Taking Control of Our Thoughts– Dr. Charles Stanley

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tower of our life anything that happens in our life starts here same, all our air decisions and the truth is that whatever we are today is the result of what we have been thinking for all those years, the Bible says that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he, so If you don't like what's going on around you, maybe you shouldn't.

You should ask yourself what I'm thinking about, what I think about myself, what I think about other people, because what we think is really what controls us, for example, a relationship with God, a relationship between us, a sense of direction in life, whatever. We manage to have failures in life all of that is the result of the way we think and many times we forget that this is a control tower that everything else is the result of how we think that we cannot control everyone else in control of everything of our circumstances, but we are going to respond to the circumstances in one way or another and that's why when I think about how this affects us, I think about the fact that a lot of people where they are are due to wrong thinking and that's why they don't they do it. like where other people are they are where they are because of right thinking because they have been thinking the right way what you have to ask is this what determines what I think?

Is it the Word of God or is it something else? I'll read something else that I watch and think about how many people sit there and open their minds to our TV show, what the news was or what it could be, not realizing that they're sitting there and have a mind programmed to think. in a way you say well that includes preaching too yes and I want you to listen carefully because I want you to be programmed to think the way God thinks program to understand the Word of God programmed in such a way that you will live and the fashion that is pleasant and honorable to God and that the best that God has for your life you will be able to experience that if but on the other hand you are watching some program that is full of sensuality or just crime and all these movies and so on that you watch and shows that I don't watch.

I can't name them, but I can tell you that many are pure garbage that you don't need in your mind in your mental life and it certainly is a part of it. of your life, so what I want to talk about in this message is controlling our thoughts because this controls everything and that's where our thoughts come from, so if you open your Bible to Colossians chapter 3 and I want us to read these first eight verses and look This, they don't want to answer the question of how we control our thoughts that determine our life and Paul begins in this particular chapter and says, for example, it is based on what he has been talking about if you have been resurrected. with Christ continue to seek the things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God set your mind on the things above not on the things of the earth because you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God when Christ who is ours life is revealed is when he comes then you too will be revealed come with him in glory therefore look at this consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality impurity passion evil desires and which is equivalent to idolatry but it is because of these things that The wrath of God will come upon the children of disobedience and you also walked in them once when you lived in them but now you also left them all aside wrath wrath malice slander abusive speech from your mouth and so on, so I want to summarize Look this passage for a moment.

I'm going to come back to it until the end of the message, but look at what it says, so if you're resurrected, what in the world does that mean when you were saved? It's like the Bible says you die to your old way of life and rose again to walk in new life, that's what baptism represents, you died to the old way of life, you're buried in the resurrected Christ Jesus to walk in new life and This is what he says, so he's been searching ever since. This is a new life, keep looking for the things above, the spiritual things, that doesn't mean you forget everything in this life, we have responsibilities and joys and whatever, but keep looking for those things above where Christ is sitting at the side. right hand of God, then you understand that quality of those things.

Set your mind on things above, not on things on earth, which is an amazing statement. righteous and good and pious and helpful because you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God, that is, you died in your old way of life when you said: I am trusting in Jesus as my savior, you not only said well, I just want to add to Jesus to my present life and I will continue now. This is what people do when they live in areas of idolatry and have all kinds of idols in their house and unless they fully understand what they do when you explain Jesus to them. they said oh yeah and they have a god for this they have an idol for this god this God this God they want to know what kind of layman put here Jesus adds to their religion you know when you trust the Jesus you died to your old way of life and when Christ, who is our life, be revealed when he comes, then you too will be revealed, come with an ink, Lord, now look at the next verse, therefore, consider the members of your earthly body as dead to illicit sex. to moral impurity of all kinds passion which is that impulse within you that makes you do things that are not right and he says evil desires greed which is equivalent to adultery and in those days in what you will find in the Scriptures many times when the Bible It speaks of immorality, it also speaks of greed because it brings them together and in the days when Paul was writing to the Colossians and the Romans and so on, Roman society, adultery and sensuality were as if mixed together, their gods and their prostitutes. in the other temples and so on and then everything was a mixture so he says that it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the children of disobedience and in them look at this in them you too once walked in that was past when you lived in them, that was your lifestyle, so he says, but now you also put them aside, that's anger, malice, slander and abusive speech, that's what you change, so it's time to let go of the things you don't They adjust to your new life. in Christ Jesus now I'm going to come back to that and show you something about that passage in a moment, but I want to see, I'll give you three ideas, three points for this message and I want to finish with the The last one is: How do I control this control tower of my life?

How to control my thoughts? Is this possible to do? But the first point is simply this: the path to controlling our thoughts begins with understanding our relationship with Jesus Christ. I don't understand that you will never understand this idea of ​​controlling your thoughts, that's where it all begins because he says here we were raised with Christ Jesus referring through our salvation there was a change in that place when you were saved and as a result of that. God intended for our thinking to change our mind to change because this mind of ours controls everything else in your life, you say, well, what about all the other parts of my life?

We respond to the way we think and therefore if we think right, we will have one response, we will think wrong, we will have another, very important, we will understand how it works, so this requires me to understand how to control my thoughts if I want to think well, yes I want to thank God Lee, if I want. thank you holy man if I want to think righteously this is where it starts and a lot of people lose it right here they don't think well they don't think piously they don't think they're worthless and they say well you know I just never had the chance or I'll just never be that or I'm just this and I'm not that's why people who are very beautiful may think that they are ugly and people who are very thin may think that they are fat and refuse to eat because they believe that they look in the mirror and do not see reality and therefore that your mind controls every aspect of your life, in fact what you think determines how you live what you think determines how your relationship with God as we said relationship with others, your relationship with yourself and many people begin in life defeated due to the influence from their parents, their grandparents, who tell them that they will never amount to anything, oh, this is wrong with them, well, that is wrong with them and as a result they go through life what they have heard written in their minds impressed on their thinking If my mom said it my dad said it and my grandmother said it it must be true therefore and many times people are ruined as a result of what they have been taught what they have been what they have heard from someone they value a lot, so with that in mind I want to move on to the second point, which is the challenge of controlling our thoughts because once you are saved, as I say, your environments are the same.

It could even get worse, but we must live godly in an ungodly society in an ungodly environment and some people's environment is worse than others. I will think about people who grow up in families, get saved, and no one else in the family is a Christian. the family uses foul language they never read the Bible they drank the corrals they can be unfaithful to each other all kinds of things and here is this Godman life that is now surrounded by very ungodly circumstances and I think of some situations and people that I have met and they tell me about where they come from and how God has worked in their lives and how they live, where they live, in the circumstances that they live in, it is very difficult for them, especially unless they are less trained, they are taught and I think many times people They go to church year after year after year and no one tells them or explains to them or helps them understand that this is the way you think and that you can only think this way if certain things are true, so this morning my goal It is simply this: I say that there are challenges to thinking godly, but thinking godly is absolutely essential to our success in life, learning to live with ourselves and learning today to live with others and achieve what God has in mind for us and When I think about that, I think about two verses of Scripture. for example, go to 2 Corinthians for a moment and look at this in this fourth chapter of 2 Corinthians and the fourth verse says in this fourth verse it says speaking of the gospel and so on, it says in verse 3 even if our gospel is veiled it is veiled to those who are lost in which case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so that they do not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God look at this Satan blinds the mind of the unbelievers so that they do not They may not want to have any desire to see the truth if they go to chapter 11 of 2 Corinthians and look if they want at verse 3 now he blinds the minds of the unbelievers. unbeliever but listen to what he says in verse 3 but I fear that as the serpent deceived Eve with his cunning their minds will be diverted from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ he blinds the minds of the unbelievers and he deceives the believers , this is why people who profess to be Christians often live a life that we know is not biblical at all because they are deceived.

Well, so-and-so says it's fine. Oh, so and so says it's okay, they're fooled. by what they hear by what they see by what they feel so Satan works he does not work on the toe, on the leg or somewhere else, he works on the mind, it is the battlefield in the life of each person, Whatever happens here will affect every person. Just one aspect of your life and that's why it's so important and that's why Paul is talking about it here and what happens is that Satan working in your mind will allow you to remember things that happened years and years and years ago, maybe things that were bad. something someone did to you someone sexually abused you someone abused you whatever it is and it's still there you can keep remembering it and when you remember it it's a bad feeling and that's why we have the power to remember, but if that mind is full of things that are nasty ungodly or ziba says here we have been blinded and so on, then we suffer the results and that is why the mind is very important and can be easily deceived by the devil unless you fill it with the truth of the word of God and I am We are not talking from just reading the Bible from time to time, which, we'll see in a moment, so when I think about this and I think about what a reprobate mind is, a reprobate mind is one who observes this carefully who has examined life looked a particular sin in your life and you decided that's what I want, that's what I'm going to do and I surrender to that, it doesn't matter what anyone else says, I want anyone else to like it, you can say anything you want. don't say that. what I want to do and that's what I'm going to do and it's something that the Scriptures teach there, specifically it's an act of disobedience to God when you give in to a particular sin and you say that's what I'm going to do. do that's where I'm going to live then what you have is a reprobate mind it starts right here only you can decide that about yourself a reprobate mind I remember one of my friends who had gotten ahead of theBaptists in a particular state where I was and he and I were good friends and I remember one day we were having lunch and he said, I remember he was a little depressed that day and I asked him what was going on, he said, you know he was in the service and that I was in another country and I was there.

There for a long time he said, you know, I don't want to tell you what, but he said that in those few years, I think he was there about three years, he said I did a lot of things, I saw a lot of things that I experienced. He many things he said I just did what he wanted to do and he said now these years have passed and I'm in the ministry and I'm still suffering the results of my sins because somehow I can't get it. I put them out of my mind, he said because I was too easy on myself and those three years of doing what I wanted to do what I thought I wanted to do, he said it's happened to me ever since, so I'll just tell you this.

It makes a difference what you think and you can think today and think well, that will never happen or hinder me in the future. What you see this, what you think, is recorded in your mind. Well, how long does it take? forgetting it may not take you more than two weeks to forget it but remember this is still in your mind that's why things arise in your thinking that you haven't thought about for years and years and years and years then on the other hand, something It happens this morning and you can't remember it, so the mind is a strange thing, but one thing is that whatever you put there will stay there until Jesus sets you free from it, so the mind is a powerful part of your body and The truth is that your life is an expression of what you think if you don't like what you are thinking you can change your way of thinking you say well now I don't know if I can change mine if you can For example if you are angry, you don't, you can leave it if you feel like you are nobody, full of unworthiness, you can leave it, if you are jealous of someone, leave it and we can go through a whole list of pride and and criticism rejection fear and greed all these things that people feel they can leave if they want to. now if you don't believe you can and you're just convinced you can't say it right I've felt this for years and years and years remember this and you listen you say Amen, you have the Holy Spirit living in you as a believer when you trusted Christ as your Savior, the Holy Spirit came to live in your life and remember how Jesus called him, he said: I am going to send the helper and when he comes he will be in you with you and on you you and I who are believers trust in Christ as your Savior we have the Holy Spirit living within us and one of his responsibilities is as a helper is to allow us that is in our thinking to bring back to our minds what we think and how we think and to help us remember the Scriptures and so on, but he is there to be a help and help us think correctly about God about Jesus about our life about others about ourselves he is his helper so you can walk away you don't have to keep remembering the things you say well just sit down it will be there doesn't mean you have to remember It doesn't mean that you have to bring it back when someone tells me well I can't help myself, yeah, yeah, you can't help yourself, and I'll live long enough to know the times when I thought I couldn't help myself. myself, finally God helped me. through me say yes you can you are responsible but what you think and how you think because as a believer you have the Spirit of God living within you to enable you to think correctly but it is important that we understand what God says, how he says it. so I want you to think about this and this will be on the screen so you can write it down if you do it quickly and just this we saw a thought and we harvest in action we're going to respond we saw in action harvest a habit because we keep sewing the same action we saw a habit and a Reaper character because the habits in his life determined our character we saw a character we became something we read we reaped a destiny this is who we are and this is our future and then remember this idea invisible thoughts produce visible consequences invisible thoughts produce visible consequences in your life that was what we thought no one else in the world knows exactly what you think but the way you think is going to be visible at some point to the other and if you feel unworthy you feel that no one cares about you and what loves you will be visible in your face you will not have peace in joy your happiness you believe that no one really cares about you will be shown to be part of your life but it came from your thought, do not think less of yourself than God thinks and He died for you, no matter what anyone else says about you, you are a child of God once you have trusted Christ as your Savior, so we are the ones who determine. what we're going to be and so on because it's the way we think and that's why people can come from nowhere the worst kind of situation circumstances where you would think they've never met anything in their life and they stand out stand out stand out The young people even their imaginations so that they began to think correctly about themselves and about the Lord and about His place and position in their lives, so that invisible thoughts produce visible consequences in their lives.

Now I said all you can say by saying this, how do we control your thoughts? How do we control? Well when the thought comes to your mind, one of several things you are going to do, you are going to accept that thought and you are going to express it in some way or you can just fight with it for a while or you can deny it. and this is the way a sign defeats you, if you are thinking about something and you deny it, it just becomes deeper and deeper so that you can accept it and express it, you can fight with it denied or you can control it because you have the Holy Spirit working within You can control what you think and if I am going to control my thinking, I have to understand that you have within you the power of the Spirit of God to allow you to think correctly.

If, for example, you yourself find someone at work you don't like, you don't want to be around them. from it you can change the way you think about it you say how can I change the way I think about a mind? I think well, you can say Frank first of all. I know God created them, he loves them, and I can convince you not to be mean to them right now. In other words, if you only think about people the way you choose to think and we are the product of our choices and how we drive. these things in our life now one of the ways that you overcome any sin in your life or whatever is happening one of the ways that you overcome this thought is by asking yourself some very impactful questions, not just questions, but questions that will mark the difference. in your life and I encourage you to write them down, you ask yourself these questions about whatever you are thinking and the first question you ask is this: where will these thoughts take me?

Where will these thoughts take me if I keep thinking the same thing? Well, small will take you somewhere a very important question if I keep thinking this, when will it take me? Another question is: what will these thoughts take me where I want to go? So you have to decide where I want to go, where should I go? I want to go in life, well what I'm thinking, take me where I want to go and if you say I'm just not important, I'm nobody, I don't have any gifts, talents or abilities in life, and give yourself a There are many excuses that You're not going to get anywhere, so you have to ask yourself if I keep thinking this, where will this take me in life?

Then ask yourself if these thoughts are biblically acceptable, in other words, say, for example, you're sitting up front. on television and something appears, you know it's not and the world is full of pornography and pornography is the picture of the world, they have diluted the truth and they have put all kinds of things for people to see and you wonder: these are? biblically acceptable thoughts and here's someone committing some sexual acts on television, you know or whatever you can see, error, septa, scripture, no, they're not, so you turn it off, you cut it, ya You know, once you don't look, you don't have to. look what you know is not right you close it someone says but I'm so weak you're weak because you're talking about being weak you don't have to be weak you have the Spirit of God within you that will allow you you must do what it takes, say, overcome whatever there is, so what you do, yes, what we are doing is giving these questions and saying, let's look at reality, what is reality, where will these thoughts take me?

I have to answer that question well, these thoughts get me where I want to go I need to answer that question are these thoughts the scriptures are accepted as an answer these thoughts will build me up or tear me down and they will do one of the two they are not neutral our thoughts are going to build us up and shed tears when you sit down to read this message, these thoughts are to build you up, not to tear you down when you see and hear things that you know are not right, ungodly, unbiblical, sensual, whatever it is, you know the real truth is that They will bring you down spiritually so you will have to decide if you will watch, listen, listen to your friends or whatever they say because they will have some impact on your life and then could you share these thoughts with someone else?

Whatever you're thinking, could you share it with someone else? I always said that one of those thoughts that no, you can't, well, I'm not saying you should tell everyone everything you know in life about yourself or whatever, but on a daily basis. Based on what I'm thinking, could you share it with someone else and they will tell you where you are in your thoughts and then where these thoughts originated and some thoughts did not originate in the Word of God they did not originate in heaven. they did not originate from a godly life they did not originate from anything that is holy and they did not originate from anything that is good for you so when you analyze the thoughts where did this come from why am I thinking this what is what is the source of this what is this is going to do in my life look at this all those questions you have the right and the power to answer for your life no one else can answer them for your life you have the power to answer them for your life and we're just talking about how you think about yourself and in the power of your thoughts and you just think about these questions and then the question is: Do I feel guilty thinking these thoughts?

Do you know the answer to those things that you know, for example, if you thought about

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something that didn't belong to you, how would you think about it? you should feel guilty if you don't feel guilty you have a big problem then you need to think a little deeper if I have been saved what is happening in my life then we said your thought life is in your mind, this is the control tower of your life and Because of it we make decisions and suffer the consequences or reap the blessing of making right decisions in life, whether it is about money or marriage or about six our friendships this is where it all begins and this is this this is going to control your life and the truth is that all of us up to this point in your life where we are as a result of how we have been thinking all these years, so have you been thinking about yourself all these years, have you been thinking about God, you've been thinking about the Lord, you've been thinking about your friends, your relationships, our nation, there it was, how are you, what are you thinking about all that and See, you can't take your mind out and put someone else's in it. more there except Jesus when he says we have that of Christ who saw this when you trusted Jesus as your personal Savior, he gave us the power to think the way he thinks.

It does not mean that we will be as wise as him, that we will have all the knowledge that he has, but he gives us the right and the power to think piously like his creations, so we have the power to think correctly. the gift of Almighty God and someone to protect us in the process, then you could ask yourself this question look at this, ask these thoughts about who I am as a follower of Jesus, who I am as a follower of Jesus, if I am not a follower of Jesus, anything goes , but once you trust in Christ as your Savior, some thoughts do not suit you, there are some thoughts that do not suit you, once you trust in Christ as your Savior, they do not suit you once you trust in the Lord Jesus as Lord. of your life no longer suit you and that is why you and I make decisions, still look at this, who consider ourselves followers of Jesus Christ and, therefore, there are some things that do not suit us, there are some places that do not suit us.

They don't fit There are some words that don't fit There are some thoughts that don't fit There are some clothes that don't fit There are some actions, attitudes and habits that don't fit Once we trust in Christ as our Savior This one thing the Bible says Come out from among them and separate yourselves, says the Lord. I must think differently and if I think differently, I will act differently and probably look different if I follow Jesus in the world. We're in deeper trouble than we realize because after we get to a certain point and then you decide that you want to change how long do you think it would take us to change our opinions in this sex country, how long do you think it would take?

Could you think that it could ever change? That's just one aspect, but honesty andveracity, where is the truth?, while honestly, where is purity?, where is piety?, the things that made us the nation that we are, we have decided and I'm going to show you a little contrast in a moment when the one that we have decided between two options and the decisions that we are making are decisions that are destructive in nature and remember this, you cannot change this, we reap what we sow more than we sow, later than we sow and It is becoming very late now what I want to do is let's compare the difference between true genuine love and lust and those thoughts come from the control tower, how do we think?

So I want you to write them down because a lot of times you hear people say well I got in trouble because he or she said they really love me and if they love me then sleep with me and now I'm pregnant and we go on and on and on, I want you to you do it. Think about how many precious children are born in America without a father, it's a tragedy of tragedies in this country that sex is so important that no one seems to care very much about the consequences, so I want us to do it.

I want to give you a small example. of the difference between love and lust, so I'm going to have a chart that I'll put up on the board in a moment and love is an incredible blessing from God and lust is something totally different, but when someone says, but feeling like that, yeah someone wants something from you and they say well look I love you well here are some things for you to think love is listen love is from God lust is from the world now remember that lust listen lust is desire out of control that's what it is lust is out of control if you get stronger and stronger and stronger and let yourself deal with it then you have to decide if this is love or lust.

Love can wait and lust has to have it now. I think about people who put themselves in a position, that's why you have to watch where you go watch what you look at be careful who you are in other words you have to be careful when choosing your friends well if you love me you would make the sand like this no, if I loved you I wouldn't dare to do it if I loved you I wouldn't touch you if I loved you no I wouldn't think that if I loved you I want because lust is destructive love is selfless it doesn't think about itself but it listens lust is selfish I want what I want because that's what I want it's all about me lust is all about me not about love not about the other person love for example is giving now you hear people say well actually yeah remember, probably almost half a generation ago, maybe generations ago we heard a There's a lot about free love, so once you listen closely, there's no such thing as free love.

There is no such thing. Let's start with the gospel. The gospel of Jesus Christ is free, but it costs Jesus his life on the cross. There is nothing free, it is free for us. now by faith but it cost Jesus his life and true genuine love has a price it's not free if you love someone you may have to sacrifice you love someone you may have to give your love to someone that you met, in other words, is a lot. There are different ways that love can cost you something. Love so free, that's what the world talks about, and usually if they talk about free love, they're talking about drugs and other things that go with it because they've indulged in a lie. been deceived by the devil and his way of thinking like this love is giving and lust is taking I want this then love is purity and lust is sin it's just that clear disobedience love develops and lust destroys destroys relationships destroys Families destroys people whatever, it's a destructive lust it's a destroyer because let's say I have to have it, I want it and that's why people commit all kinds of crimes, they want something and they wanted from time to time, of course, The difference is that love is peaceful and lust is full of anxiety. lust creates anxiety and love is peaceful lust is anxious I want it now I have to have it now and that is your attitude now we have to choose to obey the commandments of Christ which will take us back to our scripture that we read a few moments ago in these first verses because if I am going to live a godly life and I am going to make my mind the control tower that I want to be, I have to be obedient to the Word of God, so when we talk about what he says in a At some moments we are not talking about a little Bible reading here and there, so listen carefully and what I want to do is go through the Scriptures and give you a little idea of ​​what Paul says, which is not always there in English, but it is there in the language in which he wrote it and that's why when he says, for example, let's look at this first verse, therefore, if you have been resurrected with Christ, it says keep seeking, now he uses a form of the verb that says keep seeking. to continually seek and to do it habitually, to keep seeking is to keep doing it not just once, but it is a lifestyle in which you read the Word of God, you have bitten early and continually keep the Word of God before you, it is part of your life. the life you feast on is part of your diet and he says, speaking of seeking those things above, well what is he talking about, he is talking, for example, he says that where Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father seeking the things above does not mean that I no longer have relationships and then I become holy and hollow I do not think about anything else does not mean that I have set my mind on the things that please the Father I continue seeking those things from above that is what What Jesus did teaches so if I want to keep searching for the things above I'm going to discover what he said and how he lived and how he said I'm going to live and I'm going to continue, he usually says do it and it doesn't matter who.

Will the devil make sure that I don't? remember much if you don't read the Scriptures continually? I don't mean every day, all day, I mean, when he says keep looking for those things above, that's fine, this is what he's saying. do most of your thinking do most of your thinking what God thinks keep thinking about those things above where Christ has sown the right hand of the Father and what kind of thinking it is that Jesus is always thinking regarding us personally in your life is thinking what is best for you what is best for you this morning what is best for you at work what is best for you with your friends what is best for you how you spend your money what is best what is what is best for you what is best for you he says keep seeking those things from above at the throne of God and then he says not only set your mind and they both use a form of the verb that means habitually and continually set your mind on the things above, that is, as believing followers of Jesus we die the old way of life and that is why we should be grateful for God's thoughts, what he thinks, how he wants us to think, how he wants us to live and, in the process of doing so, Remember this when you are thinking your thoughts, you are thinking. the most powerful thoughts that exist when you are thinking about his thoughts you are thinking and you begin to see what he is thinking about you and when you focus on what God thinks about you, that he loves you, that he is forgiving you, that he cares about you. you, that he wants the best for you, things start happening in your life and that is why he says that he usually searches continuously and he says search and then he says fix your mind then he says that you have died now look at this here is the difference when He says seek and set your mind, he says seek and says my usually when he says you died, you died in your old way, that is, you were saved once and then you habitually seek and set your mind on Christ as something that continues continually in your life. , then why?

He says that because he wants us to think the way God wants us to think and so that we can see what it is about when we read the Word of God, then he says to consider the members of his body dead to these thoughts. He now he uses another term. in the form of the verb here when he says put it to death, look at how he says it he says therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead look at this dead to immorality dead to impurity strong passion insatiable desire bad desires sorrow but put them?

Until death you say well, what does that mean? This is what it means, let's say for example, you just have this, you just have to have more money and you draw, maybe you've seen something, you just have to have you. you have to have it you have to have it right what you do you struggle with it you can go ahead and express it or you can kill it you can control it look at this the Spirit of God within you will allow you to leave it you don't have to fulfill the temptation if you had to it would be absolutely a mistake incredible and serious of God that he is asking me to do something, he knows that I can't do it at all, but we have the Holy Spirit now if you don't have your mind on the things of God, that's why he says, set your mind on the things of God, keep it, listen, keep them habitually before you so that when Satan attacks you, you have ammunition one of them is I don't have to do that thank you Jesus you have given me the strength to say no to sin and obey you now look at this If you say well I have to think about it that satan loves that because what happens when you say I just have to think about it why are you thinking here and where Satan is working here yes, this is a battlefield, you give up your feet, nothing more, a battlefield, the battlefields here and then you decide your victory or defeat in your mind and your feet and your hands travel to where your mind has already gone you put your mind on someone or something or somewhere you put your mind in that and you keep thinking about that about thinking about the next thing you know, listen, your mind is not there, but you are fit, you are there, your feet are going to travel wherever you intend and therefore we have to protect what we think, then he says, consider the members of your body dead to the outside.

He did all these things and that's why he says these things that we once walked on, this is the way we once walked there, but remember we died for that, if someone died and we brought the coffin here and placed it here, It could be a hundred thousand dollar coffin you know they're dead and you can do whatever you want you can take the lid off the coffin you can talk to them sing - Holly screams and you know they're not going to move because they're dead and There are things in life and their moments in life in which you and I, to find each other, must be equally dead to what we have seen or what we have heard.

Remember this. Satan will bring back what you have seen. Did you hear. You felt the touch. Experience that. whatever and then what do we do to kill that? Thank you Jesus says no that doesn't fit who I am so we say no and you can say no when someone says but I'm so weak listen when you listen look at this when you say I'm weak have you thought you just quoted the devil I'm weak and satan He says it's true say it again say it again I'm weak no you're not weak you choose to think it in the moment but you have the power of God within you to make a wise decision so when he says for example look at this and I love this he says the word of Christ dwells richly within you in the third chapter look at that look at the third chapter in the sixteenth or we let the word of Christ dwell richly within you in all wisdom look at this in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with thankfulness in their hearts okay, I wanted what a wonderful thing it is that he says let the word of Christ dwell richly in you and I love this Greek word the word is pluteus and this is what it means extravagantly means let the Word of God when it says richly extravagantly dwell in you that is, you have the The Word of God cares that you cannot think much about without quoting some scripture or thinking of some scripture or the Spirit of God will bring to your mind some verses of scripture, he says, let him dwell within you, he says, he says extravagantly, which means that if he is going to pierce me extravagantly, it will have a powerful effect on my life, but secondly, it is not going to be extravagant on me just by reading it from time to time, so please don't raise your hand.

It's a question, how many of you take the Bible home? I know that wouldn't be true if you took your Bible home after service and closed it until next Sunday. Surely no one in this congregation will do that. Amen. Well, some of you don't sound very convincing. Amen. You wouldn't do that. You know it's so. It does not fill your mind abundantly and as he says in this passage so beautifully he says extravagantly the Word of God filling our mind and heart so that what we have these impressive reefs you hear when you do that you know what God thinks about everything you face every aspect of your life you know what it says and listen when it is overflowing in you when the word of truth is overflowing in you you face anything no matter what may happen you know what the right answer is and if it is overflowing in you then what happens is that you have the strength and power of God to help you in that situation, no matter what it is, but you only read the Bible from time to time and when I think of that richly extravagant word that overflows into you, that is all. our lifestyle, so we start by saying that your mind is a control tower, so you have to decide how you are going to live your life and what you are going to watch, what you are going to read, whatare you going to look, etc., and we said what to do. options don't think about it 119 some a couple of verses I'm sure I learned a long time ago in the one hundred and nineteen summoned the ninth verse says how can a young man how can the young man keep his path pure by keeping it listen according to your word, how can you keep you away pure keeping her according to your word?

So he says in that later verse the eleventh night first your word has a treasure in my heart so that I do not sin against God treasure not just let it fall into treasured super abundantly overflowing overflowing in our hearts the Living Word of God because what that means is up in the control tower it is the truth and the control tower is the correct sense of direction control tower however you are evaluating things as they are not as they appear to be and the control tower is what you are thinking there are consequences for sinning anything Whatever I do today, I will harvest tomorrow words that you will be thinking superabundant, as he extravagantly puts it, so if there is any particular area of ​​your life where you are having a real problem, ask yourself where it came from.

It doesn't come from this extravagantly incredible word of truth in my mind in my heart and if it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit me, remember this, you decide who you want to be, you decide what you want to achieve, you decide how you want to. to live well here you decide if you want to be accepted or rejected you make many decisions in your life, everything here and I remember, here there is a feeling of battle in your life, Satan wants to take you one way, God, the other, Satan has never he did you no good he lied to you he deceived you and made you promises none of them have come true but the deception he says you will enjoy this but what he doesn't tell you is that you will enjoy the only one for a season there are consequences there is a cost there is a day of payment someday you have to decide right there what will come next you are going to live what kind of future you are going to have and he says that if you were you would make the right decisions I will ask you those questions that I gave you about situations that arise in your life and in the process of making a decision it is my prayer that you make the right decision a wise decision and you will be glad yes Father how grateful we are for your love for us and thank you thank you thank you for your forgiveness thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit that allows us to be strengthened, covered and guide us and I pray for every person who hears this message, especially for those who have never trusted you.

While they are saving and living in defeat, you will assure them that if they are willing to trust in you, Lord Jesus, as their personal Savior, you will bring about the death of their old life, bring about the changes in life that you promised them, and always. for those Lord who have trusted you as their Savior but are living in sin miserably obeying the devil and temptation makes them so miserable, dear God, that they will turn around and realize that I don't have to live this kind of life? I want God's best and this is not God's best.

Thank you father, you know what we all need. Thank you for the power to provide it. We praise and bless you for loving us as you do in Jesus name. Amen.