When a Christian walks like an unbeliever, they get the same results-death.
Without understanding, you can’t release the life that’s in it. The knowledge of God is critical, but must be understood to be useful. “Understanding” actually swallows and digests it so that the beneficial nutrients can be released into your body. “Knowledge” puts food into your mouth and chews. Understanding is the application of knowledge. “Ephesians 4:18 talks about “having the understanding darkened.” If you don’t renew your mind and use it to study and meditate God’s Word, it’ll automatically gravitate toward what you can see, taste, hear, smell, and feel. Open that closed valve and let peace flow!” All the while, God’s peace has been present in your spirit, but you haven’t drawn it out. You’re busy thinking about the potential damage, considering what the problem has done to others, and hashing through their opinions on the subject. Peace-an emotion-is linked to the way you think! Your lack of peace isn’t because of any circumstance or person it’s just that you’ve allowed your mind to be dominated by what you can see, taste, hear, smell, and feel. Your born-again spirit is always in perfect peace-it’s just a matter of drawing it out! On the other hand, you won’t experience the peace within when your mind stays fixed on your problems. As your mind stays on Him, your soul agrees with your spirit, and God’s peace is released into your soul and body. It doesn’t matter what your physical circumstances might be-God can keep you in perfect peace! “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee” (Is. When your thoughts are dominated by what the Word says, you’re spiritually minded. But spiritual mindedness produces life and peace! Jesus declared, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). In this fallen world, being dominated by your natural senses produces death. “Death” means “anything that’s a result of sin.” This isn’t limited only to the ultimate physical death of your body but includes all of death’s progressive effects as well (i.e., sadness, loneliness, bitterness, illness, anger, poverty, etc.). Simply stated, carnal mindedness = death, and spiritual mindedness = life and peace (Rom. “Spiritual mindedness releases the flow of God’s life in you, but carnal mindedness shuts it off. No matter how hard you try, you’ll never measure up to God’s perfection through your own efforts in the physical, emotional, and mental realms.” Even when you’ve been seeking the Lord wholeheartedly, you still have negative and impure thoughts in your mind. Even at your best, you still fall short of doing everything you should. You aren’t worthy to come into His presence based on the righteousness and holiness of your thoughts and actions. You cannot approach God unless you come to Him through the righteousness and true holiness of who you are in the spirit. Your spirit is the part of you that completely changed. That’s why you must worship Him in spirit and truth! “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). The degree of holiness you live outwardly may vary, but the nature of your born-again spirit is righteousness and true holiness. Right now in your spirit, you are righteous and holy! At times, you might think, I’m getting holier, but in reality, you’re just referring to your actions in the physical realm. You need to recognize and acknowledge your true self in God’s mirror.
Renew your mind to the Word, and put on the new man! Ephesians 4:24 plainly reveals that your born-again spirit-the new man-was created after God in righteousness and true holiness. “But ye have not so learned Christ If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts And be renewed in the spirit of your mind And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness” (Eph.
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