- 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?
Seven Steps of Spiritual Retreat
Eph. 4:17-19
Heb. 10:38-39 “But the just shall live by faith, and if he turns back (retreats), my soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who turn back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the persevering of the soul.”
THE FIRST STEP OF RETREAT IS WHEN THE BELIEVER LIVES JUST LIKE AN UNBELIEVER. This is the “walk” of carnality (1Co. 3:1-3) and worldliness. (Jam. 4:1-4)
THIS RESULTS IN A VACUUM, A VOID IN THE MIND. The mind of a believer is designed for the word of God. (Rom. 12:2, Eph. 4:23-24) The believer now attempts to fill the void with things of this world. Note the picture in Jer. 2:13. Bible study ceases here.
SPIRITUAL VACUUM PRODUCES A BLACKOUT IN THE SOUL. The “understanding darkened” is the blackout of light from past Bible learning. Once we reject the necessity of Bible study in our life, we begin to dismantle edification already in the soul.
WE ENTER A LIFE ALIENATED FROM GOD AND HIS GRACE. The “abundant life” is rejected for the temporal life. We have volitionally isolated ourselves spiritually and alienated ourselves from God’s will. Instead of being “set apart” from the world, we are from God. (Gal. 5:1-7)
THE HEART NOW BECOMES HARDENED, THE SOUL SCARED. The process called “Hardness of the heart” (Heb. 3:7, Heb. 3:15) is the destructive process in the soul resulting from rejecting God or His word. First, it is volitional, then “God hardens” the heart as judgment. (Exo. 4:21, Exo. 7:3; Rom. 1:18-28)
THE REBEL NOW BETRAYS HIMSELF TO SELF GRATIFICATION, WORLDLINESS. This is the “frantic search for happiness” seen in Jam. 4:1-4 and Eze. 16. The word “deliver over” is the same word used of Judas’ betrayal of the Lord. The believer’s sin now becomes Idolatry and Spiritual Adultery. The “friend of the world” has made himself “an enemy of God“. (Jam. 4:4, Phi. 3:18)
THE FINAL STAGE IS TOTAL SELF DEFILEMENT IN IMPLACABLE LUST. “Every kind of impurity” means all limits and boundaries have been passed (cf. Rom. 1:28-32) “Greediness” is a word meaning “Insatiable and implacable; unable to be satisfied“, the soul has become a “broken cistern“. (Jer. 2:13)
PRINCIPLE: The only hope is recovery according to the steps of Jam. 4:6-10, followed by persistent growth outlined in 2Pe. 1:5-7. Otherwise, the end is the “Sin unto death“. (1Jo. 5:16, Act 5:1-11) This believer has not lost salvation, he is simply an “unfruitful branch“. (Joh. 15:2)