IT IS A LIFE FASHIONED ON GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN (2)

Through this act of God in regeneration, the maladjustment within the believer’s human personality is remedied. A proper balance between the constituent parts is restored; the sovereignty of the spirit over the soul and body is revived. The human spirit is again the premier in the governmental affairs of the human being, and the soul and body are its loyal and faithful underlings.

The human soul becomes the illumined vessel of the divine Spirit.

1. The mind is renewed. The spiritual man is spiritually minded. He thinks the thoughts of God. He craves divine wisdom (1 Corinthians 2:7); he sits at the feet of a divine Teacher (John 16:13); he loves God with all his mind (Matthew 22:37); he minds the things of the Spirit (Romans 8:5); he thinks on the things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report (Philippians 4:8); he is of one mind with his brethren (Philippians 2:2); he has the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16) so he is of sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7); and every thought is brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5). Intellect, reason, and every faculty of his mind are renewed and illumined by Him who knows the mind of God.

Ephesians 4:23

“And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.”

Romans 8:6
“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

Philippians 2:5
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”

2. The heart is purified. The spiritual man is pure-hearted. He wants to possess his inheritance in Christ so he sets his affection on things above (Colossians 3:2); he craves the vision of God granted only to the pure in heart (Matthew 5:8); he desires to see his Lord which is only the prerogative of the holy (Hebrews 12:14); he seeks the conformity to Christ promised upon His return to those who purify themselves even as He is pure (1 John 3:2), and so he allows the Holy Spirit to do within him all needed work of pruning and purifying.

Acts 15:8-9

“And God which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.”

1 Thessalonians 3:13
“To the end that he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.”

3. The will is energized. The spiritual man knows that at the center of Satan’s being is self-will and that everyone in whose life self-will is supreme is the seed and the subject of Satan. He knows that at the center of Christ’s being is God’s will and that everyone in whose life God’s will is supreme is the seed and the subject of Christ. He has compared and contrasted the “I will” of Satan, Isaiah 14:12-15 and its result in Revelation 20:7-15 with the “I will” of Christ in Hebrews 10:5-13 and its result in Philippians 2:5-11 and has decided to cast in his lot for time and eternity with Jesus Christ the obedient, dependent One, The spiritual man looks to the Holy Spirit to work in and then work out God’s perfect will within him.

Hebrews 13:21

“Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever.

Philippians 2:13
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.“

Source: “Life on the Highest Plane” by Ruth Paxson

Now may the God of peace—
Who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus,
the great Shepherd of the sheep,
and ratified an eternal covenant with His blood—
May He equip you with all you need
For doing His will.
May He produce in you,
through the power of Jesus Christ,
Every good thing that is pleasing to Him.
All glory to Him forever and ever! Amen.
Hebrews 13:20-21