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Robert R. McLaughlin
Friday
, January 02, 2015

How our Lord used the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God and the difference between gnosis and epignosis doctrine.

The basic theme throughout the year was the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, was the main theme of our entire year.

The entire month of January emphasized the importance of knowledge verses wisdom or what is known as gnosis verses epignosis.

February = how each Gospel focuses in on a different aspect of the Lord Jesus Christ and His ministry on the earth.

Mathew focuses on the Kingship of Christ.
Mark focuses in on the servant-hood of Christ.
Luke focuses on the humanity of Christ.
John on the deity of Christ.

EZE 1:10 As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man,[Luke] all four had the face of a lion [Matthew] on the right and the face of a bull [Mark] on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle [John].

Then in the month of March we studied the Lamb of God Who took away the sins of the world.

JOH 1:29 The next day he *saw Jesus coming to him, and *said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

We spent time on Satan’s motivations and studied the betrayer. We also noted Satan possession.

You may have forgotten that we noted the Holy Trinity verses the unholy Trinity.

The unholy trinity is Satan, the false prophet and the anti-Christ.

April began with the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God manifested in the life of Jesus Christ by the washing the feet of His disciples.

Because of this we entered into a study of the Psalm of the Crucifixion. Psalm 22.

Next we noted True and genuine love verses the hypocrisy of love.

We also emphasized the principle of the fact that He taught “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean.

We noted the fact that through the power of God, we have the ability to love with a greater love than what they loved with in the Old Testament.

We saw the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God, as manifested in the Life of Jesus Christ, toward the traitor, Judas Iscariot as he was also given his privacy.

Judas was born a sinner but he was not born a traitor.

Then in May on Mother’s Day we noted the Motherhood of God.

The importance of positional truth and the vine and the branches.

The six trials and what our Lord went through when He arrived at the Cross.
May 21, 2014.

June began with the doctrine of the substitutionary spiritual death of our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross.

The seven sayings of the lord Jesus Christ on the Cross.

Then came July which again dealt with the many aspects of the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of our Lord.

August = we noted the Divine descriptions of Hades or Hell.

The Function of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit during the Substitutionary Spiritual Death.

Then in the middle of August we noted the importance of repetition and the doctrine of Election.

September began with more of the doctrine of Election.

1. TLJC
2. Israel and the Jew
3. The election of the church.

October began with the Doctrine of Election and the difference between: Cosmic one and Cosmic two.

Election and the Believer’s Escrow Account.

The Winner believer.
Selection and Election.

November dealt with the hypocrisy of religion noting especially the Roman Catholic Church and its false doctrines.

The equal privilege of election manifested by the universal priesthood of every Church-age believer.

The Royal Family honor code as it relates to the doctrine of Election.

December = we entered into our present study The Doctrine of Heaven.

We noted the gate of Lazarus.

The principle of going from death to glory.

We have also noted how we will be able to see Heaven from a distance.

A glimpse of our arrival in Heaven and the New Jerusalem.

Nothing is more important in our lives than Bible doctrine, since Bible doctrine reveals the invisible assets and how to glorify God and receive our fantastic inheritance from God.

Prin-Peter was a prepared pastor and God uses prepared men.

The pres-act-inf of hupominnesko which which means to remind you, to bring to your remembrance, to teach you something you’ve already learned and therefore to repeat.

JOH 14:26, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.

Prin-The purpose of repetition is to fulfill a deliberate objective which is to inculcate Bible doctrine in the believer’s soul so that the believer will remain in the PPOG.

“know” is the per-act-part of oida which is eidotas = recognizes the completed action of knowing, which reveals that this was a “well taught congregation”!

prin-A well taught congregation is one that has been repeated to over and over again.
established is the per-pass-part of sterizo meaning to be supported, sustained, and firmly established.

1. In eternity past the blessings placed in your inheritance were made contingent upon the future performance of each believer.

2. Spiritual maturity is the result of doctrines being repeated over and over again to the congregation, and spiritual maturity is the place that the believer graduates from.

Heaven will reward soul winners, DAN 12:3.
Heaven will reward humble servants, MAT 10:42.
Heaven will reward faithful stewards,
MAT 25:23,
Heaven will reward those who give, LUK 6:35

Heaven will reward those who produce divine good, ROM 2:10.

Heaven will reward those who are persecuted, MAT 5:11-12.

Heaven will reward those who suffer un-deservingly, 2TI 2:12.

Heaven will reward those who master the O.S.N., 1CO 9:25.
Heaven will reward those who love His appearing, 2TI 4:8.

Heaven will reward those who endure temptations, JAM 1:12.

Heaven will reward the faithful pastor teacher, 1PE 5:4.

CANONICITY

April 15, 2008 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

The History of the NT Greek Canon. Papyrus was mostly used for more ancient books. It survived in warm, dry climates such as the Middle East, but became frail after repeated use. Parchment or vellum, which became more used in the 4th century, was made from the skins of cattle, sheep, goats, antelopes, and was much more durable than papyrus, but more expensive. At the close of the first century A.D. the codex or leaf form of book, came into use in the Church. This is the form of book that we have today. Majuscules or Uncials were all capitol letters without spaces or punctuation. This was beautifully done in very old manuscripts and eliminated errors due to handwriting styles. Minuscule was a script type of writing using lower case letters. Since the minuscule handwriting made books cheaper, they were more available to people with limited means. Greek manuscripts fall into these two major groups (majuscule or minuscule), having subgroups of being written on either papyri or parchment. Either material was used interchangeably depending on cost. In English for example it would read: GODISNOWHERE. In the 4th century, when Rome received Christianity, scriptoria were established to produce copies of the NT. Therefore, just because a manuscript is older, that does not mean that it’s necessarily more accurate. God chose to preserve the NT by the very number of man’s mistakes. In other words, the mistakes preserve the original text. There are over 5700 manuscripts catalogued of parts of the NT alone. Each having small differences, then the number of variants becomes high, however, by comparison of them all, the variants become quite clear and a wonderful rendering of the original text is possible. Wescott and Hort indicated that about one eighth of the variants had any weight, the rest being trivial. Philip Schaff estimated that there were only 400 variants that affected the sense of the passage, and only 50 of these were important. Dr. A.T. Robertson, the greatest of Greek scholars, indicated that of real concern regarding textual variants amounted to but “a thousandth part of the entire text.” Four categories: Papyri………….116 Majuscules …….310 Minuscules……..2877 Lectionary………2432 5735 Codex Sinaiticus At the age of nineteen, young Count Koinstantin von Tischendorf amazed his professors with his fluent knowledge of the classical languages and his knowledge of history. This is how Tischendorf discovered the 129 pages of what is today known as the Codex sinaiticus, or the Codex Aleph. Codex Sinaiticus is still one of the finest and most accurate texts available to us today, and it became the basis of many revisions and corrections of earlier editions of the Bible. Actually, Codex Vaticanus, also known as Codex B was known to be some fifteen years older than Codex Sinaiticus (Codex Aleph). Vaticanus dated back to 325 or 350 A.D., and had probably been brought from the East by Pope Nicholas in 1448. In 1809, when Napoleon exiled the Pope, it took about fifty wagons to transport the Pope’s library. Tregelles, another great scholar and friend of Tischendorf’s, decided to investigate the Codex Vaticanus in the Vatican library. A third very interesting manuscript, which very few people knew about, is the Codex Alexandrinus. This Greek language manuscript had been written about 450 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt. In 1621, when Cyril Lucar became the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, he transferred the manuscript to Constantinople. The beautiful document, Codex Alexandrinus, was presented at court in 1627, just fifteen years after the King James Version of the Bible had been completed. The first thing that was printed was Jerome’s Latin Vulgate as it was the most popular Bible translation at the time, although by then Bibles had been printed in several languages of Europe. No Greek NT had been “printed” until 1514 and was called the Complutensian Polygot. It was a magnificent edition of Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin texts. 600 were printed, of which 97 are preserved today. However, the first Greek NT to be published (put on the market) was an edition prepared by the famous Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus in 1516. Erasmus could not find a Greek manuscript that contained the entire NT. He used about a half dozen different, incomplete copies of the Greek NT. For most of the text he relied on two rather inferior manuscripts from a monastic library at Basle, one of the Gospels and one of Acts and the Epistles, both dating from the 12th century. Said of this first edition, owing to the haste in production, the volume contains hundreds of typographical errors. Said of this first edition: “It is in that respect the most faulty book I know.” (Scrivener) Erasmus made a second edition which became the basis for Luther’s German translation. Corrections were made but the text was still only based on a half-dozen Greek manuscripts. Further editions were made for a total of five editions in all by 1535. The text of Erasmus’ Greek NT rests upon a half-dozen miniscule Greek manuscripts. The oldest and best of these (codex 1, a miniscule of the 10th century) he used the least because he was afraid of its supposedly erratic text. It is Erasmus’ text (Textus Receptus: Received Text) that is the basis of the 1611 King James Version. This is not to say that the KJV is a terrible translation, but it is flawed as any other translation and it is not as good as RSV, NIV, or NASB etc. ROM 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. KJV ROM 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. KJV After Erasmus thousands of manuscripts of the Greek NT have been discovered as well as other ancient Greek texts that have aided in our understanding of the Koine Greek. In fact the 26th edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek NT was published separately from the United Bible Societies’ Greek NT. Without communicating and by using different critical methods the two editions are identical. 5735 Greek manuscripts discovered and criticized over hundreds of years have reproduced God’s original Word to the writers of Scripture within 99.999% accuracy. Grace Bible Church Basic Training in Doctrine April 8, 2008 Canonicity Definition, Origin, and the OT. Definiton: Canonicity is derived from the Greek word “kanon” which originally meant a rod or a ruler – hence a measuring stick or a norm. The canon of Scripture is the divine absolute standard of God’s revelation to mankind. Argument: We don’t have any of the originals and the originals have been copied over and over so there are bound to be mistakes. Answer: True Argument: The Bible was written by men and not God. Answer: True. But over 40 different writers who wrote over a period of 1,500 years are in exact agreement about types, antitypes, prophecies, fulfillment of prophecies, timelines, stories, and history, and all without a single glitch. God the Holy Spirit so directed the writers of Scripture that without changing their personality, their vocabulary, their frame of reference, God’s complete message to mankind was recorded in their own language and vernacular. This is the doctrine of inspiration. The Bible is not human viewpoint, but it is the Holy Spirit’s use of human agencies to record God’s complete revelation to mankind through mankind. The Origin of the Scriptures: The Bible was inspired by God and it is now complete. REV 22:18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book : if anyone adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book; 1 Cor 2:10 For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God 1 Cor 2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. When we turn to the decree of Artaxerxes, made in his twentieth year, NEH 2:1-8, for the first time is permission granted to rebuild the city of Jerusalem. This prophecy fulfills the conditions of DAN 9:25 Therefore, 69 weeks of prophetic years of 360 days (69 x 7 x 360 = 173,880 days) = 173,880 days. After this many days, from March 14th B.C. 445, one would arrive at the 6th of April, A.D. 32. Luke 19:42 “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace-but now it is hidden from your eyes. (NIV) The Old Testament For instance the original Greek of John 1:1 is as follows: Now look at an OT verse in the Hebrew: à áÌÀøÅàùÑÄéú, áÌÈøÈà àÁìÉäÄéí, àÅú äÇùÌÑÈîÇéÄí, åÀàÅú äÈàÈøÆõ. In 280 B.C. 72 Alexandrian scholars got together and produced an amazingly accurate translation. This was called the Septuagint or “the Seventy” in honor of the translators. : The Bible was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, although only a handful of chapters were written in Aramaic Unlike the NT, the OT scriptures were kept among one people, the Jews, for centuries. Outside of the Septuagint it remained in Hebrew, was kept among people who spoke the same language, and the Jews were well trained copyists and preservers of the OT Originally the OT was divided into 3 parts: The Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings The Torah or the Pentateuch consists of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy The second group, the Nabhim or Prophets which are split into two categories; the Former Prophets (before the Babylonian captivity) and the Latter prophets (after the Babylonian captivity). There are four books in each category. The three Major Prophets are Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel The Minor Prophets, which we divide into 12 separate books, are all one in the Hebrew Bible, called the Twelve. Apart from Daniel “The Twelve” includes everything from Hosea to Malachi The third section of the Hebrew OT is called the Kethubim or “The Writings.” This was divided into 3 sections, The Poetical Books, The Five Rolls (also called the Megilloth), and The Historical Books. Lastly there are the three Historical Books at the end of the Hebrew Canon: Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah (one book), and Chronicles. Therefore, the Hebrew OT contains 24 books compared to our 39 This endorsement of Scripture takes us from GEN 4:10 (the first book) to 2CH 24:20-21 (the last book in the OT Canon) The Apocrypha are books written after the close of the OT Canon in 425 B.C. The word Apocrypha means hidden or secret. Their addition was an attempt by the devil to infiltrate God’s Truth. The Apocrypha teaches: Prayers and offerings for the dead (2 Macc 12:41-46). Suicide is justified (2 Macc 14:41-46). Salvation by giving money (Tobit 4:11). Cruelty to slaves (Ecclesiasticus 33:25-29). The soul is produced by parents (Wisdom 8:19-20).

GOD IS IN YOU, THE SHEKINAH GLORY REVEALED.

July 7, 2022 • Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

We have the glory of God in writing. We have the grace of God in writing. We have the mercy of God in writing. We have the goodness of God in writing. See our MP3 Series for other parts of the "John Series" or visit us @ http://gbible.org Exodus 33:19 Moses had seen the face of God face to face. A theophany is an old testament appearance of Jesus Christ. In this situation a theophany is Jesus Christ in a literally human body. To behold the Glory of God is to behold His goodness, His mercy, and His grace. Bible Doctrine is the revelation of the glory of God. The Word of God in writing. John 1:14 The Lord Jesus Christ was full of grace. Luke 4:22 Full of Grace has to do with the person of Jesus Christ. There will never be a person who will stand before God and not have had an opportunity to behold His grace. Titus 2:11, 12. Grace is simply God’s unmerited favor toward the human race. Grace is God loving you when you don’t deserve a single thing. Grace is the way God treats you and I because of what His Son did on the Cross. There is nothing that you could ever do to make God love you or bless you. God loves you because of who He is and not what you are. God loves each and every one of us with a perfect and unconditional love. God’s glory is His graciousness, His mercy and His goodness. Luke 4:22 Our words usually reveal what we are thinking, unless one is a hypocrite. Jesus Christ constantly spoke gracious words, and He constantly thought gracious thoughts. Jeremiah 29:13 The reason why they are thoughts of peace is so that you can except reconciliation and come to God’s expected end. Many Christians struggle to live the Christian way of life. How can you please God? The first prerequisite to coming to a place of being a Christian that pleases God is that you have to know God’s thoughts towards who you are. Many people do not know what God’s glory is all about and they begin to feel condemned. God’s glory is His grace. God’s glory is His mercy. God’s glory is His goodness. Who wouldn’t want to draw near to a God who is filled with glory filled with Mercy, filled with grace and God that is good to us constantly? When Jesus Christ walked on this earth, He was filled with not just Truth, but Grace and Truth.¬¬¬¬ You can’t be filled with grace unless you’re filled with truth and truth is God doctrines. You can’t be filled with truth unless you’re filled with grace. You can’t have one without the other, the two go together. The more truth that I learn, the more grace that I’ll know about God and then the more gracious I’ll be to others. Jesus Christ, when He came down on earth, revealed His glory to the human race and His glory was revealed by grace and truth. That is so precious when you think about it. In fact Grace and doctrine, Grace and truth, doctrine is what sustained Him in His earthly ministry. You and I can go through any difficulty in life and have Bible doctrine, God’s word and God’s promises and the Holy Spirit to sustain us constantly. When Jesus Christ came, He was filled with grace and truth and when our sins were poured upon Him and judged, grace and truth is what carried Him. Grace and Doctrine carried Him through. The same thing that carried Him through you and I have the ability to carry us through right now, at any time because His grace, His truth, the Shekinah Glory, and God the Holy Spirit will never leave us or forsake us. God the Father will never forsake us because God the Son already paid that price for every single one of us… If you lived when Christ lived and if you followed Him all around and you sat and you learn with Him and you went everywhere with Him, you would still not have what you have today, you would still not have the Shekinah Glory inside of you. You could’ve seen Him all that you want but you couldn’t behold all of His glory, Psalm 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. In the person of Jesus Christ when he came down on the earth mercy and truth met, and then in the person of Jesus Christ righteousness and peace kissed. What does that mean? That means that righteousness, God‘s righteousness, God‘s holiness now has been totally at peace with mankind through Jesus Christ. This LESSON is from our John Series

WHY DID JESUS CHRIST COME TO DWELL AMONG US?

Pastor Robert R. McLaughlin

Who is this one that said to be raised from the dead? These are the questions you must ask yourself: Do you believe in God? Do you believe that there is a God somewhere somehow? And if so do you have a responsibility to listen to Him? Do you owe Him a hearing? If there really is a God, what does God want from your life? No one can go through life saying I believe in God, yet ignore Him. Many people that say they believe in God, really do not. To really believe in God you would have to realize that God wants something from you. God expect something from you. The Gospel of John deals with who Jesus Christ is. The Gospel of John One of the most unique. Matthew, Mark and Luke are very repetitious. The Gospel of John is much different than the Gospel of Matthew, Mark and Luke. John 1. John wrote his book after the other Gospels were already written. The Holy Spirit wanted him to bring something out about Jesus Christ more than what any of the other gospels did even combined. The deity of Jesus Christ, who Jesus Christ is. Many people will come up with excuses to not face who Jesus Christ is. John 20:31 This book was not written to condemn you. Jesus Christ has already paid the price for every sin you would ever commit. This book is written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing you might have life through His name. A lot of people believe that Jesus Christ is the Son but a lot of people don’t keep on believing. If you keep on believing then you’ll have life through His name. The Gospel of John is a book that is written to unbelievers to cause them to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and then this book is also written to Christians to cause them to keep on believing that He is Lord and Savior so that they can have a life through His name. Many people never learn to love themselves through Jesus Christ our Lord. Why was the Gospel of John written? So that we might believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that by believing we might have life through His name. The life that God wants us to have does not begin when we die and go to heaven. We are not talking about eternal life in heaven we are talking about life right now on earth, this is why this gospel was written. This book is considered by many scholars to be the deepest and the most spiritual book in the Bible. The main purpose for this book is to inspire you and I to have faith in Jesus. The only thing that matters now is what ye think of Jesus Christ? It doesn’t matter who you are or what you have done, if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ you will have eternal life. There is only one reason and one reason only why people go to hell and that is because they refuse to believe in the Son of God, nothing else. Why did Jesus Christ who is God dwell among us? 2 Corinthians 8:9 For you are recognizing [more clearly] the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [His astonishing kindness, His generosity, His gracious favor], that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich (abundantly blessed). Jesus Christ came to make poor people rich. The word of God says in Philippians 2:8 After He was found in [terms of His] outward appearance as a man [for a divinely-appointed time], He humbled Himself [still further] by becoming obedient [to the Father] to the point of death, even death on a cross. Christ is the Son of God and to keep having that face so that He’s not only Savior of your soul but He’s also Lord of your life. What good is it if Jesus Christ is your savior but He’s not your Lord? A lot of people use phrases so that Jesus Christ will not have to be Lord of their life. Consider making Jesus Christ Savior of your soul and if you’re already saved make Him Lord of your life. This gospel is designed for us to recognize the Celebrity ship, the Kingship, and the Lordship of our Lord. Jesus Christ is God! You must realize that Jesus Christ is not just the Son of God but He is God Himself. Jesus Christ is King, Jesus Christ is Lord and Jesus Christ is the only celebrity in the Christian life. The fact that Jesus Christ is God demands your attention. You will have to stand before God someday to answer to God. John 1:1 In the beginning [before all time] was the Word ([a]Christ), and the Word was with God, and [b]the Word was God Himself. The Word was in the beginning, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word was God. The Word was God. The Word “beginning” means a beginning that has no beginning, it means eternity password for the Word. As much as you know about the Bible is as much as you know about God. God is omnipresent. God’s entire mind is in the Bible. John 1:14 The same One who is equal to the Father and the same One that was equal to the Holy Spirit and Who occupied the highest place of deity, He decided to come down on earth and take upon Him the form of a man. The same form of humanity as you and I.