LESSON 3 POINTING FINGER: VICTORY IN THE MIND Nexto the body, the second area where you need to experience vitor sin your ‘mind. ReadRomane 122 this verseerphasizs tous theimpertace of renewing ou" rings. Hee ar tree kay to tary in ou min, VICTORY IN THE MIND KEY #1: THE TRUTH SETS OUR MINDS FREE. 4. Thebas problem of thehuman minis that sin bondage The Lord sus Cit ‘a, you shal iow the uth, andthe rth shal mae you fre (Joon 8321 ‘he truth the Woed of God John 1717. From what wl the Wer of God free we 8) Gods Word il fre us fromrengtradlions (Our parents and the elders of cur Family ac ecietyhavehanded dow ous vevious kinds of infomation and practices as tracts. How do we now if sich rational information ad practices ae tue? The Word of God, the Ble chow us the wuth For example, ing the earthy mis of the ord Jesus, He demonstrated to the relgious leaders tat ter tradtion actualy contracted the Word of God Stidy Mark 76-8 .We MUST TEST EVERY TRADTION BY THE WORD OF GoD, 1) Gods Word wil fre us from merehuman knowledge, Human inode Igoe trough the ve physi sanees ard explained by human reason The fe physical snses are sec, earn, tasting, sein, ‘auching, The Senaes and human reason caneny tellus about thngs on ae ofthe earth Gods Werd revel truthbayand thereachof th huran areas ‘and huranreason~about God, about heaven, about epitual things. Read ohn 31048, sah 558-8 WE MUST TEST ALL KNOWLEDGE BY THE WORD OF GOD. 6) Geode Word wil free us from Satansbes Satan i ar and the father of les abn 844; 2 Coiehians 4 139-5; Join 41-8 Cte the rth John 168) As we study Gods Word, we wil be alueed from Satan Fes, and we wil know the tnth as it is Civic (Ephesians 42, We MUST BASE ALL OUR BELIEFS ON THE WORD OF GOD. VICTORY IN THE MIND KEY #2: THE SPIRIT OF GOD ENLIGHTENS OUR MINDS. 1A second problem with thehuran minds tht sincapabl of knowing the things (of God in fact, under the influnoe of sinthe huran mind isat war with God, ‘Study the folowing ertures: 1 Corinthians 214 Butte natural man dos nt accept the things ofthe Sprit (of Goes for they are foosiness to him sre camot understand hem because they aresptitualy appraised Note: 4) the matural man doesnot accept he things ofthe Spirit of Got ‘the natural man despises the things of the Spit of God — they are oclitness to hi 6) the maturalman carn understand the tings ofthe Sint of God Romans 88-7: For the min st on the Aes ie death, but the mind aston the ‘Spit fe and peace, because the mindset on the flesh ishoste toward God, or it does not sujet isa tothe kw of God fort rot even abe to ds; and those he are inthe flesh carn please God”