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Rom.12:15 Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. 12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.

What is the mind of the body of Christ? In a world divided by strife and jealousy? For the world their are many minds, those minds can only be brought together through strong laws of the flesh, enforce upon minds of the flesh demanding conformity and respect by religion, government and/or businesses. Yet, each mind seeks its own glory within the institution of flesh to outshine another for human praise and recognition. But what of the mind of the body of Christ whom Paul spoke too here?

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.

James. 4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 4:2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. 4:3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? 4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."{Proverbs 3:34}

Did Paul speak by his own mind, and did each member therein speak by their own mind as the body of Christ? Let us contemplate this thought serious and perhaps we can touch upon godly headship giving us some meaning within a divided world where hardly a marriage functions any longer. The mind of the body of Christ is found in its head, Christ Jesus, a mind that is under the headship of God/YHWH. A submissive mind, thus, implying a very humble mind. Christ can be humble in mind and spirit because he knows something most of us think we know, but don't, God's love. God's love impels Christ to be humble, but many Christian's get it backwards, they thinking if I can't determine love from a brother or sister I don't have to show love. But Christ is impels by God's love, he says this: “I act in love, because God is love.”

1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind.

Christ was made into flesh so he could be compassionate towards our human weakness under sin. Let us not be like the world and act like we don't know sin, hence, presenting ourselves a public image, we all hold what is common to all mankind the works of our flesh, we are not Prima Donnas. God has left us in our flesh, to become vessels of mercy and love. So we can sympathies which each others fallen condition, doing so by comparing ourselves to God's love. The mind we have is Christ our head, we are under his spirit as body members, he humbled himself empty himself into a slaves form for the human race.

2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Philippians.2:1 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, 2:2 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
2:3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; 2:4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. 2:5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, 2:6 who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, 2:7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. 2:8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross. 2:9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;

Now we know our the real condition of our own hearts under sin, this should gives us every reason to give the life of Christ working in us to each other as the only life worthy of giving. It is with this mind Paul speaks to here.

Rom.7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

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