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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REACTIONS: A response to a stimulus; a negative stimulus will cause a negative reaction; a positive stimulus will cause a positive response.
REASONING: When we assimilate data. Limited to influence of the flesh, or those things to which the flesh has been exposed. The ability to decide things; to obtain ideas; to think clearly and to make logical and rational choices and decisions; the drawing of inferences or conclusions from known or assumed facts; assimilated data limited by influence of the fleshy mind that is in touch with the world (St. Matthew 6:7, St. Mark 2:2-8, 11:27-33; Job 13:1-6, St. Luke 9:46-47).
REBELLION: A test of your love for God by the revealing of wantonness (lust), which comes from personal ambition. Magnifies self. Will worship. (Colossians 2:20, 23).
RECONCILIATION: To remove all enmity through love, unity and peace; the ministry of the saints of God in restoring all men to God through love and grace.
REGRESSION: To go back to a former and usually worse condition. Backslide, retreat, move backwards, to back up. (St. Luke 9:62).
RELATIONSHIPS: Those interactions or exchanges with mankind in which you are responsible for revealing Christ and perpetrating the will of God.
RENEWAL: An exchange of influence; renew; to transform
REPRESSION: To restrain; to exclude from the conscious mind; the inability to express ones true personality; causes pessimism and allows no joy; hinders natural expression and development; the opposite of expression.
REPROACH: Shame, disgrace; accusation of a fault.
REPROBATE: Rejected; a mind of which God cannot approve and which must be rejected by Him; one whose moral sense is perverted.
REPROOF: Rebuke. Words intended to reprove (charge with a fault) (Job 5:17, Proverbs 13:18, 25:12, 2 Timothy 4:2, , Hebrews 12:5).
RESERVOIR: A place where anything is collected and stored; a receptacle, a holding place.
RESURRECTION POWER: The Spirit of God living in the inward parts of man to change his desires.
RETRIBUTION: Pay back; punishment for evil done or reward for good done.
REVELATION: To unveil, uncover or reveal. The communication of the knowledge of God to the soul. In order to know God we must study His Word. We experience God by operating in the Word we learn inside our circumstances, situations and relationships. (Romans 16:25; Ephesians 3:3; Revelation 1:1). Operations: A. The communicator must communicate with the spirit of your mind. B. An impression must be made on your mind called enlightenment. C. An expression of the mind of God communicated to the soul (1 Corinthians 14:6).
REVELING: To make merry, to take much pleasure. Luxuriousness, daintiness, the concomitant consequence of drunkenness.
RIGHTEOUSNESS: Any action, mindset or relationship that is acceptable unto God.
RIGHTEOUS THINKING: Thinking that always considers God and purpose.
RIGHTNESS: A carnal and fleshy disposition that may meet earthy moral standards, but fails to introduce righteousness which is a position that exemplifies the character and strength of Christ. Rightness is void of sufficient grace needed to influence or turn a heart toward God. (Deuteronomy 12:8; 2 Kings 17:9; 2 Peter 2:15).
RULER: One who rules or governs; spirit and powers that are under the will of God; those who exercise satanic authority over the world.