Why What We Believe Is So Important

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About This Episode What do we believe? The answer explains why we do certain things, why we remain in certain sins, and why we treat people, and ourselves, the way we do. In this episode we frame the mind as a battlefield and look at Eve in the garden, who added "neither shall you touch it" to God's command and believed the serpent's lie, and at Jesus, who answered every temptation with Scripture. Aaron shares how knowing the Bible's truth about freedom didn't break his pornography addiction until he stopped believing he was still in bondage. If you say you believe something and your decisions don't reflect it, you don't actually believe it. Believe lies and you will walk in lies; believe the truth and you will walk in freedom and power.

About Aaron & Jennifer Smith Aaron and Jennifer Smith are the founders of Marriage After God and authors of Husband After God, Wife After God, and Marriage After God. Married since 2007 and raising six children in Bend, Oregon, they started Husband Revolution and Unveiled Wife to share what God was teaching them, not from a place of having it figured out, but as fellow travelers pointing couples back to Jesus.

In This Episode The mind as a battlefield — why beliefs, not just knowledge, drive our actions Eve in the garden — how adding to God's word opened the door to the serpent's lie Jesus in the wilderness — answering every temptation with Scripture Aaron's story — why knowing the truth didn't bring freedom until he believed it Knowledge vs. belief — the Indiana Jones invisible-bridge picture of faith that acts Countering lies — replacing common lies with the truth of God's Word Counterfeit peace — the false calm of justified sin versus a mind stayed on God

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