{"id":361,"date":"2021-01-20T10:26:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=361"},"modified":"2021-02-21T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:02:50","slug":"the-renewed-mind-pt2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"the renewed mind pt2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>The battle for our minds has already been won, praise God! But it\u2019s still raging \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>So what\u2019s our part in the battle, if we already have the mind of Christ? Is the renewing of our mind solely the work of the Holy Spirit?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>As we saw in the previous article, \u2018<em>we have the mind of Christ\u2018<\/em>&nbsp;(1 Cor. 2:16). The renewed mind is part of the new man (or better, the new humanity, the new creation), but we note from other Scriptures that we are instructed to \u2018let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus\u2019 (Phil. 2:5), and to be \u2018renewed in the spirit of your mind\u2019 (Eph. 4:23). Is this a contradiction? Or yet another mystery we won\u2019t understand this side of heaven?<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battle for our minds has already been won, praise God! But it\u2019s still raging \u2026 So what\u2019s our part in the battle, if we [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}