Keeping the Victory in the Batttle of the Mind
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6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Introduction.
Introduction.
Even though you have victory in your mind, the devil isn’t giving up.
But the devil will try to come right back. See, if he can get in there, at all, he’s got your army routed right then.
Example: Think of your mind as a sovereign nation, and the thoughts that come to you as immigrants.
You cannot have an open border policy in your mind.
If you’ve got your senses, see, taste, feel, smell, and hear, they’re all right, but don’t trust them unless they agree with the Word. They’re all right, but, if they disagree with the Word, don’t you listen to them.
Now, imaginations, conscience, memories, reasons, and affections, they’re all right if they agree with the Word. But if your affection doesn’t agree with the Word, get rid of it. You’d blow a flue, right quick.
If your reason disagrees with the Word, get away from it. That’s right. If your memory, if your imaginations, if your conscience, anything, disagrees with That what’s on the inside, get rid of it.
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
You’ve cast these things down, now as they try to sneak back in, arrest them at the border.
It must be accepted in the mind, then It’s believed with the heart. Then the Word of God becomes a reality, then every senses of soul and body is just scoured out with the Holy Spirit.
Then your sense of God, your conscience of God, everything that’s godly, flows through you. There’s not a doubt anywhere. There’s nothing can rise up.
There’s nothing can come up in the memory, and say, “Well, I remember Miss Jones tried to trust God, and Miss So-and-so. Miss Doe tried to trust God for healing, one time, and she failed.”
But if that channel has been cleared out and been purged, and been filled on the inside with the Holy Spirit, that don’t even come in memory, no matter about Miss Jones and what she did.
It’s you and God, together, and nobody else but you two. There you are. There’s your battle. Kill him at the beginning. Stop him dead in his track. It ain’t how long you can make the war linger. It’s, stop it right now!
If you’ll come, and you’ll keep them memories and conscience, and everything, thinking about, “Well, I might fail. It might not be right.” Don’t you do that, at all.
You throw aside everything, and open up the channel, and say, “God, Your Word is Eternally true, and It’s for me. If the whole church fails, if the whole world fails, yet I can’t fail, because I’m taking Your Word.” 62-0311 - "The Greatest Battle Ever Fought"
You are the border patrol agent.
Applicants for a visa:
Gate of Imaginations:
Appearance- Sad little thought, all slumped over
Identity- Nobody Loves You
Reason for traveling- You didn’t get invited to the party
Result- Visa denied
Why? Thus Saith the King
24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Gate of Conscience:
Appearance- Self Righteous Pharisee
Identity- You aren’t really a Christian
Reason for Traveling- Yesterday you made a mistake
Result- Visa denied
Why? Thus Saith the King
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Listen, brother, you’re never saved by any sign. You’re never saved by any sensation. You are saved when you meet God’s condition of His Word, and nothing else are you saved by. That’s right. God’s Word has made a way.
You’re not saved because you feel like you’re saved. I’m not saved because I feel like I’m saved, ’cause a lot of times I don’t feel that way.
But I’m saved because God gave the promise. I met God’s conditions, and upon God’s holy Word I can defeat Satan seven days in a week, and as many nights, ’cause it’s God’s Word.
“He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life, and shall not come to judgment, but’s passed from death to Life.” That’s what the King of kings said. You believe it? 57-0306 - "God Keeps His Word #1"
But I feel bad, I made a mistake.
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Gate of Memory:
Appearance- An old man or woman
Identity- Sins of the Past
Reason for traveling- You saw an old friend you partied with.
Result- Visa denied
Why? Thus Saith the King
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
12 As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
You’re standing, completely. You never sinned at the first place. God don’t even know nothing. It’s in the Sea of Forgetfulness. You never did it. You were accused of it, by the accuser. But really, from the beginning, you were predestinated to be a son and daughter of God.
You’re standing there, washed. And your old book of divorcement is put away, and it’s dead, absolutely out of existence, even in the mind of God. 65-1125 - "The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ"
Your sin has been placed in the bleach of the Blood of God that He shed on Calvary. You stand on the sea of glass clear as crystal. No judgment in it at all. Thus Saith the King
Gate of Reason:
Appearance: Preacher
Identity- Surely you won’t die
Reason for Traveling- Paycheck
Visa Status- Denied
Why? Thus Saith the King
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Satan, in Eden, when he first come to these attack, to attack a person, knowing the children of God was fortified with this Word, Satan attacked the Word. He never attacked the being. He attacked the Word, first.
Look at that sneaker, lizard, what he does today. The first thing, he can’t lay it on, say, “Well, that’s not a good person.” That’s a good person.
But the only thing he tries to do, no matter how good the person is, is to get them to deny that Word. That’s just only thing he wants to do, get you to deny that Word.
So Satan tried to attack the Word, in the garden of Eden. So he had to have something now that he could use, to the human being, would look better than that Word.
He had to have something that would look better, to the human being, than Word. And do you know what he used? Reasoning, just what we’d say, “common sense.”
So that’s what he used, and he succeeded, so that’s what he’s used, all along. 62-0531 - "The Conflict Between God And Satan"
Let every man’s word be a lie but God’s be true.
Gate of Affection:
Appearance- Pretty or handsome
Identity- You deserve this
Reason for traveling- Boredom or Frustration
Visa Status- Denied
Why? Thus Saith the King
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; Why then should I think upon a maid?
28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
This is a long list of travelers we’ve rejected, but not every thought is bad. What travelers can we let in?
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Anything with a true or honest identity, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good report, virtue, praise.
You’re standing there with your gates all covered, everything is in order, like God’s army in the heavens.
What you got then? You’ve got a solar system. Hallelujah! It’s, God set the stars in order and said, “Hang there till I call you!” They stay there. Nothing’s going to move them.
When God can get a man in His hands, till he can get senses, conscience, everything cleaned out, until it stands with God behind it, in the spirit, there’s not a devil in the world can poke a doubt in there. That’s right.
He come around and say, “You don’t feel any better.” Your conscience is even gone, to that. The flue is so clear, it shouts, “Hallelujah!” The outlet blows a whistle, “Glory to God!”
It shines out, certainly, just as clean and clear, for the Word of God to work through, the Power of God. 62-0311 - "The Greatest Battle Ever Fought"
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
Egypt Border
We got in easy because of our identity as tourists who had money to spend.
Let the right thoughts in easy, open up the gate. If it seems like a bad thought, give it a hard time.
Keep the victory by taking every thought into captivity that tries to sneak in your mind. No matter how good a story it has, stay with the Word.