Q: "The Mind of God can only be understood by the Spirit. When Paul speaks of having the mind of Christ it must mean the exchange of information from abiding in Christ comes under the Law or the Word?
A: Yes. Let us look at this quote,"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God."(1 Co.2:12) This indwelling Spirit is given to us according to the everlasting covenant. In order to understand it let us take the building of the tabernacle in the wilderness. What is the Will when God commands, "That I may dwell among them" but the mind of God? This mind of God created heaven with the word so we can paraphrase the command to Moses thus,"By the things freely given to you you shall build the sanctuary." The blessing to Man under the covenant holds the blue print how Moses shall make it, "after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof," and it was according to "all that I shew thee.'(Ex.25:8-9). Once again we have to put ourselves in the shoes of Moses so he is after the likeness of Jesus Christ the Word made flesh. Jesus's prayer was according to the mind of God. Thus 'Thou in me' and 'I in thou' gives us the 3-D model of the Father Son relationship.
"But which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual./But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Co.2:13-14)
Jesus is the Lord of glory and in his prayer, "O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."(John17:5;1 Co.2:8) The same mind and the same glory and only his obedience can teach us to enter therein. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."(Ph.2:5-11)
Q: "The Mind of God can only be understood by the Spirit. When Paul speaks of having the mind of Christ it must mean the exchange of information from abiding in Christ comes under the Law or the Word?
A: Yes. Let us look at this quote,"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God."(1 Co.2:12) This indwelling Spirit is given to us according to the everlasting covenant. In order to understand it let us take the building of the tabernacle in the wilderness. What is the Will when God commands, "That I may dwell among them" but the mind of God? This mind of God created heaven with the word so we can paraphrase the command to Moses thus,"By the things freely given to you you shall build the sanctuary." The blessing to Man under the covenant holds the blue print how Moses shall make it, "after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof," and it was according to "all that I shew thee.'(Ex.25:8-9). Once again we have to put ourselves in the shoes of Moses so he is after the likeness of Jesus Christ the Word made flesh. Jesus's prayer was according to the mind of God. Thus 'Thou in me' and 'I in thou' gives us the 3-D model of the Father Son relationship.
"But which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual./But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." (1 Co.2:13-14)
Jesus is the Lord of glory and in his prayer, "O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."(John17:5;1 Co.2:8) The same mind and the same glory and only his obedience can teach us to enter therein. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."(Ph.2:5-11)
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