PENTECOST 2015 MESSAGE
PAUL WAS INSPIRED TO SAY "LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU, THAT WAS IN CHRIST JESUS" (PHIL. 2:5).
JESUS SAID THAT THE FATHER AND HE WOULD COME AND LIVE WITHIN THE CHILD OF GOD (JOHN 14:23). JESUS ALSO SAID IN THE SAME CHAPTER, "If you love me, keep my commandments, And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever. Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seems him not neither knows him, but you know him, for he dwells with you and shall be in you" (verses 15-17).
WE KNOW FROM MANY OTHER VERSES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, THAT ALL THIS MEANS IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT IN US, WHEREBY THE FATHER AND CHRIST COME TO LIVE IN US.
HAVING THEM IN US MEANS WE HAVE THEIR NATURE, THEIR MIND!
IT ALSO MEANS WE HAVE WITHIN US THE POWER TO MATURE INTO BEING MORE LIKE THEY ARE, IN MIND, IN THOUGHT, IN ACTION.
SO ON THIS PENTECOST DAY OF 2015 WE SHALL LOOK AT EXAMPLES, QUOTES, STORIES….. THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO MATURITY AND THE MIND WE NEED TO HAVE AS CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH GOD.
FROM THE BOOK: "750 ENGAGING ILLUSTRATIONS"
Mind
At the Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio, researchers hope they will develop the means for pilots to fly airplanes with their minds. The project is called brain-actuated control.
Writers Ron Kotulak and Jon Van say this is how it could work. The pilot would wear scalp monitors that pick up electrical signals from various points on his head. The scalp monitors would be wired to a computer. Using biofeedback techniques, the pilot would learn to manipulate the electrical activity created by his or her thought processes. The computer would translate the electrical signals into mechanical commands for the airplane.
Imagine being able to bank an airplane's wings, accelerate, and climb another ten thousand feet, all by controlling what you think.
Although controlling airplanes with the mind is yet to be developed, our mind already has tremendous control of one thing: our behavior. Our thoughts sooner or later lead to our actions.
Heart, Self-Control, Thoughts Prov. 4:23; Rom. 13:14; James 1:14-15
According to an October 29,1994, story from the Reuters news agency a Chinese woman named Zhang Meihua began to suffer mysterious symptoms when she turned twenty. She was losing the ability to nimbly move her legs and arms. Doctors could not find the cause, and the symptoms continued.
Two decades passed, and Zhang began to also suffer from chronic headaches. Again she sought help from the doctors. This time a CAT scan and an X ray found the source of the woman's mysterious symptoms. A rusty pin was lodged in her head. The head of the pin was outside the skull, and the shaft penetrated into her brain. Doctors performed surgery and successfully extracted the pin.
The Xinhua news agency reported the doctors expressed amazement that the woman "could live for so long a time with a rusty pin stuck in her brain." After noting the position of the pin in her skull, they speculated that the pin had entered her skull sometime soon after birth and before her skull had hardened. Zhang, now fully recovered, said she "had no memory of being pierced by a pin in the head."
Like the rusty pin in that woman's brain, unwholesome thoughts, bad attitudes, and painful memories can lodge in our minds and cause chronic problems. God tells us to renew our minds.
Attitudes, Health, Thoughts Rom. 12:1-2; Phil. 4:8-9
FROM THE BOOK: "SWINDOLL'S ULTIMATE BOOK OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND QUOTES"
MATURITY
Under roman law there was a time for the coming of age of a son. But the age when this took place was not fixed as one might assume. Rather, the father had the discretion in setting the time of his son's maturity. A Roman child became an adult at the sacred family festival known as the Liberalia held annually on the seventeenth of March. At this time, the child was formally acknowledged as the son and heir by his father, and he received the plain toga adults wore in place of the toga with a narrow purple band at the foot of it which children wore. He was then conducted by his friends and relations down to the forum and formally introduced to public life. Lloyd Douglas gave us a glimpse of the moving nature of this moment as he described the coming of age of Marcellus in the opening pages of his book The Robe.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, patient with the old, sympathetic with the striving, tolerant with the weak and the strong, because someday in life you will have been all of these.
—George Washington Carver
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken;
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings,
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run—
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
----Rudyard Kipling, quoted in Hazel Felleman, The Best Loved Poems of the American People
After a While
After a while you learn the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul,
and you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
and company doesn't mean security.
After a while you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises,
and you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes open,
with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child.
After a while you learn to build your roads on today because
tomorrow's grounds are too uncertain for plans.
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns
if you get too much. So plant your own garden
and decorate your own soil instead of waiting
for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure,
….that you really are strong,
….and you really do have worth.
---Anonymous
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Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
—John McNaughton, quoted in Lloyd Cory, Quote Unquote
One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable.
—Charles R. Swindoll, The Grace Awakening
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether supervised or not; finish it once started; carry money without spending it; and... bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
—Fred Cook, quoted in Lloyd Cory, Quote Unquote
Maturity proceeds through four stages: help me, tell me, show me, follow me.
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What does it mean to be grown up? It means such things as being fully developed, having marks of wisdom, not just knowledge; the self-discipline and commitment of an authentic walk with Christ seven days a week; the determination to obey God and to submit to the truth of His Word at any cost; the ability to nourish myself as an individual believer in God's Word; the compassion to reach out and care for other people whose needs are different from my own; the willingness to share in the responsibilities of the household—all of the above with an attitude of a contagious, positive spirit.
We're not unlike the thirteen-year-old kid that's six feet, ten inches in junior high school, whose dad says to him one day, "Son, I think you maybe ought to think about basketball." He has the height for it, but there's not a person who would question his lack of maturity for it. Put him on the same court with Moses Malone and he'd get his lunch eaten. Malone loves that kind of person on the court with him. Why? Not because the kid can't match him in height, but he hasn't the resiliency. He hasn't the maturity. He needs to do what? He needs to grow up. Even if he never grows another inch he has plenty of height to play in any pro basketball team. What he needs is to grow up.
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Maturity is moving from soft skin-tough heart to tough skin-soft heart
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FROM THE BOOK: "STORIES. ILLUSTRATIONS, AND QUOTES"
Mind
Someone Once Said
The most important things in life are the thoughts you choose to think.—Marcus Aurelius
I think, therefore I am.—Decartes
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.—Buddha
It doubtless is true that people become what they think about.—Gary R. Collins
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.—C. S. Lewis
If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are.—Dale Carnegie
A man is what he thinks about all day long.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life is what our thoughts make it.—Marcus Aurelius
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.—Proverbs 23:7
The Battleground
Every temptation comes to us via our thoughts.—Erwin Lutzer
The mind of man is the battleground on which every moral and spiritual battle is fought.— J. Oswald Sanders
Our defeat or victory begins with what we think, and if we guard our thoughts we shall not have much trouble anywhere else along the line.—Vance Havner
Self-control is primarily mind-control—John Stott
Every kidnapping was once a thought. Every extramarital affair was first a fantasy.— Leslie Flynn
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.—Descartes
For 2,400 years, ever since Hippocrates located the seat of the intellect inside the skull, the mind has been forced to admit that its greatest achievements, its loftiest thoughts, its deepest emotions all arise from something with the consistency of Jell-O and the color of day-old slush.—Newsweek
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.— Jerry Seinfeld
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Depression and the Mind
In his book Learned Optimism, Professor Martin Seligman makes a case for considering depression as arising, not from misplaced chemicals or lingering childhood trauma, but from negative thinking. Summarizing the research of Joseph Wolpe and Tim Beck, Seligman explained how cognitive therapy began to be considered a treatment for mental illness.
"Depression is nothing more than its symptoms," writes Seligman. "It is caused by conscious negative thoughts. There is no deep underlying disorder to be rooted out: not unresolved childhood conflicts, not our unconscious anger, and not even our brain chemistry. Emotion comes directly from what we think: Think 'I am in danger' and you feel anxiety. Think 'I am being trespassed against' and you feel anger. Think 'loss' and you feel sadness.
"Depression results from lifelong habits of conscious thought. If we change these habits of thought, we will cure depression."
Martin Luther King, Jr's Seat
In the Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. King tells of growing up in Atlanta, Georgia:
I remember another experience I used to have in Atlanta. I went to high school on the other side of town—to the Booker T. Washington High School. I had to get the bus in what was known as the Fourth Ward and ride over to the West Side. In those days, rigid patterns of segregation existed on the buses, so that Negroes had to sit in the backs of buses. Whites were seated in the front, and often if whites didn't get on the buses, those seats were still reserved for whites only, so Negroes had to stand over empty seats. I would end up having to go to the back of that bus with my body, but every time I got on that bus I left my mind up on the front seat. And I said to myself, "One of these days, I'm going to put my body up there where my mind is."
And he did.
Our bodies always end up where our minds are.
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Spurgeon's Confession
Charles Spurgeon once made a remarkably honest confession to his congregation. In a sermon entitled "The Power of the Holy Ghost," he said: I hope that my will is managed by Divine Grace. But I am afraid my imagination is not at times. Those who have a fair share of imagination know what a difficult thing it is to control. You cannot restrain it.... My imagination has taken me down to the vilest kennels and sewers of earth. It has given me thoughts so dreadful that, while I could not avoid them, yet I was thoroughly horrified by them. These thoughts will come; and when I feel in the holiest frame, the most devoted to God, and the most earnest in-prayer, it often happens that that is the very time when the plague breaks out the worst.
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Garbage
Leslie Flynn tells of a mother who was peeling vegetables for a salad when her daughter, home from college, casually mentioned she was going to a questionable movie that evening. The mother suddenly picked up a handful of garbage and threw it in the salad. "Mother!" said the shocked girl. "You're putting garbage in the salad."
"I know," replied the mother, "but I thought that if you didn't mind garbage in your mind, you certainly wouldn't mind a little in your stomach."
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The Power of Suggestion
Franz Anton Mesmer was the talk of Paris in the 1780s. In spite of his training as a physician, he held the unorthodox view that a mysterious magnetic power permeates the universe and resides in human bodies. Treatment of disease, he proposed, could best be done by using magnetic forces from the environment to restore the patient's "magnetic equilibrium." Such view put Mesmer into conflict with the medical profession in his native Vienna, but laypeople were intrigued with the theory….
(A Word on Words: You are not what you think you are, but what you think, you are.
—NORMAN VINCENT PEALE)
When the doctor moved to France, his reputation preceded him and soon patients were flocking to experience magnetic treatments.
It wasn't easy to treat so many people on a one-to-one basis, so Mesmer developed a group technique. As many as thirty people would come at a time and sit around a large wooden tub known as a "baquet." The baquet was filled with water, ground glass, iron filings, and long metal rods that extended from the tub and were grabbed at one end by the patients. According to Mesmer, the magnetic fluid in the baquet somehow came to the people through the rods and led to all kinds of physical cures.
Mesmer did what he could to make the healing sessions impressive and emotionally powerful. Soft music played in the background. The room was dimly lit and thickly draped. Mesmer himself demanded silence when he entered the room. Often he wore a long flowing lilac silk robe, and walked about, touching the afflicted body parts with a long iron wand and making magnetic "mesmeric passes" as he waved his free hand through the air.
A few people had no response to this dramatic treatment, but many thought they felt forces moving through their bodies, and some went into prolonged convulsions. These involved jerking of the body, apparent dreaminess or stupor, and sometimes piercing cries. Mesmer's followers called this experience "the crisis" and claimed that it brought great healing.
But King Louis XVI wasn't so easily convinced and undoubtedly His Majesty's interest in Mesmer was sparked by secret reports that some mesmerites had radical political ideas. To investigate, the king appointed a Royal Commission and declared that it would be chaired by the American ambassador to France, a man named Benjamin Franklin.
The commissioners went to work with enthusiasm, conducting experiments and interviewing Mesmer's patients. After careful study, it was concluded that body magnetism did not exist, that the baquet fluid had no power, and that convulsions and proclaimed cures came as a result of the creative imagination of Mesmer and his highly suggestible followers. Shortly after the report was issued, Mesmer left France and the mesmerites went underground, but a half-century later mesmerism re-emerged in a more sophisticated form and with a new name—hypnosis.
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As a Man Thinks
One of history's sharpest minds belonged to Thomas Edison, the great inventor. Despite only three months of formal schooling, Edison and his inventions changed the world forever.
His secret? "One percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration," as he put it; and he proved his definition by working days at a time, obsessed with his projects, neglecting family and friends, and stopping only for short catnaps. Failure never seemed to discourage him. When about ten thousand experiments with a storage battery failed to produce results, a friend tried to console him. "Why, I have not failed," Edison quipped. "I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Of all his inventions, perhaps the most famous is the electric light. He devised the prototype, then spent two years looking for the right filament, sending associates to the jungles of the Amazon and to the forests of Japan. He even tried strands of red hair from a friend's beard. Finally he utilized carbonized thread, and it worked! The world gained electric lights.
Our light bulbs today have three parts to them. There is the glass itself—the bulb surrounding the filament. Inside the bulb is a mixture of gases, commonly argon and nitrogen. Finally, in the very center of the bulb, is the filament. Most filaments today are made of a very tough metal, and when electricity flows through them, they become very hot—about 4,500 degrees—making them glow and give off light.
Light bulbs bear a fascinating resemblance to you and me. There is the outside covering, the glass bulb, the body—the part people see. Inside, like invisible gases within the bulb, are our personalities. And at the very center of it all is that part of us that glows and enlightens—the human mind.
The mind is the sum and substance, the axis and pivot, of our existence. It is the base of operations, the core of our humanity. Our minds are the most important things about us, and our lives are simply the overflow of our thoughts.
Dale Carnegie was once asked on a radio program, "What is the biggest lesson you have ever learned?" He quickly replied, "By far the most vital lesson I have ever learned is the importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are. Our mental attitude is the X-factor that determines our fate. Emerson said: "A man is what he thinks about all day long. How could he possibly be anything else?"
Why? An old maxim states: "Thoughts produce acts, acts produce habits, and habits produce character." The Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius said, "Our life is what our thoughts make it." Or as the Bible puts it, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he." (Proverbs 23:7)
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The Cauliflower Jewel
Each of us owns a jewel far more valuable than any displayed in the window of Carrier's or Tiffany's. It's a three-pound blob of gray pulp resembling a rotting cauliflower.
Unimpressed?
This jewel is the most incredible creation in God's universe, a fabulous, living supercomputer with unfathomable circuitry and unimaginable complexity. It is the human mind—a collection of billions of neurons, each as complex as a small computer. Imagine having 100 billion computers inside your skull!
Each of these neurons consists of a central nerve-cell core attached to a long tail and several thousand wispy dendrites. These dendrites reach out to make contact with other dendrites, and the number of connection points between these dendrites is perhaps one quadrillion in every human brain. According to one writer, the number of connections within one human brain rivals the number of stars and galaxies in all the universe.
That's not all, for each of these connection points is itself a marvel of complexity. The dendrites don't actually touch each other, but they efficiently and rapidly pass messages to each other through the form of electrical and chemical impulses in a series of processes that takes less than one-thousandth of a second.
"All of this is so complex," said one scientist, "that the brain cannot even begin to comprehend its own complexity."
What a jewel!
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I Was Just Thinking About You
When Harry Truman became president, he worried about losing touch with common, everyday Americans, so he would often go out and be among them. Those were in simpler days when the President could take a walk like everyone else. One evening, Truman decided to take a walk down to the Memorial Bridge on the Potomac River. When there, he became curious about the mechanism that raised and lowered the middle span of the bridge. He made his way across the cat walks and through the inner workings of the bridge, and suddenly he came upon the bridge tender, eating his evening supper out of a tin bucket.
The man showed absolutely no surprise when he looked up and saw the best-known and most powerful man in the world. He just swallowed his food, wiped his mouth, smiled, and said, "You know, Mr. President, I was just thinking of you."
It was a greeting that Truman adored and never forgot.
Wouldn't it, be wonderful, if Jesus Christ were to suddenly appear before us physically or come suddenly in the cloud, if we could say, "You know, Lord, I was just thinking of you."
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The Harbor
The Bible describes our minds by using the figure of a ship looking for a harbor. Though you may be unable to keep disease-ridden ships from sailing back and forth on the ocean, you can refuse them docking privileges in the harbor of your mind.
*Jeremiah 4:14 says, "How long will you harbor your evil thoughts?" (NLT)
*Deuteronomy 15:9 says, "Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought." (NIV)
*Job talks about those who harbor resentment in their hearts.
*The Psalmist talks about those who harbor malice in the minds.
*James talks about those who allow bitter envy and selfish ambition to harbor within them.
*Jesus conveyed the same basic idea when asking, "Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your minds?" (Matthew 9:4- NIV)
*Paul had the same thought in mind when he said, "Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature." (Romans 13:14—NIV)
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From Charles Spurgeon's John Ploughman
Some will say they cannot help having bad thoughts; that may be, but the question is, do they hate them or not? Vain thoughts will knock at the door, but we must not open to them. Though sinful thoughts rise, they must not reign. He who turns a morsel over and over in his mouth, does so because he likes the favor, and he who meditates upon evil, loves it, and is ripe to commit it. Snails leave their slime behind them, and so do vain thoughts.
Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory. They cannot be too much cultivated; they are a crop which enriches the soil.
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Pepsi or Seven-Up?
Suppose you have a sponge and a pitcher of Pepsi Cola. If you dip your sponge into Pepsi and squeeze it, what's going to come out? Seven-up? No, when you squeeze a sponge soaked in Pepsi, Pepsi is going to gush out of it.
If you saturate your mind with questionable movies, videos, magazines, novels, music, and entertainments, do you think that holiness and happiness and godliness will flow out?
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Glass Hives
When I was child my parents took me to the Tennessee Valley Fair to ride the rides and see the exhibits. One of the most interesting displays was the honeybees in glass hives. There appeared to be thousands of bees, all of them hustling and bustling in frantic activity beneath the pane of glass that covered their colony. The bee keeper showed us the queen and explained about the workers, the guards, and the drones, every one of them oblivious to the fact that their every move was being observed by a higher intelligence.
In the same way, our heads, are like glass hives and God sees every hustling, bustling thought buzzing through our brains. None are hidden from him.
1 Chronicles 28:9—The Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intents of the thoughts.
Psalm 7:9—The righteous God tests the hearts and minds.
Psalm 94:11—The Lord knows the thoughts of man.
Psalm 139:1—O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
Jeremiah 11:20—O Lord of hosts, You who judge righteously, testing the mind and the heart. . . .
Jeremiah 12:3—But You, O Lord, know me; You have seen me, and You have tested my heart toward you.
Jeremiah 17:9—The heart is [can be] deceiful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind. . . .
Jeremiah 20:12—O Lord of hosts, You who test the righteous and see the mind and heart. . .
Ezekiel 11:5—Thus says the Lord:... I know the things that come into your mind....
Revelation 2:23—I am He who searches the minds and hearts.
Hebrews 4:12-13—For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Matthew 12:25—But Jesus knew their thoughts. . . .
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FROM THE BOOK: "1001 QUOTES, ILLUSTRATIONS AND HUMOROUS STORIES"
Maturity
In First Things First, A. Roger Merrill tells of a business consultant who decided to landscape his grounds. He hired a woman with a doctorate in horticulture who was extremely knowledgeable. Because the business consultant was very busy and traveled a lot, he kept emphasizing to her the need to create his garden in a way that would require little or no maintenance on his part. He insisted on automatic sprinklers and other labor-saving devices.
Finally she stopped and said, "There's one thing you need to deal with before we go any further. If there's no gardener, there's no garden!"
There are no labor-saving devices for growing a garden of spiritual virtue. Becoming a person of spiritual fruitfulness requires time, attention, and care.
Bill Norman (Discipleship, Spiritual Growth)
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OH THE GREAT MIND OF MAN; GOD MADE IT! BUT THE BIBLE SAYS "THERE IS A SPIRIT IN MAN" - THE MIND, THE BRAIN, HAS A PART TO IT THAT CANNOT BE SEEN, IT IS INVISIBLE, GIVEN BY GOD. BOTH FIT TOGETHER TO MAKE THE MIND OF MAN HUGELY, MASSIVELY GREATER THAN ANY MIND OF ANY OTHER CREATURE ON EARTH. I HAVE A FULL STUDY ON THIS WEBSITE CALLED "THE SPIRIT IN MAN" - YOU NEED TO STUDY THAT STUDY.
BUT TO BE A CHILD OF THE MOST HIGH GOD IN HEAVEN, YOU HAVE TO OBTAIN GOD'S MIND, HIS NATURE, HIS SPIRIT - THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD.
YOU OBTAIN IT AS PETER SAID IN HIS SERMON ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST IN ACTS 2. YOU MUST COME TO REPENTANCE AND BAPTISM - THEN YOU CAN RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THERE ARE IN-DEPTH STUDIES ON THIS WEBSITE ON REPENTANCE AND BAPTISM.
THIS PENTECOST DAY PICTURES THE DAY IN ACTS 2, WHEN THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME TO EARTH, FOR HUMAN BEING, AS NEVER BEFORE GIVEN; TO UNITE WITH THE SPIRIT IN MAN, AND MAKE A CHILD OF GOD, DIFFERENT THAN EVER IN THE PAST AGES. BEFORE THAT TIME, THE SPIRIT GUIDED, INFLUENCED MEN AND WOMEN, BUT IT WAS NOT A PART OF THEM AS IT IS UNDER THE NEW COVENANT TERMS AND AGREEMENT. TODAY GOD THE FATHER AND CHRIST JESUS HIS SON, CAN COME AND LIVE WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN, UNITED WITH THE MIND OF MANKIND, IN A VERY PERSONAL AND DIRECT AND UNITED WAY, VIA THE HOLY SPIRIT.
FROM THE DAY OF PENTECOST IN ACTS 2, THE VERY MIND OF CHRIST [THAT IS ALSO THE MIND OF THE FATHER] CAN BE IN THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST.
AND SO IT IS THAT THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS INSPIRED TO SAY, "LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU, THAT WAS IN CHRIST JESUS."
MY PRAYER FOR YOU IS THAT INDEED THIS WILL BE A REALITY IN YOUR LIFE, AND SO YOU WILL BE PART OF THE FISRT-FRUITS OF GOD; PART OF THE FIRST RESURRECTION OF SAINTS, AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
Keith Hunt