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Maturing in Christ focuses on Christian truth that relates to living a successful spiritual life. Before a Christian can realize a consistent victorious spiritual life some basic truths must be understood: the riches given by God at salvation to live Christ-like; who the spiritual enemies are and how they attack; and how to utilize divine enabling when resisting the enemies in order to live a successful Christian life.

ISBN-13: 9781609578381

ISBN-10: 1609578384

Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871 – 1952) was an American theologian who founded the Dallas Theological Seminary.  Chafer was mentored by C.I. Scofield and became a key figure for Christian Dispensationalism in the early 20th century.

ISBN-10: 1519506619

ISBN-13: 978-1519506610

The subject of this book is a systematic study from Scripture of a believer’s Position and Possessions because he is “in Christ.” These truths are practical – divinely practical for the true Christian. They are the basis for all spiritual growth.

ISBN-10: 0967079608

ISBN-13: 978-0967079608 Entirely Christ-centered, Chafer’s work is a detailed discussion of the dispensational premillennial system of theology. This 4-volume edition contains the complete text and indexes of the original 8-volume set.

ISBN: 0825423406
ISBN-13: 9780825423406 On the day of Pentecost, the Spirit of God began immersing grace believers into the […]

WORD OF GRACE STUDIES

At Word of Grace Studies Church in Monroe, WA, we offer solid Bible-based teaching grounded in accurate Scripture, emphasizing salvation by grace through faith, spiritual growth, and strong Christian unity through sound doctrine. Join us for Biblical teaching that brings believers into the oneness of faith.

SUNDAY SERVICE TIMES

9:45 AM Early Morning Service

11:00 AM Sunday Main Service

WEEKDAY CLASSES

Thursday 6:00-8:00 PM  Evening School of the Bible

Saturday 9:00 AM  Bible Study

Saturday 10:30 AM  Biblical Greek

SALVATION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH

Salvation is by grace (God’s attitude whereby He gives a benefit without consideration of merit) through faith (taking God at His Word) by believing that Christ died for your sins, was buried, and rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures.(1 Corinthians 15:3,4).

LIVING OUT FROM FAITH

For I delivered unto you at first that which also I received, that Christ died on behalf of our sins according to the Scriptures and that […]

The Armor from God: Defense Against Satan

The remaining, my brethren, be caused to be empowered in Christ and in the might of His strength. Clothe yourself with the full armor from God facing your ability to stand facing the methodologies of the slanderer. For our wrestling is not facing blood and flesh, but facing rulers, facing authorities, facing world powers of darkness of this age, facing the spiritually malignant evil in the heavens. Because of this, all of you take up the whole armor from God, in order that all of you should be enabled to stand in the malignantly evil day and having for yourself worked out all to stand. Therefore, all of you stand having girded your loins in truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having bound up the feet with the preparation of the Gospel of peace. Over all taking up the shield of the faith, by which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the malignantly evil one. And to receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword belonging to the Spirit, which is the individual utterances from God, through all communication of worship and supplication, communicating by worship at all times in the spirit and into this same watching with all persistence and supplication concerning all the saints… Ephesians 6:10-18.

The armor from God, our defense against Satan, is a mental process that we go through when under attack from Satan to protect our minds from his methods, by which he seeks to keep our minds from thinking on the things above and influence our actions. Independence from God, […]

The Christian Life

In Christ

The Christian is placed into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit when he or she believed the Gospel for salvation¹. The Christ is a new kind of creation by God that is made up of both Jew and Gentile, in which Christ is the Head and the Church is the Body². There are no physical or racial distinctions in the Christ³. In Christ, the Christian is complete, lacking nothing4.

Christ in the Christian

The Christian has eternal life because Christ is now living in that Christian⁵. This also provided the means by which a Christian can live out the life of Christ here on earth.

Sonship

The Holy Spirit places all believers of the Dispensation of Grace as mature sons, whether male or female, and always will be mature sons.6 Sonship is a place of privilege in which the believer is not under any quality of law⁷.

Priesthood of the Believer

All Christians are placed as priests when they believe and therefore are able to present spiritual sacrifices unto God when they are spiritual ⁸.

Abiding

Abiding is an essential part of the Christian life. The Christian is only able to manifest the life of God and live out the Christian life when he is abiding (feeling at ease) in his position in Christ⁹.

The Enemies of the Saints

The Christian has three spiritual enemies that are active today: Satan […]

Salvation

Salvation is by grace through faith in Christ’s death for sins, burial, and resurrection three days later according to the Scriptures¹.

God the Father’s Involvement in Salvation

God the Father is the one that forgives the trespasses and sins of the believers on the basis of Christ’s cross work².

He imputes Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection to the believers, thus He imputes the believers to be righteous³, counting the believers to have died with Christ and to have been raised with Christ ⁴.

God the Father seals the believers in Christ by the Holy Spirit⁵.

The Son’s Involvement in Salvation

God the Son, in his humanity, was separated both spiritually from God for three hours on the cross and physically from His human body. His death, burial and resurrection are imputed to believers; therefore, making the believer righteous before God the Father⁶ and giving them access to Him⁷.

His physical death

His physical death provided reconciliation for mankind and spirit beings to God the Father⁸ and provides redemption for all men⁹.

His spiritual death

His spiritual death dealt with the sin nature of man¹⁰. The sin nature was a result of Adam’s trespass and was passed on to all men.

His work on the Cross

His […]