Foundations of Biblical Counseling FINAL EXAM

Who is the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit is a person and the Holy Spirit is God (third person of the Trinity)

Characteristics of the Holy Spirit

has a mind, speaks, commands, has a will, has emotions

What does the Holy Spirit do?

Enable us to put to death the deeds of the flesh (Romans 8:13)

Produces a godly life in us (Galatians 5:22-23)

Indwells every believer (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

He fills us so we can operate in God’s power (Ephesians 5:18)

What is the flesh defined?

The flesh is an internal principle of sin

Characteristics of the Flesh

it is the aspect of our being that is not yet eradicated by our redemptive, which desires to live independently from God

What does the flesh do?

The flesh DEFILES every part of us

The flesh DESIRES within us

The flesh is DECEITFUL

The flesh has DISTINCTIVE tendencies

Biblical Strategies for victory (Ephesians 4:22-24)

Defensive tactics - PUT OFF SIN

Intelligence operations - RENEW THE MIND

Offensive tactics - PUT ON RIGHTEOUSNESS

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 what happens?

The desires itself is sinful

You sin if you cannot fulfill a desire

You sin in order to fulfill you desire

Process of Change (Six Phases, 4 Stages)

Stage One: teaching

Stage Two: Conviction

Stage Three: Correction

Stage Four: Training

Realization (Stage 1)

Realization is 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

Remorse (Stage Two)

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 intelligently explain to you why they’re sinning, but they don’t want to do anything about it.

What happens too often with is that we give them information, but they’re not broken

Renounce and Repentance (Stage Three)

Renounce: it means to confess you sin to God and others when appropriate, but that doesn’t complete the process of change

Repentance: very simply, one comes to turn away from their sin towards God and towards others accordingly; Jay Adams once said that for those who sin specifically, they need to obey specifically, and so to just stop something 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

Renewal/Replacement (Stage Four)

Well, now that I have turned away from 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.

What do we do in 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

Forgiveness Defined

forgiveness is fully releasing another person from the liability of guilt for wrongs done against you and involves both one’s attitudes and actions

Forgiveness is NOT what?

1. Forgiveness is not PRIMARILY a feeling

2. forgiveness is not forgetting

3. forgiving is not ignoring or excusing 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 7 A’s of Confession

ADDRESS everyone involved

AVOID if, but, maybe

ADMIT specifically

ACKNOWLEDGE the heart

ACCEPT the consequences

ALTER your behavior

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

No patient should stop taking his or her medicine or change the dose without first consulting the prescribing doctor

True

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

structural and functional changes they produce in the body

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

very important to us

What is the gift from God that is sent into our lives to do things that can come to us in no other way?

sadness

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

benefit to all of us

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

can change

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

benefit to all of us

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

“true for you, but not true for me”

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

can change

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

emotion

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

evil-doing

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

sadness over loss