The Spirit of the World

1 Corinthians 2 and verse 14. 1 Corinthians 2. I think Psalm sermons are preaching sermons, and Psalm sermons are teaching sermons, and Psalm sermons are preaching and teaching sermons. This one is more of a teaching sermon. 1 Corinthians 2 and verse 14, as you're turning there, I'll make this statement. The natural man does not receive the things of God. So here in 1 Corinthians 2 and verse 14, look at that first statement. That's where I take it from. But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God. Simple reason why he doesn't? Because these things of God can only be conveyed through the Holy Spirit. If you look at verse 11, verse 11, For what man knows the things of a man save, or except the spirit of man which is in him, which I covered that thoroughly two weeks ago when I was here, even so the things of God knows no man but the Spirit of God. Now go back to verse 14. But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. These things that require the Holy Spirit for conveyance are the deep things of God. We're not talking about basic truths or basic values, just very simple basic values. We're talking about the deep things of God. Look at verse 10. But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. So the natural mind, without God's Holy Spirit, cannot receive the deep things of God. In fact, not only can he not receive them, but they also are foolishness to him. Verse 14. But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God. Now, we know because the Holy Spirit has to be involved, but it says also, see here, for or because they are foolishness unto him. They're foolishness to him not only because of the absence of God's Holy Spirit, but also because there is another Spirit at work that is active in the picture. Verse 12. Now, we have received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Okay, here's another Spirit that is mentioned. Now, we have not received the Spirit of the world. And the Spirit of the world is what I'm going to talk about today, the subject and the title. The Spirit of the world.

Paul wrote to the Ephesians in Ephesians 2 and verse 2. And you know, how many untold billions of people have lived on this planet who did not realize they were living under and absorbing this Spirit that's called the Spirit of the world or the Spirit of this world? Ephesians 2 and verse 2. Paul in talking or writing actually to the Ephesians here who had been called of God and brought out and given His Spirit and delivered from the world, he says, where in time past you, say, you also walked according to. You know, you've been delivered from that, but you walked according to and he addressed to something here that's part of this world's reality. The course of this world according to, or that is that according to, the prince of the power of the air, the Spirit that now works in the children of disobedience. This is the Spirit, the Spirit of this world that's exuded by this prince of the power of the air that has set the course of this world. It has set the flow. It has set the pattern. It has set the system. And the entire point and purpose and direction of this Spirit is to blind the mind of man. That's the purpose of this Spirit, to blind the mind of man with whatever measure of deception, with whatever amount it can engender and inject. Going back to the letters to the Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 4.4, 2 Corinthians 4.4, right here in the first half of this verse, it says, "...and whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them." He's operational in that. And by the way, Christ is not the God of this world. Christ is not the Lord of the earth. Not yet. He shall be. It's what these fall Holy Day is coming up. Picture, He shall be. He's going to be. But right now, the Spirit of this world that's pumped out is pumped out by the God of this world, the prince of the power of the air, and we know who we're talking about, "...and whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not." Blinded. He is taking no chances.

Lest. He's taking no chances. Lest. The light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. He's blinded the minds of them which believe not. He does know that God does call people. He doesn't know who God's going to call. But when God does call somebody, He knows God has called that person. He can see that. And so, operationally, He does everything He can to blind with whatever measures of deception. It can be death deception. It can be deceptions upon one by others. It could be one deceiving his own staff. How do you, you know, lest the light shine, He doesn't want it to shine. He's just not taking any chances. He's going to do what He can. How do you block out the light? How do we block out the light? I mean, the physical light. How do we block it out? Well, you know, there's various ways. Shades. Somebody lies down to take a nap in the daytime. They may put some kind of a band over their eyes, you know, wear something that will block it. Or you want to dim the light outside and you put on shades to block out some of the light when you go outside. You know, blind man's bluff, that kind of, you know, games where we put on a blindfold. Various ways. Shades, blinds, curtains, bales, as they have 25-7. As they have 25, in verse 7. Now, this is talking about the time, like verse 6, when Jesus comes back and sets up the kingdom of God. And in this mountain shall the Lord hold smaken to all people a feast of fat things, you know, a prosperous time, a feast of wines on the leaves, a fat things full of marrow of wines on the leaves, well refined, a way of expressing a time of prosperity. And then verse 7. And He will destroy in this mountain, keep in mind, prophetically a mountain is a kingdom. He will destroy in this mountain or this kingdom where that is His kingdom will destroy. His kingdom will remove. When He comes back and sets up His kingdom, He will destroy or remove the face of the covering cast over all people. All people. Jews, Israelites, Gentiles, all nations, cast over all people and the veil that is spread over all nations. Who put that veil there?

God didn't. This is the veil of blindness or darkness that Satan has fostered. See, God did not blind man. God did not put a veil over His eyes. God is not responsible for such. God does not work that way. God simply denied man access to the Holy Spirit. That's all God did. He denied man access to the Holy Spirit. Notice Genesis 3. Genesis 3. In the aftermath of Adam and Eve taking of the wrong fruit, forbidden fruit, and forfeiting the garden, losing it. It says here beginning in verse 22 of Genesis 3, And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us to know good and evil, and now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden carabim and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life. God denied man access to the tree of life at that point, which represented the Holy Spirit, it represented eternal life, it represented all of that. He denied man access to it at that point. He denied man access to something that he would not use. He would not use. He denied man access to the deep things of God that he would shun and not use and yet have to be held accountable for. And God wanted to spare him that accountability, that measure of accountability. And yet at the same time, God would and God does reserve the right to call whomever, whenever. That's what John 644, what Christ is talking about there when Christ makes this statement in John 644.

For Christ said, John 644, no man can come to me.

We have a lot of people today going to a longhaired Jesus that's not Jesus. In their mind, the concept is Jesus, but that's not the real Jesus. He wasn't a longhaired, effeminate, breaking his father's law person. If he broke his father's law, he couldn't have been a Savior. No, coming truly to Christ as far as not just the concept that he's the Son of God, not just the concept that he died for our sins, which we all realize, but truly coming to Him, who He is, what He is, what He stands for, what He requires of us, all of that. That kind of fullness that's necessary. No man can come to me except the Father which has sent me draw him. And that's why we say the Father is the one who does the calling. And He is. And on the day of Pentecost, Acts 2, on that day of Pentecost, when God poured out His Spirit on quite a multitude at that time. But that multitude was made up of those whom God specifically individually called and gave opportunity to, which formed a multitude. And so Peter in his preaching here in Acts 2, verse 39, Peter says this, For the promise is to you.

There's just been a number of those in the crowd that have said, men and brethren, what must we do? They were pricked in their conscience, verse 37. And Peter said, repent and be baptized. They are one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for or because the promise is to you, you whom God is giving opportunity to and who are willing to respond to that opportunity. And to all that are far off, even as many... notice... even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

You could be the greatest preacher on earth. You could preach to a multitude where there's not a single one in that multitude that God is calling. And you won't convert anybody.

Verse 47, Praising God and having favor with all the people, and the Lord added the Lord added to the church daily, such as should be saved. That is, those who would be given opportunity at this point in time, in this age, the age of the first fruits. Now, this is God's prerogative, and He does not relinquish it. And here's something I think we all need to truly trust in. God knows when it is best to call an individual. If it was left out to us, we would call certain individuals. We'd say, I want that person to see the truth, know every bit of it. And the corollary to that is to be held fully accountable for it.

What I want to say is all of my loved ones, be in the kingdom of God forever and eternal life with me and God's family someday. And if that means that most of them have to have that opportunity to have that best chance in the last great day, so be it. Now, God knows when it is best to call an individual. But to go back to the previous thoughts, God simply cut man off from access and left him in his natural state. Satan then moved in to take every advantage with man that he could. Now, remember, he had already taken advantage of man in the form of Adam and Eve, and specifically starting with Eve in Genesis 3, where he spiritually seduced her. And Adam joined in with her, obviously, to help create the situation that now became current. Satan set about putting every obstacle in the way that he could, that he possibly could, and he generated all the distance that he possibly could between man and God. Isaiah 59, too, when I said, he generated all the distance between man and God that he could. Isaiah 59, you want to talk about distance. Verse 1, Isaiah is given to write, "'Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened.' He's not got a short arm that he cannot stay. Neither is he heavy that he cannot hear. There's nothing wrong with his hearing. But your iniquities, Israel, have separated between you and your God. Your sins." Again, this first chapter of Isaiah, Israel is called both Sodom and Gomorrah. And we're living at the time to see how that happens. And your sins have hid his face from you.

You know, there are some schools now in the nation that are going through their libraries and pulling certain books out. The Bible is one of them in certain schools already because it has hate speech in it.

We always said in America, you could preach the truth as directly as you wanted to from the pulpits of the land because the Constitution gives us that right. And you should be able to go and hear truth spoken in churches, right of all places. Now, the time is coming where preachers, pastors, teachers can be arrested for breaking the law of preaching straight quotes from the Bible.

We're living in a time, like in America, like we've never seen in America, because the tremendous moral rot and those who are gaining the power and the powers over the nation are a very corrupt element. Your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear. That's what's putting the distance there. Back in chapter 55 here, verses 7 through 9, let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. And it goes on to say, my thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are your ways my way, says the Lord, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, than my thoughts than your thoughts. And Jeremiah was used of God to accomplish so many things and write so much, and one of the things that he was inspired to write was that I've known since I was a young man, Jeremiah 17.9, and it's so true of the human makeup. Jeremiah 17.9, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it.

Desperately wicked. Think of the tree of life like this in God's denying access.

You know, for a long time, and we don't know how long, maybe right up to the time of the flood, we don't know how long that a human being, descendants of Adam and Eve, could walk up towards where the garden had been. We don't know the period of time where they could walk up and from a distance see the tree of life and a flaming sword that went all around it where nobody could approach it. They would be killed. We don't know, but no access to it. Think about a well. I grew up at a time in a part of the country where, at least in my early years, we drew our water from a well with a windlass. You drop the bucket down 20 feet, 50 feet, 75 feet, whatever, and you crank the windlass up with a bucket full of water. And you can look down on the well, and you could see way down there the water shimmering, the light shimmering on it. Great water. If water is delicious, delicious water. Think about a well. Think about walking up to the well and looking down. You're thirsty, maybe, but you're looking at the well and you see that wonderful, delicious water. But there's no rope, and there's no windlass, and you can't access it. God took away the rope to where man couldn't access something that would then open up an accountability that would put him under ultimate judgment. God denied access to the tree of life. What Satan said was, well, God's taken the rope away, He's denied access, but I don't want to take any chances. I want to break both arms. I want to break His arms. That way, even if there's a rope, He will have broken arms and He can't draw the water. He can't work the windlass. That was Satan's approach. And not only that, but to direct Satan to direct man's steps, and is appetized elsewhere. Direct to steps elsewhere, is appetites elsewhere, to hunger and thirst after wrong things. To hunger and thirst after wrong things. To build appetites for things that are not good, things that would not satisfy, but that would exert an influence and a power. And through such, Satan strives to build a wall of captivity and control around a person. And how many people today are prisoners of their own passions? Prisoners of drugs, prisoners of their own emotions, prisoners of their own passions, prisoners of their own lack of self-control and self-discipline.

Our world is full of such. This is why God, when God begins calling a person, has to knock down some walls. He has to knock down some barriers. Another human doesn't even necessarily know where all the walls are, or the barriers are, or the maze in the mind that's got to be walked through to make things work how way the person really does see and understand and know. God does. And when he does call, he has to knock down some walls and some barriers. And this is why the Holy Spirit, even initially, has to be used as a deliverer, as a healing agent, just like maybe Satan's broken some arms.

And now God's going to give access to that living water. But God's got to heal those arms so that that water can be drawn and be used. See, the power of God's Spirit is needed, number one, initially, number two, ultimately, and number three, all along the way and the points in between. Again, God simply cut man off from access and left him in his natural state. But Satan was not satisfied to leave him there.

Satan went to work, and the result is expressed in Romans 8-7. Here's the result of Satan going to work on that natural mind. Romans 8-7. Because the kernel mind is enmity, that is animosity, that is hostility, rejection. Because the kernel mind is enmity, hostile against God.

For it is not subject to the law of God, and it indeed can be. The kernel mind, this is the product of Satan's Spirit. This is the product of the Spirit of the world. That's what it generates. It generates the kernel mind. The kernel mind, the product of Satan's Spirit, the Spirit of this world, fused with, mixed with, infiltrated into the natural mind.

That's how you get the kernel mind. A baby is not born with a kernel mind. They're not born righteous. They're not born carnal. They're born with a natural mind. And we're not talking about the spirit of this world as far as being fused and mixed in and infiltrated with the natural mind. We're not talking about possession, but effect. The influence is there. And the infusion, the infiltration, the effect of Satan's Spirit generates the spirit of the kernel mind. That is the source of it. This is a mind that harbors an element or a measure of hostility to the things of God.

For instance, how much of a measure of hostility has to be harbored before you can say, well, there's hostility harbored. A little bit, a whole lot, an overwhelming amount. I mean, hostility is hostility. And maybe this person doesn't have any hostility towards this part of God, but boy, they have hostility towards this part of God. And then maybe this other person has hostility towards that part of God and that part of God, too. And this person over here has any hostility towards anything of God, especially anytime you bring up the mention of God.

See, some have absorbed this spirit to a greater or lesser degree than others, and thus have a corresponding, paralleling, greater-letter hostility to the things of God. And it does vary. And believe me, in my position and having to deal with it over the years, I have certainly seen the variance of it.

It does vary by degrees, but it is there. Christ had the Spirit in man. And two weeks ago, I gave a very thorough sermon on the Spirit in man. Christ had the Spirit in man. Look at Luke 23.46. We read this at that time. Luke 23 and verse 46. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Your hands I commend My Spirit. And He's referencing the Spirit in man. And having said this, He gave up the Spirit, gave up the breath. Now, it is interesting. Christ had the Spirit in man, but He never, ever had one iota of resistance or hostility to anything of God, did He?

He never experienced the mind or condition defined in Romans 8-7 that we read. Never experienced not even the tiniest bit of the kernel mind. Never in any way or to any degree did Satan's Spirit, the Spirit of the Prince of the power of the air, ever, ever connect with Him.

There was simply no place, no room for it. Christ had the Spirit in man, but He never had this Spirit. He never gave any place to the devil. This is an interesting Scripture in Ephesians 4, 27.

Ephesians 4, 27. And what's interesting is what it follows. It follows verse 26, and sometimes people don't connect verses 26 and 27 together, but look at verse 26. I said He never gave any place to the devil. Verse 26 says, Be you angry and sin not, which tells you. There are times when you can be angry, it's okay to be angry, but you had better really process that anger properly or sin is going to be involved. And you know, Christ got angry with the money changers. He got angry with the Pharisees. Christ had times when He got angry, but His anger was processed properly and there was no sin involved. Be you angry and sin not. Of course, how many sins do we find committed by human beings due to anger? People get killed because of anger. Domestic violence, anger is one of the main sources of trouble in our world. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Now notice verse 27, neither give place to the devil.

You ever hear of somebody going into a rage, killing a bunch of people and killing themself and you think the devil's not involved? Give no room for him to mix with you. Don't, because that's what he's going to try to do. He's going to try to infiltrate and affect.

The spirit of this world is His spirit. Make no and allow no allowance and therefore allowing no hostility, whatsoever, against anything of God. So we may speak of three levels or three types of mind in one sense. Of course, again, some of this I covered two weeks ago and that's the sermon, the spirit in men. But you have, number one, you have the natural mind, the natural mind. The natural mind is what a baby is born with. Baby is born with a natural mind. Baby is not born carnal. They're not born converted. They're not born corrupt. They're not born wicked. They're not born righteous. They're born neutral. Just the natural mind. And then, number two, and boy, it doesn't take long to develop this and get into this, the carnal mind, the carnal mind. And number three, the converted. You know, the natural mind simply has the spirit in man. The carnal mind has been subjected to the spirit of this world. The converted mind has God's spirit. Two weeks ago, I stated how the spirit in man is open or neutral. It's neither positive or negative of itself. He can be affected by another spirit. Good or bad. And the natural mind of itself, again, is neither carnal nor converted. See, in Genesis 2, when you read about Adam and Eve, you find God walking in the garden with them. You find man was neither carnal nor converted. He's neutral. He's walking along. There's no hostility to God.

And they did not have God's spirit. Think about it. They were walking with God. They did not have God's spirit. Neither did they have any hostility. They simply stood in the neutral zone between the two trees that represented both. Genesis 2.

In verse 9, Adam and Eve made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, good for food. Notice the tree of life, also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Two trees, they were literal trees. Each one represented something very significant.

In verses 16 and 17, and the Lord God commanded the man's saying, of every tree of the garden you may freely eat. Every single tree of the garden will accept just one. Just one is off limits. That's all.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it. It's interesting. The tree of life was accessible. It wasn't off limits. The only one that was off limits was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Here's Adam. Here's Eve.

They look at the tree of life. They look at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They know they walk over the tree of life and partake of it if they choose. They know they're not to take of the other tree. There's no animosity. There's no hostility. But just as soon, with the account in Genesis 3, with the old serpent sidling up to Eve and beginning to play with her mind. And it doesn't take long to see how, as he feeds into her, his spirit and her perception and her perspective begins to change. And it does appear that Adam was right there with her.

And their thinking begins to change.

And God is denying them something that they have a right to take of. And you can see a certain low-level resentment begin to come in if you read between the lines. And if you look at this simple fact and result that what it boiled down to is they went and they took of the tree. Knowing they weren't supposed to. But you see the hostility and lack of subjection begin with the infusion of Satan's spirit here in Genesis 3. And this was and is the generating or creating of the carnal mind. And you can definitely see a difference between mankind, man, Adam and Eve. Pre-Genesis 3, you definitely see a difference between Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 and their minds dead. Anytime Satan's spirit infiltrates the mind of man, it generates a carnality. That's just part of the outcome of it. A hostility and a lack of subjection to the things of God. And you know, Adam and Eve's taking of the forbidden tree was simply an action. They bore testimony to what had already taken place in their mind. That wasn't when they stand. They stand in their minds first. And when they took of the tree, that was simply the ultimate effect of what started transpiring in their mind. Satan's spirit mixing in the human mind is what creates the carnal mind. Let's go back to the natural mind. Just the mind. The natural mind is simply the equation of the spirit in man coupled with the organic gray matter of the brain. That's what creates the mind. And as I pointed out two weeks ago, the spirit in man, that spirit essence that God gives that combined in some kind of miraculous way with the gray matter of the brain, generates mind, ability to reason and think and plan and hope and dream and all of that. And as we went through, when a person dies, their thinking ceases. They have no more thoughts. They don't even know they're dead at that point. They have no more thoughts. Only the living know they shall die. But because death cannot affect spirit, that spirit in man, that essence, which is a perfect recording of the human being, goes back to God. But death does affect what we're made of matter. So that gray matter turns back to dust. That coupling is broken. The equation is broken. The spirit in man goes back and there's no mind. There's no thinking. There's no consciousness. There's no awareness. The spirit in man plus the physical brain equals mind. That's just the natural mind. It is neither for nor against the things of God. Because if you look at Adam in the garden, you can't say he was really for the things of God, but he wasn't against them. He wasn't against them, but he wasn't really for them. He was just kind of like neutral. Okay, okay, God, okay, yeah, okay. Just kind of neutral.

Genesis 2 verses 8 and 9. Again, neither for nor against the tree of life was he. Because, again, God planted a garden eastward and eaten. There he put the man whom he had formed out of the ground. He made to grow every tree. We just read it that it's pleasant for the sight, good for food. The tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge who good and evil. We read that and we read over this time back it up to verse 15. And the Lord God took the man, put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And he commanded him, saying, Every tree of the garden you may free to eat, but there's just one exception. The tree of the knowledge of the good and evil. You shall not eat of it for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. You know, and, you know, cheers Adam and he's not, I mean, again, when he says not for the tree of life, he didn't take of it. He could have, he didn't. But he wasn't against it. He was just kind of like neutral. Neither for nor again pro or kind. He certainly made no effort to partake of it, did he?

How do you translate that? Well, it was as though, I mean, it's called the tree of life. It's as though it carried no real value to him. Or as we might put it today, he did not appreciate it.

He did not see its relevance. Why is it valuable? Why is it important? Well, it's there. There it is. But, you know, no big deal. And yet, it is the absence of any animosity or hostility. See, this is in part what is meant by the statement, again, in 1 Corinthians 2.14. There's a word there, foolishness. It is foolishness to man. The natural mind does not see and appreciate the relevancy. It does not carry the meaning for him that it should. And then when you add in the influence of Satan's spirit, the spirit of this world, you do get the carnal mind of Romans 8, verse 7. God, I'll obey you. You let me decide how I do it.

Christianity is full of that. Well, my belief is, well, that's not what the Bible says. I don't care. My belief is, I know, that's not what the Bible says. Well, you take your Bible and do what you want to with it. My belief is, run into that all the time. The mind that contains an element to whatever degree of hostility and lack of subjection to the things of God. See, number one, again, the truly natural mind is neither programmed for nor against the things of God. The natural mind is simply the combination or equation of physical brain and spirit in man. Number two, the carnal mind is simply the infusion or infiltration of Satan's spirit into the natural mind. This begins a programming against the things of God. No longer is the mind neutral. And boy, believe me, some minds are a lot more carnal than others are. But it definitely takes a stand against the things of God. A negative stand, or at least less positive in regards to the things of God. Look at what's happening in America. The conservative elements who are still trying to hang on to basic values.

Look at the reactions. This 80-year-old woman that gets booted out of the YMCA because she didn't want to watch a man who claims he is a woman stand there and watch a little girl showering.

Corruption. Hostility to God.

You think they're not coming for you and me eventually? Because we're obstacles in the way. No, the carnal mind gets worse and worse. And there's a reason why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. A negative stand, or less positive at the least, of the things of God. The natural mind, as influenced by Satan's spirit, is what equals the carnal mind. And that brings us to the converted mind. Number three, the converted mind is both initiated by and produced by the giving of the Holy Spirit of God. The impregnation of God's Holy Spirit into our mind causes a basic and far-reaching effect. I want to go back as I wrap up. I want to go back to 1 Corinthians 2.

1 Corinthians 2. 1 Corinthians 2 and verse 12. The converted mind is both initiated and produced by the giving of the Holy Spirit of God. The impregnation of God's Holy Spirit into our mind causes a basic and far-reaching effect. Paul says in this letter to those Corinthians who were baptized into Christ, who had had their sins forgiven, who were cleansed in the perfect pure blood of the Savior, and who, through the leg on a hands, had received the begettle of the Holy Spirit. Now we have received, see, this time, not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God that God Himself is composed of. For what purpose? That we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Those deep things of God that are given to us. In Luke 22 and verse 32, Christ words to Peter. In Luke 22 and verse 32. And I'll begin in verse 31. And the Lord says, Simon, Simon, pay attention. Listen. Take note. Satan has desired to have you, that he may sit you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith failed not.

And notice, it could have said, there was a time when you were born, you just had a natural mind. And there came a time, even before you were probably ill enough to even realize, even realize what was going on, the Spirit of this world began to infiltrate your thinking. And you quickly developed a carnal mind. And Peter, currently, you still basically are carnally minded. You just don't realize how much you still are. But when you are converted, which is the famous saying, you're not converted yet.

When you are converted, when you have a converted mind, when God's Spirit, which, if we can look to other places and see that He told them, God's Spirit is with you, it shall be in you. There's a difference. Being with you and being in you are two different states. Same Spirit, but two different states.

And He told them another time, that which is with you, the Spirit which is with you, shall be in you. Here He says, when you are converted, when you have God's Spirit, when your mind is changed sufficiently enough, we can call it a converted mind, because God's Spirit is there. Strengthen your brethren. One final scripture along this line, when you are converted, Acts 1.8, Acts 1, and verse 8.

To Peter, James, John, the other disciples, apostles, verse 8, chapter 1, Acts, but you shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you. The power of the converted mind, a difference that would take place that is so basic, so foundational, and so far-reaching.