The Spiritual Recovery Device

Rebound is the recovery procedure for loss of fellowship with God.  When the believer sins, fellowship with God will be lost, this includes loss of the Filling of the Holy Spirit.  Rebound is accomplished by naming our sins to God. If we acknowledge our sins, He is faithful and Righteous with the result that He forgives us our sins and purifies us from all wrongdoing. (1 John 1:9) Rebound does not require confessing to a so-called priest, fellow believers or public confession of sins before a congregation.  Every believer in the Church Age is a priest who represents himself before God.  It is blasphemy to confess to anyone besides God, or for anyone to assume that he has the power to forgive sins.  Only God can forgive sins.

The recovery procedure does not include penance, feeling sorry, or promising God that it will never happen again, or making pledges, vows or doing some sacrificial work for God.  The sins have already been paid for by the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross.  There is nothing that can be added to His finished work (John 19:30) on the Cross. Rebound is not prayer.  It is a recovery procedure.  Prayer will not get through unless Rebound has preceded it as necessary.  Since Rebound is not prayer, there is no requirement to go through the formality of addressing it to the Father in the name of the Son.  The only thing God the Father will hear is the naming of the sins - nothing else.

If we acknowledge our sins, He is faithful and righteous, with the result that He forgives our sins, and He purifies us from all wrong doing.

A Problem-Solving Device

Rebound is a problem-solving device for the sins of the believer. You cannot live the Christian way of life without Rebound, because all believers have an old sin nature. We have an old sin nature with an area of weakness, an area of strength, and a trend toward legalism or antinomianism. We all have different old sin natures with different areas and different trends. On the Cross, all our sins, past, present and future, were imputed to Christ, and He received the judgment for every one of them. He used all the problem solving devices (except Rebound because He did not sin and Occupation with Christ for obvious reasons) to remain impeccable.

In 1 John 1:9, Rebound is described as one of our priestly functions toward God. If we acknowledge [admit, cite, name, confess] our sins [post-salvation sins of cognizance], He is faithful and righteous with the result that He forgives our sins [post-salvation sins of cognizance] and cleanses [purifies] us from all unrighteousness [post-salvation sins of ignorance]. The Greek word for acknowledge is homologeo means to cite a courtroom case that proves your contention. In this sense, we acknowledge, name, or cite a case that went to court already: the judgment of your sins in Christ on the Cross. We already accepted this fact when we believed in Christ for salvation. So we, as Royal Priests, cite, name, or acknowledge our sin(s) privately and directly to God.

The sins of the believer cause him to be out of fellowship with God and no longer filled with the Spirit. Naming our sins to God is totally non-meritorious, how we feel about the sin(s) is inconsequential. We are simply doing exactly what God says to do, which is to privately acknowledge our sins to God in the privacy of our own Priesthood. There's a lot of drive for self-improvement in the old sin nature. We may improve, take vows, try to make it up to God, and if the sin shocks us enough, we will change our behavior pattern. But none of that is the Christian way of life it is legalism. In 1 John 1:9 the Greek word for sins is the harmatia and it refers to personal sins, specifically to the sins of believers

Just as there is nothing we can add to faith in Christ for salvation, there is nothing we can add to the acknowledgment of our sins for the recovery of our fellowship with God and the Filling of the Holy Spirit. Both believing in Christ for salvation and simply acknowledging our post-salvation sins for forgiveness are non-meritorious. They are totally and completely compatible with God's grace policy. Legalism wants to help God by adding human works which cancel grace. The moment we believe in Christ, we possess eternal life, and nothing can change that. The moment we acknowledge post-salvation sins, we are forgiven. Then we recover our fellowship with God and once again are filled with the Holy Spirit. God is faithful in every case of Rebound, no matter how monstrous the sin of the believer may be to others. Legalism does not dictate to God; God always forgives.

There never has been a sin acknowledged to God that has not been instantly forgiven. God is "righteous" or "just" to forgive us because that sin was already judged at the Cross. God is righteous and justified in forgiving us because He has already judged that sin. "Cleansing us from all unrighteousness" refers to all the unknown sins that occur, these are sins of ignorance for which we are held responsible. Using the rebound technique after we have sinned is the only way to recover fellowship with God and the only way by which we reenter the divine dynasphere, which is why it is called gate number one. This problem-solving device was used in the dispensation of Israel, Psalm 32:5, "I acknowledge my sin to you. Therefore, I will not hide my guilt. I said to myself, I

will acknowledge [admit] my transgression to the Lord, and You forgave the iniquity of my sin." The only difference between rebound in the Old Testament and rebound in the New Testament is that, after rebounding in the Old Testament, you were simply restored to fellowship with God, and a very few had a restored relationship with the Holy Spirit.

After we rebound in this dispensation, not only are we restored to fellowship with God, but we are also filled with the Spirit. The mechanics and momentum of Rebound are fourfold:

• Acknowledge or confess it, 1 John 1:9.
• Isolate it, Heb 12:15, See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no root of bitterness sprouting up cause trouble, and through this [bitterness - perpetuation of the fragmentation of the life] many are contaminated [polarized fragmentation].
• Forget it, Phi 3:13, Brethren, I do not evaluate myself to have attained, but I do concentrate on one thing: forgetting those sins which are behind, and pressing toward those things which are ahead [execution of the protocol plan].
• Keep moving, Phi 3:14. I keep advancing toward the objective for the prize of that upward call from God [escrow blessings] in Christ Jesus. The point is that if you're still alive after you name your sins, God intends for you to move on! The results of Rebound are as follows:
• You are restored to fellowship with God.
• You have recovered the filling of the Spirit.