MARCH 2007

The secret of the mystery, part 202. The mystery of invisible heroes, part 3.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Point 4. The Invisible Hero’s Impact on History.

LUK 24:8 And they remembered His words,

PRO 10:7 The memory of the righteous is blessed, But the name of the wicked will rot.

Appreciation is the memory of the heart.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

1. Personal impact = blessing by association with the mature believer who executes the PPOG through the function of the spiritual mechanics.

The believer is blessed by association with a supergrace leader in business, military, athletics, marriage, pastor.

Family: husband, wife, mother, father, children, relatives, and even pets.

Organizations: businesses, schools, teams, law firms, medical clinics, military organizations, law enforcement, engineering firms, banks, corporations, social life, etc.

A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A true friend will see you through when others think that you are through.

Blessing for church life, mission board, prep school, Christian service organizations.

Geographical: neighborhood, city, county, state, nation.

Historical impact = blessing by association to the Gentile client nation through the formation of the pivot of mature believers.

International impact = blessing by association to a non-client nation through missionaries who have attained spiritual maturity.

1) The mature missionary is a blessing to the client nation from which he comes.

2) The mature missionary is a blessing to the foreign country to which he goes.

When the invisible hero goes to a foreign country as a missionary, he becomes a source of blessing by association to that non-client nation, so that it prospers.

The mature missionary does not interfere with the politics, the culture, or the function of the non-client nation through Christian activism which is both evil and a part of moral degeneration.

Angelic impact = the invisible hero becoming a witness for the Prosecution in the rebuttal phase of Satan’s appeal trial during human history.

Angels are visible in every other dispensation except the Church-age.

Everything that is true to us human beings and finite creatures is opposite to the majority of how the human race thinks.

To curse grief is easier than to bless it, but to do so is to fall back into the point of view of the earthly, the carnal, the natural man.

By what has Christianity subdued the world if not by the apotheosis of grief, by its marvelous attitude of suffering into triumph, of the crown of thorns into the crown of glory.

What does the apotheosis of the Cross mean, if not the death of death, the defeat of sin, the beatification of martyrdom, the raising of voluntary sacrifice, the defiance of pain?

Suffering was a curse from which man fled; now it becomes a purification of the soul.

Suffering was a sacred trial sent by God.

A new viewpoint arises to deny the apparent and the tangible.

All of these viewpoints pierce through the mystery of things; it places an invisible Father behind visible nature; it shows us joy shining through tears, and makes of pain the beginning of joy.

In death do we grieve for the one who passes on, or is it the one left behind with self-pity?

To doubt the wisdom and justice of the passing of a loved one is to place a limitation on the term of life.

EPH 5:13 But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.

HEB 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

Faith is an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Heritage impact is blessing by association with the invisible hero after his death.

He is now "absent from the body and face to the face with the Lord" in a place of "no more sorrow, no more tears, no more pain, no more death; the old things have passed away," REV 21:4.

Heritage impact is blessing by association on an individual basis only.

PSA 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Point 5. Failure to Become an Invisible Hero.

Point 6. The Personal Sense of Destiny of the Invisible Hero.

It is that standard of thinking from doctrine that gives the invisible impact of the invisible hero, that provides the magnetism of his spiritual function, his utilization of the problem-solving devices, and his invisible impact in five categories.

If you create an act, you create a habit.
If you create a habit, you create a character.
If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Your destiny is not always the one you seek, but always the one that finds you.

ROM 9:23 In order that He might make known to you the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy which He prepared in advance for His glory.

To attain your destiny as an invisible hero, you must pass the three stages of suffering for blessing.
a. Providential preventative suffering.
b. Momentum testing.
c. Evidence testing.

Point 7. The Death of the Invisible Hero.

This is because God, in His sovereignty, decides the time, place, and manner of our dying.
Up until then, we use our volition to choose for or against the PPOG.

1) The life beyond gnosis, EPH 3:17, from salvation to spiritual maturity.

2) The life beyond dreams, EPH 3:20, from spiritual maturity to physical death or the Rapture.

1) The living stage,
PHI 1:21a, “For me living is Christ.”

2) The dying stage,
PHI 1:21b, “and dying is profit.”

The dying stage of the PPOG begins at the point when we are aware (or unaware) that we are dying, and continues until the point of physical death or the Rapture, whichever occurs first.

Dying must be distinguished from the moment of death.

During the living stage, the believer has full use of his volition to execute the PPOG under equal privilege and equal opportunity.

But from the moment we begin to die, we are in the hands of the sovereignty of God.

The dying stage of the PPOG is a matter of the sovereign decision of God, based on His omnipotence, wisdom, and integrity.

Invisible heroes die well, for their dying is profit to them.

The secret of the mystery. Part 203. The mystery of invisible heroes. Part 4.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Point 7. The Death of the Invisible Hero.
Point 1. Eight Categories of Death in the Bible.

a. Spiritual Death of the Human Race. Spiritual death was the penalty of sin, and was so given as the warning to mankind in the garden. GEN 2:17 dying you will die.

Bayowm taamuwt mowt = “in that day dying spiritually, you shall die physically”

The penalty was imposed at the fall of man and is perpetuated in the human race through the imputation of Adam’s original sin to the genetically-formed old sin nature after birth, simultaneously with the imputation of human life.

When biological life emerges from the womb, God creates soul life and imputes it to biological life.

Our sins are not imputed to us but to Jesus Christ on the cross.

Mankind is not condemned by the imputation of his personal sins, but by the imputation of Adam’s original sin to the genetically-formed old sin nature.

Personal sin is not the means of spiritual death, but the result of spiritual death - the result of having an old sin nature.

1. Real spiritual death. This was the actual spiritual death of Adam, who made the decision for the entire human race.
2. Substitutionary spiritual death. This occurred on the cross, when our Lord bore our sins in His own body and were judged.

Our personal sins were never imputed to us for condemnation, but to Jesus Christ as our substitute,
1PE 2:24; 1PE 3:18; 2CO 5:21; ISA 53:6; ROM 5:8.

MAT 8:22 “Follow Me; let the [spiritually] dead bury their own [physically] dead.”
1CO 15:22 “For as in Adam all die [spiritual death], so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”

Spiritual death = status of dichotomy.
We have a soul and no human spirit.

Spiritual death = status of total depravity.
Total depravity means we are in either moral or immoral degeneracy in the status of sin.

Faith plus anything else is salvation by works, which eliminates the work of the Holy Spirit in efficacious grace.

PHI 1:21 For me, living is Christ, likewise dying is profit.
HEB 2:15 And [He] might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.

Point 1. Eight Categories of Death in the Bible.

a. Spiritual Death of the Human Race.
Spiritual death was the penalty of sin, and was so given as the warning to mankind in the garden.
GEN 2:17 - “dying you will die.”

ROM 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord,
JOH 19:30 “It is finished [Tetelestai]!” And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit.

b. Positional Death of the Believer.

While spiritual death occurs at physical birth, positional death occurs at the second birth, the new birth, or regeneration.
Positional death occurs through the baptism of the Holy Spirit at salvation.
The believer is identified with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, ROM 6:1-14.

Positional death, also called retroactive positional truth, is the believer’s identification with Christ in His death.

Positional rejection of human good and evil as the policy of Satan is part of the believer’s residence inside the PPOG at salvation,
COL 2:11-12.

Two things happened in the spiritual death of Christ on the cross: He was judged for the sins of the world, and He rejected human good and evil.

c. Carnal Death of the Believer: Cosmic Death or Carnality.

1. Post-salvation sinning.
2. Post-salvation human good.
3. Post-salvation evil.

Dead - nekron = could mean deaths referring to the believer being carnal and out of fellowship for a period of time, or it could mean dead ones referring to the importance of separation.

a. Temporal death of the believer, which describes the believer out of fellowship with God.
b. The cosmic death of the believer.
c. The fragmented death of the believer, which is the believer involved in either moral or immoral degeneracy.

1CO 3:1 “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual persons, but as to carnal persons, even as to babies in Christ.”

Carnal, cosmic, or fragmented death refers to the function of the believer’s volition in converting temptation from the sin nature into sinfulness.

Living inside the cosmic system classifies that believer as living in temporal or cosmic death.

JAM 1:15 “When lust has become pregnant, it gives birth to sin. Furthermore, when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.”

Temptation is not a sin; the sin is the act of volition which follows.

The sin nature dwells in the cell structure of the body and the Holy Spirit indwells the body.

1TI 5:6 “But that widow who constantly indulges in wanton pleasure has died while she is living.”
REV 3:1 “I know your production, that you have a reputation that you are living, but you are dead.”

ROM 8:6 “For the mindset of the flesh [old sin nature] is death [cosmic death], but the mindset of the Spirit is life and prosperity.”
ROM 8:13 “For if you are living according to the flesh [old sin nature], you must die [cosmic death], but if you through the Holy Spirit are putting to death the production of the flesh, you live.”

The secret of the mystery. Part 204. The mystery of invisible heroes. Part 5.

Friday, March 30, 2007

Point 7. The Death of the Invisible Hero.
a. Spiritual Death of the Human Race.
Spiritual death was the penalty of sin, and was so given as the warning to mankind in the garden. GEN 2:17“dying you will die.”

b. Positional Death of the Believer.
Positional death occurs at the second birth, the new birth or regeneration.
c. The Carnal Death of the Believer: Cosmic Death or Carnality.
d. Production Mortality of the Believer known as Dead Works.

Dead works are all the function of human good apart from the filling of the Holy Spirit.

In the cosmic system, works are legalism, self-righteousness, and arrogance and parlayed into evil.

Dead works can include the function of crusader arrogance and all Christian activism.

All works, production, and Christian service of the believer in the cosmic system is dead, and will be burned at the Judgment Seat of Christ, 1CO 3:12-15. All Christian production will be evaluated at the Judgment Seat of Christ, ROM 14:10; 2CO 5:10.

e. Sexual death in the male refers to inability to copulate and procreate.

This category of death is only used in relation to Abraham and Sarah, ROM 4:17-21; HEB 11:11-12.

f. Physical Death of the Human Race.
Physical death = separation of the soul from the body so that the person no longer lives on planet earth.

After death, the soul of the believer resides in an interim body until the Rapture, at which time it leaves the third heaven, goes to the second heaven, and receives a resurrection body.

The soul of the unbeliever leaves the body and goes to Hades.
There it remains in torments until the end of time.

Physical death cannot separate the believer from God, ROM 8:38-39. Physical death is a matter of the sovereign decision of God, based on His perfect knowledge of all the facts, PSA 68:19-20.

God can and does prolong physical life, PSA 102:19-20, 23-24; 118:18; PRO 14:27.

God also delivers the believer from death, JOB 5:20; PSA 33:19; PSA 56:13; 116:8.

The believer who attains spiritual maturity departs under dying grace, PSA 23:4.
PSA 116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones.

It is victory for all believers, 1CO 15:54-57.

a. Death means no appointment with judgment, HEB 9:27.
b. Death means being face to face with the Lord, 2CO 5:8; this implies an interim body.
c. Death means the end of pain, REV 21:4.
d. Death means an eternal inheritance, 1PE 1:4-5.

e. Death means a new home, JOH 14:1-6.
f. Death means realization of eternal life, JOH 11:25; JOH 10:28; JOH 20:31; 1JO 5:11-12.
g. Death means waiting for the resurrection in an interim body, JOH 11:25; 1TH 4:13-18; JOB 19:25-26; PHI 3:21; 1CO 5:51-57.

PHI 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and dying is profit.

The believer living in the cosmic system dies under maximum discipline of the sin unto death,
1JO 5:16; REV 3:16.

The seventh category is called the Second Death, REV 2:11.

It is the final judgment of all unbelievers, HEB 9:27; REV 20:12-15.

h. The Sin unto Death.

No believer suffers after the sin unto death because he is in an interim body, REV 21:4.