CONTROL YOUR MIND BY THE SPIRIT AND STOP LIVING BY SIGHT (SENSES)
2COR 5: 17 THEREFORE
IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATURE: OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY;
BEHOLD, ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW.
2CO 5:7 (FOR WE WALK
BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT)
Old things pass away before God but they don’t pass away in
the mind because memories do not vanish when we accept Jesus Christ by faith.
We were redeemed from sin so that a believer could constantly renew the mind by
knowledge of Christ to live in the realty of the new live we have in Him and
escape fleshy lusts.
EPH 4:23 AND BE
RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND
(COL 3: 9-10) 9 LIE
NOT ONE TO ANOTHER, SEEING THAT YE HAVE PUT OFF THE OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS;10
AND HAVE PUT ON THE NEW MAN, WHICH IS RENEWED IN KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF
HIM THAT CREATED HIM:
We need to redeem the
mind from the memories of the past constantly.
Even the memories of
a good thing done to a brother in Christ could be an obstacle. I said this because
some people keep offences because of one good deed to a brother in the past and
refuse to forgive the brother because they believe that the brother owes them.
The mind needs constant work!
So many believers are lazy when it comes to mind renewal.
Salvation does not renew the mind. Salvation gives eternal life so that we
could renew our mind through the knowledge of eternal life giver …Jesus Christ.
Why our spirits were quickened to life on conversion is for
us to listen to the voice of the spirit and control what goes on in our mind to
conform to the knowledge of Christ and become totally Christ in life both
spiritually, mentally and physically .This is our identity.
Conversely many believers still leave their minds stale with
guilt, condemnation and unforgiveness. Sin is dead but eternal life is not a
stagnated lifestyle. It involves the renewal of mind so that our spirit could
communicate the mind of God to our mind to live Godly lives .As we are in
Christ our desire should be to know Him as our brother Paul rightly wrote
PHP 3:10 THAT I MAY
KNOW HIM, AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION, AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS
SUFFERINGS, BEING MADE CONFORMABLE UNTO HIS DEATH .
The Knowledge of Christ
is a mental quality that is accessed through revelation that comes from the recreated
human spirit .When you feed you mind with the knowledge of Christ through revelations
obviously you will have a sound mind. Hallelujah. The knowledge of Christ makes
our minds sound not fleshy.
2TI 1:7 FOR GOD HATH
NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR; BUT OF POWER, AND OF LOVE, AND OF A SOUND MIND
A carnal believer lives mostly on the instructions from the
senses into the mind. (OUTSIDE IN) But mature believer live mostly through the
instruction from the spirit into the mind.(INSIDE OUT). It is a very
interesting thing to be leave inside out because God man us His sons through
Christ be lead by the spirit not our sense.
JOHN 1: 12 BUT AS
MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM GAVE HE POWER TO BECOME THE SONS OF GOD, EVEN TO
THEM THAT BELIEVE ON HIS NAME.
ROMAN 8:14 FOR AS
MANY AS ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD.
The first verse is the entrance point. Accepting Christ, and
receiving eternal life ( Jhn 1:12).
The second verse is living the life. Being led by the Holy Spirit through our
spirit o our minds. (Rom 8:14) Eternal life is a gift but being led by the
spirit is not a gift. It requires training and commitment to growth in the knowledge
of Christ. We are in Christ to be controlled by the Holy Spirit. We receive
instruction from the Holy Spirit through to our spirits, then our spirits control
our mind and our minds our actions. The Holy Spirit may be speaking to your
spirit but if your mind is not renewed by the knowledge of Christ, it cannot
hear because many other voices are speaking in your mind.
Any believer who cannot train the mind to receive from his
Sprit will remain carnal because his choices would sense driven. If this continues,
the believer becomes carnally minded and become dead in world of senses having
the mind of the flesh…. The flesh has filled his mind.
ROM 8:13 FOR IF YE
LIVE AFTER THE FLESH, YE SHALL DIE: BUT IF YE THROUGH THE SPIRIT DO MORTIFY THE
DEEDS OF THE BODY, YE SHALL LIVE
ROM 8:6 FOR TO BE
CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE
Our spirits reminds the flesh that it has been crucified
through our minds.
This is how to mortify the flesh. It means put to death,
kill or mortify the flesh because we have crucified it on the cross. Our mind
should live above feelings, sight, tastes and sounds and stand in faith by the
knowledge of Christ.
COL3:5 ¶ MORTIFY
THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE UPON THE EARTH; FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS,
INORDINATE AFFECTION, EVIL CONCUPISCENCE, AND COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY:
EPH 3: 3 ¶ BUT
FORNICATION, AND ALL UNCLEANNESS, OR COVETOUSNESS, LET IT NOT BE ONCE NAMED
AMONG YOU, AS BECOMETH SAINTS.
(EPH 4: 19-20 ) 19 WHO
BEING PAST FEELING HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER UNTO LASCIVIOUSNESS, TO WORK ALL
UNCLEANNESS WITH GREEDINESS 20 BUT YE HAVE NOT SO LEARNED CHRIST;
All these are products of the mind. Any mind that is controlled
by the word of God cannot do all these.
1PE 1:13 ¶ WHEREFORE
GIRD UP THE LOINS OF YOUR MIND, BE SOBER, AND HOPE TO THE END FOR THE GRACE
THAT IS TO BE BROUGHT UNTO YOU AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.
We have to learn Christ.
(EPH 4: 20-23) 21 BUT YE HAVE NOT SO LEARNED
CHRIST; 21 IF SO BE THAT YE HAVE HEARD
HIM, AND HAVE BEEN TAUGHT BY HIM, AS THE TRUTH IS IN JESUS: 22 THAT YE PUT OFF
CONCERNING THE FORMER CONVERSATION THE OLD MAN, WHICH IS CORRUPT ACCORDING TO
THE DECEITFUL LUSTS; 23 AND BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND;
COL 2:18 LET NO MAN
BEGUILE YOU OF YOUR REWARD IN A VOLUNTARY HUMILITY AND WORSHIPPING OF ANGELS,
INTRUDING INTO THOSE THINGS WHICH HE HATH NOT SEEN, VAINLY PUFFED UP BY HIS
FLESHLY MIND
GAL 5: 24 AND THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE
CRUCIFIED THE FLESH WITH THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS
An unbeliever is controlled by his senses because he is
spiritually dead in unbelief.
COL 1:21 AND YOU, THAT WERE SOMETIME ALIENATED AND ENEMIES IN YOUR MIND
BY WICKED WORKS, YET NOW HATH HE RECONCILED
TIT 1:15 UNTO THE
PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE: BUT UNTO THEM THAT ARE DEFILED AND UNBELIEVING IS
NOTHING PURE; BUT EVEN THEIR MIND AND CONSCIENCE IS DEFILED.
EPH 2:3 AMONG WHOM
ALSO WE ALL HAD OUR CONVERSATION IN TIMES PAST IN THE LUSTS OF OUR FLESH,
FULFILLING THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH AND OF THE MIND; AND WERE BY NATURE THE
CHILDREN OF WRATH, EVEN AS OTHERS
Any mind outside Christ has no control because the mind can
only be controlled by the spirit through the knowledge of Christ.This is why
need Christ in our lives. This is another opportunity to receive Him by faith.
More grace.
Thank you Jesus
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