It’s All in Your Mind

repaired, and are encouraging. one-mindedness will come. This is not being robots; this is spirituality. What is one-mindedness? A number af times this word is translated, to think. Paul could easily be saying, "Think as one." The Holy Spirit can do this with two people or two thousand people who are willing to have renewed minds. The word is also translated to jud9e or discern. Paul is saying, "I want you to judge or discern as one." If the local church is practicing this formula, the Holy Spirit will give discernment in regard to life, conduct, talk, and action. The word is also translated, to direct the mind. Paul was saying, "I want your mind to be directed as one." The word in a different form is also translated, to observe or to be observed. Here is an outward expression, and it would seem that when believers are one-minded, outsiders will observe or see it. It is also translated care for. Paul says, "I want you to care for the same things." One-mindedness deals with thinking, judging, discerning, direction, and observation. The fifth challenge in this formula is, "..l !i.tu , ilt fUILll.,, This would be just the natural outcome of that which precedes. It not only works with the local church, it will work in the Christian family and in the lives of individual believers. Joy, maturity, encouragement, and one-mindedness brings peace. One of the proofs of the renewed mind is, ""If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men" (Romans 12:18). Not only does Paul give us this simple, workable formula, but he says there are assurances or results. God never leaves nor forsakes the Christian, although sometimes, because of our conduct and action, we feel He has left us. Paul says, "-fllu fµ,d o/. l.otn. .. Judl h wiih (J,Dll.,, When we as Christians, whether singly or collectively, are unkind or unloving, it is .because we have not practiced the five commands of this formula. If you don't rejoice, you are going to be unloving. If you don't get repaired and mature, you are going to be unloving. The second assurance is that, "'gfu -l}.od o./... ,uau .JuJl k wJJlt. tJ,OU..,, This is the second time Paul wrote this assurance. You find it as part af an exhortation in Philippians 4:9. When you do not practice the presence of the God of love a11d the God of peace in a practical way, it is because you have stepped out of the formula t'hat automatically brings these practical results. What is the formula for one-mindedness? • Farewell-Rejoice • Be perfect or mature • Be of good comfort • Be af one mind • Live in peace 61