Corruption of Mind

"...Since the fall, good and evil has tried to control our lives. We cannot find our identity by the things we do or by the knowledge of things and people. As their identity was based on the knowledge of good and evil, their behavior was in opposition to their created purpose.
...As we judge our circumstances through the self-knowledge we acquired of good and evil, it will keep us away from the presence of God. Flesh fights the Spirit and our mind and conscience becomes the judge instead of God. Our behavior is a reaction to protect our sinful conscience.
Did you never wonder why Jesus repeatedly told us not to judge but to have mercy and forgiveness so that we are not guided by our knowledge of good and evil? Instead, he said, put on the mind of God, which is full of mercy and forgiveness because that is the Kingdom thinking we had before the fall.
...Many times we try to obtain the kingdom with our fleshly efforts of obeying rules never realizing that God is speaking about awakening of the spirit man. The spirit man does not live by the awareness of rules and laws. He lives by keeping alive his desire for God and by having communion with God. The spirit man seeks the law and order of the Spirit, which is not the same as the law, and traditions of man. We need to find a key to awaken the inner man who is asleep or dead due to the effects of the knowledge of good and evil. What is this key to awaken the inner man?
(Matthew 5:6) Righteousness is the key to opening and restoring the life of the inner man. It means to be upright, to be just, fair-minded and having a clear conscience. (Philippians 1:11) To be filled with the fruits of righteousness, means to have the fruits of the Spirit within our minds.
...How do we put on the mind of Christ?
We have to start with a clear conscience before God. To have a clear conscience is to be rid of unconfessed sin and the effects of sin. If we are not rid of the effects of our sin, we will not be able to give God the freedom to move through us. We will still act guilty and our behavior will be a reaction to justify our guiltiness... The person you may have been in the past through sinful actions still causes you guilt and shame. Jesus wants us to be absolutely free from the remembrance of our past lives. If these effects are not washed from our minds, we will carry these tainted thoughts of ourselves into our ministry and relationships with others. We will not be able to be righteous and fair-minded because our judgements will reflect our self-condemnation, guilt, self-hate, anger and criticism. If we have the mind of Christ, our ability to judge will not be the center of our lives, but our center will be the Father, Himself, who imparts into us a new understanding, to understand as He does, frees our conscience through the Blood of Christ.
(Philippians 2:5) Jesus had only one desire and that was to fulfill the Father’s will for his life. He retained the knowledge of the will of the Father in His mind. It was always present before Him. This is the new understanding. Because of the constant awareness of the Father’s will, he could accomplish His purpose in life without regard for His personal suffering.
In the assessment of good and evil, we will not have this all present awareness and knowledge of God. It is because we do not retain the present knowledge of God’s will that our minds become reprobate. This knowledge is the experience of God’s love for us. Without it, self-love dominates our lives.
Reprobate means to make morality bad or crooked. This reprobate mind causes us to turn from our original purpose of creation to yield to the destroyer. We put into action the evil that our mind conceives. This reprobate mind will make a soul desolate as the light of revelation, which gives the soul life, is completely refused. The reprobate mind lives for self-gratification.
By seeking the Kingdom first, we redirect our minds to Christ. This redirection of our mind to be like the mind of Christ, channels our emotions to develop in the fruits of the Spirit. We identify ourselves with Christ’s love to fulfill the Father’s will to restore all men to Himself. We will not identify ourselves by our needs and pleasure, but by His will and pleasure."
-Sigi