Guard Your Thoughts
Philippians 4:8–9
A: God has commanded us to think
- Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason[a] together, says the Lord”
- Psalm 32: 8-9 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you”
B: God has commanded us to think a certain way
- Psalm 139: 1 “you discern my thoughts from afar”
- We have seen in the sermon on the mount, that what we think matters to God
- “27 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart”, Matthew 5:27-28.
C: Why we think Matters:
- Our behavior reflects our thinking
- We are are to exercise mental discipline
- “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth”, Colossians 3: 2
D: We have to learn to think of the right things
- whatever is true: The Word of God is Truth, John 17:17 His commandments are true Psalm 119:151
- whatever is honorable: Or “noble”, things that are worthy of respect.
- whatever is just or what ever or right: Righteous, things that are in harmony of God
- whatever is pure: Untainted, free of contamination, morally clean.
- whatever is lovely: Pleasing or attractive
- whatever is commendable: or admirable or good repute: Things that are highly regarded
E: We have to Practice what we think
- Practice means repeating,
- A pattern of life, James 1:22, “But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves”.
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