Bring every thought into subjection to obedience of Christ; amen?  We’re at war.  Satan is at war and wants control of your mind, your thought life.  “As you think, so are you.”  So, think on these things (Philippians).  Amen?  If you’re going to think on those things, then you need to take time to set yourself apart and get the Bible and read and memorize and confess and speak; amen?

For anything that would move in opposition to those, the admonition is what?  Pull them down.  Everything that’s contrary to what God says about you and your righteousness must be torn down.  It is a lie.  You can control your thoughts.  You can control your body; amen?  I’ll prove it to you:  you control it to do everything you want to do; amen?  It’s amazing to me to watch a women fit into that wedding dress.  Everything they couldn’t do before to fit into that dress, they now have determined, “I will be a size minus twelve 0’s by the time I get married.”  And here they go after it.  Right?  We pretty much get what we want.  We will find a way.

Let’s look at some of these principles that we’re talking about, and this is one of them:  the discipline of renewing your mind and thinking upon these things.  Don’t just memorize the list.  Meditate and look for ways to perform the list.  Look for people to love; amen?  Look for things that are virtuous and of good report and think upon these things.  Look for ways that you can apply these habitually in your life.  You will never be free until obedience becomes that second nature to you.  You do it so many times.  You have so many repetitions that it becomes what we refer to in the natural as muscle memory.  Once you learn how to ride a bike you don’t forget how.

I forgot for a few seconds yesterday and had a pretty big crash.  You know those watches you have?  Do you know that they’ll tell you if you’ve been in an accident?  I didn’t know that.  I crashed.  I had this thing.  I went flying over the handlebars, and I landed literally—my face was like about that far from the blacktop—both wrists are really sore today.  But I caught myself—boom!—my face was right on the ground.  And I was like, “Man!”  The first thing I was wondering was, “Did I hurt my bike?”  So, the first thing I did was I lifted my bike up and I heard this noise going, “Beep, beep, beep, beep.”  I looked, and I was like, “What is that?”  And I looked, and my watch said, “You’ve had high impact.”.  It said, “Are you ok?”  Then the other one was a red button that said, “Push for emergency.”  Just thought I’d tell you so if you ever hear a weird beeping, and you’re unconscious, you’ve had high impact.