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1.1. The 12 Steps of the Spiritual Life The 12 Steps of the Spiritual Life

2.2. GodlinessGodliness

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Godliness• "For the grace of God that brings salvation

has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works." - Titus 2:11-14.

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Phase II Spiritual Life

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Reciprocation

• Noun1.reciprocation - the act of making and return or doing something in return

• .reciprocation - mutual interaction; the activity of interchanging or reciprocating

• 18 There is no fear in love but full-grown love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of lov].

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• 19 We love Him, because He first loved us.

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Reverence

• reverence: high opinion of something• 1 John 2:5 but whoever keeps his

word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may be sure that we are in him.

• 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

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Reverence

• n.1.A feeling of profound awe and respect and often love; veneration.

• Ps 119:161 Princes pursue and persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your words

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• 163 I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law do I love.

• 162 I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great spoil.

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Reverence

••• 165 Great peace have they who love

Your law; nothing shall offend them or make them stumble.

• Ps 119:164 Seven times a day and all day long do I praise You because of Your righteous decrees.

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Rest• "Come unto me, and I will give you rest. Take

my yoke upon you, and learn of me; and ye shall find rest to your souls -Mt.11:28-29

• Hebrews 3:10 “for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.”

• Ephesians 2:10 (YLT) “for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

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Residency

• residency: the act of dwelling in a place.• Residency is the act of establishing or maintaining a

residence in a given place.• Residency: A duration of stay required by state and

local laws that entitles a person to the legal protection and benefits provided by applicable statutes.

• Jude 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

• 2 Thess 3:5 • May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

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Residency

• I Jn 4:15 Anyone who confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides (lives, makes His home) in him and he [abides, lives, makes his home] in God.

• I Jn 4:16 And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him.

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Reckoning

• The verb reckon has 6 meanings:• #1: expect, believe, or suppose• #2: judge to be probable• #3: consider or deem to be; regard• #4: make a mathematical calculation or

computation• #5: have faith or confidence in• #6: take account of

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Reckoning

• Reckon• The word means “to regard as being, to count as

true.” • Romans 6:11 calls upon us to count upon the truths

of our identification with Christ: “Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus” (ASV).

• We count upon the truth that is made known to us; we exercise faith by resting upon the facts.

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Reckoning

• Three Steps in Reckoning• (1) Know, and reckon upon, the identification truths.

(Knowledge)• (2) Abide, and rest, in our Liberator. (Mechanics)• (3) Depend upon, and walk in, the Spirit.

(Execution) • Not just the first step, not even the first and second,

but all three comprise the walk of reckoning!

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Resistance to Temptation

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• resistverb1.To oppose actively and with force: withstand. Idioms: mount/offer resistance, put up a fight, standup to/against.

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Resistance to Temptation

• Temptation is a solicitation to express independence form God through violation of His standards.

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The 3 components necessary to this Spiritual

Skill:• Understanding temptation.

– (Doctrinal Orientation)

• Recognizing incidences of temptation.

– (Spiritual Orientation)

• The Will Power choice to resist.

– (Volitional Orientation)

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Understanding Temptation

James 1:13 “Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am being tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone”.

• Corrected translation: “not even one person (medeis), when he is solicited to do evil, should say that it is from the ultimate source of God that he is tempted, because the God is untemptable by evil, and does not tempt any person (oudeis) with evil .”

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Resistance to Temptation

James 1:14 “But each one is tempted…”• “but each one” = hekastos = each

individual• “is tempted” = peirazo (Pres Pass. Ind.) =

receives a solicitation to do evil– Temptation arises from one of three sources:

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Resistance to Temptation

•“when he is carried away …”–when he is carried away =

ezelko = taken in tow, pulled

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• “by his own lust and enticed.”– by = hupo = under the authority of

• his own = idios = his personal or his individual

• lust = epithumia = lust pattern

– and enticed = deleazo = baited

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Resistance to Temptation

• “by his own lust and enticed.”– by = hupo = under the authority of

• his own = idios = his personal or his individual

• lust = epithumia = lust pattern

– and enticed = deleazo = baited

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Resistance to Temptation

• James 1:15 Then when (THIS) lust has conceived,

• then = eita = next in sequence• when (THIS) lust = ho epithumia

= this specific lust pattern• has conceived = sullambano =

“receives seed”, is impregnated

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Resistance to Temptation

• “it gives birth to sin...”– it gives birth = tikto = conceives

(produces an embryo)– to sin = hamartia = the general term

used for sin, meaning to miss the goal or target. This is the “embryo”.

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Resistance to Temptation

• “and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.“– sin = hamartia – and when accomplished = apoteleo = from the

ultimate source of its completion, at “full term” (gestation)

– brings forth = apokueo = gives birth to– death = thanatos = death

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The Sequence of Resisting

• 1. Recognize Temptation.– Know what Sin is

• 2. Refuse to entertain the temptation– “I reject that thought.”

• 3. Rehearse the appropriate doctrine or scripture.– Run it through your mind

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Recovery

• Recovery noun • 1.The act of getting back or regaining:

recoup, repossession, retrieval. See get/lose.

• 2.A return to normal health: rally, recuperation. See health/sickness.

• 3.A return to former prosperity or status: comeback.

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Righteousness

• righteousnessnoun1.The quality or state of being morally sound: good, goodness, morality, probity, rectitude, rightness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness. See right/wrong.2.The moral quality of a course of action: ethic (used in plural), ethicality, ethicalness, morality, propriety, rightfulness, rightness.

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Renovation

• the act of improving by renewing and restoring

• Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to theis Cosmic System, but be transformed by the renovation of your thinking; that you may demonstrate the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

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Rehearsal

• The process of repeating information in working memory . This facilitates the short-term recall of information and its transfer to long-term memory.

• Rehearsing a future event through imagination.

• Repetition of an action so as to develop or maintain one's skill: drill, exercise, practice, study, training.

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Recognition

coming to understand something clearly and distinctly.Synonyms: realization

• 1 Cor 11:19 for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

• Tit 3:9 And foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from—for they are unprofitable and vain.

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Recognition

• It is the Holy Spirit who must teach us by means of the Word, “comparing spiritual things with spiritual” (1 Cor. 2:13).

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Revelation

• revelation has 3 meanings:• the speech act of making something

evident• an enlightening or astonishing disclosure• communication of knowledge to man by a

divine or supernatural agency

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Revelation

• Ps 40:10 I have not concealed Your righteousness within my heart; I have proclaimed Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I have not hid away Your steadfast love and Your truth from the great assembly.

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Revelation

• I Jn 4:12 No man has at any time [yet] seen God. But if we love one another, God abides (lives and remains) in us and His love (that love which is essentially His) is brought to completion (to its full maturity, runs its full course, is perfected) in us!