The Mind Of The Spirit
So many among us cannot understand the things of the Spirit because of much pride. Many read the Bible – the scriptures – with a carnal mind. It is a waste of time to talk about spiritual things to carnal people. You can't explain the things of the Spirit to carnal people. They will never understand it. It is like reading the Bible without being born again. Some will quote scripture after scripture without the revelation or the understanding.
There is a natural body; there is a spirit body. The same way there is a natural man and a spirit man. Only those born of the Spirit can understand the mind of the Spirit. God is a spirit. Those who cannot comprehend the Spirit start demonizing what they cannot understand. The things of the Spirit can only be spiritually discerned. Their minds are still carnal so they are not one with God.
The hidden mystery of Christ is ordained by God to be revealed to us unto our glory.
“But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.” (1 Corinthians 2:7)
Mary and Joseph were born in sin like every single one born of water BUT NOT CHRIST. God chose her womb to give birth to a spirit man: Jesus. God put Himself in Mary just like He is putting Himself in us now when we are born again and blood washed. Don't get religious on me. Mary had to be saved just like all of us. Now that which is spiritual needs to manifest. Now there is a new mind, the mind of Christ, ruling this natural man. Whoever is earthly will search things of the Earth. Whoever is heavenly will search things of the heavenlies. Who is earthly will live by bread alone, but those who are spiritual will live by revelation and every Word coming out of heaven.
Paul warns us about those who will come with enticing words of man's wisdom. Many are following man's thinking. People try to use carnal things to move a spiritual kingdom. A carnal mind is like a wall, and it is like oil and water that cannot stay united. The spiritual people cannot hang out with the carnal. They are naturally separated. They cannot become one. It is impossible because the spiritual minded are in union with God, and the carnal are at enmity with God. Carnal Christians do everything in the flesh to please God, but it is impossible to please Him in the flesh. God calls that dead works.
Even the crucifixion and His talking about it was a spiritual thing. He said so many times: "I destroy the temple and in three days I will raise it up." The carnal could not understand. Not even His disciples at that time. And all religious carnal minded with the Book of the Law and the scriptures in their hands called that "Blasphemy!" They laughed like He was a crazy man that lost His mind. But no, He was Christ, the spiritual man. The Pharisees and Sadducees could talk the scriptures back to Jesus, but they could not have the understanding. So they were blind. A carnal mind is a blind man walking. But what we are is one in the Spirit. Everyone sees so much division in the Body of Christ. I tell you why: because they are carnal and the others are spiritual. God is Spirit. So they who are carnal want to try to be spiritual. We have false love and false Christ’s because they have made a God of their own carnality. A god produced by their earthly mind. Real love is a fruit of the Spirit, not a work of the flesh.
Mysteries are revealed by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, not a carnal mind. The spiritual things of God can recognize His spirit in the spirit of man. And now, we have the same spirit that searches and finds understanding about spiritual matters. Those that are led by the Spirit understand it right away, but those who are not are divisive because they cannot understand it. So in their minds, they are right, but it is not the mind of Christ. They crave earthly things.
Jesus saw Himself in the Book of the Law, but those who knew all about the letter and the law could not recognize Him because of their carnal relationship with a letter. They could not wrap their heads around it. We have the mind of the Spirit (Christ).
Our spirit is the one who has to renew our mind. We are changed from glory to glory, from faith to faith. But the ultimate change will happen at the end when He comes back. But we are forever changing. This is why we give to God only 3 hours a week or a religious day, say Saturday, but He is a 24/7 God, and he wants every second in the Spirit. This is religiosity. That will never bear fruits unless we have a 24/7 relationship. This is why it is hard to speak here from these type of legalistic check offs.
We speak of spiritual things. We know the things of the Spirit. When someone comes and tells us earthly things mixed with the Word, we can recognize them because it does not bear witness with our spirits. We compare spiritual things with spiritual things, but the natural man can't know them or discern them. The more spiritual you get, the more rejected you are. You must be led by the Spirit, not by your own spirit, but by the Spirit of God within you. A man with spiritual eyes can judge all things. The spirit draws you to search things out, but the carnal tries to search things out and finds no revelation. When the carnal-minded try to talk about heavenly things, it is annoying. Anything we do without the Spirit profits little. A bloody mess is when someone tries to use the Word without the Spirit. It is like using a dull rusty blade to cut off things. It hurts people. There is an infection. Their flesh gets agitated and our spirit grieves within us. But they are so puffed up that they can't even see it. Deception is being blind but you think you see. So many have head knowledge but are not spiritually minded. We have division because they want to feed you milk and baby formula created by man to substitute meat from heaven, but they think knowing the letter back and forth is meat. Paul clearly says it’s the sincere foundation, the milk.
Twenty year baby Christians are something that should never happen among us. We should grow in the knowledge of Him. But only the Spirit can do it. Only the Spirit can renew their minds. There is so much division among the Christians because of this: carnal and spiritual people can't live together. Some people are not even born again. They are churchgoers trying to reach the lost and build the church by their carnal ways and earthly agendas: tracts, mail outs, advertisements, manipulations. No fruit. Very little results. You might grow in number like cattle, but you never grow in the Spirit.
Only the spiritual man is profitable for the kingdom of God. Spiritual people are laboring together with the Lord. Everything done by carnality will be burned. It does not matter the "good" results of now. In the end, God will burn them all. All the things that are done by the will of man will not last.
Let go of the wisdom of man, and you will become wise. The wisdom of this World is foolish unto God. The things that we do by the Spirit, we produce spiritual things. Jesus was the first fruits of a spiritual family who is on the earth but lives in heaven. This epistle will not be understood by the carnal Christian, but for us it is bread. When we preach carnal things, people will get more carnal. The Spirit reveals the Truth. We should be bringing forth the fruit of life and the fruit of the Spirit.
A spiritual man is always after the things of the Spirit. To be spiritually minded will bring life and peace. A carnal mind is always fighting against the things of the Spirit. People say, "I want to please God." We say, "Walk in the Spirit.” There is no peace or life away from the Spirit. If you don't do anything (you don't save anybody; you don't help anybody; you don't read the Bible), you feel bad because you are carnal. Your relationship is based on performance and not on obedience. We are not debtors of the flesh to live after the flesh, or we will die. If we just do what the Spirit (not the letter) tells us, we will always have our peace even if we don't do the religious duties.
Living by the letter only makes you your own God, even when you go to orphans and to the widows, even when you do to the least of these. When you do things when and how we want that means that we are not a bond servant of the Spirit, but we are a debtor to the flesh always trying to please God. But in the flesh, you can't please Him. You bring in condemnation, and that is for the unbelievers and not for the sons of God.
The World is waiting for the manifestation of the Sons of God to appear. Those are spiritual people that know the things of the Spirit, those that have the mind of the Christ. Christ is reproducing Himself in us, and He won't do it halfway. He will put in us His mind. We are being raised to walk in the full stature of Christ. This is why we are called Christians, because we are supposed to look like Christ and walk in the Spirit all the time.
For this cause, we do not cease to pray for all of you and that you be filled with all the knowledge, all wisdom, and all the spiritual understanding. There is no confusion in the Spirit. None! The confusion comes when there is a carnal mind around. We pray that we all walk worthily so we all increase in Him. We need to have the Holy Spirit to take over our minds. People will say, "That place is brainwashing you." Thank God. I need to have my mind washed by His blood and the living water renewing my mind. To say that I am brainwashed is a great compliment coming from a carnal believer.
We will manifest spiritual things and will walk in Him who is the Holy Spirit. This is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. This is the fruit of the Spirit manifesting in those who are walking in the Spirit.
So let His mind be in me just like it was in Christ. Holy Spirit takes over my mind and renews anything that is not of the Spirit. Protect us and hide us in you in this day, in the mighty name of Jesus.
Word: 1 Corinthians 15:44-49 – 1 Corinthians 2 – 1 Corinthians 3 – Romans 7:1-6 – Romans 8 – Colossians 1:8-10
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