Putting on the Lord Jesus Christ

1. Putting on the Lord Jesus Christ

2. The Christian Life (God’s Plan) Position Position Heavenlies Eternity Death/ Rapture Condition Condition

3. The Christian Life (Man’s Plight) Position Heavenlies Eternity Elemental Principles of the World Death/ Rapture Condition

4. Identification Truth • Spirituality: A Complete Package by God’s Plan • Phase 1/Phase 2 Crosswork Distinctions • Reality through Reckoning • The Question of Yielding • Spirituality and Obedience: The Law Problem

5. Identification Truth • Spirituality: A Complete Package by God’s Plan • Phase 1/Phase 2 Crosswork Distinctions • Reality through Reckoning • The Question of Yielding • Spirituality and Obedience: The Law Problem

6. Process of Spirituality 1. Means 2. Need 3. Time 4. Order

7. Process of Spirituality 1. Means 2. Need 3. Time 4. Order

8. Process of Spirituality 1. Means 2. Need 3. Time 4. Order

9. Notes on Isaiah: 2017 Edition Dr. Thomas L. Constable “They accused Isaiah of proclaiming elementary teaching and of speaking to them like small children (cf. 6:9-10). What Isaiah advocated was trust in the Lord rather than reliance on foreign alliances for national security. Isaiah built his hearers' knowledge bit by bit, adding a little here and a little there. This is, of course, the best method of teaching, but it has never appealed to proud intellectuals who consider themselves beyond the simplicity of God's truth. Similarly, today, many modern university professors of religion ridicule those who believe we should take the Bible at face value. “‘There is no more hardened nor cynical person in the world than a religious leader who has seared his conscience. For them, tender appeals which would move anyone else become sources of amusement. They have learned how to debunk everything and to believe nothing (Heb. 10:26-31), all the while speaking loftily of matters of the spirit (Jas. 3:13-18).’” [Oswalt]

10. “To attempt to ‘climb up some other way’ is futile. God’s truth, ministered in God’s way by God’s Spirit, alone frees.” Part Five: A Guide to Spiritual Growth, Chapter 56, Think Position!, p 255

11. “‘Progress is only advancing in the knowledge, the spiritual knowledge, of what we really possess at the outset. It is like ascending a ladder. The ladder is grace. The first step is, we believe that the Lord Jesus was sent of God; second, that in the fulness of His work we are justified; third, we make His acquaintance; fourth, we come to see Him in heaven; we know our association with Him there, and His power here; fifth, we learn the mystery, the great things we are entitled to because of being His body; sixth, that we are seated in heavenly places in Christ; seventh, lost in wonder and in praise in the knowledge of Himself’” (J. B. Stoney). Part One: Principles of Spiritual Growth, Chapter 6, Complete in Him, p 24 “Thank God for the needs that just will not allow the hungry heart to stop short of finding them met in Him. It is necessary to remember a fundamental principle in the spiritual life: that God only reveals spiritual truths to meet spiritual needs…Through the years the hungry-hearted believer finds that he has been brought a long way, and each step of the way has been personally experienced. This is reality which springs from faith founded on the facts of the Word…Yes, brought a long way, walking a step at a time, by faith: The rest of faith concerning our justification; the rest of faith concerning our acceptance; the rest of faith concerning our position in Christ Jesus; the rest of faith concerning our identification with Christ in death, resurrection and ascension. Each step established in the rest of faith brings us to the next one. Each must be settled before the next can be rested on…You cannot deepen spiritual life that is not there! You will only build askew if the foundations are not properly laid!” Part One: Principles of Spiritual Growth, Chapter 15, Rest, pp 62, 63)

12. Process of Spirituality 1. Means 2. Need 3. Time 4. Order

13. Identification Truth • Spirituality: A Complete Package by God’s Plan • Phase 1/Phase 2 Crosswork Distinctions • Reality through Reckoning • The Question of Yielding • Spirituality and Obedience: The Law Problem

14. Identification Truth • Spirituality: A Complete Package by God’s Plan • Phase 1/Phase 2 Crosswork Distinctions • Reality through Reckoning • The Question of Yielding • Spirituality and Obedience: The Law Problem

15. Salvation • Phase 1 – Justification • Phase 2 – Sanctification • Phase 3 – Glorification I have been saved from the penalty of sin - Salvation as a Possession I am being saved from the practice of sin - Salvation as a Process I am yet to be saved from the possibility of sin - Salvation as a Prospect

16. “Much of the whole divine undertaking in salvation is accomplished in the saved one at the moment he exercises saving faith. So, also, some portions of this work are in the form of a process of transformation after the first work is wholly accomplished. And, again, there is a phase of the divine undertaking which is revealed as consummating the whole work of God at the moment of its completion. This last aspect of salvation is wholly future. Salvation, then, in the present dispensation, may be considered in three tenses as it is revealed in the Scriptures: the past, or that part of the work which already is wholly accomplished in and for the one who has believed; the present, or that which is now being accomplished in and for the one who has believed; and the future, or that which will be accomplished to complete the work of God in and for the one who has believed.” Lewis Sperry Chafer, Salvation (Philadelphia, PA: Sunday School Times Company, 1922), 2-3. Cited by Steven R. Cook, M. Div. in “Three Phases of Salvation” on www.thinkingonscripture.com on 11/24/13