The Things Given in Salvation: The New Mind

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Working Out Life and Godliness

The Mind

The mind is an aspect of intelligence and consciousness manifested as combinations of thoughts, perceptions, memories, emotions, desirous and determinate wills and imaginations. It is the stream of consciousness within a being.

It can be opened to understand, Luke 24:45

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And He opened their understanding (νοῦν), that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

Rejecting God results in a debased mind, Romans 1:28

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And just as they did not approve worthy to have the God in full experiential knowledge, the God gave them over to an unapproved mind to do what is wrong,

A Christian has a war going on against the law of the mind by which they serve God, Romans 7:23

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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

The Spiritual gift of speaking in tongues was not fruitful to the mind of the speaker, 1 Corinthians 14:14

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For if (ἐὰν) I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding (νοῦς) is unfruitful.

The convincing of the mind, Romans 14:5

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One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.

The mind can be shaken, 2 Thessalonians 2:2

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not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.

The mind can have wisdom, Revelation 17:9

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“Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

Through the mind, the invisible things concerning God are understood, Romans 1:20

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For the invisible things concerning Him from a creation of a world to the understanding things made has been caused to be clearly perceived, both His everlasting natural ability and Divinity, resulting in them being without excuse

The Working of the Mind

We are no ignorant concerning how Satan’s mind works, 2 Corinthians 2:11

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lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

The blinding of the working of the mind by the law, 2 Corinthians 3:14

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But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.

Blinding the working of the mind to the gospel, 2 Corinthians 4:4

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whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

The workings of the mind being corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ, 2 Corinthians 11:3

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But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

The Old Mind

The old mind is a mind of futility, Ephesians 4:17

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This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

The old mind puffs a person up, Colossians 2:18

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Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

The old mind is corrupt, 1 Timothy 6:5

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useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

The old mind resists the truth, 2 Timothy 3:8

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Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;

The old mind is defiled, Titus 1:15

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To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

Corrupt teachers, not understanding (having a mind) concerning what they teach, 1 Timothy 1:7

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desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.

The desirous will and the thoughts of the mind, Ephesians 2:3

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among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

The darkening of the thoughts of the mind, Ephesians 4:18

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having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;

Alienated in the thoughts, Colossians 1:21

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And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

The Renewed Mind

Being Transformation by the Renewed Mind, Romans 12:2

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And stop being outwardly conformed to this age, but to be transformed by your renewed mind, for the purpose to test for approval what is the desirous will of God, the good and well pleasing and mature.

We have a quality of the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16

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For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Having the same mind as others in the Assembly, 1 Corinthians 1:10

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Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

No Divisions - Divisions come from a carnal mind

Being joined together

The mind involves our spirit, Ephesians 4:23

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and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

The peace from God which surpasses the mind guards the workings of our minds, Philippians 4:7

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and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

The workings of the mind can be brought into captivity unto obedience to Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:5

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casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Knowing the mind concerning the Mystery of the Christ, Ephesians 3:4

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by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),

The opening of the mind, Ephesians 1:18

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the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

Protecting the thoughts, 1 Peter 1:13

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Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

We have thoughts that allow us to know God, 1 John 5:20

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And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

A mind framed on the flesh produces corruption

A mind framed on the Spirit produces life

We are to be transformed by the renewed of our mind we gain in salvation