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1 Peter 5:8

PROTECTING. Things That Need. 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:. PROTECTING. Things That Need. Rev 12:17

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1 Peter 5:8

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  1. PROTECTING Things That Need 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:

  2. PROTECTING Things That Need Rev 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

  3. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. How do we protect our minds? A. Study the Word of God. • Psalms 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

  4. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. How do we protect our minds? A. Study the Word of God. • Psalms 119:11 • 1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remains in him…

  5. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. How do we protect our minds? A. Study the Word of God. • Psalms 119:11 • 1 John 3:9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him... ESV

  6. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. How do we protect our minds? A. Study the Word of God. • Psalms 119:11 • 1 John 3:9 • Col. 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom…

  7. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. How do we protect our minds? • Study the Word of God. • Focus our minds on spiritual things. Col 3:1-2 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

  8. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. How do we protect our minds? • Study the Word of God. • Focus our minds on spiritual things. 1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

  9. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. How do we protect our minds? • Study the Word of God. • Focus our minds on spiritual things. • Not allowing immoral “junk” into our minds. “Junk food is artificially flavored and colored, excessively sweetened and highly addictive. It is harmful to physical and mental health and its consumption interferes with or even deprives one of beneficial, healthful nourishment…

  10. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. How do we protect our minds? • Study the Word of God. • Focus our minds on spiritual things. • Not allowing immoral “junk” into our minds. Television is an almost precise spiritual equivalent of junk food. The entire content of its programming is opposed to sound mental and emotional health and filled with value-training which is diametrically opposed to a sound and healthy society.

  11. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. How do we protect our minds? • Study the Word of God. • Focus our minds on spiritual things. • Not allowing immoral “junk” into our minds. • Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

  12. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. How do we protect our minds? • Study the Word of God. • Focus our minds on spiritual things. • Not allowing immoral “junk” into our minds. • Psalms 51:10 • Prov. 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

  13. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. How do we protect our minds? • Study the Word of God. • Focus our minds on spiritual things. • Not allowing immoral “junk” into our minds. • Psalms 51:10 • Proverbs 4:23 • Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true…honest…just …pure … lovely…good report … think on these things.

  14. PROTECTING Things That Need II. The Battleground of the Local Church. Dangers that face local churches • The stronghold of false teachers and their doctrines. • The stronghold of indifference. • The stronghold of unhealthy or undeveloped relationships.

  15. PROTECTING Things That Need III. The Battleground of the Home. • Our marriages must be protected. "It is easier to divorce my wife of 26 years than to fire someone I hired one week ago. The person I hire has more legal clout than my wife of 26 years. That's wrong." --Judge Randall Hekman, President of the Michigan Family Forum

  16. PROTECTING Things That Need III. The Battleground of the Home. • Our marriages must be protected. We must realize that marriage is a covenant. Prov 2:16-17 Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the adulterous woman. 17 She has abandoned her husband and ignores the covenant she made before God.New Living Translation

  17. PROTECTING Things That Need III. The Battleground of the Home. • Our marriages must be protected. We must realize that marriage is a covenant. Ezek 16:8 "When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine," says the Lord GOD. New King James Version

  18. PROTECTING Things That Need III. The Battleground of the Home. • Our marriages must be protected. We must realize that marriage is a covenant. Mal 2:14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. King James Version

  19. PROTECTING Things That Need III. The Battleground of the Home. • Our marriages must be protected. We must realize that marriage is a covenant. The word “covenant” means, “A formal, solemn, and binding agreement or compact.” The word “bind”, “to put under obligation; to cause to stick together” (Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary).

  20. Viewing Marriage as a Covenant Contrasting Attitudes Contract Attitude Covenant Attitude • How may I serve you! • You better do it! • What can I give? • What do I get? • Whatever it takes! • What will it take? • I’m happy to do it! • It’s not my responsibility. • I accept responsibility. • It’s not my fault. • I’ll give 100 percent. • I’ll meet you halfway.

  21. PROTECTING Things That Need III. The Battleground of the Home. • Our marriages must be protected. B. Our children must be protected. • Study with them • Pray with them • Be a good example to them

  22. PROTECTING Things That Need I. The Battleground of the Mind. II. The Battleground of the Local Church. III. The Battleground of the Home.

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