WHAT’S IN YOUR MIND?

WHAT’S IN YOUR MIND?

DOC LYNCH

Like a channel on the TV or Radio. If you set your TV to channel 4, you are with great probability, going to get programming for channel 4.

If you set your satellite radio to Classic Rock, you are more likely to rock and roll than gospel.

We watch, listen to, partake in, what we set our minds to enjoy.

Romans 8:5 (AMP) – "For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit."

If you set your mind receiver to the FLESH channel, you will begin to die in your spirit. If you set it to the SPIRIT channel you will get LIFE and PEACE.

Romans 8:6 (AMP) – "For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace."

I lived in ignorance of that verse for half my life, as does the sum total of non-believers in Jesus do. The other half I lived in acceptance of it. The other half has proven to me it is the TRUTH of God.

It's just like God to make it almost too simple rather than extremely complicated. Yet, even many "believers" miss the simplicity of it.

They miss it ignorantly…OR they CHOOSE to.

Romans 8:7-8 (AMP) – "For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God."

Like the popular credit card commercial that asks, "What's in your wallet?", let me ask you, "What's in your mind?"

We more often than not show people who we are by our actions. If we are a believer and disciple of Jesus, then we hope we are showing that to everyone by how we act and present ourselves. That is being a good witness for Jesus. As such we strive not to bring shame and reproach upon Jesus and His Church.

That's why Paul says we are "HOSTILE" to God when we act contrary.

Sadly, when acting contrary to God's preference of "Living in the Spirit", we literally cannot please Him.

In the FLESH we CANNOT please God.

There are severe repercussions to that, the worst of course being eternally separated from Him.

I expect that from people who are ignorant to Jesus and do not know better. I have no more expectation of them suddenly living to please God anymore than a leopard changing from spots to stripes.

But I am continually stymied and confounded by those who CLAIM to know Jesus and PURPOSELY short circuit their faith and embarrass themselves before God and their church and their family and friends by continuously reverting back to the life of the rank sinner they once were (or more fitting, who they really are in their heart).

"Who they REALLY are."

Try as some may, there just is no pleasing God when a person chooses the lower and base life. And if there is no pleasing God then there is NO living with Him. And if there is no living with HIM, than the list of alternatives just got a whole lot shorter.

I'm Pastor Doc Lynch from Revival Life Church, 21 Executive Center Drive, New Milford, CT 06776, and I have learned to live with the heaviness of heart that comes from watching people shrivel up and spiritually die before my eyes. It's heavy to bear because I have loved many people who just couldn't pull it together. I have watched the personal destruction of individuals, as well as the dissolution of ENTIRE families. No, life in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth is often right alongside the worst of the human condition and all its sorrows. It's tough to watch the foul, defiant, and the arrogant as they give the middle finger to the world as well as to anything decent, and all the while really, really believing there will never be a consequence. We here at Revival Life Church believe we have the answer to change things around for people, and it is in the Person of Jesus Christ. We have Worship on Sunday at 10:00 a.m. Why not stop by and find refreshment for your soul?

Be REVIVED today! It’s what we aim for!

~Pastor Doc Lynch~