Can Satan Put Thoughts into Our Heads?

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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We know the devil can tempt us and attack us and try to deceive us, but can he put thoughts into our heads?

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0:00.0	We've been talking about thoughts recently, our thought lives.
0:08.7	Friday we asked if God can read our thoughts.
0:11.5	And the resounding answer is yes, God can read our thoughts.
0:14.5	And not only our thoughts, but also the intentions of our hearts.
0:18.5	And that fact carries vast implications for each of us.
0:21.6	It means God can see the difference between what we want to say and what we actually do
0:27.6	say.
0:28.6	And that's the way that difference.
0:30.1	And so we can glorify God by stopping central words from exiting our mouth.
0:34.5	It's one of the fascinating implications that we looked at on Friday in A.B.J. 1917.
0:41.1	And we're going to start this new week with another short but profoundly important question
0:45.3	about our thought lives.
0:48.0	It's asked by Garek.
0:51.0	Pastor John can Satan himself put thoughts into our heads?
0:58.2	Yes, he can.
1:00.0	And he does.
1:02.5	And of course, the urgent questions then are, well, how do we recognize them?
1:10.1	And how do we resist them?
1:11.9	Yeah.
1:12.9	They'll get controlled by them.
1:14.6	But before I give some biblical examples of this, it would be good to remind ourselves
1:20.8	that Satan's putting thoughts in our minds and putting desires in our hearts or our bodies
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