The Royal Family Honor Code
Preface
Before a believer begins to study anything related to bible doctrine he must name his sins privately to God the Father. “If we confess (Name or Cite) our (known) sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our (known) sins and to cleanse us from all (unknown sins) unrighteousness.” (1John 1:9) This will put the believer into fellowship with God and under the Filling of God the Holy Spirit and ready to learn Bible Doctrine. If you have never personally expressed faith alone in The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone the issue is NOT naming your sins. The issue is nonmeritorious faith alone in The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone. “He who believes in the Son has Eternal Life; But he who does not obey the command to believe in the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” (John 3:36)
If we are totally objective we must admit to having illusions about some things in life at some time. For myself there is ONE thing in this life which I have no illusions about, Bible Doctrine. Were it not for the teaching ministry of Col. R. B. Thieme Jr. and his consistent clear, concise and dogmatic presentation of the doctrines of the bible I would know nothing of biblical doctrine at all. I have no illusion about my knowledge or calling or spiritual gift and recognize that I could not do what he and many other pastors have done and continue to do in the constant studying and teaching of doctrine to their congregations. I have over the years learned innumerable principles from these studies by Pastor Thieme. One of the most important things I have learned has been that “your rate of learning MUST exceed your rate of FORGETTING” in order to advance in the Spiritual Life or even maintain your level of spiritual growth. The necessity therefore of constant, consistent Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine and ultimately application of it to life. It is my desire that this document be a source of understanding of the Aristocracy with which God has blessed us as members of the Royal Family of God in this the dispensation of Church Age, the INTENSIFIED period of the Angelic Conflict.
This is, in fact, a consolidation of notes on the principles directly derived from lessons taught by Col. R. B. Thieme Jr., in the studies of the Book of Romans in 1978, Series 458, and the Book of Ephesians, 1989, Series 412. These lessons were taught some 40+ years prior to the time of my compiling this document. This was after more than 25 years of Pastor Thieme serving in his ministry of Studying and Teaching Orthodox Fundamental Biblical Christian Doctrine in an Isogogical, Exegetical and Categorical method. With this in mind be conscious of the fact that some of the terminology, doctrine and principles presented here will be at best obscure and possibly totally meaningless to the new, infant or uninformed believer. It took the Colonel 25+ years to come to the point of being able to extract these doctrines and principles from scripture so it should certainly take some years of study under his type of ministry to be able to understand what is contained herein.
As one would expect, I am sure, I have entered some opinions and concepts from what I have learned from my studies of his teaching of Bible Doctrine in later lessons, from later years and from other current materials. The effort here on my part has been to consolidate the principles of the aristocracy of the believer in the Church Age in order to provide a place where believers might go to understand the principles related to living as an aristocrat, a Christian in the Royal Family of God. However, nothing contained herein is ever to be construed to have been originated by my personal abilities to extract doctrines from the scripture. Neither is this to be a substitute for consistent daily study under one’s right Pastor Teacher in order to develop the momentum needed to reach and HOLD ON TO spiritual maturity, the ultimate objective of the Spiritual Life. I have taken the liberty of TRYING to ONLY add pertinent examples of historical and social trends which I see occurring some 40+ years after these lessons had elucidated them. If more details and reference passages are desired on the Royal Family Honor Code or how these principles were derived the original lessons can be ordered from R. B. Thieme Jr. Bible Ministries, P.O. Box 460829, Houston Tx. 77056-8829, 713-621-3740.
Dr. Frank P Ferraro