WEBVTT - Sifting through the Thoughts of the Mind 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:04.320 Coming to you from the Morning Star Mission sponsored studio. 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:08.039 This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.640 Give him praise, guys. It's Carl and crew mornings here. 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.680 We've got a whole week on mindset. And this is. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.440 This is huge. Our mind is a battlefield. We all 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:20.680 agree with that. Right, guys? 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:22.239 No doubt. Yes. Every day. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.080 Is. Is anyone? Am I alone in this one or 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.160 do I find. Am I the only one out there 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.320 that's battling thoughts that come pepper in my mind morning, 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:34.199 noon and night? 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.479 You are not. And it's so annoying. I don't know 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.800 if you've ever just had that. Just a feeling of 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.839 great annoyance over it where you're like, okay, where is 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.240 this coming? Like, I'm just driving down the highway, like, 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.440 what's going on? Where is that coming from? And it 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.800 annoys you. It can make you feel ashamed because of 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.440 these things that just pop into your head. And sometimes 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.279 if you let that shame feeling creep in and and 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.120 you don't do anything with it, then you just kind 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.720 of hide inside of it, which is very dangerous when 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:04.880 it comes to temptation. 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.119 It's huge. What's your thought on this one, Ali? 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.520 Well, you know, it's every age. You know, I was 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:14.160 having a conversation with with my son, and he's in 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:18.520 sixth grade, and, you know, he he's one of those 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.360 kids who kind of gets along with everybody. And so 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.199 people joke around with him, and he takes jokes. Well, 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.880 but he says sometimes he gets aggravated and he goes 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.200 and he goes, and then something will pop in his mind, 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.520 like something really mean that he could say back to 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:39.240 a particular kid, that would be a great comeback and 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.160 that would shut the whole conversation down. He goes, but I, 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:44.559 I didn't say it. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.120 I can I tell you something? I need to hold 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.720 on here. Time out. Way to go. Yes, mom and Henry. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.120 Way to go. You guys are. You guys know you're 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.240 you're going to sit there and you're going to take 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.720 some applauds from me for a big applause. You are 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:06.320 raising a good man. Kids do not naturally grow up 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.919 thinking I need to constrain this thought. That would be 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.280 a destructive salvo to Goober over here. 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.440 And the thing that I was. Thank you. By the 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.360 grace of God, I was very proud because he understood. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.040 I was proud of him, because he understood that the 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:28.280 impact of the words that he would have would hurt his, 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.200 you know, classmate far more than the things that they 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.000 were lobbing at him. He he was self-aware enough to 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.760 know if I throw this grenade. And I he had 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.560 clearly spent some time because it was a very specific diss. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.640 And I'm like, whoa, that's a doozy. Glad you didn't 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.480 say it. It's like I was tempted to, because I 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.320 was irritated that they just kind of kept poking fun 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.720 at me, but I didn't. So temptation comes in many 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.950 forms and it starts early. You're tempted as a kid 0:03:00.950 --> 0:03:03.190 to do things that you know you shouldn't. 0:03:03.750 --> 0:03:06.430 Yeah, that wasn't a grenade. That was called a bunker 0:03:06.430 --> 0:03:09.590 buster that he was fixing to lob. That goes through. 0:03:09.630 --> 0:03:10.870 Boom, boom, boom. 0:03:10.910 --> 0:03:15.030 Four layers of underground tunneling and gets to the desired target. 0:03:15.550 --> 0:03:17.790 You mentioned a point that is important. I want you 0:03:17.790 --> 0:03:20.669 to get this boom crew. Have you ever been beat 0:03:20.669 --> 0:03:23.950 up because you thought your temptation was sin, or it 0:03:23.990 --> 0:03:27.270 somehow reflected poorly on you? Don't do that ever again. 0:03:27.590 --> 0:03:29.829 You know why? You got enough sin that you need 0:03:29.830 --> 0:03:31.670 to deal with, let alone temptation. 0:03:32.550 --> 0:03:32.989 That's very. 0:03:32.990 --> 0:03:38.630 True. Just get really practical here. Why? Why heap more 0:03:38.630 --> 0:03:42.070 grief on yourself by going, oh, my temptation makes me awful. 0:03:42.070 --> 0:03:45.390 Did you know that Jesus was tempted in every way, 0:03:45.430 --> 0:03:50.070 yet without sin? That's in Hebrews 415. Yeah. And did 0:03:50.070 --> 0:03:52.910 you know that we've been given a way of escape? 0:03:52.990 --> 0:03:59.230 This is First Corinthians 1013. Did I say Hebrews 415? 0:03:59.270 --> 0:03:59.510 Yes. 0:03:59.990 --> 0:04:03.550 Okay, so first Corinthians 1013. This is what Paul says. 0:04:04.510 --> 0:04:09.030 No temptation is overtaking you, meaning that temptation can overtake 0:04:09.030 --> 0:04:14.230 you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful. 0:04:14.230 --> 0:04:16.630 He will not let you be tempted beyond what you 0:04:16.670 --> 0:04:19.789 can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also 0:04:19.790 --> 0:04:22.429 provide a way of escape or a way out, depending 0:04:22.430 --> 0:04:25.910 on your translation, that you can endure it. What's the 0:04:25.910 --> 0:04:28.349 implication here about temptation? What is it? 0:04:29.190 --> 0:04:30.030 It's common. 0:04:30.150 --> 0:04:33.670 It's common. It's it's not sin. You have a way 0:04:33.670 --> 0:04:37.710 of escape. Jesus provides you with a way out before 0:04:37.790 --> 0:04:39.390 you are overcome by it. 0:04:39.430 --> 0:04:43.350 Have you ever thought something? And you go, oh, ick! 0:04:43.390 --> 0:04:44.630 How can I even think that? 0:04:44.670 --> 0:04:45.270 Of course. 0:04:45.830 --> 0:04:49.910 Ick. I mean, you wake up after a dream and 0:04:49.910 --> 0:04:52.990 you go, ick! How could I even think that? I've 0:04:52.990 --> 0:04:54.630 been in dreams where I walk out and I'm glad 0:04:54.630 --> 0:04:57.150 I woke up because I'm running from someone. 0:04:57.390 --> 0:04:58.029 Mhm. Mhm. 0:04:58.070 --> 0:05:01.350 Yeah. Thankfully those went away years ago. But you get the, 0:05:01.350 --> 0:05:06.350 the mind is a battlefield. I've got a book called 0:05:06.350 --> 0:05:12.310 battlefield of the mind and it is so true. So here's, 0:05:12.310 --> 0:05:14.990 here's the thing that we've got to remember. Can Satan 0:05:15.350 --> 0:05:19.110 use temptation as a birthplace for sin. Certainly it all 0:05:19.150 --> 0:05:22.110 begins there. What Jesus do with temptation, by the way, 0:05:22.110 --> 0:05:24.669 when he came out of the wilderness and Satan tempted him, 0:05:24.670 --> 0:05:25.270 what did he use? 0:05:25.350 --> 0:05:26.910 He used scripture scripture to come. 0:05:26.910 --> 0:05:30.950 Back to God, specifically Deuteronomy, and he had them ready 0:05:30.950 --> 0:05:32.910 for this memorized. 0:05:32.950 --> 0:05:34.430 Yep. He didn't have a scroll with him that he 0:05:34.430 --> 0:05:34.950 pulled out. 0:05:34.990 --> 0:05:37.830 Yeah, he didn't have a pocket scroll. Hang on a second, Satan. 0:05:38.550 --> 0:05:39.990 Let me pull out my pocket scroll. 0:05:40.670 --> 0:05:44.150 No, he had to memorize and he wielded that. I 0:05:44.190 --> 0:05:46.270 gotta do this. I gotta say this. There's a word 0:05:46.270 --> 0:05:50.550 called rhema, and it's the spoken word of God. And 0:05:50.550 --> 0:05:54.270 that's what the word is spoken there. When Jesus said, Satan, 0:05:54.270 --> 0:05:57.150 man shall not live by bread alone, but by every 0:05:57.310 --> 0:06:01.990 rhema word that comes from the mouth of God. Now 0:06:01.990 --> 0:06:04.830 let me tell you why this is so important. Speaking 0:06:04.830 --> 0:06:06.870 out the word of God. I'm just throwing this in 0:06:06.910 --> 0:06:10.549 for free right now. Speaking out the Word of God 0:06:10.550 --> 0:06:14.430 is the way you deal with temptation. No, I'm not 0:06:14.430 --> 0:06:17.630 going to provide any provision for the flesh. You have 0:06:17.750 --> 0:06:21.150 no grounds there? No. I'm going to redeem the time 0:06:21.150 --> 0:06:23.790 because the days are evil. I'm getting off my booty, 0:06:23.910 --> 0:06:26.110 and I'm not going to sit here and watch one 0:06:26.110 --> 0:06:30.390 more show on Netflix. Nope. I'm not going to treat 0:06:30.390 --> 0:06:33.510 my body like a trash can. And nope, I'm going 0:06:33.550 --> 0:06:36.310 to find my fullness in Jesus. I'm not going to 0:06:36.310 --> 0:06:41.190 shove another Quarter Pounder with cheese in there. I mean, guys, 0:06:41.190 --> 0:06:45.710 we're tempted with stuff constantly, but the big off the 0:06:45.750 --> 0:06:48.630 hook thing here right now is temptation is not sin. 0:06:48.710 --> 0:06:50.549 Isn't that great news? 0:06:50.710 --> 0:06:54.669 It is because so much of what happens in our mind, 0:06:54.670 --> 0:06:58.780 we can start to get beat up over it. And 0:06:58.779 --> 0:07:02.060 then sometimes the guilt and shame of the thoughts you 0:07:02.100 --> 0:07:05.580 are thinking can actually lower your defense to sin. 0:07:05.779 --> 0:07:08.460 Oh Allie, what a great perception. 0:07:09.820 --> 0:07:12.660 It's exactly right because we've seen it do it. 0:07:12.660 --> 0:07:14.820 Yeah. And because you think, well, man, if I'm the 0:07:14.820 --> 0:07:17.460 type of person who already thinks thoughts like that and 0:07:17.460 --> 0:07:19.580 then all of a sudden you start. Well, maybe I'm 0:07:19.580 --> 0:07:22.300 the kind of person who might do something like that. 0:07:24.300 --> 0:07:26.900 Coming up here. Allie had a conversation with a great guy. 0:07:26.900 --> 0:07:30.060 In fact, he's done some writing on this very thing. 0:07:30.060 --> 0:07:32.860 So buckle up. Hang on, get a swig of water, guys. 0:07:33.260 --> 0:07:38.220 We're going to be talking, sifting today. Truth. All day long. 0:07:38.220 --> 0:07:43.700 Just sifting it. Spit out the pits. Hold on to 0:07:43.700 --> 0:07:47.580 the good stuff. Temptation. What do you know to be 0:07:47.580 --> 0:07:49.580 true or not true? Hang on. 0:07:49.580 --> 0:07:52.220 She was trying to earn her way to God, but 0:07:52.220 --> 0:07:55.820 God showed her she didn't have to. Ali is in 0:07:55.820 --> 0:07:59.020 the crew. It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:07:59.700 --> 0:08:03.140 Well, you probably don't need a definition of temptation. You 0:08:03.140 --> 0:08:05.820 know what it feels like to have the desire to 0:08:05.860 --> 0:08:09.380 do something that otherwise isn't good for you, or that 0:08:09.380 --> 0:08:12.900 you should not, but the desire remains. Let's talk about 0:08:12.900 --> 0:08:15.460 it with our special guest, Doctor Bradley Baron. Is that 0:08:15.460 --> 0:08:18.460 a good working definition of temptation? I want to do something, 0:08:18.460 --> 0:08:19.700 but I know I shouldn't. 0:08:19.780 --> 0:08:21.780 That's a very good working temptation. It's going to be 0:08:21.780 --> 0:08:25.140 something we face every minute of every day in many ways. 0:08:25.180 --> 0:08:27.700 And you've tackled it. You're the author for this month's 0:08:27.700 --> 0:08:31.060 today in the Word devotional. What was your starting point 0:08:31.060 --> 0:08:34.140 for just tackling this big, important topic? 0:08:34.260 --> 0:08:36.100 Yeah, I should say the starting point was not that 0:08:36.100 --> 0:08:39.500 I'm such a great expert. The starting point was that 0:08:39.500 --> 0:08:41.780 I wanted to learn something about it, and I was 0:08:41.780 --> 0:08:43.780 a little surprised to find that we had not covered 0:08:43.780 --> 0:08:45.900 it in today in The Word before. So it was 0:08:45.900 --> 0:08:47.780 something that came out of my own Bible study that 0:08:47.780 --> 0:08:49.460 I thought would be helpful to our readers. 0:08:49.660 --> 0:08:50.699 What surprised you? 0:08:50.900 --> 0:08:52.660 Well, one is the fact that today the word had 0:08:52.660 --> 0:08:55.220 never done it before when it's so common. It's all 0:08:55.220 --> 0:08:58.620 through the pages of Scripture, whether it's narrative or expository. 0:08:58.940 --> 0:09:01.700 And you know, 30 days wasn't nearly enough. 0:09:02.179 --> 0:09:05.620 So let's talk about the source of temptation. We've heard 0:09:05.620 --> 0:09:08.380 of the kind of the big three, which are the 0:09:08.380 --> 0:09:09.900 source of temptation can be what? 0:09:09.980 --> 0:09:12.420 The world, the flesh and the devil. So the world 0:09:12.420 --> 0:09:15.380 is outside, right? So I look at my neighbor's new car, 0:09:15.460 --> 0:09:18.579 and maybe I'm tempted to covet it or envy. And 0:09:19.179 --> 0:09:22.540 then there's the flesh. Those are temptations that come from inside. 0:09:22.740 --> 0:09:25.700 We're in the process of being redeemed, but we're not 0:09:25.700 --> 0:09:29.460 quite there yet. And then the devil. He is the adversary. 0:09:29.460 --> 0:09:31.700 He's the enemy of our souls. And he would love 0:09:31.820 --> 0:09:35.620 to get us one degree off true north, meaning true 0:09:35.620 --> 0:09:39.020 north being Christ. I mean, he doesn't usually tempt me 0:09:39.020 --> 0:09:42.260 to rob a bank because that wouldn't be very tempting 0:09:42.300 --> 0:09:46.699 to me. But he slides in some subtle, attractive temptation 0:09:46.700 --> 0:09:49.380 that gets my eyes off Christ, and once he gets 0:09:49.380 --> 0:09:51.900 one degree off, he'll try for two degrees and then 0:09:51.900 --> 0:09:52.980 three degrees. 0:09:53.059 --> 0:09:55.140 And so where do we see in Scripture? I mean, 0:09:55.179 --> 0:09:58.340 you said it's all over. What are some common passages 0:09:58.340 --> 0:10:01.420 of Scripture or places that can help us understand how 0:10:01.420 --> 0:10:02.980 to deal with temptation? 0:10:03.100 --> 0:10:04.940 The first one that pops into my head is the 0:10:04.940 --> 0:10:08.300 Lord's Prayer, right? Only a few topics are actually mentioned 0:10:08.300 --> 0:10:10.500 in the Lord's Prayer, and temptation is one of them. 0:10:10.620 --> 0:10:13.420 Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 0:10:13.460 --> 0:10:16.219 So that's one of the ways to overcome temptation is 0:10:16.220 --> 0:10:19.179 to stay in prayer. That's certainly what Christ did. And 0:10:19.220 --> 0:10:23.060 of course, then Christ himself faced temptation in the wilderness. 0:10:23.140 --> 0:10:27.460 That's one of the defining episodes in his ministry. And 0:10:27.460 --> 0:10:30.780 he fought it by quoting scripture. You know, so there's 0:10:30.780 --> 0:10:33.780 it's not rocket science here. Quoting Scripture and prayer. Scripture 0:10:33.780 --> 0:10:36.980 and prayer are two of the ways to resist. If 0:10:36.980 --> 0:10:40.500 you're looking for the range. Adam and Eve faced temptation 0:10:40.500 --> 0:10:43.420 in the garden, and obviously they did poorly with that. 0:10:44.100 --> 0:10:47.140 And we all faced the consequences as a result. Right. 0:10:47.140 --> 0:10:49.980 But you get, you know, everybody everybody got Abraham, who 0:10:49.980 --> 0:10:52.570 was tempted to lie to Pharaoh and he gave in 0:10:52.610 --> 0:10:55.890 to that. You got Ezekiel, who was tempted not to 0:10:55.929 --> 0:10:59.290 deliver the word of the Lord. And of course, the 0:10:59.490 --> 0:11:02.890 apostles taught in the epistles that temptation was going to 0:11:02.890 --> 0:11:05.290 be a daily reality for every one of us. By 0:11:05.290 --> 0:11:08.530 resisting it, this is how we draw near to Christ 0:11:08.530 --> 0:11:10.010 and become more like him. 0:11:10.290 --> 0:11:12.570 And as we resist temptation, because I think most people 0:11:12.570 --> 0:11:15.730 would like to think that, won't there come a time 0:11:15.730 --> 0:11:18.410 when I have read enough of the word, when I've 0:11:18.410 --> 0:11:22.410 prayed enough, when I've walked long enough with the Lord 0:11:22.410 --> 0:11:26.570 that I'm not dealing with these pesky temptations? Is that 0:11:26.610 --> 0:11:29.810 a is that even something to aim for? That somehow 0:11:29.809 --> 0:11:31.890 we could be insulated to the point where we won't 0:11:31.890 --> 0:11:33.050 experience it. 0:11:33.410 --> 0:11:36.570 Yes and no. Will it get easier as you get 0:11:36.570 --> 0:11:41.170 more mature? Yes. Absolutely. You get better spiritual habits, stronger 0:11:41.170 --> 0:11:44.690 spiritual disciplines. You're closer to the Lord. You know more 0:11:44.690 --> 0:11:47.449 of Satan's tricks. On the other hand, will you be 0:11:47.450 --> 0:11:52.569 completely insulated and not even bothered by temptation? Well, yes. 0:11:52.570 --> 0:11:56.929 That's when Christ returns. Sure. Or you join him in glory. 0:11:57.170 --> 0:12:00.690 But I do think that for mature saints, the battle 0:12:00.730 --> 0:12:04.090 does get easier in the sense that you know how 0:12:04.090 --> 0:12:06.569 to win it just by relying on the Lord. 0:12:06.730 --> 0:12:11.730 Now, commonly quoted passage of Scripture is about God providing 0:12:11.730 --> 0:12:14.810 a way of escape, us not being tempted beyond what 0:12:14.809 --> 0:12:18.730 we can bear out of. First Corinthians ten, I believe. 0:12:19.210 --> 0:12:21.050 What do you say about that scripture as you did 0:12:21.050 --> 0:12:21.650 your study? 0:12:21.890 --> 0:12:25.130 Well, I think that we've never felt the full strength 0:12:25.130 --> 0:12:28.450 of temptation because we usually give in. Right? Right. The 0:12:28.450 --> 0:12:30.969 only one who has felt the full strength of temptation 0:12:30.970 --> 0:12:34.850 is Christ. And he never gave in. And the more 0:12:34.850 --> 0:12:37.650 I study temptation, that just amazes me that every day, 0:12:37.650 --> 0:12:40.770 every minute, you know, it wasn't just in the wilderness. 0:12:40.770 --> 0:12:43.209 Satan was tempting him. And not once in any way 0:12:43.210 --> 0:12:45.490 did he ever give in. And so that's our way 0:12:45.490 --> 0:12:48.130 of escape, is to go to the one who knows 0:12:48.130 --> 0:12:51.850 every temptation that we're facing. And he faced stronger ones 0:12:51.850 --> 0:12:56.170 than we've ever faced. And he sympathizes with us in 0:12:56.170 --> 0:12:58.929 our weakness. He is our way of escape. He is 0:12:58.929 --> 0:12:59.850 our rescuer. 0:12:59.890 --> 0:13:03.050 The. We're talking about this month's devotional today in The Word. 0:13:03.050 --> 0:13:05.250 I would encourage you to jump in as we are 0:13:05.250 --> 0:13:07.690 into the month of February. Just a couple of days. 0:13:08.090 --> 0:13:10.970 Get in, grab it on the app. There's paper copies. 0:13:10.970 --> 0:13:12.810 You can go on the website and get it sent 0:13:12.809 --> 0:13:15.850 to your inbox every day. Just text the word today 0:13:16.130 --> 0:13:24.890 to 855 five 7898. Text today to 855 five 7898. 0:13:24.890 --> 0:13:27.369 Doctor Barron, thank you so much for your time this morning. 0:13:27.410 --> 0:13:29.890 Quick footnote. If you get the paper copy of today 0:13:29.890 --> 0:13:31.650 in the word, if you get that in your mail, 0:13:31.650 --> 0:13:34.290 as I do, be sure to flip through to the end. 0:13:34.330 --> 0:13:37.050 They have a Q and A section each month. And 0:13:37.050 --> 0:13:39.810 this month Carl does the Q and A on his 0:13:39.809 --> 0:13:42.650 book Killing Sin talking about temptation. So be on the 0:13:42.690 --> 0:13:44.890 lookout for that. And if you do not get that 0:13:44.890 --> 0:13:46.930 or get it in the app form, text the word 0:13:46.970 --> 0:13:51.850 today to 805 55, 78, 98. Don't miss out on 0:13:51.850 --> 0:13:54.730 this is a great tool, great resource today in the word. 0:13:54.850 --> 0:13:59.330 Text today to 800 555 7898. 0:13:59.370 --> 0:14:02.290 He was sharing the gospel on the radio and then 0:14:02.410 --> 0:14:06.690 he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl 0:14:06.690 --> 0:14:08.329 and crew on Moody Radio. 0:14:08.809 --> 0:14:14.050 Sometimes we take the bait. Temptation is real. We don't 0:14:14.050 --> 0:14:16.089 have to cave to it. There's a way of escape. 0:14:16.730 --> 0:14:18.650 But what do we do when we take the bait? 0:14:19.650 --> 0:14:22.490 You know we're no longer slaves to sin. We're bond 0:14:22.490 --> 0:14:27.890 servants of righteousness. And that all that indicates what? Paul's. 0:14:28.490 --> 0:14:33.130 Excuse me. What Paul's teaching us in the book of 0:14:33.130 --> 0:14:36.890 Romans is that we now have a brand new power 0:14:36.890 --> 0:14:41.850 structure that we are living in, and it's not our own. 0:14:41.850 --> 0:14:45.050 I gladly say in our coach for radio says all 0:14:45.050 --> 0:14:47.210 the time, keep sharing it. And I'm like, oh, I 0:14:47.250 --> 0:14:49.360 share it too much. And he's like, no, you got 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.800 to keep sharing it. Nobody shares those kind of things. 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:56.360 And I look, I am so grateful for the grace 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.000 of God that set me free from a raging cocaine 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:06.040 addiction and alcohol addiction and a lot of crazy living. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.880 But here's one thing I found. When I was a 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.479 young follower of Jesus, I found myself in small groups 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.280 and just growing like a weed man. The Bible was open. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.760 We're going. But there was one little thing that would 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.280 happen that I saw a reoccurring pattern and I thought, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.920 oh my goodness, I wonder if there's a way out 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.480 of this. You ever been in a small group of 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:28.920 guys where you saw people that had the courage to 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.640 share something that, like they opened up their chest cavity 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.240 and they're like, this is what I'm battling with. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:35.920 Oh, yeah. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.040 And doesn't that give you a sense of, oh, man, 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:40.200 how courageous is that? 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.720 Yeah, yeah. And it also puts a little courage in 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.640 me to be able to say, okay, hey, this person 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.400 showing that you can be open and honest here. This 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.160 is a safe place to do that and so I 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:55.440 can be open and honest. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.600 It's so cool. One of the challenging things can be 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.240 is when you come back the next week and everybody 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.440 is sharing and somebody says, ah, man, I fell in 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.320 the ditch again. And without a strategy. I've seen this 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.520 happen many times where somebody comes back and pretty quick 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:18.000 after second, third, fourth time, they're like, it's not even 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:23.000 sometimes spoken, right. It's like, oh, you know, he or 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.720 she isn't sharing anymore. And then the thought in your mind, 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.120 if you're attending the group is and I wonder if 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.120 they got victory over that. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:29.600 Thing. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:33.040 Right. Well, because sometimes this isn't the case all the time, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.440 but sometimes it's the case of, well, you know, I'm 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:39.800 sharing with people, but it's not getting any better. And 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.880 and so I don't want to have to go every 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.440 week and say it's not getting any better. And because 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.920 that's a hard thing to say, there's there is a 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.520 lot of lot of shame that comes to us in 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.080 that when we feel stuck. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:58.040 We're all in recovery. No one has arrived in the 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:03.480 madness cycle. If you are under the influence of the spirit, 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:07.200 the Spirit of God will convict you and you're like, okay, 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.840 this has to change. But without a strategy, we have 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:16.600 missed the mark. That's in shame. Repent. And then let's 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.720 say after repentance, it's like, I'm going to do this. 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.520 You ever felt like, yeah, I've got victory. We're going 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.880 to do this. I'm never going back there again. Got it. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.560 You you string together a day or two or a 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.600 week or a month, and then you're in a heap. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:30.960 Right? Yes. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:32.120 We've got. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:33.160 To go. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:34.879 To the point where we say, I don't care if 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.120 it's gossiping in the lobby. I don't care if it's 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.000 flying off the handle with anger. I don't care if 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.440 it's not loving your wife as Christ loved the church, 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:47.040 or if it's food, or if it's you started sipping wine. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:51.680 Now it's sipping you. Whatever. This pornography. Come on. Whatever 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:56.280 it is, we're all in recovery. And I am so 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.880 fired up because what I was asked on a podcast yesterday, 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.399 what caused you to write this book? I think a 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.359 couple of things. One is how many responded to that chapter. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.640 Robert Louis told me. He said when I wrote seven resolutions, 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.240 he said this chapter on killing sin. Nobody's talking about 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:16.400 it like this. And he said, this is worth this 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.760 is worth the whole thing. So we took that and 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.120 we kind of zoomed out and took a little bigger 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.960 look at it. But it's still only 138 page book. 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.040 I want to write a book that was actually read 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.720 from cover to cover, because 85% of books never get read. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:34.520 Isn't that something? Wow, 85%. So I wanted you to 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:36.560 read it and apply it because it's more than a 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.480 book to read. It's a life to live. It's called 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:44.000 killing sin. Conquer the one thing that is defeating you. 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.080 And when I say one thing, it's never one thing. 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.840 But there's usually when you guys agree. And we did 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.320 this one time over a year ago. What's that one 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.040 thing that's holding you back from everything that God has 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.320 for you? And people know it. It comes to the 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.840 top of our mind, man. We do not have to 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:00.120 be asked too many times. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.960 No. There's always there's always something you can think of sometimes. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.960 Sometimes you can think of a couple, you know, but 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.480 there's always at least one thing that comes to your 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.239 mind that says, okay, this is at the forefront for 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.120 me right now, and I would be walking so much 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.879 stronger in the Lord if this wasn't affecting my walk. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.400 And we all have them. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:20.840 Yes. 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:22.040 Everyone. 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.479 And if you if you can't find it, set an 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.240 appointment with Ali. She'll help you find this sucker. 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:27.840 Wow. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:34.520 So here's the deal. I've got something really cool to announce, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.080 because share is coming up in March, and it's going 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.000 to be the premium, which all that means for gift 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.199 of any amount that's given. We're going to send it 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:44.920 to you free, but we're going to prime the pump 0:19:45.070 --> 0:19:46.790 on this thing, and I'm so fired up. Now, if 0:19:46.790 --> 0:19:49.830 you're outside of Chicagoland, I want to tell you there's 0:19:49.869 --> 0:19:53.750 talk about getting me out of Chicagoland to do this. 0:19:53.750 --> 0:19:57.830 And it's it's worth getting on a bird and doing it. 0:19:57.830 --> 0:19:59.910 So we're going to work on that. But if you're 0:19:59.910 --> 0:20:04.869 in Chicagoland, we're doing a book signing and it's totally 0:20:04.869 --> 0:20:07.030 for free. All we're going to encourage you to do 0:20:07.030 --> 0:20:09.190 is when shear rolls around, would you be a part 0:20:09.190 --> 0:20:12.630 of this thing? So come get a free copy of 0:20:12.630 --> 0:20:14.950 my book, Killing Sin. I'm going to sign it over 0:20:14.950 --> 0:20:16.710 to you. We're going to have a party there. Ali, 0:20:16.710 --> 0:20:18.949 you got all the details and any other mustard you 0:20:18.950 --> 0:20:19.430 want to add? 0:20:19.470 --> 0:20:21.669 It's going to be Saturday, March 1st. So coming up 0:20:21.670 --> 0:20:24.190 just in a couple of weeks out at Villa Park 0:20:24.710 --> 0:20:27.470 at Premium Motors. Villa Park is in DuPage County in 0:20:27.470 --> 0:20:30.750 the suburbs here in Chicagoland. So if that's within a 0:20:30.750 --> 0:20:33.230 rocks throw from where you're at or you can get to, 0:20:33.230 --> 0:20:35.790 I would love to invite you out between nine and noon. 0:20:35.790 --> 0:20:37.629 Just stop in. You don't have to stay long. You 0:20:37.630 --> 0:20:39.990 can grab a book, get it signed, grab a cup 0:20:39.990 --> 0:20:42.909 of coffee, say hello, and then get on with your Saturday. 0:20:42.910 --> 0:20:45.590 But would love to get you out there to meet 0:20:45.590 --> 0:20:47.869 you to get this book. Just text the word book 0:20:47.869 --> 0:20:57.310 for the details 805 5570 898. Text book to (800) 555-7898. 0:20:57.350 --> 0:21:00.830 I am so fired up to meet you. I really am. 0:21:01.750 --> 0:21:06.510 And there is, um, there's a there's something going on. 0:21:07.230 --> 0:21:10.790 It's with a lot of young people, but it's starting 0:21:10.790 --> 0:21:13.030 to bubble up in the church. I am seeing a 0:21:13.030 --> 0:21:17.070 spiritual hunger for doing business with God at a at 0:21:17.070 --> 0:21:21.150 a real serious discipleship level. And one of those involves 0:21:21.150 --> 0:21:24.389 just dragging out of the shadows, bringing into the light 0:21:25.109 --> 0:21:29.550 something that has been defeating you. And we want that 0:21:29.550 --> 0:21:31.950 for you. So I hope to see you March 1st, 0:21:31.990 --> 0:21:35.350 nine to noon, three hour window. We want you to 0:21:35.350 --> 0:21:38.830 get it on your calendar early here. And it's there's 0:21:38.830 --> 0:21:40.990 no charge for this book. I'm just going to sign 0:21:40.990 --> 0:21:43.710 it over to you and say, God bless you and 0:21:43.710 --> 0:21:47.190 shake your hand. Our hope is that our hope is 0:21:47.190 --> 0:21:50.389 that you would be a part of share when it 0:21:50.430 --> 0:21:53.310 rolls around. And this is a premium that we're giving out. 0:21:53.310 --> 0:21:56.510 And man, I'm more I'm so I'm so thrilled because 0:21:56.550 --> 0:21:58.670 I don't know, I can get a face in my 0:21:58.670 --> 0:22:01.750 mind's eye of someone breaking free from something that's been 0:22:01.750 --> 0:22:04.270 hounding them and living in the shadows and mocking them 0:22:04.270 --> 0:22:08.750 for 20 years, two months, whatever it is. So we're grateful. 0:22:08.750 --> 0:22:11.109 Just text. You want the details. It's going to be 0:22:11.150 --> 0:22:15.310 at Premium Motors in Villa Park from nine to noon 0:22:15.310 --> 0:22:18.630 on March 1st. Just text the word book. Just book 0:22:19.510 --> 0:22:29.190 to 800 555 7898. Book to (800) 555-7898. And it's going 0:22:29.190 --> 0:22:30.709 to be quite a party. Isn't that going to be 0:22:30.710 --> 0:22:31.310 a party, Ali? 0:22:31.310 --> 0:22:33.550 It's going to be great. I'm excited. We'll have some 0:22:33.550 --> 0:22:36.270 moody folks out there to greet you as well. Pick 0:22:36.270 --> 0:22:39.470 up some, you know, some little moody swag. Text book 0:22:39.470 --> 0:22:42.510 to (800) 555-7898 98. 0:22:42.550 --> 0:22:46.990 She's a choreographer extraordinaire and everything is Greek to her. 0:22:47.670 --> 0:22:51.189 Super die is in the crew. It's Carl and crew 0:22:51.230 --> 0:22:52.350 on Moody Radio. 0:22:52.990 --> 0:22:55.229 Okay, we're going to go sluice in here. Let me 0:22:55.230 --> 0:22:57.110 ask a question here. How many of you have ever 0:22:57.109 --> 0:22:59.469 gone sluicing for gold? 0:22:59.750 --> 0:23:02.109 I have not. I've watched it on TV. I have 0:23:02.109 --> 0:23:03.270 not sluiced for gold. 0:23:03.390 --> 0:23:08.790 Okay. Boom! Crew. Have you ever sluiced for gold? (800) 555-7898. 0:23:08.830 --> 0:23:11.150 You don't have to text and say no, because that's 0:23:11.150 --> 0:23:13.630 the vast majority. But you can text and say yes. 0:23:13.670 --> 0:23:15.389 See if we have anyone else who's done this. 0:23:15.470 --> 0:23:20.030 Yeah. (800) 555-7898. In fact, if you've sluice for gold, I 0:23:20.030 --> 0:23:22.790 want you to call in. I want to talk to 0:23:22.790 --> 0:23:24.350 you on air. That's what we got to do. 0:23:24.470 --> 0:23:25.790 Only if you sluice for gold. 0:23:25.830 --> 0:23:29.230 Yeah. Yeah. Not not not you read Wikipedia? That ain't 0:23:29.230 --> 0:23:32.270 going to work. We need you. If you've actually been 0:23:32.270 --> 0:23:34.350 out there in the muck and mire and you've done 0:23:34.350 --> 0:23:40.070 some sluicing for gold. Come on, give us a call. (800) 555-7898. 0:23:40.109 --> 0:23:42.460 That's what we need. We need an expert like you. 0:23:42.500 --> 0:23:45.820 I mean, there was my favorite show when I was 0:23:45.820 --> 0:23:47.660 growing up. Was little House on the Prairie. 0:23:47.859 --> 0:23:48.580 Oh, there we go. 0:23:48.700 --> 0:23:53.100 They did have a gold mining episode where they heard 0:23:53.100 --> 0:23:55.940 that there could be goals. So they they left, left 0:23:55.980 --> 0:24:00.379 Walnut Grove to try to see if they could find. 0:24:00.380 --> 0:24:01.580 What. 0:24:01.619 --> 0:24:04.020 Guys she knows every episode. 0:24:04.660 --> 0:24:05.980 There's gold in them there. 0:24:05.980 --> 0:24:06.500 Hills. 0:24:06.900 --> 0:24:10.420 This is like, you know, me and my little bonnet. 0:24:10.580 --> 0:24:12.260 Yeah, she had a bonnet. All of her sisters. 0:24:12.260 --> 0:24:12.420 Had. 0:24:12.420 --> 0:24:12.980 A bonnet. 0:24:13.020 --> 0:24:15.740 Yeah, we did matching bonnets we got for Christmas because 0:24:15.740 --> 0:24:18.700 this show, we thought we were the Ingles sisters. 0:24:18.740 --> 0:24:19.060 Hold it. 0:24:19.100 --> 0:24:20.700 Did your brother have suspenders? 0:24:21.380 --> 0:24:22.940 No. I mean, we. 0:24:22.980 --> 0:24:23.300 He. 0:24:23.300 --> 0:24:23.580 Should have. 0:24:23.580 --> 0:24:23.860 Done that. 0:24:23.900 --> 0:24:26.940 We couldn't. We had to. He was the youngest with 0:24:26.940 --> 0:24:28.899 three older sisters. So we I mean, we tried to 0:24:28.900 --> 0:24:31.580 dress him up and stuff, but I think my parents 0:24:31.580 --> 0:24:32.899 shut that down wisely. 0:24:33.020 --> 0:24:33.940 Proud of your. 0:24:33.940 --> 0:24:34.940 Dad? Poor guy. 0:24:34.980 --> 0:24:35.980 No, that ain't happening. 0:24:36.140 --> 0:24:40.820 He's a wise man. He's. He's survived three dominant personality. 0:24:40.980 --> 0:24:42.100 Older sisters. 0:24:44.340 --> 0:24:49.460 I'm just having to survive one. Oh, boy. Oh! Ah! Oh! 0:24:49.500 --> 0:24:52.859 That was a dick. Okay. Oh, boy. So here's the deal, guys. 0:24:53.180 --> 0:24:56.340 If you have sluiced or panned for gold, you got 0:24:56.380 --> 0:25:00.780 to call in 805, 55, 78, 98. 0:25:00.820 --> 0:25:04.300 We just have two yeses. Or I've panned for gold 0:25:04.340 --> 0:25:06.700 on text message. But we got to hear from you 0:25:06.700 --> 0:25:12.939 for this to count. So tell us if you've done this. 855, five, 78, 98. This. 0:25:12.940 --> 0:25:15.700 I don't think this is a common experience. 0:25:15.940 --> 0:25:17.060 I don't think so either. 0:25:17.100 --> 0:25:18.940 Is it? It is in Alaska. 0:25:19.220 --> 0:25:19.740 Really? 0:25:19.900 --> 0:25:20.540 Oh, yeah. 0:25:20.580 --> 0:25:21.500 Even to this day. 0:25:22.140 --> 0:25:26.060 Yeah. People have gold pan art. Like, there's artists that 0:25:26.060 --> 0:25:29.860 take gold pans and they do artistic landscapes. It used 0:25:29.859 --> 0:25:33.060 to be super popular. And then everybody had one of these, 0:25:33.060 --> 0:25:36.020 and then it's like, oh, everybody's got one of these. 0:25:36.580 --> 0:25:38.500 But I mean, it's so common. 0:25:38.500 --> 0:25:41.340 Like you would buy a gold pan and there was 0:25:41.340 --> 0:25:43.180 art in it. 0:25:43.180 --> 0:25:46.060 Oh, yeah, there's art. So they took a clean gold pan, 0:25:46.900 --> 0:25:50.060 and the old ones didn't have ridges like these new 0:25:50.100 --> 0:25:53.020 fangled plastic ones that have ridges. It's kind of they're 0:25:53.020 --> 0:25:55.060 really getting high tech now, but the old ones were 0:25:55.060 --> 0:25:59.180 just pans. So they're shallow pans that you washed water 0:25:59.180 --> 0:26:02.940 around in a circular fashion. Got all the debris out. Dirt, 0:26:03.420 --> 0:26:07.340 big rocks, ugly stuff. And then there's the gold in theory. 0:26:07.380 --> 0:26:10.500 Didn't work for me. But where is it? I'm going 0:26:10.500 --> 0:26:12.180 to stay on the horn here. We don't we don't 0:26:12.180 --> 0:26:14.780 have anyone that's done gold panning or sluicing. 0:26:14.780 --> 0:26:18.300 Well, we have, uh, if I'm seeing the phone correctly, 0:26:18.300 --> 0:26:22.380 we have your wife calling in. Janine, is this you? 0:26:22.500 --> 0:26:26.340 Yeah. Yeah, I've gone panning for gold quite a few times. 0:26:26.900 --> 0:26:28.220 What did you know that, Carl? 0:26:29.820 --> 0:26:33.379 Uh, no. Here's what's weird. My phone box is broken. 0:26:33.380 --> 0:26:35.180 I don't see anyone calling in. 0:26:35.180 --> 0:26:36.260 Oh, really? Yeah. 0:26:36.420 --> 0:26:39.100 Oh, so I got totally shocked. Uh, babe, what are 0:26:39.100 --> 0:26:41.780 you are you doing this morning? And tell me, am 0:26:41.780 --> 0:26:44.139 I learning something about you that I did not know? 0:26:45.020 --> 0:26:47.700 Well, you know, I grew up in Colorado, and they 0:26:47.700 --> 0:26:52.460 have these, um, rocky rivers everywhere, and my dad was 0:26:52.460 --> 0:26:55.060 really into it. We had the little miners cabins near 0:26:55.060 --> 0:26:57.220 our home up in the mountains in Colorado, and we'd 0:26:57.220 --> 0:26:59.100 go out panning for gold. 0:26:59.420 --> 0:27:03.740 Okay. Yeah. I did not know this. 37 years. My 0:27:03.740 --> 0:27:06.859 bride calls in to our radio show and is telling 0:27:06.859 --> 0:27:08.940 me stuff I did not know. Babe, did you ever 0:27:08.940 --> 0:27:09.620 find gold? 0:27:10.820 --> 0:27:14.060 We found fool's gold. Um, but I have to add 0:27:14.060 --> 0:27:17.500 another piece. You know, I was really into the little 0:27:17.500 --> 0:27:20.580 house on the prairie, too. Like Ali and I had 0:27:20.580 --> 0:27:24.580 the little bonnet. Yes, I had the dress, and I watched. 0:27:24.740 --> 0:27:26.420 I read every book. Yeah. 0:27:26.460 --> 0:27:29.739 So that's. Oh, we have that in common. Thank you. 0:27:29.740 --> 0:27:31.100 I'm glad you had the bonnet. 0:27:33.180 --> 0:27:33.660 Hey, babe. 0:27:33.660 --> 0:27:34.460 That's amazing. 0:27:34.660 --> 0:27:38.060 Babe? Yeah. What do you say we go gold pan 0:27:38.060 --> 0:27:39.409 in the summer. Let's go up. 0:27:39.410 --> 0:27:39.810 North. 0:27:40.130 --> 0:27:41.170 Seriously, you and me. 0:27:41.170 --> 0:27:42.010 Let's head north. 0:27:42.250 --> 0:27:45.129 Let's. Let's go north. Let's try to find some gold. 0:27:45.130 --> 0:27:46.930 You and me. Wouldn't that be a fun date, babe? 0:27:47.850 --> 0:27:50.530 I think all the gold's already taken out. So, anyway, 0:27:50.530 --> 0:27:53.010 it was a fun childhood thing that we did with 0:27:53.010 --> 0:27:57.330 my dad. So, anyway, travel and gold panning. Yeah. 0:27:58.090 --> 0:27:59.649 Okay. Thanks for calling in. 0:27:59.650 --> 0:28:00.410 That's great. 0:28:00.410 --> 0:28:02.770 Okay. My dad's full of surprises. I did not know 0:28:02.770 --> 0:28:04.890 that she was gold panning with her dad. How did 0:28:04.890 --> 0:28:07.890 I not know that in 37 years of marriage, I 0:28:07.890 --> 0:28:09.609 thought I'd asked her all these questions. 0:28:10.170 --> 0:28:11.810 You learn something new every day. 0:28:12.170 --> 0:28:14.169 Okay? We got. Well, we got our gold panner. Now 0:28:14.170 --> 0:28:16.169 we got to coming up here. What in the world 0:28:16.170 --> 0:28:21.850 are we panning for this? This whole sifting principle is 0:28:21.850 --> 0:28:23.650 really biblical, isn't it, Ali? 0:28:23.690 --> 0:28:27.969 It is because we're called to do this with our thoughts. 0:28:27.970 --> 0:28:30.850 You want to extract out the good stuff and leave 0:28:30.850 --> 0:28:32.490 all the waste behind. 0:28:33.170 --> 0:28:35.850 You can take them out of Alaska, but you can't 0:28:35.890 --> 0:28:39.690 take Alaska out of him. Carl is in the crew. 0:28:40.050 --> 0:28:42.450 It's Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:28:42.650 --> 0:28:45.490 Yeah, we're in this together, guys. We're all in it together. 0:28:47.650 --> 0:28:52.410 What a powerful passage of scripture here. And, Ali, you've 0:28:52.410 --> 0:28:54.330 heard this. Why don't you read it and then give 0:28:54.330 --> 0:28:57.770 your story on this? Because this is the ultimate sifting 0:28:57.770 --> 0:29:02.930 process of getting bad thinking or things raised up against God. 0:29:02.930 --> 0:29:06.209 Things that are not part of the gospel out of 0:29:06.210 --> 0:29:10.810 our life. Tearing down these strongholds. Taking thoughts captive. What 0:29:10.810 --> 0:29:12.170 a powerful text, huh? 0:29:12.210 --> 0:29:15.250 In Second Corinthians ten, starting with verse, verse three, for 0:29:15.290 --> 0:29:17.210 though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging 0:29:17.210 --> 0:29:19.730 war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our 0:29:19.770 --> 0:29:22.250 warfare are not of the flesh, but have divine power 0:29:22.250 --> 0:29:25.930 to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion 0:29:25.930 --> 0:29:28.890 raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought 0:29:28.930 --> 0:29:33.450 captive to obey Christ. I have a mentor who uses 0:29:33.450 --> 0:29:36.810 this verse often when she prays for people, for people, 0:29:36.810 --> 0:29:39.450 for situations. And the first couple times it kind of 0:29:39.490 --> 0:29:41.930 caught me off guard because when I when I hear 0:29:41.930 --> 0:29:42.690 this verse. 0:29:43.090 --> 0:29:43.530 Strong. 0:29:43.570 --> 0:29:48.450 I think about the, you know, the, the real in 0:29:48.490 --> 0:29:51.330 besetting sins. It's kind of what I, how I've heard 0:29:51.330 --> 0:29:55.130 this verse used like, you know, somebody maybe stuck in 0:29:55.130 --> 0:29:58.170 pornography or lust or something, clearly that those thoughts need 0:29:58.170 --> 0:30:01.130 to be taken captive. There's a warfare approach to kind 0:30:01.130 --> 0:30:04.690 of taking that ground back, but she uses it when 0:30:04.690 --> 0:30:08.530 she's praying for somebody who's anxious because those anxious thoughts, 0:30:08.530 --> 0:30:13.850 anxiety has elevated itself. It has raised itself up against 0:30:13.850 --> 0:30:16.450 the knowledge of God, the Word of God that says 0:30:16.450 --> 0:30:19.810 we can be anxious for nothing. And I'm like, whoa, okay. 0:30:20.170 --> 0:30:24.010 That's a different way that every single mindset that you 0:30:24.010 --> 0:30:27.250 can think of, every wrong way of thinking, does this. 0:30:27.250 --> 0:30:30.489 It elevates itself above the Word of God. Therefore, it 0:30:30.490 --> 0:30:33.209 needs to be taken captive. And for some reason, it 0:30:33.210 --> 0:30:35.969 has just expanded my view of how to how to 0:30:36.010 --> 0:30:39.850 use and apply this verse. Hearing it prayed for situations 0:30:39.850 --> 0:30:44.010 that I wouldn't have necessarily thought necessitated it. But every 0:30:44.010 --> 0:30:50.210 mindset anxious, fearful, angry, proud, lustful all of those mindsets 0:30:50.210 --> 0:30:52.370 have to be brought down. 0:30:53.770 --> 0:30:57.530 It's so good, Ali. I'm so pumped that you shared that, 0:30:57.890 --> 0:31:00.010 because a lot of times we look at this passage 0:31:00.050 --> 0:31:05.330 and it's strong, man. I mean, we are destroying arguments 0:31:05.330 --> 0:31:09.290 and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God. 0:31:09.890 --> 0:31:14.770 All of that rubble, debris, mud. Using, using this gold 0:31:14.770 --> 0:31:20.650 panning metaphor again, all that stuff that dilutes or hides 0:31:20.650 --> 0:31:24.010 the nuggets of who we are in Jesus, how he 0:31:24.010 --> 0:31:27.210 operates in this world, how the church is to function. 0:31:27.210 --> 0:31:30.130 What do we do when we get tempted? How do 0:31:30.130 --> 0:31:33.970 we handle adversity in the body of Christ? Why is 0:31:33.970 --> 0:31:39.680 there Disorder and every evil practice. So mind below and go, oh, God, there's. 0:31:39.760 --> 0:31:43.360 Envy and selfish ambition. I mean, it's how cool is this? 0:31:43.400 --> 0:31:43.600 You know. 0:31:43.640 --> 0:31:46.200 Because we think you think about your gold mining metaphor. 0:31:46.200 --> 0:31:50.680 We can think about those things as worthless. The the 0:31:50.680 --> 0:31:53.400 the dirt, the mud, all that stuff is sort of worthless. 0:31:53.400 --> 0:31:56.320 It doesn't matter much when it comes to our thoughts, though. 0:31:56.320 --> 0:32:00.280 I don't think we realize the threat that these lofty 0:32:00.280 --> 0:32:04.760 opinions and wrong mindsets pose, that they're not just sort 0:32:04.760 --> 0:32:07.640 of this harmless thing that just is sort of there, 0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:12.840 but it shouldn't be. It actually is opposing the Word 0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:16.600 of God, raising itself up, elevating it above the knowledge 0:32:16.600 --> 0:32:18.960 of God. So when we look at it, we can't 0:32:18.960 --> 0:32:22.360 look at it as like this harmless sort of thing that, 0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:24.400 oh yeah, it probably shouldn't be there. It's like, no, 0:32:24.960 --> 0:32:29.280 taking it captive is an aggressive move, but we have 0:32:29.280 --> 0:32:32.640 to look at wrong mindsets with that kind of viewpoint. 0:32:32.640 --> 0:32:35.720 We touched on this a couple of days ago. It's not. 0:32:35.760 --> 0:32:39.120 Janet Parshall interviewed someone about this. I just heard a 0:32:39.120 --> 0:32:42.080 bit of it. My bride said it was epic. And 0:32:42.080 --> 0:32:45.280 it's not the we're not in this New Age movement. 0:32:45.280 --> 0:32:48.320 We're in a New Thought movement. And it's a twist 0:32:48.320 --> 0:32:51.840 on New Age that's actually more subtle. But we've talked 0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:54.240 about this in the past. But be careful with this 0:32:54.240 --> 0:32:58.440 language of I can imagine this into being, or I 0:32:58.440 --> 0:33:02.160 can manifest this in my mind that has no business 0:33:02.160 --> 0:33:07.160 in the gospel followers mindset or lips. So we got 0:33:07.160 --> 0:33:10.520 to pull that stuff out now. Does what we think 0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:14.120 about matter? Yeah, but you can manifest all you want, 0:33:14.120 --> 0:33:16.920 but God wants to do immeasurably more than you can 0:33:16.920 --> 0:33:18.280 ask or imagine. 0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:18.880 Yes. 0:33:19.400 --> 0:33:22.920 So why are you limiting God by trying to manifest 0:33:22.960 --> 0:33:28.080 a new car in your front yard? When God has 0:33:28.080 --> 0:33:30.840 so much more? Yeah, and I'm not against new cars. 0:33:31.360 --> 0:33:33.920 Take it captive. Give it to God today.