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THE MIND CANNOT BE TRUSTEDThe peril for the Christian is to have false teaching injected into his thought life so as to lead him astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. These are the works the “serpent” is perpetrating today. Satan has disguised himself as an angel of light to lead saints to worship with their intellect a Jesus other than the Lord, to receive a spirit other than the Holy Spirit, and by these to propagate a gospel other than the gospel of the grace of God. Paul pronounces these to be nothing else than the deeds of Satan in the Christian’s mind. The adversary translates these “doctrines” into thoughts and then imposes them upon the mind of the Christian. How tragic that few appreciate the reality of these activities! Few, indeed, who would ever think that the devil could give such evil thoughts to God’s vessels, we cannot trust our minds, we cannot trust our thoughts, the fall has affected the entire man even the thought life, it has even tainted our sight, our hearing, our feelings the complete man. That’s why you hear the phrase “Dead in sin” all of a man lies in ruin from the fall. MAN CANNOT BE TRUSTED! The Apostle well recognizes that as the god of this world blinds the mind of unbelievers so will he deceive the mind of the believers. Even though they are saved their life of thought is as yet unrenewed; consequently, it remains the most strategic battleground. The mind suffers the onslaughts of the powers of darkness more than any other area of the whole man. We should realize that satanic spirits are directing special attention to our minds and are attacking them unrelentingly, “as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning.” The Devil did not assail Eve’s heart first but rather her head. Similarly today, the evil spirits first attack our head, not our heart, in order to have us corrupted from the simplicity and purity which is towards Christ. They fully understand how it is the weakest point in our entire being, for it had served as their fortress before we believed and even now is not yet entirely overthrown. Attacking the mind is the easiest avenue for them to accomplish their purpose. Eve’s heart was sinless and yet she received the Devil’s suggested thoughts. She was thus beguiled through his deception into forfeiting her reasoning and tumbling into the snare of the enemy. Let a believer accordingly be careful in his boast of possessing an honest and sincere heart, for unless he learns how to repulse the evil spirits in his mind he will continue to be tempted and deceived into losing the sovereignty of his will. The mind must be totally captivated by God’s Word, saturated none the less.