Belief transferred down into your soul

From last night's study at my church:

"What's happening in the culture today is Zionism, Christian Zionism, is being blamed on dispensationalists. I made the point that that's just a bunch of hooey; a bunch of baloney," says Richard Jordan.

"What it is is a complete misunderstanding of No. #1, what Zionism is and No. 2#, of what dispensationalism is. I made the statement that dispensationalists don't teach the things that people say they teach

"When they talk bad about dispensationalists, they bring up C. I. Scofield. He's sort of the boogeyman for people who are not dispensationalists and don't know what dispensationalism is or its history.

"They say it began in the late 1800s with John Nelson Darby. You have to be blind in one eye and can't read out of the other to think that if you know anything about church history.

"At the Bible conference last month, Bryan Ross read a long extract from the 1700s about the Lord's coming; about the Rapture and the hope involved in it. And it was long before Darby but it taught exactly what you and I would teach and gain our hope in. It's a doctrine that goes way back.

"People who say dispensationalism began with Darby only know what somebody told them; they don't know anything about history itself.

"Of course, younger people that don't know, they just think that these people talking about it know what they're talking about when, in truth, they don't, but, you know, nobody's going to listen to someone like me because what am I supposed to know about it. Well, I know more about it than they do. 

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Jordan says in another study, “Your soul has a storage chamber, a place where information is stored, and what happened when you were unsaved is human viewpoint was taken in and you decided some of it would be what you wanted to live by and you stored it in your soul. When you get saved, those files are still there. What you’re to do is jettison these ideas by taking in sound doctrine.

“Now, if you don’t get the Word of God rightly divided in, you see what kind of problem you’re going to have to start with? Garbage in, garbage out. ‘To be scriptural but not dispensational,’ to quote verses for what you’re doing but those verses not be rightly divided, is MORE dangerous than just to have your own idea.

"Because having your own idea is only your idea. To take God’s Word and pervert it, look at Proverbs 13:13 (and you’ve always got to watch out for 13 and two 13s means it’s going to be a real ‘good’ verse!): [13] Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

“You need to remember that verse. We’re going to see that verse again in a minute in Ephesians 4 about those people giving themselves over to lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness. Just destroying themselves. Why? Because they despised the Book.

“You take that Book and mishandle it like that and you’re just bringing death into the pot. That’s the most dangerous thing—where you think you’re right, you think you’re doing God’s service, but you’re messing the thing up.

“The edification of most Believers never gets started because they never get here. What they take in is denominational doctrine. We know that because we’ve all been there, or most of us have.

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“Somebody visiting here a couple of weeks ago said, ‘Well, who are you guys?’ I said, ‘We’re just saved people. We’re just members of the Body of Christ.’ ‘What kind of church is this?’ ‘This is a grace church.’ ‘Well, who are you associated with?’ ‘Well, here they are, all around the building here.’ ‘Is that all?’ ‘Yep, that’s it; that’s us.’ ‘Well, what denomination are you?’ ‘We don’t have a denomination.’ ‘Well, how can you do that?’ ‘I don’t know, we do pretty well, thank you.’

“The thing is, all the stuff that the religion out there does isn’t what this is. When you’re unsaved, you take all that mess in. You get saved, you start out with the word rightly divided, you’re designed to take it in; your spirit takes it in.

“Your will says, ‘I’ll believe that,’ and transfers it down into your soul and you’re designed to build-up down here that doctrine. There is a specifically established FORM of sound w-o-r-d-s. It’s a design, a particular edifice of doctrine, so that you become oriented to grace. Not the ‘law system,’ but God’s grace system.

“As you do that, you grow to the place where you function on the basis of grace. That’s when the doctrine works its way out of you, through your body, and the life of Jesus Christ that is manifest through the Word of Christ dwelling in you is manifested in you and He lives out through you on a daily basis.

“The problem is when it doesn’t work that way there’s a process in Ephesians 4 that describes what it is to go back and act like an unbeliever. The unsaved man doesn’t have any light and is negative toward the Word of God.

"He’s got this big blockage up here (in his mind) where he doesn’t want the Word of God down there (in his soul). All he wants is human viewpoint and religious tradition and the ways of men. ‘[12] There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."