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?”
