Life In Gear

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Life In Gear

• Studies On the Christ-In-You Life
• By
• Dr. Ray Henry
• Dr. John Hilbun
• Rev. Charles Culpepper

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Introduction-Life In Gear

• Victorious Christian Life has been called by
  various names
• The Deeper Life
• The Abundant Life
• The Higher Life
• The Exchanged Life
• The Abiding Life
• The Triumphant Life
• The Liberating Life
• The Flowing Life-Rivers of Living Water
• The Victorious Life
• The Life that Wins
• The Normal Christian Life
• Life In Gear
• See List of Books on the Victorious Christian
  Life

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This Life In Gear Is For All Christians

• See Quote Ron Dunn
• The victorious life is not a superior brand of
  Christianity reserved for the elite of the elect.
  It is the normal for every ChristianToo many
  Christians are struggling for victory has
  already been won. It was won 2000 years age.

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Outline- Life In Gear

• Introduction to Life In Gear
• Misconceptions- What Is Christianity?
• Purpose of Existence-Glory of God
• Failure to Achieve Our Purpose
• Turning Failures into Victory
• Dead End Roads to Christian Living
• Substitutes for Christian Fruit
• Brokenness and Failure-Preparation for Victory
• Pathways to Victory
• The Way Of Death-Reckoning
• The Way Of Life
• The Way Of Appropriation
• The Way Faith
• The Way of Recognition-Who Am I?

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Introduction- Life In Gear

• I have used the example of a car in gear to
  describe the Christian life.
• It is a life that runs smoothly and gets to our
  destination without the grinding of the impotence
  of the old man in trying to live the Christian
  life.
• It is a life that operates in sync with God.
• It is a life that flows from God as its source
  of total adequacy and strength.

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Introduction- Life In GearPart 2

• It is a life that knows how to let God work
  through us as His containers and vessels.
• It is a spontaneous life of Christ in you that is
  full of joy and peace and excitement in routine
  living.
• It is a life that sees lasting fruit in its final
  operation.
• It is a life that releases people to reach their
  God given purpose in this life-His Glory.
• It is a life that recognizes our unity with
  Christ and
• who we really are in Him in this world.

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OUR PURPOSE THE GLORY OF GOD-Part 1

• The Glory of God is seen in Nature
• His excellence is seen in the detailed
  workmanship and operation of nature.

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OUR PURPOSE THE GLORY OF GOD-Part 2

• The Glory of God is seen perfectly in the life of
  Jesus. Gods character was fully, completely
  revealed to us in the person of Jesus Christ.
  Read Hebrews13

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OUR PURPOSE THE GLORY OF GOD-Part 3

• Mankind has substituted many things to worship
  rather than to give glory to God. Rom.120-23

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OUR PURPOSE THE GLORY OF GOD-Part 4

• God is a person and can only adequately express
  Himself through persons.
• Man exists for the sole purpose of allowing God
  to express Himself -His Glory through him.

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A MYSTERY

• Man within himself has absolutely no power or
  ability to express Gods nature.
• We all sinned and fallen short of the glory of
  God. See Romans 323
• The flesh in all of its futile attempts does not
  display the glory of God.
• Example Church History- The Crusades and
  corruption in monasteries, etc.
• The good flesh is just as corrupt as the bad
  flesh. Two parts of the old nature that must die
  so Christ can live through us.

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The Big Question?

• HOW?

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Lesson 2- Life In Gear

• Studies On the Christ-In-You Life
• By
• Dr. Ray Henry
• Dr. John Hilbun
• Rev. Charles Culpepper

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MISCONCEPTIONSWHAT IS CHRITIANITY?

• Some see as it as just ANOTHER RELIGION among the
  many in world. Never seeing the uniqueness of the
  Living Christ.
• They throw Christianity into the religious arena
  and say it is on the same level.

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MISCONCEPTIONSWHAT IS CHRITIANITY?

• 2. Some see it as merely a FIRE ESCAPE.
• Just an Eternal Insurance Policy.
• A License for loose living.
• A Place in Heaven pie in the sky by and by.
• Christianity is more than just a way to die.
• It is THE WAY to live. It is Life in Gear
  with God and yourself and others.

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MISCONCEPTIONSWHAT IS CHRISTIANITY?

• 3. Many see Christianity as LAWS AND RULES.
• They have their lists of DOs and DONTS.
• Their denomination has its own Pharisaical
  interpretations of what is right and wrong.
• The truth is we are to be different than the
  world in attitudes and conduct. But how? (See I
  Pet.115-16 Rom.121-2Gal.51-25I John
  29-1115-17)

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THE TRUTH DISTORTED

• Christianity is not Christian Legalism
• Attempting to live up to Gods standard by ones
  own efforts or lists of duties in themselves.
• 2. Christianity is not Christian Humanism It is
  not mere morality it means more- godliness.
• We have a lot of Dedicated Failure in our
  churches. We obey certain religious lists but
  are not holy or godly or living for His Glory.
• The letter of the law killsII Cor.36
• Christianity is not a list of oughts Gal.31-5
• Christianity is walking in the Spirit and
  fulfilling the law of Christ. Gal.55-61623-24
  and Gal.62

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TRUE CHRISTIANITY

• Christianity is not what we do for God, it is
  what God does for us in His Grace.
• ALL CREATION EXISTS
• TO REVEAL THE GLORY OF GOD
• GLORY
• THE EXPRESSION OF GODS
• ATTRIBUTES AND
• CHARACTER

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THE SECRET REVEALED

• TRUE CHRISTIANITY IS..
• Christ For You
• CHRIST IN YOU
• CHRIST AS YOU
• LIVING THROUGH YOU
• IN EVERY SITUATION
• EVERY MOMENT
• EVERY DAY OF YOU LIFE.
• Christ in you the hope of glory. Col.127
• I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live
  yet not I, but
• CHRIST LIVETH IN ME,
• AND THE LIFE I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BY
  FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD,WHO LOVED ME AND GAVE
  HIMSELF FOR ME. Gal.220

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Dead End Roads To Christian Living Pt.1

• ROLLER COASTER ROAD -Trusting in Feelings and
  Experiences
• Man is made up of body, soul, spirit
• The Body is the natural senses of touch, taste,
  see, sound, smell. Most are living by the senses
  alone. If it feels good do it.
• The Soul Level is the will (I decide)
• Mind (I think) emotions (I feel).
• 1.Prov.1625 There is a way that seems right..
• 2.Isa.558 My thoughts are not your thoughts,
  neither
• are your ways my ways.
• I promise to do better
• I dont feel close to God here
• We have a tendency to depend more on feelings
  than on faith. (Rom.117 II Cor. 57Heb.111,6)
• Faith depends on truth, not feelings.

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Dead End RoadsTo Christian Living- Pt.2

• ABNEGATION AVENUE- It is trying to live by
  self-denial alone.
• If I quit certain things I will be a better
  Christian
• The habits deleted in themselves do not produce
  Christ-like qualities
• The Pharisees did not do a lot of things. Their
  respect for Sabbath laws was commendable, but did
  not bring them closer to living for the Glory
  of God.
• God called them vipers and whited sepulchers.
  (See Matt.2327-28)
• We are not do certain things under the conviction
  of the Holy Spirit and by following the
  principles of exaltation, expediency, edification
  of others.
• But we are to operate by a different power.

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Dead End RoadsTo Christian Living- Pt. 3

• DEDICATION DRIVE- It is the dedication and
  re-dedication of the flesh.
• The Flesh cannot please God
• We try harder to be like Jesus, but we fail time
  and again. Read Bible more pray more etc.
• This why Romans 7 is sandwiched between two
  victory chapters. We cant do what we would and
  should even though we are greatly committed to
  being followers of Jesus Christ. Rom.716-17
• Paul calls his own self-directed attempts to
  please God as a wretched man
• The Law of Sin and Evil are keeps man who wants
  to do right from reaching His Goal.
• You cannot improve the flesh with the flesh, it
  must be replaced.
• Christ in us, Christ as us, keeps His law through
  us so that the righteousness of the law is
  fulfilled in us
• So we walk by a new inner recognition of the
  Spirit, not by the recognition of that old
  self-effort. N.Grubb

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Dead End RoadsTo Christian Living- Pt. 4

• EDUCATION EXPRESSWAY- More and more training,
  seminars, books, etc.
• We have the best discipleship courses anyone
  would ever want.
• Most serve a defined purpose. They fill us with
  more information on a prescribed subject.
• The information highway of the internet gives us
  access to enormous amounts of materials.

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Dead End RoadsTo Christian Living- Pt. 4

• EDUCATION EXPRESSWAY
• More courses, information, books, and manuals do
  not provide the answer to victorious Christian
  Living.
• Biblical diplomas and degrees and certificates of
  completion do not live the Christ-filled life.
• More training does not in itself produce more
  power to live a life that brings glory of God.
• The information must lead us to faith and the
  right answer- CHRIST IN YOU.
• Even with more training, we have no power to put
  in practice. Zech.46

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God Sees The Flesh Hopeless

• The flesh is corrupt to the uttermost, and there
  is no other way for it except death.
• The work of the Lord Jesus does not change our
  flesh. Gods power cannot change our flesh That
  which is born of flesh is fleshThe only solution
  is death.
• The first step toward victory is to realize we
  are not ableOnce you become unable, He becomes
  able. Herein lies the principle of victory.
  Watchman Nee- THE OVERCOMING LIFE (Living Stream
  Ministry)

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Other Substitutes ForVictorious Christian Living

• SUCCESS- Wm. Carey had no convert for the first
  seven yrs. In India.
• SENSATIONALISM - Flashy preachers may have a on
  bigger crowd. Ii is an inordinate focus on the
  spectacular. The sensational is not always
  lasting fruit. (Theme park)
• SACRED WORK AS OPPOSED TO SECULAR - It is not
  the type of service that produces fruit, it is
  the sap of the vine.
• SIMULATION OR IMITATION The Christian life is
  not straining to duplicate in his own the life of
  Jesus (WWJD). No it is letting Christ live
  spontaneously through us.
• From Chapter 7 Things that sometimes pass for
  fruit
• ABIDING IN CHRIST by John Rosscup (Talbot
  Seminary,CA)

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Lesson 3- Life In Gear

• Studies On the Christ-In-You Life
• By
• Dr. Ray Henry
• Dr. John Hilbun
• Rev. Charles Culpepper

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Review of Lessons 1 2

• The Victorious Christian life is for all
  Christians
• Life In Gear is a life in sync with God. It is
  the spontaneous flowing of Christ-life living
  through a Christian.
• Our Purpose The Glory of God
• The Big Question? How?
• Misconceptions-Christianity is not a fire escape
  or laws and religious rules
• Christianity is Christ for you Christ in You
  and Christ as you-living and working through your
  form.

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Review of Lessons 1 2

• Dead End Roads to Christian Living
• A. ROLLER COASTER ROAD-
• (Feelings and experiences)
• B. ABNEGATION AVENUE-
• (Self-denial and quitting certain tings)
• C. DEDICATION DRIVE
• (Even dedicated flesh cannot please God)
• D. EDUCATION EXPRESSWAY
• (More courses, diplomas and information does not
  live the Christian life)

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Lesson 3The Keys To Entering the Christ-life

• FAILURES
• AND
• BROKENESS

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Turning Failures into Victory

• God purposes failures
• God purposes allows us to have knocks out the
  props of erroneous Christian Living
• God can turn our inkblots into masterpieces.
• But we must come to wits end corner whereby we
  realize there is more-much more to Christian
  Living.

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Wits End Corner

• Testimony Jack Taylor- I was sick and tired of
  being of being sick and tired. My misery began to
  worsen. I prayed more and worked
  harderFrantically evading self-discovery. I
  sought more success in buildings, budgets and
  baptism, too often our holy trinity for
  successDoubts, depression and discouragement
  and despair were my constant companionsI was at
  wits corner.

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Brokenness and FailurePreparation for Victory

• By nature most men hold a higher estimate of
  themselves than God does.
• Proverbs 162 All the ways of a man are clean
  in his own eyes, but the Lord weigheth the
  spirits. (motives)
• I Cor.313-14 Every mans work will be made
  manifest for the day shall declare it, it will
  be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try
  every mans work of what sort it is. If any
  mans work abidehe will receive a reward.
• Jesus says that the person who recognizes his
  need, his spiritual poverty, will find Gods
  kingdom. Matthew 53 Blessed are the poor in
  spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God.
• God can only help needy people who know they need
  help. Matthew 912 They that be whole need not a
  physician, but they that are sick.
• The basic ingredient for growth is need. God
  creates needs and failures in our lives.

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Brokenness and FailurePreparation for Victory

• Failure is purposed by God to destroy all
  confidence in the flesh.
• II Cor.35 Not that we are sufficient of
  ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but
  our sufficiency is of God
• II Cor. 47-10 But we have this treasure in
  earthen vessels, that the Excellency of the power
  may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on
  every side, yet not distressed we are perplexed,
  but not in despair. Persecuted, but not
  forsaken cast down, but not destroyed Always
  bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord
  Jesus, that the life of Jesus might be made
  manifest in our body.
• II Cor.127,9-10 lest I should be exalted above
  measure through the abundance of revelations,
  there was given me a thorn in the flesh, the
  messenger of Satan to buffet meMost gladly
  therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities,
  that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in
  reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in
  distresses for Christs sake for when I am weak,
  then I am strong.
• Phil.33 we are the circumcision, which worship
  God in Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus and
  have no confidence in the flesh.

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Brokenness and FailurePreparation for Victory-
Pt.2

• Quote J.B.Stoney- The soul never imbibes the
  truth in living power but as it requires it.
• Quote W. Nee- The first thing for which He sets
  us here is to create hunger in others. No true
  work will ever begin without a sense of need
  being created. We cannot inject that into
  othersThat hunger is to be created, and that
  hunger can be created only through those who
  carry the impressions of God.
• Quote J.N. Darby- He makes Himself know to us
  through our needs necessity finds Him out.
• All too often believers are exhorted and even
  pressured to grow before there is an acute
  awareness of need, before there is true spiritual
  hunger. -Miles Stanford, Chap.5, THE COMPLETE
  GREEN LETTERS

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Brokenness and FailurePreparation for Victory-
Pt.3

• Brokenness involves the shattering of our
  estimate of ourselves so that we come to see
  ourselves as God sees us and agree with him.
  Ps.5117
• Brokenness and Failure produces
• A disgust with our own self-righteousness and
  self-confidence. Rom.724
• A loving abandonment of self and total dependency
  upon Christ. II Cor.129

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Testimony Failure In Christian Living

• Testimony Charles Trumbull- There were great
  fluctuations in my spiritual life, in my
  conscious closeness of fellowship with God.
  Sometimes I would be in the heights spiritually
  sometimes I would be in the depths.Second, there
  was a conscious lack spiritually in my life in
  the matter of besetting sins. I was not fighting
  a winning battle. Third, there was a conscious
  lack in the matter of a dynamic, convincing
  spiritual power that would work miracle changes
  in other mens lives. I was doing personal
  work-the hardest kind of all But I wasnt
  seeing results.
• The Life That Wins- Charles Trumbull (CLC)

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Testimony Failure In Christian Living

• Testimony Charles Trumbull- There were great
  fluctuations in my spiritual life, in my
  conscious closeness of fellowship with God.
  Sometimes I would be in the heights spiritually
  sometimes I would be in the depths.Second, there
  was a conscious lack spiritually in my life in
  the matter of besetting sins. I was not fighting
  a winning battle. Third, there was a conscious
  lack in the matter of a dynamic, convincing
  spiritual power that would work miracle changes
  in other mens lives. I was doing personal
  work-the hardest kind of all But I wasnt
  seeing results.
• The Life That Wins- Charles Trumbull (CLC)

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Testimony Failure In Christian Living

• Testimony J. Hudson Taylor-
• My position becomes more and more
  responsible...but I have continually too mourn
  that I follow at such a distance and learn so
  slowly to imitate my precious Master. I never
  knew how bad of heart I had. Often I am
  tempted to think that one so full of sin cannot
  be a child of God.
• -Letter to his mother when 37yrs old on Mission
  Field
• THEY FOUND THE SECRET Raymond Edman (Zondervan
  Publications)

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Testimony Failure In Christian Living

• Testimony W. Ian Thomas Thus by the age of
  nineteen, I had been reduced to a state of
  complete exhaustion spiritually, until I felt
  there was no point going on.There was no point
  in going to Africa as a missionary, but I was
  prepared to go to Africa and be just as useless
  there as I was already in EnglandThen one night
  in November I got down on my knees and wept sheer
  despair. Oh God I know that I am saved and love
  JesusWith all my heart I wanted to serve Thee.
  I have tried to my uttermost and I am a hopeless
  failure. I am not going to be a missionary. It
  is useless to continue like this. I hate this
  double life. THEY FOUND THE SECRET by Raymond
  Edman

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TESTIMONYFAILUREPREPARATION FOR VICTORY

• The reason our Father creates and allows needs
  in our lives is to turn us from all that is
  outside of Christ, centering us in Him alone.
• Not I, but Christ.
• Without the bitter experience of their own
  inadequacy and poverty they are quite unfitted to
  bear the burden of spiritual ministryOur
  personal, heart-breaking failure in every phase
  of our Christian life is our Fathers preparation
  for His success on our behalf. This negative
  processing of His finally brings us into His
  positive promise of Philippians 16 Being
  confident of this very thing, that he which hath
  begun a good work in you will perform it until
  the day of Jesus Christ.

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Lesson 4- Life In GearThe Way of Death-Reckoning

• Studies On the Christ-In-You Life
• By
• Dr. Ray Henry
• Dr. John Hilbun
• Rev. Charles Culpepper

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Review of Lessons 1 2

• The Victorious Christian life is for all
  Christians
• Life In Gear is a life in sync with God. It is
  the spontaneous flowing of Christ living through
  a Christian.
• Our Purpose The Glory of God
• The Big Question? How?
• Misconceptions-Christianity is not a fire escape
  or laws and religious rules
• Christianity is Christ for you Christ in You
  and Christ as you-living through your form.

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Review of Lessons 1 2

• Dead End Roads to Christian Living
• A. ROLLER COASTER ROAD-
• (Feelings and experiences)
• B. ABNEGATION AVENUE-
• (Self-denial and quitting certain tings)
• C. DEDICATION DRIVE
• (Even dedicated flesh cannot please God)
• D. EDUCATION EXPRESSWAY
• (More courses, diplomas and information does not
  live the Christian life)

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Review of Lesson 3

• God purposes failure
• God shatters our self confidence in the old man
• God leads us to abandon self and depend totally
  on self

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REVIEW OF LESSON 3

• Testimonies of Brokenness Failure
• Jack Taylor-Pastor VP of Southern Baptist
  Convention
• Charles Trumbull-Editor of Sunday Times
• J. Hudson Taylor-Founder of China Inland Mission
• Major Ian Thomas-Caperway Ministries

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Review Lesson 3Testimony Failure In Christian
Living

• Testimony Charles Trumbull- There were great
  fluctuations in my spiritual life, in my
  conscious closeness of fellowship with God.
  Sometimes I would be in the heights spiritually
  sometimes I would be in the depths.Second, there
  was a conscious lack spiritually in my life in
  the matter of besetting sins. I was not fighting
  a winning battle. Third, there was a conscious
  lack in the matter of a dynamic, convincing
  spiritual power that would work miracle changes
  in other mens lives. I was doing personal
  work-the hardest kind of all But I wasnt
  seeing results.
• The Life That Wins- Charles Trumbull (CLC)

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Lesson 4- Pathways To VictoryThe Way Of
Death-Reckoning

• The Principle or Axiom
• The Way of Death deals with
• A Believers Identification with Christ in His
  Death,
• Burial and Resurrection.
• Understanding how to apply the cross and our
  co-crucifixion with Christ gives us the means of
  entering into the victorious Christian life.
• A principle is a law of nature (or the method)
  by which a thing operates. -M. Stanford
• Axiom-An established principle or statement
  (usually found in logic or math) that needs no
  proof.

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LIFE FLOWS OUT OF DEATH

• Jesus gave a parable about a grain of wheat must
  dye to produce life- John 1223-24
• What is a grain of wheat?
• A container of life
• A channel for life to come forth
• A grain of wheat must go into ground and die
• Death- a termination of relationship
• We must terminate our dependency on old man
• Death to self-sufficiency involves the exchange
  of what we are in ourselves for what Christ wants
  to be through us.

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Or it Abides Alone.

• Working His Own Way in Life..(I did It My
  Way-Sinatra)
• Working at being as good as one can be for God.
  (Saul)

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BUT IF IT DIES..

• The
• Exchange of the
• Outer life
• For the
• Inner life

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It brings forth much fruit

• Christ life
• Working through you
• As your New Life
• Eternal Fruit
• John 155

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Aspects of Death to Self Sufficiency

• Death to Self Reliance
• Death to Self Rule
• Death to Self Righteousness
• Death to Self Gratification
• (31 Kings of Self Exaltation that have to be out
  to deathA.B. Simpson)

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The Way of Death-Reckoning

• Whether or not I believe it or can prove it or
  ever experience it-the principle or axiom is
  always true. This principle of our death with
  Christ is found nine times in Romans chapter 6.
  Here are a few verses
• -Rom.62 How shall we that are dead to sin, live
  any longer in it.
• -Rom.63 Know ye not that as many of us as were
  baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into hi
  death.
• -Rom.64 .we were buried with him.
• -Rom.66 our old man is crucified with him.
• -Rom.67 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
• -Rom.611 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to
  be dead indeed to sin, but alive unto God through
  Jesus Christ our Lord.

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The Cure for The Self-Life

1. The enemy that blocks our path to victory is the
   self life or the old adamic nature.
2. Rom.724 O wretched man that I am! Who shall
   deliver me from the body of death.
3. You are your greatest problem, and You are your
   chief enemy.
4. When man did what Satan wanted in the garden, he
   became infected with the disease of SELF.
5. They that are in the flesh cannot please God.
   Rom.88
6. The carnal mind is enmity against God for it is
   not subject to the law of God neither indeed can
   be. Rom.87

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The Cure for The Self Life

• SELF CANNOT BE DOMESTICATED
• -Christ didnt come in to improve self but to
  replace self.
• -Neither can you discipline self. You can
  educate it and change its living conditions and
  the old self is still deceitful above all things
  and desperately wicked.
• SELF CANNOT BE DEDICATED
• -We have in our churches acres and acres of
  dedicated self. Self will do anything but die. As
  long as self and Christ remain in the heart there
  will be war.
• -There is but one cure for self..DEATHIf we
  died, then we are no longer alive. We are to
  reckon ourselves to be dead to sin and alive to
  God through Christ. We are not called to a
  process of self-crucifixion but to acceptance of
  a crucifixion already accomplished.
• THE KEY TO TRIUMPHANT LIVING by Jack Taylor

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The Cure for the Self-Life

• There is but one cure
• For the self-life.
• DEATH

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Only One Way

• We stood on the fact of His dying for our sins,
  and the act of faith allowed the Holy Spirit to
  give us our freedom from the penalty of
  sin-justification.
• Now, once we come to see this further fact,, we
  are urged to stand on the liberating truth of
  our dying with Christ in His death to sin, which
  allows the Holy Spirit to bring us into our lives
  freedom from the power, the enslavement to
  sin-emancipation.-M. Stanford
• Our reckoning on the finished work of our death
  to sin, in Christ at Calvary, is Gods one way of
  deliverance. We learned not to add to a finished
  work in the matter of justification, and now we
  must learn not to add to the work of emancipation.

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Meaning Of Reckoning

• Reckon is an accountants term and means to
  count upon.
• Count yourself dead to sins reign through our
  Lord Jesus Christs death.
• To reckon yourself DEAD to sin does not mean that
  sin is DEAD in you.
• Reckon does not mean the BANISHED PRESENCE of
  sin, but the Broken DOMINION of sin.
• Our reckoning does not make it a fact, it is
  already a fact through our union with Him.
• AS WE RECKON WE REALIZEAS WE RECKON WE REALIZE.
  (James H. McConkey)

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The Power of Reckoning

• God views every person as either in Adam or in
  Christ.
• If in Adam, He sees us dead in sin.
• If in Christ, He sees us dead to sin.
• FREE FROM THE CHARGES OF SIN.
• Illustration George Washington being accused of
  robbing a grocery store. He died in 1799, over
  100 years before the crime.
• FREE FROM THE CONTROL OF SIN.
• The Christian is free not to sin.
• Our Death with Christ is experienced by
  reckoning.
• You had to reckon on Christs death to be saved
  from your sins, and now you must reckon on your
  death in Christ to be saved from self.

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The How-To Of Reckoning

• NEGATIVE RECKONING
• We choose against ourselves. Luke 923 in the
  Williams translation says he must say, No to
  self..
• We must consent to our death with Christ. We must
  accept our death and take up our cross We keep
  postponing our funeral. Having an unburied body
  around can create a pretty unpleasant situation.
  Most of the unpleasant situations in homes and
  churches are caused by dead people who havent
  been buried. By Ron Dunn in VICTORY.
• It IS A DAILY reckoning, a daily taking of death
  to ourself, our plans, our wishes, our will.
• POSITIVE RECKONING
• We are to reckon ourselves alive in Christ.
  Christ lives in me.
• You have the resurrected Christ as your new life.
• I Cor.619-20 You are not your ownfor you have
  been bought with a price therefore glorify God
  in your body.
• Gal.220 yet not I, but Christ lives in me.

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The Process of Reckoning

• As he reckons,
• The Holy Spirit makes
• Real
• As he continues to
• Reckon, the Holy Spirit
• Continues to make real.
• Sin need have no more power over the believer
  than he grants through unbelief.

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Our Responsibility Continue To Reckon

• REMEMBER !
• THAT IT IS NOT
• THE UNDERSTANDING OF RECKONING
• BUT THE PRACTICE
• OF IT
• WHICH BRINGS VICTORY

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DISCHARGED FROM THE OLD LIFE

• Example A Military Discharge-Such as a
  friend Pvt. Dawes- Feb.23, 1953.
• Forget it Sarge, Ive got my papers.
• We have our papers of discharge from Satans
  kingdom-Romans 66-13
• VICTORY WILL COME AS YOU BELIEVE IN YOUR
  DISCHARGE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.
• He that is dead has hi discharge (lit) from
  sin. Rom. 67

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Victory Will Come

• Victory will come as
• You CLAIM YOUR
• EMANCIPATION
• EXAMPLE ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIGNED THE EMANCIPATION
  PROCLAMATION IN THE 1860S BUT MANY DID NOT FEEL
  FREE TILL DECADES LATER.
• BUT NOW BEING EMANCIPATED(Made free)
• FROM SIN, BECOME SERVANTS TO GOD
• Romans 622

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AFFIRMATION OF THE AXIOMOUR DEATH WITH CHRIST

• See attached lists of quotes from these great
  Christian leaders.
• JAMES H. MCCONKEY
• J. HUDSON TAYLOR
• ANDREW MURRAY
• EVAN H.HOPKINS
• MAJOR IAN THOMAS
• WATCHMAN NEE
• NORMAN GRUBB

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Testimonies Reckon Yourself Dead
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Testimony Reckon Yourself Death
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LESSON FIVETHE WAY OF LIFE-Reckon on The Christ
Life
Studies On the Christ-In-You Life By Dr. Ray
Henry Dr. John Hilbun Rev. Charles Culpepper
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Review Lesson Four

• The
• Reckoning
• That
• Counts

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LESSON FIVETHE WAY OF LIFE-Reckon on The
Christ Life

• Jesus Christ Came
• Not Only to Save Us
• But to be Our Life
• All of God was in Christ..
• All of Christ was in me. .
• All I needed was Christ Himself
• And I had Him Living Inside Me.
• (Jack Taylor)

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Christ Liveth In Me

• The Indwelling Christ Is our Life
• The Indwelling Christ Is our Holiness,
  Patience,etc.
• The Indwelling Christ is our Power.

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The Christian LifeNot Imitation, But Impartation

• He is not a retailer dispensing grace to us in
  packets, measuring out some patience to the
  impatience, some love to the unloving..He has
  given us one gift humble and to meet all our
  need His Son Christ Jesus. As I look to Him to
  live out His life in me, He will be humble and
  patient and loving and everything else I needin
  my steadToday there is a call for patience He
  is our Patience. Tomorrow the call may be for
  purity He is our Purity. He is the answer to
  every need. That is why Paul speaks of the fruit
  of the Spirit as one in Gal.522We all have the
  same Christ dwelling within, but some revelation
  of some new need will lead us spontaneously to
  trust Him to live out His life in us By
  Watchman Nee
• THE NORMAL CHRISTIAN LIFE

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Christ Our ExampleLived Totally By The Father

• The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He
  seeth the Fatherthese doeth the Son.
• I can of my own self do nothing
• My doctrine is not mine, But His that sent me
• As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by
  the Father so he that eateth me, even he shall
  live by Me.
• he that hah seen me hath seen the Father..
• Believe me that I am in the Father, and the
  Father in me or else believe me for the very
  works sake.

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True ChristianityChrist-in-you-ity

• DELIMMA- A big gap between what I am and what I
  am suppose to be in Christ.
• Illustration Batteries Not Included
• Quote Jack Taylor- The saddest observations of
  our whole system is that there seems to be
  everything evident but power.
• DECLARATION- I must not only declare by faith
  that Christ is for us and Christ is with us, but
  now that Christ is in us acting out as us in our
  forms. (Jack Taylor)

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The Declaration CHRIST LIVETH IN ME

• Gal.220 ..I live yet not I, but Christ liveth
  in me.
• John 1416-17 for He dwelleth with you and
  shall be in you.
• Eph.316 strengthened with might by His Spirit
  in the inner man
• Eph.317 that Christ may dwell in your hearts by
  faith.
• Col.129 striving according to His working
  which worketh in me mightily.
• Col.311 Christ is all and in all.
• II Cor. 135 know ye not that Jesus Christ is in
  you..
• John 154-5 Abide in Me, and I in you..
• I John 44 greater is HE in you, than he that is
  in the world

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The DeclarationThe Indwelling Christ is our Life

• We are no longer we, but Christ in us. Christ
  the real we! Christ is the real I. I live, he
  says in Galatians 220. No, he corrects
  himself. It is not I, but Christ living in me.
  Christ not with, not in, but replacing Paul,
  Christ in Pauls form. And Christ in your and my
  form. Put your name there.. You are Christ in
  Jacks form, Christ in Elizabeths form, Christ
  in Normans form and so onWe dont condemn, we
  above all dont try to change ourselves no, we
  replaceAs we affirm and recognize Him, He who is
  the peace, love, courage, purity, manifests
  Himself in and by us. WHO AM I, by Norman
  Grubb

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The DeclarationThe Indwelling Christ is Our Life

• You have been trying to do for Me all that only
  I can do through you. Now supposing I am your
  life, and you begin to accept it as a fact, then
  I am your strength! You have been pleading and
  begging for that for seven years. I am your
  victory in every area of your lifeI am going to
  thank Thee that if Thou art my life, and this is
  true, then Thou art my victory, Thou art my
  strength, Thou art my power, Thou art my future!
• Chap.20-W. Ian Thomas- THEY FOUND THE SECRET

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The DynamicThe Life of Christ Flowing Through
Our Lives

• Phil.213 It is God that worketh in you both to
  will and do of His good pleasure.
• Gal.220 Christ liveth in me, and the life I now
  live in the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of
  God.
• Christianity is Jesus Christ
• Coming into an available body
• And acting like Himself.
• By Jack Taylor

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The DynamicThe Life of Christ Flowing Through
Your Life

• The River
• Christ In You Flowing
• If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and
  drink. He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture
  has said, out of His belly shall flow rivers of
  living water. John 737-38
• He wants to be that added dynamic in our
  Christian life. He wants to be that constant
  source of power to flow out of our lives and
  minister to the world in need.
• Example Mississippi River- 1200 Steamboats in
  Mark Twains day. .It flows and flows and
  flows..You cant stop a river.
• Example Given Dr. Adrian Rogers Of Andrew
  Murray riding a train sees a man pumping water.
  But it is really a motor connected to a mannequin
  attached to a water pump. He was being pumped by
  the motor.

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The DynamicBiblical IllustrationsThe Christ
Life

• THE BODY AND HIS MEMBERS
• For we are members of his body, of his flesh,
  and of his bones. Eph.530
• Christ dwells in His corporate body, the
  churchAs you reckon death to yourself and reckon
  His life in you, He becomes Resident Lord. Jack
  Taylor
• A CORN OF WHEAT
• Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and
  die, it abideth alone but if it die, it bringeth
  forth much fruit. John1224
• THE VINE AND BRANCH
• I am the vine, ye are the branches, he that
  abideth in me, and I in Him bringeth forth much
  fruit for without me ye can do nothing.
• All that the vine is and has is available to the
  branch. We are expected to abide in Christ as our
  source and reckon on a constant relationship to
  Him in which He is at work in us and through us.

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The DynamicIllustrations of the Christ-life

• Example Like Hot Water and a Tea Bag
• Example Like a Water Pump being pumped by a
  mannequin connected to a motor. ( Dr. Adrian
  Rogers)
• Example A serum that is injected to make me a
  great super bowl quarterback or a great
  golfer,etc.

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The DynamicTestimonies The Christ-life

1. Charles Trumbull- THE LIFE THAT WINS
2. Frank Stovall- Music Prof. Southwestern Seminary
3. J. Hudson Taylor
4. Frances Ridley Havergal
5. Jesse Penn Lewis
6. Amy Carmichael
7. Andrew Murray

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LESSON SIXTHE WAY OF APPROPRIATION
Studies On the Christ-In-You Life By Dr. Ray
Henry Dr. John Hilbun Rev. Charles Culpepper
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LESSON SIXTHE WAY OF APPROPRIATION

• Most of life is reciprocal relationships
• Buying a car. Your want or desire. But there must
  be the sellers desire to trust you to pay for
  it.
• God has prepared a banquet table (a promise land
  abundant life) but He will not force us to eat.
• There is a BIG GAP in what God says we are and in
  fact WHAT WE ARE IN REALITY.
• WHY?

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Gods Work is Absolute and Complete!

• The Atonement is for everyone but not all are
  believers. (John 318)
• In Sanctification we are dead with Christ
  according to Romans 66-7 and Colossians 33.
• For he that is dead is freed from sin. Rom.67
• For ye are dead, and your life is hid with
  Christ in God. Col.33
• Then in verse five of Colossians Paul tells us to
  put death that which is already dead. Mortify
  therefore your members which are upon the
  earth.. Col.35

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BRIDGING THE GAP

• To bridge the gap of what God says we are and our
  experience-we must learn the principle of
  appropriation.
• Appropriation Def.- To take as ones own to
  claim to set apart for a particular purpose to
  allocate
• There are some aspects of appropriation that we
  must understand to bridge gap.

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Part One of AppropriationDISCOVERY

• LIFE IN GEAR is learning who we are and what we
  already have in Christ.
• It is not by reason or rationalizing, but by
  knowing and appropriating that we progress.
• If we get desperate enough, we will seek and
  discover truth about Christian living.
• What is that which we discover? That the
  Christian life is not imitation (WWJD) but
  impartation.
• Example Creation of First Adam- God had to
  breathe into that clay form life.
• When God imparts His SPIRIT LIFE by Christ living
  in us, then the Christian life becomes natural
  and spontaneous. We go out to see what Jesus is
  going to do through us each day. (Major Ian
  Thomas)

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Part Two of AppropriationDECISION

• In Romans 85 says that if we mind the things of
  the Spirit we will be after the Spirit.
• The phrase after the spirit means to be
  dominated by the Spirit.
• It requires a decision to mind the things of the
  spirit rather than mind the flesh things.
• I must decide that I want to have the Spirit of
  Christ dominating my life.
• It is not WILL POWER but an ACT OF THE WILL
  whereby I recognize I cant do it, but the Living
  Christ in Me can do it-live the victorious
  Christian life.
• It is deciding to live the Spirit-controlled life
  or the Christ-life for all you need.
• Example Farmer you bought a new chain saw, but
  did not know how to turn on and used it like
  regular saw.

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Part Three of AppropriationDISCIPLINE

• To walk in the spirit means more than one step.
  Walking is a discipline life, not a one time
  thing.
• Example Madelyn learned to walk and stumble
  about a year ago. Now she walks everywhere. Shes
  got it down now.
• We must learn the discipline of step by step
  dependence upon Christ our life. (Rom.811)
• Two parts to Discipline A. Mind the things of
  the Spirit and B. Mortify the things of the Flesh

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First Part of DisciplineMIND THE THINGS OF THE
SPIRIT

• Mind-means it is your absorbing desire to be
  preoccupied with something. (R.Dunn)
• What do you give your mind to each day?
• What are you focused upon?
• Mind-Gk-phroneo- to be mentally disposed to
  entertain to have a sentiment or opinion
  disposed to to interest oneself.
• Where your mind goes, your feet will follow.
• I am transformed when I renew my mind. See
  Rom.121-2
• It is not a one time emotional experience but by
  a disciplined mind.
• Ill. The ten spies saw the giants, not Gods
  promise.
• Ill. Peters mindset had to transformed as to
  Cornelius.
• Ill. We must renew our minds as to who we are in
  Christ.
• WE DIED TO THE REIGN OF OLD MASTER AND HAVE
  CHRIST AS OUR LIFE. WE MUST TRAIN OUR MIND IN
  THE NEW MAN THAT WE ARE,

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Second Part of DisciplineMORTIFY THE DEEDS OF
BODY

• Death terminates relationships.
• A slave is under the absolute dominion of his
  Master. His master tells him when to get up or
  sleep or eat or where to go and who to marry. One
  day the slave dies. The Master can shout all he
  wants. Death has freed him from his old Master.
• The word of God says
• Knowing this our old man is crucified with Him,
  that the body of sin might be destroyedlikewise
  reckon yourselves to be dead unto sin..let not
  sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye
  should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither
  yield ye your members as instruments of
  unrighteousness unto sin but yield yourselves
  unto God.. Rom.66,12-13
• I have been crucified with Christ Gal.220
• Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have
  crucified the flesh with its passions and
  desires. Gal.524
• Mortify threfore your members which are upon the
  earth fornication, uncleanness, inordinate
  affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness
  Col.35
• We should consider ourselves dead to these sins.
  unresponsive to them.

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APPROPRIATE CHRIST

• TO TAKE AS ONES OWN
• TO CLAIM
• TO ALLOCATE
• TO SET APART FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
• Take all that is yours today given freely to us
  in Christ.

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LESSON SEVENTHE WAY OF FAITH
Studies On the Christ-In-You Life By Dr. Ray
Henry Dr. John Hilbun Rev. Charles Culpepper
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Review Lesson Five and Six

• Phil.213 It is God that worketh in you both to
  will and do of His good pleasure.
• Gal.220 Christ liveth in me, and the life I now
  live in the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of
  God.
• Christianity is Jesus Christ
• Coming into an available body
• And acting like Himself.
• By Jack Taylor

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Lesson SevenTHE WAY OF FAITH

• We Live the Christian Life the same way we enter
  By Faith. Read Col.26
• Faith is the Master Key to open all of these
  other door.
• The devil tries to throw us a lot of counterfeit
  ways to live the Christian life
• Intellectualism-gnosticism-Col.22-3
• Legalism-Col.216 Phil.212-13
• Mysticism-Col.218
• Asceticism-Col.220-21

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Definitions of Faith

• Faith Pistuo means I BelieveTo put your
  confidence in another to rely upon another
  moral conviction reliance.
• To Believe occurs over 233 times in the NT.
• Believe, Faith, Trust are translated from
  Pistuo and its derivatives. The English is the
  problem.
• Quote Many believe, who have never trusted. J.
  Oswald Smith
• Substance Faith is substance. Hupostasis a
  setting under or support concrete essence or
  abstract assurance confidence. Read Heb.111
• Evidence Faith is evidence. Elengchosmeans a
  conviction. Peter says that even though we
  havent seen Jesus we still believe Him and show
  our Him our love by obedience. Read I Peter 16-8

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KINDS OF FAITH

• The God Can Faith- doesnt really do anything.
  Just believe that He is able and can.
• The God Will Faith- in time God will meet my
  needs
• The God Has Faith -believes that God has already
  meet the needWhat then is faith? It is that
  habitual attitude by which one who is, in himself
  spiritual dead, is constantly looking to, and
  daily and hourly drawing upon the life of
  another-the fullness of life of Jesus Christ
  within himDo we desire power? We looked to Him
  for it each time. Do we long for love? We look
  to Him for His, for ours is cold and selfish. Do
  we need guidance, wisdom, tact, gentleness,
  longsuffering we look to Him. James H. McConkey
  in
• THE THREEFOLD SECRET OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• Mark 1124 believe that it has been granted you
  and you will get it. Williams Translation
• FAITH IS BELIEVING YOU GOT IT BEFORE YOU GET

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The Origin of Faith

• Faith comes to us from God. Faith is a response
  to a desire that God initiates.
• Faith is based on the Word of God.
• There must be a divine enlightenment to my ears
  as I hear the written word. The Pharisees heard
  Christ and yet did not believe in Jesus as the
  Christ.
• If the lost are to believe they must first hear
  of Christ from His messengers. Read Romans
  1014-17
• Faith comes when I hear. But then I must..
• Accept It as the Word of God
• Believe that the Word if God is Truth
• Confess the Word of Promise as so for you.
• Readiness to Obey the Word even before you hear
  it

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Say-It Faith

• There is a misunderstanding of this kind of
  faith. Not name it, claim it.
• Pray and seek the mind of the Lord. Get a word
  from God as to what He wants to do.
• This Faith is built upon the revealed Word of
  God. There are two words for word.Logosthe
  written word of God. Rhemathe revealed word of
  God a special word spoken to our hearts. There
  are specific words to individuals. Abraham was
  promised to be the Father of many nations. This
  Rhema must be built upon the logos. To Peter in
  boat.Come
• God speaks to us from the written word. You get a
  spoken or revealed word from the written word.
• Faith comes by hearing the word of Christ. But
  many know the word of God and are still living in
  unbelief. They confess unbelief even though they
  know God has promised them certain things. They
  are not trusting God.
• Three times in Mark 1123-24 Jesus tells his
  disciples to say what they wanted from God. But
  not everyone gets what they say.
• He must say what he wants
• He must not doubt. Doubt and you will do without.
• He must believe that he will get his answer.
  Believe and you will receive.
• He must ask in prayer and believe GOD WILL DO IT.
• He must rid himself of all Unforgivness.

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DAILY FAITHMoment by Moment FaithTRUST GOD
TODAY!

• Faith and nothing but faith avails for us to
  receive the gifts and graces of our ascended
  Lordit is a continuous appropriation of a
  continuous supply from Jesus Christ Himself
• A moment-by-moment faith in a moment-by-moment
  saviour for a moment-by-moment fillingso long as
  I keep believing, praise the Lordso long will I
  keep receiving.
• Ruth Paxson- LIFE ON THE HIGHEST PLANE

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Faith-Daily Looking To Him

• What then is faith? It is that habitual
  attitude by which one who is, in himself
  spiritual dead, is constantly looking to, and
  daily and hourly drawing upon the life of
  another-the fullness of life of Jesus Christ
  within himDo we desire power? We looked to Him
  for it each time. Do we long for love? We look
  to Him for His, for ours is cold and selfish. Do
  we need guidance, wisdom, tact, gentleness,
  longsuffering we look to Him. James H. McConkey
  in
• THE THREEFOLD SECRET OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

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FACTORS THAT HINDER OUR FAITH

• THE JACOB FACTOR- Jacob believed a lie for years
  concerning Joseph. (Gen.4526)
• THE PHILLIP FACTOR -relying on rational ability
  rather than the word of God. (John 65,7)
• THE PETER FACTOR -Being impetuous and spontaneous
  without the mind of God.
• THE THOMAS FACTOR- Must have signs to believe.

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STEPS TO TRUSTING DAILY

• Take a moment to meditate on the things God wants
  you to trust Him with today.
• Ask God for clarity on any item.
• Write down the things you are trusting Him for
  that day.
• Acknowledge that God responds to trust-it pleases
  God. (Heb.116)
• Tell God by praying you are trusting Him in these
  matters you wrote down
• Believe that God is taking care of the need or
  problem.
• After you have trusted, expect and watch Him for
  results in the matter.
• How does one know that He is trusting God in a
  matter.
• Real faith rests. See Heb. 4

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OVERCOMING FAITH

• MATT.1422-32
• OVERCOMING FAITH RECKONS UPON THE WORD OF GOD
• OVERCOMING FAITH RESTS UPON THE WORD OF GOD
• OVERCOMING FAITH RISKS UPON THE WORD OF GOD

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The Triumph of Faith

• I Samuel 14 1-15
• Faith is based on the word of God.
• Faith looks to God alone.
• Faith doesnt look at obstacles.
• Faith trusts in Gods ability.
• Faith waits upon the leadership of God.
• Faith inspires others to action.
• Faith is rewarded with victory.

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Examples of Real Faith In Action

• Dr. P.N. Kurien - first trip to America-plane
  ticket
• Dr. P.N. Kurien -Money came in the jungles of
  Nepal
• Rees Howells- In line for train ticket-no money
• Rev. Wayne Allen-East Park Baptist Church and
  Christian School-bid on land
• Norman Grubb- WEC-raising up missionaries and
  their support-ten for first year by faith
• Manley Beasley-trusting God in meeting and his
  sister trusting God to save neighbor.

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Lesson EightThe Way of Recognition-Who Am I?
Studies On the Christ-In-You Life By Dr. Ray
Henry Dr. John Hilbun Rev. Charles Culpepper
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Review of Lessons Six and Seven

• Lesson Six
• THE WAY OF APPROPRIATION
• AND
• Lesson Seven
• THE WAY OF FAITH

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BRIDGING THE GAP

• To bridge the gap of what God says we are and our
  experience-we must learn the principle of
  appropriation.
• Appropriation Def.- To take as ones own to
  claim to set apart for a particular purpose to
  allocate
• There are some aspects of appropriation that we
  must understand to bridge gap.

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AppropriationDiscovery-Decision-Discipline

• DISCOVERY-Learn that the Christian life is not
  imitation, but impartation
• DECISION-One must make a deliberate decision to
  follow after the things of the Spirit, not the
  flesh.
• DISCIPLINE-The two parts of discipline
• Mind(focus upon) the things of the Spirit
• Mortify the flesh -Put to death what is already
  crucified with Christ.

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Lesson SevenThe Way Of Faith

• What then is faith? It is that habitual
  attitude by which one who is, in himself
  spiritual dead, is constantly looking to, and
  daily and hourly drawing upon the life of
  another-the fullness of life of Jesus Christ
  within himDo we desire power? We looked to Him
  for it each time. Do we long for love? We look
  to Him for His, for ours is cold and selfish. Do
  we need guidance, wisdom, tact, gentleness,
  longsuffering we look to Him. James H. McConkey
  in
• THE THREEFOLD SECRET OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

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Review Lesson SevenThe Way of Faith
The God Can Faith- doesnt really do anything.
Just believe that He is able and can. The God
Will Faith- in time God will meet my needs The
God Has Faith -believes that God has already meet
the need" What then is faith? It is that
habitual attitude by which one who is, in himself
spiritual dead, is constantly looking to, and
daily and hourly drawing upon the life of
another-the fullness of life of Jesus Christ
within himDo we desire power? We looked to Him
for it each time. Do we long for love? We look
to Him for His, for ours is cold and selfish. Do
we need guidance, wisdom, tact, gentleness,
longsuffering we look to Him. James H. McConkey
in THE THREEFOLD SECRET OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT Mark 1124 believe that it has been
granted you and you will get it. Williams
Translation FAITH IS BELIEVING YOU GOT IT- BEFORE
YOU GET IT
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Lesson EightThe Way of Recognition-Who Am I?

• The Bible is a record of continuous happenings in
  the supernatural world.
• We are to focus on and recognize the eternal
  invisible things of God in the Spirit realm.
• God is Spirit.
• Do we recognize that here are happenings in my
  life that are the products of the Spirit realm or
  dimension. God is always at work around us in
  all things to bring many sons to His Glory.

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WE ARE AN ETERNAL UNION WITH THE FATHER

• We are branches in the Vine.
• We are containers of the Treasure in earthen
  vessels.
• The vessel can never be the Living Water it
  contains. Human self can only be motivated by
  its own interests.
• We start by accepting ourselves in all our
  weaknesses, but we learn or recognize it is no
  longer we, but He.
• 1-Paul says I live
• 2-Paul corrects himself and says It is no longer
  I
• 3-Paul confesses, It is Christ who is now my
  life.

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GOD IS SPIRIT

• In I Cor. 15 Paul says when the last enemy is
  destroyed, the Son will render up the Kingdom to
  the Father that God may be all in all.
• The universe is God in manifested forms.
• We are to learn, like Jesus, to see through
  appearances to Him the Reality.
• Learn to recognize that God is in everything. God
  even uses evil to reveal what is light.
• Be a see-througher to see everything as a form of
  Him in beauty, power, shapethough outwardly
  distorted.
• Biblical Illustration Joseph to brothers-You
  meant it for evil, but God meant it for good. to
  preserve life Gen.455
• The Crucifixion of JesusLooks the worst of all
  evils, yet His death is our salvation.

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We Affirm and Recognize Him

• We transfer our inner believing from what has its
  hold on us to who we really are-Christ in our
  inner selves.
• Now He is our life, the new creation in us. So He
  is our peace, love, courage, unity, purity
  manifesting HIMSELF in and by us.
• Abiding means to remain. So we remain in a
  faith-recognition and total dependence on Him as
  our Life.

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Move from Self-Consciousness to
Christ-Consciousness

• Both inferiority and superiority complexes are
  wrong - for the focus is on self.
• Our Human self is now a container of Another
  Self. We learn to rely upon HIM.
• We learn to move from the false idea of becoming
  something to containing Someone.
• Illustration Magic Coat
• We must develop a new consciousness-Christ in me
  the Hope of Glory.

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New Identity In Christ

• There is a underground river flowing in us.
• The real I is no