S193P8 – The Christ-like mind: living in the promise now

Rom. 13:12-14 The night is far spent, the day is at hand.  Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.  Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.  But put…

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S193P7 – The Christ-like mind: growing in maturity

1 Cor. 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.  When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. When I was a little boy, I hated going to bed.  It did not matter what the next day had in store. …

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S193P6 – The Christ-like mind: intentional thinking

2 Cor. 10:4-6 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.  We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete. The years…

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S193P5 – The Christ-like mind: at peace

Isa. 26:1-4 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.  Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.  You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he…

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S193P4 – The Christ-like mind: submitted to God

Rom. 8:5-8 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.  For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is…

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S193P3 – The Christ-like mind: focus beyond the natural

Col. 3:2-4 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.  For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. He started his walk with Jesus later in life. …

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S193P2 – The Christ-like mind: shared mentality

Phil. 2:1-5 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.  Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count…

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S193P1 – The Christ-like mind: understands the Spirit

1 Cor. 2:14-16 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.  The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.  “For who has understood the…

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S192P10 – A people’s lament: no quit in us

Lam. 5:19‭-‬22 You, O Lord, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation.  Why do You forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?  Turn us back to You, O Lord, and we will be restored; renew our days as of old, unless You have utterly rejected us, and are very angry…

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S192P9 – A people’s lament: appealing to God’s desire

Lam. 5:1‭-‬3 Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; look, and behold our reproach!  Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, and our houses to foreigners.  We have become orphans and waifs, our mothers are like widows. When she was little, she had followed her parents’ instructions faithfully, but she grew out of…

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