Preface Preface
Before a believer begins to study anything related to bible doctrine he must ensure that he is under the ministry of God the Holy Spirit for teaching which requires the Filling of God the Holy Spirit. This can only be accomplished if he will name his KNOWN sins privately to God the Father in order to be forgiven those and all other UNKNOWN or FORGOTTEN sins and to be placed again into fellowship with God and under the teaching and guiding ministry of God
the Holy Spirit. 1John 1:9 states, “If we confess (name or cite) our (known) sins, He is faithful and justified to forgive us our (known) sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (unknown sins).” This will put the believer into fellowship with God and under the Filling of God the Holy Spirit in a state of Genuine Humility and teachability and ready to learn Bible Doctrine. If you have never personally expressed faith alone in The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone the issue is NOT naming your sins. The issue is nonmeritorious faith alone in Christ alone. “He who believes in the Son has Eternal Life; But he who does not obey the command
to believe in the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” (John 3:36)
If we are totally objective we must admit to having delusions about some things in life at some time. For myself there is ONE thing in this life which I have no delusions about, Bible Doctrine. Were it not for the teaching ministry of Col. R. B. Thieme Jr. and his consistent clear, concise and dogmatic presentation of the doctrines of the bible I would know nothing of orthodox fundamental biblical doctrine. I have no delusion about my knowledge, calling or spiritual gift; and, recognize that I could not do what he and many other pastors have done, and continue to do, in the constant studying and teaching of doctrine to their congregations. Over the years I have learned innumerable principles from these studies by Pastor Thieme. One of the most important things I have learned has been that “your rate of learning MUST exceed your rate of FORGETTING” in order to advance in the Spiritual Life OR to maintain your level of spiritual growth. This amplifies the necessity therefore of constant, consistent Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine and ultimately the application of it to life. It is my desire that this document be a source of consolidated doctrine regarding the GRACE of God to fulfill that very purpose.
This is a compilation from my notes based on the principles directly derived from the lessons taught by Col. R. B. Thieme Jr., specifically from lessons involving the study of the Book of Romans, the Book of Hebrews and various other lessons as well. These were taught after many years of Pastor Thieme serving in his ministry of Studying and Teaching Orthodox Fundamental Biblical Christian Doctrine according to an Isagogical, Exegetical and Categorical method. With this in mind be conscious of the fact that some of the terminology, doctrine and principles presented here will be, at best, difficult and possibly obscure for the new or infant believer. It took the Colonel many years of preparation and study to come to the point of being able to extract these doctrines and principles from the original languages of scripture so it should reasonably require some years of study by the believer under his type of ministry to be able to understand what is herein contained.
If you have read any of the other compilations I have put together you will notice some similarities or blatant duplication here. I have chosen to do this to establish a proper background to enable a better understanding of this subject matter. In addition I have taken the liberty of incorporating personally defined categories to delineate more clearly the principles involved in understanding this topic. In effect this and all the other compilations of Bible Doctrine I have been instrumental in producing are designed to be STUDIED not simply read through. This can be accomplished by reading the document through and then returning to areas which require further study or taking individual chapters and reading and reviewing the terminology and references until they are inculcated. The reality is that to study a subject you must read it and then read it again and check all the references and definitions of terms not totally understood and then it must be read again and again until it is inculcated. This is STUDYING to enable the content of the material to be available for future application to situations and circumstances which may arise in one’s life. To facilitate this understanding on the part of the reader I have interlinked segments of this document to enable the reader to review or learn or recall terminology, concepts, principles and doctrines while reading other parts. I have also included a Glossary of terms which I believe will help in this endeavor. Whenever I use references to terms found in the Greek, Hebrew, Latin or Aramaic languages I indicate them with the abbreviations of (gr), (heb), (lat) or (aram) as a precursor to the terms.
As one would expect, I have entered some opinions and concepts of my own from what I have learned from my studies of Pastor Thieme’s teaching of Bible Doctrine in later lessons, from later years and from life experiences and other current materials regarding ongoing historical and social trends. My effort here has been to consolidate the principles of the Grace of God for the Christian Way of Life in this Church Age in order to provide a place where believers might go to acquire or review concise but detailed information related to these principles. However, nothing contained herein is ever to be construed to have been originated by my personal abilities to extract doctrines from the scripture. Neither is this to be a substitute for consistent daily study under one’s right Pastor Teacher in order to develop the momentum needed to reach and hold on to spiritual maturity, the ultimate objective of the Spiritual Life. I have taken the liberty of trying to only add pertinent examples of historical and social trends which I see occurring some time after these lessons elucidated them and to organize these doctrinal principles into logical categories for the best understanding. If more details and reference passages are desired on the Grace of God in the Life of the Christian or how these
principles were derived the original lessons can be ordered from R. B. Thieme Jr. Bible
Ministries, P.O. Box 460829, Houston Tx. 77056-8829, or by phoning 713-621-3740.
Once again, my objective in compiling these principles of Bible Doctrine is not whether it is considered good or bad, liked or disliked as a message but whether God the Holy Spirit can use the doctrinal content in the life of YOU the believer reading it. I have nothing to prove to anyone in life and it is only getting the message through to YOU, the reader, that is important to me so that there is something for God the Holy Spirit to use. I have, in fact, attempted to organize these principles into discrete segments or categories. However, as always with regard to Bible Doctrine, these principles resist any attempt at separation into singular units being intricately intertwined into a system of interaction within the Spiritual Life. With this in mind understand that there will be duplication and repetition and one category of GRACE cannot always be separated and individually studied without relating its impact on and from, very often, several others. However, as we clearly know in life and as the Colonel might have said on occasion: “REPETITION, REPETITION, REPETITION IS INVALUABLE SO GET USED TO IT AND ENJOY IT.
Dr. Frank P. Ferraro
Additional Bible Doctrine Compilations Available: Additional Bible Doctrine Compilations Available:
Working for God – How Good is GOOD ENOUGH!
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/UnderstandingHumanGood.pdf?i=2
The Influence of Grace vs The Influence of Evil on the Soul
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/IBDvsIE.pdf
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/Spiritualcommonsense.pdf
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/RoyalFamilyHonorCode4thEd.pdf
The Power System of God – The Divine Dynasphere
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/PSGDDS.pdf
Progression in the Spiritual Life
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/Progressions%20in%20the%20Spiritual%20Life.pdf
Flexibility & Essentials in the Christian Way of Life
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/E&N.pdf
The Edification Complex of the Soul
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/ECS.pdf
Propaganda, Brainwashing & Psychological Warfare
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/Brainwashing.pdf
Counterinsurgency & War and the Christian 3rd Ed.
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/C&GWar.pdf
Interlocking System of Arrogance 4 thEd.
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/InterlockingSystemofArrogance.pdf
http://www.fullarmorfromgod.epizy.com/Files/BOOKS.html
Introduction Introduction
Grace is the Perfect Plan of God laid out in Eternity Past prior to any creation and is based on Who and What God is and is what he provides for man which man cannot ever earn, deserve nor work for and which is based totally on the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ for all human sin. The Grace of God is not specifically an attribute of God’s Character, however, the Grace of God is an Infinite reflection and exemplification of the integrated FUNCTION under the Sovereignty of God of the Omniscience, Omnipresence and Omnipotence working in unalterable coordination with the absolute perfection of the Love of God, Righteousness of God and Justice of God; as part of the Integrity or Holiness of God, according to absolute Veracity and all-inclusive Immutability, ETERNALLY. It is imperative for the believer especially to recognize that man, all 8,209,074,500 of them, including YOU (1) and I (1), (per the world population clock on 3/3/2025 at 8:06 EST) could not and would not even exist in this life were it not for the Grace of God. Grace as the Plan of God for creation and especially for the resolution of the appeal of Satan in this portion of the Angelic Conflict, Human History, provides everything needed for ALL OF CREATION to be sustained and continue to exist. Grace was behind the creation of Angelic Beings, the Universe in its totality, the Judgment of the Satanic Revolution against God, the Granting of the Appeal of Satan trying to avoid the Lake of Fire judgment, the restoration of Earth for the habitation of man and ultimately the entire Human Race, and the provision of the potential for man to recover from the failure of Ish (Adam) and Ishah (Eve) by making Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. God provides ALL things for sustaining and eternally saving man based totally on his sovereign will in accordance with his perfect Absolute Righteousness and Absolute Justice. However, some of what GOD has provided cannot be obtained without man CHOOSING to go after it using his own volition, which in itself is a provision of God as the 1 st Divine Institution. By using FREE WILL to choose to acquire some of the grace provisions of God, MAN has the potential to glorify God and win a tactical victory in the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial as a witness for the prosecution, GOD.
Therefore, Grace is the genius of God, and Orthodox Fundamental Biblical Doctrine is the revelation and manifestation of that genius. The principle here is that Grace depends ONLY on Who and What God is and NEVER on any part of Who or What man is. Grace is the plan and policy of God which enables GOD to provide for man in unquestionable coordination and compliance with the principles of his divine essence without compromise.