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A Reprobate Mind, or the Mind of Christ, An Introduction
Proverbs 16:3 Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established.Your thoughts-[H4284] mahasabha=plans, devices, intentions, creativity.
This strikes at the very heart of redemption for fallen man to be re-established
in the image of the Son, through the mind of Christ.
Genesis 6:5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every intent(frame) of the thoughts(mahasabha) of his heart was only evil continually.
Fallen man became unable to frame his thoughts in accordance with the divine
mind of which he had been created, but had now corrupted.
Isaiah 55:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts(mahasabha):
and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God,
for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my mahasabha are not your mahasabha, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my mahasabha than your mahasabha.
In order to accomplish His intentions for the congregation in the wilderness, the Lord
had to provide a special dispensation of grace upon chosen men to receive His mahasabha.
Exodus 35:
31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding,
and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
32 And to devise mahasabha, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass.
33 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of mahasabha.
35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver,
and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet,
and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise mahasabha.
By the time of Jeremiah, the people of Jerusalem were completely of a reprobate mind,
and unable to receive correction.
Jeremiah 18:
11 Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising My Mahasabha against you.
Return now everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
12 And they said, That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own mahasabha,
and we will all obey the dictates of an evil heart.
And yet, through it all, the Lord remained faithful to His future plans for His people.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the mahasabha that I think toward you, says the Lord,
mahasabha of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
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