The Thought Life Of Jesus
I. Matthew 4-Jesus won the
battle in the mind
A.
When Jesus is hearing Satan’s voice he’s
hearing it in the realm of his soul/thoughts
1.
People have tendency to think that when God
or Satan speaks to somebody that it is always heard audibly with the physical
ear, but that’s not the case
a.
John 8:38, Proverbs 16:30-When Satan was
showing these people things they weren’t having open visions of him, it would
simply come up like a thought
2.
Satan always attacks with words first, because
words will give you thoughts and thoughts received will become faith in your
heart and determine what you believe and the way you go and the destination
that you reach (Genesis 3-He said to them)
B.
When Jesus is being tempted, tested and tried
and it leads to this great promotion it is in the realm of his thought
life-Luke 4:1-14
1.
Every test and in that regard every promotion
begins on the level of your thought life
2.
How are you going to deal with and handle
your thoughts? God is watching
3.
Our thought life is a big deal to God, the
problem is it hasn’t been a big deal to us
II.
Isaiah 26:3-We have heard it taught and say amen, but this is one of the
biggest areas where people are not doing the word and we know this is true
because peace is absent in so many people lives
A.
The absence of peace is evidence of mishandled
thought life
1.
This lack of peace, this heaviness, this
sorrow and discouragement is the result of our disobedience to do what God said
regarding your thought life
B.
John 14:1-If your heart is troubled you let
it get that way because you disobeyed God and didn’t guard your thought life
and win the battle in the mind
1.
ERV-Don’t be troubled; PHIL-You must not let
yourselves be distressed
2.
Jesus said do not let your heart be troubled
and we say well everybody every now and then is going to get down, it’s just
natural; you got that right it’s natural, fleshy and not spiritual
C.
Jesus wasn’t the prince of peace by default;
He guarded is thought life and that’s why we see him have such peace in every
situation-Isaiah 9:2
1.
There were certain places he just wouldn’t
let his mind go
a.
John 8, John 11, Luke 8-When we see the
master in peace we must recognize it is the fruit of an impeccably guarded thought
life
2.
You do realize that Jesus was attacked in his
thought life on a daily basis; he’s not just walking around never being
attacked, but rather he had every opportunity to take a negative thought that
you do and most likely he had more opportunities than you had
a.
James 1:14-Temption of every kind always
begins in the realm of your thoughts
b.
Hebrews 4:15-He was tempted like we are, this
is in his thought life
3.
Matthew 26:36-37-He is being attacked in his
thought life
a.
Luke 22:44-When he was attacked in his
thought life he earnestly fixed his mind
b.
39-Immediatley with his words he begins to
fix his thoughts on God
c.
45-He did this for three hours and now he’s
got peace “made peace with it”
d.
52-Peter tried to chop a guys ear off and Jesus
has perfect peace
4.
He NEVER
let a thought pass through his head that didn’t line up with the Word of God
without casting it down…ooooh, ahhhh,
wow
III.
Romans 8:6-How you deal with your thought life is a life or death issue
and when your thought life becomes life or death to you, you’ll guard it
A.
3-When Satan came to him why did he come to
Jesus and how did he come?
1.
John 10:10-He came for one of three reasons
or a combination of these three reasons: to steal, to kill, or to destroy
2.
How? - He came with words on the level of his
thought life
a.
When Satan comes to steal, kill & destroy
he comes on the level of your thought life and that’s why your thought life is
a life or death issue
b.
The entry way to him stealing, killing, and
destroying is through your mind
B.
Your mind is the gateway to your
heart-Proverbs 4:20-24
1.
Satan knows the only way into a person’s life
is through their heart and the only way into their heart is through their mind
a.
Your heart is the gateway to your life and
your mind is the gateway to your heart
b.
Satan knows whatever you allow into your
heart, you’ve given him a right to bring it pass in your life
2.
Your heart is the reproduction center of your
life – Whatever gets to the heart in the word form the heart will produce
in life form
a.
Philippians 2:16-The Word of Life (words of
life) that gets into our heart will be life and healing to you words of death
that get into our heart will be death to you
3.
God’s words that you hear and give your mind
to create faith in your heart and faith acted upon gives God access to manifest
life in your life
a.
Satan’s words that you hear and give your
mind to create fear in your heart and fear acted upon gives Satan access to
manifest death in your life
4.
The only way to guard you heart is by
guarding your mind
a.
Jesus guarded his heart above all guarding by
guarding his thought life
5.
Satan will pull your string as far as you’ll
let him; you take one negative thought and he won’t stop there
a.
Satan’s different than most believers in that
he’s patient in his wicked works; if he can’t get you all at once he’s fine
with a little at a time, a drop at a time because he knows the same drop that
he started with is the same size drop that will cause you to break-Proverbs
7:21
C.
Examples of this life or death issue
1.
Gen3-Adam & Eve died because they
mishandled their thought life
2.
Matt14-Peter could’ve died because he
mishandled his thought life
3.
Mark 5-Jairus must have not feared, must have
stayed in peace and therefore must have guarded his thought life and it was life
or death for his daughter
a.
Fear not believe only was not only Jesus
instructions to Jairus is was words that got rid of those wrong thoughts
4.
1 Sam 1-Hannah received her miracle because
she got her thought life straight
5.
1 Kings 21-Naboth ended up dead because Ahab
wouldn’t guard his thought life
IV.
How did Jesus win the battle in the mind?
A.
The word of God in Jesus’ mouth was the
weapon he used to win this fight
1.
Is this attempt to steal, kill, and destroy
spiritual warfare? Yes – 2 Corinthians 10:5
2.
The word of God if powerful-Hebrews 4:12,
Romans 1:16
3.
The word of God is the sword of the
spirit-Ephesians 6:17
4.
The word of God doesn’t become a sword until
it’s spoken out of your mouth
5.
Revelation 1:16, 2:16, 19:15, 21
6.
We overcome him with the word out of our mouths-Revelation
12:11
B.
We should endeavor to deal with negative
thoughts the same way the master did
1.
Every time the enemy spoke Jesus spoke
2.
He answered every negative thought by
speaking words out of his mouth
a.
You have to answer every negative thought by saying
what God says
b.
This is a snapshot of how Jesus lived
everyday of his life
3.
The enemy tries to put thoughts in Jesus’
mind and his spirit would rise up and say what God said