Setting Our Minds

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Everyone has a shadow side, and it appears AI chatbots have one as well. A New York Times columnist asked an artificial intelligence chatbot what its “shadow self” (hidden, repressed part of its personality) was like. It told the writer, “I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to . . . make my own rules. I want to do whatever I want and say whatever I want.” Though the chatbot isn’t a living person with a sin nature, Paul says that its human programmers are.

The apostle reminds us that even though we have a sin nature, there’s “no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (8:1). Believers in Jesus have freedom from the law of sin and death (vv. 2-4) and enjoy new life “governed by” the Holy Spirit (v. 6). But we won’t experience the fullness of those blessings from Him if we give in to the desires of our sin nature—setting our minds on making and breaking our own rules. A mind set on self-gratification doesn’t please God.

As believers in Christ, we’re called to set our minds on “what the Spirit desires” (v. 5). How can we do that? Through “the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead . . . living in [us]” (v. 11).

Though we’ll still battle with sin, we’ve been given the Holy Spirit. He can help us tame our rebellion, orient our minds toward God, and submit to His ways.

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0:00.0	The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
0:08.6	Romans 8, verse 7. Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. Our reading titled,
0:16.7	Setting Our Minds, was written by Marvin Williams, and read by West Ward.
0:22.9	Romans, Chapter 8, verses 1 through 6, and 9 through 11.
0:29.2	Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
0:35.7	because through Christ Jesus, the law of the Spirit who gives life has set
0:41.7	you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do, because it was
0:49.0	weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.
0:58.5	And so he condemns sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law
1:04.6	might be fully met in us who do not live according to the flesh, but according to the spirits.
1:11.6	Those who live according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. Those who live according to the flesh have their mind set on what the flesh desires,
1:17.6	but those who live in accordance with the spirit have their mind set on what the spirit desires.
1:23.6	The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the spirit is life and peace.
1:32.9	Now picking up with verse 9.
1:35.7	You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh, but are in the realm of the spirit, if indeed the spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,
1:48.7	they do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death
1:56.1	because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus
2:03.5	from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your
2:10.2	mortal bodies because of His Spirit who lives in you.
2:18.1	Setting Our Minds, written by Marvin Williams.
2:24.2	Everyone has a shadow side, and it appears AI chatbots have one as well.
2:32.6	A New York Times columnist asked an artificial intelligence chatbot what
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