The Greatest Power Is In Knowing

By Tammy Lacock

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman reinforces our need for a constant mind-renewal as we live our new life in Christ. The Apostle Paul was the only man raised up by Christ, Himself, to bring us the gospel of Christ literally living in us as believers and details throughout his epistles how we are to go about this constant mind-change in our new life in Him.

Paul emphasizes that our understanding of the godhead, the Trinity, is vital to living our new life in Christ. We must rightly divide the godhead and we must rightly divide the three parts of man: body, soul, and spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 4:12). This requires a radical mind-change.

First, our minds must be renewed to the understanding that God is now our Father. Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection allowed God to replace the seed of Satan with His Seed, His Son, in each and every one of us who believes. We are now joined to Him in our spirits, making us one Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:17) Christ is our new life, our eternal life. By Christ in us, we are brand-new creations, a brand-new race, bona fide sons and daughters of God. By God’s grace, we can now call Him “Father”!

Second, we must understand the role of the Holy Spirit. In John 13, 14, and 15, Christ introduces the Holy Spirit who will come to us as our teacher, comforter, advocate, and revealer. The Holy Spirit’s sole purpose now is to teach us of the Christ who now lives in us in spirit so that we may know Him. No longer are we to know Christ in the flesh.

The Holy Spirit works in our soul part of us, where our minds reside. It is here where our mind-renewal takes place. It is here where the Holy Spirit reveals and teaches us through our circumstances and situations of life so we may grow in our personal relationship with Christ. We must rightly divide between our “old man,” sin-natured knowledge and the knowledge of Christ that now comes from the Holy Spirit.

Warren explains that the greatest power we will ever have as believers is the lessons learned by the Holy Spirit. These are extremely helpful in our mind-renewal because through these we learn Christ. We begin to know Him as Paul knew Him, as the Christ alive and well in us. These lessons help us understand that there is no separation now between us and Christ. He lives within us and is the one who now lives through us. In fact, in Galatians 2:20, Paul tells us we no longer live, and our new life is Christ. In Christ, we are now complete. We can finally live who God created us to be. This was His plan before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).

In Philippians 3:10, Paul pours out his heart, knowing that through his sufferings he will know Christ more deeply. This is all he wanted. Yet he also understood that through his sufferings he would also know the power of Christ’s resurrection. This is the power of His resurrected life in us and the power in knowing that everything we think, say, and do now belongs to Christ. He is our one and only life now flowing through us, but we must give Him our minds to use. Our minds, and our whole being, become a living sacrifice in return for His. Through our constant mind-renewal, knowing Him and falling in love with Him becomes our daily and ultimate goal.

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.” (Phil. 3:10)