THE GODLY MIND: RENEWED, CONVINCED, DETERMINED

  1. New Bible Study! Change Your Mind
  2. THE MIND OF THE LORD (Part 2)
  3. THE REMEMBERING MIND (part 1)
  4. THE REMEMBERING MIND (part 2)
  5. THE CARNAL (WORLDLY) MIND
  6. THE DOUBLE-MIND (Part 1)
  7. THE DOUBLE-MIND (Part 2)
  8. THE MIND OF CHRIST
  9. THE TROUBLED & ANXIOUS MIND
  10. THE GODLY MIND: RENEWED, CONVINCED, DETERMINED
  11. THE GODLY MIND: RENEWED, CONVINCED, DETERMINED
  12. THE GODLY MIND: RENEWED, CONVINCED, DETERMINED

DETERMINED MIND

We must Seek and then Set our minds on spiritual things, not things on the earth.  Serving God is a decision.  Being a Christian is a deliberate and determined way of living.  No one is a Christian or behaves like one by accident.

Colossians 3:1-4  Seek and Set

Verse 1:

How were we “raised with Christ?” (refers back to 2:12)________________________

What do we do to “seek things above”?_____________________________________

 Verse 2:

To set your mind on something is to focus on it.

Who is your mind set on?________________________________________________

What is your mind set on?________________________________________________

What is being contrasted?________________________________________________

“Set your mind on” – Greek:  phroneo – to exercise the mind, to interest oneself in

            Matthew 6:19-21

            Where are we to lay up our treasure?________________________________

            Circle the word “but”.  What two things are being contrasted?

            _______________________________________________________________

            How does the “location” of our treasure show what our mind is set on?

                        _______________________________________________________________

Verse 3:

Who died?____________________________________________________________

Where is your life now?__________________________________________________

            Galatians 2:20

            Who now lives in Me?_____________________________________________

            How are we to live our life in the flesh?_______________________________

Verse 4:

Who is our life?________________________________________________________

Isaiah 26:3,8

What does Isaiah say that God will give us if our mind is on Him?_________________

How does trust play a part in our determination to follow Him?__________________

What should be the “desire of our soul”?____________________________________

The thoughts in our mind are what can make us determined to follow Him.

1 Chronicles 29:18

David offers prayer when the people bring their offerings for the building of the Temple.

He prays “keep this (their willingness to offer) forever in the ______________

_____________________________________________________________________

And fix _____________________________________________________________ “.

He wants the people to continue to be determined to serve.

Are we as determined to serve? To give?

Proverbs 16:3

By doing the “works of the Lord, it will do what to our thoughts?____________

Proverbs 12:5

How does God see the thoughts of the righteous?_____________________________

(from Gospel Advocate “light moments” email) 
We don’t need to be psychology majors to know behavior begins in the mind. Spiritually speaking, obedience begins in the mind too. This is why Paul taught us in 2 Corinthians 10:5 to “take every thought captive to obey Christ.” What we think about, what we meditate on, what we hope in: these are the foremost factors in deciding what kind of fruit our lives will produce.  
To bear fruit for God, we must consciously set our minds on 
 • “the things of God”
            Matthew 16:23 Peter did not have his mind set on the things of God
• “the things of the Spirit”
            Romans 8:5 Those who live according to the Spirit will have their minds wet on what?________________________________________________ • “the things that are above”
            Colossians 3:2 “Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth.”

We must be determined to be a disciple of Jesus.  He does not want half-hearted, lukewarm followers.  Are you determined to follow Him and have you set your mind on Him?