The Word
Vol. 9 No.
26
Upper Room Discourse
John 15:12-13
In
Jesus’ love is greater than any human love. The
greater love is obviously what Jesus Christ did for us. He wants us to have
this soul love, which comes as a result of the Relaxed Mental Attitude (RMA)
from doctrine in your soul. He also wants to show us how far a RMA can carry
us. Therefore we are noting the Doctrine of A Relaxed
Mental Attitude.
A. Definition and description.
1.
A Relaxed Mental attitude is the function of human thought. Your mental
attitude is what you think at any given time. Consequently, thinking is the
battlefield of your soul.
2.
A Relaxed Mental Attitude is the high thinking of the Christian life. It is
having a mental attitude that is completely trusting in God and His Word in
every situation.
3.
The life of every believer is in his mental attitude. The life of every
believer is determined experientially by two principles: what he thinks and
what he decides.
a.
Divine viewpoint mental attitude is part of the greatest delegation of Divine
power in human history.
b.
What you think is more important than anything else. But so many believers are
struggling through life as mindless losers full of emotion. What counts is the
power of Divine viewpoint in the stream of consciousness of the right lobe of
the soul.
Your life comes to be what you
think, not what you feel. Most believers today want overt impact, yet know
nothing about the protocol Plan of God. Eph
1:18-20, “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His
calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and
what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are
in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought
about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right
hand in the heavenly places.” Principles of
1)
The average believer does not even know anything about God’s superior power or
how God has delegated it to us through thought. We have a lot of mindless
emotional activity rather than doctrinal thinking. There is very little
doctrine being thought today.
2)
This delegation of Divine power depends on post-salvation renewing of your
mind,
3)
This system of thought called Bible doctrine produces a Relaxed Mental Attitude
because of Divine viewpoint and is from the content of the infallible Word of
God.
c.
What you really are as a person is what you really think, not what you appear
to be on the surface. What you really are is not the way you are dressed or
groomed, but what goes on inside the invisible you, which is your soul. You are
not always what you appear to be on the surface. Some people can hide their
thoughts and some cannot. People can hide their thoughts and become adept at
the practice of hypocrisy.
d.
The real you is the thought content of your soul. The soul is the place where
you think or do not think. Hence, what you really are is what you think.
Personality is not the real person; thought is.
e.
Bible doctrine is the thinking or the mind of Christ,
f.
The delegation of Divine power to every Church Age believer is Bible doctrine
metabolized and deployed on the FLOT line of your soul. The delegation of
Divine power includes:
1)
The content of thought; Bible doctrine with emphasis on the mystery doctrine of
the Church Age.
2)
The communication of this thought through the spiritual gift of your right
Pastor-Teacher.
3)
The concentration of the believer on doctrine as it is being taught.
Concentration is a matter of your priorities in life. (You have your own
spiritual life and must be motivated from your own spiritual life. Living your
spiritual life is thinking Divine viewpoint which gives you a Relaxed Mental
Attitude.) All forms of worship are a concentration test. Concentration on the
teaching of Bible doctrine reflects four things in your life:
·
The values in your life.
·
Your motivation in life.
·
Your mental attitude in life.
·
Your spiritual status quo in life.
g. The delegated power of God
is thinking Bible doctrine, Relaxed Mental Attitude Divine viewpoint.
Principle: The mental attitude
of Christ can be our mental attitude. A confident mental attitude is the Divine
viewpoint from the perception of Bible doctrine,
4.
A thought (or lack of thought) can make or break you at any given moment,
depending on whether your thought is human viewpoint or divine viewpoint.
Furthermore, your thinking can make or break your client nation. Thinking is
either the application of Bible doctrine to life (Divine Viewpoint) or the
application of arrogance and ignorance, (human viewpoint / cosmic thinking). 1 Cor 10:12; Gal 6:3, “For if anyone thinks he is something
when he is nothing, he deceives himself.”
5.
When the right lobe of the believer
receives Divine viewpoint through Bible doctrine, the result is inner peace, a
relaxed mental attitude, stability and inner happiness. But when the right lobe
is crammed full of human viewpoint, or when mental attitude sins, such as
pride, jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, guilt complex,
hatred, etc., dominate the mentality of the soul, the result is inevitably
self-induced misery. Mental attitude sins, plus the absence of Bible doctrine,
lead to human viewpoint and can only produce disorientation to grace and agony
of soul.
6.
Human viewpoint is the thinking of the believer who has rejected Bible doctrine
or neglected it. Therefore, it is the thinking of the carnal or reversionistic
believer. The arrogance skills hinder the function of Divine viewpoint. This is
why scripture emphasizes the fact that God makes war against the arrogant
believer but he gives grace to the humble believer,
7.
Divine viewpoint is the thinking of the believer positive to Bible doctrine,
the advancing believer, or the mature believer. Divine viewpoint of life
requires three thinking functions:
a.
Cognition; both the act and the process of inculcation of Bible doctrine.
b.
Thinking; the application of metabolized doctrine.
c.
Solving; understanding and using the Problem Solving Devices by which we make
accurate and correct application to experience.
8. A Relaxed Mental Attitude is the result of
the application of the 11 Problem Solving Devices.
a.
The 10
b.
The 11 Problem Solving Devices are application skills of the spiritual life
directly from the Word of God.
c.
The application of metabolized Bible doctrine is accomplished through the use
of the 11 Problem Solving Devices. This application goes in three directions:
toward God, toward people, and toward self.
1)
Problem Solving Devices directed toward God include: Doctrinal Orientation,
Fellowship with the Holy Spirit, Personal Love toward God the Father, and
Occupation with Christ.
2)
Problem Solving Devices directed toward people include: Doctrinal Orientation,
Grace Orientation, Authority Orientation, and Impersonal Love for all mankind.
3)
9.
The thinking of the mature believer is different from the generally accepted
thought patterns of the world. Therefore, the believer is set apart as unique
when he cracks the maturity barrier. Uniqueness is reflected in his thought,
actions, and observation of the honor code of the Royal Family of God.
10.
A Relaxed Mental Attitude includes the principles of life on which you operate.
These principles are your motivation for life.
a.
Speech and action is an expression of your thinking. Therefore, what you say
and do is what you think.
b.
Thinking and speaking is a reflection of your priorities in life. Everything we
do, everything we say, even how we look reflects our
thinking.
c.
Thought, speech, and action is a reflection of your
mental attitude and motivation in life.
11.
The greatest battle we have in life is the battle in the soul. Therefore we see
the importance of the Problem Solving Devices on the FLOT line of the soul.
Good changes in history are made through what you think. The content of your
thinking is the most important thing about you. But unfortunately, most
believers today are confused in their thinking.
12.
The difference between living in the cosmic system and advancing to maturity
depends on the thought in your soul.
B. Having a Relaxed Mental Attitude is a
major building block in the Edification Complex of the Soul (ECS).
1. The ECS consists of 5 floors.
1st floor – Doctrinal/Grace Orientation
2nd floor - Mastery of the Detail of Life
3rd floor - Relaxed Mental Attitude
4th floor - Capacity to Love
a. Love towards God
b. Love towards a spouse
c. Love towards friends (believers)
5th floor - Inner Happiness (the Joy of
Jesus Christ)
2. Having a Relaxed Mental Attitude (RMA) means that:
a. You overcome fear in your soul
b. You love yourself
c. You have a mental attitude love towards others
d. You are content in all areas of your life
3. With your Human Spirit in place coupled with
Doctrinal Orientation and Mastering the Detail of Life you are primed to
exercise peace within your soul having a RMA.
a. Overcoming Fear: Having a RMA is the opposite of having a soul
filled with fear. Fear manifests itself by
worry, anxiety, insecurity, and nervousness. Fear destroys the believer’s
ability to think, to reason, to apply doctrine under pressure from the
circumstances of life. Fear is total disorientation to the Plan of God. Fear
destroys any Personal Sense of Destiny. Fear is from cosmic involvement and
therefore is arrogant emotional subjectivity and slavery.
1)
People who are afraid have enslaved themselves,
2) Courage or lack of fear is a sign of spiritual growth
and the construction of the 3rd floor in your soul, the RMA,
If you would
like more information on this subject,
you may listen
to lessons 10-072 through 10-074.
A PERSONAL NOTE FOR YOU
If
you have never accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, I am here to tell
you that Jesus loves you. He loves you
so much that He gave His life for you. God the Father also loves you. He loves you so much that He gave His only
Son for you by sending Him to the cross.
At the Cross Jesus died in your place.
Taking upon Himself all of your sins and all of
my sins. He was judged for our sins and
paid the price for our sins. Therefore
our sins will never be held against us.
Right where you are, you now have the opportunity to make the greatest
decision in your life. To accept the free gift of eternal life by truly
believing that Jesus Christ died for
you. So wherever you are, pause to reflect on what Christ has done for you
and say to the Father:
"Father, I believe that Your Son,
Jesus Christ, died on the cross for the forgiveness of my sins."
If you have done that, I welcome you to the Eternal
Family of God!
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