Taking On The Mind of Christ

A Word From Jesus

Brothers, you try to love Me and maintain your ego at the same time. That is impossible. There is no way flesh is going to maintain its reputation and the love of God flow freely from it. Love is revealed in humiliation and longsuffering, not the strength of the flesh.

The truth is you are offended by the criteria of God’s love for His people. To you, my Father seems weak and vulnerable as He works the ministry of reconciliation with man. This does not conform to the image you have of yourself. You do not want to appear weak in any area. Neither will you allow yourself to be placed in any vulnerable situations. Protecting your manhood is more important than pleasing your Father.

“I am a man,” you say. “I have to be a certain way.” “I have to be strong and unyielding.” This is indeed the way of the flesh.

Therefore, there is great offense with the attributes of a godly man that the scriptures describe. You may as well admit to where you appear in this, my brothers. Those who have failed in loving our Father and His people are those who are offended with becoming the express image of His first begotten Son. You do not want to be like me.

Philippians 2:1

1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

There is comfort in the Spirit. You should be at peace with God and man. But your fellowship with God and my Body must be in the Spirit. It is the new creature who can obtain this consolation and fellowship. The man of the flesh cannot fellowship with those of the Spirit. Darkness has no communion with Light.

Philippians 2:2-4

2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

All who walk in the flesh, walk in vanity and death. There is no fellowship with God or the Body of Christ. There is no unity of the faith and no singleness of mind, for the mind of the Body is the Holy Ghost. To walk in the flesh is to compete with my mind.

Philippians 2:5-8

5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

This is the problem. Do you think it’s robbery to be equal with the Father in character? You are offended by my mind. That is why you will not allow it.

But this is the mind the Father gave me to govern my flesh. It was fashioned by the laws of God. I accepted those laws as meat for my life. My mind seeks out no reputation. I am my Father’s servant. Therefore, I humbled myself to submit to the will and the way of our God. I learned the power of obedience through the things I suffered. I found that it was more profitable to obey the Father. He is not slack in His rewards or His revenge.

Philippians 2:9-11

9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Brothers, if you are to achieve the righteousness of God, then you must understand and agree with the renewal process of salvation; which included the circumcision of your flesh, and the renewing of your mind.

Romans 12:1-2:

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

It is possible to do so. Yes brother, your mind fell in love with me and my Father at salvation. First you must accept that there is no good thing in the flesh. Your brother Paul told you of this.

Romans 7:18

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

You must understand that your members are at war with my Spirit. They are even at war with your own mind.

Romans 7:22-23

22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

The new creature desires to obey the laws my Father gave us. But the body of death, (your members), crave for the pleasures of this world. They are at war with the laws our Father wrote in your mind. And He did write them you know. He said He would, and He did.

Hebrews 8:10

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

The law of God was written by God in your minds, the day you were born again. Your mind and heart (soul) delight in the laws of God. It is the members of your body that crave sin. It is the members, your physical body that is under the law of sin and death. It challenges your mind with the memory of sin. If your mind is not allowed to experience the way of our Father, it will always compete with my mind. It is no match alone against the evil concupiscence of the flesh. That is why you must walk in the Spirit.

With the Spirit came another law that is more powerful than the law of sin and death working in your members. It is the law of the Spirit of Life. It is the only thing that is powerful enough to subdue the cravings of the flesh. However, if you do not walk in the Spirit by obeying my Father’s Word, then you will have no weapon to fight the lust of the flesh.

The mind of the flesh will surrender. It will surrender because you have not renewed it with the experiences of the new life in me. You have not allowed it to suffer truth in every situation. You have avoided truth, and sought to find other solutions to your daily endeavors. If you do not expose your mind to my Word and allow your senses to be exercised thereby, then you will always lose this war.

Hebrews 5:14

But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Your senses are the gates to your fleshy mind. You must exercise them in the strong meat of the Word in order for the mind to comprehend good and evil. The mind must be allowed to function inside the boundaries of a sound and sure Word. It is then that the mind will see good and evil as God sees it.

It is unprofitable for you to assume that the mind will prefer evil. The Father has written His laws in your mind. You simply have to allow that law to live in your trials. That is the only way it will come into agreement with the will of God for your life.

Already you have trained your mind to desire to serve the Father. You enjoy the services of God. You can train it to desire righteousness as well. But you must expose it to truth and life. It must be allowed to function inside that life. Then it will come to know its fellowship in the mystery of God.

Brothers, you can live holy if you choose to. But you must disciple yourself in the same manner as my first disciples. They listened to my words, hid them in their hearts, and waited for my Spirit to empower them to live my Word before men. You can do the same.

Practice truth and honesty. Challenge your thoughts and bring them under submission to our Father’s will.

My word is effectual. It will make you into another man. You have received power to become the Sons of God. You will find joy in obeying our Father. You will be happy and full of life in my Spirit.

God bless you,