- 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?
BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY
(Joh 4:24) “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
At the moment of salvation, God the Holy Spirit indwells the body of the believer in Jesus Christ. (Rom. 8:9; 1Co. 3:16, 1Co. 6:19)
Two power systems reside inside every believer; the power of the flesh (sin nature), and the power of the Spirit of God. (Rom. 7:17, Rom. 7:23, Rom 15:13)
The option and the objective of the spiritual life volitionally choose not to live in the energy of the flesh, but in the power of the Spirit. (Rom. 8:4-8) This is a decision to live by faith.
There are four major commands in scripture concerning spiritual life.
- Be filled with the Spirit. (Eph. 5:18) This is a life of study in God’s word (Joh 16:13), obedience in fellowship (1Jo. 1:7), and confession and correction when we sin. (1Jo 1:9, 1Co. 11:31)
- Grieve not the Spirit. (Eph. 4:30) The context shows that personal sins grieve the Spirit, thus breaking fellowship with God, for then the sin nature is in control. Again, confession and correction are necessary.
- Quench not the Spirit. (1Th. 5:19) Here the context suggest that the Spirit is quenched by sins of omission, neglect of spiritual disciplines, apathy toward spiritual responsibilities. Compare 2Ti. 1:6-7.
- Walk in the Spirit. (Gal. 5:16, Gal. 5:25) Walking in the Spirit is the maintenance of fellowship with God, persistence in the filling of the Spirit. This is also called “walking in the light.” (1Jo. 1:7)
Walking in the Spirit will result in consistent spiritual growth. (Eph. 3:14-19; 2Pe 1:5-7, 2Pe 3:18)
The evidence of walking in the Spirit will be increasing spiritual fruit in the believers life. (Gal. 5:22-23, 1Co. 13:4-8)
The spiritual life is a life of “abiding in Christ” (Joh 15:1-17), and is marked by study, effective prayer, productivity, joy and love.
The spiritual life is the means by which Jesus Christ is formed in us, and lives through us. (Gal. 2:20, Gal. 4:19)