Guard your Mind Reverent Minds are guarded minds. More than anything else God wants to saturate, influence, dominate and control your mind. If God has your mind--He will also have your body, your emotions, your appetites, your time, and your money . . . Whatever controls your mind, controls you. The battle each day is for our minds. At salvation, Christ began to dwell in our minds, and we were given the duty to guard, protect, and properly nourish our minds. The world, our flesh, and the Devil all seek to neutralize our godly minds. Grace-energized men of reverence know that Christ wants to inhabit their thoughts, and they never forget Him as they assess the daily patterns and habits of life. How does Satan neutralize believers? He attacks their unguarded minds. Please stand with me and listen to Peter’s impassioned plea to all believers in I Peter 5:8-9: 1 Peter 5:8-9 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith... NKJV Satan devours believers by way of unguarded minds. And never before has he had so many ways to do so. Take our current habits of entertainment. According to media expert Dr. Ted Baehr, teenagers watch fifty movies a year in the theater and view another fifty a year on video. Eighty percent of these movies are PG-13 or R-rated. Brain researchers conclude that we have stored three trillion “videotape” images in our brain by the time we are thirty years old. Sadly, there is no delete button for our minds, and once the images are there, we must then live with the spiritual consequences of those stored images. Given the known content of much of the media that is being recorded into the minds of Americans, irrevocably loaded into the memory banks of our minds we need to do whatever it takes to renew and purify our minds.  What images, words, and feelings are stored among those three trillion memory video clips in your mind this morning?  And have you pondered what can Satan do with them? Getting serious about God-honoring, reverent thinking means a mind that is guarded and purged of anything that invites Satan’s devouring powers to be at work. Here is a test to see what happens when every part of our life is not reverently God’s. Symptoms of an Unguarded Mind From GEM-07b - Reversing the Erosion of A Reverent Mind (071125PM) - https://youtu.be/CpvKbNmRLQA Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on the Paul's Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul's Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbma.com/Default.aspx Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://dtbm.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to: https://dtbm.org/ https://youtu.be/KKlCxqWzmoI ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKlCxqWzmoI

How to Build a Destruction-proof Legacy We could summarize what Peter wrote by saying that he was exhorting his loved ones on how to rescue their treasures from the floods and fires. But as we look at 2 Peter 3:10-18, the lessons are far broader than just those early believers. These lessons are for us, and maybe even more so, in the world where we find ourselves today! Lesson one from Peter is: Beware of Materialism v. 10-11 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, First of all, as we look back at the words of v. 10-11, let me ask you: What is materialism? Materialism at the deepest level is: Living for things. Notice Peter’s reminder in v. 11: “all these things will be dissolved”. Everything that can burn up is what we are NOT to live for. We must not find our joy in things, our satisfaction in things, our hope in things. That is materialism. God describes materialism in His Word as covetousness, greed, and possessiveness. Greed is an attitude that is demonstrated in both an action: POSSESSIVENESS (selfishness with what we have); and an attitude: COVETOUSNESS (longing for what we don't have). Let me emphasize that covetousness or coveting is an internal “longing” for what we don’t have. Look back at how Paul equated materialism with idolatry in Colossians 3:5 (NKJV): Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. As believers, our flesh is still hard-wired to be covetous. Longing for Things is Idolatry (ROK-03b) Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to access weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS featuring weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on the Paul's Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul's Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbma.com/Default.aspx Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://dtbm.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages, go to: https://dtbm.org/ https://youtu.be/py3wfOg9P7g ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py3wfOg9P7g