Sermon Tone Analysis

SYSTEM TESTING 

IN THE DEVIL’S WORLD 

      Genuine unfairness does exist in human organizations and systems.

Sooner or later every believer on the momentum line when he is ready will be tested by an unfair system; in your job, family, doctors office, traffic, church, store, social club, marriage, restaurant, nation, city and or even from our own failures; real or imagined.

Etc…

     And */WE KNOW/*/ that God causes *ALL* *THINGS *//[//Even our own failures//]/* */to work together for good to those who love God, //[//Rebound and stay in fellowship//]// to those who are called according to His purpose./

/[//To reach Spiritual maturity//] /(Rom 8:28)

     /For God, who said, Light shall shine out of darkness,/ (Gen 1:3; John 1:5)/ is The One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge/ (2Pe 1:19) /[Spiritual Thoughts leading to Spiritual maturity] of the glory [Spiritual life] of God in the face of Christ.

[His prototype Spiritual life] But we have this treasure [The Holy Spirit, Spiritual life, Divine Thoughts, Etc.] in earthen vessels, [Human bodies] so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God! *and not from ourselves;* we are afflicted in every way, [Sin nature tests] but not crushed; perplexed, [Thought tests] but not despairing; persecuted, [People tests] but not forsaken; struck down, [Organization and disaster tests] but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus,/ (Rom 6:6-8)/ so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

/(Rom 8:11; (2Pe 1:4) For /we who live are constantly being delivered over to death [Experiential death to the old sin nature]/ (John 12:24-25) /for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus [The New nature] /(2Pe 1:4) /also may be manifested/ (Gal 2:20) /in our mortal flesh./

(2Co 4:6-11)

     The advancing believer needs to know this is a necessary part of growth that God has brought to our life!

(Deut 32:39) do not allow testing to contribute to failure.

(It is only a test!) (Rom 4:20-21)

     /And He has said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.

Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, [Tests] so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

[Spiritual life made stronger] Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, [Sin nature tests] with insults, [People tests] with distresses, [Thought tests] with persecutions, [System tests] with difficulties, [Disaster tests] for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, [Tested] then I am strong.

[Spiritual growth]/ (2Co 12:9-10)

     /If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, [To live in fellowship] because of this the world hates you.

Remember the Word that I said to you, A slave is not greater than his master.

If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My Word, they will keep yours also.

But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me./ (John 15:18-21)

     Should you become bitter or vindictive and vent your wrath to anyone who will listen?

Should you take vengeance or seek to vindicate your sullied honor?

Should you threaten to sue?

Or fall into worry or self-pity?

Indeed not!

As a member of the royal family of God, possessing the Spiritual life that sustained the Lord Jesus Christ, you were never intended to behave as unbelievers do, or as believers behave in carnality!

(1Co 3:1-3) But if you allow these momentum tests to lure you into a pattern of sin nature reaction, you miss your opportunity!

You act like a Spiritual peasant.

Failing the system test means failure to advance at this particular stage of your Spiritual life.

No testing of the growing believer ever comes as an accident.

(1Co 10:13) /If you are treated wrongly, God has a purpose in it!

/He has a reason for bringing pressure into your life.

His objective is to accelerate your growth and capacity for more lovingkindness and Truth! (Psa 108:4; Psa 57:3) When an organization implies that you have failed, you have an occasion to advance that does not exist under conditions of success.

*/We can always learn from our failures; rarely do we learn from our successes./*/

/At one time or another everyone fails or is considered a failure!

But it is your attitude in failure that determines your mettle, not your attitude in success!

Anyone can conduct himself with dignity and poise under agreeable circum­stances, but when difficulties abound; then a person’s true Spiritual growth is illuminated.

/What you really are is what you are under pressure!/

Unless God opens our eyes, we will not see!

You can try to never fail; God will make sure you do! (Job 5:17-18) Most do not have that problem! */In other words, paradoxically, failure is the making of a person.

No one can succeed without overcoming failure!

/*In disaster he forges the Virtues that lead him out of failure into success.

Hence, system testing should be the challenge of the believer, not the destruction!

You have no excuse for being shocked when you are treated unfairly.

Whoever told you the world was fair?

Or that you were perfect!

(1Pe 4:12-13) You will fail, and you will be treated unjustly!

(1Pe 2:18-25) In reality or just imagined!

We grow when we Think with His Promises!

(Rom 8:28-32) Integrity comes from Truth — Divine Thinking in the soul, which Satan opposes.

As the enemy of Truth, Satan can only be unfair.

But in the very quality he lacks, God uses to bless us; and provides strength to deal with his injustices.

In Truth and by the integrity of living in the Spiritual life, (Eph 3:10-11) we have the solution to system testing.

(Heb 5:8) 

 

SOCIAL LIFE WITH GOD

     */In Reality, the solution to all testing is our social life with God./*

In specific application, the answer is the combination of implementing Impersonal love and using the faith-rest drill.

Anyone with discernment and sufficient humility to possess common sense limits his social life!

(Psa 26:1-8) He reserves his Personal Esprit de corps love for just those friends who are not only honorable and stimulating but are also compatible with God Thoughts, Interests, and Objectives in life.

(2Co 6:14-18) Beyond that inner circle are many acquaintances whose company he may enjoy on a limited basis.

You choose your friends by their Virtues; you like their approach to life and value their observations.

Because of their integrity you respect their positive volition and Spiritual growth level; therefore, you care what they Think.

When you become the victim of an inequitable system; know that System testing often brings the added consequence of peer pressure and exclusion.

You may imagine that your friends condemn you, “or they do” so you avoid them and cut out your social life altogether.

But such a reaction is strictly preoc­cupation with self.

You have fallen into the arrogance of human false reality and self-pity of the cosmic system!

But you may also react by going out of your way to explain yourself.

You may devote tremendous energy to justifying yourself so friends will not assume the worst.

But people will think whatever the old sin nature wants them to think.

(1Pe 2:15) When you have been rejected, fired, or censured by an organization, there will always be people who will look down on you.

Gloaters are never hard to /find, /especially if you have excelled in the past.

When your reputation and good name come under attack, you may lose some friends, but they were not true friends in the first place.

If they forsake you, (Heb 13:5-6) */God will not!

/*You have a choice you can believe what you see and hear or you can believe God's Word! (Prov 16:7; Prov 21:1; (2Co 5:7) /Genuine believers are revealed under pressure!/

Therefore, momentum testing has the added benefit of winnow­ing our social life.

(Separating us from the wrong people)  In the final analysis, our social life with God is far more important than our social life with people!

Our relationship with God is our stability!

(This is only possible by resisting our desires!

and obeying His!) (2Co 5:15) He is not upset because you have been treated wrongly.

He desires that you be Occupied with Him!

And He knows that system testing can accelerate your progress toward that goal!

We normally call our fellowship with God “Spirituality” or “worship” or “the Christian way of life,” but these often fail to communicate.

“Social life with God” more aptly describes our fellowship with Him.

We can also enjoy /God /during our lives on earth!

Through His Truth and lovingkindness!

(Psa 25:10) We can find pleasure in Him.

Our social life does not depend on being able to see, touch, or hear God; the Word of God is a much /“more reliable witness”/ than our human senses!

(2Pe 1:19) When we make our relationship with God our most important social life; that /is /Spiritual momentum!

This is the interlock between Truth in gate four of the Spiritual life and Personal love for God in gate five.

If you’re social life with Him is right, then no failure or alleged failure in life can cause you to use your own volition to destroy yourself in the satanic system, this is based on your harmonious rapport with God! (Amos 3:3) Since the challenge to your Spiritual momentum involves: sin nature, people, thought, system and disaster testing; the solutions to these separate pressures must com­bine!

The believer must utilize Impersonal love to deal with the people in the sys­tem and must use the faith-rest drill to cope with the injustices of the system itself.

This will happen over and over and over again!

Until we completely live in God's Reality, by God's will!

Or we live by our own reality by Satan's will; (John 6:66-68 ) and die the sin unto death, (Jer 23:17-18) */our choice!/* (Heb 10:26-27) *We are not our own we were bought with a price!* (1Co 6:19-20; Jer 23:22) (Do we go all in?

Or do we fold?) (1Jn 1:5-6)

 

DIRECT ATTACKS OF THE COSMIC SYSTEM SATANIC CONTROL OF THE SOUL

     Satan has no integrity!