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564 | Having the Mind of Christ · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman.
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  At the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  or on our website at watwm.org,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  The world bombards us on every hand with many things that fill our mind.
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  If we are not careful, our mind can quickly fill up with negative things and with ungodly things.
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  Join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries, as Kim teaches us
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  how to have the mind of Christ.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us. We're going to look at Philippians chapter
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  2 and verse 5 as the main crux of our time together today.
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  And it says that, Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
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  And it seems that the world spends an enormous amount of time trying to figure
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  out how to get themselves straight.
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  And there's all these kind of self-help books trying to tell you how to make
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  the most out of yourself. And it always talks about the power of positive thinking.
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  And generally in almost anything that we do and in any place that we are,
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  when people are trying to help someone else out, they think about the power of positive thinking.
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  Well, we absolutely positively know that the power of positive thinking isn't going to save us.
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  What is going to save us is Jesus Christ and nothing else.
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  He says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. And if no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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  But we also know that Jesus Christ spent an enormous amount of time telling
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  us about the things we should fill ourselves with and the things that we should think upon.
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  And we know that he did this because the mind intellectually is sort of what
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  gets us moving and going.
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  And it can change how we feel about something in an instant.
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  Because our attitude determines a lot about how we feel and about what we're doing.
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  And so when we stop and we think about something, if we think and focus on negative
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  things, it doesn't take us any time at all to become depressed and upset.
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  If we are feeling kind of sickly and we begin to go and perhaps Google and look
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  at all kinds of things about all the symptoms and problems that you can have
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  if you have this certain particular ailment that you may think you might have,
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  suddenly you begin to feel every one of those.
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  You go to the pharmacy and you get prescription and it gives you this little
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  list of things that said possible side effects.
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  You can sit around and think about those things until you sort of seem to develop
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  them or think that you might be having them because the mind is a powerful thing.
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  The mind is a powerful tool of the devil, and it is a powerful playground for
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  the devil because so often we guard our lives, we guard our homes,
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  we guard our reputations even, but we let the ball down and we drop the ball
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  when it comes to guarding our mind.
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  And we let our eyes see a lot of stuff it shouldn't see.
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  And we let our mind be filled
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  with a lot of things that aren't part
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  of what God would have it to be you see
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  the Bible says that we are to study to show our self-approved unto
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  God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth
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  and that's in 2nd Timothy 2 15 and we can't rightly divide the word of truth
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  if we haven't learned it and we haven't studied it the The Bible tells us in
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  Psalms that we're to hide his word in our heart that we might not sin against thee.
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  When Jesus was taken up to the mountain and he was tempted, yet he did not sin
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  because the Bible says that he was tempted like as we are yet without sin.
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  When he was tempted, he began to quote scriptures and.
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  Back at the devil. You see, he said that man cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
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  He also spoke to us and explained to us that as we begin to draw closer to him,
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  he would draw closer to us.
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  He speaks about a joy unspeakable and full of glory and a peace that passeth understanding.
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  But we're only going to have this perfect peace that's found through Christ
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  Jesus if we are trusting in him and we are spending time with him.
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  The Bible says that the footsteps of a righteous man are guided by the Lord.
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  And he also says that we are to live in the center of his will.
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  And when we're in the center of his will, we have incredible power.
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  In fact, he says, abundantly above all that we ask or think,
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  that power inside of us can work.
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  But all of that comes down to the place, one, where we placed our heart.
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  We have got to confess our sins and allow Jesus Christ to come into our lives,
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  that we might repent of our sins and that we might receive his free gift of
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  salvation, that we might be able to be called the sons of God and the Holy Spirit
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  dwell inside of us and teach us all things that we need.
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  But once we have given our heart to Jesus Christ, we need to give our life to Jesus Christ.
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  That means we need to let him have free reign and rule over ourselves.
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  And the biggest challenge, it seems, among Christians today is handing over that mind to the Lord.
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  It's a battlefield that is bombarded all the time with media.
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  It's bombarded all the time with things that tempt us.
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  It is something that absolutely goes straight to the flesh.
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  We look and we see and we feel and we touch all in that mental part of ourselves.
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  And then suddenly we begin to start to rationalize the things that we are doing
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  and the things in our life according to what seems right with the world.
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  There was a popular saying many years ago, and I believe it is a core of how
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  people live today for the most part, that says if it feels good, do it.
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  Huge part of that going back to that power of positive thinking.
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  If I just think good things, then it'll be okay.
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  Well, the truth of the matter is as Christians, When we do what he says,
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  we're going to be thinking upon good things, as he tells us in Philippians 4, 8.
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  But the power of positive thinking isn't going to save your souls.
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  But the power of positive thinking in the works and the words and the rules
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  and the guidance of the scripture of Christ is going to keep our minds and hearts through Christ Jesus.
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  You see, we want our minds settled in the hands of God, that he can protect
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  us from all of the stuff that's in the world.
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  The Bible tells us in Philippians chapter 4 and verse 8,
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  He says, finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest
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  whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are
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  lovely whatsoever things are
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  of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think on
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  Now, He's telling us what we need to think on.
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  He tells us in the book of Thessalonians that we are to pray without ceasing.
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  He tells us that we're to call unto him and he will answer us and show us great
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  and mighty things that we don't know.
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  So he's given us where we're supposed to place our mind.
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  We're supposed to place our mind on the things that are true.
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  And the Bible says that he is the truth, remember?
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  He is the way, the truth, and the life.
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  He tells us that we are to think about those things that are honest.
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  Things that are honest are those things that are righteous, those things that
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  the Lord has spoken to us, those things that are in his way and in his will.
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  He tells us that we're to think about things that are just. In other words,
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  our mind is to be crucified under the blood of Jesus Christ so that when we're
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  thinking about how we're going to deal with other people,
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  when we're thinking about what we think of others, that we are thinking through
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  the blood of Jesus Christ that's been applied to us.
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  And then we can continue ye in his love as he commanded us in the book of John.
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  But so often we're willing to maybe give him our money for our ties,
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  and we might be willing to give him a little bit of our time,
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  but we're not going to give him our mind.
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  Because somehow, in some way, we have determined that we still should have a
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  reason to be able to think on our own.
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  Well, the Lord says, choose you this day whom you're going to serve in the book
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  of Deuteronomy also says it in Judges. I mean, Joshua.
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  But what he's telling us is you need to set your heart and your mind and your
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  affections above and not on things of the world. He tells us in Colossians.
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  So we need to really realize that that TV channel that we're turning on and
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  sitting in front of does have a consequence to our godliness and our spirituality.
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  We have the option many times to flip through the channels
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  and listen to fabulous men and women of god
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  and instead we choose to watch some raunchy horrible
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  tv show maybe we have the opportunity to listen
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  to songs that will glorify and edify the lord and instead we listen to songs
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  that talk about worldliness and and evilness and all kinds of stuff and we said
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  well they're just songs well they play over and over in your mind and they begin
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  to desensitize you to the sin of the world and that is a tool of the devil.
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  And I'm not saying that you can't have fun because the word of God will bring
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  you joy unspeakable and full of glory and a peace that passeth understanding.
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  But when we get our mind crucified under the blood of Jesus Christ,
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  then we're going to begin to look and see and do different things.
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  The Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17, that old things are passed
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  away and all things are become new.
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  That we're new creatures in Christ Jesus.
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  You see, our mind has been changed. It's been renewed. The Bible says that we
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  are to renew our mind daily.
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  Not that we lose our salvation every day, but we need to renew that commitment.
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  We need to renew that cleansing. We need to get the dust of the world off of our feet.
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  And we need to get the stuff that's been just thrown at us through what we see
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  on billboards and what we hear by the water cooler.
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  Not things that we're really participating in, but things that just come our
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  way. and we need to be able to say, get thee behind me, Satan.
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  And we need to have so much of God
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  inside of us and be studied so much and absolutely so surrendered to him.
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  Because don't get it wrong. When you become saved, you get all of him there
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  is. But for us, he doesn't get all of us.
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  We need to give him everything we have, including our mind, and stay focused
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  on the things of God, looking at what's true, looking at what's honest,
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  thinking about what's just, thinking about the pure things.
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  That's such a huge thing.
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  Immorality is on a rampage in our country. But people, it's in a rampage in our churches.
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  But it's in a rampage in our homes.
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  There are TV commercials that come on when you are trying to watch something
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  that is maybe decent and wholesome that in my mom and dad's generation would
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  have been considered X-rated.
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  How did it make it to primetime TV? Because people have not been subjecting
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  their mind under the crucifixion of the blood of Jesus Christ and crucifying
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  the devil out of their minds.
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  And so he has little by little and piece by piece gotten in.
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  To a way we just sort of just let it go. Because we've forgotten that we need to guard our minds.
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  He says to sanctify ourselves. Be ye holy for I am holy.
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  So as you begin the rest of your day and you get up tomorrow morning,
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  I want you to really seriously be thinking about what you can do to think about
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  those things that are pure.
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  What you can do to give your heart and your mind to Jesus Christ.
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  That your heart would be pure. and your mind would be clean before an almighty God.
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