The   mind-2

The mind is related to the heart. It represents our thought life, that which comes out of the heart. When we come to Christ, the mind needs a radical change to conform to the life of Christ, Eph.4:17-24. 

There are two minds.

1.There is the old mind (natural).

a. It is a rebrobate mind, Rom.1:28.

b. It is a carnal mind, Rom.8:7.

c. It is a vain mind, Eph. 4:17.

d. It is a puffed up mind, Col.2:18.

e. It is defiled, Tit.1:15.

f. It is corrupt, Tim.6:5.

g. It minds earthly things, Phil, 3:19.

h.It minds things of the flesh, Rom.8:5.

i. It is blinded, 2 Cor.4:4.

This kind of mind leads to everlasting death / hell.

For this kind of mind to be renewed it has to be surrended to the Cross and receive the mind of Christ.

2.The new mind, the mind of Christ, Phil.2:5.

Christ yielded himself to God, though He was equal  with God. He had a humble mind.

We yield our minds to the Lord, His mental life comes into our own and displaces our old

thoughts, and they are destroyed.

1 Cor. 2:16, We have the mind of Christ, the thinking of Christ.

The new mind must be kept holy by the power of His Word, Phil.4:8.

The new mind will have to be nourished if  it is is to be kept in Christ, Jer.15:16.

The new mind will have a new attitude - stayed upon God, difficult though it is by Satan's

onslought, Ps.119:165.

Defend the new mind, Heb.12:3