We Have the mind of Christ!
Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God?-Mark 12:24…
Many say I am religious because I preach Gods word and because I am an ordained minister of Gods word, but let me clarify what God has ordained me to be… “I know who I am in Christ!” I am fully, completely and confidently convinced in Christ to be a prophet (visionary) a preacher and a teacher.. whether this is what I want or don’t want, it really doesn’t matter, and in my flesh I’d rather just be little ole me… but once upon a time I humbled myself-crucified myself and gave God my everything.. on that very day, I didn’t just say the sinners pray and be born again.. but on that day, I totally surrendered my life to Christ!
I have daily struggles that bring back the thought of the old me.. and I have to rebuke them, and humble myself once again, however, God has shown me that I have been playing the script of Ahab.. (the enabler) to many. As this was confirmed the other night in a bible conversation with others, I knew that all the changes and plucking that God is doing in my life is to Stop this Ahab spirit within me! I will simply let God continue to pluck away. He knows my end from my beginning and It is Him whom I must trust. I cannot let legalism keep me from obeying the ‘heart of the matter!’ I know God’s word, for it is written on my heart and because I stay in constant relationship with Him all the corrections and painful plucking He may be doing – I know is all in my best interest, and the interest to all that come into or out of my life.
Thank you Jesus!
With all the legalism that I have been dealing with lately and God enlightening me to the fact that it’s not by trying to be perfect and made right with God through the law, but to simply trust Him and the works HE is doing in me and in my life… with all this God led me to:
1 Corinthians 2 – and I simply just want to write it all out first! I pray for the eyes to see and the ears to hear this message clearly, allowing the Holy Spirit to speak to us all!!!
WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST!
1.And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard,and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him— 10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,“Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”But we have the mind of Christ.
After much meditation on this scripture.. I wish to paraphrase What God has enlightened to me…
This is my Resolve…
I do not wish to persuade you with fancy talk and excellent speech, and I definitely do not wish to try to use mere human wisdom- but I wish to share with you the simplicity of Christ and the cross, through the gift He has bestowed upon me, this gift being the knowing of all mysteries of God, because God simply chose me to preach this message of Jesus and the cross- with this gift the POWER of God was in me!
As God has given to those who are mature in Christ this same POWER, which is also wisdom, but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the carnal mind, which is worthless and knows not the mysteries of God. But we whom are mature in Christ ( with a childlike trusting heart) preach that this mystery that has been hidden from the carnal eyes and the eyes of old, which was determined for our glory even before we were born. For many never understood it, for if they had they would of never murdered Christ!
Read these words of Bold,” NO EYE HAS SEEN, NO EAR HAS HEARD, AND NO CARNAL MIND CAN PERCEIVE SUCH THE AWESOME MYSTERY RESOLVED! ONLY HIS LOVING CHILDREN, THAT PUT HIM FIRST IN THEIR LIVES, THAT TRUST HIM COMPLETELY, SHALL SEE THESE THINGS WHICH HE HAS ALREADY PREPARED FOR THEM!” HOWEVER, ALL THIS REVEALED ONLY THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT!”
The spirit searches the hearts of man and knows all thing, this is who will speak to us, and through us. Only we know all the secrets of our own heart, but so does the spirit. Just as only God knows the thoughts and ways of God, but since Christ was once our mediator.. until the penalty was paid in full of the law, Him then sending the Holy Spirit which teaches all things- therefore,we are now given the spirit of the LORD, then we KNOW ALL the thoughts and ways of God. Old testament word of, “my thoughts are higher than your thoughts, my ways are higher than your ways”.. now we rely on the holy spirit and apply our thoughts- ways and of life to scripture, we do not apply (bring scripture (heaven) down) to us!
Wrong teaching, False Doctrine, hardened, unrepentant, and the unsaved hearts see this a foolishness, even the saved -yet still carnally minded cannot see the things of God for they are not operating in the gift of discerning the spirits.. nor spiritually discerning the scriptures; but they are carnally trying to understand the wisdom of God in the flesh..God’s understanding is never gonna happen this way!
The spiritually minded judges all things, but not of man’s judgment, but by discernment of the MIND of Christ, because they have the mind of Christ and knows all things! And I mean ALL THINGS!
There is absolutely NOTHING you cannot know, if you are spiritually minded. Seek the spirit of God, not Religion or doctrines.. beware of the bite of legalism! It’s like a dog chasing his tail, when he finally catches it.. it’s gonna hurt! 😉
Well- I earnestly hope this opened some eyes and some ears to let God open the scriptures to the mind.. For We have been granted the gift of KNOWING ALL The Mysteries of God! Tap in and press in!!!
Woo-hoo.. awesomeness!!!
p.s with this kind of awesomeness you will be mocked, hated and misunderstood, but don’t let that stop you, “know who you are in Christ,” stay strong and simply keep on preaching! 🙂 It is not prideful to be confident in Christ and know that we are all now His living temples where He resides.. we are the Church; therefore we must go out and preach the gospel of Christ and Him Crucified! Yes and Amen!!