The religious mind cannot please God, and
that is why religious people cannot be
disciples of Jesus Christ. The religious
mind operates from indoctrination, from
things that the person has learned,
rather than from operating from the
guidance of God. The difference between
the carnal man, the normal man, and the
child of God is that a child of God, the
son of God is led by the Spirit of God.
His actions and his reactions are
determined by the Holy Spirit, not
because he is being controlled, but
because he follows the guidance of the
Holy Spirit. The religious man operates
along what he believes;
he operates along those things that he
believes are right, and he feels safe and
justified when he does what he believes
to be proper and right, but he has no
relationship with Jesus. He is not led by
the Spirit of God, and religious people
reject the Holy Spirit. They reject Jesus.
They are self-sufficient in themselves,
they are separated from God. They are
idolaters who serve themselves, their own
beliefs, but they believe that they are
right. They will quote you Bible
scripture that they use to justify their
behavior, their actions, but they are not
in touch with Jesus. There are not led by
the Holy Spirit. Those who are being led
by the Spirit of God, they are the
children of God. If we are not led by the
Holy Spirit, then we cannot do the will of
God, and that is what most religious
people
do not understand; because they are not
born again. We have to be changed by the
renewing of our mind. The carnal mind
depends and trusts in himself, in that
which he believes to be right, and proper,
and justified, but the mind of the
born-again child of God is focused on
Christ, on Jesus. He gets his guidance
from the Holy Spirit.
The born-again child of God asks his
direction, his wisdom,
and everything about his life, he asks
from the Holy Spirit. He does not lean on
his own understanding, but he trusts in
the guidance of the Holy Spirit and that
is what the religious mind cannot
understand, because theye are not born
again; they have no relationship with God.
They do not know Jesus Christ and they
do not have the Spirit of Christ
dwelling in them. The reason for that is
that they refuse to submit themselves to
Jesus, they refuse to obey His words. They
refuse to repent of sin, they refuse
to repent of their carnal self
sufficient attitude of their religion.
They believe in their interpretation of
the Bible. The Words of God and the
guidance of the Holy Spirit needs no
interpretation;
it only needs obedience, and that is what
Jesus requires of us. He commands us to
repent, turn away from sin, turn away from
following after your own mind, and your
own desires; set your mind on Jesus, stop
sinning, be holy, obey His words the words
of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and then be
baptized in water, because He commanded it!
And for those who obey Jesus Christ, He
will make them new inside. He will give
His Spirit in them.
Those who are led by the Holy Spirit do
not trust in their common sense, they do
not trust in their own mind, they do not
trust in the beaten paths;
they trust in Jesus, because Jesus is God. He
is supernatural,
He is above all things, and He does
things in His way.
If we do not deny ourselves, if we do not
reject our religious mind and our
self-centered attitude, our
self-righteousness, our self-idolatry, and
totally trust in Jesus, totally obey Him
and do as He commanded, we will not
experience the power of God we will not
experience the kingdom of God. We have to
reject our religious mind, reject
everything that we have learned and that
we believe to be true, right, and
justified,
and put our trust in Jesus, be taught by
the Holy Spirit and be led by the Holy
Spirit. Do not jump to conclusions, do not
trust in your own understanding, but
fully trust in Jesus Christ.
Be led by the Holy Spirit, pray always, and
He will put l
put the mind of Christ in you. When you
pray, He will put the answer, the solution,
the understanding, in your mind and you
will be led by the Spirit of God, and you
will be pleasing to God. If we are not
led by the Holy Spirit, we cannot be
pleasing to God. We cannot be fruitful for
the kingdom of God, and we will not be
able to do the will of God. There is only one
way to please Jesus, and that is to
follow the guidance of His Holy Spirit,
the Spirit of Truth, that the world
cannot receive, because it does not trust
Him,
neither does it know Him.
Seek Jesus, obey Him, trust Him and ask
Him to fill you with His Holy Spirit and
then be led by the Holy Spirit, to be
pleasing to Jesus.
May Jesus bless you.