SNT 0430 Standing and State
Standing and State December 7, 1969 SNT 430 (2Ti 2:15); Act 2:22 Rom 6:1-23; 1Co 3:9 1Co 3:9-15; Eph 6:8; Col 3:23-25; 2Ti 2:11-13; 3:12 Rom 14:10; 2Co 5:10; (1Co 13); 2Ti 4:7, 8; _____________________ DRAFT snt-0430_standing-and-state(vpw) DRAFT SUMMARY KEYWORDS: responsibility, God, sin, reward, people, standing, state, walk, life, eternal life, believer, servants, stand, Christ, death, judgment seat But one of the things that has been on my heart and has been every time I teach applause, every time I see people take a clause is that so many times they miss in that class, the great discipline that's in it. And the topic of that was in my mind, and has been there for quite some time is the balanced truth of our sonship rites, or what in another phrase, you might call the disciplined believer. The reason this comes up is because in the classes, it behooves us to hit the people on the greatness of their standing in Christ. Because most Christian people are negative, they are full of fear, they're full of worry, they're full of anxiety, they're full of everything that they should not be filled with, they ought to get filled with the word and the positive greatness of it. And so in our foundational classes, we show people what they are in the word, what they have in Christ, and what Christ is in them. But on the other hand, in addition to this, standing, which they have in the family of God, in the foundation or class, we showed them, their responsibility. But as I look over the classes, and as I watch the people, I believe that we do, perhaps lack an emphasis on the state of the Christian, the discipline that ought to be in the Christians life as a believer to carry forth the Word of God. On the one hand, you have the standing as a son of God, when we're born again, of God's Spirit rate and God's family, we're going to stay in God's family because of birth because of the seed. But then, on the other hand, as we teach in the class is our state, our state is our walk. O
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the University of Chicago and at Princeton Theological Seminary from which he received a Master of Theology degree in Practical Theology. Later he completed his work for the Doctor of Theology degree. Dr. Wierwille taught the first class on Power for Abundant Living in 1953. Books by Dr. Wierwille include: Are the Dead Alive Now? published in 1971; Receiving the Holy Spirit Today published in 1972; five volumes of Studies in Abundant Living— The Bible Tells Me So (1971), The New, Dynamic Church (1971), The Word's Way (1971), God's Magnified Word (1977), Order My Steps in Thy Word (1985); Jesus Christ Is Not God (1975); Jesus Christ Our Passover (1980); and Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed (1982). Dr. Wierwille researched God's Word, taught, wrote, and traveled worldwide, holding forth the accuracy of God's "wonderful, matchless" Word. DOC AUDIO