#9 of 16 Areas of Believer's Perfection PERFECT IN OBEDIENT THOUGHT

10/06/20 #9 SIXTEEN AREAS OF BELIEVERS PERFECTION

(as found in the Bible)

#9 of 16 Areas of Believer's Perfection

PERFECT IN OBEDIENT THOUGHT

 

God provides, calls and enables Christians to be PERFECT IN OBEDIENT THOUGHT. This article is not a definition or explanation of OBEDIENT THOUGHT. It is simply a statement that God calls and enables us to experience and be perfect in OBEDIENT THOUGHT.

 

As with all perfections and graces in the Christian life, it is the redemptive work of God in us that makes Perfect OBEDIENT THOUGHT possible. Having Perfect OBEDIENT THOUGHT is the Christian response to Christ. This is a perfection of quality, not quantity. God's word is our authority.

 

Perfect In Obedient Thought

2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

DLG notes… Though the word, "perfect" is not used in this verse, it is impossible to have a more perfect thinking pattern than to BRING EVERY THOUGHT CAPTIVE TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST.

 

ADDENDUM... CONCERNING THE THOUGHTS OF BELIEVERS.

 

BEFORE we get saved, Satan has direct access to our human thought processes through our Carnal (fleshly, sinful) Mind.

 

AT conversion we receive the Holy Spirit has access to our human thought processes through the Mind of Christ, which wars against our Carnal Mind (thus our Double Mindedness).

 

AT the time of Total Surrender, when we receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit, we are cleansed from the Carnal Mind (aka The Old Man, Sinful Nature), leaving the Mind of Christ (aka The New Man, Divine Nature), as the primary influence on our human thought processes.

 

Satan continues to tempt and taunt us, but we are fortified within and able to bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

 

Remember, Adam was created without the Carnal Mind and he was still tempted. Jesus did not have a Carnal Mind, yet He was also tempted, though He did not sin.

 

AS Spirit filled believers we are equipped and enabled to bring every thought captive to Christ. We see and hear the evil around us, but we can choose to think on the things of God and to focus out attention on the will of God.