Post by poetsunshine on Nov 23, 2010 12:37:32 GMT -6
HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST
I PETER 4:1-2..FORASMUCH THEN AS CHRIST HATH SUFFERED FOR US IN THE FLESH, ARM YOURSELVES LIKEWISE WITH THE SAME MIND; FOR HE THAT HATH SUFFERED IN THE FLESH HATH CEASED FORM SIN; THAT HE NO LONER SHOULD LIVE THE REST OF HIS TIME IN THE FLESH TO THE LUSTS OF MEN, BUT TO THE WILL OF GOD.
I. ARM YOURSELVES.
If any human being witnessed the sufferings of Jesus Christ during His life on earth, it was Simon Peter. Peter had seen Jesus go without food as He pursued the Father’s will. (John 4:31-34).
Peter was there in the Garden when Jesus prayed with such passion that His sweat became like great drops of blood. (Luke 22:44). He tried to intervene when Jesus was arrested..(John 18:10). He watched from a distance as Jesus was put on trial and then crucified. (Luke 22:24).
In the light of Christ’s sufferings, the Christians were to arm themselves with a Christlike attitude. Just as His life was lived by the prayer. NOT MY WILL, BUT THINE , BE DONE. LUKE 22:42.
So their lives should be submitted to the Lord’s will, even if this involved suffering. Since they were already experiencing persecution by being scattered as exiles. Peter’s words would assure them that their hardships were not outside the purposes of God.
The proverb he who has suffered in his body is done with sin, indicates death to sin is part of the suffering Christians must experience. Christians daily kill carnal desires to follow the ways of Christ. Paul wrote, FOR HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN. ROMANS 6:7.
The Christians life must be occupied with doing the will of God instead of being controlled by the lusts of men. These lusts, or sinful desires, characterize the fallen human race.
The plural word lusts indicates the many cravings of fallen humans nature, while the singular will indicates the one purpose of God. An individual discovery the good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God by becoming a living sacrifice unto Him, which involves the transforming of the mind.
I PETER 4:1-2..FORASMUCH THEN AS CHRIST HATH SUFFERED FOR US IN THE FLESH, ARM YOURSELVES LIKEWISE WITH THE SAME MIND; FOR HE THAT HATH SUFFERED IN THE FLESH HATH CEASED FORM SIN; THAT HE NO LONER SHOULD LIVE THE REST OF HIS TIME IN THE FLESH TO THE LUSTS OF MEN, BUT TO THE WILL OF GOD.
I. ARM YOURSELVES.
If any human being witnessed the sufferings of Jesus Christ during His life on earth, it was Simon Peter. Peter had seen Jesus go without food as He pursued the Father’s will. (John 4:31-34).
Peter was there in the Garden when Jesus prayed with such passion that His sweat became like great drops of blood. (Luke 22:44). He tried to intervene when Jesus was arrested..(John 18:10). He watched from a distance as Jesus was put on trial and then crucified. (Luke 22:24).
In the light of Christ’s sufferings, the Christians were to arm themselves with a Christlike attitude. Just as His life was lived by the prayer. NOT MY WILL, BUT THINE , BE DONE. LUKE 22:42.
So their lives should be submitted to the Lord’s will, even if this involved suffering. Since they were already experiencing persecution by being scattered as exiles. Peter’s words would assure them that their hardships were not outside the purposes of God.
The proverb he who has suffered in his body is done with sin, indicates death to sin is part of the suffering Christians must experience. Christians daily kill carnal desires to follow the ways of Christ. Paul wrote, FOR HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN. ROMANS 6:7.
The Christians life must be occupied with doing the will of God instead of being controlled by the lusts of men. These lusts, or sinful desires, characterize the fallen human race.
The plural word lusts indicates the many cravings of fallen humans nature, while the singular will indicates the one purpose of God. An individual discovery the good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God by becoming a living sacrifice unto Him, which involves the transforming of the mind.
