Author: PJD
Company: SymCast

©1998  Joe Griffin								98-08-16-B/JSH-009

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Principles from 1 John 5:4: Divine Power System, Gates 4, 5, & 6

(d) Gate 4: Spiritual Momentum.  This is where the perception and application of doctrine occurs.  We classify this gate as the Grace Apparatus for Perception.  As spiritual growth occurs momentum develops as a result of the first three gates.  From them the believer has the power, the objectivity, and the teachability to make the    advance.  The spiritual advance which occurs as a result of spiritual momentum is the subject of Ephesians 4:14-15.  From this advance are developed the motivational and functional virtues which accelerate one to the level of spiritual adulthood.       
(e) Gate 5 & 6: Motivational and Functional Virtues.  Motivational virtues are directed toward God while functional virtues are directed toward our fellow man.  For example, (1) confidence in God  is a motivational virtue which supports the functional virtue of courage toward man (Isaiah 41:10).  (2) Worship of God is a motivational virtue which generates the functional virtue of morality toward man (Romans 12).  (3) The motivational virtue of personal love for God sustains the functional virtue of unconditional love for man (1 John 4:20).  We should note that the major virtues which the Lord commanded from Joshua were for him to “be strong and courageous,” another way of saying, “Have confidence in Me   and it will  result in courage toward life and circumstances (Joshua 1:6,7,9,18).”