THE
KINGDOM
OF GOD –
AND THE
“RENEWING”
OF OUR
MINDS
Bethel
Church,
Redding,
California,
Kingdom
Conference
Charles
Carrin
The
miraculous
life
should
typify
every
ordinary
Christian
life. We
must
discover
that the
trans-earthly
Kingdom
of God
is a
spiritual
dimension
that
comes
from
that
other
realm
and
seeks to
impact
us in
this
earth-zone.
When we
fail to
recognize
this, we
fail to
apprehend
the
fullness
of
Kingdom
power
that
Jesus
provided
for us
and
intended
that we
use.
After 60
years of
ministry
I am
convinced
more
than
ever
that our
penetration
into the
realms
of God
must be
an
ever-deepening
pursuit
of His
Kingdom.
Revelation-knowledge
waits
for us
only in
relation
to the
Kingdom.
Studying
the
Church
will not
achieve
it. I
cannot
over-emphasize
this
fact. We
must be
men and
women
driven
in the
holy
quest
for
Kingdom
truth.
This
destination
can be
achieved
only
with
what
Scripture
calls a
“renewed
mind”.
The
“carnal
mind”
cannot
go
there.
If the
Universe
is
expanding
at the
speed of
light,
so is
His
Kingdom.
It is
this
Kingdom
which
Jesus
told
Pontius
Pilate
was,
“Not of
this
world”,
meaning
it did
not
originate
on this
planet,
nor was
it
confined
to the
restrictions
of the
physical
earth.
The
Kingdom
of God
is not
native
to our
world
but is
projected
into our
cosmos
from the
Great-Other-Realm.
Therefore,
all the
dispensations
of the
Kingdom,
including
our
ministering
the
gospel,
experiencing
gifts of
the
Spirit,
exercising
faith,
doing
miraculous
works,
etc.,
are all
transearthly
powers
that are
expressing
themselves
through
us. The
Kingdom
of God
possesses
the
potential
to
interact
both
with our
physical
dimension
of time
and
space
while it
maintains
a
complete,
uninterrupted
union
with the
Eternal
Dimension
in which
it
originates.
As
gravity,
electro-magnetism,
centrifugal
force,
thermodynamics,
etc.,
are
native
to our
cosmos,
so the
Kingdom
and all
its
works
are
native
to the
other
realm.
They are
only
projected
into
our’s.
Scripture
makes it
very
plain
that all
Kingdom
attributes
are
extensions
to us.
They are
“powers
of the
age to
come”.
Unfortunately,
1. We
humans
use only
3% of
our
brain
power.
2. In
the fall
of Adam
we lost
access
to 97%
of our
mental
potential.
3.
Albert
Einstein,
one of
the
greatest
minds in
1000
years,
used
only 7%.
4.
If–before
the
fall–Adam
used
100% of
his what
must he
have
been
like?!
5. If
someone
on the
planet
today
used
100%,
what
would he
be like?
6.
Though
now out
of our
reach, I
believe
we still
possess
the
original
100%.
7. A
new-born
baby’s
brain
increases
by
10,000+
synapses
per
second.
8. An
adult
brain
contains
more
synapses
than
stars in
the
Universe.
I am
persuaded
that God
securely
“locked
away
97%” of
man’s
mental
capacity
after
Adam’s
degeneration
to
prevent
our
sinful
nature
from
abusing
its
incredible,
almost
illimitable
power.
We are
now
operating
on the
barest
minimum
of human
intellect.
Were the
body’s
nutritional
needs in
such
decline,
we would
have
totally
starved
to
death.
Even so,
in spite
of our
reduction
to 3%
brain
power,
the
human
mind is
an
awesome,
incredible,
indescribable,
being.
If all
5,1/2
billion
people
on earth
were
talking
on the
telephone
at the
same
time and
using 18
different
telephones,
it would
still
not
correspond
to the
electrical
traffic
a single
brain is
handling.
Each
brain is
a
universe
within
itself.
The
corpus
callosum
tissue
separating
the two
hemispheres
of the
brain
contains
as many
connections
as all
the
combined
telephone
lines in
America.
In other
words,
to cut
through
the
corpus
callosum
would be
far more
destructive
than
shutting
down
every
telephone
in the
U.S. The
1,000
billion
cells
now
operating
in each
of us
originated
from a
single
cell at
conception.
In that
split-instant
every
other
mental
and
physical
system
was
successfully
programed.
That
conceptual-explosion
of power
in a
sub-microscopic
way was
repetitious
of the
“Big
Bang”.
Such a
detonation,
occurring
thousands
of times
daily
around
the
globe–
unimaginable
as it
is–is
only a
feather’s-weight
hint at
the
operational
capacity
of the
Kingdom
of God.
God does
not
merely
act. He
is
action
itself.
Astonishingly,
He wills
to
reveal
that
power to
us and
through
us.
I have a
pastor
friend
in
Florida
who
years
ago was
flunking
Bible
College.
Intellectually,
he
struggled.
Though
grievously
disappointed
at
having
to
drop-out
of
school
he was
preparing
to do so
when a
friend
encouraged
him to
seek
renewal
in the
“spirit
of his
mind”,
Ephesians
4:22-24.
He
exhorted
my
friend
to ask
the Holy
Spirit
to “give
him the
mind of
Christ”
and to
“bring
to
memory”
everything
Jesus
had said
to him.”
He
obeyed,
the Holy
Spirit
miraculously
responded,
and
today–with
a
renewed
mind–this
pastor
can
quote
all of
the New
Testament
and most
of the
Old
Testament
from
memory–and
he can
do that
in more
than one
version.
What
happened?
He
experienced
“renewal
in the
spirit
of his
mind”.
And be
aware
that my
friend
experienced
more
than
just
intellectual-renewal.
It was
the
miraculous
magnification
in the
“spirit”
of the
mind!
Paul
tells
us, “Do
not be
conformed
to this
world,
but be
transformed
by the
renewing
of your
mind,
that you
may
prove
what is
that
good and
acceptable
and
perfect
will of
God.”
Romans
12:2-3,
Today,
that
pastor
quickly
admits
it is
not
humanly
possible
for him
to have
such
phenomenal
recall
of
Scripture.
He also
knows
this
experience
does not
make him
immune
to
theological
error.
While he
is the
only one
of my
personal
acquaintance
who has
experienced
such
mind-renewing
transformation,
I have
had the
privilege
to pray
for a
number
of
children
and
adults
whose
mental
deficiencies
underwent
radical
improvement.
I also
ministered
to my
friend
with the
astonishing
memory.
While I
do not
believe
we will
experience
restoration
to
Adam’s
original
ability,
I am
persuaded
that
this is
what the
Apostle
Paul
targeted
when he
told the
Ephesian
believers
to be
renewed
in the
spirit
of their
mind.
Notice
carefully,
Paul’s
using
the word
spirit.
He was
aware
that
this
change
involved
much
more was
than
mere
brain
tissue.
And keep
in mind
that
renewal
is
restoration
to
something
once
possessed
but now
lost.
Antithetically,
the only
option
for
believers’
mental
renewal
is to
remain
“carnally”
minded.
Paul
further
addressed
this
possibility
in his
letter
to the
Roman
saints,
8:6,7,
“For to
be
carnally
minded
is
death,
but to
be
spiritually
minded
is life
and
peace.
Because
the
carnal
mind is
enmity
against
God ...”
My point
is this:
A
carnal,
unrenewed
mind, no
matter
how long
one may
have
been
born-again,
or how
well-educated,
cannot
comprehend
the
phenomenal
breadth
of the
Kingdom
of God.
No one
on the
earth
today
qualifies
for that
distinction.
All of
us are
still
learners.
Everyone
has his
small
bit of
wisdom
to
share.
Dr. Lisa
Randall,
45
year-old
female
theoretical
physicist,
author,
and
Harvard
University
Professor
says
“The
Universe
has
higher,
hidden,
infinitely
larger
dimensions
so vast
that
our’s in
comparison
is
nothing
more
than a
3-D
sinkhole.”
The
greatest
living
physicist
of all,
Dr.
Stephen
Hawkins,
actively
pursues
her
concepts.
I am not
saying
that the
“dimensions”
of which
Dr.
Randall
speaks
are
Heaven,
Hell,
Eternity,
etc. I
don’t
know. I
want
never to
forget
that
“the
world by
wisdom
knows
not God”
But I
want
also to
remember
that one
of the
earliest
Old
Testament
prophecies
about
the
Messiah
came
from the
mouth of
a pagan
witch-doctor,
Balaam.
Numbers
24:17. I
will not
reject
truth
because
it
doesn’t
wear a
denominational
label.
While I
totally
believe
in the
new
birth,
the
baptism
in the
Spirit,
impartation
of
spiritual
gifts,
and the
miraculous
benefits
they
bring, I
am
equally
convinced
that we
humans
cannot
comprehend
Kingdom-reality
apart
from
receiving
renewal
in the
“spirit
of our
mind”.
For this
intellectual
need,
being
born-again
is not
enough.
There is
a holy
progression
into
God’s
realm
which we
dare not
fail to
recognize
and
apply.
Even
with the
best of
Scripture
learning,
spiritual
gifting,
fervent
devotion
to God,
without
exception,
the mind
must be
renewed!
Lacking
it, we
cannot
apprehend
the
Kingdom.
The
Kingdom
message–imparted
by Jesus
to Paul,
Peter,
Philip,
others–was
accompanied
by
mighty
signs,
wonders,
manifestations
of
Kingdom
power.
When
Peter
walked
the
streets
of
Jerusalem
the
touch of
his
shadow
restored
invalids
to
health
and
strength.
Acts
6:15. At
Joppa he
raised
Dorcas
from the
dead.
Acts
9:36-43.
At
Lystra,
Paul
commanded
a lame
man to
stand
and
walk.
Acts
14:8-10.
In
Samaria,
Philip
drove
out
demons.
Acts
8:5-7.
In every
case,
these
men
experienced
the
“powers
of the
age to
come.”
Hebrews
6:5.
These
displays
were not
normal
earthly-events
for that
day. Not
at all.
Instead,
they
were
invasive-flashes
from the
Kingdom
of God.
Though
the
Kingdom’s
full
revelation
is
reserved
for the
future,
these
flashes
of
divine
power
suddenly–and
abnormally–appeared
on
earth.
In that
moment,
these
men were
more
than
mere
humans;
they
were
followers
of Jesus
under
the
revelation
of
Kingdom
authority
and the
Holy
Spirit’s
anointing.
In a
sense,
they
stood in
the edge
of
Glory.
Their
feet
were on
earth;
their
faces in
Heaven.
Simultaneously,
they
were in
both
realms.
Eternity
shone
through
them
like
sunlight
through
a
window.
They
were not
the
Light
but only
the pane
through
which
the
light
passed.
Jesus is
the
Light.
When
Jesus
delivered
the
maniac
of
Gadara,
the
townspeople
returned
and
found
the man
“in his
right
mind”.
Jesus
did more
than
regenerate
his soul
and cast
out
demons.
He
restored
his
mind!
The day
of the
Resurrection,
when
Jesus
appeared
to the
disciples
on the
Emmaus
road,
they
later
said,"Did
not our
heart
burn
within
us while
He
talked
with us
on the
road,
and
while He
opened
the
Scriptures
to us?’
Luke
24:32.
In part,
this was
a
mind-opening
experience.
Today,
fresh
mental
and
spiritual
knowledge
of the
Kingdom
of God
is being
projected
into our
realm
and we
must be
prepared
to
receive
it. I
need to
illustrate
that
scene:
If you
were
standing
at the
edge of
a pool
of water
and
threw
two
rocks
into it
that
land
apart,
each
will
cause a
circle
of
ripples
to flow
toward
the
other.
In our
purpose,
the
circle
on your
right
represents
the
non-physical,
spiritual
Kingdom
of God.
The one
on the
left can
represent
the
natural
or
physical
kingdom.
Ripples
from
each
will
pass
through
the
other.
Where
they
overlap
you have
an
eliptical
shape in
the
water
that has
been
created
by the
two
circles
of
waves.
The
eliptical
zone in
the
middle
is the
area in
which
all
born-again
believers
live.
Simultaneously,
we are
part of
both the
natural
and
spiritual
realms.
Though
living
here,
believers
have
already
been
entrusted
with
miraculous
“powers
of the
‘age to
come’”.
Hebrews
6:5.
The
tragedy
with
many
born-again
believers
is that
they
remain
locked
into the
concept
of
earth-life
only;
they
keep
themselves
restricted
to its
prison-like
confinements.
They
have
never
discovered
the
reality
of their
spiriutal
realm
and
forget
that
“Now are
they the
sons of
God. ”I
John
3:2.
Now!
Now!
Now!
Their
assumption
is that
“eternal”
life
begins
when
they
die. Not
so!
Nothing
is more
astonishing
than our
discovering
that God
has
placed
within
reach of
ordinary
believers
the
Kingdom’s
amazing
power of
the Holy
Spirit.
That is
precisely
what
Jesus
made
available
to us.
He said,
“You
shall
receive
power
when the
Holy
Spirit
has come
upon
you.”
Acts
1:8.
“These
signs
will
follow
those
who
believe.”
Mark
16:17.
Through
these
miraculous
invasions,
the Holy
Spirit
draws
back the
Kingdom’s
veil and
allows
us to
experience
the
wonders
of the
“age to
come”
Though
we
experience
only a
grain-of-sand
demonstration
of the
Holy
Spirit’s
Kingdom
power,
even the
smallest
revelation
of His
presence
displays
this
fact:
The
miraculous
life
should
typify
every
ordinary
Christian
life. We
must
discover
that the
trans-earthly
Kingdom
of God
is a
spiritual
dimension
that
comes
from
that
other
realm
and
seeks to
impact
us in
this
earth-zone.
When we
fail to
experience
this, we
fail to
apprehend
the
fullness
of
Kingdom
power
that
Jesus
provided
and
intended
for us
to use.
SCRIPTURES
Romans
12:2-3.
And do
not be
conformed
to this
world,
but be
transformed
by the
renewing
of your
mind ,
that you
may
prove
what is
that
good and
acceptable
and
perfect
will of
God.
1
Corinthians
2:16-3:1.
For "who
has
known
the mind
of the
LORD
that he
may
instruct
Him?"
But we
have the
mind of
Christ.
Isaiah
26:3-4.
“You
will
keep him
in
perfect
peace,
Whose
mind is
stayed
on You.”
Mark
5:15
Then
they
came to
Jesus,
and saw
the one
who had
been
demon-possessed
and had
the
legion,
sitting
and
clothed
and in
his
right
mind.
And they
were
afraid.
Mark
12:30
And you
shall
love the
LORD
your God
with all
your
heart,
with all
your
soul,
with all
your
mind,
and with
all your
strength.'
This is
the
first
commandment.
Luke
12:29
"And do
not seek
what you
should
eat or
what you
should
drink,
nor have
an
anxious
mind .
Romans
7:21-8:1.
I find
then a
law,
that
evil is
present
with me,
the one
who
wills to
do good.
For I
delight
in the
law of
God
according
to the
inward
man. But
I see
another
law in
my
members,
warring
against
the law
of my
mind,
and
bringing
me into
captivity
to the
law of
sin
which is
in my
members.
O
wretched
man that
I am!
Who will
deliver
me from
this
body of
death? I
thank
God —
through
Jesus
Christ
our
Lord! So
then,
with the
mind I
myself
serve
the law
of God,
but with
the
flesh
the law
of sin.
Romans
8:5-8:
For
those
who live
according
to the
flesh
set
their
minds on
the
things
of the
flesh,
but
those
who live
according
to the
Spirit,
the
things
of the
Spirit.
For to
be
carnally
minded
is
death,
but to
be
spiritually
minded
is life
and
peace.
Because
the
carnal
mind is
enmity
against
God; for
it is
not
subject
to the
law of
God, nor
indeed
can be.
So then,
those
who are
in the
flesh
cannot
please
God.
Ephesians
1:15-19.
“Therefore
I also,
after I
heard of
your
faith in
the Lord
Jesus
and your
love for
all the
saints,
do not
cease to
give
thanks
for you,
making
mention
of you
in my
prayers:
that the
God of
our Lord
Jesus
Christ,
the
Father
of
glory,
may give
to you
the
spirit
of
wisdom
and
revelation
in the
knowledge
of Him,
the eyes
of your
understanding
(kardia/heart)
being
enlightened;
that you
may know
what is
the hope
of His
calling,
what are
the
riches
of the
glory of
His
inheritance
in the
saints,
and what
is the
exceeding
greatness
of His
power
toward
us who
believe,
according
to the
working
of His
mighty
power
...”
Ephesians
4:20-25.
But you
have not
so
learned
Christ,
if
indeed
you have
heard
Him and
have
been
taught
by Him,
as the
truth is
in
Jesus:
that you
put off,
concerning
your
former
conduct,
the old
man
which
grows
corrupt
according
to the
deceitful
lusts,
and be
renewed
in the
spirit
of your
mind,
and that
you put
on the
new man
which
was
created
according
to God,
in true
righteousness
and
holiness.
1
Corinthians
2:1-6.
And I,
brethren,
when I
came to
you, did
not come
with
excellence
of
speech
or of
wisdom
declaring
to you
the
testimony
of God.
For I
determined
not to
know
anything
among
you
except
Jesus
Christ
and Him
crucified.
I was
with you
in
weakness,
in fear,
and in
much
trembling.
And my
speech
and my
preaching
were not
with
persuasive
words of
human
wisdom,
but in
demonstration
of the
Spirit
and of
power,
that
your
faith
should
not be
in the
wisdom
of men
but in
the
power of
God.
Philippians
2:5-9.
“Let
this
mind be
in you
which
was also
in
Christ
Jesus.”
2
Timothy
1:7-8.
For God
has not
given us
a spirit
of fear,
but of
power
and of
love and
of a
sound
mind.
Philippians
2:5-7.
Let this
mind be
in you
which
was also
in
Christ
Jesus,
who,
being in
the form
of God,
did not
consider
it
robbery
to be
equal
with
God, but
made
Himself
of no
reputation,
taking
the form
of a
bondservant,
and
coming
in the
likeness
of men.
Colossians
2:18-19.
Let no
one
cheat
you of
your
reward,
taking
delight
in false
humility
and
worship
of
angels,
intruding
into
those
things
which he
has not
seen,
vainly
puffed
up by
his
fleshly
mind,
and not
holding
fast to
the
Head.
1 Peter
1:13.
Therefore
gird up
the
loins of
your
mind, be
sober,
and rest
your
hope
fully
upon the
grace
that is
to be
brought
to you
at the
revelation
of Jesus
Christ.”
Hebrews
9:14.
“How
much
more
shall
the
blood of
Christ,
who
through
the
eternal
Spirit
offered
Himself
without
spot to
God,
cleanse
your
conscience
from
dead
works to
serve
the
living
God? ___
Charles
Carrin
