What Are You Thinking?

we grow up, however, we’re supposed to escape fantasy and live in reality. But the natural mind causes us to live in fantasy as opposed to reality.

Therefore, we are naturally opposed to the gospel because the gospel comes along and does not speak fantasy to us. It comes and speaks reality. God tells us things as they really are. He causes us to see things as they really are rather than the way we would like to believe or hope they are.

In Colossians 2:18 and Romans 8:7, Paul talks about the fleshly, sensuous, hostile, or unspiritual mind (depending on your Bible translation). This is a mind that is prone toward lust and all the things that we call the flesh. In Titus 1:15, Paul talks about the corrupted or defiled mind. We are born with this kind of inclination.

We are born with a mind that is perverted. With a corrupt, depraved, fleshly, futile, sensuous, defiled mind, am I capable of doing a whole lot of correct thinking?

Of course not.

In 1 Corinthians 1:18, Paul says, “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” The word of the cross is folly to those who are still living in the natural state. They don’t comprehend what God is doing. Why? Because they don’t have the spiritual nature within them. Spiritual truth can only be perceived by people who have a spirit, by people whose spirit has made them alive.

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