Set Your Mind on Things Above

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Colossians 3:1-5 KJV
1) If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3) For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4) When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
5) Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Put to death those earthy parts of you, by setting your mind on heavenly things.

1 John 3:1-3 KJV
1) Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2) Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3) And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Setting our minds on His promise, that we will be like Him, causes us to live more pure lives.

Much love!
 

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Reminds of the song: "Turn your eyes upon Jesus".
 
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3) For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
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Marks,
Your #3 is the Key.

This verse says of the born again, "our lives, are HID with Christ in God"

Saint.....Whose perspective is that?
Paul wrote the verse down, but that is GOD's viewpoint he's explaining.

The Key to living here.. = "Christ always gives me the Victory" and here...= "For as many as BE Perfect".
See those?
Those are not related to sinning and confessing for 5-50 years, and trying to do better next time.
Those verses are THIS : Hebrews 6:1

All these verses show us that we are to understand who we are BECOME " in Christ", from God' perspective, which is..>"our lives are hid with Christ IN God".

Saint, learning to only think of yourself, as HOW DOES GOD SEE YOU, at all times.......instead of how you see yourself........to get this MIND, is the renewed mind., is how you walk in the spirit.
See...... that mind delivers you INTO= " be in the world but not of it".
Permanent TRANSFORMATION down here, is based on "renewing your mind".

That renewed mind delivers you into...>"As Jesus IS......so are the BORN AGAN.....IN.....>THIS.....World". "in it but not of it".

Another way to think about this....is.......Paul said..."reckon yourself DEAD".. And that is because "you life is hid with Christ in God." and its because your old man is crucified with Christ.
The "your life" is talking about your born again Spirit....eternal life.
Its talking about "Christ gives you LIFE and that more abundantly".
The "dead reckoning" is how you are to perceive of your carnality or "old man" = being "Crucified with Christ", and you are that "NEW CREATION In Christ".

Always and only see yourself as that, and you have then the same perspective that God has about all those who are Son's of God, Born again.
Christ "Likeness" is not you putting on an act of false spirituality, but its God living out His own holiness through you, as Paul explains...>"its not I who live".......
 
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The "dead reckoning" is how you are to perceive of your carnality or "old man" = being "Crucified with Christ", and you are that "NEW CREATION In Christ".
This is why I feel it so important to know the Biblical meaning of death, and dead.

When we understand what God meant, then we can believe the truth, and live according, free from the corrupted flesh, which we have been truly separated from.

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This is why I feel it so important to know the Biblical meaning of death, and dead.

When we understand what God meant, then we can believe the truth, and live according, free from the corrupted flesh, which we have been truly separated from.
Much love!

Sunday School Lesson 101-A

Q.) "Why did God come down from heaven, as the Bread of Heaven and the Bread of Life', virgin born= as Jesus the Christ, God manifested in the Flesh??

A.) Adam fell, and all mankind became cursed, (dead) = spiritually separated from God.

B.) God understands that we are born into this "adamic" MESS, not asking to be born, = So He took responsibility to restore us back to His Spirit, and thus his "heavenly family", by turning us into a Born again Son of God.

C.) God came down to live a perfect life as a MAN, virgin born under the law, sinless, to then sacrifice this Sinless LIFE on the Cross as an offering for all the sin of the World.

D.) God offers this Life that Christ Lived, to us, as the "gift of Salvation" and when we receive Jesus by Faith, God gives to us this LIFE of Christ.
The wonder is.....this Life of Christ, that is the Sacrifice, becomes US as "a new creation IN CHRIST"< : as if we have lived this sinless life.

E.) Its by this Christ's LIFE that we receive, that causes our spirit to be born again into the Spirit of God, by the Holy Spirit.

F.) We, the believers, born again as a new Creation in Christ, are RESTORED to the same spiritual union with God, that Adam had before he fell..

G.) This is The 2nd Adam, Jesus.....restoring us to 1st Adam Spiritual Union with God.... born again. = OUR SALVATION.

End RESULT?

We have eternal life, all our sin is gone, and we EXIT now, as this..

"As JESUS IS...... so are the born again....IN...THIS......WORLD".
 

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F.) We, the believers, born again as a new Creation in Christ, are RESTORED to the same spiritual union with God, that Adam had before he fell..
This part. Adam lost that union because he was created "good", but as only God is good, therefore the distinction is that while Adam was created good, only God is intrinsically good, and therefore only God has that goodness in Himself.

Being now united to Christ, God lives in us, sharing with us His intrinsic goodness, and we will never fall as Adam did.

The first Adam sinned, reaping corruption, the Last Adam did righteousness, and shares with us eternal life.

Much love!