Note 6 at 1Co 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 can't believe this. Their school grades prove that they don't have the mind of Christ, so what's right--their experience or what God says? In this case, both are correct.

Our physical brains are limited and certainly do not know everything. There are many scriptures that make this point (e.g., 1Co 13:9-12), including the very context of Paul's statement here.

But in our new born-again spirits, we are completely new creatures (2Co 5:17). We actually have the mind of Christ. Our born-again spirits have been renewed in knowledge after the same image of Him that created us (Col 3:10). We have received an anointing in our spirit so that we know all things (1Jo 2:20). Praise God!

So the spiritual portion of us as Christians has the mind of Christ, while our physical brains do not. This is why the renewing of our physical minds is so important (see note 9 at Ro 12:2). 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 spirits 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 (Joh 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 minds and the life of God is released in our bodies.