Wednesday, August 19, 2015

We have the mind of Christ. 8/19/15

Day 229 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

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1 Corinthians 2

2 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:“What no eye has seen,    what no ear has heard,and what no human mind has conceived”[b]—    the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughtsexcept their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of Godbut considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,“Who has known the mind of the Lord    so as to instruct him?”[d]But we have the mind of Christ.God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

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“You are the Son of the living God” August 19th

 “And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” MATTHEW 16:16
With this confession we drop our self as the source of our living. We drop our decision, our choice, our view, our way, and we take Christ as our all in all. Then the Lord has the “rock” upon which to build the church. When we are persons constituted with this revelation and confession in our daily living, we bring in the reality of “this rock” upon which the Lord will build His church — the church that the gates of Hades will not prevail against (Matt. 16:18). The word “prevail” implies a struggle. Nevertheless, even with the struggle, the gates of Hades will not be strong enough to overpower the building of the church. Why? Because in your weakness and in your frailty you do not refer your self to yourself anymore! But with your mouth you declare, “Jesus, You are the Christ!” With your thoughts, with your feelings, with your reactions, with your consid- erations, you inwardly experience this One by saying, “You are the SonofthelivingGod!”Thatissaying,“Lord,Youknowhowtolive. I do not know how to live. I am just a branch in You as the Vine. Without You I can do nothing!” That is the significance of saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!” And this kind of declaration coming from this kind of revelation is the rock upon which Christ builds His church in reality. To say “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” is not a mere doctrinal confession. It is saying, “You are the Christ loving and forgiving the saints.” It is saying, “You are the Christ that died to sin and the flesh.” It is saying, “You are the Christ where there is no condemnation.” I am not a condemned person anymore because I am not qualified to take any condemnation! God did not leave me in myself. He put me in Christ Jesus! Now there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus! He is the Son of the living God, so He is my relationship with the Father! I am in His love. I am in His joy. I am not imitating His love. I am not imitating His joy. I have the actual joy of Jesus in me! It is revelation that causes me to make these declarations about Christ, and it is “upon this rock” that the Lord builds His church.


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