Putting on the Lord Jesus Christ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Identification Truth Spirituality: A Complete Package by God’s Plan Phase 1/Phase 2 Crosswork Distinctions Reality through Reckoning The Question of Yielding Spirituality and Obedience: The Law Problem 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

BELIEVER

- CARNAL BELIEVER SPIRITUAL BELIEVER Carnal Man, 1 Cor. 3:1, 3-4 Spiritual Man, 1 Cor. 2:15 CARNAL BELIEVER SPIRITUAL BELIEVER -

Reality through Reckoning Practical Considerations The Need and Ground of Positional Reckoning The Steps of Reckoning The Ministry of the Spirit in Reckoning The Determination and Discipline of Reckoning 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

Our Personal God and Agent of Understanding Truth The Holy Spirit Our Personal God and Agent of Understanding Truth John 6:63 John 15:26 John 16:13-14 Romans 2:28-29 Romans 7:6 Romans 14:16-17 1 Corinthians 2:4-5, 10-12 1 Corinthians 6:19 2 Corinthians 3:2-6, 17-18 2 Corinthians 13:14 Galatians 5:5 Ephesians 2:19-22 Ephesians 4:30 Philippians 3:3 1 Thessalonians 1:5 James 4:5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

“We should remind ourselves that the written Word was designed specifically by God to bring us to know the Living Word. Never for a moment is the written revelation to be by-passed, or slighted in any way. We are to study, meditate, and count upon it through the ministry of the Spirit of Truth, in order that we may know the Lord Jesus. He is our all, by means of the Word… “Surely, it can be affirmed that the written Truth, authored and administered by the Holy Spirit, is the ‘vehicle’ by which the Father and the Son come to us, and we to them. Still, as to reckoning upon the specific identification truths centered in Romans Six, nearly all of us stop at the written Word. It is as though we stand there, with a death-grip on a handful of truth, repeating with conviction: ‘I believe this is true, and I reckon, reckon, reckon!’ “Much of the failure of our reckoning is due to erroneous expectation. We are not delivered by belief only in the liberation truths! Certainly we must believe and appropriate these truths, but the actual liberation comes as the result of our intimate, personal fellowship with the Lord Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Simply put, the principle is: liberation is in the Liberator.” Part Four: The Realization of Spiritual Growth, Chapter 41, “Three Steps in Reckoning,” pp 187, 188

“As newly created believers, we are in the Lord Jesus in the heavenlies, while at the same time we are in the Spirit of Christ here on earth. The Comforter is our environment in this sin-cursed world. ‘But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you’ (Rom. 8:9). He it is who ministers the life of the Lord Jesus in us as our new life, and who develops the characteristics of that life in and through our new nature. “On the one hand, He applies the finished work of the Cross to the life of the flesh within. ‘Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh’ (Gal. 5:16). On the other hand, He causes the fruit of the Spirit to grow in our new life. ‘The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance’ (Gal. 5:22, 23).” Part Three: The Ground of Growth, Chapter 30, “Our History in the Last Adam,” pg 145

“Think of the faithfulness of the Holy Spirit, as He works patiently and thoroughly in the life of the growing Christian. He ministers the Cross, and He ministers Christ. It is the finished work of the Cross for the old nature, and the abundant life of the Lord Jesus for the new nature. “Of the Holy Spirit’s ministry in the life of the believer the Lord Jesus said, ‘He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you’ (John 16:14, Amp.). He not only reveals the scriptural truths concerning Christ and the Cross to our faith, but also transmits their reality to us.” Part Five: A Guide to Spiritual Growth, Chapter 57, “Keep Looking Down!,” p 257