1 JOHN #77 - Enforced humility learned early in life = organized humility in adulthood. (1/7/26)

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6. But our Lord Jesus Christ responded to parental authority. He functioned under His parents training inside the Divine Dynasphere.
Luke 2:51-52 And He went down with them and came to Nazareth; and He continued in subjection to them; and His mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52) And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
Our Lord’s subordination to the Father’s plan. He was not only subordinate to the authority of His parents but also subordinate to the sovereignty of God the Father.
7. The Father’s plan = organized humility. That means to us: God the Father has a plan for our lives, and we have to be teachable for that plan to be fulfilled and for us to execute the plan. There is no way that you can fulfill the plan of God for your life without enforced and genuine humility. That means recognizing legitimate spiritual authority, i.e. the authority of whoever is your right pastor. The sovereignty of God the Father = enforced humility. Our Lord’s positive volition [+V] to the Father’s plan = genuine humility.
8. The Father’s plan = organized humility. That means to us: God the Father has a plan for our lives, and we have to be teachable for that plan to be fulfilled and for us to execute the plan. There is no way that you can fulfill the plan of God for your life without enforced and genuine humility. That means recognizing legitimate spiritual authority, i.e. the authority of whoever is your right pastor. The sovereignty of God the Father = enforced humility. Our Lord’s positive volition [+V] to the Father’s plan = genuine humility.
9. Our Lord’s function inside the Divine Dynasphere. The purity of motivation, the perspective, the modus operandi is phenomenal, as stated in Philippians 2:5-11 from authority in the cradle to freedom as an adult. Read: Philippians 2:5-11
1 John 3:4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
John now wrote about sin which stands in opposition to what he referred to in verse 3.
Rather than merely referring back to lack of love, lawlessness denotes a complete rejection of God’s moral standards. Sin represents humanity’s refusal to submit to God’s law- God’s Word – constituting insubordination against the Creator.
This wasn’t merely abstract theology for John’s original audience. False teachers disrupting the church had aberrant views about and denied their own sinful nature, aligning themselves with the Devil. At the heart of Satan’s original deception was the temptation toward self-centered moral autonomy – the lie that humans could determine good and evil apart from God.
Among New Testament passages offering definitions of sin, 1 John 3:4 stands as the clearest and most revealing.
Expanded verse: 1 John 3:4 – Everyone (believers) who commits sin, also produces lawlessness. (steps out of the Divine Dynasphere (DD), into the Cosmic System). In fact, sin IS lawlessness.
Volition is the guardian of the soul against reverse *psychosomatics. Every temptation is the influence of the OSN I the body on the soul. Temptation is the OSN knocking on the door of the soul, and if positive volition opens the door, the old sin nature takes control.
*psychosomatics – a branch of medical science dealing with interrelationships between the mind or emotions and the body. Inc Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1996).

Note that every believer must commit sin for himself, and when we sin, it is our fault. We cannot blame anyone else and therefore sins of ignorance are not excusable any more than sins of cognizance. Sin has no excuse. No one ever sins apart from the function of his own volition.
--Lawlessness is use here to show that the area where there is no law against, and there is no law against sin if you are outside the D D. There is if you are inside. So here, it demonstrates being outside the lawful boundaries of the Divine Dynasphere, the plan of God for your life. And simultaneously with every act of sin is removal from the D D. Removal from the DD becomes lawlessness or involvement in the Cosmic System. “Every believer who commits sin also does lawlessness,” meaning a departure from the DD and involvement in the Cosmic System.
After salvation the OSN continues to function, but with this exception: God has provided the DD to completely neutralize the function of the OSN in sin, human good and evil.
Principles:
1. The sin nature is the source of temptation, but human volition is the source of sin.
2. The OSN can tempt in three areas – sin, human good and evil – but the OSN nature cannot succeed apart from (neg) volition in the soul.
The volition of the soul guards the gate of the soul from the OSN’s temptation.