The Mind of Christ

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1. The Cloudy Corners of Creation.
2. PAINFUL RESILIENCE.
3. Dont Worry (Worry: The Disease of the Age).

Step 1 - Create an account or log in to start your free trial. The mind of Christ is given to believers through the Holy Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This comes with saving faith in Christ. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

God , the Father, sent His only Son to satisfy that judgment for those who believe in Him. This power is nowhere else so called—if this were its meaning, the apostles were as truly in the form of God as Christ himself, for they also wrought miracles as well as he.

Whatever it means, it was possessed previous to his being in the likeness of men, and laid aside when he became in fashion as a man; but Christ was in the likeness of men thirty years before he wrought any miracle, and, in fact, never to the last laid aside this power. Moreover, as the "form of a servant," and "the likeness and fashion of a man," signify true humanity—the form of God, to which these expressions are put in contrast, must mean true and proper Divinity. It refers, then, to the visible manifestation of the Divine glory in heaven, similar—but transcendently superior, to the Shekinah, or symbol of the Divine presence, in the Holy of Holies, upon the mercy-seat, between the cherubim.

This expression is rendered by some expositors thus, "He did not covet to appear as God. For if he were not God, what condescension was it in him, as man, not to covet to appear as God? Is it any condescension in the constable of a village not to covet to appear in the state and character of royalty?

Of his Divine nature Christ could not divest himself—of his Divine state or manifestation, he could. What was there wonderful, or worthy of remark in this, if he might not and could not have appeared in some other fashion? By becoming "obedient unto death. His death was a voluntary act; he chose to die, and it was condescension in him so to do. But it may be well asked, "If he were nothing but man, what choice had he in the matter, or what condescension did he display in submitting to it? How is that to be humility in Christ, which is necessity in every one else? Only on the ground, that while in one view of his Person he is truly and properly man, in another view he is more than man.

Now, then, look at the mind of Christ as set forth in this most wonderful transaction. He who was truly and properly God, who manifested himself by a visible glorious light in heaven, and received the adoration of the celestial hosts, instead of coming down upon earth for our redemption in the splendor of Divine majesty, took upon him a servile condition, and displayed his condescension by becoming man—but though man, yet being also Lord of all things, he was superior to the necessity of dying, and became subject to death only because he chose to die.

To die was, therefore, in him astonishing humility; but the climax of all this stupendous condescension, was his submission to the death of the cross. If we take into consideration, then, the Deity of Christ, the argument of the apostle is conclusive, and his example complete; but without this, you will hardly find either his argument, or the humility of Christ Jesus.

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Take from it this central luminary, and, the glory is departed. Its holy harmonies are broken—the elements rush to chaos—the light of salvation is extinguished forever. Before I come to the practical application of the passage on which I have dwelt in this address, I will give a summary of the Scripture evidence of the fact of Christ's true and proper Divinity. The argument is this— Inasmuch as every title, attribute, work, and honor belonging to Deity is, without limitation or reserve, ascribed to Christ in Scripture, he, in addition to his being in one view truly and properly man, must, in another, be as truly and properly God.

He is thus God and man, in one mysterious Person. God with us; Isaiah 7: Mighty God; Isaiah 9: God over all; Rom. God manifest in the flesh; 1 Tim. Great God; Titus 2: True God; 1 John 5: Government of the universe. These are but a selection from the passages of Scripture which assert and prove the Divinity of our Lord.

In fact, this great truth is so interwoven with the very texture of revelation, and occurs incidentally in so many places, that it appears to me impossible to separate it without destroying the whole. Let these passages be well studied, and accurately stored in the mind, both in their own words and meaning. I now return to the passage which has been the subject of previous remark, "Let the mind which was in Christ be also in you. Jesus Christ is the only Teacher who ever made a similarity of disposition to himself—a test and badge of discipleship.

He is not only the teacher—but the pattern of his own religion.

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His example is an essential part of his system. A man might be a philosopher of any school, if he only embraces the principles of his master, although in temper and spirit he be as opposite to his leader as the east is from the west.

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But this is not enough to constitute a man a Christian; for he must not only receive the doctrines of our Lord—but must imbibe his very spirit. He must not only believe all he taught—but he must live as he lived, think as he thought, and feel as he felt. Christ's mind must be in his mind, as far as he can contain it, and Christ's heart must be in his heart. I really know nothing more instructive, or more solemnly impressive than this.