What It Means to Set the Mind of the Flesh (TMF:1708)

Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Peace to Live By: What It Means to Set the Mind of the Flesh (TMF:1708) - Daniel Litton
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       First, I want us to consider what setting our minds on the things of the flesh entails. Now, many might say, “I don’t think that really needs explanation.” But really, I think it does because setting our minds of the flesh is just not doing the obvious wrongs. It’s not just thinking lustful thoughts, or being angry at people, or focusing on worldly, trivial things. There’s much more to setting our minds on the flesh than those kinds of things. The core fundamental to this is really that if any thought we are thinking in our minds is causing us distress than we shouldn’t be continuing to think about those thoughts. Those thoughts are producing death in us. Various kinds of lines of thought can cause this for us, things like worrying, stressing out, being full of fear, dreading different kinds of things, and thoughts like these. Believe it or not, this type of thinking is not what we are supposed to be doing. Jesus wouldn’t have done it, and so we shouldn’t be thinking like this, setting our minds on the flesh.