Grace Fellowship Church www.GraceDoctrine.org

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Grace Fellowship Churchwww.GraceDoctrine.org

• Pastor / Teacher
• James H. Rickard
• Thursday,
• August 14, 2008

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• Memory Verse
• Phil 413, I can do all things through Him who
  strengthens me.

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The Upper Room DiscourseJohn 13-16
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John 1318 3) God's Omniscience does not hinder
or violate human volition.
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Doctrine of Betrayal
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7. Identifying Problems of Betrayal
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The experience of betrayal comes from a broad
category of sins.
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Hurt feelings can result from a love betrayal,
unfaithful coworker / boss betrayal in a
friendship, disloyalty from a workplace,
community, even country, the loss of a loved one,
and the world seeming to turn on you.
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Betrayal is also a loss of trust or faith in our
relationship with something bigger, or
spiritual, (i.e., God, the church or Pastor).
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The Pattern Leading to Broken Trust
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1. Personal and/or cultural expectations,
understood as The Truth, are present.
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2. Based on these expectations, whole-hearted
loyalty is given to another.
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3. "The Truth" is shattered often due to someone
making choices despite potential, major damage to
the relationship.
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4. Shock and intense hurt feelings inevitably
result.
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The betrayed assumed something to be true (and
actually needed to believe for emotional safety),
then discovered the core belief was false.
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The collapse of a belief structure results in a
negative effect on the soul, called garbage of
the soul and if unchecked leads to Blackout of
the Soul (B.o.S.).
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The downward spiral of the B.o.S. results from
emotional revolt of the soul and locked in
negative volition toward the Word, which
immobilizes previously metabolized Bible doctrine
for the believer. Eph 417-19
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John 1235, He who walks in darkness does not
know where he goes.
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1 John 16, If we contend that we have
fellowship with him and we keep on walking in
darkness, we are lying and we do not live the
truth.
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1 John 211, When anyone hates his fellow
believer, he is in darkness and he walks in
darkness, and he does not know where he is going
because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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2 Cor 314, But their minds were hardened for
until this very day at the reading of the old
covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because
it is removed in Christ. 15But to this day
whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their
heart 16but whenever a person turns to the Lord,
the veil is taken away.
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2 Cor 44, In whose case the god of this world
has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that
they might not see the light of the gospel of the
glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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The Downward Spiral of the Blackout of the Soul.
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1. The more you allow emotional sins to acquire
power over your life, the greater your capacity
for irrationality.
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2. The greater your capacity for irrationality,
the more garbage you accumulate in the
subconscious of your soul.
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3. The more garbage you accumulate in the
subconscious, the more you have blackout of Bible
doctrine in the soul.
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Emotions should respond to the situations in
life, but when you allow them to react they
become bad emotions filled with sin.
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Bad Emotion is often pathological arrogance and
the function of evil obsession, unrealistic
expectation, role model arrogance, the feet of
clay syndrome, and iconoclastic arrogance.
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Grace Fellowship ChurchThursday, August
14, 2008 Tape 08-056 Betrayal, Pt 4 Upper
Room Discourse, Pt 198 John 1318 John
1235 Eph 417-19 1 John 16 211 James H.
Rickard Bible Ministries 2008