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are spiritually discerned. Therefore I approach this sublime truth, this celestial realm of the mind of Christ, with
more than usual fear and trembling.
"As heaven is higher than the earth," saith God, "so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than
your thoughts." Therefore we cry out in our ignorance and earth-bound understanding, "Where is the wise
man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the
world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through
the folly of what we preached to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called,
both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser
than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men." 1 Cor. 1:20-25. (Revised Standard).
Dare we then in the light of such an admonition as this approach God proudly displaying our D.D.'s, our
Ph.D.'s, and our L.L.B.'s? Do you know that all such is the wisdom of this world which comes to naught? Have
we never learned that the world by wisdom knew not God? 1 Cor. 1:21. Have we forgotten the exhortation of
the apostle James when he said, "Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that
we who teach will be judged with greater strictness." James 3:1. (Goodspeed). Oh that men, Christian men,
would humble themselves before the feet of God and divest themselves of all their pride in every form of
human wisdom, confessing that they know nothing as they ought to know! Oh that God's children would cast
aside the filthy garments of human understanding and throw away the leafy aprons fashioned from the evil tree
of human knowledge that gives us man's understanding of what is good and what is evil and what is right and
what is wrong! Then would God teach us His secret wisdom, even the wisdom hidden from all ages and
dispensations but which is now being revealed to those who are wholly His. All who would learn God's doctrine
and those who would receive God's knowledge must first be weaned from the milk of human understanding
and drawn from the breasts of our earthly mother. There is a natural realm and there is a spiritual realm. There
is a wisdom from beneath and there is a wisdom from above. There is a man who is of the earth earthy and
there is a man who is one mind with the Lord from heaven.
In the first two chapters of Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians the apostle unfolds a wealth of truth concerning
the mind. I think I am right in saying that Paul clearly shows that all conditions whether good or bad extant
among us are the product of the mind. Whether those conditions be wars, fightings, divisions, or blessed
harmony and peace, all stem from the mind. The point that I wish to make very clear is simply this: Three kinds
of minds are clearly shown in scripture. There is no possible way of avoiding this conclusion. There is the
natural mind, which possesses the natural man. It is his natural unregenerate mind that keeps him a natural
man. The natural mind cannot possibly receive the things of God. 1 Cor. 2:14. Everything that man does is
totally in the natural. He is of the earth earthy. He thinks in the natural realm, talks in the natural realm,
understands only in the natural realm. His conversation may be very interesting, he may be very well learned,
well versed and very clever after this present age, but all his understanding is in this earthly realm and
hermetically sealed in the natural. The simplest of spiritual truths are far over his head. In all probability he has
never once heard the call of God in any way, much less responded to it. He is a natural man with a natural
mind. Living in a natural world, he sees, hears, and understands only what is natural. As the ears of the deaf
are fast closed to every beautiful sound - the singing of the birds, the voices of loved ones, the roaring of the
surf - so his ears are closed to all that is spiritual and none but God can ever open them. As the eyes of the
blind are fast closed to the beauties of the sunset, the magnificence of the mountains and the glory of the hills,
so his eyes see not any spiritual thing, because he is a natural man with a natural mind, totally insensitive to
the wonders of that heavenly realm that is high as heaven is high above the earth. A man cannot be spiritual
and natural at the same time.
The second mind is the carnal mind. The carnal mind is described in scripture as being the enemy of God.
Rom. 8:7. It is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be, so that they who are in the flesh cannot
please God. Those last words, in the flesh, show us exactly what the carnal mind is. Our word carnal comes
from the Latin word carni. Carni means flesh. The only part of man that is made of flesh is his body. The
physical body is the flesh. The carnal mind is the fleshly mind. The fleshly mind is the mind that is always
concerned about the welfare of the human body and how to cater to its passions - eating, drinking, hearing,
seeing, smelling, and feeling. It is nothing more or less than this. It is the body that stands in the way of all
spiritual progress. The flesh is such a deceiver that its true identity was hidden from God's people for centuries,
TREASURES OF TRUTH, Volume 9, Here Is The Mind That Hath Wisdom [George R. Hawtin] ~ BOOK 28