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A double-minded man is an unstable man. Jas. 1:18. You can never depend on him and for that reason God does not depend on him either. He is one thing today and something different tomorrow. He is spiritual one hour and carnal the next. He walks in a fog of opinions and clouds up the minds of those who listen to him. If you want to be spiritual, he shows you how to be spiritual, and if you want to be carnal, he makes excuses for it. He runs with the deer and chases with the hounds. If you do not agree with his talk, he will swing around to your side and agree with you. He is not dependable and, when you lean on him, he is like a staff that breaks and pierces through your hands. Do you wonder what makes him that way? The trouble is all in his mind. He cannot help himself. He is in the same predicament as the doubtful and reprobate and, barring a miracle, he will never recover himself. Satan's mind is the mind that is always looking to exalt self. You will find a vivid description of it in Isa. 14:12- 15. "For thou hast said in thine heart (mind), I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the side of the north, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." I will! I will! I will! That is Satan's mind. I have often seen that same mind working in the hearts of Christians. They are not satisfied with the thing that God has given them, but they must rise up and take away the thing that God has given to others. That wretched mind is at work in the world. It reaches out to grab that which belongs to another so that it can be consumed upon self. That same mind of Satan is at work in the church. We can see it everywhere. It was this mind that made Saul hate David. It was this mind that made Joseph's brethren sell him into Egypt. It was the same mind that was responsible for the gainsaying of Korah in his rebellion against Moses. I will! I will! I will! Did not the blessed Lord teach us that, if we would follow Him, we would have to deny self and take up the cross? The cross is for the crucifixion of self that Christ may live. "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." Phil 2:5. The mind, which was in Christ Jesus, was the Father's mind. Let us not miss this most essential point of truth. Jesus Christ divested Himself in absolute completeness of every trace of His own mind. The mind and the will, we must understand, are one and the same thing. The Son of God came not to do His own will but the will of Him that sent Him. The words He spake were not His own words. The works He did with all their signs and wonders were not His own works, but He did them at the bidding of the Father's mind. The self-life did not exist in Him. He never once pleased Himself about anything. Never once in all His blessed life did He seek to amuse Himself with excitement, but He found the apex of pleasure and joy in His unity with the Father's mind. The holy and glorious God finds all His pleasure in one thing and one thing alone, and that one thing is the fulfilling of His own infinite and eternal purposes, which were ordained in Him before beings, worlds, or ages began. Before angels hymned praises to His name or universes rolled into their orbits, before morning stars sang together or sons of God shouted for joy, the eternal purposes for all ages flourished in the mind of Him who is omniscient, immutable, omnipotent, and eternal. In the fulfilling of those eternal edicts the pleasure and joy of God finds complete satisfaction. There and there alone do those who have become one with His mind find their unending joy. While the world and a carnal church find transient pleasure in the excitements and trivialities of a passing age, rejoicing in the petty things they can hear or feel or taste or see or smell, those who are coming into the mind of Christ find pleasure in that thing which alone gives joy to the Lord; that is, the immutable purposes of His will. Poor ignorant little man strives to find satisfaction in the pleasurable excitements of the life he lives. He tries to enjoy himself in a moment's pleasure, an exciting game, an exotic scene, a delightful banquet, harmonious music, the pride of possession, or a thousand other fleeting things, all of which, when apart from the eternal purpose, leave us bereft of eternal joys. In speaking of the mind of Christ, we are speaking of the greatest power and authority in the universe. The truth I will endeavor to show you now will prove that all your eternal hopes of sonship and of the kingdom to come depend on one thing and one thing alone: that the mind of Christ dwell in you and that your own mind be crucified. We have already shown that "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." It is with the mind that a man thinks, and as he thinks, so he is. What your mind is, is what you are, and there is no escaping this conclusion. Your mind is your personality and your character. If a man has a niggardly personality, it is because he has a niggardly mind. If a man is a sadist, it is because he has a sadistic mind. If a man is generous, it is because he has a generous mind. You have often wondered why some unsavory people are the way they are, or perhaps you have wondered what makes you the way you are. Why are some people so mean? Why do they tell so many lies? Why do they love malicious gossip or delight in another's hurt? It is all in their minds. What their minds are, they are, too. TREASURES OF TRUTH, Volume 9, Here Is The Mind That Hath Wisdom [George R. Hawtin] ~ BOOK 20
Doctors have known for many years that a great variety of physical ailments come from the mind. Few people wish to hear that, but it is nonetheless true. Recently I listened to a medical report in which it was stated that sixty percent of all operations in the hospitals have a mental connection. I believe this to be true, and possibly, if we understand all the truth, the percentage would be much higher. If a man then has a carnal mind, will he not be carnal? If a man has a reprobate mind, will he not be a reprobate? And if a man has a covetous mind, will he not be covetous? Whatever a man is, whether covetous, proud, boastful, cantankerous, shiftless, twofaced, kind, gentle, generous, patient, or ten thousand other things, he is that way because his mind is that way. As he thinks in his mind, so he is. Let us now carry this thought a little further and we will soon come to the conclusion that the state of a man's mind is often manifested by physical changes. If a man is in a towering rage, no one needs to ask him, "Are you angry, sir?" The fact that he is angry is manifested all over his physical being. His eyes bulge and redden, his fists clench, his face may redden or go livid, and his heart doubles or triples its pace. Food will not digest in his stomach as long as he is angry. A glutton soon begins to look like a glutton. A harlot begins to look like a harlot. A drunkard begins to look like a drunkard, and a mendicant like a mendicant. I was interested in a paragraph from the magazine, Healthful Living. Because it confirms what is stated above, I will quote it here. "The individual who is given to worry, fretting, and other emotional and mental upsets is the one who is most likely to suffer from enlargement of the thyroid. It is a well-known fact that hyperthyroidism does not occur among drifters, beach-combers, bums, morons, idiots, and savages. They are a happy, careless, unworrying lot. For them there is only this afternoon and tomorrow never comes. They never suffer from high blood pressure, ulcers of the stomach, diabetes, or hyperthyroidism. These are diseases of civilization and of people who have too much on their mind." So you see that, according to medical science, the mind has a tremendous power over the body. The questions I am now going to ask will seem silly and preposterous at first, but you will soon see that they are both sane and scriptural and will bring into focus as nothing else I know the almost unbelievable power of the mind. Let us then ask the question, "If I could take your mind and put it in my head, would I not be exactly like you?" Is there anything you know that I would not know? Or anything that you could do that I could not do? If you were a musician, would I not also be a musician? If you were a skilled surgeon with many years experience, would I not be the same? I would have the same thoughts, the same reactions, and the same outlook on life as you. If, indeed, you could take my mind and let it dwell in you, would any knowledge, ability, or learning of mine be withheld from you? No! Absolutely no! Now then, if it were possible for a man to have his mind taken from him and the mind of a beast given him, what do you think he would be like? You would have no hesitation, I am sure, in saying, "The man would be like a beast," and so he would be. Recently the book of Daniel has opened many new treasures to my heart. This book that was closed up and sealed until the time of the end is opening and the seals are being broken. As I read the fourth chapter of the book that contains the awesome experience of the great and terrible king Nebuchadnezzar, I was amazed beyond words at the truth it bears concerning this hour when we shall in God's mercy become partakers of the mind oj Christ. We will quote extensively from this chapter, but I wish that all those who are reading would take time to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the fourth chapter so that we will understand better the thoughts we are to consider. The fourth chapter of Daniel was written by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. It is perhaps the only chapter in the Bible written by a Gentile. Nebuchadnezzar was a mighty monarch in his day, king of earthly kings. We are told by Herodotus that the city of Babylon was laid out in the form of a square occupying both sides of the river Euphrates. It was surrounded by an astonishing brick wall three hundred feet high, eighty-five feet wide, and from forty to sixty miles in length. The wall included about two hundred square miles of territory. A moat ran along the outside of the wall. The clay dug from the moat was used for sun dried brick. The wall was guarded by two hundred and fifty towers and was wide enough for four-horse chariots to turn about on. It was pierced by one hundred brass gates hung in brazen frames, and a wall along each bank of the Euphrates was pierced by twenty-five gates. Roofed bridges spanned the river and ferry boats plied from quay to quay. The city was surrounded by orchards and gardens all irrigated by canals from the river. The hanging gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, were gardens of trees and flowers planted on terraces, one upon TREASURES OF TRUTH, Volume 9, Here Is The Mind That Hath Wisdom [George R. Hawtin] ~ BOOK 21
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