"Walk With The King" Program, the "Armor Of God" Series, titled "The Definition Of Sober Minded"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Armor Of God" Series, titled: "The Definition Of Sober Minded" (Broadcast #7076)
Scripture References: 1 Thessalonians 5:8-11, 2 Corinthians 10, Ephesians 6;11, 17

Learn about Dr. Cook's ministry at https://www.walkwiththeking.org/

Transcript

Doing alright today? Well, this is your good friend, Bob Cook, and I’m back with you, and glad to be up and around and feeling great, and trusting God for His touch upon you and upon me as we fellowship together around His Word today. It has to be the miracle of God’s grace helping me say things that are worthy of eternity, helping you hear them with a heart that is open to the will of God. Let’s trust God for that mutual miracle today, shall we? Dear friend, I’m glad you’re there. You pray for me while I’m speaking to you.

In Chapter 5 of 1 Thessalonians, we got down to this matter of “watch and be sober.” We talked about what it means to watch: prioritize your attention, actively participate in the will of God, and exclude anything that’s against the will of God. That’s what it means to be watchful. Then he says, “Be sober.” Now, at the risk of being repetitive, I’ll remind you that in some places the word “sober” is a compound meaning “saved mind.” In this place, it’s the Greek verb nepho, which means “to be calm and collected in spirit, to be temperate, dispassionate, and circumspect.” The combination is exciting. What does it mean to be sober? “Let us not sleep, as some do, but let us watch and be sober.”

Well, it means a mind that has been saved by the grace of God. What does it mean to have a saved mind? Number one, it means that you have faced once and for all the fact that you cannot control your thoughts and that your thoughts ultimately control your destiny. So, you need somebody to reprogram your mind. Your brain is like a great computer with billions of electrical contacts and mega-mega-mega-byte storage of ideas and the ability that goes beyond any of our human-manufactured computers to put those concepts together and reason about them. And so, you need somebody to reprogram your computer. That’s the first thing.

Have you done that? Have you ever faced right up to the fact that you can’t begin to think God’s thoughts unless He does something about the computer and reprograms it? This is what Paul means in 2 Corinthians 10 when he says, “bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.” You take the thoughts that would otherwise wander and the thoughts that would be wayward and prodigal, the thoughts that would be wrong and impure. You take the thoughts that would be greedy or fierce or proud or unforgiving or hateful…different kinds of thoughts that flipped, seemingly, through your mind. You bring all those thoughts to your Savior and let Him reprogram your mind.

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