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- God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration: THE MIND OF GOD MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH
MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
November 5, 2025
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration
THE MIND OF GOD MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH
“Let this MIND be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God (cf. Heb. 1:3): but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him(self) the form of a servant, and was MADE IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN: and being found in fashion AS A MAN, He HUMBLED HIMSELF, and became OBEDIENT UNTO DEATH, even the death of the cross.” Phil. 2: 5-8, A. V.
“Jesus became a man. . . .that He might RESTORE to man the ORIGINAL MIND which he lost in Eden. . . . DISOBEDIENCE is not accordance with the NATURE which God gave to man in Eden.” E. G. White, Letter 121, 1897.
“And this HUMILIATION (of the incarnation) on His part was that He might restore to man the original mind, THE IMAGE OF GOD which he [man, beginning with the first Adam] lost in Eden.” Ibid, Signs of the Times, Oct. 14, 1897.
Both the original mind and the image or character of God Creator in original man—Adam and Eve—were lost in their Eden home—an instant result from their disobedience to God’s command.
Note this fellow Bible students: Disobedience in any form or degree was “not in accordance” with man’s original nature, it being totally free of any defects, weaknesses, inherent sinful propensities for the “knowledge of evil.” Disobedience was unnatural, strange, aberrant, incongruous, antithetical.
Thusly sin, “the transgression of the law” (1 John 3: 4) is the core substance of “the mystery of iniquity.” (2 Thess. 2:7). But it is self-evident that God’s antidote to it is “the mystery of godliness” (1 Tim. 3: 16), the great precious truth we are presently focusing on!
Hereunder is a fuller, more comprehensive definition, thus, meaning of MIND, aside from being “the image of God,” even as the GLORY of God in Christ Jesus” is His CHARACTER of righteousness which He perfected “through sufferings” (Heb. 5: 8, 9).
Sourced from the Hebrew and Greek Lexicons of Strong’s Comprehensive Concordance based on the Authorized Version (KJV). The English “mind,” was translated from one Hebrew word in the Old Testament and three Greek words in the New, as follows (emphasis mine):
Heb. “Metalepsis,” meaning, “participate, accept, PARTAKE, RECEIVE.”
Gr. “Phroneo,” meaning, “entertain, sentiment, opinion, SET AFFECTION, BE THE SAME.” Gr. “Nous,” meaning, “INTELLECT (divine,human), THOUGHTS, FEELING, WILL, UNDERSTANDING. Gr. “Dianoia,” meaning, “DEEP THOUGHT, faculty, DISPOSITION, its exercise through IMAGINATION/UNDERSTANDING.”
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Fifth Edition, 1942, defines mind as “That which one thinks; opinion. . intention or wish; PURPOSE; DESIRE. . . sentiment; disposition; CHOICE; liking; INTENT; the subject of consciousness; that which feels, perceives, wills, thinks, etc. THE PERCEPTIVE AND THINKING PART OF CONSCIOUSNESS. . . Divine Mind:—a synonym for God. Philosophical: the conscious element or factor in the universe; spirit; intelligence—contrasted with ‘matter.’ Psychology: the total of the conscious states of the individual. One’s capacity for mental activity, etc.” (end quote)
With just these initial basic truth-filled facts alone, it exposes the gross error of sinful ignorance and presumptuous arrogance to assert and assure ourselves and others that, “Regardless, we all are made in the image of God, period.” As Jesus taught Nicodemus, “Unless you are baptized by water and the Holy Spirit, you cannot enter the kingdom of God.” Without true conversion and transformation of moral character by the purifying work of sanctification, all are lost in sin, captive slaves of the master deceiver and “father of lies,” are spiritually”wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.”
Here is the most fundamental
plain truth regarding man: God Creator originally made man a separate and distinct order of creature as the crowning act and work of His six-day creation week. Man alone, not angels, was exclusively “made in the image and likeness of God,” formed by the fingers of his Maker from the dust of the ground and made of flesh and blood, not spirit, like the angels before him. Adam and Eve, the first man, or mankind, had the sinless mind, image, and yet-undeveloped character of God. But by disobedience they instantly lost all these. Right there in Eden paradise! And what they no longer possessed they could not pass on to their offsprings. All mankind thereafter is fallen, sinful, devoid of the mind, image, and character of God.
The very purpose of the plan of redemption of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is to completely restore all these that was lost through disobedience and sin, which could only be enabled,
FIRST, by the Creator’s supreme condescension in “the great mystery of godliness”—the incarnation! Without His Incarnation, Calvary was not possible and had no meaning at all! Hallelujah, Amen!
To be continued, God willing. Bless all, NMF.
- God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration: The Purpose of The Creator’s Incarnation in The Mystery of Godliness(Part 1)
MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
October 29, 2025
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration
THE PURPOSE OF THE CREATOR’S INCARNATION IN THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS (Part 1)
The Incarnation: We start this most solemn, enlightening, and humbling truth from which emanates and branches out the grandest themes as well as the details and depths of the nature of gospel’s plan of salvation for fallen mankind.
Its prophesied and fulfilled manifestation is a revelation to man, angels both holy and demons, as well as to the unnumbered unfallen worlds of God’s eternal universe of “the mystery of godliness.” By comparison and contrast, it clearly exposes and delineates the exceeding sinfulness of sin of “the mystery of iniquity.”
If and when earnestly and humbly sought, with “an eye single to the glory of God,”the revelation of this “mystery of godliness,” will unfold into the revelation of another profound mystery, as follows:
“The mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest unto His saints: to whom God would make known what is the RICHES OF THE GLORY OF THIS MYSTERY among the Gentiles; which is CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom: that we may present every man PERFECT IN CHRIST JESUS.” Col. 1:25-28.
We continue by simply citing certain “It is written” and “Thus saith the Lord” texts that, on its own, declare these truths, both directly as well by comparing scripture with scripture as in “line upon line, precept upon precept, line upon line.”(Isa. 28: 8-13. Unless stated otherwise, as always, all verses are from the King James or Authorized Version (all emphasis provided):
God said to the serpent, Satan:
“I will put enmity between thee and the woman [starting with Eve], and between thy seed and her SEED; it [the Seed] shall bruise thy HEAD, and thou shalt bruise his HEEL”
Gen. 3:15. (see verses 1-24).
“But when the fulness of the time was come, GOD SENT FORTH HIS SON, MADE OF A WOMAN, made under the law, to redeem them that were under [the condemnation and curse of] the law, that we might receive the adoption of sins.” Gal. 4:4, 5.
“And without controversy GREAT IS THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS: GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.” 1 Tim. 3: 16.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. . . . He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. . . .And THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1: 1-3, 10, 14.
“God, who at sundry (various) times and diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers [godly patriarchs] by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His SON, whom He hath appointed Heir of all things, by whom also He made the WORLDS, who being the BRIGHTNESS OF HIS [the Father’s] GLORY, and the EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON, and upholding all things by the word of His power. . .But unto the SON, He [the Father] saith, Thy throne, O GOD, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Thy kingdom. Thou hast LOVED RIGHTEOUSNESS, and HATED INIQUITY (sin; transgression). . . And, Thou, LORD, in the beginning hast laid the foundations of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Thine hands: they shall perish; but THOU REMAINEST; and they shall all wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but Thou art THE SAME, and Thy years shall not fail.” Heb. 1: 1-3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. (Jesus is “the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Heb. 13:8. “For I am the Lord, I change not. . .”Mal. 3:6).
“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 [not condoned] SIN IN THE FLESH: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the (Holy) Spirit.” Rom. 8: 3, 4.
“And she [Mary] shall bring forth a SON, and thou shalt call His name JESUS: for HE shall SAVE His people FROM their sins. . . . Behold, a VIRGIN shall be with child, and shall bring forth a SON, and they shall call His name EMMANUEL, which being interpreted is, GOD WITH US.” Matt. 1:21, 23.
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.
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