Part 6 :: Lesson Summaries

Lesson 151

Using the faith rest drill. Deflating unbelief by exposing its foolishness. Unbelief is structurally hypocritical. How the Apostle Paul utilized the Word of God to confront a culture of unbelief (Paul dismantled his hearer’s worldview). The purpose of history. Questions and answers.

Lesson 152

Paul confronts unbelief (Continued). The purpose of history. There are right ways and wrong ways to think. The resurrection of Christ is the first installment of the eternal state and, therefore, a massive threat to the unbeliever. God can’t reveal Himself any clearer than He is in the person of Jesus Christ. Recognizing foolishness for foolishness and wisdom for wisdom.

Lesson 153

Basic promises from the Word of God. The origin of the Church. The kingdom will be established sequentially. Theology concerning the millennium establishes the priorities for the obedience of the Church. Dispensational versus non-dispensational reformed theology. The clear pattern of God working in history and the agency of man’s negative choices. Questions and answers.

Lesson 154

John the Baptist and Jesus Christ had the same message at the beginning of Christ’s ministry: “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The cross works out of Christ’s rejection as king. The first and second advents of Christ are inseparately tied together. A weak view of Christ leads to a strong view of Caesar (The State). The sin central to God the Holy Spirit’s gospel ministry is the sin of rejection and disbelief in Jesus Christ. The ascension of Christ was as much a physical event as the cross. Questions and answers (Clear gospel presentations).

Lesson 155

Faith rest (Romans 8:28). The pagan mind always attempts to remove personal responsibility before God. The physical ascension of Christ proves that Pentecost was not the second coming of Christ. The ascension and the three heavens. The ascension and session of Jesus Christ.

Lesson 156

(Promise - Romans 8:28) Resting in the fact that God has a perfect plan. Old Testament pictures of the ascension and session of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul identified Jesus Christ with YHWH God of the Old Testament. God views the political power structures of history, in a fallen world, as sub-human, animal-like. How the New Testament uses the “Son of Man” imagery. Looking above history. Questions and answers.

Lesson 157

(Promise - Romans 8:28) Reasons for suffering. All Christian suffering has a rational and ethical justification, but that justification may remain at the Creator level (Job). Old Testament passages that New Testament authors used to explain the ascension and session of Christ. Democracy and paganism. Questions and answers.

Lesson 158

When God judges, He always saves and, when He saves, He always judges. There’s always the threat of judgment in the message of God’s grace. The doctrinal consequences of Christ’s ascension and session. Judgment-salvation. The criteria for God’s perfect discrimination. Imputation has powerful implications. The high purpose for recording history is to document God and man’s behavior. Nature is involved in judgment-salvation as it relates to Christ’s session. Angelic involvement in God’s control of nature and history. Questions and answers.

Lesson 159

(Promise - 1 Peter 5:6-10) God never saves apart from judgment. When God judges, He judges man, nature and angels (as part of nature). Angels are implicated in historic acts. Angelic capabilities. Angels and political leaders. The fall of Satan. The angelic conflict and the resurrected, ascended and seated Jesus Christ. Questions and answers.

Lesson 160

(Promise - Philippians 4:6-7) Satan’s program and objectives in human history. Reasons for and categories of human suffering. God adjusts national boundaries according to whether people are seeking God or not. Suffering examples from Zechariah and Job. Satan’s operation is to get the creature to agree with him that God is not worthy of praise, worship and trust. Questions and answers.

Lesson 161

The heavenly origin of the Church. The credentials of Jesus Christ, sitting at the Father’s right hand, cannot be challenged by Satan. David as an analog of Jesus Christ waiting for His kingdom. Christ’s current indirect strategy. Jesus Christ proved out the Church age procedures available to every believer. Tactical victories in the angelic conflict. The impulse behind human good. Questions and answers.

Lesson 162

(Promise - Ephesians 3:20) Church history leading up to the reformation. Reformed theology. The early reformation. Luther and Calvin defined faith as assurance. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation reformers changed Luther and Calvin’s soteriology in response to Roman Catholic counterattacks. Soteriology, not eschatology, was the central battleground of the reformation. Questions and answers.

Lesson 163

(Promise - Romans 8:32) The Bible doesn’t view faith as weak knowledge. The reformers advanced some elements of theology and froze some others in place. A point-by-point analysis of the acrostic TULIP. To “set aside one’s beliefs” is to adopt other beliefs. For Calvin, “because one has assurance of salvation, one can walk by faith” (relies on the perseverance of God rather than that of the believer). Questions and answers.

Lesson 164

Reformed and dispensational theology. Reformed theology kept some Roman Catholic practices and elements of Catholic theology. An example of how reformed theology attempts to attack premillennialism. The issue is how you think about faith. The effects of covenant theology. Covenant theology inductively creates two generic covenants, which are not stated in Scripture, above all the biblical covenants that are stated in Scripture. Reformed theology has frozen the 16th and 17th century level of theology into permanent creeds and established unique rules for Biblical interpretation. Questions and answers.

Lesson 165

(Promises) Dispensational theology. Dispensationalism carries the protestant reformation one more step: into the area of eschatology. Dispensational theology was the dominating force in the modern missionary movement. The structure of dispensationalism. Dispensationalism emphasizes a literal interpretation of the biblical covenants. Dispensationalism believes the ultimate purpose of history is doxological, not redemptive. Dispensational theology starts with the Old Testament and works forward to the New Testament. Questions and answers.

Lesson 166

The verb for “fulfilled” is sometimes used, in Scripture, as a platform or analogy and does not always refer to prophesy. The ultimate purpose of history is doxological, not redemptive. “If life in the resurrected state has a purpose, goals must exist beyond salvation.” Israel and the Church are two distinct and separate peoples of God. Dispensational theology and reformed theology have differences regarding the nature and mission of the Church. Historic fruits of dispensationalism. Questions and answers.

Lesson 167

(Promise – Isaiah 26:3, 4) The events of Acts chapter one (Acts 1:1-8). Christ’s session precedes and forms the basis of Pentecost. John’s baptism. Jesus Christ reveals the coming baptism of the Holy Spirit. The kingdom postponed and the coming Church Age. Questions and answers.

Lesson 168

(Promise – Colossians 2:6) God has chosen to play favorites in human history, but He also holds His own people to higher standards! The earthly origin of the Church. What was observed at Pentecost. The Old Testament Jewish calendar reveals God’s precise direction of human history. Questions and answers (Basic truths that compose the gospel).

Lesson 169

Always envelop problems inside the Word of God. The detail of prophetic fulfillment reflects the veracity of the Word of God. The Old Testament Jewish calendar is the timepiece of human history. Mastering the logic of Peter’s presentation at the Pentecost event. Questions and answers.

Lesson 170

(Promise – Isaiah 41:10) Peter’s analysis of what occurred at Pentecost. Pentecost results from Christ’s session. Peter takes truths of Christ’s life and puts them inside an Old Testament structure. As a prophet, when writing Psalms, David sometimes enveloped himself prophetically in his whole dynasty. At Pentecost, Peter taught that Jesus Christ fulfilled that whole dynastic picture. Pentecost is the historical evidence that Jesus Christ made it to the Father’s right hand. Christ’s session is the heavenly origin of the Church and Pentecost is the earthly origin of the Church. Questions and answers.

Lesson 171

Guest speaker – Dr. Thomas Ice. Four foundational issues around which eschatology revolves. Amillenialism, premillenialism and postmillennialism. The early Church was entirely premillenial. Preterism, historicism, futurism and idealism. The pre-tribulation, post-tribulation and mid-tribulation rapture views.

Lesson 172

Things to remember about God’s promises. Lack of faith insults God’s character. Step two of the faith rest process. Examples of how to apply the Biblical Framework. Peter’s interpretation of Pentecost. If you are not a dispensationalist, you’ll never understand the book of Acts. Events of the book of Acts were predicted in Matthew chapter 22. Questions and answers.

Lesson 173

A parable of Christ that foretells events recorded in Acts. A quick survey of the book of Acts. God the Holy Spirit works differently in different situations in the book of Acts. The repetition of Pentecostal phenomena tells us about the expansion of the Church. The Church universal. Cessation. Questions and answers.

Lesson 174

The idea of union with Christ is first seen at Saul’s Damascus road experience. How God expects believers to be obedient in one dispensation is different for believers in other dispensations. The human body is designed by God to glorify God as no other part of the universe can. The baptism of the Holy Spirit takes us out of union with the first Adam and puts us in union with the Second Adam (Jesus Christ). Cessation. The Trinity and God the Holy Spirit. Questions and answers.

Lesson 175

Brief review of the life of Christ. Only in the Bible does history have eternal repercussions. How to detect a genuine work of God the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit’s emphasis is always Christ centered. Church creeds and God the Holy Spirit. Historical controversies concerning Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit. The person and work of God the Holy Spirit. God the Holy Spirit was “with” believers prior to Pentecost and is “in” believers after.

Lesson 176

God’s character does not change, but He does vary the way He works in history. Ministries of God the Holy Spirit throughout Scripture. The doctrine of regeneration. “Eternal life” refers to that life which qualifies for eternal fellowship with God. How the Apostle John and the Apostle Paul approach Christian sin and fellowship with God. Questions and answers.

Lesson 177

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Lesson 178

Christ’s subordination of role does not imply inferiority of essence. Applications of kenosis and impeccability. The book of Acts is transitional. Ministries of God the Holy Spirit. The purpose of First John. Clearing up “problem passages” in the epistles of First John, Galatians and Romans. Questions and answers.

Lesson 179

Since God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent, in what sense did He come to earth? Regeneration. Sin is “intrinsically foreign to who we are as regenerate people in Christ.” What it means for Christ to be begotten. The post-Pentecost indwelling of God the Holy Spirit and His pre-Pentecost ministries. Temple imagery for God the Holy Spirit’s indwelling. Questions and answers.

Lesson 180

Brief review. The baptism of God the Holy Spirit. What the word “baptism” means and how it’s used in Scripture. Judgment/salvation imagery for the baptism of the Spirit. The function of the baptism of the Spirit. Arguments for the Church beginning at Pentecost. Implications of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Questions and answers.

Lesson 181

The sealing ministry of God the Holy Spirit. The intercession ministry of God the Holy Spirit. Reasons for suffering. The ministry of God the Holy Spirit related to spiritual gifts. Questions and answers.

Lesson 182

How God the Holy Spirit developed the early Church. In the book of Acts, Israel gradually decreased and the Church gradually increased. Stephen’s apologetic (Acts 6, 7). Questions and answers.

Lesson 183

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Lesson 184

How God the Holy Spirit developed the early Church (continued). Stephan’s apologetic (continued). Anti-Semitism will always receive the cursing of God. Stephan undermines the moral and ethical claim of his accusers with a counterclaim. Questions and answers.

Lesson 185

Jesus Christ predicted what would occur in the book of Acts. The early Church addresses what the function and purpose of the Mosaic Law now is and how it relates to gentile believers. Questions and answers.

Lesson 186

Because of human nature, the Mosaic Law was not successful in motivating obedience. The giving of the Mosaic Law. The Ten Commandments. Most of the Mosaic Law is not repeated in the New Testament. The purpose of the Mosaic Law. Drawing wisdom principles from the Mosaic Law. Questions and answers.

Lesson 187

The prophesies of Genesis Chapter 9 are related to Paul and Luke’s evangelization of Europe (Acts 16). God the Holy Spirit’s leading of the early Church to growth. The dilemma of the early Church concerning what is the status of Jewish believers and their relationship to the Law. Paul’s return to Jerusalem. Questions and answers.

Lesson 188

A story in Acts where divine sovereignty and human responsibility combine. Heresies are like parasites that feed on weaknesses in the Church. God uses human means to reach His sovereign ends. There is a personal cause to all things in history. Ministries of God the Holy Spirit on behalf of every believer. Questions and answers.

Lesson 189

The positional truth unique to the Church age. Things common to every Christian that give meaning and purpose and reveal the content of God’s plan: imputed righteousness; we share in Christ’s resurrection. Questions and answers.

Lesson 190

Positional truth. The core issue of the reformation. God the Father is the ultimate speaker; God the Son is the message spoken; and God the Holy Spirit is the implementation of the message. Resurrection. [Brief Q&A inserted into the lesson: What is eternal life? The Apostle John introduced the idea that eternal life is a present reality for the believer.] Jesus Christ’s priestly intercession.

Lesson 191

In saving man, God’s absolute holiness is protected through the substitutionary, finished, work of Christ. Every other religion on earth compromises God’s holiness. The intercessionary chain, concerning the Church, between the members of the Godhead. God is the personal, ultimate, final cause of all things. The concept of causation means something different for the creature than the Creator. God’s foreknowledge. Questions and answers.

Lesson 192

The works (acts) God the Father causes to come about on behalf of every Church age believer. If there were not a personal sovereign God, there would be no personal human responsibility. Foreknowledge. Predestination. Calling. Justification. Glorification. Cleansing. God gives different amounts of revelation to different people, in different places, at different times in history. God’s sovereignty over evil and good is applied asymmetrically. Questions and answers.

Lesson 193

Features of the founding period of the Church. Why it’s important to study Church history. Historically interrupted revelation requires a canon. Apocalyptic literature. The authority of oral tradition versus the authority of written tradition. Questions and answers.

Lesson 194

Revelation and inspiration are not the same thing. Defining the canon of Scripture. The sufficiency of Scripture. Is the standard of truth (authority) Scripture or Church tradition? Questions and answers.

Lesson 195

God the Holy Spirit’s sequencing of the Church’s foundation period. The authority for truth resides in the revelation (Scripture) not the human messenger or tradition. The tests for a true prophet. The powerful way the New Testament writers showed that Jesus Christ is God. The many arguments concerning Christ’s deity. Questions and answers.

Lesson 196

Major doctrinal questions in Church history, from Augustine to the Reformation. Lines of evidence for the deity of Christ. Historical Church debate over the purpose and results of the work of Christ on the cross. Questions and answers.

Lesson 197

Review of the Framework. Apostolic succession. You can’t understand the cross of Christ without a firm understanding of God’s justice. The ethical dilemma of all religions without a blood atonement. Debates in Church history over human free will and total depravity. In what way are all men related to Adam and the fall? Questions and answers.

Lesson 198

Church history during the Reformation. The issue of how God’s grace comes to man from the cross. The three areas of sin. The Council of Trent and the Reformation. Roman Catholic and Protestant definitions of “justification.” The correct definition of sin. What is the purpose, goal, nature and role of the Church? Questions and answers.

Lesson 199

Church history. Grace is not a reward for obedience. The connection between the nature of the Church and the nature of future things. Premillenialism, amillenialism and postmillennialism. The Church was premillenial for the first 300-400 years of its history. Matter is not inherently evil. Anti-Semitism. The Bible Conference Movement, the Schofield Bible and Fundamentalism. Your view of the nature of the Church is intimately related to your eschatology. Questions and answers.

Lesson 200

If God’s revelation is not your authority, something else will be. Evolution is ultimately an irrational belief because it destroys categories and, therefore, destroys logic. Church history: the Modernists versus the Fundamentalists. Fundamentalists believe what was once universally held by all Christians. Ministries of the three Persons of the Trinity. The intersession of God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Questions and answers.

Lesson 201

Sanctification in the Church Age. The phases of sanctification. The aim of sanctification. Jesus Christ’s humanity went through a sanctification process. The dimensions of sanctification. The true definition of “confession.” The means of sanctification. Questions and answers.

Lesson 202

The carnal mind is at war with God. There is no neutrality in sanctification. The believer is either maturing or not. The dimensions of sanctification. Every other religion in the world demands that man approach God based on his own merit. What occurs at salvation? Ritual uncleanness, in the Old Testament, related to coming into contact with the results of the fall. Confession and restoration to fellowship. The enemies of sanctification.

Lesson 203

The reason for and review of the Biblical Framework. The Bible cannot be taught in isolation from everything else. Biblical doctrines should be associated with great biblical events. One reason for anti-Semitism is a hatred for the fact that God runs history His way. The Bible proclaims that God speaks publically. Questions and answers.

Lesson 204

Review of the ascension and session of Jesus Christ. Christ’s resurrection body is the first piece of the ultimate eternal universe that will replace the current one. No man can totally suppress his knowledge of God. Aspects of Christ’s ascension and session. Praying in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Questions and answers.

Lesson 205

Scripture has publically observable, historical events that no other religion has. Christ’s crucifixion reflects the national refusal to accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah. The three years Jesus Christ was on earth are packed with Old Testament background. The suffering servant and the glorious king pictures of the Messiah are reconciled by the inter-advent age. Pentecost was the manifestation, on earth, of Christ’s session in heaven. Questions and answers.

Lesson 206

The inter-advent age illustrates judgment/salvation. Five things to associate with judgment/salvation. Christ denied that the Church existed in His day. The term “Church” does not refer to every believer in every age. The “body of Christ.” Questions and answers.

Lesson 207

The stages of Church history. The book of Acts should not be considered normative for the Church Age. The issue of oral traditions. What distinguishes Israel from the Church? Questions and answers.

Lesson 208

The Biblical view of history contrasted with the pagan view. Distinctions between measures of progress for Israel and the Church. To understand the Word of God, you must understand God’s covenants with Israel. The covenants with Israel, blessings and cycles of national discipline. God follows through on His promises for His own glory. Questions and answers.

Lesson 209

Understanding how Israel functions in history. Israel’s physical and spiritual deliverance. How Old Testament prophets administered the Word of God. Rib proceedings. Technology from the antediluvian civilization. The “glory of God” means that God is concerned with His reputation. Questions and answers.

Lesson 210

You will not understand the prophesies of the Bible if you do not understand the distinction between Israel and the Church. Metaphors for childbirth used in prophesy related to the kingdom. The terms “Day of the Lord,” “Jacob’s Trouble,” and “Daniel’s 70th Week.” The “Tribulation.” Questions and answers.

Lesson 211

History is a sequence of things that refute man’s excuses and displays man’s depravity. The final milestones of Israel. Resurrection is either to damnation or blessing and is fixed forever, without conversion. Themes common to the Church. The rapture of the Church.

Lesson 212

Man chose to fall while in a sinless environment, revealing that sin’s causes are not environmental. The New Covenant with Israel. Church history. Clarifying what the Church is and is not. The future of the Church. Preterism. Questions and answers.

Lesson 213

The plan for the Church and its termination. Tying in New Testament truths with the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. The amillennial, postmillennial and premillennial eschatologies. The only way to avoid opposition to what God is doing in history is to understand what He is doing in history. How preterism redefines scriptural terms. Problem passages for preterism. Questions and answers.

Lesson 214

Church history can be seen as the maturing of the “body of Christ,” with respect to understanding God’s word. The “these things” and “this generation” of Matthew 24:33-34. Preterism has difficulty with the math of Daniel chapter 9 and is, therefore, forced into a non-literal hermeneutic. Preterism must early date the writing of the book of Revelation. Questions and answers.

Lesson 215

The preterist, futurist and historicist views concerning the Church and prophesy. The post-tribulation, mid-tribulation and pre-tribulation positions concerning the rapture of the Church. Resurrection passages in Scripture. Questions and answers.

Lesson 216

The “tribulation” and the “great tribulation.” The rapture of the Church. The bema seat and the marriage supper of the Lamb. Comparing and contrasting the rapture of the Church and the second coming of Christ. Problems with the post-tribulation view and preterism. Questions and answers.

Lesson 217

The rapture of the Church. The purpose of the tribulation. Israel’s worldwide blessing, past and future. Problems with post-tribulationism. The ¾ tribulation position. Defining “the wrath of God.” Questions and answers.

Lesson 218

Relating the story of Israel and the story of the Church to the end of history. Problems with the ¾ tribulation position. Questions and answers.

Lesson 219

How each tribulation position attempts to immunize the Church from “the wrath of God.” All the judgments in the tribulation represent “the wrath of God.” Problems with the ¾ tribulation view. The mid-tribulation rapture view.

Lesson 220

The mid-tribulation rapture view. The uniqueness of the tribulation period. Evaluating the three key assertions of the mid-tribulation view. The pre-tribulation rapture view. Accomplishments of the pre-tribulation position.

Lesson 221

A Biblical example of how eschatology is used to control one’s soul during historical or personal disaster. Eschatology provides the big picture and gives stability. We don’t feel our way to God; we think our way. The biggest battles in the Christian life are in our soul. Pre-tribulationism and the immanency of the rapture. The features of pre-tribulationalism. The arguments against pre-tribulationalism. Pre-tribulationism throughout church history. Questions and answers.

Lesson 222

Features of pre-tribulationism that make it the best solution. Critics of pre-tribulationism. Many cults today are modern versions of ancient heresies. The Church is not found in Matthew chapter 24. God has very real contingencies in history that do not compromise His sovereignty. Questions and answers.

Lesson 223

Review of pre-tribulationism. The four historical objections to pre-tribulationism. The suffering in the tribulation is not discipline; it is judgment. The purpose of the Biblical Framework. We must associate God, man and nature with the cosmic act (historical event) of creation. Questions and answers.

Lesson 224

Why we need the Biblical Framework. The truths of scripture must support each other, integrate with human history and affect every area of knowledge. The Biblical definition of “faith.” If you don’t believe in God, you have no basis to make a moral judgment. Examples of applying the Biblical Framework. Final questions and answers on the Biblical Framework.

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