Text: Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
Mind in this verse is from the Greek word which is phrone’o, meaning to exercise the mind; entertain or have a sentiment or opinion; be of one; be the same; savour; think.
Paul was writing from prison to Christians in Philippi.
The theme of this book is the joy of Christian grace and experience in all life and death. Christians are to rejoice in fellowship with one another in afflictions of the gospel, in the ministry for saints, in faithfulness of ministers, in the Lord and not in Judaism or in the flesh, in unity, and always in all things.
Apostle Huntsman was on point last Sunday with the message “I know that greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world”! (1 John 4:4) It’s a “mind set”! A knowing! No doubting! No wondering if but a knowing!
It is essential that we let Christ’s mind be in us. If it was not important, Paul would not have mentioned it!
- Philippians 2:5 Let this mind (phrone’o) be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus!
Nor would he have mentioned Romans 12:2.
- Romans 12:2 Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind [nous meaning intellect; divine mind; thought; feeling; will; understanding].
This is vitally important or Paul wouldn’t have warned us about the carnal mind.
- Romans 8:6-7 To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity (hostile) against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
- 1 Peter 1:13 Gird up the loins of your mind [dian’oia meaning deep thought; the mind or its disposition].
Because your “mind” has loins, reproduction can take place in your “mind” and bring you into the total of who Jesus is in the earth!
- 1 John 4:17 As he is, so are we in this world.
Not up beyond the blue, but “in this world”!
It all starts in the “mind”!
- Mark 15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.