We must have a supernatural perspective

I want to invite you to look in your Bibles at First Corinthians, Chapter 2, and I want to continue this exploration of what we call the Holy Spirit-filled life.

And I want to remind you, last Sunday I think it was, yes, last Sunday, we were talking about the differences between the merely religious life and the life in the spirit, what is the formal, superficial religion, and what is the vibrant and living spirituality that God wants us to live.

And you will remember that I was talking about that for me one of the key differences is that the formal, religious life is a life oriented towards the external, places, rites, people, teachings, doctrines. While the life of the spirit is a life inward. We used the Samaritan woman as an illustration and the Lord spoke of 'he who believes in me, rivers of living water will flow from within him'. And the Lord was speaking to her that it is not about external places of worship, where you have to go, she said, well, we Samaritans worship here and you Jews worship there and who is it that has the reason?

And the Lord Jesus Christ told her, 'look, woman, it is true that the Jews are worshiped there, in Jerusalem, we have the truth, because there is such a thing as truth, and doctrine has its place certainly, but he says, but the day will come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.

That is, they will not only be limited, but the spirit will be within them and their life will be an internally oriented life, where the Father dwells within them, and they can continually go to that source that they carry within. . That was the idea of the well, the woman had to go and draw the water outside, with a lot of effort, like formal religion, which requires a lot of effort. While he says, I am going to give you a water that will be inside you, it will spring up to eternal life.

And another of the things we were saying is that spiritual, vital religion, unlike formal religion, is a faith that depends on a relationship with a person, rather than on a belief system. Nothing is more graphic than that moment when the Lord tells the Samaritan woman, when she is talking about the Messiah, and he tells her, 'I am the one who is talking to you. I am the Messiah.

And this woman at one point is confronted with the messianic character of Jesus and then she runs off transformed. She goes from being a lonely, isolated woman, toiling away to draw water, when she is confronted with a real, divinely gifted person who is Jesus, she is instantly transformed. He runs out and then becomes an instrument of God.

Because it is what happens, when one has a vital experience with God, with the spirit of God, with Christ Jesus, with the person of Jesus, one changes from being a mere consumer to being a producer of life. and so she runs to her village, shares her experience with others and says, 'come and see, maybe this is the Messiah.'

So they come, they confront Jesus, they receive from him and then they say, 'You know what? Now we believe, not only because of your word but because we have experienced it.'

You see? That is the experiential life, what I would call the Christian experiential life that is so important, so necessary for us to understand those differences. And I want to continue this afternoon talking about the mentality that God wants us to have, a supernatural mentality.

Say everyone, supernatural. I want to talk about the differences between a natural mentality, merely intellectual, and a supernatural mentality. What is mindset? Mentality is a posture, a way of looking at things. Someone would say a worldview to use a ten dollar philosophical word, a worldview, a way of conceiving the world. Others speak of paradigms that are ways of conceiving the world, sometimes so deeply integrated into our sensitivity and our psyche that we don't even realize it's there. It is like a point of reference, it is a series of principles through which we combine life. and they are even expectations that we have about the world.

For example, the scientific, merely logical, rational mind believes that the world is only matter and that everything that can only be confirmed through experiments and through the senses is real. Everything else is questionable. That is a secular mentality, it is a rational mentality, it is a merely scientific mentality.

While the supernatural mind, the spiritual mind knows that there are other dimensions. In other words, it is a general attitude, and I want to talk to you about that mentality that we as Christians must have to which the word of God also calls us. I am increasingly convinced that much of what happens in our lives depends on what is here in our minds. Depending on our attitude, expectations, the things we assume about the world, will be the experience we have in the world, including our experience with God.

And that is why it is so important that we establish a correct platform, what I would call, an interpretative platform, a reference matrix to approach the world. And many Christians enter the Gospel but do not make the appropriate transitions to be able to think and be able to conjugate and be able to compute life correctly.

You know that in the world of computers there is what is called software. Look, for example, Microsoft Windows, it is a world that is installed on the computer and when you turn on the computer and you activate that software, what that system does is that it simply makes a number of potentialities possible for the moment, so you start writing, open a document and start writing and when you come to see you can produce a document and while you are writing the document you delete, you remove words, transfer texts from one place to another, delete things, etc. what makes all those specific transactions possible is the software, it's the platform that's surrounding everything you're doing. When you finish the document, you close and it disappears. But what made all the miracles of that moment possible is what is behind it, the program.

And it also happens, our mind and our worldview, our mentality is the program. And according to us, the program that we have, if it is a material, scientific, logical, rational, materialistic program, that will only allow certain things to occur in our life, because we are going to restrict our experience to that interpretation. I hope I'm not being too complicated, are you following me?

Now, if our program is a supernatural, comprehensive program, then there can be a number of other transactions: miracles, revelations, contacts with God, visitations of power, fruit in the Holy Spirit, gifts that they move in our life; because our platform is much broader, much bigger, you know what I mean?

This platform is, I would say, twenty-something feet, twenty-five feet by 11, 9, 10 feet more or less, only certain things can be done here. Why do our brothers dance down there and not here? Because the platform is too narrow to allow them to dance up here. So, here you can only have a number of very passive transactions, people standing still and a little space here for one to move. Because? Because the platform limits the possibilities.

If this platform were 25 feet deep and 30 feet wide, you could dance, you could have plots, you could have a whole orchestra, we could even bring a horse here to stand on two paws. But because it is small, it allows only modest, small transactions. And that is what I mean, as you expand your world of expectations, so God can act in it.

How many understand what I'm saying? Amen. And that is why it is important that we broaden the spiritual realm in which we move so that God can do everything he wants to do.

I believe that the Holy Spirit is willing to enter entire congregations, entire regions and make the world explode with his power, but we often stop him and say, that cannot happen. And sometimes God wants to walk in and break into a service and move and touch hearts and do healing and convince lives of his power and his reality, but we're so into our pattern, the way that we think it should be run. perform a service that we say to the Holy Spirit, you know what? If you want to work, work within this little square that we are opening for you. And the Lord says, no sir, I do not limit myself to the schemes of men, I am much more powerful, broader. And God wants to open our reference points, as he opens the reference point of this character that Stephanie introduces us to here.

God wants there to be a powerful experience with him and brothers, all these sermons that we have been preaching these days are aimed precisely at broadening our mentality. One of the......if you want to get into the text for reference, look up First Corinthians Chapter 2, verse 9 onwards.

But let me share another text, I'm already in the body of the sermon. In Isaiah 54, one of my favorite passages, the Lord tells a character who is a barren woman, He says, 'enlarge the place of your tent, he says, expand your curtains, don't be scanty, lengthen the ropes of your curtains and strengthen and widen your stakes because you will extend to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west.'

And look, I have always been captivated by the first thing he says there, and I don't think I'm on interpreting the text, it says 'enlarge the site of your tent...' He is talking about a tent, using a Bedouin or nomadic context, where many people lived in tents. He says, 'widen your tent site,' and then he says, 'expand your curtains, lengthen the cords of your curtains, and strengthen your poles...'

Why do you first say, widen the site of your store? What do you mean, the site of your store? The store site is the space where the store will go. One could say widen your lot, widen the plot, the land. Because? Because if you want to put a store, a bigger house in one place, what do you have to do first? You have to expand the place, yes or no? You are not going to put a house that is, say, a thousand square feet or two thousand square feet on a 500 square foot lot. It won't fit. First you have to widen the space and it is so, brothers, many times if you want to have powerful, transformative, broad experiences with God, you first have to widen the mental space, the expectation, the mentality, the platform, the matrix that is going to house the other things.

Can you say amen? They understand? That's why it's important, I'm not talking about mere theory here, I'm talking about things that have very deep, practical implications.

Now let's go to First Corinthians, Chapter 2, beginning with verse 1. I won't have time to explain everything, but at least I think I have established the base of what I want to say. This is the Apostle Paul writing to the Corinthians, he says:

“So, brothers, when I came to you to tell you the testimony of God…..– he is speaking of a visit he made to the city of Corinth and he is interpreting what he did there when he visited that Corinthian church - .... when I went to you to preach to you, to teach you, I did not go with excellence of words or wisdom...”

Paul was an extremely learned and erudite man. He had been trained in all the theological swordsmanship of the Pharisees under the feet of one of the great teachers of his time, Gamaliel. Paul had a very large theological, intellectual framework and he could very well, as we see in many of his writings, for example in the epistle to the Romans, he could very well speak words of wisdom and could impress people with a complexity Dazzling theology, and he could make very complex sermons, with many points and sub-points and clauses and sub-clauses, so many Scriptures in fact.

But he says here that when he went to the Corinthians it was not with excellence of words or wisdom, not because excellence of word was bad, nor because wisdom is bad. Now, when he talks about wisdom here, he is talking about that superficial, merely rhetorical wisdom that many times so many sermons dress up.

He says, I did not come to you with much complex preaching, he says, “....because I determined not to know anything among you... – that 'I determined' is very significant, because it means that he made a firm prior determination, he made a resolution to go there in a very simple way - ..... I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ..."

Look here what is so important in this dimension... if someone can take care of that little boy up there, I would greatly appreciate it since he interrupts me a little? Thanks brothers.

Again, he proposes two things, he says: I wanted to isolate Jesus Christ only one thing and I wanted to present Jesus, because brothers, I always tell you this: the Christian life is an immensely rich and complex life . I would say that there are very few theological systems in the world, of religions as complex as Christianity. So much so that tens of thousands of volumes dealing with Christian theology have been written, I would say. Christianity is an extremely complex faith, rich in every way.

However, Christianity is not a religion of only doctrine but its true foundation is a person, the person of Christ Jesus, and its foundation is a series of acts, actions that God has carried out , which are recorded in his word. That is why I believe that a large part of the Bible is written in narrative form, because it recounts the facts of God, the acts of God.

The Jews always spoke of the acts of God when they crossed the Red Sea, when they were freed from Pharaoh's yoke, when God had them in the desert, when he opened the Jordan River before them, when he defeated the enemy tribes that inhabited the land of Canaan. They were facts, they were acts, they were actions on the part of God that later, when interpreted, produce a theology and a system of thought, but first of all, that experience with God.

And I think it's very important, I've always said that, of course, we need a theological frame of reference, but you know what? Many times people put the cart before the horse and then many times in the church and in the experience of the church, and the churches in general and the ministries, we base people on teaching and doctrine and what we produce are people with a very big head, but with a very small heart and spirit.

While I believe, personally and this may sound controversial, but I believe that the first thing that we have to give people, provide for them, is an experience with the power and the reality of the Holy Spirit, of the God's spirit. And when people are confronted and broken and crumbled by the power of God and its reality, then comes introspection and interpretation, and knowing.

But many times I believe that in the evangelical world we bring people and we base them on a series of teachings and doctrine and then what we create, again is a people that is ethical, it is very moral and very knowledgeable of certain dimensions, by the way, of the word of God, but they do not have an experience, they do not have that power they need to decapitate the devil when he comes to attack their lives, they do not have that intensity, that vibrancy, for invent a word, of the true Christian life.

I think that first, every day, I reflect more on that, first there must come a confrontation with the power of God and then there must come the instruction that interprets that and frames it in the correct way.

There are many passages I could use from that. I was thinking, for example, of a passage in which Christ heals the blind man at a given moment, the Lord Jesus Christ heals a blind man and that blind man meets the Pharisees who are jealous of what Jesus has done. This blind man does not know who Jesus really is, when Jesus heals him Jesus does not say, look, I am the Son of God, the promised Messiah, none of those things, he just heals the blind man. And then the Pharisees come and tell him, 'Give glory to God, confess that the miracle that this man performs is by demonic power, because the devil allows him to do it.' And the blind man says, look at what the blind man says, with that instinctive theology of man who has had an encounter with the power of God, he says, 'whether it is from God or not from God, I don't know, but I know one thing. that I was blind and now I see'.

But things don't stop there. You see, there are many people who cannot articulate why they believe in God, in systemic, theological terms, they will never be able to fight with a materialist or non-materialist theologian because otherwise they would not be a theologian, but there are times theologians who are actually materialists. Materialism is a theology, inverse and negative, but it is a theology. But there are people who perhaps cannot articulate their faith systemically, although it is very good that they do and can do it, but when they have had a seal from the Holy Spirit and have had an experience with God, no one can move them from that, maybe They may stutter and hold back in an argument, but you can't get them out of the fact that God is real, that God has sealed it with his spirit.

And brothers, I tell you the truth, I prefer that time as a believer at any time, although that is also why we have a discipleship class and we do so many things here in this church to indoctrinate the people about the truth of the word of God because we believe it is important,... setting priorities. What's going on? That when he says the word, look it up later, Luke 6 I think it is, it says that when Jesus found out, by the way, they expel this blind man from the synagogue, they tell him, you can't go back to the synagogue in the city. And the poor man is wandering around perhaps a little depressed and demoralized and says that the Lord, when he found out that they had expelled him from the synagogue, goes to meet him. How beautiful is the Lord, how merciful, the Son of God is looking for this blind man there, he is no longer blind but he is an insignificant citizen but he is interested in ministering to this man.

I think it's worth it, search quickly, Lucas, I think it's Luke 6, I think this passage is important. Well, I'm not going to waste time, I don't think he's there, but the fact is that he meets the blind man and talks to him about being expelled from the synagogue and he says, 'you know the Son of God', and he says, 'I don't know who he is for me to believe in him,' and Jesus tells him again, 'I am the one talking to you.' And do you know what the blind man does? It says prostrated before Jesus he adored him.

In other words, here's something important and it's this: notice the first part was a naked encounter with the power of Christ. There was not much theological insight at that time but after the encounter with God, after the healing effect of Jesus Christ, I hear the Bible, now they are curious to know where it is, right? If anyone finds it, raise your hand and let me know. Look in your blind concordance, you will find it there.

The fact is that when he has experienced the healing power of Christ and now it comes, after the healing and the encounter comes the theological interpretation. Then Christ tells him, you know, the one who has healed you, I am the Son of God, I am the Messiah.

That's the teaching and doctrine part. And so there are so many of the same passages that we see that same kind of process. The woman with the issue of blood, knows that Jesus, there is a power in him, there is a healing power. She doesn't know that he is the Son of God, she may not even care who he is. She knows there is a power of God in him and she goes into the crowd, does any number of things to touch the hem of Jesus' garment. There is a blind faith in it. and when she touches the hem of Jesus' cloak she is immediately healed. And what does the Lord do? He stops and then turns to her and talks to her and ministers to her and gives her peace and says, 'your sins are forgiven, go in peace.'

And then that woman can leave having also resolved her emotional need. Because the power of God comes first and then comes knowledge, the most understood ministration of the word of God.

I want, brothers, to always encourage each one of you not to be overwhelmed and embrace only by a life of religion, by what you hear here on the platform, or what people do up here. , for what you read, for the books you read. There are people who read and read, and read and don't take a step forward or get killed. They are consumers.

The Apostle Paul says that there are people who are continuously, they itch to hear but there is no power in their life, there are no transformations in their lives.

And brothers, I tell you over and over again the Christian life requires confrontations, it requires experiences with the power of God. and upon that power we then proceed to understand many things. I encourage you to a spirituality that is not satisfied with mere religion that has its place, glory to God for that, it is better for people to be ethically and morally educated.

I believe in a moral, ethical Christianity that produces an orderly and blessed society, but how good it is when that firewood of theology and intellectual education is ignited with the fire that God who comes down... fell the fire on the altar of Elijah and there was transformation in the community.

I believe that the power of God in hearts that have had with the power of God and the reflection of the truth of God together make an atomic combination, more than atomic, it is totally, misrepresents the world and us we have to aspire to that powerful combination that mixes those two elements of the Christian life.

How many say love to what I'm saying? Let me continue with the text. No one seems to have found it, I'm going to find it, don't worry. At some point we will find it. I don't want to get lost in it.

But let's go back to Chapter 2 of First Corinthians, I'm going to move on because there are a lot of things we want to touch on. He says,

“....I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified...”

Why does Paul say Jesus Christ and not stay? there, it does not put a full stop, but rather says and to Christ in his modality of crucifixion? Because we can talk about the risen Christ, we can talk about the Christ who performs miracles, we can talk about the Christ who taught the crowd. There are many modalities of Jesus but Paul isolates one that is the crucified Christ.

Why? Because when we meditate on Christ crucified we are forced to see the divine in a way that reason can never understand. And what Pablo wanted was to break the yoke of reason, taking the stick and bending it in the totally opposite direction. I believe that one of the things that we have to do continually with modern man above all. Modern man has a critical capacity like no other generation that has walked the earth, because of all the information that comes to us and because of the television programs that we watch many times and the exposure to the diversity of cultures in which we move in the modern world.

We have an incredible critical ability to compare, to see the flaws in different religions, including Christianity. And then, we create a terrible intellectual, rational shell that prevents God's truth from penetrating our sensitivity. And I believe that one of the things that Christian pastors and educators have to do is subject people to exercises that break this tendency, this addiction to reason and intellect.

Do you understand what I'm saying? We have to scandalize them to force them to exercise another way of seeing the world that is the supernatural way. And the world cannot understand, for example, the fact that a God can come down to earth, become a man and allow himself to be crucified by the same creatures that he has created. That violated the logic of the Greeks, and it violated the messianic expectations of the Jews, and it presented the Greco-Roman oidores in Corinth with an intellectual dilemma that was very difficult to understand, and Paul wanted to wean them from reason. And that is why he presents Christ in his crucifixion modality and says:

“... I promised myself not to teach them anything else or show them anything but Jesus Christ and him crucified....” < p>It is wonderful, you know because the deepest paradox of the Gospel is the following, that Jesus on the cross disabled, handcuffed, totally weakened in his power humanly speaking, there he carried out the greatest victory in the entire history of the universe. It says that there the Lord defeated principalities and powers. It says that there the Lord annulled the act that was contrary to us of the decrees that were against us. and it also says there that he publicly exhibited the demonic powers and put them to shame on the cross of Calvary. All that handcuffed, weak, disabled. That is the paradox of the supernatural mind, the mystery of God that can only be fully understood through the supernatural mind.

We have to learn, brothers, to think in supernatural terms. The person who learns to think in supernatural terms can enter the heart of God, receives a key to understand mysteries that the intellectually prepared man cannot understand. And that is why I tell you, brothers, learn to trade in the economy of the Kingdom of God because with that economy you can buy and sell in the world of the spirit.

And even if you don't have great theology with that coin you go to Jupiter and there you can find the power of God. You go to hell and there you can speak with authority while the material, natural man does not understand the things of the spirit. His mind is disabled and can only inhabit the world of matter and time and space.

While the man, the spiritual woman navigates the mysteries of the spirit. And if God gives him grace, he can also navigate the intellect and science and all other things. that is why Paul in this same passage says the following, he says in verse 14

“... but the natural man does not perceive the things that are from the spirit of God because for him they are madness and he cannot understand why they have to be discerned spiritually, instead the spiritual one judges all things but he is not judged by anyone...."

In other words, the man, the woman who knows how to move on the ground of the spirit can understand things that the natural man cannot understand, because he moves on a very limited platform.

I encourage you in the name of the Lord, brothers, develop hunger and thirst to know deeper things of the spirit. Paul says in First Corinthians, Chapter 12:

“... brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant about things of the spirit....”

They translate it from the gifts of the spirit, but it is pneumatic, it means spiritual things, spiritualities. God does not want us to be ignorant of the things of the spirit. there are many ignorant people in the Christian world, there are many superficial congregations, there are many Christians who only know how to navigate the most superficial layers of spiritual reality and God wants us as divers to be able to enter the depths of faith and understand mysteries that only the person initiated into things of the spirit can understand. That is why the concept of misterium in Christian theology of those depths that only the initiated can have access to.

And you don't have to have great theology to do that. Even many times, brothers, although I love, understand me well, I love knowledge, I love reading, I love the intellect, I love education, I love Christian indoctrination, but what I am saying, like Paul here, that cannot be the basis of our Christian life. That is simply the super structure, the foundation has to be a spiritual foundation, a contact with God because that is what allows you to have access.

Let me give you an example of this. The woman who broke the glass of perfume on Jesus Christ, there is a contrast here between this woman and Simon, the Pharisee. Simon, the Pharisee, is a man highly learned in the theology of his time as a Pharisee at last he knew many teachings very well. He was a tremendously upright man, well behaved in the world, respectable, learned in religious swordsmanship, but what about? When Jesus himself, the Son of God, God himself, enters his house, his dulled understanding is not capable of discerning the Son of God and treats him indifferently, formally, and lukewarm. And the quiet Lord lets Simon, the Pharisee, neglect him and remains silent.

But for the moment, in that passive scene, an uninvited person enters, an agonizing and dramatic character and makes his way through that distinguished company, throws himself on Jesus, breaks an alabaster vase that contains perfume very expensive, who knows where that woman got it from. This woman is the complete opposite of Simon the Pharisee. She is a poorly educated woman, she is a woman, she is a woman with a dubious moral past, possibly a prostitute, a woman completely the opposite, not theologically educated, but evidently she had had a previous encounter with Christ Jesus. The Lord had communicated hope to this woman, had forgiven her sins, had spoken to her of a God who had mercy on her and who did not reject her for her sins but rather opened her heart so that she would have an encounter with him.

Christ communicated value to this woman and it changes her life, and she, consumed by burning gratitude, reaches out and wants to honor Jesus and recognizes and adore him, says the word. You do not worship something other than God. This woman, I am sure, that she would not have been able to verbalize Judaic theology and say, yes, this is the promised Messiah as promised by such a book and whatnot. She didn't know anything about it, but in her heart she knew that she was in front of the divine person, the Messiah. Experiences.

But the interesting thing is this, that Simon, whose mind is dull, because it is the religious mind that the platform is too small to understand the mysteries of God, Simon sees this woman pour her perfume on Jesus, clinging to him, a woman from the street, clinging to Jesus, hugging him and establishing a sensual thing, it's something, brothers, one of the things about spiritual faith is a faith of the senses too, it's a faith that includes dance and it includes the body, it includes the cry, it includes the tears, it includes the laughter, it includes the saliva, brothers.

The faith of the spirit is a faith that paradoxically opens up a place for the senses as well, it is a tremendously sensual faith. This woman clings to Jesus, cries over him, anoints his body with her hair, wipes the tears she has shed with her hair, anoints him with the expensive perfume in the house, I am sure that she was filled with the smell of the adoration of Jesus. this woman and Simon, with his religious understanding, small, limited, dull, look what he thinks, like Judas when... in other cases he thought, the money, oh, how much would that perfume cost, we could have used it to other things because the religious mind, the mind that has no contact with the true God, is always thinking in material, mathematical terms or in terms of pure morality and cheap, superficial ethics.

And Simon, the Pharisee, says “... if this man were truly a prophet, he says, he would understand that this is a bad woman and would not let her come near him. And the Lord intuits, knows the thoughts of Simon, the Pharisee who is spiritually thousands of miles away from him. But he tells him, 'Simon, come here.'

Two debtors were forgiven by a man, which of those two people do you think will have more love for the one who forgave him. And Simon with his intellectual mind makes a logical computation, and says, 'well, the one who was forgiven more, that one will have more gratitude'. And the Lord says, "You have said well." So he tells her, 'when I entered your house you didn't even serve me a Coca Cola, you gave me water and it was lukewarm, he says, you didn't wash my feet, which was a basic custom for when someone like that came. dusty roads in the Middle East, his feet were washed.

He says, you didn't give me a kiss, you didn't give me any preferential marks, but just gave me a formal and courteous entrance to your house. While this woman since I entered has not stopped blessing me, she has not stopped kissing me, she has not stopped spilling her perfume and anointing me, and I tell you something else, what this woman has done has been done in expectation of my burial. He has anointed me for my burial and I tell you what this woman has done will be talked about until I come again.

Look today, two thousand years later we're still talking about what that woman did. The supernatural mentality of this woman allowed her to have access to a revelation of the transrational spirit, she herself did not understand what she was doing but she was doing it prophetically. The person who has an encounter with the power of God may not be able to systematize what he believes, but he believes what he believes and knows that he believes it, and he can operate in the power and energy that that belief and that experience gives.

While the merely rational, linear, numerical mind is clumsy, it's like a computer that can only do certain transactions, from those computers of years ago compared to what one does today. In fact, it is much more than that, the mind sanctified and broken by the spirit of God is a mind that moves light years away and can immediately enter into tune with the heart of God.

That is why the Pharisees could never understand the transactions that Jesus made. They'd see Jesus heal on a Saturday and they'd say, oh, that can't be done, robotically. Remember what I was saying, that the religious mind is a robotic, square, mechanical mind. It only operates in squares, at right angles.

While the spiritual mind is a fluid mind. The Lord would take that and say, hey, idiots, I was going to say another word but I'm not going to say it, idiots, if you have an ox and that ox is tied up and has to eat and it's Saturday, do you let the ox die? hungry? You don't take it out? The Jews said to him, Lord, why do you let your disciples eat without washing their hands? And the Lord told them, look, forget about it, the important thing is that you are clean on the inside, that is the important thing.

And the mind of Jesus computed, conjugated the spiritual reality, the person who is filled with the Holy Spirit will sometimes do things that will seem scandalous to the robotic, religious mind, because sometimes God will It will give an understanding that you will be able to understand the deep heart of God that allows you to go beyond the human mentality.

All of this is good, but listen to me if they give me a spaceship that can travel thousands and thousands of light years, why should I ride a Volkswagen? And that is what God wants us to have, to have, look at what he says here, again, in verse 16: "...for who knows the mind of the Lord, who will instruct him, he says, but we have the mind of Christ...”

The mind of Christ, that is the mind that we have to cultivate. We have it, he even says, it is already in us. Now that mind, if we exercise it, that mind goes more and more every day helping us to understand the reality of the spirit more and more. That mind of Christ, that logos that was what built the universe, the logos is the principle of cohesion, it is the building principle of all that exists.

In the Jewish mind, Jewish philosophy, the logos, was what made up the whole universe and gave it its coherence. And I have that logos and you have it in your life, the mind of Christ. Then the mind of Christ in you will understand the mind of Christ in him, if you understand what I am saying. The spirit of God in you will be able to understand the spirit of God that he is.

That is why Paul says, in verse 10, “...but God revealed it to us by the spirit, for the spirit searches all things even into the depths of God, for who among men knows the things? things of man except the spirit of man that is in him, so no one knew the things of God except the spirit of God....”

And we have not received the spirit of the world, that mind mental, rational, legalistic, but the spirit that comes from God so that we know what God has granted us. You know that God has granted you a number of things, a powerful inheritance that you have within you, a legacy, some properties, some rights, some authorities that you have, some power dictates, some letters of authority with which you you can navigate life to receive healing, give healing, bless others, proclaim shalom, God's peace in the world, topple giants, heal emotional illnesses in your life, free yourself from demonic oppressions and free others, bless yourself materially, professionally, move in a world of miracles, in a magnetized territory full of the power of God.

All that is there, God has granted it to you. That is the power of God. And you will not be able to understand these things nor will you be able to use them until you cultivate a supernatural mind, the mind of Christ.

And I end with this, so Paul, let's go back to Chapter 2 again, the first verses, he says:

“... And I was among you in weakness and much fear and trembling and neither my speech nor my preaching was with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with demonstration of the spirit and of power...”

Brothers, the Christian life is a life of power. Paul said, the Gospel does not consist in words but in the power of God. no matter how many words you have, if you do not have the power of God, if you do not have an effective life in the Gospel, you are missing something very important. That is why I believe, brothers, every day more and more that we have to be a people of power, have a mentality of power.

That is why Paul says, our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, therefore let us put on the full armor of God, because we navigate a world of conflict, a world of opposition, we navigate a world where the devil has a grip on all of God's blessings and won't let go unless forced to let go by a higher power. And that is the power of the Holy Spirit that is within you. You will not be able to receive and be blessed and bless others, until you neutralize that giant that stands in front of you and says, you cannot have access to the power of God.

But when you have the magic word, you tell him, step aside in the name of Jesus and you can come in and eat from the table and drink from those deep waters that God has given you and all that you you can know it through the mind of Jesus Christ.

Neither my word nor my preaching was with a word of human wisdom but with a demonstration of the spirit and power so that your faith, this is the culmination of everything, so that your faith is not founded on the wisdom of men but in the power of God. Hallelujah!

Glory to the name of the Lord. Rational, natural and supernatural mentality. Which of the two do you want to have in your life? Which of the two do you want to adopt? You have to fight, you have to fight for that, you have to break stagnant structures in the mind. The world has been in charge of erecting a petrified building that is in us that prevents the power of God from flowing through us. and I ask the Lord, Father, destroy every structure that rises against the spirit of Jesus Christ.

The Apostle Paul talks about tearing down all the arguments that are raised against Jesus and we have to tear down the giant of misdirected reason that is gripping New England, this nation and the entire western world preventing the power of God manifest in those nations. The devil has entrenched himself and has erected an intellectual, rational, materialistic structure that prevents modern man from entering into communion with God. God wants modern man to have contact with him.

God does not want to destroy humanity but a church is needed that exemplifies the power of God. A church that can move in the power of God and tell him and oppose this rationalist, materialistic model, the reality and life of God and say, look here, look at God reflected in the life of this community, look at the love of God, look at the mercy of God, look at the redemption of God, look at the God who transforms, the God who lifts up, the God who takes the humble and puts them to dwell in places of kings, look at God who takes the selfish man and becomes a man who loves and forgives and shares.

And when the world sees that God who heals, liberates, restores, transforms, working in our lives, the world will say, there is another model, there is another alternative to reason that kills me and dries me up and corrupts me and destroys the image of God in me, he will want that bread that we are eating.

May the Lord want this community, each one of us, to be able to eat the bread of life that is Christ Jesus, eat his body, drink his blood and come out revitalized to teach the world another model of life .

Receive in the name of Jesus this morning, receive grace from God, receive the challenge of the word of God. Stand up, worship the Lord. Stand up and tell him, Father, change my mind, transform my mind, transform my way of seeing things, transform my way of computing the world, of processing the reality that I inhabit and change my platform, make it bigger, wider , deeper, longer, more complex, more encompassing in the name of Jesus, I declare the mind of Christ.

Say with me, I receive the mind of Christ, the power of God, the reality of the spirit, the mysteries of God within my life and I ask the Holy Spirit to fill me, baptize me and transform me . I renounce the mind of the world and receive the mind of Christ, the power of God, the power of the Holy Spirit in my life.

Give thanks to the Lord. Amen. Hallelujah! Glory to the name of Jesus. Glory to the name of Jesus. Supernatural mind, supernatural mind, that's what God wants for his people. Spirit filled life.

People of God, God has not called you only to be a people of theories, teachings, doctrines, formalities, programs, systems, all of that is very good, but if that is the base, the foundation of your experience with God, you are eating the rind and casting aside the fruit itself. Change your way of thinking, change the order of things. Ask the Lord to give you experiences at night, ask the Lord to give you revelation, ask the Lord that the fruit of his spirit and the gift of his spirit be manifested in your life. Ask God to give you power over your diseases, your neuroses, your ties. Ask the Lord to give you your own stories and testimonies of power, powerful interventions from God who will allow you to cross the dry river, who will open the sea before you, who will defeat Pharaoh's army, who will leave you free to leave from the desert and enter the promised land of God, in the name of Jesus receive the mind of Jesus, the power of God, the supernatural mind, the supernatural attitude, that is what we want, a people of power, a Pentecostal people, a people of the spirit, a people hungry for the fullness of the power of God, a people that knows where to go to eat and drink in the waters of the spirit, that although it is not very attractive according to the aesthetic schemes of man but that has the beauty of the creativity of God within him or her, in the name of Jesus we declare lives of power, lives of transformation, lives that exemplify the fullness and reality of the power of God. Thank my Lord. Thank you Jesus, we adore you, Lord, we bless you. Glory to God.

By the way, the passage is John 9 so for those who want to study it further. Thank you Lord, we adore you and we bless you, Father. Thank you. Amen.