Lesson 19 - June 30
Review:
6.
James lays the responsibility for any and all attitudes / actions contrary to the expressed +R std squarely on our shoulders.
7.
Only BDRS will desensitize you to the drawing and enticement of your
particular problem lust pattern.
8.
The SIN NATURE has a natural trend toward the acceptance and application
of human good (human righteousness) as well as sin and evil.
a. Everything from the SIN NATURE
God rejects. [sin - human good]
b. As the individual grows up he
manifests his trends and begins to make decisions that are compatible with
his/her SIN NATURE (liberalism, legalism, religion, etc.)
c. The only solution to the
manifestation of the SIN NATURE is the continual building up of the wisdom and
understanding of the Word (inculcation) and the resulting application of that
wisdom/truth which dismantles the deceitful appeal of the SIN NATURE.
Ø Prin: Part of the deceit of the sin
nature is that it promises much and delivers nothing worthwhile.
9. Characteristics of the SIN NATURE - its lust patterns:
a. Pride/arrogance - excessive desire to gratify self
b. Approbation - doing things to gain personal
praise/flattery.
c. Power lust - desire to always
be the top dog - the one running the show.
(Distortion of true authority)
d. Materialism - desire for things
/ money (symbols
of status).
e. Sexual lust - seeking to
satisfy yourself sexually outside of the boundaries of divine design -
marriage.
f. Pleasure lust - the
inextinguishable desire for pleasure by whatever means; frantic search for
happiness
10. The combination of these
characteristics in a particular person's sin nature will also manifest itself
through various trends:
a. Asceticism - extreme denial -
usually oblivious to reality - Mahatma Ghandi type
b. Lasciviousness - overt sinning;
if it feels good do it; totally hedonistic trend.
11. Effects of the sin nature:
a. Entices man to personal sins by
feeding false, twisted and distorted info into analysis center of the soul.
(deceit aspect)
b. tends to program our norms and
standards with human viewpoint and evil as a system of thought - reflects your
volitional decisions.
c. It seeks to dominate the
volition - the influence is there but can't without you - because you still
control the Volition.
d. When the sin nature is in
control of the thought process of the soul it is analogous to impact of
drunkenness Eph 5:18.
1. under
drunkenness - alcohol takes over the function of cells to the point that normal
body functions are distorted, thinking is unclear, coordination and stability
are impacted.
2. It illustrates how the
saturation of the thought process with evil and human vpt distorts all
input/output of the soul.
3. To those that are spiritually
drunk - in state of carnality, under the sin nature's rule; the Holy Spirit
quenched or grieved;
cleansing of applying 1 John 1:9 and the resultant fellowship
sobers them up instantly.
e. being spiritually drunk
manifests itself in human good and evil which begins with the thought process,
thinking evil - and results then in personal sin.
12. The production of the sin
nature, personal sins, were judged at the cross when
Christ was made judicially guilty for those sins and paid the penalty required
by the perfect righteousness of God/F.
Col. 2:14; 1 Pet
13. The Sin nature is neutralized in the believer in a
two-fold fashion:
a. Positional victory - (RAPT) Positional Truth
This is implemented by the ministry of God/H-S at the
point of salvation; being identified with Christ, entered into union with
Christ, by the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
- the penalty for sin is dealt with; we stand justified before
God
-
we're transferred from being in Adam, to being in Christ, we're now new
creations in Christ and this change of position provides the foundation, the
basis for all changes in life.
- we're dead to the sin nature and we are freed from it's
power Rom. 6:2, 7
b. Experiential victory f2- daily living out our new identity in Christ. It
is here that the power over sin is realized.
-
this flows from our positional state; or what
accrues to us because of identification with Christ.
- abiding in
Christ, walking worthy of the Lord/our calling
-
this is daily counting as true and presenting
the members of your body as instruments of righteousness not unrighteousness.
-
facing the issues of life with the wisdom and understanding developed from the truth of the Word
illumined by the Holy Spirit
-
It is the Holy Spirit + BD which gives us the
spiritual moxy, discernment to correctly evaluate and deal with any situation
we might face.
14. The carnal believer chooses
the sin nature to be the ruler of life responding to its enticement and
influence on the thinking and the choices made, Rom 6:15-19.
15. The Grace resources available
to us are sufficient to ensure we have the DVPT necessary to stop the
distorting tendency of the sin nature.
16. Doctrine enables us to become
smart to its deception and tactically defeats it on the battlefield of the soul
through application of DVPT.