Lesson for February 24, 2019
The Doctrine of Christian Royalty
The Unity of the Royal Family of God (cont’d)
Wrong Execution by Wrong Power, an Enemy of Unity
God is perfect and His plan for us is perfect, but we are imperfect. We all possess a sin nature and we continue to sin after salvation. (I John 1:5-10) The sin nature never quits functioning until death. Therefore, the sin nature seeks to use human solutions, human works, and human abilities to replace the power of God in the execution of His plan. But divine power and human power are mutually exclusive. There is no place in God’s plan for the function of human power because God is perfect and His plan is perfect, but we are not. The Protocol Plan of God can be executed only by divine power, which is the omnipotence of God the Holy Spirit related to life inside the Divine Dynasphere, where the power of God is available for the execution of the Protocol Plan of God.
Never before in human history has so much divine power been made available for every believer as in the dispensation of the Church. Divine power is directly related to the first two Problem Solving Devices of the Protocol Plan of God – Rebound and the Filling of the Holy Spirit. Problem solving device number one is the Rebound Technique, without which it is impossible to recover the filling of the Holy Spirit and live within the Divine Dynasphere. The reason we only have to name our sins to God, and be forgiven is that we are citing the court case of the Cross, acknowledging the fact that all sins were imputed to Christ on the Cross and judged by God the Father. The Greek word for confessin I John 1:9 is “homologeo”meaning to name, to cite, to admit and to acknowledge. God not only forgives us of those sins we name, He also forgives us of sins that we have forgotten or did not as yet know were sins. This restores our fellowship with God and the filling of God the Holy Spirit.
When a believer sins, they enter Satan’s cosmic system and grieve the Holy Spirit. When sinning is prolonged a believer quenches the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the only way to recover the filling of the Spirit is to do it God’s way. As a royal priest, believers are to name their sins privately to God, and they are forgiven, period.
Problem solving device number two is the filling of the Spirit, which provides the divine power for the execution of the protocol plan. The key to the execution of God’s plan is the fact that divine power and omnipotence are guaranteed to every believer, made available through the perception of Bible doctrine, and applied through the filling of the Holy Spirit. All human power and ability are excluded from the execution of God’s will, plan, and purpose for our lives.In other words, ignorance and arrogance combine to produce the use of the wrong power (human power) rather than divine power. Therefore, they are contributing factors to fragmentation of unity among believers.
Unrealistic Expectation, an Enemy of Unity
Unrealistic expectation is defined as the frustration of those people who are not treated the way they think they should be treated or loved the way they think they should be loved. This results in fragmentation. Unrealistic expectation manufactures believers who go from one local church to another, demanding and expecting special attention. When they are not treated the way they wanted to be treated or loved the way they wanted to be loved, they move on to the next church in search of so-called Christian fellowship.
Unrealistic expectation causes a believer to become self-absorbed, which hinders the execution of the Protocol Plan of God. When a believer gets his eyes off the Lord Jesus Christ and onto self, other people or things, the inevitable result will be the fragmentation of their spiritual life. When the unrealistic expectation is not met by others, the self-absorbed believer often reacts with sins of the arrogance complex, including jealousy, bitterness, implacability, anger, hatred, self-pity, hypersensitivity, revenge motivation and function, slander, gossip, maligning, and judging.
Unrealistic expectation is divorcement from reality and moves quickly to preoccupation with self which often results in mental illness. Unrealistic expectation is the enemy of Christian unity and the enemy of the Protocol Plan of God.
Role Model Arrogance, an Enemy of Unity
Role model arrogance is defined as a believer setting up anyone except Jesus Christ as their role model. When anyone’s role model departs or fails to live up to the unrealistic expectation assigned to them (like sinless perfection), the role model becomes the object of criticism, maligning, slander, condemnation, and rejection. A believer who sets up another person other than Christ as a role model normally sets up a double standard: a strict standard for the role model and a convenient standard for themselves. The individual excuses his own sins and failures through self-justification but condemns those same sins and failures in the role model. Role model arrogance causes believers to become hypocrites and turns them into legalists. The double standard of role model arrogance causes fragmentation of unity in the Royal Family of God. Role model arrogance replaces the grace policy of God and the Ten Problem Solving Devices of the Protocol Plan of God. The only role model for the Christian Way of Life is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Fragmentation and the Problem of Growing Up Spiritually
When we become believers in Jesus Christ, we must grow up spiritually from learning and applying Bible doctrine. Failure to grow up spiritually causes the fragmentation of unity among believers. When we become believers, growing up spiritually is a matter of consistent intake, understanding, believing and applying of Bible doctrine. This requires consistent, accurate Bible teaching from your pastor-teacher.
It is Bible doctrine that causes the believer to grow up spiritually and nothing else!!!!
Christian unity is a provision of grace, not the striving of human power, not human personality and not human gimmicks. In Ephesians 4:1-6, we learn how to avoid fragmentation in the body of Christ, and how to achieve unity through God’s grace provision for each believer in the royal family.The baptism of the Spirit at the moment of faith in Christ is the means of establishing unity, positionally. But for unity to exist experientially, it requires that we learn and apply Bible doctrine. The results of the baptism of the Spirit are that we become new creations in Christ, and we enter the Royal Family of God. All Church Age believers are placed on an equal plane as Christian royalty, equal privilege and equal opportunity and we are given a royal plan from God, called the Protocol Plan of God.
Christian unity begins with the fact that all believers have only one Savior, indicated by the words one Lordin Ephesians 4:5. Christian unity begins with the fact that all believers are saved in exactly the same way: personal faith in Jesus Christ (one faith). Christian unity begins with the fact that all believers have the same royal family privileges from the baptism of the Holy Spirit (one baptism).Christian unity begins by acknowledging there is one God and one Father of all, Who is over all, and through all and in all (believers). Understanding and application of Bible doctrine is the basis of unity and harmony among believers. Lack of unity occurs in the Royal Family of God where ignorance of Bible doctrine exists.
Unity among believers can exist only where Bible doctrine is understood, believed, and applied. There is only one way of salvation, one Royal Family of God, one body of truth, and one plan for the Church Age, the Protocol Plan of God. At salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, all Church Age believers are entered into union with Jesus Christ to form the body of Christ through the baptism of the Holy Spirit.Since “one Lord”means there is only one Savior, it refers to the status of unity and harmony with regard to salvation. “One faith”means there is only one means of salvation and refers to unity and agreement with regard to the way of eternal life. “One baptism”means there is one royal family and one body of Christ. Therefore, these phrases refer to Christian unity at salvation with the potential for Christian unity in the Christian life.