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2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ
When we come to Jesus we come with ways of thinking, wrong thinking, wrong mindsets. Some of our ways of thinking have become strong. (strongholds)
Isaiah 55: 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.
Amos 4:13 For behold, He who forms mountains, And creates the wind, Who declares to man what his thought is, And makes the morning darkness, Who treads the high places of the earth— The Lord God of hosts is His name.
Psalm 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
God understands our thoughts afar off, what they will be before we think them, what they are when we do not regard them, what they have been when we have forgotten them.
Psalm 139:4 For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. 5 You have hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.
There is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. If the omniscience of God allows Him to know our thoughts even before they are developed in our mind, why should we think that He does not know our words even before they are formed by our tongues? No, Thou hast beset me behind and before. “Behind us there is God recording our sins, or in grace blotting out the remembrance of them; and before us there is God foreknowing all our deeds, and providing for all our wants. We cannot turn back and so escape Him, for He is behind; we cannot go forward and outmarch Him, for He is before”—Spurgeon.
Matthew 9:1 So He got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own city. 2 Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” 3 And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, “This Man blasphemes!” 4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
He charged them with it. Though they did but say it within themselves, he knew their thoughts. Note, Our Lord Jesus has the perfect knowledge of all that we say within ourselves. Thoughts are secret and sudden, yet naked and open before Christ, the eternal Word (Heb. 4:12, 13), and he understands them afar off, Ps. 139:2. He could say to them (which no mere man could), Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? Note, There is a great deal of evil in sinful thoughts, which is very offensive to the Lord Jesus. He being the Sovereign of the heart, sinful thoughts invade his right, and disturb his possession; therefore he takes notice of them, and is much displeased with them. In them lies the root of bitterness, Gen. 6:5. The sins that begin and end in the heart, and go no further, are as dangerous as any other.
Genesis 6:5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; 24 And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? 10 I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Questions
What does paul tell us to cast down?
Do you recognise any strongholds in your life?
Are you casting down every thought that is exalting itself against the knowledge of God?
Are your thoughts being brought into the obedience of Christ?
In Isaiah 55:9 What does God say about thoughts?
Who declares to man what his thoughts are? (Amos 4:13)
What does Psalm 139:2 say about our thoughts?
In Genesis 6:5 what is said about man's thoughts?
Do you believe that even our thoughts can be sin and are as dangerous as any other?
What is said about the heart and mind in Jeremiah 17:9?
What does the word of God do? (Hebrews 4:12)
We need to pray and ask God to show us where our thinking is against Him. We need Him to show us what strongholds we need to bring down with the weapons of our warfare.
See part two to learn how to do this. |
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