Genuine Christians have the Spirit of Christ in them or they do not belong to Him. Because of this, they are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. Because of this, genuine Christians have νοῦν Χριστοῦ, the mind of Christ. What this tells us is that by the Word and the Spirit, genuine believers are able to know the thoughts of their Lord (cf. Luke 24:45).

14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. 16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:14-16 (NASB) 

In our continued look at the growing apostasy within evangelicalism, the more we dig, the more we are finding that those whom we have been suspecting of compromise for some time now, actually have been on that path longer than we suspected. I believe that we are just now discovering this for two reasons. No one was really looking in that direction and God is answering our prayers, opening the doors of information and showing us what has been obscured until now. For instance, I used to be subscriber of Dr. Al Mohler’s daily podcast and I never heard anything from him that was indicative of the things he has been doing behind the scenes to open the doors to Social Justice, Critical Race Theory, etc into the Southern Baptist Convention. When this came to light recently many of my friends refused to believe it. However, just recently he was removed from being a contributor from Ligioner Ministries because of these things. 

We serve a sovereign God. He is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, immutable, and is totally in control. Therefore, we started by asking Him to show us how to proceed. What should we do? We asked for help. We asked for guidance. We asked for wisdom and discernment. We asked all of this from the goal of God being glorified, His Church being edified, and His Kingdom to be extended all according to His will. This has never been about publicity or anything remotely like that. In any case, please understand that the focus of this series of articles is within this framework alone. It is not about me. It is not about any of us. It is about God and His glory.

In the passage at the top of this post, the word “mind” is translated from the Greek word νοῦν, which is the intellectual faculty of the natural man, applicable to God or Christ in Romans 11:34 and 1 Corinthians 2:16. It can be employed in practical judgment, capable of being good or evil, and of being regenerated. It is the mind, the reason, and the reasoning faculty of man. So what is the Apostle Paul saying in 1 Corinthians 2:14-16 in his contrast between the natural person and the spiritual person in regard to this νοῦν. The difference is, of course, that the genuine Christian is regenerate and no one else is. This difference means that those who are regenerate have νοῦν Χριστοῦ or the mind of Christ. My 1560 Geneva Bible has a note on this verse that succinctly says, “That is, Christ’s Spirit, John 16:13, Romans 8:9.”

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