Natural Concepts Versus a Spiritual Mind
I. What Is a Spiritual Mind?
- A. A mind that understands that God's way of carrying out His purpose is always by the
- process of death and resurrection
- 1. The Lord's utterances of death and resurrection
- a. Related to the church - Matt. 16:18-25
- b. Related to the kingdom - Matt. 17:22-23 and 20:17-19
- c. Related to His death - Matt. 26:1-2
- B. A mind that applies the process of death and resurrection to all things by the Spirit
- - Rom. 8:11-13 and Gal. 5:24-25
- 1. To sin - Rom. 6:1-11
- 2. To the Law - Rom. 7:1-4
- 3. To the natural life - John 12:24-26
- 4. To the flesh - 1 Pet. 4:1-2
- 5. To the body - 1 Cor. 15:35-38
- 6. To our environment - 2 Cor. 1:8-10
- 7. To becoming a life-supplying member - 2 Cor. 4:8-12
- 8. To our relationships in the new creation - 2 Cor. 5:14-17
- 9. To our weaknesses - 2 Cor. 13:3-4
- 10. To our self - Gal. 2:19-20
- 11. To the world - Gal. 6:14-15
- 12. To ordinances and division - Eph. 2:13-16
- 13. To our own righteousness - Phil. 3:8-15
- 14. To our religious practices - Col. 2:10-15, 20-23
- 15. To our moral life - Col. 3:1-9
- 16. To our receiving reward at the judgment seat - 2 Tim. 2:1-12
- 17. To all kinds of sufferings - Heb. 11:33-39
- 18. To our being dealt with by God - Heb. 12:2-11
II. What Are Natural Concepts?
- A. When we reason and murmur against the way God does things in His sovereignty
- - Matt. 20:1-16; Rom. 9:11-23; 1 Cor. 1:18-31
- B. When we have the thought of ambition in the Lord's work - Matt. 20:20-24; 3 John
9-11;
- 1 Cor. 12:18, 24, 28
- C. When we think of exercising control over others versus serving one another
- Matt. 20:25-28; Rom. 12:15-16
- D. When we take care of formality and protocol rather than need - Matt. 20:29-34;
9:10-13