CHRIST the CAPTOR of our THOUGHTS. The weapons Paul used were not fleshly, but mighty through God—the weapons which the Holy Spirit supplies. And this spiritual warfare means “the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor 10:5). Well has it been said, “repression of the natural will, which is the seat and vehicle of Satan’s machinations, is the true aim of spiritual warfare.” Mere fleshly, independent “reasonings” and “imaginations” are inconsistent with real subjection to God. The natural man thinks his own thoughts and follows his own imaginations, but not the believer: he abandons his own thoughts and imagining, casting down all that exalts itself against the true knowledge of God, and brings into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. —from Arno Gaebelein’s Annotated Bible