House of Hope Freedom Quest 

1. House of HopeFreedom Quest  Jan 2014 Quest For Truth

2. Special thanks to: • God!! • Ron Paulson and Deborah Spencley • Helpers • Pls sign in and get groups assignments. • Fill out evaluation forms!! • Snacks and water. You can donate some money for it. • Pls clean up after yourselves… Brm…

3. What needs do humans have?

4. Basic Human Needs Bodily Needs:  Air, food, water, space, light, touch, exercise. Emotional Needs:  love, patience, kindness, courage, affirmation, greatness, importance, pleasure, honesty, passion Social Needs:  Free will, comradery, family, community, unity, acceptance, contribution Mind needs:  intellect, challenges, like-mindedness, exploration, fascination, excellence

5. Spiritual Needs Something/someone greater than self, a need to worship Guidance, standard Identity Purpose / Destiny Growth, expansion, industry, work Justice and Righteousness .

6. Time Power Order

7. Common Lies Shameful lies:  I shouldn't have so many needs.  Something is wrong with me.  Having needs is a weakness.  It's my fault if I have needs Overbearing lies leading to constant disappointments:  All my needs have to be fulfilled by one person and that person is you. Or maybe it's you, or you?  No one cares. Independence lies:  I don't have any needs. Or I can take care of myself, I don't need anyone. Savior mentally:  I'm responsible for  everyone 

8. 1.  What needs do you find it hard to admit you have or were taught that it's wrong to have?  Which lie has a hold on you? Who taught you that? 2.  Which needs do you feel the deepest void in?  Who or what do you tend to try to fill it with? Who or what do you blame for it not been filled?  (Write the answers down for next time)

9. God Meets Human Needs Omnipotent Source of ALL power ALL authority Omnipresent Source of ALL wisdom and knowledge. Omniscient Source of goodness God the source of provision, plans, perfect timing Source of Identity, Truth and definition. Source of love, joy, rest, relationship

10. Spiritual Needs Something/someone greater than self, a need to worship Guidance, standard Identity Purpose / Destiny Growth, expansion, industry, work Justice and Righteousness .

11. Our identity and destiny comes from what God defined. • We are the only creation God breathed His own breath directly into and we were fashioned into His image. (all other creation made after it’s own kind.)

12. Mankind is God’s beloved bride. • As a young man marries a maiden, so will your sons marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you. Isaiah 62:5 • and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. Eph 5:27

13. What is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him? Yet You have made him a little lower than God, and You crown him with glory and majesty! You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes through the paths of the seas. Psalms 8:4-8 The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, But the earth He has given to the sons of men. Psalms 115:16

14. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdueit.Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” • Subdue (Kabash): to subdue, force, keep under, bring into bondage, make subservient, dominate, tread down. • Rule over, have dominion over (Rada): to rule, have dominion, dominate, tread down, scrape out.

15. Authority = jurisdiction; right to control, command, or determine. Power = ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something, great or marked ability to do or act; strength; might; force. Authority of the earth, God gave to man as a gift. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Roman 11:29. Power/wisdom to execute the authority came through relationship with God.

16. Power - He gave us access to His Power through ORDER and RELATIONSHIP over TIME.  Naming of the animals.  Tending the garden. 

17. God’s design for Tripartite Humans • May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1Thes 5:23 • For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Heb4:12

18. Tripartite Human Soma Seer Hearer Taster Toucher Smeller Pneuma, Ruach Righter-Wronger, Communer, Knower Psyche Mind (Thinker) Emotion (Feeler) Will (Willer)

19. GOD Inward out movement Human spirit communes with God and gets download, mind and emotion analyze it.  Will decides on a response and body expresses that response.

20. Eat of the fruit of Tree of Life. • Eating: mechanically breaking food into piece, break it into building blocks, absorbed into the body and gives energy to the body or becomes building blocks into needed structures. • We break down God’s words, ruminate over it, and it become life energy and foundations of life. • Like eating, we savor and taste the good ness of God.

21. Human Body Truth Human Will Agrees Human Spirit Emotion Mind God is the source of Life

22. Tree of Life has seeds in it and has capability for reproducing. • And God said, “ I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.” Gen 1:29. • And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.  And out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Gen 2:8-9

24. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Gen 3:1-6

25. Eve Sin did not just happen to her.  She actively chose to entertain the temptation/doubt and actively chose to agree with the serpent's lies.  She had a choice to go and verify with God. Fed her mind needs-hunger for knowledge.  Override God's commandment with the rationales.    Fed Emotional/bodily needs-pleasing to the eye and good for food.

26. Not necessarily in that order but the will chooses.

27. Adam Sin did not just happen to Adam.  He actively chose to be passive and did not subdue the serpent and his lies. Inactivity and passivity (choosing not to engage the serpent) did not excuse him from sin and did not excuse him from the consequences of it. 

28. System of Knowledge of Good and Evil Spirit is shaped by what the will decides Evidence via bodily senses (eye, touch, hearing, etc) Serpent Evidence is processed by Mind & Emo, and will chooses Outward in movement

29. Fear Passivity Unforgiveness Judgments Anger Pride Criticism Lust Guilt Death Idolatry Shame Human Will Doubt, lies and accusations Emotions Mind Body Knowledge based on feelings Rational Logic Evidence based on senses of the body

30. Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is good for food.  Every fruit that has seed in it is good for food.  Therefore Fruit of Knowledge of Good and Evil has seeds in it. Seeds reproduces.

31. Anxiety, OCD, Panic Attacks Control Passivity Unforgiveness Judgments Eating Disorders Pride Sicknesses Criticism Addictions Suicide Pornography Manipulation Idolatry Death Perversions Occults Doubt, Lies and accusations Human Will Inner Vows and defense mechanisms Emotions Mind Fear Body Self Righteousness Depression, Shame, Guilt Pride Evidence Instant gratification Hatred False Belief Systems Bitterness

32. Systemic disease of knowledge of good and evil God as the source and definition of spirit life is replaced by Human body, emotion and mind as well as commentaries from the serpent .   Will/spirit is subject to information gathered, processed by the body, emotion and mind Human will is enslaved by the serpent.  You are subject to the one you submit to and agreed with.  Adam and Eve both agreed with the serpent's accusations and lies. 

33. From the information and evidence that is gathered -- we caught  The disease of JUDGING

34. Before Identity is defined by God. After Identity is defined by Knowledge of Good and Evil Judging Shame, Fear of Rejection, Worthless Pride, Worthy

35. Human Spirit • Before: Destiny Defined by God • After: Destiny is defined by natural evidence • Pride Independence • Hopeless Directionless • No future

36. Human Soul • Knowledge and wisdom provided by God • Mind is defined by knowledge • Wise • Stupid

37. Systemic disease of knowledge of good and evil We judge ourselves by this system of good and evil. We judge each other We judge and define God rather than letting Him define all things. 

38. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor? James 4:12.

39. Before Truth is defined by God. Justice is defined by God. God Defines Himself God is the Sovereign Ruler to whom I submit my will. After Truth is defined by Me, Myself and I.  There is no universal truth.      What's right for you doesn't mean it's right for me. Humans evidence defines who God is. God should do as I will. Consequence of Partaking the Fruit

40. God as the source is usurped by UNHOLY TRINITY

41. 9And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. 10Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethen has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. ---- Rev 12:9-10

42. Before We believe what we cannot see and that belief/Faith becomes the evidence in the natural that is to come but not yet seen .   After We believe only what we have evidence for.  What we have evidence for we believe.   Entrance of Doubt Now faith is the substance (assurance, confidence) of things hoped for, the evidence (proof, conviction) of things not seen…Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear (things not yet visible). Heb 11:1, 3

44. Web entangles and reproduces. (Sin that so easily entangles us.  Heb 12:1) SKIT Subject X before Christ

45. Jesus Restores Relationship with God and the ability to draw from the source of life. Ability to eat of the Tree of Life.  Restores the Spirit, Soul, Body alignment. Restore the watering source (word of God, truth as defined by God). The will of humans to be free to choose. 

46. Will gets to choose, what source it draws from, how it draws the nutrients and what waters the tree.

47. Skit con't Subject X after Christ

48. What did Subject X leave out? Do you identify with Subject X?   How so?  Which aspect do you tend to leave out? What does restoring the alignment of spirit, soul and body look like?  What does eating from the Tree of Life look like?

49. Subject X diligently followed God, read God's words, served at church, desired a relationship with God.   What did Subject X not do or not know about?   ----   Address the battle between human flesh and human spirit/will

50. We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.