1. Putting on the Lord Jesus Christ1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

2. 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

3. “When the Christian’s knowledge of Christ as his new life is insufficient or in error, he more or less abides in the old nature because that is the best he knows.”
Part Three: The Ground of Growth, Chapter 36, The Process of Conformation, p 169
“It is only natural for us to feel that our spiritual walk and service make us acceptable to our Father. We imagine that it is our responsibility (with His help) to live and serve so faithfully and fruitfully that He will approve of us, and therefore continually and abundantly bless us.”
Part Two: Foundations of Spiritual Growth, Chapter 21, Reconciliation and Acceptance, p 91
“It is in the environment of this world that the Adam-nature is at home and flourishes. The believer who is dominated by the old nature is bound to be worldly. He feels that he can live for God effectively on a carnal level…Others go to the opposite extreme by attempting to live for God through legalistic measures. But this is resorting to the wrong realm of life.”
Part Three: The Ground of Growth, Chapter 34, The World and Its Prince, p 158
“In seeking to do rather than to be, in attempting to give out more than we take in, our condition becomes barren and carnal.”

4. “…busyness does not necessarily produce a barren life
“…busyness does not necessarily produce a barren life. Rather, barrenness of life produces busyness! The majority of active members in our sound churches today are primarily doers; their chief concern is to work for the Lord. But, service being the emphasis of their life, they are for the most part motivated by self…
“There are many believers who feel that the chief problem in our congregations is the existence of an overwhelming number of pew parasites. But, on the other hand, the vast army of busy-bee workers in our midst constitutes a comparable problem. Both doing nothing, and doing overmuch, are a hindrance to God's purpose. His will for the Christian is expressed in the word being, which in turn will result in effective doing.”
Part Four: The Realization of Spiritual Growth, Chapter 44, Service and Reckoning, pp

5. “Conditionally, almost all believers are to some extent under the principle of law ‘as a rule of life.’ The all-too-general attitude is: I must love the Lord and others; I must maintain my testimony; I must witness and work for Him; I must resist self; I must stop this sinning.”
Part Four: The Realization of Spiritual Growth, Chapter 46, Romans 7 Reckoning, p 207
“Too many Christians today are seeking to live for the Lord on the basis of the principle of love… Such a motive is good, high, and altruistic; but it is neither the best, nor the highest, nor is it spiritual. Our love is far too weak and vacillating for such an undertaking…
“There is only one true and adequate motivating power for living the Christian life, and that is the very life of the Lord Jesus - ministered within by the Spirit of Life Himself. This is not a motivation of love, but the empowerment of life. ‘For to me to live is Christ’ (Philippians 1:21). It is not, ‘Only what is done for Christ will last,’ but rather, ‘Only what is done by Christ will last.’”
Part Four: The Realization of Spiritual Growth, Chapter 47, Romans 8 Reckoning, p 213

6. Results of Law—Negative:
(1) The law says, Don’t sin, so he struggles to keep from sinning. The law says, Do righteousness, so he struggles to be righteous. But the law does not give the Christian power over sin—it gives sin power over the Christian!...
(2) The Christian who is walking after the flesh is walking under law, and therefore is doomed to failure… The carnal believer is depending upon fleshly means for deliverance from fleshly failure; he is looking for strength to the very source from which he is seeking deliverance.
(3) The Christian life becomes a burden, and a continuous up-and-down experience…
(4) As to service, where there is any at all it is mainly by means of self-effort—whether it be preaching, teaching, or personal witness. Flashy gimmicks and neat little methods are employed, but the flesh can only spawn more of its own kind. The problem is compounded.
Part Three: The Ground of Growth, Chapter 32, In-Law, pp 153, 154

7. “Not law, but grace; not I, but Christ
“Not law, but grace; not I, but Christ. The principle of law applied to the believer dooms him to Romans Seven, while the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus delivers him to Romans Eight…
“Spiritual growth does not involve effort on the part of the Christian, for the indwelling Spirit transmits the life of the Lord Jesus from source to servant. Neither is there struggle connected with the daily deliverance from the tyranny of self, for the Spirit transmits the finished work of the Cross to that sinful element.
“Where these death-dealing and life-giving identification truths are unknown to the believer, he finds no alternative but to try to keep the law as a ‘rule of life.’ This erroneous expedient consists of applying the principle of law for the control of conduct—its prohibitions for self, its commands for life…
Part Five: A Guide to Spiritual Growth, Chapter 58, Law Versus Life, pp 261, 262

8. “Most of the depressing law-burden placed upon believers emanates from Calvinism and its Covenant theology. Many are unaware of the legalistic aspect of this teaching, since its tenets are well known for providing the Christian with the solid scriptural foundation of justification and eternal security…
“The Covenant theologians have ever remained well within the scope of Reformation doctrine. We can be thankful for this with regard to justification by faith, but when it comes to sanctification via Christ our life, it is a different matter. Substitution is clearly proclaimed; identification (our death to the law and our life in Christ) by and large has not been recognized…
“In thus merging Israel with born-again believers, the law is brought right on past Calvary and fastened upon the Christian…This theology prevents the Christian from seeing and freely taking his stand as having died unto the law and being now alive unto God in the Lord Jesus.”
Part Five: A Guide to Spiritual Growth, Chapter 58, Law Versus Life, pp 261, 262

9. “To vilify our past is stupidity; to deify it is idolatry;
to clarify it - and so to learn from it
- is maturity.”

10. The Five “Solas” of the Reformation
1) Sola Scriptura (“Scripture alone”): The Bible alone is our highest authority.
2) Sola Fide (“faith alone”): We are saved through faith alone in Jesus Christ.
3) Sola Gratia (“grace alone”): We are saved by the grace of God alone.
4) Solus Christus (“Christ alone”): Jesus Christ alone is our Lord, Savior, and King.
5) Soli Deo Gloria (“to the glory of God alone”): We live for the glory of God alone.