Edification Complex of the Soul, #23, Foundation of doctrine stored in the human spirit (11-30-25)

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Definition - THE EDIFICATION COMPLEX OF THE SOUL (ECS): The Immaterial “structure” in the soul of a mature believer; the foundation is doctrine stored in the human spirit. Composed of “Five Floors”: 1. Grace Orientation; 2. Relaxed Mental Attitude; 3. Mastery of the Details of Life; 4. Three Categories of Love: for God: for Opposite Sex: for Friends; 5. Sharing the Happiness of God
E. Category Two Love
1. Love is not an overt function, but love comes from the soul.
2. If you do not have character and values in the soul from the execution of the plan of God, even if you are sincere when you say, “I love you,” it is meaningless.
3. We are not born with the capability of loving anyone. We are born spiritually dead with built in arrogance. We are born with built in self-deception. If we lie to ourselves, we are lying to others when we tell them we love them.
4. If you say to someone, “I love you,” and this is sex outside of marriage, you have lied to yourself and to the person to whom you have said these things. The supreme court of heaven severely disciplines any person who lies in this way.
5. Category 2 love is exclusive. It is extended to one person of the opposite sex. All others are excluded! Sex love and sex happiness are found in ONE PERSON ONLY! This knocks out three things as a basis for sex happiness: homosexuality, lesbianism, and adultery.
Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Proverbs 15:17 Better is a dish of vegetables where love is, than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
The strength of Category 2 love is declared in Song of Solomon:
Song of Solomon 8:6 "Put me like a seal over your heart, Like a seal on your arm (finger). For *love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as severe as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, The very flame of the LORD.
*love is as strong as death - It is as strong as death, and it cannot be quenched by any pressure in life. Once a husband or a wife is in your soul, he or she stays there. One or the other may never do anything of which the opposite one approves; but both are there to stay.
6. The glory of Category 2 love is declared in 1 Corinthians 11:1-16
7. The only way you will ever have a consistent spiritual life is by true love or spirituality versus pseudo love or arrogance.
a. Rapport with God is a harmonious relationship with Him. It begins at the moment of faith in Christ. This rapport is initiated by God at salvation and is fulfilled by the unique spiritual life of the Church Age.
b. We do not establish rapport with God on the basis of what He can do for us. We establish rapport with God only through the fulfillment of the unique spiritual life of the Church Age.
c. Rapport with God must precede rapport with people. You are always going to be in trouble with people if there is something wrong with your relationship with God.
d. Love relationships interacting in the human race only are effective for the believer when the principle of advancing spiritually is being employed.
e. The believer cannot love God or even have compatibility with God apart from the unique spiritual life. We establish rapport with God on His terms which are the values of the post salvation spiritual life.
f. Those who have no human capacity for love are self-serving. They have pseudo love that functions under self-deception by responding to flattery and various lust patterns of the sin nature which always lead believers astray.
g. The result is self-justification which distorts pseudo love into failure to take responsibility for one’s own bad decisions.
8. We must understand how God uses His love to solve problems. We are born spiritually dead and helpless to do anything about it. God the Son used His love as the motivation to go the Cross and bear our sins as a substitute for us.
a. Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died as a substitute for us.”
b. John 3:16 “For God loved the world so much that He gave His uniquely-born Son that anyone who believes in Him shall never perish but have eternal life.”
9. No one has to tell you how to love someone else or please someone else, if you are virtuous. You must have the capacity in your soul to love them. Love is not a matter of attraction, but capacity. We are born arrogant and without capacity for love so we must learn it through Bible doctrine. (see G. Capacity to love others… just above Lesson 22).