Perfect Minded

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Perfect-minded. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded. And if in anything ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule.

Let us mind the same thing. Philippians three fifteen and sixteen. Earlier, Paul had noted that he was not already perfect, using a form of the Greek verb teleu. In today's verse, Paul uses the adjective form teleos. Although the root of the word is the same, this particular usage is significant.

In verse 12, the Holy Spirit inspires Paul to use the past perfect tense of teleu, rendering the translation "not having been perfected," and thereby. Recognizing that the end product of God's salvation had not yet been completed, the adjective form teleus denotes the sense of maturity, both in our text and the other 18 instances in the New Testament. Those of the family of God who are mature, even if we might be otherwise minded, are to expect that our Lord Jesus will reveal even this, or the prize that we are to focus on in Philippians three fourteen. The one thing of Philippians three thirteen is so important that we must walk by the same rule and mind the same thing. The Greek word for walk is only used four other times in the New Testament, and it describes marching in a row and following a prescribed order.

We are to walk in the steps that Abraham exemplified, just as we are to also walk in the Spirit. Finally, we are exhorted to mind the same thing. Our thought processes are to be focused on that one thing that is most important. Seeking. The kingdom first.

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