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Sin Mind Believer

Sin & the mind of the believer

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There is a vast difference between God’s children and the devil’s.

According to Jesus, when a child of the devil sins they are simply walking in agreement with their own spiritually dead nature. They WANT to do the will of their father the devil.

A child of God on the other hand has experienced a literal, spiritual rebirth.

They once were dead and now they are alive, they were darkness and now they are light in the Lord. Old things have passed away now EVERYTHING is of God. The seed of Jesus remains in them and so as John says, “They CANNOT sin, because they have been born of God”.

Contrary to what most commentators will tell you this does not mean they cannot sin as they once did (which is also true), but that from their new nature – BECAUSE of the seed of Christ within them – IF they sin, it is no longer coming from WHO THEY ARE as a reborn spirit but from their flesh and mind alone.

Galatians tells us that the flesh exercises strong desire against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. These are strongly opposing forces which makes it hard for a Christian to do what is right.

The decision to side with their flesh or with the influence of the Holy Spirit upon their spirit is made in the mind. THAT is why we are focused on the renewing of the mind in this series.

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The Message in the Manger

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The Father loves to reveal Jesus to us through feasts & festivals, stories, metaphor, names and plays on words.

God’s first lesson to Israel was of the manna. It was to teach than mankind needs more than natural bread to thrive. We need the bread of God’s words spoken to us.

Jesus was the final word God spoke over his creation and He was the only word we needed.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the house of bread. In a teaching that caused nearly all who followed Him to walk away, Jesus called Himself the true bread from heaven. That His body was bread and His blood drink in which was the eternal life God sent Jesus to bring and be.

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When Eloheem refers to a human judge

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Psalms 81 and 82 are both Psalms which require a little study to fully understand what Asaph was saying. This isn’t to say that you cannot be blessed without that specific knowledge, but you will NOT get out of it what the Spirit intended through its inspiration.

This is part of studying to show yourself approved as a good workman.

In Psalm 81 Asaph uses events surrounding the exodus of Israel from Egypt to teach a lesson to his generation who are repeating the sins of their forefathers.

Psalm 82 is actually rather straightforward, once you get clarification on the meaning of the word Eloheem which is often mistranslated.

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Asaph’s testimony of the Shepherd of Israel

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The prophet and musician Asaph who wrote 12 of the Psalms saw and knew Jesus. The scriptures tell us that if there was a true prophet in Israel, God had revealed Himself to them in a dream or a vision. When Asaph spoke of the “Holy One of Israel” and “Israel’s Shepherd” he was of course speaking by inspiration, but also by personal revelation. He is one of those who in the book of Hebrews saw the promise of the Father from afar. He was also among those prophets who Peter said searched for the time Messiah would come and knew beforehand of His sufferings and the glories which would follow.

Though these Psalms were written during times of great tribulation and judgment for the people of God, the prophets knew of God’s future deliverance in Messiah and comforted Israel through their words.

These words COULD and sometimes did have soon, albeit temporary fulfillment, but those of those generations would soon experience God’s silence like none of God’s people before or after. The silence would not be broken until an angel spoke to the parents of John the Baptist and those of Messiah Jesus, then to shepherds in a field when God came to His Own in the form of a baby in a feeding trough as Emmanuel – God among us. All of this was foretold by prophets like Asaph who in Psalm 80 said, “look on us with favor, and we will be saved.”

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Praying God centered Prayers

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One of the reocurring themes we see throughout the Old Testament and the Pslams in particular are the way the Isrealites prayed God centered prayers. There were of course, needs expressed and requests made, but a great deal of the time the REASON and MOTIVE behind the prayer was the character and the Great Name of God.

Phrases like, “For the sake of Your great name…” do this or that. The request was there, but the purpose of its fulfillment was God’s agenda on the earth.

Jesus also prayed this way – You kingdom come, Your will be done. Oh if we were learn to decentralize ourselves from our prayers and make God and His kingdom the central focus of our petitions, we would find ourselves in a position like the great patriarchs of old to recieve answers.

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