The Fleshly Mind
June 16, 2026
Colossians 2:16-19 (NKJV)
16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moonor sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. 18 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, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase [that is] from God.
In today’s scripture, we see the contrast to the mind of Christ, which is the fleshly mind. Instead of having the humble attitude of Christ, the fleshly mind expresses a false humility. This is a religious attitude that majors on rules and regulations and the worship of created things instead of rejoicing in the Lord. This leads to an appearance of godliness but does not lead to true life and peace.
In our day we see this in the zealous pushing of fad diets such as the vegan lifestyle and the pursuit of hidden knowledge about aliens and unidentified phenomena. One of the recent movie releases, “Disclosure Day”, is said to be an attack on Christianity by proposing the revelation of secret knowledge about extraterrestrials, which contradicts biblical knowledge. There is no end of ways that man has invented for ways to create religious experiences that avoid worshiping the true God. Man is made to worship, and if he rejects the true God, he will find something else to worship. The fleshy mind will find a way invent some way to create order for its life. Whether it is a dedication to football or some other obsession.
In contrast, the mind of Christ leads us to hold fast to the head and to live together as the body of Christ. This is the way of contentment and peace. So hold fast, and pursue the mind of Christ and reject the ways of the world and the freshly mind.
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