The Expository Glossary

Expository Glossary

Expository and theological terms from the teaching, each with its definition and the scripture it rests on.

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IDOLATER: A slave to a person or depraved ideas that are idolized.
IDOLATRY: Worship of idols; excessive reverence for or devotion to a person or things. Immorality and sins of the flesh are associated and traced to lack of acknowledgment of God and gratitude to Him. The sin of the mind that wars against God.
ILLUSION: The process by which imagination is formed; a created image by the mind.; created based upon a suggestion or deception.
IMAGE: A visual representation of God. Able to bear responsibility, given dominionship, able to procreate. (Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 8:29).
IMAGINATION: 1. A mental extension of those things that you have been exposed to: origin is from the earth. (Genesis 6:5). 2. The ability of the soul to produce images or ideas (by either directly or indirectly experiencing them), that at present may only be lived out in the mind. 3. A holding place for thoughts for future consideration. a place of refueling; the manufacturer of plans; designs that are pre-lived desires of the flesh. 4. The act or power of forming mental images of what is not actually present or experienced. 5. The contemplation of action as the result of a verdict of the conscience. It carries evil purpose and reasoning. Imagination is most frequently translated as thoughts.
IMAGINE: Practice as the result of devising or planning.
IMITATION: Patterning after or using someone or something else for a model.
IMMUTABILITY: Unchangeable actions of the flesh. (Hebrews 6:13).
IMPRESSION: The souls response to those things the flesh either has experienced or desires to experience.
IMPURE HEART: When the actions of the flesh offend the heart. The impurities do not originate in the heart, but they do affect the disposition of a saint.
INCREASE: The ability to see, hear and operate the lessons you have learned. To walk in the Word that you know. (1 Thessalonians 3:12).
INCUBATOR: An apparatus for surrounding premature babies in a controlled environment.
INDIRECT EXPERIENCE: Exposure to or the witnessing of the experiences of others.
INFIDELITY: Unfaithfulness in marriage.
INFLUENTIAL: Power to change.
INHERIT THE EARTH: To receive an allotted portion or one's own possession. Tranquil, stable state of existence.
INIQUITY: 1. Rebellion against instituted authority. 2. Lawlessness. 3. Absence of love. 4. Designed to stop the flow of love (Ezekiel 28:15); rebellion against instituted authority (Ezekiel 28:15-16). To form a negative opinion. This is the condition of the unregenerated man where there is no presence of God in his inward parts.
INORDINATE AFFECTION: A craving for unnatural affection that is sometimes considered to be love.
INSPIRATION: Breathed into, breath, wind, divine intelling. Comes from God, not the earth and is always accompanied by a Spirit of Might, a God given ability to accomplish whatever He has breathed into you. (Job 32:8; 2 Timothy 3:16).
INSTRUCTION: Given by God through the operations of the Holy Ghost (2 Timothy 3:16-17).INTELLECT - That mental faculty which receives ideas; the power of the mind to understand and to accept knowledge.
INTELLING: A divine telling of truth and instruction given by God. (Proverbs 8:10; 12:1; 19:27; 2 Timothy 3:16). Having a forceful effect (2 Timothy 3:16, Job 32:8); inward telling.
INTENT OF SCRIPTURE: 1. What the scripture is trying to convey. 2. Purpose.
INTROVERT: To live and feel inside of the soul without interacting with reality; a brooder; a loner or self-observer.
INWARD PARTS: The innermost parts of the man that is not seen; made up of the soul, heart, conscience and the mind.