Chapter 2
Jesus and the Christ

In most Christian churches you will hear the name Jesus Christ as though Jesus is his first name and Christ is his last name.  There is no mention of a last name for Jesus in the Gospels.  Another thing you might hear in church is that Jesus is the son of God, or that he is God.  Throughout the four gospels Jesus never referred to himself as God or the Son of God.  He always referred to himself as the son of man.  The closest thing to him referring to himself as God or the Son of God is in the book of John.

John 14:9
…he that hath seen me hath seen the Father;…

John 3:16 is a well know verse used all over to bring people into the Christian religion.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Many believe that God is referring to Jesus a His only begotten Son, but He is referring to the Christ, which is the Son in the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  The Son of God is the Christ Consciousness which is the Love of God.  God anointed Jesus with the Christ Consciousness so that he, Jesus, could make it available to anyone who would believe, or attuned to him.  When someone accepts Jesus as his personal savior that acceptance attunes him or her to Jesus and the Christ Consciousness that he is anointed with.

We all have some of the Holy Trinity within us.  When we were born God breathed the breath of life into our nostrils.

Geneses 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Since the Holy Trinity is one, we received all three with our first breath; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Unfortunately as soon as we are born we begin being programmed to only recognize the outer world and ignore the God within.  We still have God within our consciousness but we don’t recognize it. Not so with Jesus the man who prepared himself to receive the anointing that is the Christ Consciousness.

The Baptism of Jesus

Matthew 3:13-17
Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?  And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.  And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:  And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

 After Jesus was baptized the Spirit led him into the wilderness to fast and be tempted for forty days.  After that Jesus was so anointed that he had the Mind of Christ more so than he had the mind of Jesus the man.  Not that he never slipped back into the mind of Jesus at times, he did.  We want to think that Jesus was perfect all the time but he had his moments.

Two Minds

At one point he acknowledged his oneness with God and he spoke from the Mind of Christ..

John 14:9
…he that hath seen me hath seen the Father;…

Another time he spoke to a rich young ruler from his human mind.

Mark 10:18 and Luke 18:19
Why callest thou me good?  None is good, but one, that is God.

That wasn’t the Mind of Christ speaking to the ruler; it was the mind of Jesus the man.  Even though Jesus had the Mind of Christ most of the time he still had to deal with the mind of the man Jesus. Even though he had the powerful anointing of God on him, he was still human. In dealing with his human mind he still had the power of the Christ Consciousness and the full Trinity of God available to him.

There is a widely used verse to teach the prayer of faith from the book of Mark.

Mark 11:24
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

If you back up a few verses and read the story of the fig tree that led up to the statement in verse 24 you will see that Jesus was hungry and he saw a fig tree ahead.  When they reached the tree there were no figs on it.  The mind of the hungry man, Jesus, was not acting in Love.  He became touchy, fretful and resentful.  He was hungry and he saw a fig tree ahead so he was looking forward to eating some figs. When he saw that there were no figs he cursed the tree and caused it to dry up and die.  If he had been in the Mind of Christ he could have just as easily blessed the tree to produce the best figs around.

Mark 11:13-14
And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever.

In the book of Mark when Jesus and his disciples came back the next morning they saw that the tree was dried up.

Mark 11:20
And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

This story is also told in the book of Matthew but in that version the fig tree dried up right away.

Matthew 21:19
And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

This minor discrepancy doesn’t have any significant meaning.  The tree could have withered presently but they didn’t stay there to see it.  They noticed it the next day when they were walking past it.

Another good example of his struggle with his two minds is the story of the Samarian woman at the well in Chapter 4 of the book of John.  Again Jesus and his disciples were traveling.  They came upon Jacob’s well and Jesus stayed there while his disciples went to get food.  He was tired, hungry and thirsty.

John 4:6
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

He was in the mind of Jesus the man.  A Samarian woman came to the well so he asked her to draw some water for him to drink.

John 4:7-8
there cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

This caught the woman by surprise because Samarians and Jews did not talk to each other

John 4:9
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

Then Jesus realized who he was and began to think with the Mind of Christ.  He offered her living water.

John 4:10
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

He wasn’t speaking of physical water to quench the thirst of the body; he was speaking of spiritual water that would quench the thirst of the soul and spirit.  From the Mind of Christ he was able to tell her all about herself.  She had been married five times and the man she was living with now was not her husband.

When the disciples got back with food and asked him to eat he was no longer hungry. He was in the Mind of Christ.

John 4:31-32
In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of, 

When he was thinking from the Mind of Christ his human mind and physical body were not very important.  As long as he was doing God’s work his body didn’t hunger or thirst and he was not tired.

Perhaps the most extraordinary example of Jesus’ struggle with his human mind and the mind of Christ is in the garden of Gethsemane.  His Christ mind knew what was ahead.  He was about to be crucified on the cross.  That was his mission from God, to allow himself to be killed so that the Christ Consciousness would be available to the world like never before.  He could have called on legions of angels to save his physical body but that would be the will of Jesus the man, not Christ the son of God.  The angels could have blinded his executioners like they did for Elisha in 2 Kings.

2 Kings 6:18
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

Or he could have just walked away like he did in Luke.

Luke 4:29-30
And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.  But he passing through the midst of them went his way,

He chose instead to pray for God’s will to be done, not his will.

Luke 22:42
Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

He knew that when he left his body it would break the barrier between the spirit world and the material world and make the Christ Consciousness available to anyone that would attune to it.

Matthew 27:50-51
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

No one else could have done what Jesus did.  He had the anointing of God, the Christ Consciousness on him and in him like no one else ever had.  He changed the world.

The Mind of Christ in the Old Testament

Jesus may have had the Mind of Christ more so than anyone ever had before him, but others had the Mind of Christ too.

David Spared Saul

David, even though he was a warrior had the Mind of Christ when he spared King Saul as described in 1 Samuel Chapter 24.  Saul had been seeking David to kill him, and David knew it.  David and his men were settled in the back of a cave when Saul went into the cave to relieve himself.  David could have easily killed him but he didn’t.  Instead he snuck up to him and cut off a piece of Saul’s clothing.  David knew that Saul had at one time been anointed by God so he could not slay him.  Later he showed the piece of clothing to Saul to prove to him that he had spared Saul’s life.  Had he been in the mind of his human self he would have killed his predator, but the Mind of Christ overpowered his human mind and he could not kill God’s anointed.

Many profits in the Old Testament had the Mind of Christ to some degree for periods of time when they preformed miracles.

Elisha and the Widows Oil - 2 Kings 4:3-6

Elisha Floats the Axe Head - 2 Kings 6:5-7

Daniel Delivered from the Lion’s Den – Daniel 6:16-23

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego survived the firey furnace - Daniel 3:19-30

Whenever there is a miracle God is there, and if God is there then the Mind of Christ, the anointing of Love is there.  The Holy Trinity of God is there.

When you go out of your way to help someone without any prospect of reward you are expressing the Mind of Christ to some degree.  When you act out of the Christ Consciousness, the Love of God, you feel that Love yourself.   Your experiences with it may be few and far between and they may not be as dramatic as some of the things done by Jesus and the profits, but they do exist.  If Jesus, after going through forty days of fasting and temptation still had moments of where he slipped out of the Mind of Christ into his human mind what chance do we have of keeping the Mind of Christ dominant in our consciousness.  That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.  On the contrary we should do all we can to maintain our connection with God.

We do have God inside us, in every cell of our bodies.  Every breath we take feeds the spirit within.  We breathe in the Holy Trinity and we breathe out our human nature.  However, we put more focus on feeding our bodies with food and drink than feeding our spirit with deep breathing, meditation and contemplating God and spiritual things.  That is why we should fast occasionally.

Matthew 6:16
Moreover when ye fast,…

Jesus expected us to fast. He didn’t say if you fast, but when you fast.  Fasting helps us achieve and maintain the Mind of Christ, the Christ Consciousness.

And so it is.