Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries
Loser believers whose glory is in their shame, Part 4.
Friday, January 26, 2001
Point 2. The Shame of the Loser Believer in Time.
(a) Drifting off course from grace, GAL 5:4.
(b) Coming short of the grace of God, HEB 12:15.
(c) Lukewarm, REV 3:15-16.
(d) Shipwrecked, 1TI 1:19.
(e) Psycho or double-minded, JAM 1:8.
(f) Those who fail to metabolize doctrine, JAM 1:22-24.
(g) Enemies of the Cross, PHI 3:18-19.
Hysteria – fear, worry, anxiety, panic, confusion, irrationality, dislocation, and garbage in the subconscious, DEU 31:6, 8; ISA 35:3-4; ISA 41:10.
Fear is a road block preventing metabolization of doctrine from circulating in the soul and eventually choking it out through scar tissue of the soul.
2TI 1:7 “God has not given to us a lifestyle of fear, but of power and of virtue-love and of sound mind.”
Hatred – anger, hatred, bitter jealousy, loathing, animosity, vulnerability to imagined insults or injury, implacability, malice, tantrums, irrational violence, and even murder.
Self-centered category- self-justification, self-deception, self-absorption.
Reaction category – jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, hatred, vilification, malice, revenge motivation and operation, inordinate ambition and inordinate competition.
PHI 3:19 “their termination is destruction, their god is their emotion, their glory will be a of shame,”
Turn to 1CO 15:33-34
Eknepsate dikaios – Awake righteously or to righteousness.
1CO 15:34 “Awake to righteousness and stop sinning; for some [believers] have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.”
“awake to righteousness” having capacity for divine blessing from the righteousness developed by the execution of the spiritual life or productive righteousness.
1JO 1:8 “If we say [assert] that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth or doctrine is not in us.”