2 Peter 2 verse 9 promises, the second great lesson we must learn after true salvation is found in Romans 12 verse 2, be ye transformed, changed, radically changed, be transformed by the renewing of your mind, by the renewing of your mind, when I was a young Christian there was a dear old preacher that shook my heart, and everyone to be honest with you, an Afrikaans speaking man who used to be a farmer when he was a young boy, his father and mother farmed, and he grew up on a farmland, and this man Chris Kroonje was his name, a genuinely remarkable human being, and a unique radical preacher that shook people to the core every time he preached, including me, now Chris Kroonje shared of how when he was a young man, as a boy, as a young teenager, he saw the farm next door to him, to his parents farm, there was the son of that farmer who was his age, and they grew up, but the difference was that farmer's son had a horse, now it was a beautiful horse, but he Chris Kroonje didn't have one, and most certainly didn't have the means to get one, the finances, but he always looked at this young farmer, the neighbor farm over the fence eventually when he saw him, and he envied that young fellow with that horse, he envied him, oh I want a horse, I want that horse, with the years went by, they grew up more, one day as young men, he had enough money personally to go to that young neighbor farmer, and say I want to buy your horse, I'll give you anything, I'll buy it, but I need that horse, well the neighbor looked at him surprised, and thought about it, and said okay, for that amount of money you can have my horse, now he had the horse, what he had dreamed of for so long, he had, it was his, and he takes it now, and he goes home, travels it, climbs on it, gets on his best clothes, and now very proudly, he takes the horse to town, where he had watched this other young farmer taken right down the streets, indignity, now he had the horse, going down the street, and people looking at him now with the new acquired horse, he was feeling very good, but something tragic happened, that unnerved him, the horse decided to turn in toward where you tie the horse up, outside of this building, and he, what's this thing doing, I don't want to stop you, and so he's trying to pick the horse, and what's wrong with you, people looking at him, but the horse, so he had to climb off as if he meant it, and then climb on again eventually, and get this horse going again, down the street, now he's beginning to gain composure, and suddenly the horse decides he's going to turn again, and he says what's going on, this horse no matter what he did, just determined he's going, and he walks and stops in front of the next place, now he's losing his calm, digging this horse, and what's wrong with you man, hey this happened again, now he suddenly began to realize, this horse doesn't realize he's under new ownership, this horse is doing what he was used to do, because that's where his former owner made him just go, habitually, just know this is where we go next, and he had to get this horse to realize, to learn, there's a different owner here, you're under different leaning here, now we have to be careful, there is being transformed by the renewing of your mind, it's a discipline, it's not simply one little prayer, be transformed, God says changed, change everything, there's a change of getting it through, by the renewing, you see a magnet, a magnet can only be drawn or pulled to an object when it's brought close enough to that object, you have to get close enough to something you don't want to do, to be drawn into it, that's where whatever habitual things you did before, when the temptation is there, you haven't sinned, no matter what the devil says, who is the accuser of the brethren, be transformed by this discipline, you change your mind, you don't go, you avoid places, you don't make provision for the devil, over the lust of the flesh, we walk down the street, we see something we didn't want to, in the shop window years ago, they'd put them in jail for pornography, today it's just loose, suggestive wickedness, and we see this terrible photograph or suggestive photograph that we didn't want to see, whether it's a window in a shop or a magazine, that most people when we were young would be too ashamed to even be caught with, but today everything's legalized, no restrictions, nonetheless you see this photograph, you didn't want to see it, and you're shocked and you think, oh my, what's happening to this country, to this world, that they can do that, put that such a suggestive photograph of a woman, so you're shaken, but you go further, you go to work still shaken, but somewhere along the line it comes back, what you saw in your mind, and of course the devil will say, why are you thinking that, why are you, why does it come back to your mind, but you've got to remember that memory is not sin either, God doesn't erase memory, there are thoughts of evil and they are evil thoughts, be careful, we have to bring every thought into captivity before it becomes sin, it's not sin, it's the thought, God doesn't erase memory at any point, what do you see, the devil might bring back, but that doesn't mean, you see, you've got to bring into captivity every thought, God says in Colossians 3, unto obedience of Christ, you're going to reject that thought, the thought life, and not let thoughts of evil become evil thoughts, they're very different, don't let the devil accuse you, don't let your own inner conscience accuse you of something you're not guilty of, you haven't sinned because you have memory, because things come back in your mind of the past, things may, but that doesn't mean, you've got to bring it into captivity, just like you've got to turn away from anything, the past, don't go anywhere near anything that could draw you back, oh if I'm saved, why do I have these evil thoughts, I've heard from so many people, well, because memory is not erased, but just remember, you haven't sinned because you have memory, you haven't sinned, the mind will reject these things in times of temptation, but now for the most important lesson of all, after salvation, the most important lesson we could ever learn and must learn after true salvation, is found in Psalm 91 verse 1, which says, he that dwelleth, that's a lovely word, dwelleth in the secret place, secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty, will remain under the protection of God Almighty, verse 3, he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, from the traps of the chapper, of course the chapper to us as Christians is the devil, but for that to happen, or deliverance, we have to do this abiding in a secret place, as much as possible in our lives after salvation, watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation, is very important, Matthew 26 and 41, watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation, lest ye enter into temptation, Mark 14 verse 20 says, of the same words, watch ye therefore and pray always, that's a staggering statement, that doesn't mean you stop life, hide away, hibernate in a monastery or something, and you're always going to know, but the discipline of habitual abiding in Christ, wherever possible, communing, but especially the morning quiet time in the evening, where we enter into the presence of God to such a degree, through choking ourselves in the Word of God and in prayer, that we walk with God, as a result of the meeting, the union, the communing with God begins through a quiet time, the constant communing with God as we walk out of that quiet time, but find it through the day, so we have to watch and pray always,.