Mental Health Through Overcoming The Evil One

Teacher: Keith Tyner
Series: Mental Health & Spiritual Maturity

Keith's Notes

• Little children know their sins are forgiven
  • You are a child of God
  • You are one spirit with God
  • You are joint heirs with Christ
  • You are on the winning team
• Young men, you have overcome the evil one
  • Overcome is to gain superiority or win
  • What does that look like and how does it happen in life
• If you walk away today with a little greater appreciation for the invisible battles around us and hope for victory, our time together would have been profitable.
• The nature of war is death.  War is violent.  Jocko Willink
  • Our primary adversary is satan also known as the evil one
  • Secondary adversaries include:
    • Demonic angels
    • The power of sin
    • The world system
    • And our flesh/ own habit patterns which lead to destructive actions
      
  • satan is real and powerful
    • he roams around looking for someone to destroy 1 Peter 5.8
    • Not omnipresent Job 1.8 roams and walks earth
    • he is the god of this world 2 Corinthians 4.4 and blinded the minds of the unbelieving
  • demonic angels are satan’s subordinates
    • can look like humans
    • can be invisible
    • have taken control of humans with evil expressions
    • Have polluted humanity and were cause of flood
    • have significant physical strength
      
  • Power of sin is satan’s internal messenger which is present in your physical body
    • Genesis 4.7 Sin is crouching at the door, but you must master it
    • Romans 7.17 & 20 I am no longer the one doing ‘it’
      • Good is not the opposite of evil
      • Good is not the standard of life, righteousness is
      • When you have good and evil thoughts consider them seriously
    • POS is resident in our body, like a speaker is in this room.  The speaker is simply the sound system and not the source of the message.
    • You are not the source of evil thoughts
      
  • The world system is the prevailing culture which is contrary to God’s
    • Proverbs is a great description of God’s system vs. world’s
      • I have found focusing on God eliminates most of the time concerning myself with the enemy
      • Don’t assume the system you are connected to is godly
        • Is the ‘American Dream’ God’s system or world’s?
        • Are your political views God’s system or world’s?           
        • 2 Timothy 2.4 No soldier entangles himself.
    • The world system leads to discontentment, disillusionment, frustration and even death. Love is not a part of it.  The world’s term for love is tolerance.  They are not anything close to one another.
    • Most of us have trappings of the world system without ever realizing it.
  • Then there are those crazy habits stored in our brain which we have acquired naturally by living in the world.  These habits are the ones which we used prior to knowing Jesus to get our needs met apart from Christ and ones which have developed along the way.
    • Bible calls habits we use to be the ruler of our lives as FLESH
    • My flesh looks completely different than yours.  
    • Paul describes fleshly activities in Galatians 5:19-21, and James in James 4:1-3
    • My flesh will tend to struggle with controlling situations, it has workaholic tendencies, tends to avoid conflict, tends to be overly concerned about the future, can be goal obsessed, has included worldly success where you can find worldly acceptance
      
    • There are almost an infinite number of those types of efforts which can distract us from spiritual living
    • They are acquired early.  A friend told me a story about their 18 month old and I pointed out the child is developing a unique FLESH as his father is the father of all lies. 
• What I am about to describe is intense sounding, but keep in mind it has evolved with much time.  A war tested friend of mine described the essence of becoming a wingman as a fighter pilot.  The wingman will have spent nearly 8,000 hours in training over a 2-2.5 year period of time.  At that point a wingman works along with a lead pilot and they are in it together.  DON’T WALK  THIS LIFE ALONE!!!!!
  
• OVERCOMING
  • You are a new creation with Christ in you! (2 Corinthians 5.17)
  • The battle is not yours (2 Chronicles 20.15)
  • We don’t battle flesh and blood (Ephesians 6.12)
  • Greater is He who is in you (1 John 4.4)
  • Know HIM (Philippians 3.12)
  • Know who you are (Who He sees you to be)
  • The truth will set you free. (John 8.32)
  • Take every thought captive (2 Corinthians 10.5)
  • Be alert. (1 Peter 5.8)
  • Stand firm/Resist and he will flee (James 4.7)
  • Don’t be ignorant of his schemes (2 Corinthians 2.10)
  • The world will violate your peace. (John 1
  • Don’t love the world or the things of the world!  (1 John 2.15)
  • Know the end of the story.  (John 19.30)
• When you walk out the door today, don’t be surprised by any fiery ordeal you may endure.  Jesus said, ‘In this world, you have tribulation, but take Courage, I have overcome the world!’  WE WIN….WE WIN….