Taking thoughts captive
Good morning my God, Faith, Grace, and , dachshund family. I trust that everyone has had a great weekend, if you are reading this message, you have had a great weekend despite how bad you might think it was. When I started this group it was my hope that I could use an analogy everyday to relate the Bible and dachshunds to make my points, and for the most part I think I have. As I read some of the replies, I have taken note that as Christians some of us are being defeated. Today I want to dive a little deeper into protecting our minds, heart, and thought life. Some of the members expressed problems they were having in this area.
I’m not a physiologist or doctor of any kind, so I want to attempt to explain this from a Biblical prospective. Some you might ask where ,how why do I have theses thoughts and how do I stop them. Most of us have five senses , touch, smell, hearing , sight, taste. Our senses can be and are gateways for the enemy to attack us. What we listen to, read ,smell , taste or touch can bring about a negative thought. Matthew 6:22 (KJV) 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Matthew 6:23 (KJV) 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Colossians 2:21-23 (KJV) 21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
Our five senses has a lot to do with our thought life, Job 31:1 (NIV) 1 “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl. Job knew the dangers of looking a woman lustfully, he knew that once he allowed what his eyes saw to enter his mind and he meditated on it that it would bring about sin. This is what happened to David when he was watching Bathsheba bathe on her balcony. David allowed what he saw to become a stronghold so much so that he slept with Bathsheba and had her husband killed in battle so he could be with her even though she was married. 2 Samuel 11:1-5 (ETRV)
1 In the spring, when kings go out to war, David sent Joab, his officers, and all the Israelites out to destroy the Ammonites. Joab’s army surrounded their capital city, Rabbah. David stayed in Jerusalem. 2 One evening he got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his house. From there he saw a woman bathing. She was very beautiful, 3 so David sent for his officers and asked them who she was. An officer answered, “That is Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam. She is the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 David sent messengers to go and bring Bathsheba to him. She had just purified herself after her monthly time of bleeding. She went to David, he had sexual relations with her, and then she went back to her house. 5 Later, Bathsheba became pregnant. She sent word to him saying, “I am pregnant.”
The sin that David committed began because he looked and lusted after another woman, he thought about how to get her for himself, then he slept with her, and tried to blame it on her husband and when that didn’t work he had her husband sent to the front line of the battle where he knew he would be killed. We have four other senses that we use to collect information in the world around us. They are called gates we have to guard these gates by being critical what we allow into our minds and hearts. We have to be very careful what we listen to and watch, these are the two main entry points into our hearts and mind.
The music we listen to is extremely important because it was created by God for God to give Him worship. We have to be vigilant what , and who we listen to. Because satan was the worship leader before he was cast out of heaven he seeks worship through as much as God does. He want us to worship him through song , praise and worship. Ezekiel 28:12-17 (KJV)
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
In conclusion Paul instructs us to take our thoughts captive to the word of God. 2 Corinthians 10:2-5 (KJV) 2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
