1. Galatians Doctrines  The Gospel  Justification  Grace  Law  Legalism  Liberty  Spirituality  Sowing & Reaping

2. True Spirituality I. Introduction A. Summary Statement of What Spirituality Is B. Detailed Treatment of What Spirituality Is Not II. Background ( Objective Context of Spirituality ) A. Creation B. Christ C. The Spiritual Realm III. Technical Development A. Rejected-Slain-Raised

3. True SpiritualityFrancis A. Schaeffer pg. 38 “If we are not careful, even though we say we are biblical Christians and supernaturalists, nevertheless the naturalism of our generation tends to come in upon us … Surely this is … perhaps the greatest reason for a loss of reality: that while we say we believe one thing, we allow the spirit of the naturalism of the age to creep into our thinking, unrecognized. All too often the reality is lost because the ‘ceiling’ is down too close upon our heads. It is too low. And the ‘ceiling’ which closes us in is the naturalistic type of thinking. … “But we saw that on the Mount of Transfiguration we are brought face to face with a supernatural universe. Here we find Moses and Elijah speaking to Christ as he is glorified. And we observed that this supernatural universe is not a far-off universe. … Now we must remember what we are talking about: the fact that the true Christian life, as we have examined it, is not to be separated from the unity of the full biblical teaching; it is not to be abstracted from the unity of the Bible's emphasis on the supernatural world….”

4. True SpiritualityFrancis A. Schaeffer pg. 39 “The true Bible-believing Christian is the one who lives in practice in this supernatural world. … I am not a Bible-believing Christian in the fullest sense simply by believing the right doctrines, but as I live in practice in this supernatural world. “What does this mean? According to the biblical view, there are two parts to reality: the natural world—that which we see, normally; and the supernatural part. … I would suggest that this may be illustrated by two chairs. The men who sit in these chairs look at the universe in two different ways. We are all sitting in one or other of these chairs at every single moment of our lives. The first man sits in his chair and faces this total reality of the universe, the seen part and the normally unseen part, and consistently sees truth against this background. The Christian is a man who has said, ‘I sit in this chair.’ …”

5. True SpiritualityFrancis A. Schaeffer pp. 40-41 “The Christian life means living in the two halves of reality: the supernatural and the natural parts… As I have said, I am in one chair or the other at any given moment. Unhappily, the Christian all too often tends to vacillate between the two chairs. At one moment he is in the chair of faith, and at another moment he is in the chair of unfaith. … But if I am trying to live a Christian life while sitting in the chair of unfaith, certain things are true. “First of all it is done in the flesh… I have put myself, the creature, at the center of the universe…. Second, if I am trying to live a Christian life while sitting in the chair of unfaith, I am only playing at it, rather than being in it, because the real battle is not against flesh and blood, but is in the ‘heavenlies,’ and I cannot participate in that battle in the flesh. …Third, the Lord will not honor our weapons if we are sitting in the chair of unfaith, because they do not give him any honor or glory. … The Lord's work done in human energy is not the Lord's work any longer. It is something, but it is not the Lord's work.”

6. He That is SpiritualLewis Sperry Chafer pg. 23 “The quality of the believer's life is a tremendous issue before God, and Satan's power is naturally directed against the purpose of God. Satan's ends could be gained in no better way than to promote some statement of truth that misses the vital issues, or establishes positive error, and thus hinders the right understanding of the divinely provided source of blessing.”

7. True Spirituality I. Introduction A. Summary Statement of What Spirituality Is B. Detailed Treatment of What Spirituality Is Not II. Background ( Objective Context of Spirituality ) A. Creation B. Christ C. The Spiritual Realm III. Technical Development A. Rejected-Slain-Raised

8. True SpiritualityFrancis A. Schaeffer pg. 18 “What is being presented to us here is the question of the Christian's mentality in all of life, and the order stands: rejected, slain, raised. As Christ's rejection and death are the first steps in the order of redemption, so our rejection and death to things and self are the first steps in the order of true and growing spirituality. As there could be no next step in the order of Christ's redemption until the step of death was taken, so in the Christian there can be no further step until these first two steps are faced—not in theory only, but at least in some partial practice.”

9. “Rejected” 2 Tim 3:12“Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.” Rom 8:36“As it is written: ‘For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’” Gal 5:11“And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.” Col 1:24“Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.” (NASB)

10. True SpiritualityFrancis A. Schaeffer pg. 19 “There will be some pain here. Indeed, there are splinters in the Christian’s cross as we are surrounded in this present life by an atmosphere alien to the Kingdom of God. But this is the way of the cross: ‘The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised up the third day.’ (Luke 9:22).”

11. “Slain” Rom 6:4a“Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death…” Rom 6:6a“knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him…” Gal 2:20a“ I have been crucified with Christ…” Gal 6:14“ But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”

12. True SpiritualityFrancis A. Schaeffer pg. 16 “This is a different perspective. It is a perspective which is completely the antithesis of the world's perspective, which normally surrounds us. When we begin to look at these words in this setting, this totally other perspective—the perspective of the Kingdom of God rather than the perspective of the fallen world and our own fallen nature—it is different. Pressure is put upon us by a world that does not want to say ‘no’ to self—not just for a minor reason, but out of principle, because they are determined to be the center of the universe. When we step out of that very black perspective and into the perspective of the Kingdom of God, then these negatives which are laid upon us take on an entirely different aspect.”

13. True SpiritualityFrancis A. Schaeffer pg. 16 “We have here a preview of that portion of the Kingdom of God in which we stand after we have accepted Christ as our Savior. But we are swept on beyond this to the resurrection, not only Christ's resurrection, but our future resurrection; we are swept on to the reign of Christ, and to eternity.”

14. “Raised” 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

15. True SpiritualityFrancis A. Schaeffer pg. 27 “Paul is not speaking here of the future millennium or eternity; that is a different thing altogether. It is now: ‘May walk in newness of life.’ ‘Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, in order that the body of sin might be made powerless, that henceforth we should not serve sin’ (Romans 6:6). How? By faith: ‘Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord’ (Romans 6:11). “When? Right now! This is the basic consideration of the Christian life. First, Christ died in history. Second, Christ rose in history. Third, we died with Christ in history, when we accepted him as our Savior. Fourth, we will be raised in history, when he comes again. Fifth, we are to live by faith now as though we were now dead, already have died. And sixth, we are to live now by faith as though we have now already been raised from the dead. “Now what does this mean in practice, so that it will not be just words going over our heads? First of all it certainly means this: that in our thoughts and lives now we are to live as though we had already died, been to heaven, and come back again as risen.”

16. True SpiritualityFrancis A. Schaeffer pg. 27-28 “But Romans 6 does not leave it here, as though we are merely projecting our imaginations. There is more to it than this. ‘For in that he died, he died unto sin once for all; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God’ (Romans 6:10). Jesus Christ lives indeed in the presence of the Father. This is where we are called to live. We are to be dead in this present life! Dead both to good and bad, in order to be alive to the presence of God. Yes, even to good. We are to be dead—not unconscious, not locked away in some darkness, but alive to God in communion with him, in communication with him. Our call to faith in this present life is that we should live as though dead to all things, that we might be alive to God…. “When I am dead both to good and bad, I have my face turned towards God. And this is the place in which, by faith at the present moment of history, I am to be. …”

17. True SpiritualityFrancis A. Schaeffer pg. 28 “But one more note needs to be sounded. We must not stop here! When through faith I am dead to all, and am face to face with God, then I am ready by faith to come back into this present world, as though I have already been raised from the dead. It is as though I anticipate that day when I will come back. I will be in that number, as will all who have accepted Jesus as Savior, when the heavens open, and we come back, following Jesus Christ in our resurrected, glorified bodies. And so now I am ready to come back as though back from the grave, as though the resurrection had already taken place, and step back into this present historic, space-time world. ‘Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,’ (that is where I stopped before, but it does not stop there) ‘but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord’ (Romans 6:11).”