Foundations of Biblical Counseling-Final Exam

Who is the Holy Spirit?

1. The Holy Spirit is a person
2. The Holy Spirit is God

The Holy Spirit is a person

1. Has a Mind
2. Speaks
3. Commands
4. Has a will
5. Has emotions

The Holy Spirit is God

Third person of the Trinity

What does the Holy Spirit do?

1. Enables us to put to death the deeds of the flesh (Romans 8:13)
2. Produces a godly life in us (Galatians 5:22-23)
3. Indwells every believer (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
4. He fills us so we can operate in God's power (Ephesians 5:18)

The Flesh

- An internal principle of sin
- It is the aspect of our being that is not yet eradicated by our redemptions, which desires to live independently from God.

Characteristics of the Flesh

1. The flesh DEFILES every part of us
2. The flesh DESIRES within us
3. The flesh is DECEITFUL
4. The flesh has DISTINCTIVE tendencies

PUT OFF SIN

Defensive tactics for Victory-Ephesians 4:22-24

RENEW THE MIND

Intelligence operations for Victory-Ephesians 4:22-24

PUT ON RIGHTEOUSNESS

Offensive tactics for Victory-Ephesians 4:22-24

Progressive Sanctification

The process by which the Spirit produces, in believers, a gradual increase in their likeness to Christ

A legitimate desire has become an IDOL when....

- The desire itself is sinful
- You sin if you cannot fulfill a desire
- You sin in order to fulfill your desire

heart; issue; desires; motives

A Biblical counselor must get to the ______________ of the _______________- beneath the surface of troubles and sins are __________________ and __________________. (pleasure, control, love, meaning, peace, happiness, security, significance, respect, etc.)

Realization

- When one comes to see truth and understands how it applies to their life. It's knowledge-based. Everything in life starts with realization
- We give the insight; God gives the understanding

Realization

First Phase of the Process of Change

Remorse

- One comes to feel sorrow in relation to their sin
- One of the challenges we have in the church is that we have a lot of arrogant sinners. They can intelligently explain to you why they're sinning, but there don't want to do anything about it
- What happens too often is that we give them information, but they're not broken

Remorse

Second Phase of the Process of Change

Renounce

- It means to confess your sin to God and others when appropriate
- But that doesn't complete the process of change

Renounce

Third Phase of the Process of Change

Repentance

- One comes to turn away fro their sin towards God and others, accordingly
- Jay Adams said that for those who sin specifically is not enough
- As we're doing counseling, not only do we have to see what's wrong, but we also have to look at specifically what is right. We need to give them an application tool to move into that direction

Repentance

Fourth Phase of the Process of Change

Renewal/Replacement

- Well, now that I have turned away form the wrong thing, I need to study God's Word to understand the right thing
- Now I'm constantly meditating on the Word of God, constantly trying to understand what He says that I need to start doing as I've turned away from what I needed to stop doing. And as a result, I'm learning the new direction

Renewal/Replacement

Fifth Phase of the Process of Change

Replacement

- One comes to obey God and others and love others in the area where he or she has disobeyed God and been unloving towards others

Replacement

Sixth Phase of the Process of Change

Teaching Stage

First Stage of the Process of Change (contains the phase of realization)

Conviction Stage

Second Stage of the Process of Change (contains the phase of Remorse)

Correction Stage

Third Stage of the Process of Change (contains the phases Renounce and Repentance)

Training Stage

Fourth Stage of the Process of Change (contains the phases Renewal/Replacement and Replacement)

Forgiveness

Fully releasing another person from the liability of guilt for wrongs done against you and involves both one's attitudes and actions

Primarily

Forgiveness in not _____________________ a feeling

Forgetting

Forgiveness is not ________________________

Ignoring; Excusing

Forgiveness is not ____________________ or ____________________ sin

Ken Sande's 4 Promises of Forgiveness

1. To not dwell on the incident
2. To not bring it up to use it against the person
3. To not talk to others about it
4. To not let the incident stand between or hinder the relationship

The First A of Confession

Address everyone involved

The Second A of Confession

Avoid If, But, Maybe

The Third A of Confession

Admit specifically

The Fourth A of Confession

Acknowledge the Hurt

The Fifth A of Confession

Accept the Consequences

The Sixth A of Confession

Alter Your Behavior

The Seventh A of Confession

Ask Forgiveness (and allow time)

Necessity of the Local Church

- It is the Bride of Christ (Ephesians 5)
- It has been given the authority of the Gospel (pillar ground of truth- 1 Timothy 3:15)
- It is a specific group of people
- It is organized in a specific way

Stop taking; change the dose

No patient should ____________ _________________ his or her medicine or __________________ ________ ______________ without first consulting the prescribing doctor.

Structural and functional changes they produce in the body.

Pathology is defined as the study of the essential nature of diseases, especially the........

Very important to us.

Normal sadness is something that happens to most of us when we lose something........

Sadness

The gift from God that is sent into our lives to do things that can come to us in no other way.

Benefit to all of us.

If sadness turns our heart toward God, this is an enormous......

True for you but not true for me.

The basic tenet of post-modernism philosophy is..........

As they confront this problem can change.

Schwart's research shows that people with OCD who choose to think and act differently.........

Emotion

The word fret describes being virtually eaten alive by........

Evildoing.

According to Psalm 37 fretting/worry leads only to.........

Sadness over loss.

There is a good case for the idea the 90 percent of depression in the United States is really.......