---CLEAN YOUR MIND ~~

--"But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.
Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds."
---[Colossians 3:8-9]

-Once the intense drives of the fleshly appetites have been "executed," we who have been created after God "in true righteousness and holiness" (Ephesians 4:24) must cleanse the passions of the intellect as well.

The action required is that we must "put away from" or "throw away" these ideas that are begun in the mind. These notions are sinful and harmful to everyone.

**Anger / is an agitation of the soul that generates an impulse, a desire, that produces a violent emotion.

**Wrath / as the word suggests, is intellectual heat, a boiling up that produces a fierce indignation.

**Malice / is the ill will that creates a desire to injure, even eliminating shame at breaking laws.

**Blasphemy // one of the few words directly transliterated from the Greek, means any slander or speech that is injurious to another's good name.

**Filthy communication // is any kind of foul speaking or low and obscene speech.

**Lying // is any deliberately false information .

---We are to put off the old man, that nature and behavior that was bound up in the flesh (Ephesians 4:22), and put on the new man "who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him" (Colossians 3:10).
Our salvation brings with it both a new heart and a new mind. With one, we are able to "put to death" the deeds of the flesh. With the other, we are to put on "the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts" (Romans 13:14).
--ICR/HMM

[Yes, if we repent and turn around and follow Jesus' steps, He will help us stay on the strait and narrow path to eternal life. This is a daily choice as the enemy of our soul is out to steal and to kill and to destroy. ~~ [1 John 1:9]
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