Clean Your Mind

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Clean your mind. But now ye also put off all these anger. Wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds.

Colossians 3, 8-9.

Okay. Once the intense drives of the fleshly appetites have been done away with, we who have been created after God in righteousness and true holiness must cleanse the passions of the intellect as well. We must place away from or throw away these ideas that are begun in the mind. These notions are sinful and harmful to everyone. Anger is an agitation of the soul that produces a violent emotion.

Wrath, as the word suggests, is intellectual heat, a boiling up that produces a fierce indignation. Malice is the ill will that creates a desire to injure, even eliminating shame at breaking laws. Blasphemy? One of the few words directly transliterated from the Greek means any slander or speech that is injurious to another's good name. Filthy communication is any kind of foul speaking or low and obscene speech.

Lying deliberately gives false information. We are to put off the old man, that nature and behaviour that was bound up in the flesh, and put on the new man, which is rewarded in knowledge after the image of Him that created him. Our salvation brings with it both a new heart and a new mind. With the one we are able to mortify the deeds of the flesh with the other, we are to put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof. ROMANS thirteen fourteen.

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