"The fool has said in his heart that there is no God."
"The things of the Spirit of God are foolishness to him and he is powerless to understand."
"They become futile in their speculations. Professing to be wise, they become fools"
"Ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth"
"They walk blindfolded in a world of illusion. and are cut off from the life of God through ignorance and insensitivity. They have stifled their consciences and then surrendered themselves to sensuality, practicing any form of iniquity that lust can suggest."
"And every man did what was right in his own eyes."
The Challenge to us:
"But you have learned nothing like that from Christ, if you have really heard His voice and understand the truth that Jesus has taught you. No, what you learned was to fling off the dirty clothes of the old way of living, which were rotted through with lust's illusions, and with yourselves mentally and spiritually remade, to put on the clean fresh clothes of the new life which was made by God's design for righteousness and the holiness which is no illusion."
"Be careful that nobody spoils your faith through intellectualism or high-sounding nonsense. Such stuff is at best founded on men's ideas of the nature of the world, and disregards Christ."
"May your spiritual experience become richer as you see more and more fully God's great secret, Christ Himself. For it is in Him, and in Him alone, that men will find all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
So:
"Dress" right. Don't wear the world's "emperor's new clothes." Live right.
Develop a world-view based on God's ideas--and they are not God's opinions--of what man and world are really like. Guard your mind. Think right.
Focus on Him--the Author of the written Word and the perfect example of the Living Word--"full of grace and truth." Immerse yourself in the study of the life of Christ. Lay up the right treasures. Serve the right Master. Be an example of the believer in word and truth.
We have the mind of Christ.
"But you have learned nothing like that from Christ, if you have really heard His voice and understand the truth that Jesus has taught you. No, what you learned was to fling off the dirty clothes of the old way of living, which were rotted through with lust's illusions, and with yourselves mentally and spiritually remade, to put on the clean fresh clothes of the new life which was made by God's design for righteousness and the holiness which is no illusion."
"Be careful that nobody spoils your faith through intellectualism or high-sounding nonsense. Such stuff is at best founded on men's ideas of the nature of the world, and disregards Christ."
"May your spiritual experience become richer as you see more and more fully God's great secret, Christ Himself. For it is in Him, and in Him alone, that men will find all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
So:
"Dress" right. Don't wear the world's "emperor's new clothes." Live right.
Develop a world-view based on God's ideas--and they are not God's opinions--of what man and world are really like. Guard your mind. Think right.
Focus on Him--the Author of the written Word and the perfect example of the Living Word--"full of grace and truth." Immerse yourself in the study of the life of Christ. Lay up the right treasures. Serve the right Master. Be an example of the believer in word and truth.
We have the mind of Christ.
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