The FLOT Line Show

Grace is God providing all of our needs. Grace is neither earned nor deserved. The enemy of grace is legalism, spirituality by works. God’s unique grace provisions start with saving grace (Eph 2:8-9). Living grace “grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:18) is staying filled with the Holy Spirit and learning God’s Word on a consistent basis. God provides what we...

Jesus Christ knew and used Scripture when He lived on this earth as the God-Man. He used doctrinal orientation as a problem-solving device. “Study [the Bible] to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15). The Holy Spirit is the author of truth, He leads us into truth. “God is not the author of confusion” (1 Cor 14:3)...

Know and use God's 10 problem-solving devices and you can stop adversity before it becomes stress in your life. The FLOT Line won’t protect you if you have unconfessed sin in your life. Problem-solving device #1 rebound needs to be in place for the others to work. They are all tied together. The Christian life can only be lived by faith, that’s the power cell. “The Word they heard did not prof...

True happiness is a supernatural resource only available to the believer in Jesus Christ. The filling of the Holy Spirit combined with the Word of God acquired and converted to wisdom in your soul produces joy. “Happiness belongs to those who hear My Father’s Word and keep it” (Luke 11:28). Contentment is being happy with what God gives you. The three R’s of thinking are the keys to happiness in y...

Forgiveness is a mandate from God. “Be kind and tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God has forgiven you” (Eph 4:32). There’s never a time when you shouldn’t forgive someone for something they do to you. People are often the greatest test in life. That’s why you need to master the problem-solving device of Impersonal Love. You forgive others, and you love others, based on who you are, no...

Salvation—the guarantee of eternal life in heaven—is faith alone in Christ alone. It is you putting your faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross for your salvation—and nothing else. You will be in the Book of Life when you do this. If you don’t, your name is blotted out and you will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire. Yes, hell is real.”He who has the Son has the life; he who does...

Hell is a real place. And there is a worse place than Hell. Unbelievers are brought out of Hell to the Great White Throne of Judgment and once they are found lacking, they are then cast into the Lake of Fire. Those who reject accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior will spend everlasting life in the Lake of Fire in everlasting suffering and punishment. “And these shall go away into everlasting puni...

You must guard your soul with the Word of God. “Guard your soul with all diligence because out of it are the issues of life” (Prov 4:23). You guard your soul by learning and applying God’s Word. You’re in a spiritual war. If you allow God the Holy Spirit to control your life then you can be in tune with God’s will, plan, and purpose for your life. The secret to learning God’s Word is staying fille...

You can destroy yourself by what you think. If you don’t think right, you won’t do what is right. “As a man thinks in his heart so he is” (Prov 23:7). Change the way you think to a divine viewpoint by staying filled with the Holy Spirit and studying under the ministry of a well-qualified pastor as he teaches you the Word of God. You are in full-time Christian service. “Put on the armor of God” (Ep...

If you allow the world, your sin nature, or Satan to control your life you will end up with a sick soul. You make choices. When you use your volition to decide to allow the lures of the world or any of the other enemies to capture your thoughts then your sin nature takes control. You have a simple, wonderful, grace provision called rebound and you can refresh your sick soul with this. God promises...

The Holy Spirit takes the Word of God we learn and uses it to lead in representing the lifestyle of Christ to others. If “we will walk in the Spirit” (Gal 5:16). You need to be filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit to acquire the mind of Christ. As you begin to think like Christ thought you will develop discernment. An enemy of the soul is a lack of discernment. If your soul is not firmly ground...

Emotions cannot produce muscle in your soul. The Bible very clearly teaches that when we allow emotions to control our thoughts, we are allowing the sin nature to control our souls. Satan wants you to rely on your emotions because they’ll take you away from God’s plan. If you think, you’re going to be thinking about God’s plan. “Stop becoming non-thinkers, but continue to become spiritually intell...

“Let every soul be in subjection to the governing authorities” (Rom 13:1-2). This includes tyrannical and unjust authorities. God has allowed the authority and you are to be subject to it. God puts us under the authority and we are to obey it. God will judge abusive authority. God demands you leave judgment to Him (Deut 32:35, Matt 7:1-2). Arrogance makes you want to take justice into your own han...

Your soul has four enemies: sin, arrogance, evil and emotion. With sin, you have three enemies: the world, the devil and the flesh. The world will distract you from advancing spiritually. The world is a distractor. Satan is a deceiver. Your flesh, the sin nature, is a destroyer. “If we walk in the Spirit [stay filled with the Holy Spirit] we won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh” (Gal 5:16). Sin is...

Developing a FLOT Line in your soul by learning and using the 10 problem-solving devices will keep stress out of your soul. The thoughts that fill your soul are what make the difference. “So that you may be blameless and pure children of God even though you live in the middle of a crooked and perverse society among whom you shall shine as lights in the world” (Phil 2:15). Your spiritual life is li...

Your soul is the invisible, immortal you and without it there is no life. Your soul has a conscience, self-consciousness, volition and mentality. When you come to God-consciousness if you think “Yes, I want to know God” God will ensure you hear the gospel in your own language. If you want to know, He will reveal it. Grace and the truth of God’s Words are God’s standards of thinking for you. Only b...

The real you is invisible—it is your soul. The real you is your soul - your thinking. “As a man thinks in his soul so he is” (Ps 23:7). A man and woman can copulate and produce biological life, but only God can give soul life. “The Lord is the One who stretches out the heavens and the One who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the soul of a man within him” (Zech 12:1). Our bodies age...

The conventional Christian is a casual Christian—they have salvation but are ignorant of God’s plan for their life. They substitute morality and sweetness. But morality isn’t spirituality and maturity is not being sweet. The Christian life must be learned to be executed. It’s not a feeling. It’s about faith and fact. Christianity is an in-depth study of the Word of God. “Solid food belongs to them...

People can stress you out. This is a key area of testing for us. Learn how to deal with W.O.J.s (weird obnoxious jerks) and those who want to manipulate and control you. To pass people testing you must have humility; understand the mechanics of God’s will, plan and purpose for your life; and develop divine viewpoint thinking. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). That...

Being impulsive is a lack of humility. Impulsiveness can destroy you. “A person’s arrogance will bring him low, but a lifestyle of wisdom will attain honor” (Prov 23:29). You must understand God’s Word if you’re going to speak about Him. Think before you speak. If you’re impulsive you give Satan an advantage. Don’t run ahead of God. “A fool expresses all of his emotions but a wise person controls...

The filling of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God empowers you to live the Christian life. The world’s problems can’t be solved apart from the Word of God and the laws of divine establishment. Human solutions are no solutions. “A person’s arrogance will bring him low but a lifestyle of wisdom will attain honor” (Prov 23:29). Humility is the foundation for your spiritual life. God requires profess...

God has ordained authority. Authority is designed to keep us from self-destructing, personally and as a nation. "Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except that which God has established, and the authorities that exist are established by God” (Rom 13:1-7). Authority will make mistakes and part of growing up and developing humility is the ability to handl...

The only way to reverse the decline of America is for you to grow spiritually. God needs you to make your number one priority staying filled with the Holy Spirit and taking time every day to learn the Word of God and apply it. The life of Christ is our template. “Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was...

The loss of spiritual stability, society’s anchor point, has allowed Americans to stumble into the darkness of social mores. Don’t ever blend your spiritual life with the world and never bend your principles. “Come out from among them and be separate” (2 Cor 6:17-18). The key to removing false doctrines and contaminants in your life is to recognize, rebound and remove yourself. “You purify your so...

A divine viewpoint is an anchor point. It’s solid and never changes because God never changes. There is no Biblical content in emotions. Emotions do not think. “God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from His Word” (Rom 12:3). When you let emotions take over you quit thinking and become divorced from reality. God is looking for you to grow to spiritual maturity and replicate the...