code

David ordered a royal present (maseth) of food and drinks for Uriah. Uriah refused to drink, go home and have sex with his wife. He stayed in the palace.

2 Samuel 11:9  But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

2 Samuel 11:11  And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

The mentioned of the Ark here recognizes the Lord Jesus Christ controls history. They recognized that without the Lord Jesus Christ they were hopeless and helpless.

A man who maintains his integrity faced a man who loses his integrity. A seared conscience produces degeneracy of the soul.

By your life and life of your soul – there is a relationship between one’s lifestyle and one’s system of thinking.

Plan B was executed when plan A did not work (11:12). Plan B includes 24 hour to make Uriah drank (11:13). David has forgotten Proverbs 20:1 and 23:20. a large amount of wine (alcohol) in the body changes the character and personality of the drinker.

Alcohol is a depressant, it lower inhibitions, dull reflexes, hampers good judgment, destroys common sense, and stimulate mental attitude sins.

Seared conscience is always inconsistent. David attacked his own officers, his own military code.

Plan B failed. Plan C was launched. (11:14-15).

Who will join the vicious form of evil? The answer: the self-righteous arrogant people who despised and rejected the will, purpose and plan of God.

Joab was SMB, who was loyal to David though he was wrong. Loyalty to corrupted leaders is not a virtue.

Can a SMB die of sin unto death? Joab died of sin unto death although spiritually mature believer because of his prolonged carnality (reversionism). Joab died with his hands hanging on the altar of the Temple with his guts ripped opened (1 Kings 2:28-34).

Uriah disobeyed David, maintained his integrity and died with honor. Joab obeyed David loses his integrity and died with honor.

Uriah is the only non-Davidic documented in the genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ. Bathsheba is the great^{4 (great, great, great)} grandmother of the Lord Jesus Christ was mentioned only as the wife of Uriah the Hittite.

2 Samuel 11:15  And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

The arrogance of David:

• Authority arrogance
• Institutional arrogance
• Criminal arrogance
• Sexual arrogance
• Motivational arrogance
• Emotional arrogance

Why the conspirators succeeded in most cases? It is in the plan of God (part of the divine degree). The third conspiracy succeeded because it was time for Uriah to go home.

Why the first two conspiracies failed? Because it calls for Uriah’s volition, it demanded for his decision. The third conspiracy was the decisions of the plotters.

J. R. Cherreguine Bible Doctrine Ministries

AC 63: Doctrine of Evil

1 Thessalonians 5:15-18, 22

Philippians 2:15  so that you* shall become blameless and innocent children of God, unblemished in [the] midst of a crooked and having been perverted generation, among whom you* shine like stars in the universe,

The Church Age believers are positionally blameless or righteous (without sin) but experientially not without sin (1 John 1:10).

Blameless does not means without sin but not being influenced by evil. It refers to SMB who has spiritual senses trained to discern between good and evil or without falling under the thinking of evil.

The differences between sin and evil:

Sin is an isolated incident which can therefore be confessed and then move forward. Sin was judged at the Cross. The solution to sin is immediate through the grace provision of rebound.

Evil is a system of thinking. Evil was not judged at the Cross and it has no immediate solution. Evil was rejected at the Cross together with human good works.

Anything not judged at the Cross does not have an immediate solution. All human good of the believers will be judged at the Judgment Seat of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:10). All the human good of the unbelievers will be judged at the Great White Throne judgment (Rev. 20:13).

The solution to evil is time consuming which demands a complete renovation of the mind (Romans 12:2).

Sin originates within the OSN. Evil originates in the right lobe, in one’s system of thinking.

It is much more difficult to changer one’s system of thinking than to change one’s mind concerning a sinful decision.

Evil is the viewpoint of Satan as the ruler of the world (John 12:31, 14:30, and 16:11). The whole world lies in the power of the evil one (1 John 5:19), the kingdom of the Lord Jesus is not of this world (John 18:36).

Evil is counterfeit policy of Satan totally oppose to God’s policy of grace. God’s system is based on divine good, the antithesis of human good.

Divine good is wrought through the filling of the Holy Spirit, MBD and residence in the PPOG. Human good is empowered by a system knows as arrogance. Human good is man’s attempt to please and gain the approval of God.

Human good is self-help. It is man helping himself and then seeks the blessing of God on it. Divine good is God’s effort and God’s power with man benefiting in the transaction. Ignorant believers are suckers for human good. The self-help principle is utterly folly since God demands a quality which no human can satisfied or fulfilled.

God’s requirements are not unreasonable because He proposes to bestow in grace, all that He ever demands.

Satan‘s policy substitutes God’s divine provisions for divine requirements with human provisions for humanly idealistic requirements. Human good appeals to the OSN and man’s approbation lust

Satan inspires the unregenerated world with high ideals and the regenerated world with human good.

Satan himself is so filled with arrogance that he actually thinks he still has a change at becoming like God. Satan produces the same rivalry between man and God which his followers carry on.

Why Satan has to keep his followers blind, (that is ignorant and arrogant)?

• He cannot protect them from the judgment of God
• He cannot fulfill his promises
• He cannot provide solution to human problems
• He needs them to work for him (to remain his slaves)

How Satan secure the worship that he craves from men?

• By isolation – keep them away from the Word of God
• By separation – keep them away from God

Arrogance blinds anyone to the truth. Satan knew the Scripture but he refused the effect and consequences of his rebellion.

Deception means a life lives in lies. Arrogance will lower anyone to the level of the beasts when he tried to exalt himself above others.

Satan has the authority to use all things and anything in the world to deceive mankind. Deception will continue to increase as the time of Satan is getting short.

Satan will offer any person whatever it takes, whatever they want, whatever they desire, in order to distract them from the PPOG for their lives.

The whole world is in a mess, but it is not for us to clean up or tidy up the devil’s world. We are here not to whitewash the devil’s junk. The priority of every believer is to know Christ through consistent, progressive and systematic study of bible doctrine.

The tasks for the believers in the world are:

• To proclaim the Gospel clearly and accurately to the unbelievers
• Communicate the Bible doctrine to positive volition believers

All evil has 2 sources:

1. Sin with its erroneous thinking
2. Human good with its erroneous thinking

All sin is evil, but not all evil is sin.

Evil is the adverse trends of the society, hence the destruction of society is always the result. Satan wrapped his destructive schemes with enticement and appeal to the carnal mind.

Evil like Satan’s plan appeals to the human ideals, passions, lusts and ego, dragging the foolish (those without doctrine) into the devil’s control.

Satan does not like man to use his free will to choose or reject his authority, the exact opposite of God, who let every person to use his volition.

Satan’s evil system set up a:

• Different gospel of human good that cannot save (2 Cor. 4:3-4)
• Different righteousness that has no life and power (Matthew 19:16-28)
• Different ministers that God did not send
• Different system of spirituality that is outside the plan and will of God
• Different power that is oppose to God
• Different purpose that is the exaltation of Satan above God
• Different system of thinking that comes directly from the bosom of Satan

Evil involves the reconstruction of human freedom for greater good of Satan’s cosmic system. Evil is what the unbelievers and ignorant believers view as good. Good in the eyes of man and demons but evil in the eyes of God.

Evil is Satan’s genius – the system of his self exalted thinking which is in his own eyes is perfect and superior to God.

Satan controls the whole world (the entire human race) by human good not by sin. Human good is the satanic system for controlling the human race.

Satan can deliver temporary power and glory to anyone who is willing to worship him (Luke 4:4-9). How do you worship Satan? Men worship Satan by patronizing human good through execution of human viewpoint.

Satan method for life prompts man to attempt to become a god by a process of self-help and self-development of limited resources.

In God’s grace policy there is no room for man to do, contribute, or sacrifice or give.

In Satan’s evil policy there is no room for anything that God does or provide.

Evil is the attempt for the believers to solve human problems apart from God’s given solution called the problem solving devices (metabolized doctrine). Evil is the attempt for the unbelievers to gain salvation and divine approbation apart from the Lord Jesus Christ.

The cosmic system is Satan masterpiece system where people can be nice, lovely and sweet but its power and strength is arrogance. This is the reason why religious activism and programs are well accepted by people.

God allows Satan to continue in his power so that his arrogance will expose his folly and wickedness. God’s perfect rebuttal in the angelic conflict will prove God’s perfect justice. God’s plan and policy will prove the righteousness of God.

Satan’s arrogance will confirm in the near future that the judgment for the sin of unbelief is perfect. The believers are commanded not to be ignorant of Satan schemes and devices (2 Cor. 2:11).

1 Peter 5:8  Be sober,³⁵²⁵ be vigilant;¹¹²⁷ because³⁷⁵⁴ your⁵²¹⁶ adversary⁴⁷⁶ the devil,¹²²⁸ as⁵⁶¹³ a roaring⁵⁶¹² lion,³⁰²³ walketh about,⁴⁰⁴³ seeking²²¹² whom⁵¹⁰¹ he may devour:²⁶⁶⁶

Satan seeks to frustrate the will of God in the believer regarding:

• What he thinks (Eph. 4:14) – the viewpoint will of God
• What he does (James 4:7-8) – the operational will of God
• Where he is located (1 Thess. 2:18) – the geographical will of God
• What his is pursuing – the functional will of God (PSD)

Satan seeks to destroy the believer’s focus or concentration on the person of Christ by diverting their eyes on three categories of distractions:

• People
• Self
• Things

Where there is spiritual advancement, there is satanic opposition. Where there is spiritual growth, there is distraction to spiritual momentum.

Satan has an enticing and alluring proposal for every positive decision toward doctrine of the believer. The entire spiritual race set before every believer is full of distractions. Spiritual victory comes after the believer has overcome ever distraction laid by Satan.

We have to reject all evil that promotes and advances the work of Satan. We cannot win in the angelic conflict through compromises with satanic plan. No human merit can attain or maintain our eternal objective.

The self-help (human power system) must be totally rejected in every call for decision or action.

The believer must always think of his exalted position in Christ which accompanied by great responsibility.

The demands of God are totally impossible for human power, resources and ability, that is why, God has provided His own power and resources (2 Cor. 3:5, 1 Cor. 15:10).