Disciplining Our Minds to Love Our Spouses

Dt. 5:21 Disciplining Our Minds to Love Our Spouses
The 10th Word
Sermon Notes for October 23, 2011 by Pastor Dennis R. Tuuri
You shall not covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'

Sinful Covetousness and Our Thoughts

2 Cor. 10:3-6 - "Take very thought captive to the obedience of Christ" including our own! This involves casting down (and out!) our own sinful thoughts.
Phil. 4:4-10 - God commands us to think in a particular way, and promises to keep our minds.
Ps. 1:1 - God commands us to not think the way the ungodly do.
Heb. 5:14 - We are to discern between good and evil, which would include our own thoughts.
1 Cor. 2:16 - We have the mind of Christ (revealed in the Bible), and should use it!
Rom. 14:23 - Whatever is not of faith (including our thoughts) is sin.
Ps. 1:1 - Avoid malware. use your protection software, keeping it updated,
Mark 7:20-23 - Thoughts come from our hearts and can thus be a diagnostic tool for our sanctification. Working on our thoughts, asking why, we work on our hearts. Take time!
Matt. 2:12 - God uses dreams to warn us of things, including our own sinful hearts and thoughts.
Rom. 8:29 - Pray, Observe, Don't Feed, but Repent (Specifically), wroking conformity tothe thughts and character of the Savior (Phil. 2:5)
Eph. 4:22 - Having put off sinful thoughts, put on good ones, until they become second nature to you.
Col. 3:2; Heb. 3:1 - Know who you are in Christ, and repent of thinking otherwise.
Shrapnel and healing, dirty eyeglasses and seeing.
Apply This To Your Marriage
Col. 3:19 -