“The Mind of Intent” - a podcast by Covenant Word Church

from 2021-02-14T17:52:14

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2Cor10

Casting down vain imaginations

Casting down arguments, imaginations, moving on our own reasonings

Strongholds begin and are made on one thought

Satan will watch your patterns, then try and make his move

Strongholds are protection for an army

Patterns of behavior is what Satan is observing

People who debate the Pastor, build strongholds in their mind

Jesus temptation: Three areas satan always attack people (similar to Jesus)

Matt 4

-3 attacks

1. Gods Provision

Stones to loafs

Attacks our Identity

If you’re a Christian you’d be this or that

You would have this or that

2. Attack against provision which is also protection of God

-Once we get our identity established and fixed the whole characterization of the battlefield changes (for you)

3. God’s Service

Our service describes our purpose for being on the planet in the first place

Your identity then must be established

Then fixed (cemented)

You won’t be easily moved if you get this far

When it comes to service to the Lord is where most get lost

The few who find it (their service to the Lord) will find their identity

Mark 8: The Leaven of the Pharisees and Herod

He charged them saying, “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and leaven of Herod”

Thayer's Greek dictionary:

-Mental and moral corruption viewed in its tendency to infect and affect others

In religion, God is impersonal and powerless

1. Leaven of the Pharisees

a. Puffing up of knowledge

b. Tendencies toward the worship of knowledge

c. Have the need to be right or correct in winning arguments

d. Calling it spiritual without the presence of God

e. Correctness on the Word without the Presence of God

2. Leaven of Herod

a. Political Systems

b. Getting caught up in politics

Jesus the bread Mk8:16

-They (disciples) reasoned among themselves (even after the feeding of the 4 and 5000)

-The disciples still reasoned how are we going to do this?

-Jesus interestingly ends the dialog with a question. “Do you still not understand?”