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Speaker 6: I just want to encourage all of us today with
Speaker 6: the scripture that's found in Romans. Romans twelve, and this
Speaker 6: is Paul talking to the Romans, and he's encouraging them
Speaker 6: and urging them with great fervor to change their minds
Speaker 6: to be more like God. And he says this. He says,
Speaker 6: do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed
Speaker 6: by the renewing of your minds.
Speaker 4: See, he knew.
Speaker 6: That God wanted to do something in his people, but
Speaker 6: they couldn't keep thinking the old way and have the
Speaker 6: new things that God.
Speaker 4: Wants to do. You've heard it said like this.
Speaker 6: They couldn't put new wine in old wine skins. They
Speaker 6: had to change their mind. And you know what, that's
Speaker 6: the same with us today. We can't be conformed to
Speaker 6: this world's culture. We can't be conformed to the wrong
Speaker 6: types of thinking. We have to be transformed by the
Speaker 6: renewing of our mind. You see, our salvation on this
Speaker 6: earth starts in our mind. If you're born again today,
Speaker 6: if you've given Jesus your life, you're a new creature
Speaker 6: in Christ Jesus. And so your spirit has been made new.
Speaker 6: It has come alive in Christ Jesus. The problem is
Speaker 6: our mind needs to catch up with what's going on
Speaker 6: in our spirit.
Speaker 4: All right, But we can do that by.
Speaker 6: Not conforming to our old thinking, but submitting ourself to
Speaker 6: the word of God, to the teachings of God. You see,
Speaker 6: we are so blessed because we can get the Word
Speaker 6: of God at our fingertips. We can google the Word
Speaker 6: of God. We can take our phone and get our
Speaker 6: Bible apps. We can listen to podcasts. We can turn
Speaker 6: on the internet, we can turn on the TV listen.
Speaker 6: We can put our music on our Christian faithful music
Speaker 6: that declares the goodness of God.
Speaker 4: We are so blessed. We have to submit and stay.
Speaker 6: Under this word of God so that it can change
Speaker 6: our thinking. You see, some people may not have been
Speaker 6: brought up in church. I was brought up in church,
Speaker 6: but you may not be have been so you maybe
Speaker 6: you have some things that are contrary to what God
Speaker 6: wants you to think today.
Speaker 4: Some of you have addictions.
Speaker 6: It's contrary to what God has for you today.
Speaker 4: You see.
Speaker 6: God is saying, don't be conformed by a habit, don't
Speaker 6: be conformed by an addiction, don't be conformed by the
Speaker 6: cultures of this world, the way this world thinks, but
Speaker 6: be transformed.
Speaker 4: By the renewing of your mind.
Speaker 6: You have the choice of what you listen to, of
Speaker 6: what you put yourself under.
Speaker 4: And God is.
Speaker 6: Saying, renew your mind, change your mind in to what I.
Speaker 4: Have for you. You see.
Speaker 6: I talk to people all the time who have an addiction,
Speaker 6: and they are struggling to break the addiction. And what
Speaker 6: I tell them is just don't stay down, get back up,
Speaker 6: put yourself.
Speaker 4: Under the word of God.
Speaker 6: And those strongholds, those things that are trying to hold
Speaker 6: you back, they can't stand up against the word of God.
Speaker 6: It's only a matter of time before your mind catches
Speaker 6: up with what the spirit is doing. In Ephesians, the
Speaker 6: Bible says, to him who is able to do exceedingly,
Speaker 6: abundantly above all we can ask, think or imagine. I
Speaker 6: love that God can do anything. But listen to the
Speaker 6: second part. According to the power that works in us. See,
Speaker 6: God is saying, when you transform your mind, you line
Speaker 6: your mind up with the power that's in you. See,
Speaker 6: there's power in a made up mind. There's power in
Speaker 6: a mind that says, no, I'm not staying here. I'm
Speaker 6: on my way to greater places. I'm on my way
Speaker 6: to god destination. I'm not gonna be held down by
Speaker 6: always and old patterns of thinking. You see, I think
Speaker 6: about the apostle Paul, and he was so passionate to
Speaker 6: let them know by the mercies of God, by the
Speaker 6: grace of God, this can happen for you. You see,
Speaker 6: people they drink drinks to detox their body. Have you
Speaker 6: ever heard somebody say, you know drink this for five
Speaker 6: days and it'll get all the junk out of your body.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: They say that the stuff we eat, even the water
Speaker 6: we drink, you know, has toxins in it. So people
Speaker 6: want to be healthy, they want to detox their body. Listen,
Speaker 6: when you read the Word of God and put yourself
Speaker 6: under the word of God, you're.
Speaker 4: Detoxing your mind.
Speaker 6: You're dislodging strongholds, your weakening their grip on you. Listen,
Speaker 6: you're in a battle. You're in a battle, and it's
Speaker 6: time to stand up and fight. It's time to say,
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna let the wrong words come out of
Speaker 6: my mouth. I'm not gonna let my way of thinking
Speaker 6: stop me. I've heard people who are fighting illnesses and
Speaker 6: they listen to the Word of God constantly. They've constantly
Speaker 6: got it going. Whether they have the Word of God,
Speaker 6: whether they have a good teaching, whether they have Joel,
Speaker 6: whether they have praise, they are constantly bathing and sanctifying
Speaker 6: their mind in the word of God. See, we're justified
Speaker 6: in our spirit, but we have to be sanctified in
Speaker 6: our mind. That means we have to set our mind
Speaker 6: apart from the way of doing and being and we
Speaker 6: have to get in God's way of doing and being.
Speaker 6: You See, if we want to know God's will, We're
Speaker 6: gonna have to know God's way. Now, he was telling them,
Speaker 6: don't be conformed, but be transformed. And he was saying,
Speaker 6: this is a process. Don't get down on yourself. It's
Speaker 6: a process. And then he went on to say this.
Speaker 6: He says, do not be conformed to this world, but
Speaker 6: be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That by
Speaker 6: testing you may be able to discern the will of
Speaker 6: God for your life. What is pleasing, right and acceptable?
Speaker 6: How many of you want to know the will of
Speaker 6: God for your life. I want to know the will
Speaker 6: of God for my life. I want to know the
Speaker 6: will of God for my life. And God is saying,
Speaker 6: through this transformation, through this new way of thinking, you
Speaker 6: can take all these choices and you can put them
Speaker 6: under the scrutiny of what you know. You can test
Speaker 6: it and see shall I make it or shall I not?
Speaker 6: Shall I choose it, or shall I go the other way? See,
Speaker 6: you can put the choices you make every day under
Speaker 6: the scrutiny of the word of God.
Speaker 7: See.
Speaker 6: God wants us to walk in confidence before him. He
Speaker 6: wants us to know what his will is so we'll
Speaker 6: know what way to go. It's kind of like taking
Speaker 6: a test. Have you ever gone in when you're in
Speaker 6: school to take a test or for your job. The
Speaker 6: better you knew the material, the more confident you were,
Speaker 6: the more answers.
Speaker 4: You got right. It's kind of like that God is.
Speaker 6: Saying, this transformation comes little by little, but keep gain
Speaker 6: and knowledge, keep testing your choices.
Speaker 4: By what you know to be right. You know, we make.
Speaker 6: Choices every single day, and those choices make us so
Speaker 6: it's so important that we put our choices under God's authority.
Speaker 4: Now, you know, sometimes we don't want to put.
Speaker 6: Every choice under God's authority because some choices we just.
Speaker 4: Want they look so good. God, I can fix this
Speaker 4: with you later. Let me go ahead and make this choice,
Speaker 4: you know what. And God knows that.
Speaker 6: I mean, we've all been there, We've all done that.
Speaker 6: And the good thing about God he can take our
Speaker 6: bad choices and bring him glory and us good.
Speaker 4: All right, he can.
Speaker 6: He's a good God, and he loves us, and I
Speaker 6: love the fact that he's not judging us.
Speaker 4: The point is is that.
Speaker 6: We need to not be afraid to take our attitudes,
Speaker 6: our unforgiveness, our habits, everything about us, and put it
Speaker 6: under the submission of God. See Paul was saying, be
Speaker 6: a living sacrifice. Is how he started at be a
Speaker 6: living sacrifice. What he was saying, he was going.
Speaker 4: Go all in, Go all in.
Speaker 6: Don't hold back certain areas of your life. You have
Speaker 6: a bad habit, put it under God's authority. Don't hold
Speaker 6: on to it and say, God, I'll fix it. As
Speaker 6: soon as I fix it, then I'll come over here
Speaker 6: and give.
Speaker 4: It to you.
Speaker 6: God is saying, give it all to me, the good,
Speaker 6: the bad, the ugly. Put it under my word. Let
Speaker 6: me break those things off of your life. See Jesus
Speaker 6: came as the living Word. The Bible says he came
Speaker 6: as the Word made incarnate, man made flesh, and he
Speaker 6: walked among them. And do you know that when you
Speaker 6: read the word of God, you get good teaching. You're
Speaker 6: walking with g Jesus. And he's still doing what he
Speaker 6: did those days in the Bible. He's still healing, he's
Speaker 6: still delivering, he's still setting free, he's still restoring.
Speaker 4: Take his hand and put all of it under his authority.
Speaker 6: We can't be afraid and listen. You know, we have
Speaker 6: big decisions that we have to make in our life.
Speaker 6: I've heard people say, I want to know the will
Speaker 6: of God. Should I take this job, should I start
Speaker 6: this business? Should I go back to college? Is this
Speaker 6: the person I should marry? And those are all very
Speaker 6: important decisions. But we need to put every decision under
Speaker 6: the will of God, because the better choices we make,
Speaker 6: the closer we are to those better decisions on those
Speaker 6: big issues of our life. When I was a young girl,
Speaker 6: I remember my heart. I would just say to God, God,
Speaker 6: when I get married someday, all I know is this,
Speaker 6: I want a man who loves you more than I do.
Speaker 6: You see, my heart said this, God. I don't want
Speaker 6: to be dragging anybody up. I don't want to be
Speaker 6: constantly pushing them up. God, I don't want them to
Speaker 6: sharpen me. I want us to be better together. I
Speaker 6: want us to do great things for you. Now, girls,
Speaker 6: I just want to tell you this. Don't say this part,
Speaker 6: but this is literally what I said, because if I
Speaker 6: was you, I would find a man with a job.
Speaker 6: But I said, I said, God, he doesn't have to
Speaker 6: have a lot of money.
Speaker 4: You know what, he didn't have to be rich.
Speaker 6: God, I just want him to love you, because my
Speaker 6: heart was like this, God, you can do anything in
Speaker 6: our life.
Speaker 4: If we serve you, we can rise higher. We can
Speaker 4: do anything.
Speaker 6: But the bottom line is my gold standard is that
Speaker 6: he loves you a lot. So when I met Joel,
Speaker 6: he looked good on the outside and back from the outside,
Speaker 6: and he looked like he was perfect. But you know what,
Speaker 6: I didn't want to just judge him from the outside.
Speaker 6: I wanted to judge my who I was gonna marry
Speaker 6: by the word of God. And although he looked good,
Speaker 6: he seemed to have the right credential, you know what,
Speaker 6: that wasn't good enough.
Speaker 4: I watched him, I studied him. I saw if his
Speaker 4: beliefs lined up with his actions.
Speaker 6: I watched how he treated his family, what he said
Speaker 6: about his friends, his generosity towards others. See, I let
Speaker 6: that character line itself up with the word of God.
Speaker 4: Then I could make an.
Speaker 6: Educated, godly decision. You said, God wants us to be
Speaker 6: confident in our decisions. As our minds are gaining more
Speaker 6: knowledge and being transformed, then we can test our choices
Speaker 6: and make the right decisions. Well, I had the peace
Speaker 6: of God. He asked me to marry, so I did.
Speaker 6: Thirty years later. It's been a wonderful decision. It's been
Speaker 6: a great decision. Can I tell you girls, don't judge
Speaker 6: from the outside, make sure their character lines up. You're
Speaker 6: far too valuable to get together with someone who doesn't
Speaker 6: appreciate you and know how to bring out the best
Speaker 6: in you, who doesn't serve the living God.
Speaker 4: You see, I made my decision.
Speaker 6: I'd rather be home with a peanut butter and jelly
Speaker 6: sanwich than with a man that wasn't good enough for
Speaker 6: me and God.
Speaker 4: All right, it's not worth it.
Speaker 6: Every decision you make, use the word of God as
Speaker 6: your goal standard. Keep conforming to God's word in his likeness.
Speaker 6: Don't conform to the world, don't conform to habits. You
Speaker 6: may be fighting something right now, and I just want
Speaker 6: to encourage you to get yourself, submit yourself under the
Speaker 6: word of God. Don't let anything come out of your
Speaker 6: mouth that doesn't line up with what you want. Listen,
Speaker 6: when you're in a fight, you got to fight to
Speaker 6: the end. You got to be serious about where you're going.
Speaker 6: God's work will renew you, strengthen you, and refresh you.
Speaker 6: It'll detox all those old ways and I'll bring you
Speaker 6: into the new ways of God. We love you so much.
Speaker 6: You're awesome. God is a good God.
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