JANUARY 2007

JANUARY 2007 continues with SECRET OF THE MYSTERY lessons from our Philippians series as well as other subjects in order by date, (0190) 1509 -1517 with notes and links attached below.
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THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY. PART 179. 2ND UNIQUE ROYAL COMMISSION: OUR ROYAL AMBASSADORSHIP AND DIVINE PROVISION OF LOGISTICAL GRACE SUPPORT AND BLESSING

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The secret of the mystery. Part 179. 2nd Unique Royal Commission: Our Royal Ambassadorship and Divine Provision of Logistical Grace Support and Blessing.

Wednesday, January 3, 2007


The second Unique Royal Commission for every Church-age Believer, our Royal Ambassadorship and the Divine Provision of Logistical Grace Support and Blessing.

Logistics is a military word which refers to the military science of supply, provision, and planning of troop movement.

Logistics = the military science of planning, handling, and implementation of personnel under every possible military condition.

Logistics always plays a very important and dramatic part in warfare, but logistics plays an even greater part in your life as a believer.

1) Logistes - an inspector of accounts, an auditor, a calculator.
2) Logismos - a thinker.

Logistical grace = divine planning, divine support, divine provision, and divine blessing for the execution of the PPOG by the royal family for the fulfillment of God’s will, purpose, and plan for your life.

a. Life support is provided for every Church-age believer.
PSA 31:15 My times are in Thy hand;

b. Blessing is provided for every Church-age believer, both winners and loser.

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Winners utilize logistical grace; losers coast on it, but never utilize it.

c. Under logistical grace, there is the divine provision for every Church-age believer to execute the PPOG.

1. The anthropomorphic testimony, DEU 33:27 “The eternal God is a dwelling place, And underneath are the everlasting arms;”

This sufficiency is not qualified by occurring during prosperous times. You have a sufficiency in all circumstances, including maximum historical disaster.

ROM 14:23b and whatever is not from faith is sin.

It is impossible for anyone who has imputed divine righteousness to lack anything because the justice of God sends life support and blessing to all believers, both winners and losers.

The rod was used to “spank” the sheep for discipline. The staff was used to rescue sheep from danger.

“Weakness” = grace orientation as a problem-solving device.
It refers to humility, lack of arrogance, and suffering for blessing in the three categories of providential preventative suffering, momentum testing, and evidence testing.

“That the power of Christ may reside in me” = Jesus Christ indwells His body and occupation with Christ as the ultimate problem-solving device.

What gives Jeremiah faith under pressure?
He applies logistical grace to the situation.

“Trust” in verse 25 = qal active participle - QAWAH = a rabbit finding refuge in the cleft of a rock.

Casual attitudes toward the Lord disappear when disaster comes.

For those who do seek the Lord and trust in Him through the use of the ten problem-solving devices, they will have a fantastic and magnificent life.

God sustains the life of every believer on planet earth in spite of Satanic opposition, the policy of evil, opposition from others, and our tendencies for self-destruction.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY. PART 180. THE MEANING BEHIND OUR ROYAL AMBASSADORSHIP

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The secret of the mystery Part 180. The meaning behind our Royal ambassadorship.

Thursday, January 4, 2007


The second Unique Royal Commission for every Church-age Believer, our Royal Ambassadorship and the Divine Provision of Logistical Grace Support and Blessing.

Logistics is a military word which refers to the military science of supply, provision, and planning of troop movement.

It is the provision, movement, and maintenance of all resources and services necessary to sustain military forces.

Logistics = the military science of planning, handling, and implementation of personnel under every possible military condition. Logistical grace includes six categories of support.

1. Life-sustaining support is provided by God.

2. Temporal needs such as food, shelter, clothing, transportation, environment, time, a job, etc. are also provided by God, MAT 6:33; PHI 4:19.

3. Security provision is taught in the doctrine of eternal security.

1PE 1:5 “We are kept by the power of God.”

4. Spiritual riches are provided by God, such as our portfolio of invisible assets, the ten problem-solving devices, and the unique factors of the Church-age.

Spiritual provision of an evangelist, a pastor, the privacy of your priesthood, the Canon, and a local church are all provided for you.

EPH 1:3 “Who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing."

5. Blessings are given to every believer, both winners and losers. These are not to be confused with escrow blessings which are far greater.

6. God preserves us from death.

The Logistical Grace Rationale -
MAT 6:25-34 - the “not to worry” passage.

1. We are commanded not to worry because God, in logistical grace, will provide for us, regardless of our spiritual status.
2. The principle from the first command is that there is no meter on God’s grace.

3. Are you more important than a bird? If so, then not to worry!
4. Fear, worry, anxiety, apprehension is rejection or ignorance of God’s logistical grace provision.
5. God provides logistical grace support for winners as well as losers.

The more areas in your life that you surrender to fear, the more things you fear. The more things about which you worry, the more things you worry about.

The more things that acquire the power of fear in your life, the greater your capacity for arrogance and becoming a loser.

The more you acquire the power of worry in your life, the greater your capacity for worry and becoming a loser; yet God still supports you.

The application of verse 34 is that you can so live in the past that you do not live in the present and you worry about the future.

Logistical grace is the basis for stability in time -
1PE 5:12 I have written you briefly exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.

Logistical grace is designed for momentum in the plan of God.
HEB 12:28 Therefore, because we have received to ourselves an unshakable kingdom, let us keep holding grace, through which we might render acceptable service to God with reverence toward Christ and respect toward doctrine.

Logistical grace continues even in reversionism.
2CO 6:1 “Do not receive the grace of God in vain.”
GAL 5:8 “You have drifted off course from grace.”
HEB 12:15 “See that no one falls back from the grace of God.”

1. Logistical support which is designed to sustain you.

MAT 5:45 - for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

2. Logistical blessing which is additional blessing, and more than just support.

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The righteousness of God has demanded, ever since the moment of your salvation, that the justice of God sustain your life through every stupid mistake and every dumb decision you make.

The righteousness of God demands that the justice of God keep you alive to fulfill your personal destiny and what you have been elected for.

On a daily basis, the justice of God sends to us, to the indwelling righteousness of God, everything it takes to keep you alive and to sustain you, and as well as great and fantastic blessings.

The justice of God also sends undeserved blessings to all believers, winners and losers alike.

All logistical blessing in the Christian life comes in this manner to the winner and loser alike.

God blesses you only because you have His righteousness indwelling you; hence, His integrity is not compromised.

Our blessing is a matter of grace, just as our salvation was a matter of grace.

Point 1. Definition and Description.
a. An ambassador is a high ranking minister of state or of royalty sent to another state to represent his sovereign or country.

By analogy we are spiritual aristocracy as members of the Royal Family of God, and Christ is the king who has sent us into a foreign country, the cosmic world.

Two commissions are given the believer at salvation: the royal priesthood, which is a part of the equal privilege of election; and the royal ambassadorship, which is a part of the equal privilege of predestination.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 181. THE BIBLICAL PROFILE OF THE ROYAL AMBASSADOR

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The secret of the mystery, Part 181. The biblical profile of the Royal ambassador.

Friday, January 5, 2007


Point 1. Definition and Description.
a. An ambassador is a high ranking minister of state or of royalty sent to another state to represent his sovereign or country.

By analogy we are spiritual aristocracy as members of the Royal Family of God, and Christ is the king who has sent us into a foreign country, the cosmic world, PHI 3:20-21.

Differences of function depends on differences of spiritual gifts, stages of spiritual growth, historical circumstances (prevalence of positive or negative volition), and environment at any given moment.

Common functions and services are all commanded by the scripture, so there is no confusion between what your spiritual gift demands and those functions which are common to all believers, such as witnessing, prayer, and perception of doctrine.

In addition to the mandates of scripture, there are many avenues of expressing your ambassadorship, such as utilizing the faith-rest drill and virtue-love as a problem-solving device with emphasis on spiritual self-esteem.

Point 2. The profile of the ambassador.

1. An ambassador does not appoint himself.
2. The ambassador does not support himself.

3. The ambassador’s instructions are always in written form, so he has no doubt as to what he should do.
4. The ambassador does not belong to the country to which he is sent.
5. The ambassador does not live in the foreign country for his own personal interest.

We subordinate all personal interest to the function of our ambassadorship, which includes the attainment and function of the spiritual skills, filling of the Spirit, cognition of Bible doctrine, and execution of the PPOG.

Our production skills, which include our ambassadorship, are in place as of the moment of salvation, but are not effective until we develop spiritual skills.

6. The ambassador does not treat any insult to himself as personal.
7. When an ambassador is recalled, his recall is tantamount to a declaration of war.
8. As those with communication gifts, ambassadors are authorized to communicate the great affairs of the kingdom from which they are sent.

To whom much is given much is required, LUK 12:48.

JAM 3:1 Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we shall incur a stricter judgment.

It was not because he sinned but because he misrepresented the character and nature of God.

The congregation of Israel sinned over and over again against the Lord and the Lord gave them 10 tests to respond and recover.

Moses misrepresented the character and nature of God, one time, and he was not permitted to go into the promise land.

Here is another individual who sins, and yet God is much more merciful to the one who sins, than He is to the one who is misrepresenting Him to others.

a. He will be under a greater judgment, JAM 3:1; LUK 12:48.
b. Those who listen to him will be totally affected by his false views, even though they think that they are strong enough not to, LUK 6:40.

LUK 6:40 A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

1. They are the enemies of the cross of Christ.
2. Their destiny is destruction.
3. Whose God is their lust or emotion.
4. Whose glory is their shame.
5. Who concentrate on earthly things.

1. That he has the gift of pastor-teacher.
2. That he has prepared himself properly for the ministry.
3. That he communicates doctrine accurately and precisely.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY. PART 182. HOW AMBASSADORS COMMUNICATE THE GREAT AFFAIRS OF THE KINGDOM FROM WHICH THEY ARE SENT

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The secret of the mystery. Part 182. How ambassadors communicate the great affairs of the kingdom from which they are sent.

Sunday, January 7, 2007


Two Unique Royal Commissions for every Church-age Believer - the royal priesthood and the royal ambassadorship.

As royal priests, we represent ourselves before God.
The universal priesthood of the believer is found in 1PE 2:5,9; REV 1:6; 5:10.

The second Unique Royal Commission for every Church-age Believer is our Royal Ambassadorship and the Divine Provision of Logistical Grace Support and Blessing.

The Doctrine of Ambassadorship.
Point 1. Definition and Description.

a. An ambassador is a high ranking minister of state or of royalty sent to another state to represent his sovereign or his country.

By analogy we are spiritual aristocracy as members of the Royal Family of God, and Christ is the king who has sent us into a foreign country, the cosmic world.

Ambassadorship stems from being in union with Christ, caused by the baptism of the Spirit.
Each Church-age believer is Royal Family of God representing the King of kings and Lord of lords during his time on this earth.

Two commissions are given to the believer at salvation: the royal priesthood, which is a part of the equal privilege of election; and the royal ambassadorship, which is a part of the equal privilege of predestination.

Point 2. The profile of the ambassador.
a. An ambassador does not appoint himself.
b. The ambassador does not support himself.
c. The ambassador’s instructions are always in written form, so he has no doubt as to what he should do.

d. The ambassador does not belong to the country to which he is sent.
e. The ambassador does not live in the foreign country for his own personal interest.
f. The ambassador does not treat any insult to himself as personal.
g. When an ambassador is recalled, his recall is tantamount to a declaration of war.
h. As those with communication gifts, ambassadors are authorized to communicate the great affairs of the kingdom from which they are sent.

“To whom much is given much is required,” LUK 12:48.

You will discover that the measure of discipline and punishment on a believer who has heard the truth of Bible Doctrine and then has rejected it, is much worse than the believer who has never heard it.

JAM 3:1 Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we shall incur a stricter judgment.

It was not because he sinned, but because he misrepresented the character and nature of God.

The congregation of Israel sinned over and over again against the Lord and the Lord gave them 10 tests to respond and recover.

Moses misrepresented the character and nature of God one time, and he was not permitted to go into the promise land. To whom much is given much is required, LUK 12:48.

1CO 10:4 And they all drank the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

HEB 10:10 We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ ONCE for all.

HEB 10:14 For by ONE offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

God said speak to the rock; instead Moses struck the rock twice and spoke to the people in a derogatory way, rather than speaking to the rock.

HEB 6:6b they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame.

JOH 19:30 Tetelestai - tetevlestai - It [the payment for salvation] has been finished in the past with the result that it goes on being finished forever.

He was told that because he had struck the rock when he had been told simply to speak to the rock, he would not be permitted to bring the people into the land which the Lord would give them.

He did not follow the Lord’s directions, and he misrepresented the holiness or the character and nature of God to the congregation.

The Lord still honored His man in authority even though His man failed.

He did not follow the Lord’s directions and misrepresented the character and nature of God to the congregation.

Why was Moses’ punishment so severe for striking the rock in an angry fashion, when he was told simply to speak to the rock, with the promise that the water would be given?

It has to with the efficacy of the work of Christ on the cross. Moses had done a terrible thing in giving an erroneous view of the cross with its once and for all consummation of the infinitely glorious work of redemption.

ROM 6:10 For the death that He died, He died to sin, once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
HEB 10:10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

h. As those with communicational gifts, ambassadors are authorized to communicate the great affairs of the kingdom from which they are sent.

i. Ambassadors usually are individuals of great distinction and superiority.

1PE 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

“The husband of one wife” = a mia'" - mias [one] gunaikoV" - gunaikos [woman] a!ndra - andra [man]

j. The dignity of the ambassador appears in the greatness of their king who sent them.

Sometimes as an ambassador for Christ you may not be accepted by your family members, your loved ones, your friends, and the world.

GAL 6:9-10 And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary. So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

Why does life get so relatively difficult?

“They planned to throw him over the cliff, but Jesus’ brothers came and stood up for Him.”

When Jesus was in trouble, His brothers were invisible.

MAR 3:21 And when His own people heard {of this,} they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses, He is out of His mind.”

He did not try to control his family’s behavior, nor did He let their behavior control His.

JOH 2:24 But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men,
MAR 3:35 “For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother.”


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 183. THE INDWELLING OF EACH PERSON OF THE TRINITY

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The secret of the mystery. Part 183. The indwelling of each Person of the Trinity.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007


1. The baptism of the Spirit.
2. The indwelling of Christ as the Shekinah glory.
3. The Angelic Conflict.
4. The mystery of adoption.
5. The sealing ministry of the Holy Spirit.
6. The pre-designed plan of God.

7. Predestination.
8. The unique equality factor of the Church-age.
9. The Portfolio of Invisible Assets.
10. The Two Unique Royal Commissions for every Church-age Believer - the royal priesthood and the royal ambassadorship.

The indwelling of the Father, JOH 14:23; EPH 4:6; 2Jo 9.

The indwelling of the Son, JOH 14:20; JOH 17:22-23; ROM 8:10; 2CO 13:5; GAL 2:20; COL 1:27; 1JO 3:24.

The indwelling of the Holy Spirit, ROM 8:11; 1CO 3:16; 1CO 6:19-20; 2CO 6:16.

EPH 4:6 One God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.
EPH 2:22 In Whom [TLJC] you also are being built together to become in which God lives by His Spirit.

1) As the Author of our portfolio of invisible assets.
2) As the Grantor of our escrow blessings.
3) As the Mastermind of the PPOG for the Church-age.
4) As the Designer of our very own unique and individual plan.

Jesus Christ also indwells your body.
This is also unique to the Church-age believer.

GAL 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me;”

2CO 13:5 Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you - unless indeed you fail the test?

The indwelling of TLJC serves as both a sign and a badge of the Royal Family of God.

The indwelling of Jesus Christ is a guarantee of our escrow blessings, for Jesus Christ is both the depositary and the escrow officer.

As the indwelling Shekinah glory, Jesus Christ is a guarantee of the irrevocability of the escrow blessings and the certainty of their distribution to winners.

The indwelling of Jesus Christ motivates momentum in the PPOG, “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” COL 1:27.

The indwelling of Christ is related to the experience of occupation with Christ, the basis for focus and motivation in the PPOG.

The indwelling of Jesus Christ is the basis for assigning #1 priority to relationship with God before relationship with people.

The indwelling of Jesus Christ is the basis for assigning #1 priority to P.M.A. of B.D. so that the experience of occupation with Christ becomes the priority problem-solving device in the PPOG.

The indwelling of Jesus Christ is the basis for the utilization of divine power, 100% of which is as available to us as it was to our Lord in the great power demonstration of the Hypostatic union.

The indwelling of Jesus Christ is a guarantee that we have eternal life after death.

We indwell Christ (Baptism of the Spirit) and so share His eternal life.

Death has lost its sting; the grave has lost its power.
“Thanks be unto God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

The indwelling of the Holy Spirit, ROM 8:11; JOH 14:17, 1CO 3:16; 1CO 6:19; 2CO 3:6; 2CO 6:16.

ROM 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you [and He does], He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.

JOH 14:17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you.

2TI 1:14 Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.

The Holy Spirit primarily indwells every believer to provide a temple for the indwelling of Jesus Christ as the Shekinah glory.

The indwelling of the Holy Spirit provides a base of operations for the use of His omnipotence as the means of executing the PPOG.

1) The filling of the Spirit, which is residence, function, and momentum inside the PPOG.
2) Through the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit inside the PPOG.

The teaching ministry of the Spirit is documented in JOH 14:26; JOH 16:12-14; 1CO 2:9-16, and 1JO 2:27.

1JO 2:27 And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.

1) The filling of the Spirit, EPH 6:18, is tantamount to the Holy Spirit controlling your soul when you are in the PPOG, as a result making possible P.M.A. of B.D.
2) Walking by means of the Spirit, GAL 5:16, is tantamount to the Church-age believer living inside the PPOG.

a. The difference between the indwelling of Jesus Christ in our bodies and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our bodies.
b. The distinction between the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our bodies and the filling of the Holy Spirit in our souls, which is tantamount to residence, function, and momentum inside the PPOG.

The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is status quo from salvation.
Therefore, it is not an experience.

The filling of the Holy Spirit is the experience we call spirituality, the result of living inside the PPOG.

The indwelling of the Holy Spirit occurs in the body of every believer.
The filling of the Holy Spirit occurs in the believer’s soul only inside the PPOG.

c. There is the distinction between the indwelling of Jesus Christ in our bodies and the glorification of Christ in our bodies.

1) The experience of spiritual self-esteem -
GAL 4:19 “My little children, I am sweating you out until Christ is formed in your bodies.”
2) The experience of spiritual independence -
EPH 3:17 “Christ being at home in our bodies.”

3) The experience of spiritual maturity -
PHI 1:20 “Christ being glorified in our bodies.”

The significance of the indwelling of God the Father is related to the glorification of His predesigned plan for the Church-age, Eph 1.
The significance of the indwelling of God the Father is also related to the guarantee of His ministry to every Church-age believer.

A. The Author of our invisible assets.
B. The Author of our escrow blessings.
C. The Mastermind of the PPOG.
D. The Designer of the PPOG.

1) The significance of the indwelling of Jesus Christ is a badge or sign of the Royal Family.
2) It is also a guarantee of the availability and potential utilization of divine power by every Church-age believer who resides inside the PPOG.
3) The significance of the indwelling of Jesus Christ is a guarantee of life after death in the presence of God forever.

He is the head; we are His body.
He is the last Adam; we are the new creation.
He is the Great Shepherd; we are His sheep
He is the Vine; we are the branches.

He is the chief cornerstone, we are the stones of the building.
He is the High Priest, we are the Royal priesthood.
He is the Groom; we are the bride.
He is the King; we are His Royal Family.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 184. THE AVAILABILITY OF DIVINE POWER TO EXECUTE THE PLAN OF GOD

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The secret of the mystery. Part 184. The availability of divine power to execute the plan of God.

Thursday, January 18, 2007


12. The availability of divine power to execute the PPOG.

The same power that raised Christ from the dead is available to every Church-age believer for the execution of God’s will, plan, and purpose for the Church-age.

a. The filling of the Holy Spirit and the use of divine power.
b. Cognition of Bible doctrine and the use of divine power.
c. Execution of the PPOG and the use of divine power.

We need divine power because Satan, as the ruler of this world, has maximum power which is utilized for his evil policy of both moral and immoral degeneracy.

Satan’s power is revealed by the fact that he is the highest of all angels, and ruler of all fallen angels MAT 9:34;MAT 12:26;
LUK 11:18-19.

MAT 9:34 - “the ruler of demons”
MAT 12:26 - he has a kingdom.

He is a prehistoric super-creature, ISA 14:12-17; EZE 28:11-19.

Satan’s power is revealed by the fact that he is an organizational genius with a great organization of demons,EPH 6:10-12.

Satan is also the origin of murder and violence in the human race, GEN 6:4-11; JOH 8:44.

Since the fall of Adam, Satan has been the ruler of this world, LUK 4:5-7; JOH 12:31; 14:30; 16:11; 2CO 4:4;EPH 2:2.

Because of our Lord’s victory on the cross which overflows into the Church-age, the body of Christ ruled by the head, our Lord Jesus Christ, has received the delegated divine power to resist the devil, 1JO 4:4.

This reminds us of God’s grace; He has made available to us His power.

Satan is the archon (ruler) of all angels, so his power is far greater than ours.

a. The omnipotence of the Father providing our invisible assets and escrow blessings.
b. The omnipotence of God the Son who preserves the universe and controls history daily.
c. The omnipotence of God the Holy Spirit who provides the power to execute the PPOG.

Even for the unbeliever, God in His grace has provided a power to resist the power of Satan under the laws of divine establishment.

Religion is man seeking to use his own merits, his own works to gain the approbation of God.

1. Gospel, 2CO 4:3-4.
2. Ministers, 2CO 11:13-15.
3. Doctrine, 2TI 4:1.
4. Communion table,
1CO 10:19-21.
5. Spirituality, GAL 3:2-3.

6. Righteousness, MAT 19:16-28.
7. Self-righteousness,
MAT 23:13-36.
8. Power and dynamics (miracles, healing, tongues)
2TH 2:8-10.
9. System of Gods, 2TH 2:3-4.

False teachers are also a part of his strategy,
1JO 4:1-3.

They are usually bleeding heart do-gooders, who “love” everyone, being all things to all men apart from any standards based on Bible doctrine, MAT 7:15.

ROM 16:18 For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the stupid.

They use human public relations systems and legalistic flirtation to court believers, GAL 4:17; 2TI 3:5-7.

GAL 4:17 They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out, in order that you may seek them.

They appeal to human ego and arrogance and pride to distract believers from grace, 2CO 10:12.

They promote idolatry as a part of Satan’s communion table,
HAB 2:18-19.

They promote legalism as a system of spirituality which we call pseudo-spirituality,
1TI 1:7-8.

They possess a false spirit, 1JO 4:1-3.

2TI 3:13 - all apostates have been deceived by Satan to the extent they are influenced by good and evil.

2TI 2:25-26 - the pastor is told to take disciplinary action toward those opposed to doctrinal teaching, so that they will recover from apostasy and be delivered from the devil’s trap.

One thing about being deceived by the power of Satan is that you start to lose your spiritual senses and then your common sense.

The devil holds believers captive by legalism, self-righteousness, arrogance, emotionalism, guilt, fear, condemnation, manipulation.

The Church-age is the most intensive time of the angelic conflict; therefore, the greatest delegation of divine power in human history occurs between the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of the Church.

Divine omnipotence is related to both God’s promises and God’s actions on our behalf; both are a manifestation of His grace.

God the H.S. making light shine in our hearts = divine power in action.

Divine power is at work when we are learning Bible doctrine and metabolizing it in our hearts.

By the omnipotence of God the Holy Spirit, the delegated power of God for our perception, metabolization, and utilization of Bible doctrine inside the PPOG.

Treasure - thesauros - a place in which good and precious things are collected and stored up, a place filled with valuables.

The delegation of the omnipotence of God to the Church-age began with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This divine power was not made available until He raised TLJC from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in heavenly places.

Having your priorities straight and being accurate and precise with doctrine is how you put into action the procedures and the mechanics.

One of the terms used to describe God’s plan for you is procedure, which emphasizes the utilization of divine power inside the PPOG.

In the PPOG, procedure means that there is only one way of doing a thing: the right way.

God’s policy of grace is divine power or omnipotence delegated to Church-age believers so that each believer has the power and ability to fulfill God’s game plan for the Church-age.

EPH 1:19-20 relates the divine power or omnipotence of God used in resurrection of Christ to the divine power or omnipotence delegated to the Church-age believer.

Before the dispensation of the hypostatic union and the resurrection of the humanity of Christ, divine power was delegated to very few Old Testament believers on a limited basis and on a contingency plan.

Between the resurrection of Christ and the Rapture of the Church is the greatest power experiment in all of human history.

a. The incarnation and hypostatic union, a period of 33 years, terminating with the resurrection of Christ.

b. The Church-age, an indefinite period of time, terminating with the resurrection of the Church.

The Church-age is the most intensive time of the angelic conflict and consequently the time of the greatest delegation of divine power in human history.

Between the resurrection of Christ and the rapture of the Church is the greatest demonstration of power in all of human history.

God’s power brings glory to God, which is creator-credit.
Man’s power brings glory to man, which is creature credit.

Between the two resurrections is the dispensation of the Royal Family of God, the Church-age.

The resurrection of Christ is a dividing line between limited power to a few believers before the resurrection, and maximum power to all believers after the resurrection.

Availability of divine power does not mean utilization of divine power.

PRO 24:5 A wise man is strong, And a man of knowledge increases power.

Between availability and utilization is perception, metabolization, and application of the mystery doctrine of the Church-age.

The utilization of this divine power then depends upon your P.M.A. of B.D. plus the utilization of the problem-solving devices resulting in advance to spiritual maturity and the manufacture of invisible heroes.

The invisible hero of the Church-age is manufactured out of divine power.

The invisible hero also has maximum use of divine power during any given generation of the Church-age.

The invisible hero has maximum use of the ten problem-solving devices of the PPOG.

The invisible hero has the life beyond his fondest dreams.

1. The omnipotence of the Father in eternity past created invisible assets for every Church-age believer.

2. The omnipotence of the Holy Spirit has provided an unprecedented delegation and distribution of divine power inside God’s plan for your life.

The omnipotence of the Holy Spirit is described in -
ZEC 4:6 “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says the Lord.

HEB 4:12 The word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, and of joints and the marrow, and is a critic of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

1. The omnipotence of God the Father related to our invisible assets.

2. The omnipotence of God the Son holding the universe together.

3. The omnipotence of God the Holy Spirit providing the necessary power for the execution of the procedure plan of God.

“To become strong” = tantamount to the filling of the Holy Spirit, which is the status of being controlled by the Holy Spirit inside the PPOG.

God is perfect; therefore, His plan is perfect.
It is impossible for perfect God to design for us an imperfect plan.

The execution of the PPOG demands the understanding and utilization of the power of God the Holy Spirit, available only inside the PPOG.

After the Rapture of the Church, the Tribulation and the Millennium, there will not be a PPOG, as we know it.

The Christological dispensations are the dispensations when Christ or the Messiah lives inside of humans - the dispensation of the hypostatic union and the dispensation of the Church.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 185. THE EXPERIENCE OF DIVINE POWER OR THE APPLICATION OF THE OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD IN OUR LIFE

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The secret of the mystery, part 185. The experience of divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life.

Friday, January 19, 2007


The delegation of the omnipotence of God to the Church-age began with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This divine power was not made available until He raised TLJC from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in heavenly places.

Having your priorities straight and being accurate and precise with doctrine is how you put into action the procedures and the mechanics.

One of the terms used to describe God’s plan for you is procedure, which emphasizes the utilization of divine power inside the PPOG.

As a member of any Royal Family, it is not your personality or appearance or any human genetic or acquired factor that is the issue, it is a “system of procedure” that is the issue.

In the PPOG, procedure means that there is only one way of doing a thing: the right way.

God’s policy of grace is divine power or omnipotence delegated to Church-age believers so that each believer has the power and ability to fulfill God’s game plan for the Church-age.

EPH 1:19-20 relates the divine power or omnipotence of God used in the resurrection of Jesus Christ to the divine power or omnipotence delegated to the Church-age believer.

Before the dispensation of the hypostatic union and the resurrection of the humanity of Christ, divine power was delegated to very few Old Testament believers on a limited basis and on a contingency plan.

PSA 51:11 Do not cast me away from Thy presence, And do not take Thy Holy Spirit from me.

The divine power used to raise Jesus Christ from the dead is the same divine power which is available to every believer today.

JOH 18:11 “the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?”

The cup has to do with that which we are willing to receive as a part of the Father’s plan for our life and as a part of picking up our cross and participating in our Lord’s sufferings.

The adversities and the afflictions we go through are what make our life and the service we have the privilege of experiencing the divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life.

We will experience the tranquility and dignity that the consciousness of His presence imparts.

It will be the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, and shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus, PHI 4:6.

Between the resurrection of Christ and the Rapture of the Church is the greatest power experiment in all of human history.

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a. The incarnation and hypostatic union, a period of 33 years, terminating with the resurrection of Christ.
b. The Church-age, an indefinite period of time, terminating with the resurrection of the Church.

The Church-age is the most intensive stage of the angelic conflict and consequently the time of the greatest delegation of divine power in human history.


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The secret of the mystery. Part 186. The tranquility and dignity that the experience of divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life imparts.

Sunday, January 21, 2007


1. The baptism of the Spirit.
2. The indwelling of Christ as the Shekinah glory.
3. The Angelic Conflict.
4. The mystery of adoption.
5. The sealing ministry of the Holy Spirit.

6. The pre-designed plan of God.
7. The mystery of predestination.
8. The unique equality factor of the Church-age.
9. The Portfolio of Invisible Assets.
10. The Two Unique Royal Commissions for every Church-age Believer - the royal priesthood and the royal ambassadorship.

11. The mystery behind the indwelling of each person of the Trinity in our body.

12. The availability of omnipotence or the divine power to execute the PPOG.
The same power that raised Christ from the dead is available to every Church-age believer for the execution of God’s will, plan, and purpose for the Church-age.

a. The filling of the Holy Spirit and therefore the use of divine power.
b. Cognition of Bible doctrine and therefore the use of divine power.
c. Execution of the PPOG and therefore the use of divine power.

We need divine power because of the fact that Satan, as the ruler of this world, has maximum power which is utilized for his evil policy of both moral and immoral degeneracy.

The distribution of the omnipotence of God to the Church-age believer began with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This divine power was not made available until He raised TLJC from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in heavenly places.

There is a very definite structural relationship between the power used in the resurrection of Christ and the power available to the Church-age believer today.

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The adversities and the afflictions we go through are what make our life and the service we have the privilege of experiencing the divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life.

There are times when we will experience the ultimate blessing of being able to go through certain situations alone with the Lord Jesus Christ, apart from our family and friends - and we will experience the tranquility and dignity that the experience of divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life imparts.

It will be the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, and shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus, PHI 4:6.

Between the resurrection of Christ and the Rapture of the Church is the greatest power experiment in all of human history.

The Church-age is the most intensive stage of the angelic conflict and consequently the time of the greatest delegation of divine power in human history.

God's power brings glory to God, which is creator-credit.
Man's power brings glory to man, which is creature credit.

There will be times that we will go through trials and difficulties which others can see and can sympathize with us.

There will also be times when we go through situations that no one can perceive, and consequently cannot sympathize with us.

GAL 6:5 For each one shall bear his own load.

We experience the divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life.

Adversity is the state in which we become truly acquainted with ourselves because usually we are free of admirers then.

When some affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it; and you defeat it through the experience of divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in your life.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity is the test of individuals with character and integrity. These are times when the life of Christ is being cultivated within us as we are experiencing this divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life.

Many times what was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday; you develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

In this dispensation, it is not deliverance from trial that is the issue, but superiority to it that God gives to us.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
EST 4:16c “and if I perish, I perish.”

PRO 14:29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.
PRO 15:18 A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, But the slow to anger pacifies contention.
PRO 16:32 He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city.
PRO 19:11 A man's discretion makes him slow to anger, And it is his glory to overlook a transgression.

In the Old Testament, the old way was to put people in the furnace and they were not burnt; they were put into the lion’s den and they were never touched.

But now they go into the furnace and they do get burnt, sometimes to a cinder; the lions may devour them, but they do not give in; for it is not the power for them now that counts, but it is the power in them.

PHI 4:13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

You will never know your own strength until you are faced with adversity and experience divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in your life.

Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

1TH 5:18 in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

When trials, difficulties, sorrows, or weaknesses come our way, the thing to consider is the grace and the power to be above it all.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Availability of divine power does not mean utilization of divine power.

Utilization depends upon the believer’s self-determination and his perception, metabolization, and application of Bible doctrine.

Every believer has the availability of this power, but it remains potential until you fulfill the principle of perception, metabolization, and application of Bible doctrine.

Between availability and utilization is perception, metabolization, and application of the mystery doctrine of the Church-age.

The utilization of this divine power then depends upon your P.M.A. of Bible doctrine plus the utilization of the problem-solving devices resulting in advance to spiritual maturity and the manufacture of invisible heroes.

The invisible hero of the Church-age is manufactured out of divine power.

The invisible hero also has maximum use of divine power during any given generation of the Church-age.

The invisible hero has maximum use of the ten problem-solving devices of the PPOG.

The invisible hero has the life beyond His fondest dreams.

1. The omnipotence of the Father in eternity past created invisible assets for every Church-age believer.

2. The omnipotence of the Holy Spirit who has provided an unprecedented delegation and distribution of divine power inside God’s plan for your life.

ZEC 4:6 “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says the Lord.

HEB 4:12 “The word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, and of joints and the marrow, and is a critic of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

1. The omnipotence of God the Father related to our invisible assets.

2. The omnipotence of God the Son holding the universe together.

3. The omnipotence of God the Holy Spirit providing the necessary power for the execution of the procedure plan of God.

“To become strong” = tantamount to the filling of the Holy Spirit, which is the status of being controlled by the Holy Spirit inside the PPOG.

COL 3:3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

We shall never be victorious in this life as believers if we think that life with God and being hidden with Christ in God, means freedom from suffering, sorrow, and trial.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are really made of.

We must face up to the fact that the cross has only suffering and death as its ministry, but we have divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life to meet the cross head-on.

2CO 4:11 For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

When we realize that “always being delivered unto death,” means the daily crucifixion of self, then we will begin to glory in the resultant freedom.

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

ROM 6:7 for he who has died [has experienced crucifixion] is freed from the sin nature.

ROM 6:18 and having been freed from the sin nature, you became slaves of righteousness [the new nature].

There are times when we are even chastened by God, not because of divine discipline, but as a part of learning how to experience divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life.

Paideia = tutelage, education or training; instruction, nurture, cultivation of mind and morals, instruction which aims at increasing virtue, chastisement.

Mastigoo= severe bodily punishment, used for investigating and examining a person.

Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals.

Gumnazo = trained and exercised naked before God.

If we are going to receive the benefit of the cross, we must go through the suffering of the cross, and we can do so with the experience of divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in our life.


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The secret of the mystery, part 187. Divine omnipotence: the grace and the power to be above it all.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007


In the Old Testament, the old way was to put people in the furnace and they were not burnt; they were put into the lion’s den and they were never touched.

But now they go into the furnace and they do get burnt, sometimes to a cinder; the lions may devour them, but they don’t give in; for it is not the power for them now that counts, but it is the power in them.

PHI 4:13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

You will never know your own strength until you are faced with adversity and experience divine power or the application of the omnipotence of God in your life.

Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

1TH 5:18 in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

When trials, difficulties, sorrows, or weaknesses come our way, the thing to consider is the grace and the power to be above it all.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
Calamity is the test of integrity.

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Availability of divine power does not mean utilization of divine power.

Utilization depends upon the believer’s self-determination and his perception, metabolization, and application of Bible doctrine.

Every believer has the availability of this power, but it remains potential until you fulfill the principle of perception, metabolization, and application of Bible doctrine.

Between availability and utilization is perception, metabolization, and application of the mystery doctrine of the Church-age.

The utilization of this divine power then depends upon your perception, metabolization, and application of Bible doctrine plus the utilization of the problem-solving devices resulting in advance to spiritual maturity and the manufacture of invisible heroes.

The invisible hero of the Church-age is manufactured out of divine power.
The invisible hero also has maximum use of divine power during any given generation of the Church-age.
The invisible hero has maximum use of the ten problem-solving devices of the PPOG.
The invisible hero has the life beyond His fondest dreams.

1. The omnipotence of the Father in eternity past created invisible assets for every Church-age believer.
2. The omnipotence of the Holy Spirit who has provided an unprecedented delegation and distribution of divine power inside God’s plan for your life.

ZEC 4:6 “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says the Lord.

HEB 4:12 “The word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, and of joints and the marrow, and is a critic of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”


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