Hypocrites and Backsliders: Lesson 016

Hypocrites and Backsliders:Lesson 016

10 Steps to Temptation: The First Sin in Genesis 3:1-6

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10 Steps to TemptationThe 3 Arenas

• John 2: 16 (NASB-95)

• 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh (Eve: “good for food”) and the lust of the eyes (Eve: “delight to the eyes”) and the boastful pride of life (Eve: “desirable to make one wise”) , is not from the Father, but is from the world.

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• Lust of the flesh (body):

• ISNA Propensity Patterns:– Sexual Lust– Chemical Lust

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• Lust of the eyes:

• ISNA Propensity Patterns:– Materialism

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• Pride of Life:

• ISNA Propensity Patterns:– Approbation– Power– Religion

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Source #1:

The World

Flesh Eyes Pride of Life

Sexual Chemical Materialism Religion Approbation Power

The Temptation from the World

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Romans 12:2 (GNT)

• “Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete renovation of your thinking.

• Then you will be able to know the will of God—what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect.”

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Source #2:

The Flesh



Temptation from the Flesh

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Source #3:

The Devil



Temptation from the Devil

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation

The “Obedience” Response

The “Disobedience”Reaction

The VolitionalInterlude

Communion SeparationOR

The Sequence of Temptation for The Sequence of Temptation for EveEve

Capitulation

She took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

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Adam and Eve after the Fall

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Old (Adam Genes) Man

Human Good Sins

SIN Nature

Soul

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Our bodies have a genetically resident sin nature.

• Romans 8:7-8 (NKJV)7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

• 1 John 1:8 (NKJV)8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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The Sin Nature

Human Good

Personal Sins

Trend toward

Lasciviousness

Mark 7.21-23

Trend toward

AsceticismHebrews

6.1

SIN NATURE

Strength

Weakness

Sins borne at the cross – 1 Peter 2.24

Rejected and condemned at the cross – Titus 3.5

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WArea of WeaknessHebrews 12.1

Area of StrengthIsaiah 64.6

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The Sin Nature: Sexual Desire

Human Good

Personal Sins

Trend toward

Lasciviousness

Mark 7.21-23

Trend toward

AsceticismHebrews

6.1

Sexual DesireStrength

Weakness



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The Sin Nature: Chemical Desire

Human Good

Personal Sins

Trend toward

Lasciviousness

Mark 7.21-23

Trend toward

AsceticismHebrews

6.1

Chemical DesireStrength

Weakness



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The Sin Nature: Religious Desire

Human Good

Personal Sins

Trend toward

Lasciviousness

Mark 7.21-23

Trend toward

AsceticismHebrews

6.1

Religious DesireStrength

Weakness



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The Sin Nature: Approbation Desire

Human Good

Personal Sins

Trend toward

Lasciviousness

Mark 7.21-23

Trend toward

AsceticismHebrews

6.1

Approbation DesireStrength

Weakness



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The Sin Nature: Power Desire

Human Good

Personal Sins

Trend toward

Lasciviousness

Mark 7.21-23

Trend toward

AsceticismHebrews

6.1

Power DesireStrength

Weakness



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The Sin Nature: Materialism Desire

Human Good

Personal Sins

Trend toward

Lasciviousness

Mark 7.21-23

Trend toward

AsceticismHebrews

6.1

Materialism DesireStrength

Weakness



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The Sequence of Cognitive (Intelligent) Emotions

• Hypocrisy and Backsliding are related to how we think, so, we need to know “How We Think”.

• There is a sequence to thinking:• 1. There is an event.• 2. Then we Perceive the Event.• 3. Then we Appraise the Event.• 4. Filtering the Appraisal we get a Representation.• 5. Then we Respond or React to the

Representation by what we Choose (our Volition).

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation

Cognitive Response Emotional ReactionThe Volitional

Interlude

Rational Emotional

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SCAttributionMoodBeliefsAttitudeKnowledge

The Sequence of ThinkingThe Sequence of Thinking

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1. The Event:

• Something happens, (a remark, a gesture, an accident, etc.) that potentially relates to one of the persons goals as either:– a threat or – an enhancer.

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2. Perception of the Event:

• The individual becomes fully aware of the event (through seeing, hearing, or reading, etc.).

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3. Appraisal of the Event:

• The person determines whether or not the event relates to a goal.

• The value of the goal will directly affect the strength of the emotion.

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Filtering the Appraisal:

• The status of the person’s body (sleepy, alert, etc.)[or background emotions] influences the intensity of his or her appraisal (e.g., very threatening our only mildly threatening).

• We then Appraise the Event with a series of factors.

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The Appraisal Filters

Beliefs

Self Concept

Knowledge

Attitude

Attribution

Mood

Appraisal

BehaviorSelf Image

Self EsteemAffect

PhysicalEmotional

Cognition

Script

Values

Frames

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Knowledge

• In common parlance, knowledge is the possession of information.

• Certain philosophers, however, choose to define these concepts in a technical way, different from their everyday use.

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Knowledge

• According to philosophic jargon, Knowledge can be defined as information associated with an intentionality.

• Both knowledge and information consist of true statements.

• But knowledge can be considered as information that has a purpose or use.

• The study of knowledge is called epistemology.

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Mood

• A person's mood is the repertoire of emotions and thoughts experienced at a particular time. In normal functioning, moods are largely adaptive to external events.

• An optimist and a pessimist evaluate a situation relatively favorably and unfavorably, respectively.

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Mood

• This applies also to expectations.

• The optimist looks at the world "through rose-tinted spectacles" wheras a pessimist will tend to concentrate on the possibility for oncoming doom.

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Frame, framing effect

• A decision-frame is the decision-maker's subjective conception of the acts, outcomes and contingencies associated with a particular choice.

• The frame that a decision maker adopts is controlled partly by the formulation of the problem and by the norms, habits, and personal characteristics of the decision maker.

• It is often possible to frame a given decision problem in more than one way.

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Script• A script is a knowledge structure, which

describes the adequate sequence of events of familiar situations, for instance the script of a restaurant situation.

• Scripts combine single scenes to an integrated sequence from the point of view of the person.

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Self-concept

• The self-concept consists of the self-image and the self-esteem.

• The self-concept (self-identity) is the mental notion a person has about his:– physical, – psychological, and – social attributes;

• as well as his:– attitudes, – beliefs and – Ideas.

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Self-esteem

• In psychology, self-esteem is the person's self-image from an emotional level; circumventing reason and logic.

• The maintenance of a healthy degree of self-esteem is a central task within psychotherapy, where patients often suffer from excess degrees of self-criticism, hampering their ability to function.

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Self Image

• A person's self image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others (height, weight, hair color, nature of external genitalia, I.Q. score, is this person double-jointed, etc.), but also items that have been learned by that person about himself or herself, either from personal experience or by internalizing the judgments of others.

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Self Image• Am I skinny? Am I fat? Am I weak? Am I

strong? Am I intelligent? Am I stupid? Am I a good person? Am I a bad person? Am I a male? Am I a female?

• Self-concept may be defined as the totality of a complex, organized, and dynamic system of learned beliefs, attitudes and opinions that each person holds to be true about his or her personal existence.

• Self-verification: The process of seeking out and interpreting situations so as to confirm one's self-concept.

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Attitude

• An attitude is "a psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor" (Eagly & Chaiken, 1993, p. 1).

• According to the tri-component model, an attitude includes affect (a feeling), cognition (a thought), and behavior (an action).

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Attitude• Component Characteristics Examples:• Affect: Emotional reactions"I like ..."; -or- "....

makes me angry“• Cognition: Internalized mental

representations, beliefs, thoughts; "My co-workers should ..."; -or- "If .... then ....“

• Behavior: The tendency to respond or overtly act in a particular way toward the attitude object; "I always do ...."; -or- ".... makes me angry"

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Attribution

• The process by which people use information to make inferences about the causes of behavior or events.

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Belief • An estimate of the probability that something is

true. • Belief in the psychological sense, is a

representational mental state that takes the form of a propositional attitude.

• Belief is considered propositional in that it is an assertion, claim or expectation about reality that is presumed to be either true or false (even if this cannot be practically determined, such as a belief in the existence of a particular deity).

• Historically, philosophical attempts to analyze the nature of belief have been couched in terms of judgement.

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Values

• Enduring beliefs about important life goals that transcend specific situations.

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The Appraisal Filters and The Sin Nature

Materialism

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Religious

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Appraisal results in “Representation”

• People often appraise an Event (about a person, an object, or a situation) selectively, focusing on some features while disregarding others.

• They interpret the features in terms of previously acquired concepts and knowledge.

• Moreover, they often infer characteristics of the event that were not actually mentioned in the information, and construe relations among these characteristics that were not specified ("going beyond the information given", Bruner, 1957b).

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Representation• In short, the cognitive representations that people

form of an event differ in a variety of ways from the information on which they were based.

• Yet it is ultimately these representations, and not the original event, that govern subsequent thoughts, judgments, and behaviors.

• Eve reacted emotionally to the Event of Temptation Filtering through her Self Esteem (emotional) aspect of her Self Concept (“I want to make myself wise like God”); and succumbed to the temptation -- the First Backslider!

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation

The “New Man” Response

The “Old Man”Reaction

The VolitionalInterlude

Spirituality CarnalityOR

The Sequence of Temptation for The Sequence of Temptation for the Christianthe Christian

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The Volitional Interlude• James 1:2 Add it all up and come to the

conclusion of unadulterated joy whenever you fall into the midst of various types of trials which surround you, knowing that the approving of your faith, produces a patience which bears up and does not lose heart or courage under trials. Therefore, keep allowing the aforementioned patience to be having its complete work in order that you may be spiritually mature and complete in every detail, lacking in nothing.

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation



The Volitional Interlude

Spirituality CarnalityOR

““whenever you fall into the whenever you fall into the midst of variegated trials midst of variegated trials which surround you”which surround you”

Temptation and the Spiritual Temptation and the Spiritual ResponseResponse

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation




Spirituality Carnality

““knowing experientially that the knowing experientially that the approving of your faith… approving of your faith… produces a patience which bears produces a patience which bears up and does not lose heart or up and does not lose heart or courage under trialscourage under trials ””

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation





““Consider it a matter for Consider it a matter for unadulterated joyunadulterated joy ””

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation





““But be allowing the But be allowing the aforementioned patience to be aforementioned patience to be having its complete work…”having its complete work…”

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The Event

Perception

Appraisal Filter

Representation





“…“…in order that you may be in order that you may be spiritually mature and complete spiritually mature and complete in every detail, lacking in in every detail, lacking in nothing.”nothing.”

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New (Christ Genes)You

Holy Spirit

GiftsFruit

Soul

“You MUST be Born From Above!”

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We are Spiritual living in human bodies in an earthly environment: • 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

• Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV)10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

• Ephesians 4:24 (NKJV)24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

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