Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, May 8th.

If you are trying to live for God, how you think is supremely important.

Let's continue the series giving helps for holiness with a lesson on how to handle your thought life.

Would you turn, please, to Ephesians chapter 4.

Ephesians chapter 4, how to handle your thought life.

And I want us to begin reading in verse 17.

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds.

When he speaks over the Gentiles, he's talking about lost people.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

who being past feeling they've become calloused, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness

to work all uncleanness with greediness, all kinds of sensuality and greed,

but you've not so learned Christ, if so be that you've heard him and have been taught

by him as the truth is in Jesus, that you put off concerning the former things, the old man

which is corrupt according to the deceitful lust, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and holiness.

Wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

And over 300 times the Bible speaks of the mind and of thought and of thinking and it's something that all of us do every single day of our life

and sometimes you may feel like well you'd like to throw your mind in neutral. But not really, because we're always thinking something.

And even when we relax, at least our minds are thinking about something.

And yet today, in spite of the fact that most of us have been saved,

there's still a drag on the mind.

Now what do I mean by that? When you accepted Jesus Christ as your

personal Savior, you obtained at that moment a new birth, which meant a new life, which meant

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