FBC08 The Church of the Living God (2008) FBC08-01 August 17, 2008 View Class The Church of the Living God: Introduction; The Authority Structure of the Church Age: the Written Word, 1 Tim 3:14; the Spoken Word, v. 15 FBC08-02 August 17, 2008 View Class The Church of the Living God: The Authority Structure of the Church Age: the Spoken Word, 1 Tim 4:15: How You Ought to Behave in the Local Church FBC08-03 August 20, 2008 View Class Authority in the Local Church: the Spoken Word, 1 Tim 4:15; the Local Church: Only Legitimate Classroom for Christianity; the Church at Troas, Acts 20:6-9 FBC08-04 August 21, 2008 View Class The Church at Troas: the Sudden Death of Eutychus & His Resuscitation; Miracles; Reasons for the Resuscitation; Paul’s 5-Hour Sermon & 5-Hour Q & A, 1 Tim 3:15 FBC08-05 August 24, 2008 View Class Attacks on the Local Church; the Authority of the Pastor-Teacher; Policies for Conduct in the GDC Assembly; Resolve Problems from Biblical Solutions FBC08-06 August 24, 2008 View Class Principles on the Local Church: Etymology of Biblical Terms; All Believers are Saints: Set Apart for Special Service; the Local Assembly: Heb 10:24 FBC08-07 August 27, 2008 View Class Mandate to Assemble, Heb 10:24-25; Encouragement of Fellow Believers from Virtue Love & Divine Good; the Habit of Not Assembling; Sowing Discord FBC08-08 August 28, 2008 View Class Sins of the Tongue: Illustrations from Jas 3:1-11: Horses, Ships, Fire, Snakes, & Wells; Discord Reveals Spiritual Adolescence; Chafer on Broken Fellowship FBC08-09 August 31, 2008 View Class Encouragement of Others: Unconditional Love, Royal Law, Problem-Solving Devices; the Evaluation Tribunal; Associations without Discord FBC08-10 August 31, 2008 View Class Spiritual Gifts: Communication, Administration, Interpersonal, & Munificent; Pastor: Sine Qua Non of a Local Church & Grace: the Sine Qua Non of Its Policies FBC08-11 September 3, 2008 View Class Christian Service Organizations: Example: Doctrinal Analysis of Promise Keepers’ Seven Promises; All Spiritual Advancement Originates in the Local Church FBC08-12 September 4, 2008 View Class The Local Church: the Pillar & Support of Truth; Ephesus, the Religious & Economic Center of Asia Minor; Demetrius v. Paul; the Worship of Artemis FBC08-13 September 7, 2008 View Class Architecture of the Temple of Artemis; the Manifest Anger of the Silversmiths, Acts 19:28; the Progression of Uncontrolled Anger, Eph 4:26, 31 FBC08-14 September 7, 2008 View Class Motivational Anger, the Angry Mood, Bitterness, & Operational Anger, Eph 4:26, 31; Gracious Acts, v. 32; Civil Disobedience of the Silversmiths, Acts 19:29 FBC08-15 September 10, 2008 View Class Paul’s Illness: Divine Intervention to Keep Him from the Theater; Spiritual Gifts & Spiritual Common Sense; Prisca, Aquilla, & the Asiarchs Protect Paul FBC08-16 September 11, 2008 View Class The Psychology of Mobs: Confusion at the Theater; Rejection of the 1st & 2nd Commandments by Repetition of the Lie; Truth Discerns and Rejects the Lie FBC08-17 September 21, 2008 View Class British School Requires Idolatry in Its Schools, 2 Rebel; America Still Enjoys “Free Exercise; the Mayor of Ephesus Calms the “Reckless” with the Lie, Acts 19:35-37 FBC08-18 September 21, 2008 View Class The Mayor Sways the “Reckless” with the Law: Courts & Proconsuls, & Fear of the Roman Army; Paul’s Innocent Teachings at Tyrannus Hall; Acts 19:38-41 FBC08-19 September 24, 2008 View Class Jesus Christ Controls History through: His Divine Attributes; the Laws of Divine Establishment; the Hostility of Mankind; Exceptionalism FBC08-20 September 25, 2008 View Class Jesus Christ Controls History through the Hostility of Mankind, Ps 76:10a; the Lord Allows Negative Volition to Validate His Plan; the 5 Cycles of Discipline FBC08-21 September 28, 2008 View Class Jesus Christ Controls History through the Hostility of Mankind: He Lets Evil Run Its Course; Summary of the Concept: Staneski’s “The Drumbeat” FBC08-22 September 28, 2008 View Class Jesus Christ Controls History: Law of Volitional Responsibility, Hos 8:7; Gal 6:7-8; the Preservation of Israel: Anti-Semitism; the 4 Unconditional Covenants FBC08-23 October 8, 2008 View Class Jesus Christ Controls History: Through the Preservation of Israel; Lewis, Thieme, & Griffin on Anti-Semitism; through Preservation of the Universe FBC08-24 October 12, 2008 View Class Jesus Christ Controls History: Through Preservation of the Universe; According to the Spiritual Status of a Client Nation’s Believers, Rev 2:23b FBC08-25 October 12, 2008 View Class Jesus Christ Controls History: Conclusion: Mayor of Ephesus Uses Laws of Divine Establishment, Acts 19:35-41; Kingdom’s Divined Fall, Mt 12:25 FBC08-26 October 15, 2008 View Class Christ Controls History: Application: Client Nation in Crisis & Discord at GDC: Unchecked Result Is Illustrated by the Ruins of the Temple of Artemis FBC08-27 October 16, 2008 View Class The Truth of Christ Brings Down Lucifer’s Lies at the Temple of Artemis; Lack of Truth in Believer’s Souls Leads to National Discipline, Jer 17:9-10; Rev 2:23b FBC08-28 October 19, 2008 View Class Authority of Spoken Word: Review: How One Ought to Behave in the Local Church; Paul’s Assault on Idolatry, 1 Tim 3:15 FBC08-29 October 19, 2008 View Class The Local Church Is the Column & Foundation of Truth in Opposition to the Temple of Artemis: Christ, Doctrine, & Humility Overwhelm the Lie FBC08-30 October 22, 2008 View Class Soul Edifice: Foundation: Christ, Colonnades: Doctrine, Entablature: Humility; Internecine Squabbles; Rationales: the Local Church Is the Only Source of Truth FBC08-31 October 23, 2008 View Class The Authority of the Living Word, 1 Tim 3:16: New England’s God: Billings’s “Chester”; Scripture Is Absolute Truth; the “Mystery of Godliness” FBC08-32 October 26, 2008 View Class Defining “Godliness”: Eusebeia: a “Manner of Life as God would Have It”; Developed through the Unique Spiritual Life & Delegated Power of the Spirit FBC08-33 October 26, 2008 View Class Doctrine of the Mystery: Introduction: the Experiment of the Prototype Spiritual Life of Christ; Mosaic Law’s Yom Kippur Teaches the Work of Christ on the Cross FBC08-34 October 29, 2008 View Class Doctrine of the Mystery: Background of Mystery Cults; Search for Truth: Is Theology Science or Philosophy?: Adler’s Intro to “Theology” in the Syntopicon FBC08-35 October 30, 2008 View Class Doctrine of the Mystery: Background of the Mystery Cults: Theology: Science or Philosophy? Scripture Establishes Absolute Truth thus It Is Both FBC08-36 November 2, 2008 View Class Background of the Mystery Cults: Modern Fraternal Organizations Borrow from Them; Ancient Mythology as Para-History; the Secrets of the Cults FBC08-37 November 2, 2008 View Class Etymology of Musterion: The Doctrines and Secrets of the Cults; Term Used by Jesus & Paul to Describe the Mystery Doctrines of the Church Age FBC08-38 November 5, 2008 View Class The Mystery Doctrines: Baptism of the Holy Spirit; the New Spiritual Species & Roman Adoption; the Royal Family of God; the Protocol Plan of God FBC08-39 November 6, 2008 View Class Doctrine of the Mystery: Imputation of Divine Power; the Two Royal Commissions: Priest & Ambassador; Tolerance Is No Virtue FBC08-40 November 30, 2008 View Class Review: The Mystery Doctrines: Baptism of the Spirit, New Spiritual Species, Royal Family, Protocol, Omnipotence, Commissions; Indwelling FBC08-41 November 30, 2008 View Class Mystery Doctrines: Invisible Heroes: Personal, Historical–Salt of the Earth, Pivot Power, & Body of Christ–& International Impact FBC08-42 December 3, 2008 View Class Invisible Heroes: Angelic; Heritage; & Client Nation Impact: Thieme on Historical Impact: Accurate Interpretation of History; Christian Marriage Impact FBC08-43 December 4, 2008 View Class Mystery of the Marriage of Church Age Believers: Right Man-Right Woman, Eph 5:31-33: Marriage Designed to Reflect Relationship between Christ & His Church FBC08-44 December 7, 2008 View Class The Mystery of the Bride of Christ: Betrothal; Purification at the Evaluation Tribunal of Christ, 1 Cor 3:10-15; the Wedding Party’s “Allelouia,” Rev 19:5-6 FBC08-45 December 7, 2008 View Class First Century Marriage Describes Marriage of Christ & His Bride: Betrothal, Second Advent, Wedding Party, Rev 9:7; Review of Purifying the Bride, v. 8 FBC08-46 December 10, 2008 View Class The Preparation of the Bride’s Attire for the Wedding Banquet: A Process Including Resurrection Body, Purification, & Potential Nike Awards FBC08-47 December 11, 2008 View Class The Top Seraph Gives John Orders; The Angelic Table of Organization: Lucifer’s Real Name; His Fall; Seraphs: 6 Wings; Lucifer Chained in the Abyss, Rev 20:1-3 FBC08-48 December 14, 2008 View Class Review: Rev 20:1-3; Archangels; Cherubs: The Lord’s Coat of Arms: Dexter: A Man (Luke) & a Lion (Matthew), Sinister: An Ox (Mark) & an Eagle (John), Ex 1:10 FBC08-49 December 14, 2008 View Class Pursuivant Destroyers: As Men, Gen 18-19, As Angels, Exod 12:23; 2 Sam 24:15-17; Weather Control, Rev 7:1-3; Guardians: Of Children, Believers, Client Nations FBC08-50 December 17, 2008 View Class Theologians Who Support the Biblical Account of the Invisible War: Barnhouse, Walvoord, Zockler, Leupold, Larkin, Thieme; Common Reference: Eph 6:10-12 FBC08-51 December 18, 2008 View Class Combatants for the Dark Side, Eph 6:12; Biblical Examples of Demonic Deception from Matthew to Revelation: An Overview of New Testament Satanology FBC08-52 December 21, 2008 View Class Biblical Passages on Cosmic Deceit; Lack of Knowledge Leads to National Discipline, Hos 4:6; Parental Reversionism Influences Children, Jer 17:1-2 FBC08-53 December 28, 2008 View Class Judgment for Idolatry: Parental Behavior Repeated by Their Children, Jer 17:1-4; Prophecy of 625 B.C. Fulfilled when Chaldea Destroys Judah in 586 B.C. FBC08-54 January 4, 2009 View Class Michael Vlach: “Crisis in America’s Churches: Bible Knowledge at All-Time Low”: Theological Illiteracy in Christian Denominations; Whatever Happened to Theology? FBC08-55 January 4, 2009 View Class Vlach’s “Crisis in America’s Churches”: Whatever Happened to Theology?: Abandonment of Exposition; Unbiblical Philosophies Create Own Faith System FBC08-56 January 7, 2009 View Class Vlach’s “Crisis in America’s Churches”: What Is the Solution? Know the Problem, Evaluate Your Flock, Teach Doctrine, Expose the Lie; Lack of Knowledge, Hos 4:6 FBC08-57 January 8, 2009 View Class Summary of Vlach’s Research: A Challenge to Christian Youth; Lucifer’s Conspiracy & Gramsci’s “Long March”; Henry’s” Clanking Chains” FBC08-58 January 11, 2009 View Class The Invisible War in Ephesians: Predestination: a Predesigned Plan for Spiritual Growth; The Invisible War’s Fifth Columns; Lucifer’s Officer Corps, Eph 1:21 FBC08-59 January 11, 2009 View Class Lucifer’s Officer Corps: Commissioned Officers, Special Forces, Fifth Columns, & Rank & File, Eph 1:21; Christ over All Things but Lucifer Ruler of the World, v. 22 FBC08-60 January 14, 2009 View Class The Figure of Speech “Footstool for Your feet”: Refers to the Ultimate Defeat of Lucifer in the Angelic Conflict, Eph 1:22; Ps 110:1; Zech 13:2; Col 2:15; Ps 2:9 FBC08-61 January 15, 2009 View Class Benevolent Dictator: He Rules with a Rod of Iron, Rev 2:27; 12:5; 19:15; Christ Crushes the Head of Lucifer, Gen 3:14-15; Universal Sin, Rom 5:12; Cosmic Archon FBC08-62 January 18, 2009 View Class The Disposition of Reverse Process Reversionism Now Operational: Emissaries for the Dark Side; Rebellious Children Solicit Divine Discipline, Eph 2:2 FBC08-63 January 18, 2009 View Class Rebellious Believers: Children of Disobedience are Implacable, Eph 2:2; Demonic Authority; Dispensation of the Mystery of the Church, Eph 3:6-10 FBC08-64 January 21, 2009 View Class Dispensations: Each Has Its Own Spiritual Life; Ryrie Defines Dispensational Hermeneutics; the Church Age is Unknown Prior to Pentecost, Eph 3:9 FBC08-65 January 22, 2009 View Class The Spiritual Life of the Church Age: 10 Problem-Solving Devoices Developed through the Stream of Consciousness; the Divine Decree, the Church, & Prophecy FBC08-66 January 25, 2009 View Class Prophecy & the Divine Decree: It Does Not Determine History but Confirms It; Micah Prophesies Messiah’s Birth in Bethlehem, Mic 5:2 FBC08-67 January 25, 2009 View Class Time of the Virgin Birth Set by Daniel, not Micah: Artaxerxes’s Decree Set the Timing for the Virgin Pregnancy, Neh 2:1-8; Dan 9:24-26 FBC08-68 January 28, 2009 View Class The Church Teaches Angels; Suffering Gives Opportunity to Use Problem-Solving Devices; Jim Wattenbarger’s Poem: “Spiritual Mechanics in Verse” FBC08-69 January 29, 2009 View Class Principles on Eph 3:8-10; Paul’s Exposition of the Demonic Table of Organization, Eph 6:10-12: The Battle Is Not against Blood & Flesh, v. 12 FBC08-70 February 1, 2009 View Class The Central Issue in the Invisible War is Thought; Loss of Thought Leads to Demon Influence; Tenured Faculty of the Satanic Academy of Cosmic Didactics FBC08-71 February 1, 2009 View Class Paul’s Breakdown of the Demonic Army’s Table of Organization, Eph 6:12; Christian Soldiers Must Defend Their Souls by Putting on the Full Armor of God FBC08-72 February 4, 2009 View Class The Full Armor of God: The Roman Army: Organizational Structure: Components of the Legion; Categories of Legionaries; the Warrior’s Panoply: Belt, Breastplate FBC08-73 February 5, 2009 View Class The Full Armor of God: The Warrior’s Panoply: Boots, Shield, Helmet, Sword; Awards & Decorations: Vegetius: the Demise of the Roman Army FBC08-74 February 8, 2009 View Class Vegetius & the Fall of Rome: Loss of Thought: the Decline of Righteousness Leads to the Ascendency of Wickedness; Paul’s Challenge to Timothy, 2 Tim 2:2 FBC08-75 February 8, 2009 View Class Paul Illustrates How to Invest Doctrine in the Soul, 2 Tim 2: Military: Devotion to Duty, v. 4; Athletic: Obligation to Train, v. 5; the Four Greek Games FBC08-76 February 11, 2009 View Class The Ordeal of Training for the Greek Games; Victors’ Wreaths; Paul Illustrates Christian Training: the Soldier, the Athlete, & the Capitalist Farmer, 2 Tim 2:2-7 FBC08-77 February 12, 2009 View Class Panoply of the Roman Foot Soldier Applied to the Christian Warrior: Equation of Honor, the FLOT Line, Fighting sans Armor, Fifth Columns, Worthless Believers FBC08-78 February 15, 2009 View Class Roman Military Coronae & Decorations; Importance of Experience in Battle Illustrates Stability of the Sophisticated Spiritual Life FBC08-79 February 18, 2009 View Class The Lord’s Army: The Christian Warrior’s Ability & Capacity to Pick Up & Put On the Panoply: Power, Resources, Intelligence, Knowledge, Skill, & Competence; Production, Performance, & Deployment FBC08-80 February 19, 2009 View Class Strategy & Tactics of the Devil in Religion, Gender, Nationality, Sexual Orientation, & Global Warming; Kimball’s “Cultural Marxism” FBC08-81 February 22, 2009 View Class Standing Fast in the Evil Day: Know the Truth or Believe the Lie; Wear the Panoply, Hold Your Ground, Oppose the Dark Side; Vegetius: Rome’s Military Decline FBC08-82 February 22, 2009 View Class The Doctrine of the Royal Law: Definition & Description: Reject Vengeance & Love Fellow Believers, Lev 19:18, Faith in the Integrity of God; Royal Law in Eph 4:32 FBC08-83 February 25, 2009 View Class Forgiveness Is a Virtue, Eph 4:32; the Anger Complex: Impulsive, Smoldering, & Explosive, v. 26; Reactor Factors: Aggressive & Passive-Aggressive Behavior; Creation of Discord, v. 27 FBC08-84 February 26, 2009 View Class Review of Anger Complex; Giving the Devil a Chance; Illustration: Relationship between Employers & Employees & the Anger Complex, Eph 4:26-27,30-32 FBC08-85 March 1, 2009 View Class The Anger Complex: Impulsive, Seething, (Sunset Rebound), Chronic Bitterness, & Explosive; Party A Must Be Righteously Indignant; Party B Must Douse Seething Anger, Eph 4:26 FBC08-86 March 1, 2009 View Class Unrealistic Expectations Lead to Bitterness: the 3 Arrogant Skills; Machinations of Passive-Aggressive Personalities; Conflict Resolution: the Royal Law FBC08-87 March 4, 2009 View Class The Royal Law in the Incarnation: A Lawyer Tests the Messiah on the Greatest Commandment; the Lord Summarizes the Decalogue: Personal Love & Royal Law, Matt 22:35-39 FBC08-88 March 5, 2009 View Class Peter & Jesus Discuss Forgiveness, Matt 18:21-22; Forgiveness Is Grace by the Aggrieved; Trust of the Antagonist Must be Earned; Blake on Manners & Good Breeding FBC08-89 March 8, 2009 View Class Customs & Manners of Christian-Based Societies Reflect the Royal Law, Matt 22:36-39; The Lord’s Application of the Royal Law on the Cross, 2 Cor 5:21; Jn 3:16 FBC08-90 March 8, 2009 View Class The Royal Law & Salvation: Imputed Righteousness by Grace through Faith: The Judaizers Reject Grace; Paul’s Debater’s Technique in Rom 4:2; Divine Integrity FBC08-91 March 11, 2009 View Class Integrity of God; Hypostatic Union; the Judicial Imputations; Condemnation Precedes Justification; the Redemption Solution; Salvation Not by Works FBC08-92 March 12, 2009 View Class Salvation by Works Rejects the Love of God; Removal of the Barrier; the Example of Abraham, Gen 15:6; Abraham & Isaac at Moriah, Gen 22:1-14 FBC08-93 March 15, 2009 View Class The Abrahamic & Palestinian Covenants; Abraham’s Use of the Faith-Rest Drill; Arab-Israeli Conflict Is Irresolvable, Gal 4:29; Anti-Semitism Clause, Gen 12:3 FBC08-94 March 15, 2009 View Class Righteousness Credited to Believer’s Account at Salvation, Gen 15:6; Romans 4:3; Doctrine of Justification: Imputation of Righteousness Precedes Justification FBC08-95 March 22, 2009 View Class Imputation of Adam’s Original Sin Puts Man in the Slave Market of Sin: Redemption Plus Salvation Equals Imputed Righteousness & Justification FBC08-96 March 22, 2009 View Class All Sinned when Adam Sinned; the Blessings of Grace; Abraham’s Use of the Faith-Rest Technique: God Was Vetting Abraham, Not Sacrificing Isaac FBC08-97 March 25, 2009 View Class Expansion of the Rom 4:2-5 Context: Rom 3:21-4:1;Justification by Faith; the difference between Human Good & Divine Good FBC08-98 March 26, 2009 View Class To Reject the Gospel Is to Reject the Love of God; the Biblical Illiteracy of Mainline Christianity; “Outsiders”: 16–29-Year Olds Attitude toward Christianity FBC08-99 March 29, 2009 View Class “Outsiders”: 16–29-Year Olds Attitude toward Christianity: Barna Poll Shows the Benighted Condemn What They Do Not Understand FBC08-100 March 29, 2009 View Class Fuzzy Gospels: The Popularity of Salvation by Works: Verbal, Ritual, Psychological, Corporate FBC08-101 April 1, 2009 View Class Fuzzy Gospels: The Popularity of Salvation by Works: Religious, Behavioral, Emotional, Inducement: “Inviting Christ,” John 6:5,19,24,35-37, Rom 5:12; 3:10-12; Jer 17:9; Rev 3:20 FBC08-102 April 2, 2009 View Class Fuzzy Gospels: The Popularity of Salvation by Works: Commitment, Lordship; CTL: Rom 3:21-4:3; Justification by Works, Rom 4:4 FBC08-103 April 5, 2009 View Class Salvation by Works, Rom 4:4; Principles: Works Imply God Owes Us Salvation as a Wage; Reality: the Great White Throne Judgment, Rev 20:11-12 FBC08-104 April 5, 2009 View Class The Lord’s Victory, Col 2:13, Spiritual Circumcision; Christ Cancels Our Certificate of Debt: Isagogics of the 1st-Century “Note of Hand” & the Chi Cancelation, v. 14 FBC08-105 April 8, 2009 View Class Canceling of the Sin Debt by Christ: Inscribing the Chi through Spiritual Death; the Hostility of Human Sin Nailed to the Cross, Col 2:14 FBC08-106 April 9, 2009 View Class The Lord’s Voluntary Sacrifice for Cancelation of Debt; Deissmann’s Discovery of the Greek Chi in Cancelation of Debt, Col 2:13-14 FBC08-107 April 15, 2009 View Class Romans 4:5, Imputation of Divine Righteousness because of Faith in Christ, Not by Means of Works; Principles: Heathen: Outsider, Ethos, or Goy? FBC08-108 April 16, 2009 View Class Converting Condemnation into Justification; Translation: Rom 3:21-4:5; The Royal Law & the Sophisticated Spiritual Life; Personal Sense of Destiny; Confidence FBC08-109 April 19, 2009 View Class Etymology of Sophistication: Friedrich: “Sophia always denotes a quality, never an activity”: Thought Must Precede Action FBC08-110 April 22, 2009 View Class Review: Sophia: Wisdom; Thought Must Precede Action; Knowledge Produces Gratitude, Reciprocity, & Motivation; Tactical Winners & Strategic Losers; Spiritual Childhood FBC08-111 April 23, 2009 View Class Strategic & Tactical Winners; Development of Gratitude and Reciprocity; Biblical & Secular Worldviews; Creationism: Adam: Fact or Fable? Good & Bad Forms of Government FBC08-112 April 26, 2009 View Class Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Quotes John Adams on Democracy; Gary North on Envy; Christians Are Winners, Never Victims; Sophisticated Thought Is Based on Wisdom FBC08-113 April 26, 2009 View Class The Royal Law and Spiritual Self-Esteem: Biblical Worldview Necessary to Endure Providential Preventive Suffering; Understanding God Results in Personal Love for Him FBC08-114 May 3, 2009 View Class The Royal Law & Providential Preventive Suffering: Designed to Prevent Arrogance & Accelerate Growth; 3 Spiritual Skills versus 3 Arrogant Skills FBC08-115 May 3, 2009 View Class The Cogs of Carnality: Self-Justification, -Deception, & -Absorption; Confidence & Courage Eliminate Fear; Tandem Problem-Solving Devices; Knowledge, Understanding, & Wisdom FBC08-116 May 6, 2009 View Class Development of Wisdom; Prov 8: The Praise of Wisdom: Knowing, Understanding, Applying Is Based on Hunger & Thirst for the Word, Matt 5:6 FBC08-117 May 7, 2009 View Class All Grace Doctrine Is not Grace Doctrine: Theology of Neurology: Specificity & Plasticity Enable Spiritual Growth; Richard Restak: Spooky Stuff and Volition; Paul’s Behavior Problem: Romans 7:14-25 FBC08-118 May 10, 2009 View Class Review: Specificity & Plasticity & Richard Restak on Volition; B. F. Skinner & Behaviorism: Hegel’s Absolute Idea & Dialectic: Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis FBC08-119 May 10, 2009 View Class Marx’s Dialectical Materialism: Tension plus Conflict equals Change; Pavlov’s Conditioned Reflex; Individualism v. Collectivism; Skinner’s Behavior Modification FBC08-120 May 13, 2009 View Class Education: IQ Tests Rejected in Favor of Behavior Modification; Behavior Blamed on Environment while Personal Volition Ignored; Believers Not Limited by IQ FBC08-121 May 14, 2009 View Class Levitin’s Experiments in Mastery of Music; Interest: the Key Disposition for Achievement of World-Class Expertise in Anything; Practice Makes Perfect FBC08-122 May 17, 2009 View Class Behaviorism: in Government Schools: Report from the Front; Levitin Compares Proficient & Expert Musicians; Acquisition of Wisdom Requires Interest & Practice FBC08-123 May 20, 2009 View Class Principles on Wisdom; Wisdom Is the Result of Soul Renovation: Knowledge Converted to Understanding, Understanding Executed as Wisdom FBC08-124 May 21, 2009 View Class Rewards or Loss? 1 Cor 3:12-15; Restak on True Potential; Spiritual Growth Requires Interest & Effort; Proverbs 8: Outline; Wisdom’s Call, v. 1 FBC08-125 May 27, 2009 View Class Proverbs 8: Location of the Oration: Wisdom Cries Out, vv. 2-3; The Allurements of the Whore, Prov 7:1-27; Idolatry Condemned, Ezk 23:30; Quatrain 1, vv. 4-5: The Universal Appeal, v. 4 FBC08-126 May 28, 2009 View Class The Appeal to the Benighted, v. 5: Wisdom Challenges the Naïve to Understand Prudence & Fools Wisdom; Naïve Lack Understanding, Fools Make Wrong Choices FBC08-127 May 31, 2009 View Class Loss of Thought Means Loss of Freedom; Cycle of Civilization; 5 Stages of Enervation; Stanza 1: Prov 1-5; Stanza 2: Contents of the Oration, v. 6: Command to Listen FBC08-128 May 31, 2009 View Class IQ Is No Detriment to Any Believer’s Spiritual Growth; All that Is Required Is Interest, Mt 13:15; Thompson on Language; School Options: Private, Christian, or Home FBC08-129 June 3, 2009 View Class The Mandate to Listen, Prov 8:6; How the Brain Processes Speech through Wernicke’s & Broca’s Areas; Choice & Interest Makes Spiritual Growth Possible FBC08-130 June 4, 2009 View Class The Virtue of the Oration, Prov 8:7: Wisdom’s Communication of Truth; Premises Necessary for the Advance; Wickedness Compared to Righteousness, Prov 2:20-22; The 4 Horsemen, Rev 6:1-8 FBC08-131 June 7, 2009 View Class The Integrity of Truth, Prov 8:8; Wisdom Communicates from the Source of Righteous Perfection: “Setheq”: the Thinking of a Judge; God’s Integrity FBC08-132 June 7, 2009 View Class Wisdom Communicates the Function of Justice & the Principles of Righteousness; Nothing Crooked or Twisted; Quatrain 2: Virtue & Value of Wisdom: Operation Double Z FBC08-133 June 10, 2009 View Class Operation Double Z: The Mandate to Listen; Multiplexing of the Holy Spirit; Development of Wisdom: Comprehension, Knowledge, Understanding, & Application FBC08-134 June 11, 2009 View Class Operation Double Z; Rational Arguments for the Existence of God; Multiplexing of the Holy Spirit; Seizing Doctrine at Academic Knowledge; Applying “Bin” Doctrine, Prov 8:9 FBC08-135 June 14, 2009 View Class Doctrine Trumps Money: Doctrine Must Be Priority One: Choose Truth over Silver & Knowledge over Gold, Prov 8:10; Matt 6:24; Jas 4:4 FBC08-136 June 14, 2009 View Class Interpolation: A Gloss from Proverbs 3:15, Prov 8:11; Wisdom & Establishment, Wisdom Speaks in 1st Person; Operation Double Z: Wisdom Is Not Permanent: Prudence & Spiritual Common Sense, v. 12 FBC08-137 June 21, 2009 View Class Wisdom’s Disapproval of Evil, Prov 8:13; Doctrine of Anthropopathisms: Definition and Description: Language of Accommodation; Classifications: Non-Sinful: Love, Compassion, Longsuffering; Sinful: Hatred FBC08-138 June 21, 2009 View Class Doctrine of Anthropopathisms: Language of Accommodation; Classifications: Sinful: Anger and Wrath: Individual and National, Vengeance FBC08-139 June 24, 2009 View Class Fear of God: An Anthropopathism for Respect and Reverence; “Holiness” Translates Setheq & Means Integrity: Righteousness & Justice, Prov 8:13a FBC08-140 June 25, 2009 View Class The Believer’s Interim Life from Salvation to Maturity, Rom 12:1-3; the Anthropopathism of “Hate”: Disapproval; Evil: the Policy of Satan as Ruler of the World, Prov 8:13 FBC08-141 June 28, 2009 View Class The Objective of Evil Is to Destroy the Laws of Divine Establishment & the Four Divine Institutions; the Biblical Church is Independent of Any Hierarchy FBC08-142 June 28, 2009 View Class Ge’ah: Pride, Submits to the Sin Nature’s Lust Pattern & Ga’on: Arrogance, Is an Aggressive Behavior Pattern that Produces Ra‘a‘ Derek : the Evil Way, Prov 8:13 FBC08-143 July 1, 2009 View Class Cosmic 1: Self-righteousness: Legalistic Pharisees, Matt 23:27-28; Sexual: Ritual & Illegitimate, Christian Marriage Defined; Criminal: Rejection of Authority, Rom 13:1-3; Psychopathic: Divorcement from Reality, Rom 12:3; Unhappiness: Emphasis on the External, 1 Pet 5:5; Luke 11:27-28; Phil 4:11-13 FBC08-144 July 2, 2009 View Class Cosmic 1: Iconoclastic: the Disenchantment of Ahithophel with David, 2 Sam 15-18; Rational & Irrational: Pseudo Intellectualism & Emotionalism, Phil 3:18-19; Rom 16:17-18 FBC08-145 July 5, 2009 View Class Client Nation: Definition of Client; Example: Israelite Remnant: Assyria Attacks Judah, Isa 37, Lord Byron’s “The Destruction of Sennacherib”; Remnant: New Testament, Rom 9:27; 11:3, 5; Definition of Pivot FBC08-146 July 5, 2009 View Class Client Nation: The Salt Factor, Matt 5:13; W. B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” Patrick Henry’s “Formula for Freedom”; Inversion of Thought FBC08-147 July 8, 2009 View Class Client Nation Arrogance: Thomas Sowell’s “Vision of the Anointed”: the Religion of Progressivism v. Christianity; the Elite of Each Rejects the Beliefs of the Other FBC08-148 July 9, 2009 View Class Client Nation Arrogance, Origin of Historical Downtrends: Lucifer’s Fifth Proclamation, Isa 14:14b; Sowell’s Tenets of the Prevailing Vision; Hosea’s Prophecy of National Discipline, Hos 4:1-6 FBC08-149 July 19, 2009 View Class Postulates of Divine Integrity: Personal: No Advantages of the Escrow without the Advantage of Spiritual Maturity; National: No Advantages from Blessings by Association without the Advantage of the Pivot; Anadiplosis: Cycle of Civilization; 5 Cycles of Discipline FBC08-150 July 19, 2009 View Class Postulates of Divine Integrity: As Goes the Pivot, So Goes the Client Nation; Cosmic 1: Arrogance of Christian Service: Divine Good Is Produced under the Filling of the Holy Spirit FBC08-151 July 22, 2009 View Class Christian Service: Authentic Areas of Worship & Service as Human Good; Evaluation of Believers’ Works. 1 Cor 3:11-15; Cosmic 2: Hatred & Antagonism: Intro; Principles on Temptation FBC08-152 July 23, 2009 View Class Cosmic 2: Hatred & Antagonism: Principles of Temptation; The Sin Nature: Its Ménage à Trois via Intrinsic & Extrinsic 5th Columns: Sin Gives Lucifer Power to Motivate Human Good & Evil: Judgment Seats: for Believers, 1 Cor 3:12-15; for Unbelievers, Rev. 20:11-15 FBC08-153 July 26, 2009 View Class Cosmic 2: Sin Nature: Review of the Judgment Seats for Believers & Unbelievers; Cosmic 2: Negative Volition: 3 Categories for Believers, 2 for Unbelievers FBC08-154 July 26, 2009 View Class Cosmic 2: Negative Volition: the Syncretism of Utopianism, Malthusianism, & Darwinism to Justify Partial-Birth Abortion & Euthanasia; Cosmic 2: Degeneracy: Rejection of the Laws of Divine Establishment; Illustration: the Case of Sgt. James Crowley and Dr. Henry L. Gates FBC08-155 July 29, 2009 View Class Cosmic 2 Degeneracy: No Racial Distinctions among Believers, Rom 10:12; 1 Cor 12:13; Gal 3:28; Col 3:11; No Diversity in Body of Christ; Geographic Diversity, Gen 10; Operation United Nations, Gen 11:5-9; Antiestablishment: Attack on the Divine Institutions: Volition, Marriage, Family FBC08-156 July 30, 2009 View Class Cosmic 2 Antiestablishment: Family: The Antiestablishment Mentality, Rom 1:28-32; 2 Tim 3:2-7; the Antiestablishment Brain Trust; Diversity Requires Nationalism not Collectivism FBC08-157 August 2, 2009 View Class Cosmic 2: Antiestablishment: Nationalism: Collectivism: Regulation of Private Enterprise, Redistribution of Wealth, & Public Ownership of Businesses; Individualism: Maximum Freedom, Self-Reliance, Privacy, & Respect for Others FBC08-158 August 2, 2009 View Class The Luciferian Strategy to Counterfeit the Nondiversity of the Millennial Kingdom; Emphasis on Diversity Designed to Dismantle America’s Anglo-Saxon Culture to Be Followed by Imposition of Nondiversity with Draconian Laws FBC08-159 August 5, 2009 View Class Believers with Truth Are the “Light of the World,” Matt 5:13-16; Politicians Use of the Term; Believers as “Light-Giving Bodies,” Phil 2:14-15; Christ as the “Morning Star,” 2 Pet 1:19 FBC08-160 August 6, 2009 View Class The Name “Lucifer” is Latin for a “Light-Bearing Body”; He Was Called the “Morning Star” as SRO of the Angelic Creation; He Now Rules the Darkness; Jesus Is the Morning Star, the True Light, 1 Jn 2:8 FBC08-161 August 9, 2009 View Class Principles of Internationalism: Nationalism Established in Gen 11; Believers Must Subordinate to Governing Authorities, Rom 13:7; 1 Pet 2:13-17; John 19:10-11; Internationalism Is Satanic Strategy to Centralize Power & Authority FBC08-162 August 9, 2009 View Class Documentation that Lucifer Is Ruler of This World, Matt 4:8-9, Isa 14:12-14, 2 Cor 4:3; Rev 13:2b; 1 John 5:19; The Evils of Internationalism: Gen 11:1; Hebrew Literary Style: A Subject Is Introduced followed by Further Details: Compare Gen 9:1 with 11:1 & Gen 10:5 with 11:9 FBC08-163 August 12, 2009 View Class Changing Public Opinion: The Redefinition of Marriage; The Carrie Effect: Prejean’s Stand for Marriage; National Decline Evidenced by Successful Attacks on Divine Institutions; Internationalism at Babel, Gen 11:1-4; God Moved People West, but Human Viewpoint Went East FBC08-164 August 13, 2009 View Class Religious Motivation of the Colonists: Carson’s “The Colonial Experience”; Founders Create Limited Government: Amendments 9 & 10 of the Bill of Rights; Ignored by 20th-Century Supreme Courts FBC08-165 August 16, 2009 View Class Antiestablishment: Leftism’s Snobbish Animosity toward Traditional Standards, Michael Hill’s “Deconstructing Miss Dixie”; Demonism: Beelzebub’s Campaign of Disinformation through Demon Possession & Demon Influence FBC08-166 August 16, 2009 View Class Demonism: Believers inside the Cosmic Systems Cannot Be Trusted, 1 Tim 4:1; Deut 7:1-5; Pivot Power: the Fraternity of Jeshurun, Deut 32:15-17; 33:26 FBC08-167 August 19, 2009 View Class Lucifer’s Arrest by the High Seraph: His Aliases, Incarceration, & Inability to Deceive the Nations, Rev 20:1-3; Examples of Demon Possession; Exorcism Is Demonic; Out Casting Accomplished only by Jesus & the Apostles, Matt 8:16; Acts 19:11-19 FBC08-168 August 20, 2009 View Class Cosmic Panaceas: The Desperate Search for a Universal Cure-All; the Anointed’s Brilliance Is Assumed Greater than Historical Evidence; Enforcing Panaceas through Government Power FBC08-169 September 2, 2009 View Class Religion: Man’s Effort to Impress or Appease God; Christianity Is Man’s Acceptance of God’s Love & Forgiveness through Christ: Equal Privileges & Opportunities; Lucifer’s False Apostles, 2 Cor 11:13-15 FBC08-170 September 3, 2009 View Class Religion: Lucifer’s False Prophets to Israel & False Teachers to the Church, 2 Pet 2:1-2; Categories of False Teachers: Hypocritical, Matt 7:15; Legalistic, Gal 4:17; Judgmental, 2 Cor 10:12; Idolatrous, Hab 2:18-19; Naïve, 1 Tim 1:5-7; Perverse, Prov 8:13; Col 2:8; Satanic Strategy FBC08-171 September 6, 2009 View Class Religion: Anti-Christs, 1 John 2:18, 22; False Religions of False Teachers: Pantheism, Polytheism, Deism, Hinduism, Islam: Shari‘ah Law Defined FBC08-172 September 6, 2009 View Class Religion: Islam: It Has Supplemental Texts to the Qur’an as Do Judaism for the Torah & Mormonism for The Book of Mormon; Islam’s Shari?ah Controls both Mosque & State; Obsession for Worldwide Shari?ah Law FBC08-173 September 9, 2009 View Class Branches of Islam: Sunni & Shiite; Differences between the Two & America’s Ignorance of Them: the Line of Muhammad; Shari‘ah Law Defined; Dome of the Rock’s Inscriptions Reveal Cosmic 1 Arrogance & Cosmic 2 Hatred FBC08-174 September 10, 2009 View Class Fabianism: Fabius in the 2d Punic War, Progressive Propaganda, & Shari‘ah Law; The Doctrine of Mahdism; Buddhism: 4 Noble Truths; Confucianism: Cosmic Attempts at Virtue Love; Taoism: The Forces of Yin-Yang; Efforts to Acquire “Non-Being” FBC08-175 September 13, 2009 View Class Religion: Taoism: Its Pacifistic Beliefs Suppress Knowledge, Integrity, & Wisdom while Promoting the Paranormal, Occult, & Supernatural; Luciferian Use of Biblical Doctrines, e.g., The Tao & Mediums Imitate the Holy Spirit; a False Trinity FBC08-176 September 13, 2009 View Class Notes on Eastern Mystic Religions: Influence of Eastern Religions on Western Culture; Increase in Supernaturalism in Entertainment; Religions Plagiarize the Bible for Their Credibility yet Each Attacks Judaism & Christianity FBC08-177 September 16, 2009 View Class Paul’s Corrective of the Galatian Churches; Rebuke of Their Response to the Judaizers’ Legalism; Gal 4:20-22; Allegory Using Ishmael & Isaac to Illustrate Legalism & Grace; the Promise of Isaac’s Birth from Sarah, Gen 17:16-21; Fulfillment, Rom 4:17 FBC08-178 September 17, 2009 View Class Abraham Adjusts to the Justice of God, Rom 4:17-18; Imputed Divine Righteousness, Gen 15:6; the Policy, Function, & Direction of the Attributes of Integrity FBC08-179 September 20, 2009 View Class Abram’s Maturity Adjustment: He Understood His Adultery Caused His Sterility, Not Old Age, Rom 4:19; Facing Hopeless & Helpless Situations: the Grace Pipeline; Invisible Reality Is Greater than Visible Reality FBC08-180 September 20, 2009 View Class Sarai’s Impatient Problem-Solving Device & Abram’s Impatient Submittal, Gen 16:1-5; Prevailing Public Opinion Should Never Trump Doctrine; Ishmael’s Progeny: the 12 Princes & the 12 Tribes of Arabia, Gen 25:12-18 FBC08-181 September 23, 2009 View Class Abraham Made Sterile because of Adultery with Hagar; Starts 13-Year Advance to Maturity; Covenant Expanded to Include Eternity Clause, Gen 17:1-8; Church Age Diaspora; Millennial Regathering; False Theology & Doctrine of Preterists FBC08-182 September 24, 2009 View Class Jews Have no Biblical Claim to the Land until Millennium; the Principle of Zionophobia; Preterist Doctrine Presents Danger of Anti-Semitism; Line of Christ Goes through Abraham & Isaac; Isaac’s DNA; Abraham’s Use of Faith-Rest: Recalled the Promise & Did not Stagger, Rom 4:19-20; Rationales for Tranquility FBC08-183 September 27, 2009 View Class Abram’s Reinvigoration under Pressure: Recall of the Covenants Gave Confidence & Patience from Power Poured into Him, Rom 4:20; Reality of the Invisible Word Was Greater than the Reality He Faced FBC08-184 September 27, 2009 View Class Details on the 4 Unconditional Covenants to Israel; 4 Jewish Administrations as a Client Nation; Preterists: “All Covenants Are Transferred from Israel to the Church”: If so, There’s no Reason for the New Covenant, Jer 31:31-36 FBC08-185 September 30, 2009 View Class Covenant Theology’s 3 Major Covenants; Doctrine of Limited Atonement; the Unconditional Covenants to Israel Each Have Eternity Clauses; Chafer’s Summary of These Covenants FBC08-186 October 1, 2009 View Class 3 Use of Pistis; in Rom 4:20 “by Means of Doctrine”; also Heb 11:4–40; Abraham & Sarah, Heb 4:8–19; Abraham, “Fully Convinced” Completes Application of Faith-Rest Drill, Rom 4:21; Doctrinal Conclusion: What God Promised He is Abel to Do FBC08-187 October 4, 2009 View Class Principles from Rom 4:17-21; Human Solutions Are No Solutions; Megalomaniacal Politicians Lust to Preempt God; Divine Solutions Are the Only Solutions: Abraham’s Use of the Faith-Rest Drill FBC08-188 October 4, 2009 View Class Principles on Predestination, Its Equal Privileges and Opportunities: Union with Christ & Positional Sanctification, the Divine Dynasphere; 5 Greek Words Defining Predestination FBC08-189 October 11, 2009 View Class Predestination: Protocol, the Divine Dynasphere, & the Royal Family; Two Commissions: Royal Priest & Royal Ambassador; Hamilton: Archaeological Evidence of the Historicity of Abraham & the Patriarchs FBC08-190 October 11, 2009 View Class Review: Gal; 4:19-22: the Legalistic Attack by the Judaizers; Present-Day Legalism among Protestants; Paul’s Corrective to the Galatians, Gal 4:19-21 FBC08-191 October 14, 2009 View Class Review: Gal 4:19-22: Bullinger on Biblical Allegories: All Are Historical; Galatians Presents Historic Figures & Events in an Allegory; Abraham’s Adultery with Hagar Violates Biblical Principles and Divine Timing; Hagar Represents Slavery to the Mosaic Law FBC08-192 October 15, 2009 View Class Hagar Represent Jerusalem Reenslaved to the Law; God Manages His Children as Human Father’s Are to Manage Theirs, Heb 12:5-13; without Restraint the Human Soul will Opt for Sin, Human Good, & Evil; Israeli Culture Ordered by the Standards of the Mosaic Law FBC08-193 October 21, 2009 View Class Teaching Aids in the Levitical Ritual System: Sacrifices, Feast Days, Sabbaths, & Tabernacle; Fulfilled by Christ; Judaism Is Retired but Oral Law Prevails, Mark7:5-9; Hagar Compared to Sinai, Mosaic Law, & Legalism FBC08-194 October 22, 2009 View Class The Same Religious Persecution that Led to the English Flight to America Is Currently Present in America: Carson’s “Oppression in England”; Islamic Ascendancy in American Schools: Limbaugh’s “Persecution” FBC08-195 October 25, 2009 View Class Philip Schaff’s “Life & Character of Mohammad”: Details about the Founder of Islam from the Biblical Perspective; Imprecatory Prayer against Christians & Jews FBC08-196 October 25, 2009 View Class Galatians Revert to Slavery of Present Jerusalem; Paul Asserts They Are of the Heavenly Jerusalem, Gal 4:26; Legalism of the Oral Law: Talmud: Mishnah & Gemara, Midrash: Halakah & Haggada; Torah Viewed as a “Living Document”; SCOTUS Has Same View of the Constitution FBC08-197 October 28, 2009 View Class True Freedom Is Doctrine in the Soul, Gal 4:26; Doctrine of Spiritual Freedom: Introduction: Freedom Requires Order & Order Requires Authority; Solon v. Peisistratus; Principles on Freedom & Authority, Anarchy & Tyranny FBC08-198 October 29, 2009 View Class Freedom from Sin Results in Freedom of Grace; Freedom Requires Orientation to Authority; the Divine Institutions; the Authority Structure in Marriage; Premarital Sex Is an Assault on Marriage, Family, Nation & Innocent Children FBC08-199 November 4, 2009 View Class Laws of Divine Establishment Control Human History; Anarchists’ Mentality: No Restraint on Decisions, No Responsibility for Actions; for believers Morality Is Not a Virtue, Integrity Transcends Morality; Cultural Downtrends Indicates Loss of Virtue FBC08-200 November 5, 2009 View Class Current Events from a Biblical Worldview; the NEA Recommends Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals; Laws of Christian Behavior: Law of Liberty: Directed toward Self, 1 Cor 8:1–4; Law of Love: Directed toward God, 1 Cor 8:5–13 FBC08-201 November 8, 2009 View Class Laws of Christian Behavior: The Law of Expediency: Directed toward the Unbeliever: Flexibility Is Necessary to Remove Distractions in Evangelism, 1 Cor 9:19–23; Law of Supreme Sacrifice: Directed toward God, 1 Cor 9:1–6 FBC08-202 November 8, 2009 View Class Law of Supreme Sacrifice: To Refrain from Behaviors that Could Potentially Hinder the Unbeliever’s Objectivity toward the Gospel; Monetary Support for Communicators of Doctrine: Soldiers, Viticulturists, & Shepherds, 1 Cor 9:6–7 FBC08-203 November 15, 2009 View Class Biblical Principle for Pastoral Support: The Problem with Dispensations: Chafer on Submission to Doctrinal Statements Rather than Divine Revelation; Spiritual Gifts: Pastor-Teacher: From Awareness to the Crown of Glory; Evangelist FBC08-204 November 15, 2009 View Class Spiritual Gifts: Administration: Held by Men Who May Be Deacons with Authority over Church Policy & Its Facilities; Others Are Held by Men & Women: Service, Helps, Mercy: Illustrations: Oskar Schindler & James McDonald; Giving: Must Be Motivated by the Holy Spirit & Executed through Grace Orientation FBC08-205 November 18, 2009 View Class The Reciprocal Effects of Grace Giving; Paul Founded the Corinthian Church but Refrains from Taking a Salary: The Law of Supreme Sacrifice Is Required When Others Lack Grace Orientation, 2 Cor 9:7–12 FBC08-206 November 19, 2009 View Class Wages Paid the Levitical Priesthood; The 3 Tithing Taxes Imposed on the Israelites by the Mosaic Law, Numb 18:21; Deut 14:22–23, 28–29; The Law’s Requirements for Aliens; The Lord’s Directives to His Disciples before & after the Israelite’s Rejection of Jesus as Messiah, Mt 10:5–6, 9–10; Lk 22:35–36