- The Paradox of History
- The Essence of God
- Raw Material
- Available People
- Humility
- Spiritual Gifts
- Meekness
- Baptisms
- Three Functions of the Believer
- Ambassadorship
- Seven Figures of Christ and the Church
- The Mature Believer and Personal Accountability
- Tongues as a Spiritual Gift
- Prophecies of Jesus Christ in the Psalms
- The Perspective of Grace
- Discipleship
- Blessing and Reward
- How to Redeem Time
- Dispensations Timeline
- The Rapture
- The Day of the Lord and The Day of Christ
- The Good Fight of Faith
- Suffering
- Decisions
- No Truce
- Peace
- 10 Principles of Warfare
- God is Able, God Is Faithful
- Present Session of Christ
- Religion: The Enemy’s Ace
- Power In Us
- Faith
- Small Things
- Five Techniques (to spirituality)
- Eight Sabbaths
- Faith-rest
- Strange Tests
- Daily Disciplines
- The Faith-rest Technique
- Three Sources of Temptation
- Divine Wisdom
- The Value of Wisdom
- Evil
- The Royal Code
- The Character of Grace
- The Cross to the Crown
- Water and the Spirit
- Spirituality
- Synonomous Terms
- Reversionism and Recovery
- Soul Strengths and Soul Kinks
- Discipline
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Advance
- The Race of Life
- The Will of God
- The Old Sin Nature
- Energized Prayer
- Abiding: Absolute Thinking
- God’s Faithfulness
- Salvation in The Book of James
- “All things work together …”
- Biblical Spirituality
- Dispensations
- Death
- Endurance
- Essence of God Acronym
- Eternal Security
- Fellowship with God
- Five Commands for Christian Soldiers
- Five Factors of Effective Faith
- Five Techniques of the Christian Way of Life
- Five works of the Holy Spirit
- Five Works of the Spirit in Regard to the Word
- Free Will
- Freedom
- God is Able
- God Revealed
- Greek
- Hebrew Words for Faith
- Hermeneutics
- Imitation of Christ
- Man’s Barrier with God
- Parakaleo
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Recovery
- Seven Steps of Spiritual Retreat
- Spiritual Flexibility
- Spiritual Rest
- Stages of Spiritual Growth
- Take up Your Cross and Follow Him
- The Blood of Christ
- The Call of God
- The Daily Care of the Soul
- The Doctrine of Sin
- The Good Soldier of Jesus Christ
- Christ’s Work on the Cross
- The Church
- The Holy Spirit and Christ
- The I AM Sayings of Christ
- The Importance of the Word of God
- The Overcomer
- The Plan of God
- The Spirit in the Old Testament
- The Way of Salvation
- The Way to be Salt and Light
- The Words of Jesus
- The Work of Christ on the Cross
- Using the Physical to Learn the Spiritual
- Ways of Learning
- The Christian Way of Life
- The Christian Walk
- Scriptural Proof of the Pre-tribulation Rapture
- The Five Crowns
- Jesus Christ in the Tabernacle
- 5 Circles of Faith around Jesus
- The 4 Points of the Cross
- Should I Confess My Sins?
- Canonicity Notes Available — How we got our #Bible
- Eternal Security when You Believe in Jesus
ABIDING: ABSOLUTE THINKING
Joh 15:1-10
The word “abide” speaks of perfect provision, supply, sustenance, fellowship — at home-ness! (Deu. 33:27) “The eternal God is our dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms…(v. Deu. 33:28) so Israel dwells in security…in a land of grain and new wine.” (Note absolutes)
“Abide” in (Joh 15:4) is an aorist imperative (ingressive) — a command possible at all times because of absolute provisions. (Psa. 90:1-2b) “Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations…even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.”
There is never a time or condition under which the child of God may not “abide.” (Psa. 91:1) “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say (volitional) to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust (Batach — body slam, 1Pe. 5:7)!'” (vs. Psa. 91:4) “He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings you may seek refuge; His faithfulness (absolute) is a shield and bulwark.” (cf vs. Psa. 91:5-6) (vs. Psa. 91:9-10a) “For you have made the Lord, my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place. No evil will befall you.”
The key to abiding is living in the reality of Absolute Divine Provisions. (Joh 13:17) “If you know these things (4 absolutes — salvation, security, spirituality, service), you are blessed (joy) if you do them.” (i.e.: Live by them)
“Abiding” means there is total provision for every need of every believer at every point of his life. (Psa. 23:1-5) “The Lord is my Shepherd, I cannot lack… My cup overflows.” (Jam. 1:2-4) “Consider it all joy my brethern, when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance, and let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Earthly problems are temporal and variable, but Divine solutions are absolute. (Gen. 50:20) “You meant it to me for evil, but God meant it to me for good.” (Rom. 8:28) “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God (abide) and are called according to His purpose.” Loneliness, emptiness, weakness, helplessness, failure, defeat, scorn, contempt — all bid us “Abide in Him.” The pain of defeat, shame of sin remind us of the price of not abiding!
The only time Jesus Christ is at home in us is when we abide in Him. (Eph. 3:16-17) “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory (absolute provisions), to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; so that Christ may be at home in your hearts through faith…”