-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com The Doctrine of the Uniqueness of the Church Age 1. The uniqueness of the Church Age is based on the strategic victory of Jesus Christ during the first advent, His two deaths on the cross, both of which are involved. The first death validated the New Covenant. His second death or physical death abrogated the old covenant (Mosaic Law). So, the Mosaic law was abrogated by His physical death but His first death was a spiritual death and that was the blood of Christ. The blood of Christ refers to the explanation of the sacrifice of Christ bearing our sins. The blood of Christ covers the last three hours on the cross when He who knew no sin was made sin for us, and His first death on the cross, the blood of Christ death, actually validated the New Covenant whereas the second time He died on the cross he died physically and that abrogated the First Covenant. From those two deaths we have resurrection, ascension and session, all part of this great strategic victory. From this victory comes the Royal Family of God, and because of the royal family of God and because of the validation of a New Covenant, there has to be an interruption of the Jewish Age. For one thing, the Jewish Age had just run out of gas because its covenant is abrogated. The Mosaic Law was abrogated at the cross and therefore out of gas in the name of the game for the Jewish Age. Furthermore, Christ is sitting up there alone and the born-again Jews cannot be royal family, they all were saved during the period when the Mosaic law was operative. Therefore, a New Covenant means a whole new ball game, and that means a new age, a unique age, the Church Age; that means things that never happened before. That means a Royal Family and there never was a Royal Family of God, there was just family of God. The interruption of the Jewish Age was prophesied in Daniel 9:21 -27. The angel Gabriel told Daniel that there would be seventy weeks (490 years) for God’s plan for Israel to unfold. Gabriel told Daniel that from a decree that would allow the Israelites to return to rebuild Jerusalem. Daniel 9:25 until Messiah the Prince (J.C.) … Daniel 9:26 Then after the sixty-two weeks there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks (69 years) then Messiah will be cut off (be crucified) and have nothing, and the people (unbelievers)of the prince (anti-Christ) who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary… Ten days after Christ ascended, the day of Pentecost started the Church Age and the last seven years will not come until the end of the Church Age and the beginning of the Tribulation. 2. Every believer lives in the holy of holies in the palace forever. Therefore, this is accomplished by something absolutely unique, the baptism of the Holy Spirit and resultant positional sanctification. 3. As a sign of royalty every believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit. In the Old Testament no one was ever indwelt by the Holy Spirit. John 7:39 — “The Holy Spirit was not yet given because Christ was not yet glorified.” No glorified Christ, no possibility of a Royal Family. Glorified Christ; Royal Family. While believers in the Old Testament could be filled with the Spirit they were never indwelt by the Holy Spirit. 4. A second sign of royalty is the fact that the believer is indwelt by the Son of God as well as the Holy Spirit. 5. A new dispensation means a new covenant, a unique covenant authorizing a new priesthood, and so the fifth unique factor is that every believer is a priest, and not only just a priest but a Royal Priest. 6. As members of the Royal Family of God we have the completed canon of scripture. All divine revelation to the Royal Family of God is in written form and therefore God does not reveal Himself to us by dreams, visions, trances, or direct conversation. The canon of scripture was completed in 96 AD and God does not reveal Himself apart from the canon of scripture. A new communicator of doctrine has now been provided: the pastor-teacher; and a new classroom: the local church. And since this is the intensified stage of the angelic conflict, all get attacked - the Word, the communicator, and the local church. 7. The believer does not live under the Mosaic Law; he lives under the new covenant which abrogates and supersedes the Mosaic law. Therefore, we have a clearly defined grace way of life, so clearly defined as to be unique. There is no clearer definition of grace than Ephesians and Hebrews.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com The Doctrine of the Uniqueness of the Church Age 1. The uniqueness of the Church Age is based on the strategic victory of Jesus Christ during the first advent, His two deaths on the cross, both of which are involved. The first death validated the New Covenant. His second death or physical death abrogated the old covenant (Mosaic Law). So, the Mosaic law was abrogated by His physical death but His first death was a spiritual death and that was the blood of Christ. The blood of Christ refers to the explanation of the sacrifice of Christ bearing our sins. The blood of Christ covers the last three hours on the cross when He who knew no sin was made sin for us, and His first death on the cross, the blood of Christ death, actually validated the New Covenant whereas the second time He died on the cross he died physically and that abrogated the First Covenant. From those two deaths we have resurrection, ascension and session, all part of this great strategic victory. From this victory comes the Royal Family of God, and because of the royal family of God and because of the validation of a New Covenant, there has to be an interruption of the Jewish Age. For one thing, the Jewish Age had just run out of gas because its covenant is abrogated. The Mosaic Law was abrogated at the cross and therefore out of gas in the name of the game for the Jewish Age. Furthermore, Christ is sitting up there alone and the born-again Jews cannot be royal family, they all were saved during the period when the Mosaic law was operative. Therefore, a New Covenant means a whole new ball game, and that means a new age, a unique age, the Church Age; that means things that never happened before. That means a Royal Family and there never was a Royal Family of God, there was just family of God.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com LESSON 25 (5-18-25) Q. The Church Age is the only dispensation in which historical trends are determined by the volition of the individual believer in Christ. 1. The Church Age is the dispensation of historical trends without prophecy. As goes your volition, so goes the Church Age. 2. Only during the Church Age are historical trends related exclusively to decisions made by believers in any given generation. 3.In all other dispensations historical trends are determined by prophecy. Prophecy determines the historical trends in every dispensation but the Church Age. So you cannot use prophecy to determine historical trends during the Church Age. This is the age of no prophecy for the Church, but the prophecy now for the Jews, give us a better time frame for the rapture. 4. Decisions of believers and unbelievers of other dispensations were programmed into the *divine decrees and the print out was prophecy for them. *divine decrees, The omniscience of God in eternity past knew all that would happen & decreed to be. 5. The Church Age is the only dispensation where eschatology (final events of history) does not determine historical trends, it is only the believer’s decisions that that determine future historical trends. 6. This means that your decisions and applications based on Bible doctrine, determines the historical trends of our nation. 7. You have personal impact in *blessing by association. You have historical impact in being a part of the pivot of mature believers. But you also have international impact through the function of indigenous missionary activity. All of these things depend on our individual spiritual life. If enough believers combine to do this, then manifest destiny is perpetuated for another generation. *blessing by association – God gives mature believers so many blessings that others receive them also and they have historical impact to our nation as well as other nations. indigenous missionary activity – Living with natives in a particular region, teaching the Bible in their own language. 1.The baptism of the Holy Spirit - It permanently identifies every believer with Jesus Christ the moment they believe in Him. From then on, they are “in Christ” and “a new creature.” 3. election and predestination – God elected and predestined believers in eternity past, knowing that they would believe the gospel. 4. Our portfolio of invisible assets – God gives every believer, when born again, around 40 invisible assets that are irrevocable. TEN UNIQUE FACTORS OF THE CHURCH AGE 1. The baptism of the Holy Spirit. 2. The specific plan of God for the Church Age. 3. The equality factor of the specific plan for both election and predestination. 4. Our portfolio of invisible assets. 5. Two royal commissions: Every believer is a royal priest; every believer is a royal ambassador. 6. The mystery doctrine of the Church Age. 7. For the first and only time in history every member of the Trinity indwells the believer. (God the Father), John 14:23, Ephesians 4:6, 1 John 3:23 (Jesus Christ) Romans 8:10, John 14:20, Galatians 2:20, (God the Holy Spirit) Romans 8:11, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 2 Corinthians 6:16. 8. The divine power available to the believer: the omnipotence of the Father related to our portfolio of invisible assets, the omnipotence of the Son giving us a day at a time and seeing to it that history will continue until the end of the Millennium, the omnipotence of God the Holy Spirit by which we execute the unique specific plan of God for our life. 9. The Church Age is the only dispensation in which there is no prophecy. 10. This is the dispensation of invisible heroes. (We are designed for low profile and invisible impact. Our invisible impact comes through executing God’s plan for our life.)

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com No nation can survive functioning on principle alone without a Pivot of Mature Believers. 1. A nation may have the best principles, but they are missing something that makes all the difference. Mature believers who pray to God for guidance and prepared pastors who accurately teach the Bible. 2. Survival takes evangelism, positive volition toward doctrine, the function of the plan of God, and cognizance of the invisible assets provided for each believer *(Escrow blessing for Mature Believers). What is “escrow” and how does It work? Definition: a grantor produces a written escrow agreement which is deposited with a depositary (an escrow officer), who holds the escrow until the conditions of the agreement are met, then he delivers it to the grantee who will receive the benefits of the escrow. 1. DOCTRINE OF ESCROW BLESSINGS a. An escrow is a written agreement entered into by three parties, the grantor [God the Father], the grantee [You], and the depositary [Jesus Christ as the escrow officer], for the transfer of Escrow Blessings. b. The escrow agreement is a promise from God the Father as the Grantor, who secures invisible assets that are available to every grantee, (Church Age believers). However, the assets will only be conveyed to those who meet the condition of the escrow agreement, which is to reach Spiritual Maturity. When that occurs, God the Father) informs Jesus Christ, the escrow officer, that a grantee (a believer) has met the conditions of the escrow agreement, so He delivers the escrow blessings to the Mature Believer, which immediately go into effect. Escrow blessings are infinitely superior to all other categories of divine blessings for both time and eternity. c. The date of our escrow blessings was eternity past. d. The conditions of the escrow are fulfilled by the execution of the unique spiritual life, culminating in Spiritual Maturity. e. If the conditions of an escrow are not met, then the escrow blessings remain in heaven forever. Believers who don’t receive escrow blessings do not lose their salvation, but they do lose their escrow blessings forever. Believers can see their escrow blessings in heaven in the heavenly hall of records.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com Review from 4-6-2025 In the following pages, there are a few terms that might not be familiar, so they will be explained now. They are “Pivot”, “Client Nation”, and “Non-Client Nation.”. a. The Pivot - is the accumulation of mature believers living in a Client Nation. While the pivot is composed primarily of mature believers, it may also include positive believers who have reached spiritual adulthood. b. A Client Nation always has a Pivot that some call a “remnant”, which is a group of mature believers that God protects. c. When a nation has a large Pivot, God blesses that nation, but when the nation’s Pivot is shrinking, God withdraws His blessing from that nation. d. “A Client Nation” – A Client-Nation to God is a nation under divine protection, because it has a pivot of mature believers and it has a nation in which the civil government recognizes establishment principles of freedom, including privacy and the sacredness of property and life. e. A Client-Nation to God is a nation under divine protection, because it has a large Pivot of mature believers. It has six things that distinguishes it: f. 1. It must evangelize its own population at home. 2. It must communicate Bible doctrine to the believers in the nation. 3. It is responsible for the custodianship of Bible doctrine. 4. It provides a haven for the Jews. 5. It is responsible to send out missionaries to evangelize other nations. 6. It must have an establishment of local churches which are autonomous. 3. No nation ever learns from the mistakes of other nations when involved in cosmic arrogance. 1. This refers to Non-Client Nations where there is neither a Pivot of Mature Believers nor freedom for the perception of truth in evangelism and doctrine. 2. The Non-Client Nation serves Satan and its own selfish motivations. Furthermore, the Non-Client Nation is the product of its own maneuverings and its self-determination. 3. When a nation is involved in Cosmic arrogance, its people are blind to the fact they are making exactly the same mistakes that destroyed other great nations before them. 4. Hegel stated this principle as follows, “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” LESSON 23 (4-13-25) 5. This is another way of saying that arrogant individuals or arrogant nations are unteachable and become blind to their own failures, resulting in their own self-destruction long before they are invaded and overrun. 6. Three things that destroy a nation. a. Economic depression. It can result from government destruction of industry through legislation, or from building our factories in other countries. O. Three things that destroy a nation. a. Economic depression. It can result from government destruction of industry through legislation, or from building our factories in other countries. b. Social degeneration. Individual bad decisions destroy the structure of society. The sacredness of freedom, property, and life are ignored or rejected. Integrity disappears from society and is replaced by every form of crime or immorality. c. Military defeat. No nation can win a war when the manpower suffers from social degeneration and the industrial complex cannot provide logistical support. P. No nation can survive functioning on principle alone without a pivot of mature believers. 1. Survival takes evangelism, positive volition toward doctrine, the function of the plan of God, and cognizance of the invisible assets provided for each believer (Escrow blessing for mature believers). 2. For principle to function in a foreign or domestic policy, there must be a pivot of mature believers in a Client Nation. From that comes traditional Biblical values and virtues for believers and unbelievers as well. 3. Principle is always based on truth; therefore, truth must be backed by the principles of Bible doctrine. 4. If truth is used in foreign policy, you must have a Pivot of mature believers communicating truth to concur with that policy.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com LESSON 22 (4-6-25) O. There is a huge difference between Nationalism and Internationalism. 1. First, let’s get more informed about Nationalism. a. Nationalism refers to autonomous nations in which their governments function over a certain segment of the world population.. b. Nationalism is the means of protecting and perpetuating the human race, in order that no segment of the human race will gain so much power as to destroy the rest of the human race and inevitably destroy themselves. c. Nationalism is the fourth Divine Institution. God divided the human race (1) Geographically, (2) Racially and (3) linguistically. d. Internationalism is Satanic. Satan uses internationalism, also called Globalism, to control nations by using his power to enslave them. e. Nationalism is a barrier against the ubiquitous evil of Satan in world. He is the prince and power of the air for now (Ephesians 2:2). f. Satan is frustrated by the large number of nations that have defined borders. He promotes open borders. g. Evangelism thrives when Nationalism flourishes world-wide. h. When international godless leaders are in control, they crush weaker nations in order to keep their power. Read: Genesis 11:1-9. i. Internationalism / Globalism bring many nations together under Satanic control. In the Tribulation, Satan will bring about a one world government and a one world religion that he will use to dominate the earth after Church Age believers are raptured.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com Lesson 21 8. Some people long to have authority while others have no interest in it. The following are the different ways that people view authority a. Some can’t wait to have authority. This type usually can’t wait to start bossing people around. b. Some want to have authority because it usually pays more than being a subordinate. c. Some can take it or leave it. d. Some want to have authority in order to impress other people. e. Some don’t want any part of having authority because they don’t want the responsibility that comes with it. f. Some want authority because of the perks that are offered. Instead of driving your own car to work, some provide a company truck or car, including the gas. They may also offer paid vacations, health insurance, and tickets to sport events. 9. God has given husbands authority over their wives. Ephesians 5:22-24 Wives, be submissive to your own husbands as unto the Lord. 23) For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24) Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives should be to their husbands in everything. Colossians 3:12, Titus 2:5, I Peter 3:1 & 5 11. Some husbands don’t want to be the authority over their wives, but they have it whether they like it or not, because when the husband said, “I do”, he became the head of the house. 12. God disapproves of husbands abdicating their leader- ship role. He condemned Adam for becoming the follower of Eve instead of being her leader in the first marriage. He punished him not only for eating the forbidden fruit, but also for subordinating himself to his wife’s rebellious lead. Genesis 3:17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you… Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. 13. Husbands are not put in charge because they are smarter or better than their wives. God assigned the man the leadership role because He designed him physically and emotionally to shoulder the responsibility of command as well as to initiate love towards his wife. God designed the woman to complement the man physically and emotionally and to respond to his leader- ship with love and respect. 14. Many wives usurp their husband’s position of authority, but find out that it is a hard job, so they resent their husbands for succumbing to them as they take on the responsibilities and the leadership that belongs to their husbands. 15. Husbands who submit to their wives, think their wife loves them more because they yielded to her desire to be in charge. Wrong! Wives lose respect for their husband and becomes imbittered against him. They see their husband as a mouse, not a man. Untold numbers of marriages have ended in divorce over this very issue. 16. Husbands don’t have to prove themselves to be the head of the house because God has already said that the husband has authority over his wife. Some wives may get very angry because they want to be in charge. They may throw a fit and even threaten their husband with divorce, but he must stand his ground. If she divorces him, she will find that she made a big mistake because she will respect him because she was unable to get her way by manipulating him. If she had been successful in becoming the head of the house, she wouldn’t have respected him, which means that she couldn’t love him because respect comes before love.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com 7. You borrow strength when you make decisions to go along with people who influence you erroneously. 1 Corinthians 15:33 “Do not be deceived; evil companions corrupt good morals [standards].” a. You borrow strength by taking bad advice, or simply going through life being influenced by people rather than what the Word of God says. b. You never have a thought of your own, but always depend upon the counsel of others. c. You use others as a crutch rather than learning and applying doctrine for yourself. d. You use someone else’s scale of values rather than developing your own priorities through the perception of doctrine. e. Some try to borrow strength by depending on drugs or alcohol to deal with their problems. They never work; they only make matters worse. f. If you depend on others for happiness and for problem solving, you will wind up in the Cosmic System where there is no happiness nor problem solving, but there is plenty of misery. g. You cannot learn doctrine by sending someone else to Bible class. You will either recognize the importance of learning God’s Word, or you will not. That decision will determine what kind of life you have on earth, and in heaven. h. If we expect to grow in grace and knowledge, we must get our Daily Dose of Doctrine. You will live one of two ways: You will “Learn and Live”, or you will “Live and Learn.” i. To Learn and Live is much easier than to Live and Learn. Learning doctrine shows one how to Live which makes Life easier, whereas, Living by the school of hard knocks, is Learning Life the hard way. There is something important that we will never have if we have a “Hit or Miss” attitude toward abiding in the “Divine Domain” or the “Bottom Circle” where we are Filled with the Holy Spirit. By the way, we miss more than we hit when we have a “Take it or leave it” attitude. So, what is it that we lack in our spiritual life if we have a poor attitude towards growing in grace by learning Bible Doctrine? CONFIDENCE !

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-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com 14. We need God and His plan for our lives. God’s plan begins when we believe in Christ and continues when we learn Bible doctrine. 15. Man is not the master of his fate; our fate and our destiny are in God’s hands. Proverbs 16:9 The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps. Jeremiah 10:23 I know, O LORD, that a man's way is not in himself; Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps. Proverbs 16:3 Commit your works to the LORD, And your plans will be established. Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in a man's heart, But the counsel of the LORD, it will stand. 16. Man lives in the devil’s world and is vulnerable to enslavement in the Cosmic System. 17. Man can use his own free will to become a slave of Satan, or he can use it to become a servant of God. 18. The sooner the believer realizes his need of a power greater than himself and outside of himself, the sooner he establishes the right priorities for life and a pattern of good decisions relating to God’s plan. 19. Man is not an independent power but a creature of weakness whose strength lies in the functions of his soul, especially in the function of his free will to choose God’s power system. 20. Human power, authority, ability, genius, talent, or even a dynamic personality or beauty *are no substitutes for life in the Divine Dynasphere. Yet people depend on almost anything of a creature nature rather than on the provision of their Creator, Jesus Christ. *Anything one does or has is nothing if the Lord is left out of it. 21. It often takes personal or historical disaster to bring the believer (or anyone) to an understanding of how weakness is turned into strength. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 illustrates: “And then He assured me, `My grace is sufficient for you. For the power [omnipotence of God] functions in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather demonstrate confidence toward God in my weaknesses in order that the power of Christ may pitch a tent over me. Therefore, for the sake of Christ I discover contentment [+H] in weaknesses [helpless situations], in the antagonisms of arrogance [opposition from Cosmic One], in pressures [momentum testing], in persecutions [opposition from Cosmic Two], in disasters [hopeless situations]; for when I am weak, then I am strong.”

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com L. Out of Undeserved Suffering, comes strength through positive volition toward the truth of Bible Doctrine. 1. Most teenagers are shocked when they experience Undeserved Suffering. They say what happened to them, was unfair! They haven’t learned yet, that the world is very unfair. 2. Most people think that when they are treated unfairly, they have the right to retaliate. Are they right? Romans 12:19 Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord. L. Out of Undeserved Suffering, comes strength through positive volition toward the truth of Bible Doctrine. 1. Most teenagers are shocked when they experience Undeserved Suffering. They say what happened to them, was unfair! They haven’t learned yet, that the world is very unfair. 2. Most people think that when they are treated unfairly, they have the right to retaliate. Are they right? Romans 12:19 Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord. 4. There are two types of Christian suffering: a) Disciplinary suffering, called deserved suffering; b) Suffering for blessing, called undeserved suffering. 5. The exception is divine discipline for carnal and for reversionistic believers who refuse to humble themselves nor acknowledge their sins (rebound) to God. Cursing (Divine Discipline) is turned to blessing for believers who humble themselves. Those who refuse to humble themselves, may die the Sin unto Death (1 John 5:16). 6. Read: Hebrews 12:5-11

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com The Source of Blessing by Association. 1. Direct blessing from God goes to the person in association with the mature believer. 2. Indirect blessing from God occurs because the mature believer provides the blessing from his own prosperity. In fulfillment of Rom 12:13, “contributes to the needs of the saints.” The mature believer gives of his time, wealth, success, love, personality, and whatever the category of his prosperity might be. Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, God provides Logistical Grace to every Church Age believer. Logistics is a military word which refers to the military science of supply and provision. It is a technical military term for sustaining troops in every form of military activity and maneuver, in the barracks, in the field, in the battle, before the battle, and after the battle. 1. He provides the things we need and we don’t have to earn or deserve them. Even carnal and reversionistic believers and winners and losers receive the logistical grace from God. 2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that always having all sufficiency in everything [including logistical grace], you may have an abundance for every good deed; Philippians 4:19 And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Deuteronomy 33:27 The eternal God is a dwelling place, And underneath are the everlasting arms; 2. David gives the testimony of old age to logistical grace. Palsm 37:25 “I have been young but now I am old; yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken [logistical grace given to imputed righteousness] nor His seed begging bread.” 3. This means that Logistical Grace blessing to you can extend as far as the third generation. 4. God sends Logistical Grace to the righteousness that He imputed to us when we believed the gospel. Go to the countrybiblechurch.us website homepage and click on the tab ‘Visuals” and scroll down to “Grace Pipeline”. Psalm 68:19-20 “Blessed be the God who daily bears our burdens [both physical & psychological], the God who is our deliverance. God is to us a God of deliverances, and to God belongs the escape from death.”

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com The series we have been covering is “National and Personal Crisis.” We are preparing for whatever we will face in the future. We have already covered a few terms that were not covered in the past that we need in order to be prepared: The Divine Dynasphere, The Cosmic System, Cosmic One, and Cosmic Two. Today we will add to these: Super-Grace, Blessings By Association, and Logistical Grace. Super-Grace 1. Grace is all that God is free to do for man on the basis of the Cross. 2. God the Father was propitiated (satisfied) with the work of Christ on the cross which freed God to bless man under the plan of grace. 3. Grace is God’s freedom to express His love through grace to mankind without compromising His essence. 4. Under the principle of grace, God does all the work and providing, while man does all the receiving and benefitting. In the concept of grace, everything depends on God’s essence.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com Knowledge of Absolute Truth Manufactures Freedom. 1. John 8:32 “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” 2. This is another way of saying that good decisions create options for greater decisions, while bad decisions destroy those options. 3. The Cosmic System has the power to change lives for the worse while the Divine Dynasphere has the power to change lives for the better. None of us stand still; we are getting better or worse. 4. Better or worse is the daily option of our free will functioning in the sphere of freedom. 5. Freedom carries the responsibility of making decisions based on the truth of Bible doctrine rather than on the arrogance and evil, which is Satan’s propaganda inside the Cosmic System. 6. Freedom to fail results in recognition of our human frailties and our weaknesses. Recognition of our weaknesses is neither demeaning nor degrading. Every human being has weaknesses. 7. All solutions in life begin with weakness and the recognition of our failures. Just as a person cannot be saved until he recognizes that he is lost; likewise, a person cannot have a resolution to his failures until he recognizes his weaknesses. At this point, he will try to overcome his weaknesses, and fail, or he will rely on God’s provision and power, and win. 8. Trying to overcome weaknesses is commendable, but we all have a sin nature that we succumb to. Believers have access to the power of the Holy Spirit that over- come their weaknesses which enables them to stay in fellowship with the Lord. 9. When a believer sins, he goes into carnality and becomes estranged to the Lord. The only way for him to be right again is to acknowledge his sin/sins to Him, then he is forgiven for all his sins and is cleansed from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com There is another way that the Bible uses the word “weak”. Believers should recognize their weakness before God. Some believers haven’t learned that we are utterly helpless apart from the grace of God. When He commands us to do something, we cannot obey it without the power of the Holy Spirit which we receive through grace. Read: Acts 14:1-14, 19-20, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 And because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me-- to keep me from exalting myself! 8) Concerning this I entreated the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9) And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10) Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. Believers who are oriented to the grace of God realize that they are exceedingly weak when they rely on themselves when facing the exigencies of life. They are strong when they are weak, because when they face the challenges that we all face, they rely in the omnipotent power of the Lord who will give us the grace we need so that we won’t be afraid, but be spiritually strong.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com Too often history is the story of how the weak control the strong. The weak do not have honor or good qualities so they abuse and take advantage of the strong who do have honor and good qualities. 1. Weak, insecure, thoughtless, arrogant people often control policy, procedures and people in social life, culture, business, professional life, marriage, government, and churches. 2. Through arrogance, self-centeredness, and preoccupation with self, the weak in society control and manipulate the strong. This could be seen this week in California where horrible raging wild fires killed 12 people so far and destroyed several thousands of homes along with anything that got in the fire’s way. Grocery stores, schools, churches, filling stations, nursing homes, hospitals, etc. This could be seen this week in California where horrible raging wild fires killed 12 people so far and destroyed several thousands of homes along with anything that got in the fire’s way. Grocery stores, schools, churches, filling stations, nursing homes, hospitals, etc. The weak political leaders controlled the policies and the people for many years emphasizing their own agenda (climate change, transgenderism, Equity Diversity, and Inclusion. By giving precious water to keep a small fish alive rather than giving it to the people who desperately need it, shows where their priorities are. The people have suffered over the years because the weak leaders are incompetent and arrogant. Now there are hundreds of thousands of people who have lost everything. Calamity like this is to be expected when the weak control the strong. Americans have suffered for the last four years because we have been controlled and manipulated by a weak cantankerous president and his weak administration. We are anticipating that eight days from today, a very strong president, with a very strong administration will make America great again.

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-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com DOCTRINE OF THE COSMIC SYSTEM A. Definition. 1. The Cosmic System is Satan’s strategy as the ruler of this world to control believers. It is His policy for the rulership of this world. 2. Satan’s Cosmic System is composed of two separate dynaspheres. a. Cosmic One is Satan’s exploitation of believers through their own arrogance. This is his means of controlling the human race. Satan invented arrogance, for arrogance was his original sin. b. Cosmic Two is Satan’s propaganda and indoctrination college to educate and promote antagonism toward anything related to God, especially the grace of God. 3. Cosmic One represents Satan’s attitude at the time of his prehistoric fall. Cosmic Two represents Satan’s attitude at the time of Adam’s fall in the garden of Eden. 4. Cosmic One emphasizes arrogance and abnormal preoccupation with self. Cosmic Two emphasizes antagonism and intolerance toward the plan, purpose, and will of God, as well as toward all Christians executing it.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com Historical trends are related to the conflict between objective reality (life in the Divine Dynasphere) and subjective reality (life in the Cosmic System). 1. Believers are not only the products of their own decisions (not their environment), but the nation in which they reside is affected by their good or bad decisions. 2. Good decisions result in life in the divine dynasphere; bad decisions result in life in the cosmic system. It’s how the balance between these two works out at any given time in history that determines historical trends. 3. Arrogant individuals, groups, or nations never see the consequences of their own bad decisions related to the cosmic system. 4. For example, arrogance includes jealousy, bitterness, hatred, anger, vindictiveness, implacability, self-pity, and guilt complex. Decisions made with these mental attitudes accumulate and produce a national historical downtrend. 5. Preoccupation with self to the exclusion of objective reality is the greatest blindness problem in life and the major reason for criminality.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com A. Even though history is the record of man’s thoughts, decisions, actions and motivations, it is Jesus Christ who controls history. 1. This is the first dispensation in which Jesus Christ controls history from His Hypostatic Union. 2. There are two sources of judgment in history: the sovereign decisions of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the erroneous decisions of mankind. B. As goes the believer, so goes the historical trends at any point in any generation of the Church Age. Residence and momentum inside the Divine Dynasphere means historical uptrend, while involvement in the Cosmic System means historical downtrend. C. People individually and collectively are the products of their own decisions. 1. Decisions create environment, not environment decisions. 2. There are no tragedies in history, just historical disasters. So-called historical disasters are not tragedies since individuals, nations, and empires are the products of their own self-determination. 3. The pattern of historical disaster begins with economic depression, moves to moral and immoral degeneracy, and ends in military disaster. 4. God selects the evilest nation to administer the fifth cycle of discipline to a degenerate client nation to destroy evil.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com 2 Kings 19:36-37 This gives us the details as to how Sennacherib King of Assyria was murdered. Sennacherib had claimed that Hezekiah’s God could not save him. Hezekiah’s God did save him, but Sennacherib’s god could not save him, even in his own temple. Chapter 20 Chapter twenty does not take place chronologically after chapter nineteen. Most of chapter 20 (vv. 1–19) clearly occurred before Sennacherib’s invasion. The major evidence is that Merodach-baladan’s significant activities in Babylon occurred before this invasion. In the absence of explicit markers of chronological sequence, episodes in Hebrew narrative are not necessarily chronologically ordered. This chapter develops two points: (1) Hezekiah was so obedient that God granted his prayer for extra years of life, and (2) Hezekiah, in pride, misused those extra years. Vs. 1 “In those days” (“in this same general time frame”) When Sennacherib first began to attack Juda. (vs. 6). Why was the Lord going to take Hezekiah’s life away? Go to 2 Chronicles 32:20-33.

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-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com God answered our prayers. He is the only One who could bring such a miraculous victory. President Trump won in a landslide! He won the vote count in the Electoral College, he won the overall vote count, we won the Senate, and it looks like we may win the House of Representatives as well. One thing is for sure, the Lord decided to install Donald J. Trump to be the President of the United States, for the second time.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com We will now go to 2 Kings Chapter 19:1 “reproach” - blame, discredit, or disgrace “rebuke” - strong disapproval : reprimand, criticize “remnant” - a small surviving group — often used in plural 2 Kings 19:3 And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and rejection; for children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver. Judah’s situation was similar to that of a child ready, but unable, to be born. Death seemed to be the only prospect. They were looking at the situation through their very limited power and they were ready to give up. They weren’t even asking the One who is omnipotent for help.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com THE DIVIDED KINGDOM (931 B.C.) A little background: When King David’s son, King Solomon died, his son Rehoboam became king and he was an arrogant jerk. The people said they would serve him if he would lighten their load. But he told the people that he would be harsher to them then his father was and that he would discipline them with scorpions (Not literal scorpions but whips with bits of metal in them). So ten of the tribes decided to depart from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin that stayed and they made Jeroboam their king and they went north to live. (1 Kings 12:1-24) The Northern Kingdom is called Israel and the Southern Kingdom is called Judah.

-----Complete notes can be downloaded from our website - www.countrybiblechurch.us -----You may contact us at countrybiblechurch.us@gmail.com or cbcbrenham@gmail.com Everyone in America knows that our nation is in crisis, but we are not by ourselves; the entire world is in crisis as well. Corruption has spread like cancer throughout our country destroying everything it touches, including every bit of our government. This sad state of affairs didn’t just happen, the insidious plot to destroy our nation has been going on for decades while Americans slowly but surely accepted the incremental destruction of our freedoms. We have finally reached critical mass where our only hope is in the Lord!