Volume 4 Chapter 2 Page 6
Thursday February 8, 2007 18 Shevat 5767 (Hebrew 5th Month)
"Being of ONE Mind"
As I read this scripture today, I was carried in my thoughts back to my early, "being as(like) a child", to my days of infancy, that at such a young age, I had not yet begun understanding God's WORD in the maturity and fullness, which the Apostle Paul writes about in these 'Inspired' WORDs given by Holy Spirit.
It was NOT God's WORD that was in any way, shape, form or fashion, fallable, contradictory or in error, because
God, HIS WORD and HIS Spirit,
Spiritual 'Discernment', just ONE of the many Gifts of Holy Spirit, is absolutely necessary for a Believer to 'Rightly Divide' the WORDs of Truth from the lies of God's enemy, which include, 'Indifference, Confusion and Rejection' of the Gospel of Christ, all being what God has defined as 'Abominations in HIS Sight', and NOT the 'ONE Spirit, ONE Mind and ONE Faith' in HIS Christ!
In saying earlier, as a 'babe in Christ' as mentioned by the Apostle Paul, I was feeding on the 'milk' of God's WORD, because Holy Spirit was 'Transforming' my mind into the 'Mind of Christ', preparing my heart and mind to begin feeding on the 'Meat' of God's Eternal WORD!
Christ, being of ONE mind with the Father and Holy Spirit, means just that, ONE Mind, ONE Purpose and ONE Goal,
Much much of the time than not, any references made to 'Conversion', by the differing and widely varying Christian 'Religious' conclaves, are simply refering only to the switching from one doctrine or thinking pattern to another Christian 'Religious' order and profession of Faith and Doctrine.
The Apostle Paul, without the abbreviation of WORDs, confronted those who in light of their error in the complete understanding, since I know that God, Christ Jesus and Holy Spirit, are of ONE Mind, closely guarded with every ounce of his life, defending the TRUTH as it had been and was continually being 'Revealed' to him through Holy Spirit.
That once, I have stopped and read of Saul's 'Conversion', realizing that coming from 'Judaism' to a 'Saving' knowledge of Christ Jesus, the Son of God being born in the flesh as God, is again simply switching from one differing belief in a Sovereign and Living God, to another belief of God, only with additional and oftentimes, contradictary and erroneous teachings.
What defines 'Conversion' is the continual and ongoing WORK of Holy Spirit in a Believers life, where through prayer and study of God's WORK, HIS Spirit then begins 'Transforming' and 'ReNewing' the mind and heart bringing together, as the Apostle Paul says, ONE mind, ONE Faith, ONE Hope, ONE Baptism, ONE Resurrection......, but above everything else, ALL being ONE,,,,
Before the 1st WORDs of God were uttered at Creation, the 'Committee of 3' met in the 'BoardRoom' of heaven, where the Plan, Purpose and Will of God was laid out and defined, NEVER TO CHANGE, from 1st Day until Eternity!
Much to the contrary of 'Modern and Accepted Doctrinal' requirements, which imposed upon men by men as similiar to the Jewish Pharisee's, Sadducees and the "Religious' instituitions, are simply NOTHING 'Like the Unity' that God "Intended nor Institued'
It is to be ONLY, through HIS Son's and HIS Spirit's 'Testimony" which according to God's WORD, IS the ONLY 'Authorized Version' that I will, as the Apostles Peter, James, John and Paul were Willing and Obedient to as well, 'Listen' to "TRUST and Obey', following and serving HIM who sits on Heaven's Throne, even if it brings into my life, that 'SAME' persecution and death which was so closely 'Associated and Related' with being a "Faithful and True' Believer in Christ,
Hallelujah!!! Praises to Adonai, Elohim, the LORD God, Most High!!!