Doctrine
of Stress in your Soul.
John
16:6, “But because I have said (taught)
to you all these things, sorrow (inward
stress) has completely filled your
heart (right lobe of the soul).”
Matthew Henry states, “That
which filled the disciples’ hearts with sorrow, was too great affection for
this present life. Nothing more hinders our joy in God, than the love of the
world, and the sorrow of the world which comes from it.” (Matthew Henry’s
Concise Commentary on the New Testament.)
1. Jesus has clearly presented His death, burial,
resurrection and ascension as a part of the Plan for the First Advent.
2. Negative volition toward the teaching of
Christ for three years results in mental pain and anguish of the disciples at
this time.
3. At a critical moment the eleven disciples are
all disoriented. Negative volition leads to disorientation to the Plan of God
in the time of crisis.
4. Instead of orienting to the Cross, the
departure, the moving forward of the Plan of God, they have associated the
death of Christ with catastrophe.
5. They therefore cannot recognize the principle
of
6. The verb
“has filled” is a Perfect, Active, Indicative of PLEROO which means to fill up a deficiency or to fill up a
vacuum. Here it means to fill up a vacuum in their souls. With a void or
deficiency of Bible doctrine in your soul you fill up that vacuum with mental
attitude sins which causes LUPE
(sorrow, mental pain or anguish of the KARDIA),
in the mentality of the soul.
7. Mental attitude sins must be displaced by
Bible doctrine in the soul. This can only occur through daily intake of
doctrine.
This is then leads
us into three doctrines: The Doctrine of Emotional Revolt of the Soul, the
Doctrine of Stress, and the Doctrine of Occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Here will we deal with the Doctrine of Stress on your soul.
Doctrine
of Stress in your Soul
1.
There are two categories of pressure in life.
a. Overt pressure, which in this study
will be classified as adversity.
b. Inner pressure of the soul, which
in this study will be classified as stress.
2.
Stress is what you do to yourself; adversity is what the circumstances of life
do to you.
3. Adversity is outside pressures of life from
the circumstances of our daily experiences, whereas stress is inside pressure
of the soul. The Greek word THLIPSIS,
4. Adversity may be caused by pain, weather,
financial problems, loss of friendship, broken romance, marital problems,
family problems, business or professional problems, personality conflicts,
lawsuits, economic depression, spiritual problems, etc.
a. As outside pressures of life, there
are three categories of adversity.
1) Suffering from the law of
volitional responsibility.
2) Suffering from Divine
discipline.
3) Suffering for Blessing
which accelerates spiritual growth.
b. As inside pressure of the soul,
stress includes four categories.
1) Stress from converting the
outside pressures of adversity into the inside pressures of stress in the soul.
2) Stress which comes from
grieving the Holy Spirit.
3) Stress which comes from
quenching the Spirit.
4) Stress from the three
areas of divine discipline.
5. Once you have stress in the soul, there is no
Suffering for Blessing until you rebound and recover. Then the adversity is
turned into Suffering for Blessing
6. Adversity is inevitable (we all have
suffering); stress is optional. It depends on your own volition as to which you
will have, suffering for blessing inside the spiritual life or stress upon your
soul in carnality. The positive volitional attitude is noted in
7. Stress in the soul always results in sin
nature control of your life. It destroys the spiritual life of the believer. It
causes fragmentation, reversionism, and Christian degeneracy, which, when
combined with the OSN control of the soul, completely destroys any capacity for
life, love, and happiness.
a.
Stress destroys the inner spiritual strength of the soul when combined with the
OSN control of the soul and results in inner tensions that cause dissociation,
mental disorder, and multiple personality dysfunctions.
b. Unchecked and
perpetuated stress in the soul produces the psycho Christian.
c. Stress results in self-fragmentation.
8.
Stress, perpetuated in the soul, means failure to glorify God, and therefore,
unchecked stress produces the loser believer, the believer who lives in
perpetual carnality.
9.
There are seven categories of loser believers brought on by allowing stress to
penetrate their souls.
a. Stress results in
self-fragmentation.
b.
Stress perpetuated in the soul results in polarized fragmentation. Polarized
fragmentation, in which the sin nature control takes you to your trend of
self-righteous arrogance or antinomianism.
c. Polarized fragmentation leads to
the eight stages of reversionism.
1. Reaction and distraction.
2. The frantic search for
happiness.
3. Operation boomerang. (The
frantic search for happiness returns to the believer empty of happiness but
increases stress in the soul.)
4. Emotional revolt of the
soul.
5. The status of locked in
negative volition.
6. Blackout of the soul.
7. Scar tissue of the
soul.
8.
Reverse process reversionism. (Reverse process reversionism is the status of
lost spiritual priorities and values; for all such priorities and values are
completely reversed.)
d. Christian moral degeneracy.
e. Christian immoral degeneracy.
f. Dissociation, which is garbage in
the subconscious.
g. Becoming a psychotic or neurotic
Christian.
10. Stress is a term in psychology and biology,
barrowed from physics and engineering and first used in the biological context
in the 1930s by the endocrinologist Hans Selye. It refers to the consequence of
the failure of a organism (human or animal), to respond adequately to
mental, emotional or physical demands, whether actual or imagined.
a. Signs of stress may be cognitive, emotional,
physical or behavioral. Signs include poor judgment, a general negative
outlook, excessive worrying, moodiness, irritability, agitation, inability to
relax, feeling lonely, isolated or depressed, aches and pains, diarrhea or
constipation, nausea, dizziness, chest pain, rapid heartbeat, eating too much
or not enough, sleeping too much or not enough, social withdrawal,
procrastination or neglect of responsibilities, increased alcohol, nicotine or
drug consumption, and nervous habits such as pacing about, nail-biting and neck
pains.
b. Physiologists define stress as how the body reacts
to adversity, (a stressor), real or imagined, a stimulus that results in
stress. Acute adversities (stressors) affect a person in the short term;
chronic adversities (stressors) over the longer term.
11. As noted above in point four, common stimuli of
stress include both negative and positive adversities, (stressors). The
intensity and duration of stress changes depending on the circumstances and
emotional condition of the person who is suffering from it. Some common
categories and examples of adversities, (stressors), include:
a. Sensory
input such as pain, bright light, noise, temperatures, or environmental
issues such as a lack of control over environmental circumstances, such as
food, air and/or water quality, housing, health, freedom, or mobility.
b. Social
issues are also a motivator of stress, such as struggles of inordinate
competition with difficult individuals, social defeat, relationship conflict,
deception, break ups, and major events such as birth and deaths, marriage, and
divorce.
c. Life
experiences such as poverty, unemployment, clinical depression, obsessive
compulsive disorder, heavy drinking or insufficient sleep can also motivate
stress. Students and workers may face performance pressure stress from exams
and project deadlines.
d. Adverse
experiences during development (e.g. prenatal exposure to maternal stress,
poor attachment histories, sexual abuse) are thought to contribute to
deficits in the maturity of an individual’s stress response systems.
a. Alarm
is the first stage. When the adversity (threat or stressor) is identified or
realized, the body’s stress response is a state of alarm. During this stage
adrenaline will be produced in order to bring about the fight-or-flight
response.
b. Resistance is the second stage. If the adversity persists, it
becomes necessary to attempt some means of coping with the stress. Although the
body begins to try to adapt to the strains or demands of the environment, the
body cannot keep this up indefinitely, so its resources are gradually depleted.
c. Exhaustion is the third and final stage. At this point, all of
the body’s resources are eventually depleted and the body is unable to maintain
normal function. The initial autonomic nervous system symptoms may reappear
(sweating, raised heart rate, etc.). If stage three is extended, long term
damage may result as the body, and the immune system is exhausted and function
is impaired, resulting in decompensation (the functional deterioration of a
previously working structures or system in the body).
The result can manifest itself in obvious illnesses
such as ulcers, depression, diabetes, trouble with the digestive system or even
cardiovascular problems, along with other mental illnesses.
13. The negative effects of stress on the soul and
body are revealed to us in the Old Testament,
13. Extrapolated from the Word of God are Eleven
Problem Solving Devices which work to prevent the conversion of the outside
pressures of adversity into the inside pressures of stress in the soul. The
Problem Solving Devices (PSDs) are potential based on the metabolization of
Bible doctrine in your soul. The PSDs are generally progressive as metabolized
Bible doctrine circulates in the stream of consciousness coming from the heart
(right lobe) of your soul.
The progression is: the rebound technique, the
filling of the Holy Spirit, the Faith-Rest Drill, doctrinal orientation, grace
orientation, authority orientation, a personal sense of destiny, a personal
love for God the Father, impersonal love for all mankind, sharing the perfect
happiness of God, and occupation with Christ.
a.
Defensively the PSDs function to prevent the outside pressure of adversity from
penetrating the soul and becoming the inner pressure of stress. The Eleven PSDs
are the defensive position against adversity or outside pressure attacking the
soul.
b. Offensively they function to remove
from the soul the inner pressure of stress. The Word of God removes the accumulated
garbage and scar tissue built up on your soul, do to allowing stress to build
up in your soul, so that you can cycle God’s Word throughout your soul more
freely. We take the offensive through the use of the Faith-Rest Drill, grace
orientation, doctrinal orientation, and the other Problem Solving Devices.
14. Stress in the soul results in sin nature
control plus the inability to convert GNOSIS doctrine into EPIGNOSIS doctrine.
The only answer to this is rebound. Perpetuation of the inside pressure of
stress in the soul destroys metabolized doctrine in the stream of consciousness
and prevents any future metabolization of doctrine as long as that stress
remains. This is why people proclaim, “Doctrine does not work.”
15. Stress creates tunnel vision, focusing on
those things producing the stress and shuts down all creative thinking.
a.
Creative thinking occurs where a total Relaxed Mental Attitude is present.
b.
When under stress, your personality changes into an emotional, hypersensitive,
very caustic, sarcastic individual.
c.
When under stress, routine and good eating habits become non-existent. The end
result is a run down, tired condition.
d.
When under stress, long term planning is non-existent and short term decisions
or decisions of expediency are the norm.
16. Stress feeds on stress and eventually
becomes a lifestyle. Stress becomes a coping mechanism. The stressed out person
needs the stressful life to keep him from thinking of reality and taking stock
of a lifestyle that has totally alienated him from God and people around him.
His number one priority is himself and his obsession. It usually takes a severe
crisis to get his attention and give him the possibility of getting out of the
vicious cycle.
17. How Paul dealt with the outside pressure of
adversity,
18. The
Vicious Cycle of Stress.
a.
The vicious cycle begins with converting the outside pressure of adversity into
the inside pressure of stress in the soul.
1)
The stress of the soul festers, causing, along with the sin nature, either a
split personality or a multi-personality believer. The stress in the soul
causes self-fragmentation.
2)
Stress in the soul makes two attacks on the believer.
a)
Destruction of metabolized doctrine in the stream of consciousness, which
eventuates into split personality, and from there becomes reverse process
reversionism or Christian degeneracy.
b)
The second attack is the cycling of stress into the soul and then outside in
compulsive behavior, bipolar disorders, manic depressive episodes, anxiety or
panic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, multiple personality
disorders, and many other things related to stress in the stream of
consciousness related to the function of the sin nature.
b.
Stress in the soul amplifies both the arrogance and emotional complex of sins.
1)
Jealousy becomes operational, motivated by stress in the stream of
consciousness. Jealousy manifests itself
in many forms of vilification, gossip, slander, maligning, judging, and
creating the public lie.
2)
Vindictiveness becomes operational, motivated by stress in the stream of
consciousness. Vindictiveness manifests
itself in revenge.
3)
Implacability becomes operational through hatred, meanness, and bullying.
4)
Arrogance becomes operational through approbation lust, power lust, and
inordinate ambitions.
c.
The vicious cycle occurs in three phases.
1)
Phase one is the conversion of the outside pressure of adversity into stress in
the stream of consciousness. Stress in the soul’s stream of consciousness opens
the door for the Old Sin Nature to express itself and to control the life of
the believer. This also results in the split off of the personality. Unchecked
stress in the soul results in a psychotic or neurotic Christian.
a)
The believer is in a position of weakness from stress of the soul. We are in a
position of weakness, so that we produce everything from sins to evil to try
and deal with the stress.
b)
When pressures come into the soul, you react with irrationality: anger, hatred,
antagonism, guilt, etc. The increased stress factor of the soul gives the Old
Sin Nature greater control. Now you move to your area of weakness. There is no
stopping it, because even if you Rebound, you go right back to your area of
weakness since you are under the pressure instead of controlling the pressure.
c)
The scar tissue and blackout of the soul destroy Bible doctrine in the stream
of consciousness so that the believer is cut off from his source of power and
strength. The lust pattern now comes into play.
c)
Human solutions and human reaction further complicate your life and problems.
2)
Phase two is the believer completely under the control of the Sin Nature, often
already in a psychotic or neurotic condition.
3)
Phase three is an overt manifestation of the arrogance complex of sins, the
emotional complex of sins, the split personality, the manic depressive, the
anxiety or panic disorders, hysteria reaction to life. The third phase may
result in different kinds of negative overt actions, including: murder, rape,
suicide, vilification of another person. Phase three turns carnal motivation
into Christian degeneracy. This is the position of garbage in and garbage out.
Garbage is in the soul as a result of stress and whatever comes out of the
soul, (what you think, say and do), is garbage too.
d.
The vicious cycle is a post-salvation phenomenon, which results from lack of
metabolized doctrine in the soul or lack of understanding or using the Problem
Solving Devices to keep adversity outside of the soul. To avoid converting
outside pressure of adversity into inner pressure of soul stress, cognition and
function of the Eleven Problem Solving Devices must be a habit of life for
every type of adversity and problem in life.
e.
Believers under the function of the vicious cycle have the same stress factor
in the soul as their unbeliever counterparts. Emotional stress factors such as
fear, worry, guilt, panic, and anxiety are common to both believer and
unbeliever alike. Arrogant stress factors are also common to both.
f.
The increased stress factor of the soul gives the Old Sin Nature greater
control, so that the believer moves to a state of irrationality,
irresponsibility, dissociation, and complete loss of all spiritual values.
19.
Principles of the relationship between Cognition of Bible Doctrine and Stress
in you soul.
a.
There is a definite relationship between stress and cognition.
b.
Stress makes you forgetful and impairs your memory.
c.
Stress impairs your ability to learn.
d.
Stress affects your perception of reality.
e.
When stress is removed, cognitive ability is restored.
f.
If a person remains in a stress situation too long, all of his cognitive
ability is destroyed and he enters into a neurotic or psychotic state, or a
state of perpetual carnality.
g.
When the rate of learning exceeds the rate of forgetting, Bible doctrine in the
stream of consciousness circulates in its seven compartments.
1) But when the rate of
forgetting exceeds the rate of learning, Bible doctrine in the stream of
consciousness is eventually erased.
2) When the rate of
forgetting exceeds the rate of learning, the outside pressure of adversity is
converted into the inside pressure of stress in the soul.
20. The
Faith-Rest Solution to Stress.
a.
Faith-Rest has been used throughout Scripture as one of the primary means of
coping with stress.
b.
There are three stages in the use of the Faith-Rest Drill,
1)
Faith Mechanics:
a)
Mixing the promises of God with faith.
(1)
The function of the Faith-Rest Drill is always toward adversity. Failure to
claim the promises of God is the first stage of failure in the spiritual life.
Adversity breaks through the doctrinal defenses and produces stress in the
soul. This makes the believer vulnerable to fragmentation.
(2)
Once you begin meeting the adversities of life with claiming the promises of
God makes the Bible more real to you and increases your positive volition.
(3)
Stress in the soul, combined with the sin nature, establishes a pattern of
spiritual declension. This results in both Christian degeneracy and/or a split
personality.
(4)
By use of the faith-rest mechanics, the believer prevents the conversion of
adversity into stress. This utilization provides for the new believer his first
experience of sharing God's perfect happiness.
(5)
The faith-rest mechanics of stage one are:
i.
Faith claims the promises of God.
ii.
Faith applies the promises of God.
iii.
Faith takes control of the situation.
Taking control of the situation demands a position of strength.
Tranquility and contentment are a position of strength,
(6) When stage one is fully operational, the
believer then fulfills
b)
Application of doctrinal rationales to life.
(1) This requires a much stronger faith, which
comes from maximum metabolized doctrine circulating in the stream of
consciousness by means of the filling of the Holy Spirit. The rationales include:
i.
The essence of God rationale.
ii.
The plan of God rationale.
iii.
The policy of God rationale--grace orientation.
iv.
The a fortiori rationale--if God can do the greater (salvation), He can do the
less.
2)
Faith Functions:
a) There is the faith function of faith
perception. Just as there are two functions in breathing (inhale and exhale),
so there are two functions in the modus operandi of the Faith-Rest Drill.
(1)
There must be the inhale of Bible doctrine or faith perception. This is results
in postsalvation epistemological rehabilitation, which means perception and
metabolization of Bible doctrine with the results of
(2)
There must be the exhale of faith, which is the function of the Faith-Rest
Drill or the application of God’s Word to your life demonstrated by
Mat
b)
There is the faith function of the plaintiff function before the Supreme Court
of Heaven. For example, when being treated unfairly, we must represent such
cases before the Supreme Court of Heaven and leave the matter in the Lord’s
hands,
c)
There is the faith function of the believer’s Faith-Rest function in sharing
the happiness of God. There is a definite relationship between the accurate and
correct function of the Faith-Rest Drill and the proper use of God’s happiness,
Principles on Sharing
the Happiness of God; +H:
1. If you find yourself in a state of anger,
bitterness, hatred, etc., that state can be converted into either demon
influence in your soul or you will wind up as a psychotic person. When you
allow adversity to become stress in your soul, you make yourself a psychotic
person. Stress combined with the Old Sin Nature explains everything that goes
wrong with the believer.
2. The Faith-Rest Drill plus contentment and
tranquility is the major solution to handling pressure. When you claim a
promise from God, it holds off the adversity and you create tranquility and
contentment in your soul, even if only temporarily. As you grow spiritually,
this tranquility and contentment lasts longer and longer.
3. God can make you happy like no one else can.
People can make you happy temporarily but they can also make you very unhappy.
The same is true of circumstances. Yet God provides you with a sustaining,
permanent happiness which people and circumstances cannot change.
4. As
a. Not dependent on
people but on the thinking of Bible doctrine.
b. A happiness which
prevents the conversion of adversity into stress in the soul.
c. A happiness which
does not change with circumstances.
5. You cannot derive your happiness from making
others unhappy. God has found a way in grace to share His very own happiness
with us.
6. Sharing the happiness of God is made up of
four things.
a.
Tranquility;
b.
Contentment;
c.
When tranquility and contentment become a major part of your life, so that
people can no longer hurt you, shock you, or cause you to react, then capacity
for life, love, and happiness is added. You now have the capacity, with a
Relaxed Mental Attitude, to see objectively all of the things that used to
disturb you. When you react to unfair treatment, you show lack of spiritual
maturation. You may have a lot of doctrine, but there is an imbalance.
d.
The expanded capacity to handle stimulation, enthusiasm, exhilaration.
You can enjoy the moment without the moment destroying you in Emotional Revolt
of the Soul.
7. Sharing the happiness of God then becomes a
fantastic Problem Solving Device. As a Problem Solving Device, God’s happiness
keeps stress out of the soul, and thereby preserves the unity and cohesiveness
of the soul. The greatest defense system we have against stress is to possess
God’s perfect happiness in your soul. Having God’s happiness always keeps
adversity outside of the soul.
8. God’s happiness can be lost to the extent
that you lose Christian integrity and virtue. As integrity and virtue disappear
from your life so does God’s happiness. Pseudo happiness depends on or makes
its happiness by making other people miserable through vilification, hatred,
anger, revenge, etc. Arrogance plus anger means a psychotic condition.
9. There are at least three main tenets in God’s
happiness that apply to the life of the believer.
a.
God's happiness is not dependent on others, but on the thinking or mind of
Christ, which is Bible doctrine.
b.
God's happiness prevents any stress, adversity, disaster from ever affecting
us.
c.
God's happiness does not change with circumstances unless you permit it.
10.
Having God’s happiness in the soul is one of the greatest blessings when
facing death,
Scriptures:
Blessed (Hebrew -
1 Thes 1:6, “You also have become imitators of
us and our Lord, having received the Word of God in much adversity with
happiness from the Holy Spirit.”
3)
Faith Execution: which demands a foundation of humility within your
soul, along with Christian professionalism: (knowledge and application of the
Problem Solving Devices), and integrity, (the Royal Family Honor Code which
provides spiritual strength to execute the Problem Solving Devices).
The word “wait” is the Hebrew verb QAWAH and is one of
the six main Hebrew words for faith.
1. The first is AMAN which is a word for faith which
means to, “confirm, support, and be faithful.” So it means to use God as a prop
or support,
2. The second one is BATACH which means, “to trust,
have confidence in.” It was originally used for two men wrestling, and one of
them slams the other to the ground. Eventually the word meant to take your
troubles and slam them on the Lord,
3. The third is CHASAH
that means, “To seek refuge, flee for protection, to put trust in (God),
confide or hope in God”,
4. The fourth one is SELA with its synonym TSUR,
(meaning a larger rock), that simply means to be facing something bigger and
greater than you and to fit into a “crack in the rock” where the fox can’t fit.
The point is that the weak and helpless get into a crack where they are protected
and God is the Rock. And it means to use God as the Rock,
5. The fifth is YACHAL that means, “To wait, hope, or
expect” is comes from the meaning of being in extreme pain and to find relief
in that extreme pain. So it is for trusting the Lord under great pressure,
6. So we have our sixth word which is the verb QAVAH.
It means “to hope, wait for, or to look for patiently”,
In
It speaks of a small thread that when wrapped together
with many small strands it becomes a thick rope. Therefore, if this thread is
taken and weaved with hundreds and hundreds of other threads, or weaved into a
great rope, then you have something that can not be broken.
Therefore, QAVAH gives us the analogy of weaving
together the promises and principles found in God’s Word where you have
something that is unbreakable. Having something unbreakable, you now have
something that you can wholeheartedly trust in or to hold on to or that will
hold you up; that’s the faith aspect of this word.
So QAVAH means to trust in the sense of depending upon
that which is unbreakable. In other words, depend upon the Strong One. And the
Strong One is given to us in verse 28, who is the Lord Jesus Christ.
The words “gain new” or “renew” means to exchange
something old for something new. We exchange human strength and human ability
for Divine power and Divine strength. In other words we have the Faith-Rest
Technique.
Therefore, the
believer who “waits”, or “faith-rests” in God, (Isa 40:31), “Will gain new
strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and
not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.”
The four kinds of strength
that come from the Faith Rest Drill under Faith Execution include:
1. “Gain new strength”, is
God giving you inward strength through in the inhale of Bible Doctrine.
That is, the perception and metabolization of God’s Word which is His process
of renewal,
2. He “mounts up with wings
as eagles” speaks of upward strength; having the spiritual strength
necessary to be an over-comer in this life. This is God’s Power System of His
Word and Spirit empowering and enabling you to execute the unique spiritual
life. Cf in regard to God’s protection,
3. He can “run and not get
tired” referring to outward strength, that is the application of God’s
Word to life,
4. He can “walk and not
become weary”, means he now has onward strength, which is the Divine
Power to fulfill the Plan God has designed for your life. It’s having Problem
Solving Device number seven a Personal Sense of Destiny,
The Believer can be
sanctified in each of these areas of strength by simply waiting on God in the
Faith Execution of the Faith Rest Drill.
Those who wait for the
Lord are those who do not attempt to go in their own strength. Instead, they
keep their hope and trust in the Lord and patiently keep trusting Him for grace
and help. Then when God moves, they move along with Him. God is indeed their
complete source of strength, physical, inner and spiritual (or body, soul and
spirit.).
Those who do not wait upon
God will not obtain these things. Instead they will:
1. Grow weary, faint and at
times, will react to others because they have not learned the secret of
waiting.
2. Get frustrated due to
impatience, not having their issues satisfied.
3. Feel unloved having no
relationship with God.
4. Feel empty having a void
in their soul do to no relationship or fellowship with God.
Therefore, we must “wait”,
(Faith-Rest Execution), upon God and receive inward, upward, outward and onward
strength. So we gain “inward strength” as we look “upward for our strength”,
and “outward strength” as we move “onward” or forward inside the Plan of God
utilizing the Faith-Rest Drill.
21. The
Problem of Christian Psychosis.
a.
There are five basic problems in the spiritual life.
1)
The believer’s relationship with people taking priority over the believer’s
relationship with God, Mat
a)
People evaluate their spiritual life by their fellowship with other believers.
b)
This trend occurred immediately after the original sin, when the man and the
woman assumed that if they were adjusted to each other by clothing themselves
with fig leaves, they would be properly adjusted to God. This is people
emphasis taking precedence over God emphasis.
c)
This trend erroneously assumes that if you are right in your relationship with
people, you are right in your relationship with God.
2)
The believer’s attempt to fulfill God’s Plan for the Church Age through
human power and dynamics rather than Divine power and omnipotence.
a)
God is perfect and His Plan is perfect. Under the law of equivalent power, the
perfect Plan of God can only be executed by the perfect power of God.
Therefore, God has provided His omnipotence for the great power experiment of
the Church Age as part of the Angelic Conflict.
b)
Each member of the Trinity indwells every believer and has made His power
available as a part of the experience of the Christian life.
i.
The significance of the indwelling of God
the Father,
ii.
God the Holy Spirit indwells us to create
a temple for the indwelling of The Lord Jesus Christ as the Shekinah Glory, to
be a down payment of our royal inheritance, and to empower us in the execution
of the Father’s Plan,
iii.
God the Son indwells us for a number of reasons,
c) Divine power is
guaranteed, available, and delegated. Through “renewing your mind, Rom12:2,
(i.e., Post-salvation Epistemological Rehabilitation - P.E.R.,) via cognition
of Bible doctrine, this power can be and should be utilized.
d)
When believers depend on human power, it leads to a self-destructive process in
the spiritual life.
3)
The total ignorance of the Biblical subject of love and the total failure to
execute the mandates regarding loving God and loving people,
Mat
a)
Many believers are aware of different mandates which require loving people and
loving God, but they have no concept of the type of love that is required. No
distinction is made between personal and impersonal love.
b)
Believers fail in their priorities because personal love for God must take
precedence over impersonal love for all mankind.
c)
Another complication is that personal love for the human race has neither
virtue nor merit. Personal love in either romance or friendship only has merit
when that love has virtue.
d) Believers who have rejected the whole concept
of grace and spend all of their time trying to use their human ability to
fulfill Divine mandates are trying to perform an impossible task. It is
impossible to love all the brethren with your human love. To try and extend
human love to all people is insanity and is not fulfilling the Divine mandate.
Compare with
4) The malfunction of “renewal”, P.E.R.,
which is failure to be consistent or even to become involved in cognition and
inculcation of Bible doctrine. Compare with
a) This is the problem of failure to understand
and execute the Christian Way of Life, which is based on the fact that in
ignorance or rejection of Bible doctrine the Christian Way of Life cannot be
accomplished,
b) This includes ignorance of our Portfolio of
Invisible Assets related to the omnipotence of God the Father, ignorance of the
Predesigned Protocol Plan of God related to the omnipotence of God the Holy
Spirit, ignorance of the unique factors of the Church Age, failure to
understand and use the Eleven Problem Solving Devices.
5)
Christian psychosis.
a)
This believer has a split personality. He has two separate and distinct
personalities, one may be legalistic, one may be antinomian.
b)
The believer may have up to 100 personality states.
c)
The word personality is used in psychology for the function of the soul in
thinking about one’s environment and one’s self in relationship to that
environment. Hence, dissociation results in two or more personalities existing
in one person. It is a pattern which can develop over a short or long period of
time. The creation of multiple personalities is a defense mechanism to retreat
from the reality of life, including but not limited to the more extreme issues
of abuse and neglect.
d)
Prolonged bitterness, jealousy, vindictiveness, anger, revenge motivation,
implacability, or hatred in the soul opens the door to adversity being
converted into stress in the soul. This weakens your soul and is the beginning
of the destruction of your spiritual life and Christian psychosis.
e)
Prolonged Sin Nature control of the soul also opens the door to stress in the
soul and reversionism which leads to dissociative multiple personality
disorder.
22.
Spiritual Maturity Overcomes Stress in your Soul,
a.
A mature person always thinks in terms of principles; in the Christian way of
life that would be Biblical principles or Divine viewpoint,
b.
A mature person develops the ability to conceptualize, both in his personal
life and in his profession or work. Conceptualization is to form concepts or
ideas by mentally combining or actually developing the characteristics or
particulars of a subject, for the believer it is apply the Faith-Rest Drill to
all situation of life.
c.
A mature person accepts full responsibility for his own life, both his
decisions and his actions. In the spiritual life you develop and utilize
humility and objectivity in regards to every situation,
d.
A mature person does not think in terms of “I could not help it.” This is a
sign of maturation arrest. The spiritually mature person understands that they
have given over to the temptations of their Sin Nature and/or the emotions of
their soul, and recognize their accountability; while at the same time understanding the Grace of God,
e.
A mature person willingly defers immediate pleasure or reward when necessary
and is able to tolerate frustration,
f.
The necessary ingredient of spiritual maturity is emotional stability under
stress,
g.
A mature person looks at failure as an opportunity to make a change, Mat
23. Stress
and the Sparrow Metaphor.
a. The subject of stress
is dealt with in the sparrow metaphor of Mat 10:29-31.
Mat
b.
If the integrity of God cares for a sparrow, how much more will the integrity
of God care for the believer in Christ.
c.
If God regards the sparrow as being so important (far different from man’s
viewpoint) that no sparrow has ever died (or fallen to the ground) apart from
the knowledge and will of God, it becomes obvious that stress is not a part of
the spiritual life. We are of much more value than many sparrows.
d.
There never has been anything in our lives worthy of stress in our souls.
e.
The Gnomic Present, Middle, Imperative of the Greek verb PHOBEO with the preceding
negative ME, means to stop doing something which is happening now or is in
progress. This is a general timeless axiom, a mandate for all time; past,
present, and future. Here again, the disciples had allowed the adversity they
were facing to be converted into stress within their souls. They are commanded
to stop having fear, (i.e. stress within their souls).
f.
The phrase “more value” is the Gnomic Present, Active, Indicative of the Greek
verb DIAPHERO that can mean “to carry through”, as in God carrying you through
the adversities of life. But it also means “to differ, surpass, excel, or of
more importance.” This is the reality of the situation. We are of more
importance to our Father than a sparrow, so if takes such care of them, will He
not take even greater care to see you through the adversities of life.
g.
Therefore, Our Lord addresses their stress by teaching them about the Love of
the Father via logistical grace blessing; which love exceeds that of a sparrow
for which He cares so much.
h.
The “hairs on your head” are analogous to problems. The number of hairs on your
head are different each day, therefore, your problems change daily, just as the
number of hairs on your head change daily. The point is that God is aware of
your problems and He is aware of the changes in your problems too.
i.
The counting of the hairs on your head indicates the intricacy and detail by
which our Father watches over us and provides for us in all situations,
including adverse ones that are trying to cause stress within your soul.
j.
Therefore, having this knowledge of the Father’s love for you is another
promise and problem solving device that we can exercise so that the adversities
of life are not converted to becoming stress within our souls.
24. Paul’s
Message on Stress,
a.
From verse 6 we know that Jesus Christ is the creator of all things. He is the
One who said in
b.
In verse 7, “earthen vessels” or jars of clay, were used to store something of
value. The treasure which we have is the New Testament Scriptures, which has
enlightened us that we are more valuable than all the sparrows in the world.
Therefore, there is no excuse for stress in our lives. Divine viewpoint from
Bible doctrine in the soul is the “surpassing greatness of God’s power.” The
other source of power from God is the filling of the Holy Spirit.
c.
In verse 8, we are “afflicted” or pressurized (THLIBO to press or afflicted),
by adversity in every way. We will always have a certain amount of adversity
from time to time. We are under adversity but not under the Present, Passive,
Participle of STENOCHOREO, that literally means, “to be made narrow, or to
compress”, which is used to mean to be under stress. Therefore, we are under
adversity but not under stress.
d.
In verse 9, “persecuted”, (DIOKO – to put to flight, pursue), we all receive
unjust treatment in life. But we do not have to allow our souls to be destroyed
by stress because we are not forsaken by our Father (EGKATALEIPO – left behind,
or deserted).
e. You cannot blame
stress on others who are unjust to you.
25. To
deal with stress objectively, a person must understand that much of stress in
life is the result of their own failure in some form.
This failure has components which are the soul’s
reaction to failure. There are five stages of the soul’s reaction to failure.
a.
Shock or disbelief. The mature person absorbs the shock and does not break.
b.
Fear and worry. These are horrible neutralizers which depersonalize the
individual, (i.e., takes away their character, integrity, and norms and
standards that were based on Divine viewpoint).
1)
Fear is an emotional sin which converts the outside pressures of adversity into
the inside pressures of stress in the soul.
2)
Fear is a contradiction to the Predesigned Protocol Plan of God for the Church.
Fear has no doctrinal content and erases doctrine. It has no ability to think
or apply doctrine to any situation. It has no common sense and no Divine
viewpoint.
3)
Fear is irrational and converts adversity into stress.
4)
Fear is the believer’s failure to apply Bible doctrine to the adversities and
properties of life.
5)
The more things you surrender to fear, the more things you fear. The extent to
which you surrender to fear, you increase the power of fear in your life and
you become vulnerable to adversity.
6)
Increasing the power of fear in your life increases the conversion of outside
pressure of adversity into the inside pressure of stress in your soul. The more
things that acquire the power of fear in your life, the greater your capacity
for fear. The greater your capacity for fear, the greater the stress you have
in your soul,
c.
Anger reaction to failure. Anger is used as an alarm system; if used toward
others, it is sinful; if used toward self, it is motivation for making a
change,
d.
Shame. This is a product of what we think others think of us,
e.
Blame. This is loss of self-esteem and does not solve the problem. Cf.
26.
Virtue-Love Solves Stress.
a. One of the most
important things in dealing with stress is memory; remembering how much God
loves you,
1)
The secret to almost everything that is blessing in life, everything that is
happiness, everything that is worthwhile, everything that is honorable,
everything that is related to integrity is true love.
2)
It is the integrity of God that turns around our spiritual life. It is not
sentimental stupidity that turns our spiritual life around.
3)
You are completed as you advance to PLEROMA status in the spiritual life,
(fullness, full measure or filled up); first as you advance to spiritual
maturity, and then as you go from spiritual maturity to PLEROMA status. This
advance is possible for any and every believer because we have true equality.
Every believer is a priest; therefore, we have equal privilege and equal
opportunity to advance spiritually.
27. Rest is one of God’s
Remedies for Stress Relief.
There are times in our life where the stress levels
seem to hit new highs. Sometimes it is because of work. Sometimes it is what is
going on at home. Or, it could be brought on by the economy or loss of a loved
one. Or, it can be a combination of any or all of the above. Stress can also be
brought on by fear... fear of the unknown... fear of the future. A lot of that
stress is self-induced by watching the news (which never seems to point out
positives) or by worry.
Our Father understands us – after all, He created us.
He created us in His image (Genesis
Does an all-powerful God need to rest? No. He was
setting before us a prevention of stress; work hard for six days, but the
seventh day you need to take a break from work and focus on Him for the day.
Relax. Give your stress to Him and let Him show you true Stress Relief.
In 1 Kings, chapter 19:3-8, we read about the prophet
Elijah, who, at the time, was so stressed out that he prayed to God that he
might die. He was tired of dealing with the stress in his life. Let’s look at
that story.
What was God’s answer, God’s cure, for Elijah’s
stress? A couple of naps, rest, some good old “R&R” and food, super food,
just as we have the super spiritual food of God’s Word in our soul.
So, what is God’s advice to relieve stress from
penetrating our souls, we must;
a. Call out to Him (pray).
b. Give it to Him (surrender, oh - and then don’t take
it back).
c. Trust in Him (have faith).
d. Follow His example (rest - take a day just focusing
on Him)
Stress is real. Stress can lead to physical maladies.
So turn it over to our Father. Seek time to be alone with Him and get His Word
in your soul and use it. Then you will be like Elijah…ready to go forth and
serve.