Lesson 35
5) And those who continually practice sin will become ensnared in Satan's plan. 1 Jn 3:8
6) Satan's plan is to tempt man
to sin, that is, to operate outside the parameters God has established for
him. 2 Cor
e. Evil 5 is defined as the OVERT AGENCIES of HIS system of Evil:
1) They are designed to carry out the spread of Evil 2, 3 and 4 and thru them neutralizing the individual spiritually in time.
2) Those that stem from a total rejection of God's Word are inherently evil, such as Communism, Humanism, etc.
3) Many Social Clubs and Organizations (Mason's) fall into this category. Many of their creeds are almost carbon copies of the Humanist Manifesto.
4) All in some way are designed as a substitute or to solve man's problems apart from the local church, God's way of providing for man in the church age.
8. Evil functions by laying snares for man, which are designed to trap one into Satan's system, wrapped up in distractions from truth and your relationship with Christ.
Some examples: Deut 7:16, 25; Ex. 23:33; Ps
106:36; Jud 8:27;
James 4:1-4 speaks to the same issue
friendship with the kosmos.
9. Evil recognizes the existence and propensity of the Sin Nature and uses it to its own ends:
- seen in the function of false teachers; 2 Pet 2:1-3; 14
a. The sin nature came about as a result of Adam's eating from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Gen 3:6 cf Rom 5:12 failed the obedience test - judged
b. Therefore, all of us as the progeny of Adam come into the world in a state of hostility with God. Rom 5:8-10
c. Apart from salvation, man will never have a basis for relationship with God in time or eternity. [removal of the barrier]
d. Apart from Bible Doctrine, man will never have a basis or capacity for fellowship with God in time, even being saved - apart from truth there is no basis for appreciation of Christ and what He has provided you.
10. So God designed for man a means by which man who is alienated from God is able to come to God and have victory over the Kosmos System of Satan - Evil.
a. It is based on Faith. 1 Jn 5:4-5 = And who is the one who overcomes the world; but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. (produces Hope - characterized by Love)
b. Salvation
negates the effects of Evil positionally and eternally. Jn 3:16,36;
c. Bible
Doctrine believed negates its effects temporally.
1) BD is the content of the Canon of scripture, THE FAITH.
2) It is God's directive will that all believers come to a full knowledge (epignosis) of the truth. 1 Tim 2:3-4
3) BD contains no error or distortion whatsoever. Prov 8:6-9
4) BD is so important that God has magnified His Word above His name. Ps 138:2 (He is bound by it, His veracity is manifested by its coming to pass.)
d. To
ensure a clear read-out in analysis center of soul and correct application of
BD God has provided a Supernatural Circuitry.
1 Cor
e. Each UB who is saved and every application of Doctrine slaps Satan's system in the face in that it demonstrates the integrity of the One who condemned him.