Biblical Guidance / Counseling Class 4

Ready to Restore (15 Minutes)

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Chapter 10

Biblical Analysis of the problem

Biblical terminology

When should we get married?

Psalm 119:128 NKJV

128 Therefore all Your precepts concerning all things I consider to be right; I hate every false way.

Chapter 11

Finding the Biblical Solution

2 Timothy 3:16 NKJV

16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

Doctrine - “What is right”

Reproof - “What is wrong”

Correction - “How to get right”

Instruction - “How to stay right”

2 Corinthians 7:8–11 NKJV

8 For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while. 9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. 11 For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

Isaiah 61:3 NKJV

3 To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”

Ephesians 4:22–25 NKJV

22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. 25 Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another.

Ephesians 4:28 NKJV

28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.

Matthew 5:27–30 NKJV

27 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

1 Corinthians 15:33 NKJV

33 Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

Chapter 12

Implementing a Biblical Plan

Being a doer

James 1:22–25 NKJV

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

Feelings vs Obedience (30 Minutes)

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Review

Who is the most important person in the counseling session?

Isaiah 9:6

• When we continue to counsel someone that will not follow directions we are making them defendant on us not Jesus!

• First session points:

1. Testimony

2. Find out issue

3. Give hope

4. Agree on goal (negotiate a goal)

5. Give homework (this is a joint effort) Ecc. 4:9-12

• 3 C’s

Change - Acts 3:19

Confrontation- Gal. 4:16

Concern - Ephesians 4:15

• Goal is what=

restore to usefulness

Romans 8:37 more than conquerors not copers

• Discernment –

Hebrews 5:14 comes from reading and applying God’s word discernment the spirit gift is different it. Explain faith and the gift of faith.

In counseling we struggle because of discernment and personal experiences – remind them that Paul wrote about marriage

• Genesis and the garden story

• The difference between personal application and personal experience.

• Give example

John 14:15

“Love does”

Deut. 30:1-6

“Doing turns into love”

1 John 4:18

“Love defeats fear”

1 John 4:19

“Why love?”

Feelings vs Obedience

Isaiah 1:19 NKJV

19 If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;

Deuteronomy 28:1–2 NKJV

1 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 30:1–6 NKJV

1 “Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you, 2 and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you. 4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. 5 Then the Lord your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 6 And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Exodus 19:5 NKJV

5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.

Authority - America’s greatest addiction

Case Study #18 (15 minutes)

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What am I looking for?

Sin

how to bring hope

ways to get to the word

Anger and Depression (30 minutes)

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Anger

James 1:19–20 NKJV

19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; 20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Depression

Proverbs 12:25 NKJV

25 Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes it glad.

John 14:27 NKJV

27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Case Study #19 (15 minutes)

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What am I looking for?

Sin

how to bring hope

ways to get to the word