You Have the Mind of Christ

Paul wrote the Corintian church, "But we have the mind of Christ."

Before we were saved we had the carnal mind.  Romans 8:6, 7 tells us, "For to be carnally minded is death; but to spiritually minded is life and peace.

"Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."  That's why we were unsaved.  It put all kinds of sin thought into our brains.  It gave suggestions to our tongues.  It led us to do what we shouldn't have done.  Thus we face eternal hell.

But we accepted Christ, and every born again Christian received the mind of Christ. As a result, I Corinthians 2:12 tells us, "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world; but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God."

Our God gave us his Holy Spirit to teach us (I Cor. 2:11, 12).  We can know what God knows.  We can understand because God gave understanding of these truths.  II Timothy 1:7 tells us, "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."

It is our sound mind that understands what the Spirit causes us to read and hear the Word of God.  We understand because the Holy Spirit enables our sound mind to comprehend what we read and hear.  Thus we grow in knowledge of God's Word.  That's you and me!