How To Stop Intrusive Thoughts From Satan Biblically | #008

Unlearned Wisdom by Johnny Chang

Johnny Chang

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Johnny Chang explains how intrusive thoughts are lies from the enemy and how to overcome them by trusting God’s Word. He shares personal stories, showing that true peace comes through grace, not self-effort. 🎙️ Watch/Listen to Unlearned Wisdom on every platform: ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/unlearnedwisdom Timestamps: 00:00 – Intrusive thoughts intro 00:43 – Does Johnny Chang still get sinful cravings? 02:34 – Can Pastors make mistakes or mess up? 07:12 – What are Intrusive thoughts and how does it impact us? 11:23 – The tragic story of a Korean mother’s intrusive thoughts 15:46 – Human minds wired for survival, not peace or rest 20:00 – Why we trust God's plan instead of living in fear 24:42 – Johnny Chang trusting Satan's thoughts at 12 years old 26:24 – Three ways Satan attacks: possession, suggestion, or accusation 31:39 – Why do you feel empty inside? 35:01 – The story of relationship cheating due to intrusive thoughts 37:47 – How do you overcome intrusive shameful thoughts from the past? 40:15 – How did Jesus deal with intrusive thoughts? 41:40 – Should you believe any of your intrusive thoughts?44:30 – Lustful thought during prayer proves enemy’s spiritual attack 49:40 – Temptations thoughts are harmless until you agree with them 51:50 – What part does intrusive thoughts play in addiction?54:46 – Study shows isolated addicts recover through healing community 57:55 – Johnny’s stealing from Toys R us 59:30 – God speaks through scripture; He never hijacks your mind 01:02:01 – Johnny Chang explains how God speaks to us through scripture 01:03:39 – Why would God create a chaotic world? 01:05:34 – Expectations can ruin your perception of blessings 01:07:00 – Johnny Chang says his chaos was necessary to find peace 01:10:47 – Audience Q&A begins; Discord community asks tough spiritual questions 01:11:00 – How to reach loved ones battling dark, hopeless thoughts 01:13:30 – When does intrusive thought cross into actual sinful action? 01:15:00 – How to battling false-memory OCD? 01:17:33 – What’s an intrusive thought most people wouldn’t consider intrusive? 01:20:00 – What if we don’t know enough of the word yet to combat intrusive thoughts? 01:22:10 – Closing out prayer from Johnny Chang 👾 Join my free Discord to submit your question for a future episode: ⁠https://discord.com/invite/nTuvmutSsU 🐉 Follow Johnny Chang everywhere: ⁠https://linktr.ee/johnnychang 🫶 Donate to support our Core of the Heart ministries: ⁠https://coreoftheheart.com/pages/donate 💙 For those that want to gain a deeper understanding of the Bible & get closer with God, to unlock true peace and happiness: ⁠https://coreoftheheart.com/ 🕊️ Use code WISDOM for 50% off your first month.⁠ Core of the Heart is our digital community to support you in getting closer to the true Gospel. Membership includes: Weekly Bible Class with Minister Johnny, hundreds of hours of livestream content, sermons, Q&A's and resources to help you understand the Bible faster. Sign up instructions: ⁠⁠https://shorturl.at/ZuAFD Don't forget to subscribe to this new channel! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And I'll be praying and then boom, lustful thought would just come in. Lustful image would just come in. And then I got to restart my prayer. And then I would feel condemned. How can I be thinking about those things? And I would tell pastor, Satan will lace things into your thoughts that make hell a sense to you. However, the end of it and the end result is destruction and death. That's what he does with our mind. Our mind is like the shopping cart,
0:36.6	and he'll try to drop in, hey, you're lustful, hey, you're lustful. And then when you take it, then he'll accuse you. Oh, you know you shouldn't have done that. Why did you do that? Why did you pay for it? He does this gaslight. And then he leads you to live spirally, and it's horrible. RIP toys I would steal from there all the time Sorry guys, you guys went bankrupt because of me
0:38.4	Oh man
0:39.0	Why would God create a chaotic world? RIP tours I would steal from there all the time. Sorry guys, you guys went bankrupt because of me.
0:38.5	Oh, man.
0:39.3	Why would God create a chaotic world?
0:44.0	I had a question for you.
0:46.4	Do you ever have sinful cravings?
0:48.7	Of course.
0:50.0	Of course.
0:50.7	Recently?
0:51.3	Yeah, of course.
0:52.3	Minister Johnny has sinful cravings? All the time, man. Still? Yeah, always. Recently? Yeah, of course. Minister Johnny has sinful craving.
0:54.4	All the time, man.
0:55.2	Still?
1:11.7	Yeah, always. Really? Yeah. When was the last time? Recently, like, I was really tired the other day, actually. And I had a thought like, oh, if I just did a bumpies. What about coffee? You just like skip straight to. I don't drink coffee. Yeah, but you don't think, okay, I'm really tired.
1:10.9	I can maybe try an energy drink or a B12 vitamin. I don't like Monster.
1:16.5	I mean, I like the booger sugar. Even when you were a bad boy, were you, I was always
1:23.9	booger sugaring. Really? Like a ball in each nose type of stuff. A day? Not every day, but yeah, I could. Like in a couple of days? Yeah. That's wild. Wow. That and Alki mix it together. But yeah, I did. And then I realized like, dude, but I always think about my thoughts, right? I'm like, okay like okay if i follow this will it just stay on one
1:45.8	bumpies no it'll be two three four then i'm gonna drink once i drink what happens then then i get lustful
1:51.6	then women then this and then imagine my congregation all the people that depend on me then what am i
1:58.2	gonna i'm gonna jeopardy you guys depend on me right in a lot of ways and what's that going to, I'm going to jeopardy? You guys depend on me, right, in a lot of ways. And what's that going to do? So I always think, like, off of that one line, snowball. It's never just that one thing. It's never just, hey, let's just relax. That's the deception of Satan. So I've learned, nope, can't trust my thoughts. On that tip, so you know, Bieber's old pastor? Yeah. And how he basically got, Hill Song. That guy is Carl Lentz. Yeah, he used to run Hillsong. And then I don't know the full story, but he basically cheated on his wife. Yeah. And then the church basically disassociated for him. Yeah. And now he started a new church and he's come back or whatever it is.
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