Romans 133
What
does Our Attitude Reflect?
Brian Kocourek
This evening I would like to take our message from the Book of Romans again, but we shall go back to Romans 12 and Romans 15 to take our text.
Romans
Romans 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant
you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
2 Corinthians
The Greek word for mind here is phroneo,
pronounced fron-eh'-o, and means not just to think,
not just unreasoned opinion, but rather the way you think, to be minded in a
certain way, or be mindful, specifically concerning moral interest and
reflecting upon it, Thus it really
refers to our attitude. And we find that our attitude is a very important part
of our worship and belief system.
LORD I BELIEVE
53-0901 E-19 You've come in the right
attitude. No one ever come to Christ in the right attitude, but what went away
with what they asked for.
We find that our attitude is what determines our reward.
RESURRECTION THE 53-1205 E-26 You
say, "Will God stand and judge me at the day of judgment?" No, your attitude towards Him now,
you're judging yourself. God has already pronounced, "The day you eat
thereof that day you die." That just settles it. He has to stay by that;
He don't have to pronounce any more judgment. Your attitude towards it is the recompence. What you think of His way of escape, if you
refuse to walk in His way, then you're already judging yourself as you judge
Him.
Therefore the attitude we have towards God’s Word is critical
to what we receive from God. Therefore, it is most important that we have the
right attitude. And what better attitude could we have than the attitude of
Christ Himself. Thus in the Book of Philippians, we find Paul saying, 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus, and from the New International Version it reads, Let this attitude
that was in Christ be in You.
Therefore what we are looking at here is our attitude, and what
attitude we are reflecting.
PHILIPPIANS 2:1 ¶ If [there be] therefore any
consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit,
if any bowels and mercies, 2 Fulfil ye my joy, that
ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let
nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on
his own things, but every man also on the things of others.:
Demonology 1 Physical 53-0608A
P:23 I realize as I treat the
people I'm treating God. Just my attitude towards you is my attitude towards
Christ. And your attitude towards me is the same thing (That's right.), towards
Christ.
Now, we took for our text tonight several Scriptures that speaks of having the same mind one with another. Now, this
does not speak of everyone becoming a bunch of mindless robots having no mind
of your own, but rather speaks of having the same attitude towards one another
as Christ had for us. Therefore when we read this word Phroneo
in the scripture it matters not whether it is speaking for God seed or serpent
seed, it means the same thing, and that is the attitude we are expressing. In
Romans 8 and Philippians 3, we find it speaks of our not having the attitude of
the world, but rather of the Spirit.
ROMANS 8:1¶ There is therefore now no
condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made
me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that
it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness
of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after
the Spirit. 5 For they that are after
the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit
the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually
minded [is] life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God:
for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot
please God.
PHILIPPIANS
And we are told if we have the wrong attitude, God through His
Holy Spirit will bring your attitude around to the right way of thinking.
GALATIANS 5:10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
PHILIPPIANS 1:27 ¶ Only let your conversation be
as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else
be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind (with the same attitude) striving together
for the faith of the gospel;
PHILIPPIANS
PHILIPPIANS 4:2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same
mind (with the same attitude) in the Lord.
COLOSSIANS 3:1¶If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the
right hand of God. 2 Set your affection (Set
your attitude) on
things above, not on things on the earth.