Spiritual Common Sense by Dr. Frank P. Ferraro - HTML preview

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With Bible Doctrine you have a chance in love and friendship and to enjoy your possessions. Without Bible Doctrine as first priority, you have no chance of reaching Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God and developing capacity for all the things in your life. We all accumulate people and things but the only danger lies in getting your eyes on them and forgetting the source of all of it which is the Lord. When you get eyes on people and they offend you then you can become angry and fail the people test. It is not those antagonistic to you but your friends and loved ones, people you truly love, who will be the greatest tests in life. When you truly love people more than Bible Doctrine you will have great misery. These people may be right for you but they will be totally wrong as long as they are more important to you than Bible Doctrine.

In reversionism we accumulate false motivation and evil in the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul which pushes Bible Doctrine out, in essence DELETING the doctrine we have learned. Reversion recovery requires sequential stages of increased spiritual growth from learning Bible Doctrine daily a little here and there and doing so consistently. Going back to the beginning is essential in reversion recovery and for spiritual momentum to be restored and continue the believer must start over every time he gets into reversionism and each time he must retrace the steps spiritual growth out of reversionism. Reversion recovery takes time and it takes many decisions and each decision is a testing decision where you must be under Positive Volition toward Bible Doctrine each and every day. For reversion recovery we must make decisions daily and we must face the fact that if we are going to grow spiritually and gain momentum in the Spiritual Life we must make decisions from OUR OWN Stream of Consciousness of the Soul and no one else’s. We cannot come to bible study because there are some very attractive people there or because friends come or someone you like comes but we must attend bible study ONLY for Bible Doctrine. It takes tremendous effort of Positive Volition to Bible Doctrine for reversion recovery. You leave Bible Doctrine by stages and fall into reversionism and thus you must recover from reversionism by stages removing the evil principles and replacing them again with Bible Doctrine. All spiritual growth goes in stages and spurts so you must be consistent in the intake of Bible Doctrine. You may find or think that you are not getting anywhere and then you learn one key point and this key causes a great break through in the advance in your Spiritual Life. Consistent Positive Volition toward Bible Doctrine manifests itself in the daily function under the ^^Operation Z Grace Apparatus for Perception and you will make these decisions for doctrine sometimes grimly and sometimes being relaxed. Distractions come along and also testings and you often move between daily things to try to steer a straight course in the study of Bible Doctrine. You most certainly will find that the reality is the road back from reversionism is much more difficult than the road into reversionism. To advance and recover by stages also is referring to the consistent use of rebound and maintaining fellowship with God in order to be consistent in Perception, Cognition, Inculcation & Metabolization of Bible Doctrine. Time spent in neglect of Bible Doctrine can only be recovered by the assimilation of Bible Doctrine from personal persistence under strict academic discipline. When going into reversionism you do not need self or group discipline but when you come out and recover you must have self and also group discipline and it takes a great deal of discipline and concentration to recover. In the priority structure of your soul the thing which you must consider most important in life is Bible Doctrine. The worst thing which can happen to any believer is to be coming out of reversionism and stall out in the advance and crash back into reversionism. The greater the frequency of bouncing into and out of reversionism the greater the focus and intensity needed for the recovery. After you crash and burn about a dozen times the only thing left for you is to live as an obnoxious test for advancing believers and then die a horrible miserable death.

Believers in reversionism, being unteachable, never pay any attention to Divine Discipline. They cannot be taught by Bible Doctrine nor by Divine Discipline. Unteachable people do not learn from Bible Doctrine nor from disaster and those who reject Bible Doctrine and cannot be taught by Divine Discipline and are in fact completely unteachable and unteachable people are only kept alive in order to test and train and give believers who are advancing practice in the use and application of Bible Doctrine. When a believer is not sensitive to Bible Doctrine he is also insensitive to Divine Discipline. He never learns the purpose for Divine Discipline in his life, as a result, it is inevitable that believers operating under spiritual stupidity are going always to wind up under the Sin Unto Death after a very miserable life. It happens every day with believers who fall into reversionism and live their life there. They never catch on to the concepts of blessing and where it comes from nor of Divine Discipline and where it also comes from and why. They never understand that when the Lord cannot get your attention through Bible Doctrine then the Justice of God demands that you have executed upon you, such punitive measures as might catch your attention. The reversionist simply goes on and on in his degeneration and apostasy. Occasionally someone in scripture is revealed who catches on and gets back with Bible Doctrine and moves ahead. Some recover temporarily and then fall back into reversionism and eventually die the Sin Unto Death. The decisions for reversionism place the confused believer in great jeopardy.

To Advance or Retreat in the Spiritual Life; To BE or NOT to BE! Reversion is retreat in the Spiritual Life therefore, spiritual advance is required for reversion recovery. Time in reversionism is wasted and also is a postponement of divine blessing. At some point we must decide who is smarter Us or God and once we realize that God is much smarter, we then begin to realize that when it comes to blessing us GOD being far smarter knows best. God, who is infinitely smarter than we are, has the whole picture and has been read into the picture from Eternity Past actually having painted the picture himself. Therefore we have a choice of trying to eek out of life pseudo blessings based on our talent or ability, or advancing in the Spiritual Life so that we can receive the blessing he has set aside for us from Eternity Past based on God’s ability. This is no contest for any totally sane believer but all believers in reversionism are afflicted with some form of insanity. This is obvious since being without Bible Doctrine for that length of time is crazy in itself. Spiritual advance and recovery begins again where spiritual progress ended when moving into reversionism. Stages and steps into reversionism are retraced by intensification of the function of the Operation Z Grace Apparatus for Perception.

When you are recovering from reversionism don’t run right through the solution to the other side of reversionism. There is, in fact, more than one kind of reversionism and often believers charge right through the recovery of one directly into another kind of reversionism. You cannot take anything which contains nothing with you in your recovery from reversionism, you have to have Metabolized Bible Doctrine in the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul to recover from reversionism and to achieve the high ground of Spiritual Maturity. The high ground of Spiritual Maturity will elude you without consistent Perception, Cognition, Inculcation, Metabolization & Application of Bible Doctrine. No believer can continue to enjoy or have fellowship or continue to socialize with reversionists without reversionism rubbing off on them.