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Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Friday, May 7, 2010
The Holy Spirit has rivers of living water for those who believe
THE DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE
Point 7. The third type of repentance in the Church age believer’s life is the turning away from human viewpoint (lies, evil) and turning toward divine viewpoint (grace and truth), resulting in living a new life of fellowship with the Trinity.
Salvation repentance is an open door that leads to the way.
Rebound repentance is an open door that leads to the truth.
Maturity repentance is an open door that leads to the life.
In the spiritual life, zoe refers to the super-grace life which is the objective of Bible doctrine resident in the soul.
Zoe-life means we will experience deliverance from the bondage of the world and the stronghold of the cosmic system.
In this zoe-life, a life filled with inner happiness and contentment, we realize that what we were trying to accomplish in our own human power has now been graciously given to us by God as the outcome of our faith in His character and His word.
And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
If you are ever faced with any problems or difficulties, remember that there is this zoe-life, a life filled with inner happiness and contentment, where we leave behind the old self-life for the new life in Christ.
Adam's fall was our fall into spiritual death; however, our Lord's life is our life as we migrate from the dead nature to the new nature, experiencing the love, happiness, peace and gentleness in the mentality of our soul.
We are not in union with the life of Christ as He lived on earth in His perfect humanity; we are in union with the life of the resurrected Christ in Heaven, , .
We have the privilege to partake of that spiritual life that He took possession of for us at His resurrection, and thereby we are enabled to bring forth the fruits of it.
Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit for God.
I am at rest not from troubles and anxieties but in the midst of troubles and anxieties.
This zoe-life, a life filled with inner happiness and contentment, is a state of mind in which there is complete and total peace, being free from worries, anxieties and fears.
"I came that they might have life, and might have {it} abundantly."
However, this zoe-life, a life filled with inner happiness and contentment, can be experienced as a reward only by those willing to live the spiritual life by sticking with the plan of God.
God not only rewards those who diligently seek Him in the eternal state - He also rewards them in time....,
The new nature gives us the power and the ability to live the spiritual life; but this zoe-life, a life filled with inner happiness and contentment, is the ultimate experience of living in that new nature.
We will still sin and fail, but if we continue with the plan of God, we will experience times when the peace of God is such a reality in our lives that the problems and difficulties we are facing have no control over us whatsoever.
It is not just living the spiritual life; it is the experience of the life within that we receive because of this zoe-life, a life filled with inner happiness and contentment.
Does it mean that we have to keep on sowing to God the Holy Spirit to earn our eternal salvation?
The verb to sow is the pres-act-part of the verb speiro, which means to sow, to invest one's time, to invest one's life.
If we keep on living the spiritual life, we will keep on reaping more and more of the experience of our eternal life in time, the ultimate being what Paul had, this zoe-life, a life filled with inner happiness and contentment.
1. Tranquility of soul. You begin to relax in your soul.
2. Stability of mental attitude, including never feeling threatened by others and avoiding inordinate ambition and competition.
3. Composure marked by self-assurance, which is the correct and accurate application of doctrine to life.
4. Grace-orientation to life, which includes mercy toward yourself when you fail and giving others the benefit of the doubt.
5. Doctrinal-orientation to reality, which is based upon genuine humility, objectivity, teachability, spiritual common sense, and the avoidance of inordinate ambition and competition or inordinate self-esteem.
6. Good decisions from a position of strength, which includes motivation from personal love for God the Father plus divine viewpoint thinking.
7. Personal control of your life.
8. A personal sense of destiny, which includes solving the problems related to God, self, others, and things.
9. Self-confidence from wisdom, which means the function of doctrinal purity or the application of metabolized doctrine to experience.
10. Poise. This is the believer under spiritual self-command.
However, finally, when a believer reaches spiritual maturity and goes on to supergrace and ultra-supergrace, then he will have the privilege of experiencing a life filled with inner happiness and contentment.
