Lesson for July 8, 2018
The Doctrine of Spirituality vs. Carnality
Doctrine of Invisible Heroes
We live in one of the Christocentric dispensations – the Church Age. Christocentricis a doctrinal term describing theological positions that focus on Jesus Christ. Christocentric theologies make Christ the central theme about which all other theological positions/doctrines are oriented. The purpose of the Church Age is to manufacture invisible heroes from the Royal Family of God for the resolution of the Angelic Conflict. No one can see your spiritual life; it is an invisible relationship with God. It is within the framework of this invisible relationship that a believer has the potential of reaching spiritual maturity and becoming an invisible hero and glorifying Jesus Christ to the maximum.
All our precedence for the execution of the Christian Way of Life in the Church Age is taken from the Hypostatic Union of Jesus Christ, not from the Mosaic Law. Therefore, we have only one visible hero: the Lord Jesus Christ. During His incarnation, Jesus was very visible to Israel. As the Messiah, Son of David, and ruler of Israel, He fulfilled the Old Testament prophesies and was a very visible hero.
In His role as ruler of the Church, however, He is invisible. The Church Age began after the accession of Jesus to Heaven and He was no longer visible to mankind. Jesus prophesied about the Church Age in the Upper Room Discourse before He ascended. (Acts 1:4-8)But Christ also demonstrated what an invisible hero in the Church Age would do: he would live inside the Divine Dynasphere, as He did while on earth. Jesus functioned in the prototype Divine Dynasphere, which is exactly like the operational-type Divine Dynasphere that has been given to us. (John 14:8-31)
On the Cross, Jesus Christ remained impeccable and was able to stay on the Cross while bearing the sins of the world because He was sustained by the omnipotence of God the Holy Spirit inside the prototype Divine Dynasphere and because He had God’s perfect happiness. Both these Problem-Solving Devices are available to us as well.
So as a visible hero, Jesus Christ presented Himself to Israel as Messiah, the Son of David and was rejected. As an invisible hero living within God’s power system, the prototype Divine Dynasphere, He was judged for the sins of the world on the Cross. That invisibility was enhanced by the fact that darkness fell across the land from 12 noon until 3 p.m., according to Matthew 27:45, during which period of time Christ received the judgment for the sins of the world. Just as Christ executed the salvation plan of God during the Hypostatic Union, we are here to execute the Protocol Plan of God for the Church Age.
The mechanics of becoming an invisible hero in the Church Age are the mechanics that bring a believer to spiritual maturity. Therefore, becoming an invisible hero begins with a believer’s attitude toward Bible doctrine. Under the ministry of his right pastor a believer learns the mystery doctrine of the Church Age. No one can become an invisible hero apart from renewing his thinking from human viewpoint to divine viewpoint. Therefore, there must be consistent exposure to and understanding of the mystery doctrine of the Church Age, through which the believer attains spiritual maturity and provides an invisible impact. The Church Age is designed to manufacture invisible heroes through perception, metabolization, and application of Bible doctrine. Metabolized doctrine plus wisdom results in momentum in the Protocol Plan of God. The execution of this protocol plan results in the manufacture of invisible heroes. The mystery doctrine of the Church Age cannot be perceived and metabolized apart from residence, function, and momentum inside your very own spiritual palace, the operational-type Divine Dynasphere.
A believer who is advancing in his spiritual life on his way to becoming an invisible hero is consistently filled with the Holy Spirit at gate #1 of the Divine Dynasphere. He has already learned the basic doctrines, basic mode of operation, and the Problem-Solving Devices at gate #2. He has enforced and genuine humility at gate #3 so that he continually learns Bible doctrine and has spiritual momentum. He functions consistently under the principle of renewing his mind at gate #4, which is grace apparatus for perception (GAP), metabolization, and application of Bible doctrine. He has advanced to gate #5, the motivation gate and the first gate of spiritual adulthood, where he has attained spiritual self-esteem, which is spiritual self-confidence. At gate #6 he passes providential preventative suffering; suffering for blessing. He then advances to gate #7 where he is able to exhibit impersonal love for all mankind in spiritual autonomy, and he passes the four parts of momentum testing. Finally, he advances to gate #8 and attains spiritual maturity. He passes evidence testing and becomes an invisible hero. As an invisible hero, this believer becomes a part of “the pivot.” The pivot is defined as the accumulation of mature believers living in a client nation in a specific geographical location. While a pivot is composed primarily of mature believers, it may also include those positive believers whose momentum has carried them into spiritual adulthood.
The spiritual gift of pastor-teacher is the divinely-appointed vehicle for the communication of the mystery doctrine as well as other doctrines and principles in the Word of God. The pastor communicates all of the mechanics and information necessary for the execution of the Protocol Plan of God. An invisible hero is then “manufactured” using those mechanics to execute the Protocol Plan of God. A believer can glorify God only through the execution of that plan in the Church Age. So, it is absolutely necessary for a believer as a royal priest to listen, concentrate, understand, believe and apply the doctrine, metabolizing it by faith perception under the filling of the Holy Spirit.
No believer can execute the Protocol Plan of God, become an invisible hero, or glorify God apart from the teaching ministry of a pastor. This emphasizes the importance of isagogical, categorical exegetical expository teaching of the Word of God. In the client nation, visible heroes are related to the Laws of Divine Establishment, while invisible heroes are related to the pivot of mature believers. As goes believers, so goes the client nation to God.
The Invisible Hero’s Impact
Personal impact is defined as blessing by association with the mature believer who is both a winner and an invisible hero in the protocol plan. Blessing by association with the invisible hero includes the following peripheries: husband, wife, mother, father, children, relatives, pets, businesses, schools, teams, military organizations, law enforcement, engineering firms, banks, corporations, church, mission board, prep school, Christian service organizations, neighborhoods, city, county, state, nation, etc.
Historical impact is defined as blessing by association to the Gentile client nation through the formation of the pivot of mature believers. The size of the pivot of invisible heroes becomes the basis of either blessing or cursing to a nation. A large pivot of invisible heroes means national blessing, prosperity in spiritual affairs as well as in the function of government, law enforcement, military, the economy, and the cultural and social life of the nation. A small pivot of invisible heroes means the administration of the five cycles of discipline to the client nation. A large pivot of invisible heroes means the five cycles of discipline are cancelled and the nation is delivered by the grace of God. When the pivot shrinks through apostasy, the client nation declines. It is eventually destroyed by the administration of the fifth cycle of discipline.
International impact is defined as blessing by association to a non-client nation through missionaries who have attained spiritual maturity. The missionary who is an invisible hero has a dual impact of blessing by association. The mature missionary is a blessing to the client nation from which he comes. The mature missionary is a blessing to the foreign country to which he goes. When the invisible hero goes to a non-client nation as a missionary, he becomes a source of blessing by association to that non-client nation, so that it prospers.
A spiritually mature missionary does not interfere with the politics, the culture, or the function of the non-client nation through Christian activism which is both evil and a part of moral degeneration. The spiritually mature missionary functions under the indigenous policy and mode of operation. Therefore, his impact is both invisible and spiritual. The result of invisible international impact is two categories of blessing by association. Spiritual prosperity comes from evangelism, the training of national pastors, and the formation of self-sustaining local churches in that non-client nation. National prosperity comes without activism, interference, social engineering, civil disobedience, terrorism, or revolution.
Angelic impact is defined as the invisible hero becoming a witness for the Prosecution in the rebuttal phase of Satan’s appeal trial during human history. This witness is accomplished by a mature believer passing evidence testing. When people become believers in Jesus Christ and execute the Protocol Plan of God, they are applauded by the elect angels. Angels cheer when someone becomes an invisible hero. Mankind was created to resolve the Angelic Conflict. Therefore, angels are now observing human history. In the Dispensation of the Hypostatic Union, angels observed the Incarnation of Christ, I Timothy 3:16. In the Dispensation of the Church, angels are observing you, I Corinthians 4:9; Ephesians 3:10; I Timothy 5:21; I Peter 1:12. The Church Age therefore has an unusual testimony. Every Church Age believer is a testimony to other people who are visible and to millions of angels who are invisible. Therefore, the invisible hero fulfills the very purpose for which man was created and confined to planet earth.
Heritage impact is blessing by association with the invisible hero after his death. He is now “absent from the body and face to the face with the Lord,” in a place of “no more sorrow, no more tears, no more pain, no more death; the old things have passed away,” (Revelation 21:4). Therefore, heritage impact is blessing by association to the next generation. It is the continuation of blessing by association after the death of an invisible hero to one or perhaps two following generations. This means that the loved ones and possibly the close friends and associates of the invisible hero, regardless of their spiritual status, believer or unbeliever, winners or losers in the Protocol Plan of God, are blessed by their association with the invisible hero after his death. This explains one reason why even people who are evil prosper, believer or unbeliever. Both believers and unbelievers prosper in any given generation because of their association with the invisible hero. Believers, winners or losers, also prosper on the basis of logistical grace. Since many believers are evil, they prosper only because of logistical grace.
Arrogance is the greatest hindrance to becoming an invisible hero. Therefore, we are commanded to heed the mandate of Romans 12:2-3, “Stop being conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your thought, so that you may discover what the will of God is: production of good of intrinsic value [advance to spiritual maturity], execution of the well-pleasing plan of God [Protocol Plan], achievement of glorifying God to the maximum [the manufacture of the invisible hero]. For I say through the grace which has been given to me to everyone who is among you: stop thinking of self in terms of arrogance beyond what you ought to think but think in terms of sanity for the purpose of being rational without illusion as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from doctrine.”
The Personal Sense of Destiny of the Invisible Hero
God has a plan, purpose, and format for our lives. The result of this plan, purpose, and format is a personal sense of destiny. Romans 9:23, “In order that He might make known to you the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy which He prepared in advance for His glory.” This means living life in view of eternity with eternal values. (Matthew 6:19-34)
Ephesians 1:18, “That the eyes of your right lobe may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.” Ephesians 3:16, “That He may give you, on the basis of the riches in glory, to become strong by means of power through His Spirit in your inner being.” The riches of the gloryrefers to your fantastic Portfolio of Invisible Assets which, when utilized, result in making you an invisible hero. For the Church Age believer living on planet earth, you have no clear destiny apart from the Protocol Plan of God. To fail to understand it means to fail to use it. To fail to use it means you revert to human viewpoint thinking with no sense of destiny. A believer’s destiny was assigned to him in eternity past when God provided for his very own Portfolio of Invisible Assets.
To attain your destiny on earth as an invisible hero, you must pass the three stages of suffering for blessing: a) providential preventative suffering b) momentum testing c) evidence testing. Within the Protocol Plan of God, you personally have a destiny. That destiny actually began the moment you believed in Jesus Christ. God has a plan for your life, but that plan cannot be discovered apart from perception of Bible doctrine. Your personal sense of destiny is related to learning and understanding the mystery doctrine of the Church Age.
The Death of the Invisible Hero
The death of an invisible hero is a promotion to Heaven where he will receive fantastic rewards. Therefore how a believer dies is based on how he lived his spiritual life. There is only one good way to die as a believer, and that is to die as an invisible hero.
In the Protocol Plan of God, physical death is God’s victory for every believer, both winners and losers. This is because God, in His sovereignty, decides the time, place, and manner of our dying. Up until then, we use our volition to choose for or against the Protocol Plan of God. Categorically, the Protocol Plan of God can be regarded as spiritual growth from salvation to spiritual maturity (Ephesians 3:14-21)and from spiritual maturity to physical death or the Rapture. (Philippians 1:21) Romans 14:8, “For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.” That is living and dying under occupation with the Person of Christ.
Psalm 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” This verse applies to both winners and losers. How well we accept the sovereign decision of God in dying depends on our spiritual lives. The only preparation for dying is spiritual preparation, which means the execution of the Protocol Plan of God, becoming an invisible hero, and glorifying Him. Invisible heroes die well because their dying is profit to them. God can prepare us for whatever the manner of our death with His fantastic plan. Since death is God’s victory, those loved ones left behind have no right to be bitter or to blame God. The living have no right to question the judgment of God in the death of a loved one and such a reaction is seeking to rob God of His victory in Christian death. In fact, it is blasphemous to question the perfect judgment of God regarding the death of a loved one. The loved one who is a believer is in Heaven, whether winner or loser, in a state of perfect happiness.