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What is going on inside our head? 2 Cor. 10:1-5

What is going on inside our head? INTRODUCTION We are shaped by our thought life.

What is going on inside our head? INTRODUCTION 4 things that need to be going on in our head

What is going on inside our head? WE NEED TO HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST, vs. 1-2 What is going on inside our head? “meekness” means “power under control”

What is going on inside our head? WE NEED TO HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST, vs. 1-2 What is going on inside our head? “gentleness” means “not demanding our own rights”, “giving people the benefit of the doubt”, or “lovingly reasonable.”

What is going on inside our head? What is going on in our heads? WE NEED TO HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST, vs. 1-2 What is going on inside our head? What is going on in our heads? Is it the mind of Christ, so we express His meekness, gentleness, and mental toughness when needed?

What is going on inside our head? WE NEED TO REALIZE WE ARE IN A SPIRITUAL BATTLE, vs. 3 What is going on inside our head? Paul uses a military illustration in vs. 3-5 to show we are in a spiritual war

“not of the flesh” means “belonging to the sphere of the flesh” WE NEED TO APPLY BY FAITH THE PROPER SPIRITUAL WEAPONS, vs. 4 What is going on inside our head? “not of the flesh” means “belonging to the sphere of the flesh”

What is going on inside our head? WE NEED TO APPLY BY FAITH THE PROPER SPIRITUAL WEAPONS, vs. 4 What is going on inside our head? Fortresses those things that oppose the truth and the triumph of Christ’s cause.

What is going on inside our head? WE NEED TO APPLY THE RIGHT STRATEGY, vs. 5 What is going on inside our head? “we are destroying” military term “to tear down by force or demolish.”

What is going on inside our head? Negative Thoughts Expressed 1 “Speculations” thoughts or suggestions of evil philosophies and thinking of this evil world system headed up by Satan.

What is going on inside our head? Negative Thoughts Expressed 2 “Every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God,” Every proud thing

What is going on inside our head? Negative Thoughts Expressed It is all the pride of the human mind; exalted opinions, self-confidence or anything that is against God’s Word and its values.

What is going on inside our head? WE NEED TO APPLY THE RIGHT STRATEGY, vs. 5 What is going on inside our head? Take captive the thoughts that come to our mind that are contrary to God’s Word.

What is going on inside our head? 4 “R” Approach Recognize the origin of the thought. Refuse to accept the thought as ours.

What is going on inside our head? 4 “R” Approach Reckon ourselves to be dead to the power of sin Rest in the total sufficiency of Christ

Only through Christ that we can apply it. What is going on inside our head? 4 “R” Approach Only through Christ that we can apply it.

What is going on inside our head? 4 “R” Approach Recognize We need His wisdom from His Word to recognize the tricks of the power of sin. Prov. 2:1-6

What is going on inside our head? 4 “R” Approach Refuse We need His power to refuse those thoughts, entrance into our mind, Ps. 16:18 Eph. 6:10

What is going on inside our head? 4 “R” Approach Reckon We need His authority to count ourselves dead indeed to sin’s power over us and alive to God because we have been raised to new life in Christ, Ps. 60:12, Rom. 8:2

What is going on inside our head? 4 “R” Approach Rest We need His grace to rest in His complete sufficiency, Ps. 55:22; Is. 41:10; Heb. 3:17-19; 2 Cor. 12:9-10

What is going on inside our head? CONCLUSION It is very important what is going on in our heads! What is going on in our heads?

What is going on inside our head? CONCLUSION Do we have the mind of Christ and His weapons and strategy for victory?