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I Corinthians 2:10-16
Excerpted from: Psalm 51 (Part Three): Verses 5-12Now, in I Corinthians 2:10-16, Paul writes about the Spirit of God teaching spiritual things, which he says are the things of God, something the natural man, the carnal man, cannot receive or understand. They are beyond comprehension for just the normal human mind still clogged with sin. The Spirit that God gives us helps us to make moral and spiritual godly judgments because it enables us to have the mind of Christ. That is where Paul ends up there at the end of that chapter, I Corinthians 2:16.
There is something we need to understand, this is something that the Protestants get totally wrong. They do not understand this process. They think that if they confess their sins and they come up saying, "Jesus saved me. I've been saved. God's given me His Spirit," they are lying to themselves. But they go from there and do nothing. I may be being a little absolute in that statement, but generally, the teaching that they have been given is that they do not have to do anything. Because God Christ has done it all for them. And so a good majority of Protestants do not change at all. They get saved when they are 12 or whatever when they do their altar call, and then they do nothing. They rely on that one emotional time when they said they accepted Jesus Christ into their heart and do nothing.
So yeah, we have been given the Holy Spirit of God. Christ resides in us. Right? But that does us very little good if we do not exercise it, if we do not use it. We remain immature babies in the faith if we are not using God's Spirit to grow, to become teachers, as he says there in Hebrews. To be someone others younger in the faith look to as an example of living the way of God. The mind of Christ is not grown in us unless we use it, unless we practice the logos that has been given to us, unless we are working on keeping ourselves unspotted from the world and helping those others who have need.
We cannot be like the Protestants and count on our altar call, if you will, count on accepting Jesus Christ into our hearts. Because that is just the beginning. God wants us to do more. We cannot be passive as Christians. God wants us to be out in it, if you will. Not only practicing it for ourselves, but setting a good example to those who are in the church and to the people of the world as a witness. If we hide it, we are going to end up like the Hebrews, babies, unskilled in the word of righteousness, because we have not tried to do it. Or if we did, we stopped because maybe it was too hard. Maybe we got scared. Maybe we were standing out like a sore thumb. But those are just excuses. Those are just justifications for spiritual laziness. We must exercise the Spirit of God within us and grow. God wants to see maturity.
I Corinthians 2:16
Excerpted from: What Do We Have to be Proud Of? (Part One)And this is the big thing that makes us different. It is like he ends this chapter just like he ended the last chapter: we end up with Christ. There He is shown to be the wisdom of God. Here He is shown as being our mind. We have the mind of Christ to work with, because He is in us through His Spirit, and so we have access to the wisdom that He has given us through that mind.
We share a mind with Christ! Is that not incomprehensible? But it is true, if we believe Paul's words. We have been given a link to that mind. We can access that mind and make proper decisions through the wisdom of God.
So church members, because they have the Spirit of God, should be able to make correct judgments if they properly exercise their faculties to determine good and evil, as it says in Hebrews 5:14. We should be able to make proper evaluations of situations, circumstances that come before us, because we have access to the mind of Christ. How would He have judged this, and what would be the proper way to go?
Now, I say should because it often does not happen that way, unfortunately. Why? The chief reason, at least as I have experienced it, is that we actually do not access the mind of Christ. You know what we do? We do the same thing that the Corinthians did. We fall back on our own knowledge and experience and the thinking of this world to solve our problems, rather than the mind of Christ.
We do not seek the hidden wisdom—we go with what we know, and what we know is the wisdom of this world. We do not exercise our faculties to know good and evil. And I am not talking about noobs, as the word is, I am not talking about babes in Christ here. I am talking about mature Christians who have lived a little and should know better. Most of us are in that latter category, because we have been around for decades in the church, and we should know better. We should be accessing the mind of Christ better, but we are too much in this world, and we need to do something about that.
I Corinthians 2:16
Excerpted from: John 3:16 in Context (Part Two)So the process is spiritual. And when one is given the Holy Spirit he is given or enabled, that is a better word, to have spiritual discernment. Paul even goes so far to say in I Corinthians 2:16 that we are given the mind of Christ and that we then can understand the things of God and make proper decisions about them.
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