Part 3 The Mind

HE is waiting for US to walk into His finished work.   How is this done?  BY THE MIND, the MIND that He has given us.  I'll show you in God's own anointed words. This is where we left off, in the last part of this study. And I'd like to pick up here.

Before the "old man" died, the carnal mind belonged to him. But, it died when he died. Why do we still use it? Simply because we've believed its lies. What we need to realize is that Father IS NOT going to give us a new mind. WE have to change the one we have.  When Father created us out from within Himself; out of His very BEING, He gave us the ONLY MIND that will ever  be, because it is HIS MIND. The thing is, that mind that He gave us, changed. And we have to change it back to its original condition. Things that we have believed changed that perfet mind.

First, let's look at the belief that IS causing many to not use that perfect mind. We hear it said all the time, "MAN can do nothing, God has to do it".  And this statement is true. And as long as we think and believe that we are just "mortal man", that statement will remain true. But, we became so much more than just "mortal man", when He began to wake us up from that "deep sleep" that we've been living in.  

You see, when Father caused a deep sleep to come upon Adam (mankind), Adam's woman (psoo-khay, soul, pronounced "Sue Kay") took over running the show. Not only did she run the show, she hooked up with some strange man.  Then along came Jesus; died for her and caused something to happen. When Jesus came upon the scene, Sue Kay's "old man" died and NOW Sue Kay has a NEW MAN.  The "old man" was nothing like her NEW LOVE and she is purifying herself, so she will be pleasing to she is united with.  

Sue Kay is our soul. He New Love is Father God. She is purifying herself because the "old man's" way of thinking and living is completely opposite of her New Love. Her old "man" taught her many, many lies, and she lived with him, believing his lies. God is not giving us another soul, He has given us instructions on how WE are to clean up the one we have. When our soul was first created, it was in perfect line with Father. NOW, He has told us to take dominion of everything that is in our earth, so that it returns BACK to the way it was created to be. When Adam (mankind) was created, Adam and the soul were in the very image of the Creator. When the soul took over the show, she didn't SEPARATE FROM GOD, she just walked out of the Light, into Darkness. So now, Father is telling her to clean up her act and be as she was created to be, ENLIGHTENED and out of darkness.

This is a cute little way of explaining how we have been living. But, this is a serious matter, and the cute way of thinking (religously), will do nothing for us. So, WE have to take Father's instructions and do as HE says. Not sit and wait for someone to do it for us. Father is patiently waiting for us come forth out of His instructions, LOOKING SO MUCH LIKE HIM, THAT WE CAN"T BE TOLD APART FROM HIM! So, let's look at HIS instructions. And know this; He has provided us with EVERYTHING needed to wake up from this life (illusion) that we've created, and allow HIS LIFE to be seen in the earth. (Col 1:19, John 1:16, 1John 4:17) We are coming out of that sleep and realizing that we've been dreaming. We ARE NOT who we've thought we were and the "real us" or HIM is coming forth.

PHILIPPIANS 2: 5,6, 12,13, "(5) LET this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; (6) Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God."

The first word tells us "to ALLOW"  the Mind of Christ to be in us. The second thing here, is, in order to have that happen, we HAVE to KNOW who we are, and NOT feel that we are robbing Father of His Glory! We ARE equal with God. We are created out of His very substance and being!!  I am not talking about this "MAN" that the focus has been kept on, I'm talking about the TRUE BEING that we are that has been dormant , deep within. If we are created OUT OF HIM, we are AS HE IS. Not just a spirit being, but, HIS VERY SPIRIT, HIM!!  He completes us and we complete Him. We are ONE WITH HIM. Father is our Head, and we are His Body. They can't be separated, or death occurs and we all KNOW that God cannot die. The sooner we allow this KNOWING to take the place of that old religous stuff that has been leading us (into death), the sooner He will be completely seen in His TOTALITY, ON THIS EARTH.

Ok, this was one step in HIS instructions. How do we "ALLOW" this Mind to come forth? By changing the MIND.

VS 12, "....work out your own salvation with fear and trembling"

The word "salvation" is the exact SAME thing that Jesus did with our Spirit, before the foundation of the world.  In Strong's, # 48, 53, 40 defines this word: save, rescue, deliver, save (physically and morally), health, clean,innocent, modest, chaste, pure, PERFECT, consecrated, blameless, sacred.

There are 3 parts to salvation: Spirit(John 3:5-8 1Cor.5:5), Soul(James 1:21, 1Peter 1:9,12, Heb 10:39, 1Thess.5:23-24 and Body(Rom 8:23, Luke 3:6)
The Spirit is save. Now, He tells US to work out the rest of our salvation. He is not going to do it. He tells US to do it. (it is actually Him doing it, because HE is who we really are). But, we are not to just sit around WAITING, we have a part to play in this "working out our own salvation.  Look at the words. "Let" means two things, "allow and rent". He surely didn't say, "Rent out the mind of Christ to be in you".  You know, we HAVE to turn loose of the old religous thinking go. We HAVE to get past our "Jesus thinking". I don't mean, ignor Him and what He did; I mean, we HAVE to realize we are the same thing He was when He walked the earth, GOD'S ANOINTED ONE. We ARE GOD'S MANIFESTED SONS!  Take your eyes off of the "greater works" and see how you have manifested from the spirit realm into this earthen realm and know that NOW are we Sons of God, and you can only come up with MANIFESTED SONS. Now, we have to allow FATHER to do the "greater works", just as HE DID through the flesh man, Jesus.  

So what what other instruction did Father give?  We've already seen in John 1:16 that He has filled us with His fullness, HIMSELF.

1John 3:1-3, "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not."
Could this possibly be the world of religion?
Beloved, NOW are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."
We are Sons of God, and we have EVERYTHING that our Father made us heirs of, HIMSELF!   Now, where is He to appear? What are we going to be looking at to see Him as he is?

2Thess.1:10, "When he shall come to be glorifiied in his saints, and to be admired in all them that BELIEVE ( because our testimony among you was believed) in that day."
THIS IS THAT DAY!!!  I know that some teach that it is HIS PRESENCE that is going to come, but, HIS PRESENCE IS HIM!! We've been "looking in a glass darkly", but now, our LIGHT HAS COME and beholding HIM in each other.( 1Cor.3:18)  Ok, let's go back to 1John.

1John 3:3, "And EVERY man that hath this hope in him PURIFIETH HIMSELF, even as he is pure."

Where do we have to have THIS HOPE?  In our MIND. (heart=mind). And who does this purification to us? "EVERY man that hath this hope".  What hope? The hope of only Father and HIS Life being seen, through us. IF one doesn't BELIEVE that we ARE NOT who we have perceived ourselves to be, then they can't have this hope in them. And guess what?  This word, "purifieth", means the exact same thing as that word "salvation"!! Now, who brings forth this purifying, this salvation?  WE DO. (by the instructions Father has given us.)  Now, remember, this is not talking about human, mortal MAN, that does this. This is the one who KNOWS who He is and is bringing the manifestation of that person, because he is purifying himself.  So, how do we purify ourselves, besides having this HOPE in us?

Romans 12:1-2, " (VS 2) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed,  by the renewing of you mindd..."

"transformed" from what you THINK you are into what FATHER TELLS US WE ARE. And notice, the word "re-new".  This means that this MIND was in the condition of not NEEDING to be transformed. And we have to bring it BACK to that condition. Father told us, "YOU HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST" (1Cor. 2:16). He wants us to use it, instead of allowing "Sue Kay" to do our thinking. We have believed that HE has to change our mind, but honestly, all we have to do is BELIEVE what He tells us.(Col.2:9-10)  If a Word says "you have", "you can", "you are", then we MUST believe it. It's the carnal mind that tells us "you will have", "you will be able to", "you will be". Folks say, "well, it's true in the Spirit, but....". Well, which is TRUTH, Spirit or the natural?  As creators, when we take a TRUTH that Father says is "here and now" , and tell ourselves, "it's in the future", then that creating power in us, makes real , whatever we believe. It's like having money in the bank, and yet saying, "I'm broke", simply because WE don't draw it out!! (Prov 23:7).

VS 1, " ....present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,  WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE"

Whose reasonalbe service is it, to put on the Mind of Christ and present our bodies a living sacrifice?  It's OURS, not GOD'S!!  He have ALREADY GIVEN US THE MIND OF CHRIST, now He's saying USE IT, IF you have the HOPE of ME being seen to the rest of the world. He's saying, "I WANT TO BE SEEN, AS WHO I AM, YOU!!  I WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE THAT YOU ARE AS I AM. USE MY MIND!!"

Romans 10:10, "For with the heart (MIND) man believeth unto righteousness;(the purifying of our soul) and with the mouth (the creating action)  confession is made (by the Spirit power bringing it into manifestation) unto salvation (unto the salvation of our soul (MIND)."

I will guarantee you, that IF you think this is going to be done for you, instead of like Father says, "YOU work out your own salvation", then you will work out your own salvation on the other side of Jordon, when it CAN AND IS TO BE DONE HERE, ON EARTH.

I want to KEEP reminding you, IF you don't know who you are, NO, YOU cannot do it. But, KNOWING WHO YOU ARE AND WHOSE LIFE IS BEING LIVED (Gal.2:20), then "ALL things are possible through Christ.".

to be continued.