Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries
Why are we here? .
Thursday, September 6, 2001
Spiritual intelligence which was once classified information, concealed and restricted from both angels and mankind, is what the Bible now calls a mystery.
If a believer desires to know the truth about any biblical subject, it will be revealed to that person, JOH 7:17,JER 29:13.
The pastor-teachers of the Church-age are called stewards, or managers, or dispensers of that mystery, 1CO 4:1.
The connection between the maximum glorification of God for which we are created, the resolution of a prehistoric angelic conflict, and the receiving of God’s highest and best.
EPH 1:14 – the hidden assets, or the release of the assets.
He is guarding for us something on deposit, EPH 1:3, 1PE 1:4; and that deposit is a great and phenomenal wealth for the soul and for the believer throughout time, and the eternal state.
The believer in the CA who reaches SM and passes evidence testing, will receive fantastic blessings in time and greater blessings in the eternal state.
He or she goes into the realm of becoming an invisible hero and receives the highest and best from God beginning now in time, MAR 10:30.
MAL 3:10 “Behold I will open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing which you will not be able to contain.”
PSA 23:5 “My cup overflows”
Rev 2-3 = the rewards that are going to be imputed to the winner believer, we cannot fully comprehend them now.
In your local assembly, marriage, family, job, you have the most phenomenal, magnificent privilege and potential and opportunity ever given in history.
No one lived it before the humanity of Christ became incarnate and pioneered it, and passed it on to the church, (added rebound and occupation with Christ).
REV 4:11 “Worthy art Thou, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for Thou didst create all things, and because of Thy will they existed, and were created.”
JOH 15:8 “By this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit, and {so} prove to be My disciples.”
The formal trial or Satan’s presentation of his appeal was presented between the creation of the first Adam and the incarnation of the second Adam.
Between GEN 2:7, the creation of the first Adam and MAT 1:25, the birth of the last Adam, was the presentation of the formal trial.
The first Adam fell; the second Adam would be the strategic resolver of the angelic conflict, as well as sharing that resolution with winner believers throughout the ages.
In the dispensations of the hypostatic union and the Church, the prosecution has its answer to Satan’s presentation of his appeal = the rebuttal phase of the trial.
The Lord Jesus Christ was the first witness.
Christian marriage is unique because its standards and values, EPH 5:22-33, are higher than any standards that have ever been communicated to mankind.
The predominant problem with the woman toward the man is lack of respect.
[the] gunaikes [wives] tois [to the] idios [your own] andrasin [husbands] hupotassesthe [submit] hos [as] to [to the] kurio [Lord.]
The predominant problem of the man is bitterness and hypersensitivity.
COL 3:19 “Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter against them.”
He loved her with an impersonal unconditional love, but it was not a non-aggressive passive love.