Note 6 at 1 Cor. 2:16: What an awesome statement! We haven't just had a portion of Christ's wisdom transferred to us. We have the mind of Christ! We know everything that Jesus knows!

Some people just can't believe this. Their school grades prove that they don't have the mind of Christ. So, what's right-our experience or what God says? In this case, both are correct.

Our physical brain is limited and certainly does not know everything. There are many scriptures which make this point (Example-1 Cor. 13:9-12), including the very context of Paul's statement here.

Yet, in our new born-again spirit, we are a completely new creature (2 Cor. 5:17). We actually have the mind of Christ. The spirit of a born-again man has been renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him (Col. 3:10). We have received an anointing in our spirit so that we know all things (1 Jn. 2:20). Praise God!

So, the spiritual portion of a Christian has the mind of Christ while our physical brain does not. This is why the renewing of our physical minds is so important (see note 9 at Rom. 12:2, p. 826). We already have the perfect wisdom of Christ on the inside, but we need to transfer that knowledge to our physical minds and thereby change our physical emotions and actions.

It is not our spirit that we are trying to train in the Word of God. Rather, the Holy Spirit is trying to train our physical minds to let the perfect wisdom of Christ, which is already resident in the spirit of every believer, prevail over our carnal thinking.

How can we tap this mind of Christ? God's Word is Spirit and life (Jn. 6:63). God's Word has written in print what is written in our hearts in the mind of Christ. Therefore, as we study God's Word with the revelation knowledge of the Holy Spirit, this mind of Christ is reproduced in our physical mind and the life of God is released in our bodies.