Christianity at its core
- Creator working supernaturally in your life such that the roots of your life transformed
- The way you see yourself
- The way you see your life even from a simple task
- Change your perspective
- HS works in the roots
- It is beyond boundaries, cultural
- In your nature, know the gospel accurately > you will change! as the root is transformed = born again life
- What is supernatural to you.,
- It is not phenomenal
- You realize God is so compulsively real - starting to take His words seriously because He has come into you. No longer seeing as ritual
- When not saying or doing things in sync with God, feel rebuked in your heart
- There will come a day when your blindness will be taken away - come from knowing the gospel accurately, then demolish down and building up will come to you (timetable)
- Genuine Christian life is transformation at its roots
- Until this happens, you won't get the mind of Christ
the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me. (Colossians 1:5, 6, 15-18, 28, 29 NIV)
As a result
- You yield your lordship to him - having Him supreme in your life
- You pray
- He reveals his supremacy through his church, ie you > then to the whole world
The only time we fail is when we fail thst He is supremely in charge, holding to our own ways
- Even at that moment, he is supremely in charge of the situation
- Mind of Christ (7 attributes)
- Living mind: heb 4:12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12 NIV); Romans 8:6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. (Romans 8:6-8 NIV).
- Confirm yourself
- Single mindedness - Jn 5:19; 2 cor 11:3 (it is not a momentarily thing but a process that results into this). God doesn't use a smart person, but God values a single minded person more than a gifted person
- Humble mind - php 2:5
- Pure mind - php 4:8. Not that you will not sink but you will confess and lament, and find grace in The Lord again and walk toward Him
- Responsive mind - look to God's will, seek to submit Him (Lk 24)
- Peaceful mind - Jn 14:27
- Wise mind
2. How to receive it?
- Purely by the grace of God = work of HS that comes in 2 ways
- Supernatural way - you r unconscious about it, it just happened
- Mundane way(normal)
- Prayers
- Deep prayers
- Word base - not out of emotions, ideals
- Confirm he is with me
- Test again if this is his will
- Reflect why this happened? Through the word
- Rely on the word
- This is the moment a lot of tearing down is done and mind of Christ is being instilled in you
- Through thorough obedience
- With every obedience, the power of HS comes to you and changing you mightily
- Obey and obey