1. Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard Sunday, June 27, 2010 www.GraceDoctrine.org

2. John 15:12-13 A Relaxed Mental Attitude creates capacity for Impersonal Love!

3. Human Spirit Doctrinal Orientation Mastery, Details of Life Relaxed Mental Attitude 3 Categories of Love (God, Right Man/Woman, Mankind) + Happiness of God

4. Doctrine of Relaxed Mental Attitude (RMA)

5. A RMA is the high thinking of the Christian life. It is having a mental attitude that is completely trusting in God and His Word in every situation.

6. God has given us the greatest power in the universe so that we are able to have a RMA and therefore love in all situations. Eph 1:19-20

7. Principles: The average believer does not know anything about God’s superior power or how God has delegated it to us through thought.

8. Instead we have a lot of mindless emotional activity rather than doctrinal thinking.

9. God’s delegation of Divine power depends on post- salvation renewing of your mind, Rom 12:2-3, that comes in the form of thinking metabolized Bible doctrine.

10. This system of thought called B.D. produces a Relaxed Mental Attitude because of Divine viewpoint and is from the content of the infallible Word of God.

11. What you really are as a person is what you really think, not what you appear to be on the surface, the way you are dressed or groomed, but what goes on inside in your soul.

12. The real you is the thought content of your soul. The soul is the place where you think or do not think. Personality is not the real person; thought is.

13. Prov 23:7a, “For as a person thinks in his soul so he is.”

14. The delegation of Divine power includes:

15. The delegation of Divine power includes: 1) The content of thought; Bible doctrine with emphasis on the Mystery Doctrine of the Church Age.

16. 2) The communication of this thought through the spiritual gift of your right Pastor-Teacher.

17. 3) The concentration of the believer on Bible doctrine as it is being taught. Concentration is a matter of your priorities in life.

18. Living your spiritual life is thinking Divine viewpoint which gives you a RMA.

19. Concentration on the teaching of Bible doctrine reflects four things in your life:

20. Concentration on the teaching of Bible doctrine reflects four things in your life: 1) The values in your life.

21. Concentration on the teaching of Bible doctrine reflects four things in your life: 1) The values in your life. 2) Your motivation in life.

22. Concentration on the teaching of Bible doctrine reflects four things in your life: 1) The values in your life. 2) Your motivation in life. 3) Your mental attitude in life.

23. Concentration on the teaching of Bible doctrine reflects four things in your life: 1) The values in your life. 2) Your motivation in life. 3) Your mental attitude in life. 4) Your spiritual status quo.

24. John 4:24, “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in (the filling of the) Spirit and truth (metabolized B.D.).”

25. Phil 2:5, “Keep on having this mental attitude in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” Cf. 2 Cor 5:1, 6 ‑ 8

26. Col 3:2, “Set your mind (RMA) on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.”

27. Grace Offering

28. Grace Fellowship Church Sunday, June 27, 2010 Tape # 10-072 Impersonal Love Motivates Relaxed Mental Attitude Upper Room Discourse, Part 387 John 15:12-13; 1 John 3:23; Eph 1:19-20 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2010