NEWS The Mind of Christ
I have been struck over the years by how foolish otherwise intelligent people who are not of the Spirit sound when they talk about things of the Spirit. Everything always seem to be couched in terms of religion. You mention God and Christ and instantly you are labled "religious" and put into that category. It's too bad, because anybody that is filled with the Spirit knows that all religious things fade from view when Christ enters your heart and become Lord. Paul called the religious things of his past "rubbish."
The truth is that there is a disconnect between the natural man and the spiritual man and it is this disconnect that accounts for what way people talk about God and Christ. Listen to the Spirit through Paul:
"We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ." (1 Corinthians 2:12-16)
Spirit-filled hearts have the mind of Christ. It takes the mind of Christ to comprehend - to discern - all things spiritual. When we see Chist through a revelation and are blessed with the Holy Spirit, we are given this faculty to discern spiritual things. The natural man does not possess this faculty. This is why the natural man sounds foolish to a spiritual man when they speak of God and Christ. The natural man puts God and Christ into a box called "religion." However, the spiritual man knows they are not religious - God and Christ are Spiritual.
Religion is for the natural man. Christ is for the spiritual man.
May you possess the mind of Christ.
Agape,
Steve
The truth is that there is a disconnect between the natural man and the spiritual man and it is this disconnect that accounts for what way people talk about God and Christ. Listen to the Spirit through Paul:
"We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ." (1 Corinthians 2:12-16)
Spirit-filled hearts have the mind of Christ. It takes the mind of Christ to comprehend - to discern - all things spiritual. When we see Chist through a revelation and are blessed with the Holy Spirit, we are given this faculty to discern spiritual things. The natural man does not possess this faculty. This is why the natural man sounds foolish to a spiritual man when they speak of God and Christ. The natural man puts God and Christ into a box called "religion." However, the spiritual man knows they are not religious - God and Christ are Spiritual.
Religion is for the natural man. Christ is for the spiritual man.
May you possess the mind of Christ.
Agape,
Steve
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