The Other Six Podcast Episode 168: Protecting Your Mind from the Enemy’s Lies

and God nudges you towards that, go say something. Go ask him like you're saying if you can pray for them. It is amazing what what God will do with you if you just have a little bit of that spiritual situation where the Christian life will become the adventure it was meant to be when you allow yourself to be led by the spirit. Right. We're gonna we're gonna camp on that. I've done this every church I've been at. We take a series that I'd wrote years and years ago called Nudge, and it's like, we're gonna spend thirty days following every Nudge. You're not gonna judge, you're just gonna do it. Yeah. You judge it when you're done. And I'm telling you, it turns the place inside out because everybody realizes all around me are invitations that I normally just blow right by. [00:44:27] (56 seconds)  #FollowTheNudge

self help, you know, optimism versus, like, what is actually God's truth? I think positive thinking doesn't necessarily have a reference point. Whereas preaching the gospel is is is God centered, it's Christ centered, it's gospel centered. It's about the gospel. It's not about positive things for the sake of positive things. It's not just pointing at anything, it points up. It looks to God, it's theocentric, but it's also cruciform. The gospel is cross centered. So when we look at the cross and go, okay, am I supposed to be thinking? I'm supposed to be thinking of the truth of God through the shape of the cross. The cross is a vertical beam. God loves us, he he stooped into our reality to lift us from our fall. Right. What a gracious loving thing to do, to come and rescue us through the incarnation of Jesus. So let's tell ourselves the fact that, yeah, we follow but Jesus comes to lift us up. So preaching the gospel to ourself is a very specific act. It's a God centered thing. It's a Christ cruciform reality but it also tells us the truth that that we're not defined by whatever it is we were. Right. We are defined by Jesus. The only performance that matters was his, not ours. Mhmm. So we are recipients ever and all ways of a righteousness that is not our own, of of grace and goodness that is not our own. So there's a there's a humbling thing to remind yourself. [01:00:23] (79 seconds)  #GospelNotSelfHelp

Blessed are the poor in spirit. Yeah. If you don't recognize you have poverty of spirit, you've got nothing to bring to the spiritual table of the kingdom. Like when you recognize your spiritual it's not material poverty, it's poor in spirit. When you recognize that in and of yourself, you don't have what it takes, now you're ready to let the king be everything to you Right. And his way be the right way because you don't have it. Right. So you know, if we don't get that's what's the danger in the Bible Belt is we don't see ourselves as poor in spirit, we see ourselves as blessed in Christ. Yeah, And that's a good thing. Right. But blessed in Christ is secondary to poor in spirit. We are blessed because we recognize we've been poor in spirit, we've gone to the one who makes us rich and full in spirit. But the problem is we can switch that sooner or later. It's like a lot of Christian stuff [00:41:16] (44 seconds)  #PoorInSpiritFirst

So the gospel says your identity is in Christ, the enemy says, no, your identity is in fill in the blank. Yeah. Your sexuality or it's in your possessions Right. Or it's in your status or your appearance or the approval of others, but we don't stand on those things. So when you stand in the gospel of Jesus, there's your peace. Right? So it disarms the confusion of identities because where, you know, peace comes from. Faith, the fourth of the elements there in the armor, faith disarms fear. Flaming darts of the evil one. You ever been shot at? It's it'll scare you. Like, I've been shot at. And when bang happens, you're he meant spiritually. Okay. No. You mean, like shot at. It's like a paintball gun. Not not not To be shot at. You know? Sorry. I was I was totally tracking with the spiritual side of this. I'm like, oh, no. No. He needs an actual gun. Sorry. Anyway, keep going. I just throwing it the other day. Yeah. But basically, the evil one does wanna take shots at us. What do you do? We have a shield. The shield is the shield of faith. It's defensive. You know? And you can be offensive, but and then the fifth element is is the helmet of salvation and helmets protect your head. And so the idea of the helmet of salvation is that your greatest protection comes from knowing, knowing who you are and whose you are. So it's the helmet of salvation and it disarms despair. [00:48:18] (74 seconds)  #IdentityInChrist