Sermon Audio: Surrender Your Thoughts
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Philippians 4:4-9
Duration: 26:06
Size: 15.2 MB
Surrender
Surrender Your Thoughts
Philippians 4:4-9
But when that is our philosophy, it means that we really haven’t embraced Jesus as Lord, we’re simply using him as a fire escape from Hell.
We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. That is an interesting concept. Taking our thoughts captive, so they will be obedient to Christ.
What Jesus was warning us about in the Sermon on the Mount wasn’t the actions but the beginning of the actions. The thought or thoughts behind the action.
Willie Nelson said,
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
You see the warning isn’t simply that negative thoughts will make us negative, the warning is that letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death.
So, Paul goes on to say, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.
So, to say, in order to control your thought life, you just need to stop thinking about the things we shouldn’t be thinking about. That’s simple but it’s not easy.
It starts with you, and it depends on God, but ultimately God does His part and expects us to do our part.
Are you willing to make that decision? The decision to surrender your thoughts to God? The decision to focus on the things of God?