Winning the Battle in your Mind

Eliminate Ungodly things from your life!

A. T.V. and entertainment will be a challenge?

1. Basic demonic possession movies should be avoided.

ILLUST: The Exorcist (1973) A fire delayed the film 6 weeks, main actress obtained permanent spinal injury due to a harness malfunction, before the release of the film 7 crew members died of natural and unexplained causes, ...

2. Any entertainment that leads to ungodly thinking.

ILLUST: Sexual references and jokes, Violence for the purposes of violence, lying . . . . We must decide what you will think about in light of the truth!

B. Relationships with those who help you think ungodly must be controlled.

NOTE: The reason I say this is that if you break all ties with people who help you think ungodly how will Christ in you witness to them. You may need a break you may need to be bold but gentle letting them know your life is different.

C. Deal with Lust!

ILLUST: Food, sex, material possessions, power and control . . .

D. Do not get involved with “spiritual” Things.

Isaiah 8:19 NASB95

19 When they say to you, “Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,” should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Deuteronomy 18:10–11 NASB95

10 “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.

LIST: Not Exhaustive

astral projection, Ouija board, ghosts, clairvoyance, Palm reading, horoscopes . . . .

Religions that deny Jesus is God and deceive people in what Jesus taught: Mormonism, Jehovah /witness, Christian science, scientology, buddhism, Hinduisim, Transcendental Meditation, Yoga . . .

NOTE: If you have been involved with any of these or from day to day you find yourself being involved in ungodly things. The Spirit convicts and you recognize and right there you need to confess (1 John 1:9) and you need to abandon those things.

Think on What God Says!

NOTE: It is easy to believe the lies of the enemy from day to day that tell us we won’t measure up and we don’t but what if we began thinking on and believing what God, the creator of the universe actually says about those who have trusted in Christ for the salvation of their souls?

ILLUST: Neil Anderson, in his book “The bondage Breaker” to the time to list scriptures that tell us who we are in Christ. There are cards with this list hanging in the foyer. But to close today I want you to just think about what God says about us who are followers of Christ Jesus.

John 1:12 NASB95

12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,

John 15:5 NASB95

5 “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

Romans 8:14–15 NASB95

14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB95

17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

Galatians 4:6–7 NASB95

6 Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

Philippians 3:20 NASB95

20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Colossians 1:13 NASB95

13 For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,