The Power To BeLet The Same Mind Be In You

Cogito Ergo Sum• Rene Descartes issued the famous line “I

think, therefore I am”.• This very common phrase in western

philosophy assured in an era of self awareness.

• From this perspective doubting yourself is the very reason why you should believe that you exist and are capable.

• In this regard doubt is the very foundation of truth, that we doubt what we have thought of is proof that we stumbled on knowledge.

World View• The impact of this thinking together with Post-

Modernism has been a world of no truth, no values.

• Doubt, relativism, is the order of the day. What works for you does not have to work for me.

• Taken at a social context this seems good. But, such ‘truths’ have a way of coming back to the very foundation of our living, God.

• What works for you in God, does it also work for me?

Relative Godliness

•Dr Crefflo Dollar “In the Law the question is: is it right to drink? In the Spirit the question is: should I drink?”

•In expansion, this means that in the Spirit nothing is universally right or universally wrong. Rather, the Spirit leads all of us in unique signature paths of righteousness in which values package is designed specifically for you and no one else.

Paradigm Shift• Does the bible teach us that we each have our own

individual value systems that God will guide us with? Phil 2: 12

• No, the bible teaches us that there is one universal truth that we all must attain (Jn 17: 17, 14:6, .17:3)

• Now, in the process of attaining it we are given a chance to come:

▫ At different paces▫ Different angles▫ Chance to be forgiven when we err▫ Grace to grant us the guarantee of not being given up

on• This is not Relativism but Spiritual Particularism.

The Power Within• Relativism even in its spiritual context calls for the

power within. • Spiritual relativism calls for one to believe in

themselves, to find within them the power to over come and to achieve.

• The individual is the ‘kai’, the supernatural force by which the individual transcends the physical world.

• This form of spirituality has become very popular in the past 50years or so and has made great impressions in the creation even of Pentecostalism.

The Power of Salvation• The bible creates a sequence of a relationship that

empowers us. When we accept Jesus as our personal Lord and Saviour, God who has lived WITHOUT due to sin comes and lives WITHIN through the Spirit and as we constantly look OUT to rely on Jesus he becomes our POWER to live IN the Spirit and the works of the Spirit which come OUTSIDE of us are planted IN us and flow OUT of us into the world.

• Thus in the biblical sense, the power to be comes from without and is planted within so that its fruit flow out of us.

IN vs. OUT

•Galatians 5: 19- 21 Now the works of human nature are revealed; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

•Galatians 5: 22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

The Power of God• Rom 1:16- 17 For I am not ashamed of the

gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. ▫ The Gospel is not: a doctrine, a degree, a sense of

ethicality and morality, a debate, an understanding, a feeling of mystical holiness, a sense of sincerity. It is THE POWER to make all worth it.

In One Accord• “I and the father are one”, “Just as you and I are one”

these are phrases Jesus used a lot to describe the relationship between him and the father.

• When Paul presents to the Philippians that the same mind that was in Jesus should be in us, He specifically presents to them that though Christ fully had Godly rights to rely on himself, he consciously released those powers only to have the father and the Spirit decide for him and act for him who perfectly could act for himself. Jesus did not depend on them by default, he chose to depend on them.

• The victory of Jesus was to take no note of the power within but constantly rely on the power without, which the Father and Spirit would supply him with.