A Battle for the Mind
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The Heart: Mind, Emotions, Will
The Heart: Mind, Emotions, Will
Sinful thoughts and attitudes and desires lead to sinful words and actions
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”
THOUGHTS, FEELING, AND DESIRES LEAD TO ACTIONS
TEMPTED BY ONE’S ON EVIL DESIRES
14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
The Result
The Result
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God’s Answer
God’s Answer
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Futility of the mind
The Truth is needed
The Truth is needed
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
The Truth is God’s Word
The Truth is God’s Word
160 The entirety of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.
17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
Hearing the Word produces faith
Hearing the Word produces faith
14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!”
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
God Gives Light in Darkness
God Gives Light in Darkness
6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
What is the light? Knowledge of the glory of God . . .
That knowledge, that truth, the Word does something
Hearing the Word Convicts
Hearing the Word Convicts
37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
Believed the Word
Believed the Word
13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Obeyed the Word
Obeyed the Word
17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Obeying Brings Results
Obeying Brings Results
18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Continues to Obey
Continues to Obey
25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;
5 for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
1 Timothy 4:1–2 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,”
20 But you have not so learned Christ,
21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
A Constant Renewing of the Mind
A Constant Renewing of the Mind
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
Examine Paul’s Prayers for Believers
Examine Paul’s Prayers for Believers
16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.
17 [For I always pray to] the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation [of insight into mysteries and secrets] in the [deep and intimate] knowledge of Him,
18 By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones),
19 And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength,
9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray and make [special] request for you, [asking] that you may be filled with the full (deep and clear) knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom [in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God] and in understanding and discernment of spiritual things—
10 That you may walk (live and conduct yourselves) in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God [with fuller, deeper, and clearer insight, acquaintance, and recognition].
Listen to Peter
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,
4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
GRACE, the UNMERITED FAVOR FROM GOD
PEACE, PEACE WITH GOD (NO FEAR, NO CONDEMNATION)
PEACE OF GOD (SECURITY, SAFETY, PROSPERITY)
MOST OF THE TIME IN THE JOB MARKET YOU SKILLS OR EDUCATION LEVEL IS A DIRECT LINK TO YOUR EARNING LEVEL
THE MORE YOU KNOW THE LORD
THE MORE YOU ENJOY HIM
THE MORE YOU LEARN ABOUT HIM
THE MORE YOU LOVE HIM
AND THE MORE YOU LIVE FOR HIM
THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND OF Jesus THE LORD
What is your pursuit?
What is your pursuit?
Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
JEREMIAH SAID THAT IF THE PEOPLE OF GO ARE GOING TO GLORY (BOAST, TO PRAISE) ABOUT ANYTHING IT SHOULD NOT BE IN THEIR WISDOM, THEIR MIGHT, OR THEIR RICHES.
But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the Lord.
But let him that glorieth glory in this, That he understandeth (INSIGHT OR COMPREHEND) and
knoweth (TO KNOW BY EXPERIENCE [NEBUCHADNEZZAR] OR TO LEARN [EDUCATION- NEHEMIAH]) me,
That I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness (GOODNESS, KINDNESS, FAITHFULNESS),
Judgment (SENTENCE OF OR EXECUTION OF), and
Righteousness (RIGHTEOUS ACTS, RIGHTNESS),
in the earth: For in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
RUN FROM, RUN TO, AND RUN WITH
RUN FROM, RUN TO, AND RUN WITH
Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.