1. Stinking Thinking
Philippians 4:8-9

2. Stinking Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Beware of what you set your mind on because that you surely will become”

3. Stinking Thinking
Norman Vincent Peale said, “Change your thoughts and you change the world.”

4. Stinking Thinking
Mark Twain wrote, “What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those other things, are his history.”

5. Stinking Thinking
Henry Ford Said, “Thinking is the hardest work in the world, which is probably why so few people engage in it.”

6. Stinking Thinking 10,000 separate thoughts each day
3.5 million thoughts a year
over 2,000 separate thoughts since you got out of bed this morning

7. Stinking Thinking 8,000 thoughts before you hit the sack tonight
If you live to be 75, you will have over 26 million different thoughts.

8. Stinking Thinking
Philippians 4:8-9 (NIV) Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

9. Stinking Thinking Think on these things (v8)
Practice these things (v9)

10. Think on these things (v8)
whatever is true
whatever is noble
whatever is right

11. Think on these things (v8)
whatever is pure
whatever is lovely
whatever is admirable

12. Think on these things (v8)
if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy
Think such things

13. Put it into practice (v9)
Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me
put it into practice.
And the God of peace will be with you.

14. Stinking Thinking
Philippians 4:8-9

15. What’s That Smell? Proverbs 4:23,
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Mark 7:20-23
He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

16. What’s That Smell?

17. What’s That Smell?

18. What’s That Smell?

19. What’s That Smell?

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21. What’s That Smell?

22. What’s That Smell? Acknowledge the smell Cover up the smell
Find the smell
Eventually, Remove the smell

23. What’s That Smell?
Psalm 139:23–24 "Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!” 2 Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

24. What’s That Smell?
Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.