J.D. Walt of Asbury Seminary/Seedbed Ministries invites Christians to imagine having the same mindset as Jesus. Walt reminds us that everything Jesus did was as a man of His Father’s Word and by the power of the indwelling person of the Holy Spirit. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, baptized by the Holy Spirit, anointed by the Holy Spirit, gifted by the Holy Spirit, inspired by the Holy Spirit, empowered by the Holy Spirit, and infused with the Holy Spirit. He walked in the power of the Spirit, prayed in the language of the Spirit, healed in the power of the Spirit, loved in the way of the Spirit and so on. Every aspect of Jesus’ life was driven by the Father’s Word and the Spirit’s power.

So to “have the same mindset as Christ Jesus” means to be filled by the same power that filled Jesus—the person of the Holy Spirit - and driven by God’s Word. In his letter to the church in Rome, Paul says this about acquiring the “mind of Christ Jesus.” 

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