It’s All in Your Mind

Paul is writing here to a group of believers and tells them they ought to be able to know the things freely given to them by God. You don't see, hear, or fuel them. But the Holy Spirit reveals them to you. How? Through your mind. When I first began to preach, I never said anything new. I was afraid to. I was afraid that I would get into trouble. Just read the Bible. see what someone else has written about it, and preach that. But Paul says to Christians that the Holy Spirit has something in God's Word to reveal to your mind, and it will be the deep things which are magnificent. Your unsaved friends will laugh at you because they have no spiritual discernment. Christians are to have mental and spiritual discernment. Christians are to grow in the Lord. Many times growth is not possible because believers will not listen to God's Word unless it is entertaining. The deep things are brought by the Spirit of God and are revealed to us in Christ because we possess the Holy Spirit. He is the Spirit of teaching, and truth, and things to come. Verse fifteen say5:, "(8ul lu tJud u .lfl,inhud [discerns] all. flt.buµ. .." Are you spiritual? This is a key. The Holy Spirit has allowed Paul to take all this time in writing to show the Corinthians their problem. Verse sixteen asks, u(J,,,. u,Ju,. kaJh kn.nmn fJu mhtd lJ/, fJu J2o,,d,, dud lu m.«JJ., uw.,ul'1 him?,, The Holy Spirit knows the mind of the Lord. The Holy Spirit reveals the mind of the Lord to you. Where does the Holy Spirit work? In your mindl Do you realize that the Bible says the Holy Spirit enlightens, .enlivens, comforts, sanctifies, purifies, and teaches? How do I get an enlightened mind? By the Holy Spirit! The mind of Christ and the mind of the Holy Spirit are one and the same. Paul talks about the natural man and the spiritual man. Now Paul is ready to teach the Corinthians. Chapter three, verse one says, "ctbul ;;J., ~ e.oald m,/-, J/l.lllk- I.I.HM ,p,a tu ttlllo. Ap.i,ciJn.oL.. ,, Paul says, "I cannot reveal the mind of the Spirit because you are carnal." What a commentary on the Christian! If the word is taught, especially by pastors, and by the Holy Spirit's direction as revealed in the Word of God, and it does not touch the listener, two problems are possible. First, those who are listening may not be saved; therefore, they have no spiritual discernment Second, they may be saved, but carnal. Here is the lesson again of Romans 8, "lo-,. lb-'"'-- t!D.NtOlhJ, mindttL u dmJJ,,." Carnal Christians act like dead people. They are against God and His Word and they are always divided-first in their own lives and then in the fullowship of the church. lnat was true here at Corinth. The result of their carnality is described in verse three, "ffl./J.lJllll/- and mlµ, II.JU !. di.n.i..umu. ,, The Apostle Paul told the Corinthians that they had the mind of Christ that would be revealed to them by the Holy Spirit. But they could not discern this. Why? Because of carnality. It would seem that Paul equated the spiritual discerning Christian with the renewed mind of Christ. (ml 52