THE MIND OF CHRIST IN A NUTSHELL

01 OCTOBER 2024

Romans 14:8 Message (MSG)

"It is God we are answerable to - all the way from life to death and everything in between - not each other."

Did you remember when I said something: In as much as I want you to be present here because God has a lot to share with you, and His Spirit is just starting with us, If you don't appreciate the gospel of Christ here, you may have to tune in to another gospel? Why did I say so? We are all answerable to the Almighty, concerning the way we interpret or respond to the Word.

By God's grace, I am not responsible for another reasoning or thought pattern, outside the mind of Christ, and I mean this in a candid manner. I just want you to always think right, and if possible, grapple with this issue of gaining the right perspective about all my teachings, until you begin to see that through the influence of the Spirit, I always mean well.

In accordance with 1st Kings 18:41-45, the Bible is clear and true, and Elijah is pure in heart. I did not write the Scriptures, although online exhortation can involve a lot of things due to differing backgrounds of all manner of people. As for you, its either you are righteousness-conscious to the extreme or you are very sin-conscious. But after hearing this admonition for the last time, and you still refuse to grow up by choosing to follow unbelieving ones in ridiculing and making of non-effect, the grace upon Elijah's divine mandate and his glorious manifestations in the passage of the Scriptures, you are responsible for your decision to join in with mockers. 

Psalm 1:1 (NIV) reads:

"Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers."

At some point in my life, I was grounded on a teaching concerning having the mind of Christ, which resulted in gaining the mindset of the righteous to its maximum degree, meaning that I can't reason otherwise or reverse the flow. I always view and respond to the Word and even many other things pertaining to life - with a sound mindset and the right approach. This is the reason Sense of Grace teaching is all about the mind of Christ at work in the righteous. Beloved, I encourage you to do this: Do not conform to the thought pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

In conclusion, I may not be able to always do the explanation like this, because it doesn't move us forward one bit. Of course, there are worse descriptions than this. For instance, in GENESIS 37:32-36 (CEV), A great man was greatly deceived such that he mourned over an INFORMATION that wasn't true. The passage literally reads:

32. After this, they took the coat to their father and said, “We found this! Look at it carefully and see if it belongs to your son.”

33. Jacob knew it was Joseph's coat and said, “It's my son's coat! Joseph has been torn to pieces and eaten by some wild animal.”

34. Jacob mourned for Joseph a long time, and to show his sorrow he tore his clothes and wore sackcloth.

35. All of Jacob's children came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will go to my grave, mourning for my son.” So Jacob kept on grieving.

WHO SUGGESTED THIS TO JACOB? Unbelieving ones whose mission was to kill, steal, and destroy. Just like I'm giving some simplification and explication right now, nobody was there to inform Jacob about the accurate situation of Joseph, and so, Jacob mourned for the living and believed a lie for many years in his lifetime, until God intervened in his older age. What a horrible experience! Did you know that sometimes, it is the unbelieving ones that suggest to true Christians what to think about any given situation or emerging complication, so to speak? What happened to the mind of Christ in us?

Even as I'm teaching this, there are some people who are reading it with erroneous assumption which they will follow up with a wrong approach, instead of understanding the underlying connotation and applying it to their Christian faith. When the enemy suggests the wrong picture about God's WORD, destroy that picture such that it won't linger in your mind for long. Refuse to cogitate on it with ardent alacrity before it becomes part of your reasoning because you are a chosen god, a royal priesthood, God's own peculiar people and special possession, specially called to declare His praises and perfections in a world full of darkness and wrong mentality. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Philippians 2:5; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Philippians 4:7; Romans 12:1-2;Colossians 3:1-3.

Exuberant Declaration:

I acknowledge that I preach the name of the Lord with every sense of reverence. God's Word is perfect and His greatness is unfathomable. Hallelujah!