When you think of doctrine
Do you think of words that are hard to spell let alone understand.
Doctrine is simply a word to describe what the bible teaches and no believer should be afraid to grapple with it.
Only one body of truth and all believers need it all. This body of truth has words in it that have significance in their meaning.
Just as there is language of special significance used in surfing. Like surfs up dude. Check out that swell. How about those bowl waves off the peir. Or we road a six foot face reef break last week end.
Just like all those words are of special significance to surfer. So christians have words of special signifance. Like propitiation and justification.
How to be a spiritual millionaire. That's what this book is all about. Understand ing the spiritual truth in richs us beyond believe.
Chapter 2 God (geting to know God)
If we don't understand who God is we can forget about understanding the rest of the truth about him
What is God like? or what are his attributes.
Well firstly He is holy.
He has no sin and evil in him. He is morally perfect.
God is sovereign. He rules over every thing and every one. He has complete freedom to do as he sees fit.
God is the God of providence. So there is no luck or chance in God world. God is always doing something.
God is good. So we can trust him.
God is love. By understanding doctrine we should be bought closer to a God who love us.
Chapter 4 Jesus
Jesus is special.
He couldn't just be a man because he who be a sinner like you and I and need a saviour as we do.
Son of man
Jesus had to become a man in order to make atonement for our sin. He died in our place so that he might destroy satan.
Son of God
In Jesus God becomes a man. Giving up heaven and taking on a human nature and identified with us. So he suffered like we do
He is both fully god and man.
Jesus the Saviour.
He saved us from the results of sin.
Chapter 5 the Holy Spirit.
He is not an it.
His ministry.
He applies salvation to us by convicting us of sin.
His fruit.
The holy spirit goes on work in us producing Christ like fruit.
His gifts
We cannot further the gospel with out his gifts.
Chapter 6 The Trinity
Trinity simply means threeness. The threeness of God how cool is that. Its very hard to explain in the
Trinity at work.
They created the world.
They all play apart in our saving.
God the father planed it
Jesus did it dieing in our place.
God the spirit applies it.
Chapter 7 Sin breaking the law of God.
Our crooked and twisted nature refuses to stay inside Gods boundaries and leaves us well short of Gods standards.
Gods wrath.
Gods holiness makes hell as inevitable as his love makes heaven. Gods wrath is a right and necessary reactiow against moral evil.
Chapter 8 Atonement (God dealing with sin)
Old testment full of pictures of the atonement of Jesus.
This attoment was planed by God. Secondly it was not hit and miss.
Old testament Pictures of Jesus.
The passover and the day of Atonement.
The day of attonement. Shows substitution and propitiation.
Substitution.
Jesus Body broken for you blood shed for you. Innocent for us who are guilty
Propitiation.
Jesus faced Gods wrath at our sin and guilt and fully paid for it so God could look favorably on us.
Blood
Referrs to Jesus sacrificial death.
Chapter 9 Grace (Gods mercy to the undeserving.
What is Grace.
Grace is the free unmerited,undeserved favour of God to sinners. Grace depends on the merit of Jesus not on my merit and can therefore never lose its power
Chapter 10 Regeneration.
Born again to enable responsed to God. A new nature is given. Got it first comes regeneration and then repentance and belief. No repentance is possible with out being born again. The Holy Spirit must regenrate us.
Chapter 11 Repentance and Faith.
No repentance with out faith.
Repentance.
Must break with the past and live in future only to please God in every area of life.
Faith trust in the Lord Jesus. Faith hears the truth of the Gospel believes in certain facts and acts upon it.
Ongoing repentance.
Repentance is a daily experience.
Do the teachings of Jesus dominate my whole life?
Chapter 12 Reconciliation.
Bring together of two people together by removing the hostility between them.
Chapter 13 Redemption
Redemption means to set free from the slavery to sin by the payment of a ransom.
The world has put in bids for our soul offering sex money fame power and all other items in which it traffics. But Jesus our faithful bridgroom and lover entered the market place to buy us back. He bid his own blood.
Chapter 14 Justification
Jesus through his actions takes away condemnation but also gives us righeousness. We are not made rightous rather we are declared rightous in Gods eyes.
Chapter 15 adoption
Paul borrows this term from the first century legal system.
God makes us part of his family through his son. Justification clears the way for adoption. God wants his adopted children to reflect his character.
We as believers or as loved by God as his only son. This means that we share will share in all Jesus glory. Why not reflect that now in our day to day lives putting off the old self and putting on the new self.
Chapter 16 Union with Christ
Each believer is united to Christ in a living vital dynamic union with Jesus not in a theoretical way. We are in a relationship.
Our old self is dead killed with jesus on the cross. Sin does not master us any more because we are in Christ. Therefore although we sin we must not let sin dominate our lives.
If you are in christ you can't loose that.
The whole of your salvation depends on your union with Christ.
Chapter 17 sanctification.
(become who we are in Christ)
First lets be clear we are sanctified in Christ. But we are being sanctified by God.
The process of sanctification frees us from the power of sin and its rule in our life. It is a here and now process.
Is your life changing as a christian or are you seeing no growth?
Sanctification means that the power of sin is being overcome in us by God as he makes us more and more like him.
If you looked at your life this year verses last year are you growing in fighting sin.
Chapter 18 election
Election what is it: God saving by his grace some guilty sinners whom he has chosen.
Jesus did not just come to make salvation possible. He came to save a specific people...
Chapter 19 eternal security
We as Christians are saved by Jesus and kept by him. Nothing can separate us from his love.
The security of the sheep rests firmly on the Good Shepard.
Chapter 20 the second coming.
The coming of Jesus will be personal and physical.
Three views of Jesus coming back.
Post millennialism Jesus will come back following the 1000 years
Pre millennialism christ will come back before the 1000 years
A millennialism no actual 1000 years.
The question is will you keep looking to Jesus no matter what you believe about the millennial argument.
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