Mindset (Part Two)

But you may have grown up in a situation that was not ideal.

You may have grown up in a situation where one parent was not there or they did some really bad stuff, so they just did not know how to raise you are you may have brought up in a situation where they didn't take you to church youth do not expose the church and the board will be get away from a biblical culture is hard to understand what it means that we need to charge online. We need to work on, but maybe you did not handle circumstance. We were supposed you got saved. But the old habits the old business makeup that you have to keep in and out for the grace and providence of God, he still helps you overrule all the other aspects of human you just heard a portion of the upcoming message titled mindset parts is the pastor of a gunshot Clearview church in Anderson, North Carolina I Clearview focus is on making Christ visible from the E worship to the way we serve.

We love one another. Come check us out at 3485 Oxford Rd. in Henderson or visit us online@ubc.org join us for the rest of this week's message. What is the mind.

What is this thing that God has given to us were not serious called mind reset from Philippians chapter 2, five through 11 Paul says let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. How can you have something that you don't even know what it is and how can you sync your mind with the mind of Christ.

If you don't know what that means. So the goal of this series is to understand the meaning of this word mind and then to apply what Paul tells us in Philippians chapter 2 in today's message is mine set second part of the message you began last week.

If you have your Bibles with you turn to Philippians chapter 2 starting in verse five. Same passage we read last week were reading it again. Let's all stand together for the reading of God's word let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but he made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, unpacked this in the weeks ahead but one aspect, a very distinguishing aspect of the mind of Christ is that it is willing to humble itself to be a servant, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself, and he humbled himself and became obedient.

One of the characteristics of this mind of Christ is that you have to be obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God has also highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name, that the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the father before I pray the question same questions asked last week.

What is your mindset is your mindset upon the things of God is your mindset upon heavenly things spiritual things, or is your mind set upon sin material things, things of this life. Has your mind been transformed you when you come to know Christ. There is a transformation happens in your mind has that happened for you and if you are saved.

Are you being renewed in your mind, but if you not saved was very simple. Jesus Christ came down the cross for your sins. As promised, you have to receive him as your Savior. You have to repent. Repentance is not turned in return. Repentance is changing your mind about sin and changing your mind about the Savior and then you follow him. The rest of your life is. He is not just your Savior is also your King which means you can say no to him, you have to obey the mind the mindset in the second part I will focus on what it's not then what it is and what does it consist of what makes up your mind. Don't get confused between those three categories number one what the mind is not. Many times the Bible says the heart or the spirit.

It uses words like hard, but it's talking not about I wrote all this just to cross it out your organ that is pumping blood line. The world did God allow the authors to put the word heart.

Even Jesus said love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. In fact, part soul, mind, those words are connected are talking about this immaterial part of you that cannot be dissected and bisected is just is there had never thought about what happens when you get excited your heart starts racing.

That's the reason why the ancients said maybe it's the heart or heart is the best representation of this thing, this immaterial side of us.

Sometimes the word spelunking is used spelunking up was a word spelunking on me. It again. This is not the mind. Spelunking is is a word for the vital organs that we have organs like the heart organs like the liver organs like the lungs. Now, the Greeks knew what it was. They knew that the liver is not your mind. But what happens in your liver fails is over.

So somehow they were trying to find this one immaterial intercept something that could communicate the importance of the material. Then there's another word that we have used in our culture, we think it's the word is is the brain.

The brain now.

The Bible does not talk about the brain because science had not developed at that point while he was being written in the Bible was being written and so it's good but it's not the brain. The brain is the center of the nervous system is what makes you helps you think it helps you remember it distinctly good ghetto helps you learn the language as well and people get hurt up here they did lose the ability to communicate those kind of things. But as the mind, the brain, of course not. There's more involved in having a mind then just your brain okay so is a mind important as a brain important. Of course it is, of course, it is the more brain you have, of course you can understand and process information. Unfortunately, here's the point. More brain power does not guarantee spiritual enlightenment if it were so everybody and MIT and Harvard and Yale would be born again on fire for Jesus Christ. Having more brain does not guarantee that you have a very mature mind. You don't have to be a genius to be a strong believer so hard is not our mind. We know it's just an organ pumping blood, but that's the best they could say the spelunking which is the hard deliver the lungs of these are not really our mind and we know the brain is very important helps you remember helps you communicate, but is not our mind. Our mind is something more.

What is our mind. For the next few moments I will talk about that the mind is made by God for us to connect with him this thing called mind let me write it down over here this thing called mind has been made by God for us to connect with him. Listen Romans chapter 1 verse 18 Paul says the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.

Now listen to this line because what may be known of God is manifest in them and where my heart but my lungs my liver. Somehow God has place are you listening a transmitter receptor chip inside the mine that can connect with him.

Is there he says it again in Romans chapter 1 and 28. He says that the lost people did not like to retain God in their knowledge and again. Romans 214 when Gentiles, who show the work of the law written in their hearts.

Again, the heart is not talking about God has written on that left ventricle for the right was the mind the invisible us when Gentiles shown the work of the law written in their hearts, their minds, their conscience also bearing witness.

I believe in that mind is also our conscience God has placed this moral governor that keeps us from going too far off can imagine with the world would be like if there was no conscience can imagine what people would do I want to talk about being saved and laws were just talking about being moral and ethical indecent with each other.

I will steal your car. I would go punchy on his us because I can do it.

There's a conscience essay. You can do that.

Where is this conscience is it is it all out somewhere here know it's in the mind is in the invisible part of me now.

This mind has been disconnected from God because of sin. Romans 87 Paul says because the carnal mind toward his full name is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

The mind is not able to walk with God and talk with God. There is a disconnection. Now, what else is the mind.

The mind is the landing point of our salvation. When you get saved. What is it begin in my hand. Here eyes new I can see the gospel hear the gospel, where does it happen. Listen again to what Paul said by them only looking at Paul's verses because there's so much here and we have only a limited time. Second Corinthians 46 Paul says what it is that God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts, but is not the. The organ is the mind to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. So the mind is the place where the gospel connects and then it is reflected in the rest of us. What else is the mine.

The mind is the invisible part of us that connects with others first rent is 53 Paul says, for I indeed as absent in body, but present in spirit, I'm standing here in Henderson but I'm still I can call my parents and say look just want to let you know were with you on with you and what you're going through. He hasn't been feeling well. I can say that Oaxaca how my with him on your and my parts and as believers we say were praying for you, but your and my parts and how in the world.

I'm here but my mind is there with them is the part of us that connects you can hug people, but you can also you know hug people without touching them physically, but when your mind is with them. Are you going through a rough time right now this one child to know we are there for you.

Are you there, so mind with thinking about you. Praying for you. What else is the mine. Listen to this one is the source of our motivation. Romans 19 Paul says for God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit. Sometimes the mind is called the spirit pauses are motivated by my spirit, I'm just I have this passion to share the gospel and not is not just for sharing the gospel. You can have a passion to work passion to work out where is it coming from from the mind. It is also the seat of our emotions second Quinton 611, Paul says all Corinthians we have spoken openly to you.

Our heart is wide open hearts, our minds is what we used to love people and I gave my heart to Nicole she gave her heart to me what we talking about.

My mind, my emotions are now inclined towards her and her alone right that's what we say and that's what Jesus said love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, is with all your emotions love God finally is also the seat of our will and our understanding caution chapter 3 verse two Paul says, set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. Set your mind had this will to look towards God and godly things what is our willpower come come from your lungs, your kidneys, your brain, you say all the other brain gives me willpower unnecessarily out of some very, very intelligent people who have really really bad habits.

If intelligence going to MIT could free you up false everybody coming out of those Ivy League schools should be perfectly adjusted people making all the right decision not just like the young man, he is brilliant and yet he is doing things ago was wrong with the mind is the source of our will is also the source of our understanding, caution is 39 Paul says do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according medicine. It is according to the image of him who created him by the way I want you to misunderstand this message is deep but we have to lay out this foundation before we can talk about how to have the mind of Christ, so bear with me when we say that we are made in the image of God he does not mean just our mind is made in the image of God. Both are mind and our bodies have been made in the image of God is a God is spirit. He doesn't have a body. How can be made be made like him bodily. If he doesn't have a body because God is a total spirit and he can communicate as much as he wants to with every body, but we need your listening. We need an instrument to express our fellowship in our worship towards God in our love and care for each other.

We need this thing God can do it without having a body but we needed. So we are still mind and body made in the image of God. So what is the mind what is is in the mind is not the heart the organ or these bodily you know vital organs or the brain, and we've seen what the mind is how does the mind become what it is, what is the mind made up off well to start with.

We already covered this in a way sort of overlaps who makes you God. God makes us polymeric. David says in the Psalms.

He said on fearfully and wonderfully made.

So the biggest part and I would say controlling part of our mind creation is God. God is the one who creates her mind why is you heard to respond to him by. It is damaged by sin until salvation comes. What else is part of making our mind.

Our mind is uniquely designed by the combination of our genetic ancestors good and bad built for years ago, when our youngest one was really young and and they had. He had met my dad at the time never seen him seen pictures but never been around handyman talk to him on the phone and wonder. Nicole calls me and says come in here, look at him as if it were my looking for how he is walking she never tell me twice.

That's how my dad walks.

He was like than the pulpit. He walks like that at the in the house. He goes on visitation. He walks like this. I don't have you missing me walk like this just is not my thing but now this mind is softened towards God or hardened against him by our upbringing. So he grew up in a home where Jesus Christ was lifted up a food group in a home where you went to church if you grew up in a home where but God was glorified in the gospel was presented all the time you're growing up in a home where your mind is being shaped to be open to the things of God. But if you grew up in a home where that didn't happen was can happen can be set against the things of God. You see that very well in homes where parents got saved in the late and there are siblings who are pre-salvation and than their siblings who are post salvation.

Anybody else know I'm talking about in the pre-salvation ones are always ago and I have no idea what mom and dad change like that. Now you gotta go to church every gotta do this, we gotta do that and the younger ones are like Jesus. The old ones are like that annoy us.

Prior to this house was a mess, but at least we knew that, but now they all about Jesus. There is a there is a division in that family does pre-salvation post was happen this parents got say.

And now they're taking their kids to church there.

They're taking them to Bible study and in Bible school in Sunday school and their teaching them the word of God and is a radical change. The mind is said towards the things of God. But how about in homes.

It doesn't happen is not there. What else the mind is redeemed when Christ comes in at this the big one. I wish I could ride it much bigger than this. Christ comes in. Now the mind has come alive. The connection is made, and God is working in your life. What happens if that hasn't happened. Your loss will the mind is not condemned by your rejection of Christ, so God makes us uniquely.

We are a combination of our ancestors good and bad.

What else changes your mean of course Christ is a big one, accepting Christ, but here's something else it's renewed by our growth in Christ on the scope of the word growth will be here as you grow in Christ. As you learn to love him and trust him and follow him and obey him.

Your mind begins to change for the better as you get into this word.

This is so important on a daily basis. Are you doing this are you feeding upon the word of God. Are you reading the Bible daily basis you need to be on a steady diet of the word of God because it affects your mind. It affects how you think are you daily, submitting yourself to the Holy Spirit's leading. Or are you grieving and quenching him something else. How else does that growth happen. It happens through godly fellowship who are the people that you hang around here if you grew up in a legalistic church than going to church is about who we can fight today. Follow godly pattern. What else here's something else circumstances in life. They can either tarnish your mind or that can transform your mind how you handle them. How you handle circumstances, here's the sad part the more you do things your way. You know what God is saying what you do it your way. The more you get set in your mind. If on anger with my wife, husbands, love your wife as Christ loves the church I have the choice to obey God, or to be resentful, but if I am going to disobey God was can happen.

The resentment starts building up in my mind we say heart you the way were talking about this immaterial part of us that if I handle circumstances God's way.

There's a sweetness that comes in my life there's my life is full of grace and forgiveness and kindness and godly wisdom.

But here's the best part of the greatest and the most important part. All of the above have to happen in the do happen under the grace and providence of God books you may have grown up in a situation that was not ideal. You may have grown up in a situation where one parent was not there or they did some really bad stuff or they just did not know how to raise you are you may have grown up in a situation where they can take you to church. You are not exposed to church, and the more and more we get away from a biblical culture is hard for people to understand what it means that we need the church in our lives. We need the word of God. Or maybe you did not handle circumstances the way you were supposed to. You got say, but the old habits the old business makeup that you have keeps influencing you. Thank God for the grace and providence of God, he is still helps you overrule all the other aspects of human what is policy in Romans 828 all things work together for don't go away from here and write a long letter to your mom or your dad. People do that and they come to tell me odd. I just told God just told my mother how are how she did what she did was wrong why did you do that out of this can be kind of depressing when you think about it while is this is this what makes my mind is a reason why God brought you here. You have to live in chains. You don't have to live in bondage. You don't have to to find yourself in a place where I can change because the gospel is the greatest change agent. It can transform you.

You don't have to talk to your wife the way your dog did your dad talk to your mom, you don't have to lead your kids the way your parents let you you can do things differently encourage them. My dad heat. He grew up in a Muslim home very educated hope, but I remember him from a very early age. I remember I was in first grade, him telling me or telling my mom in front of me and they would do that all the time.

I didn't know what was going is that he is so smart I was out tell you I'm not smart and very hard-working.

I know smart people and I'm not one of them, but I'm very hard-working, but there was say that constantly happened on so smart. He is so smart have believed it using the power that the tree have in our words. But if our minds are not attuned to the things of God. We don't know how to train up our children.

Enclosed with this.

Romans chapter 10 verse nine Paul says that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be safe. There is the mountains which represents the whole body.

And then there is a heart which represents this mind this immaterial side of us. How are you saved when you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, but you also have to believe in your mind that God has raised him from the dead, you will be safe for with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the amount confession is made unto salvation and our salvation. There's both the mind and the body right now. My words are coming to you is the gospel of your hearing them.

Your brain is processing. But where is the happen is going to happen in the mind. We have a decision to make a magnet receive Jesus Christ.

Thank you so much for joining us for this message minds for an incredible tool given to us by God. The product of our genetics and of our environment. Most important, take our minds reaching him more information, visit us online DVD seems unaware Jean for the sermons noticing Jacob has a shot of it on child