Patter. We thank you for the word. Today. We asked you will
help the preacher he needs. Help, help him greatly in Jesus' name,
And everybody said, amen, I want to talk to you about I want
to get to eventually, I want to get to a renewed mind. But
before we get to a renewed mind, I want to talk a little bit
about the bad mind that we had before we came to the Lord. So
this mind that we had was so bad that if we would have come before
the King right with the mind that we had, we you know, the
scepter would have fallen, but it would have fallen right across our neck,
and so you know, we would have been taken out. You don't appear
before the king if you don't have a right relationship with the king. So
the first thing that God does, you know, when we come to Jesus
and we accept him and we welcome what Father has done through Jesus. The
Bible says the Holy Spirit moves within our spirit. And I got the big
s here, that's the super on your chest. That is your spirit man.
The core of your heart is your spirit man, and that's where Holy
Spirit moves in. Holy Spirit comes to dwell in your spirit. And actually
what happens is you are remade in the likeness of first Adam. So before
Adam fell, and we know it really wasn't much of a fall, was
it. It was more of a choice, don't you think somebody? But
before Adam Afel, we know that he was unified with God. He had
all this stuff going on. He's living in the garden of Eden. He's
got more provision than you could ever imagine. He's got a divine purpose to
heavenize the earth. He has a partner, and that partner is bone of
his bone, flesh of his flesh. There's no in between the enmity between
the two of them, no fighting, no rivalry, no strife, no
competition, no jealousy, no anger, no selfish ambition. And the two
of them are about to produce a munch of offspring that love each other and
root for each other and care for each other. And they're in covenant with
one another. And all this stuff is going on, divine provision, divine
purpose. He's got power over the entire earth. And not only is he
going to heavenize the earth, but he's going to dominate all of the darkness
he's going to dominate the enemy. He's going to dominate every that creepeth.
He's going to dominate the serpent. The serpent's present, but he's going to
dominate the serpent. Do you think he didn't know the serpent was present?
The serpent, by the way, we could get into a bunch of stuff
we don't have time for. But you know, the etymology of that word
for the serpent is shining one enchantment. Do you think he wasn't aware of
that one in the garden before the day they chose he was supposed to dominate
that one. He was supposed to dominate that one. And so he's in
this crazy situation where he's alive in the spirit because he could connect and commune
with God. And then he falls, he chooses, then he's separated from
God. And I've got this picture up here of kind of what happens.
This is his position on the day that he falls. His position on the
day that he falls is suddenly he's condemned, he's alienated, he's separated.
He also inherits inferiority and shame. So this is his position. Now he's
separated from God. And in this separation from God, this effects. And
what I've drawn here is a foundation to a house. You know, we're
supposed to build our house on a foundation, and so the house that we
build, I've got to picture it over here. It's kind of my restored
lifehouse out of the heart of man. It's the tin trees. We're supposed
to build this house on a good foundation. But if we build on a
foundation of sand, what happens The house collapses, And so we're trying to
build a house over here. Adam is trying to build a house. But
what happened is that when the cornerstone of his life was destroyed through his choice,
then his purpose cornerstone was destroyed. His power over the enemy was destroyed,
his partnership with humanity was destroyed. The other cornerstones of his life were
destroyed. And so he's waken up the next day and now his purpose will
he even fulfill it? He's banished from the garden. No, he's not
going to fulfill his purpose. He's not going to heavenize the earth. His
purpose is now cursed, and he's going to only labor and fulfill anything through
the sweat of self effort and the provision and the blessing that was supposed to
flow out of his son, out of his righteousness, has been cut off.
He's no longer empowered over darkness. He's under the power of darkness.
So instead of dominating over Satan, he is dominated. So this means that
fear death, the curse, the curse meaning everything to do with sickness,
disease, defeat, darkness, everything to do with death and the demonic realm.
He's now under it instead of over it. He woke up the next
day, he's under it instead of over it. Now, I want you
to think about how this affects his thinking and how it affects the thinking of
the lineage. Because condemnation came to all men Romans five twelve, Death came
to all. Condemnation came to all we actually were of this lineage and sin,
iniquity, darkness and all of these dimensions. This is what we're born
into, and this is what's normal for us. This is what's common for
us, and so we learn to think out of this terminology. We don't
see people as our partners. We see them through the eyes through the lens
of strife, contention, separation, enmity, jealousy. When we're in the
endemic nature. When we're under the lineage of atom first atom, which is
where we've all come from. Then we're fighting with one another. We think
people have our stuff. We're frustrated with one another. We come into agreement
with all of this negativity instead of seeing that people are actually my partners to
heavenize the earth. They're actually my partners. I actually need them, I
needs you in my life. You're actually a part of the fulfillment of my
purpose. We actually are meant to work together so that both of us see
the fulfillment of our purposes. This is the old life over here, and
the old life. As long as we have this mindset, then we find
ourselves fruitless in bearing or we find ourselves striving or laboring or sweating to bear
fruit in these ten trees of which we've talked about before. But we're not
going to talk about today over here, in this position, while we're dead
in our sins and our transgressions. That's Romans chapter five eight. Right.
While we were dead in our sins in our transgressions, while we were unworthy,
Christ died for us. We just read through the Romans this morning and
have a great time reading through the Romans. Let's go to Romans chapter three,
twenty one through twenty four. We've got that one. But now apart
excuse me, now, apart, thank you. Now, apart from the
law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law
and the prophets. Keep going, keep going, even the righteousness of God
through faith in Jesus, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory
of God being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is
in Christ Jesus. So he's touching on a few things there. One he
says that we're justified as a gift. We know that justified means just as
if we never sin. So some of this came forward this morning. We
were acknowledging that we wanted to know the Lord, that we wanted salvation,
that we wanted forgiveness of sin. Part of what I want you to see
this morning is that forgiveness of sin is where Holy Spirit moves into your spirit.
Man, and that's just the beginning of a brand new life. That's
just the beginning of a brand new life. What's happening is that when you
open up your heart in that way that Holy Spirit stamps your bank account.
See we come. You know we're bankrupt. But what happens is Holy Spirit,
is this a money bag? How we doing? Holy Spirit stamps your
bank account with this thing called justify. When you believe in Jesus, then
everything that Jesus did in payment for you is imputed to your bankrupt account,
and so you receive the riches of not only his forgiveness, but you receive
the riches of his righteousness. You receive the riches of his righteousness. So
this is crazy. You couldn't appear before a king if you weren't in right
relationship with him, Like if you had stolen from the kingdom, if you
had harmed somebody in the kingdom, if you had done something wrong in the
kingdom. You don't dare go before that king. You can have no relationship
because you are not right with that king. But when you are stamped with
the righteousness of Jesus, not because you earn it, not because you deserve
it, but because of what Jesus did on your behalf, so because you
believe, only because you believe and confess him as your savior, as your
Lord, as your king, as the one who's given you life. Because
you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth, then Heaven stamps your
bankrupt bank account with justified and righteous. Justified and righteous justified means that from
that moment forward, God looks at you as if you've never sinned. Now
you're gonna wake up tomorrow morning and probably look at yourself as if you've sinned,
But God is not looking at you as if you've sinned. When you
woke up this morning, you were aware of some shortcomings. You were aware
of some things you'd done wrong. You were aware of things you'd confessed and
even for gotten forgiveness of. And yet there was something about you that might
have thought of yourself as maybe not one who has never sinned, and maybe
not one who is righteous or standing in righteousness. But this is how God
sees you. And God is pleading with you to see yourself the way he
sees you. He's pleading with you see yourself the way He sees you.
So let's go back to that passage real quick. Because you can't earn this.
You don't deserve this, none of us do. There's nothing we can
do to earn this except to believe upon Jesus. Now, apart from the
Law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, seen, clearly made known,
witnessed by the Law and the prophets. Even the righteousness of God through
faith in Jesus Christ for all of those who believe. For there is no
distinction, meaning, it doesn't matter if you're a Greek. That's what he
goes on to say. No matter if you're a Greek or a Jew,
if you're tall, slender, short, if you're from Europe, if you're
from Africa, if you're from Asia, it doesn't matter. There's no distinction.
If you're a human, if you've got red blood, if you were
born into the lineage of Adam with this broken, fractured mindset, then this
is for you. All you have to do is believe, trust and believe.
Believe with your heart what God has done through Jesus. Confess with your
mouth. Come into agreement. There's always the come into agreement part. Everybody
say, come into agreement. Now, this is why we need a renewed
mind. By the way, this is why we need a renewed mind.
Let's see, I want to read another scripture or two, and then we'll
get onto the renewed mind. Part is that all right? But to the
one who does not work, this is Romans chapter four. I think we
have this one. But to the one who does not work but believes in
him who justifies the ungodly, why in the world would you justify the ungodly?
Isn't that amazing? God justifies the ungodly. But to the one who
does not work, Hello, somebody, we don't work to get righteous.
We work because we are righteous. We don't work to become a son of
God. We work because we are a son of God. We don't work
so that we can somehow measure up. We measure up in Him. So
therefore we work. We're hidden in him. We're hidden in the Beloved.
We're hidden in the Redeemer. We're hidden in the Restorer. So to him
who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith
is credited to him as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing
on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works. Is there a
believer in the building this morning? Is there a believer in the building this
morning? Now what happens is when you believe first. Then God begins.
He has the power, the grace, the enablement because of the indwelling spirit,
to begin to rework your mind and reframe your mind and tell you the
truth about the new creation, instead of you listening to the lies about who
you were, as if who you were is still who you are? Did
you know who you were is not who you are? Did you know who
you were is not who you are? You got to know this twenty four
to seven, twenty four seven. You have to know that who you were
is not who you are. And it doesn't matter if you fall short,
It doesn't matter if you falter, if it doesn't have anybody in the room
ever fallen short, Has anybody in the room ever faltered? I kind of
look back at that stuff and say, well, that's a bummer, but
that isn't who I am. So I'm not going to get underneath that.
The Lord rebuke that stuff, Well, I'm done with that. I don't
even have to listen to that, obey that follow that. I don't have
to get under condemnation over that. Praise the Lord. That isn't even the
nature that I have. I have a new nature. I just want you
to see how this stuff talks to you, because this was essentially the sum
total. This was your house, and this was the foundation of your house,
and this was the sum total of your identity. This was the sum
total of your identity. It's no longer your identity. If you've come to
Christ today, if today you gave your life to the Lord, then you
have a new identity. You already have a new identity. Let's go to
Second Corinthians, chapter five. Second Corinthians, chapter five, starting at verse
sixteen. Let's read that together. Therefore, from now on we recognize no
one according to the flesh, even though we have known Christ according to the
flesh. Yet no longer yet now, no longer you got to go back.
You went too fast. Yet now we know him in this way,
no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creature. The old things passed away. Behold, new things have come.
What's he saying. He's saying that, you know, when he was here,
we kind of we didn't know for sure if he was the Christ,
like that's not his last name, and so we suspected he was the Christ.
And some of us believed he was the Christ. But then when we
met with him afterwards. Pretty much all of us except for Thomas, knew
he was the Christ, even though he just walked through the wall to come
visit us. Thomas was still doubting that he was the Christ. Thomas,
he's a fellow, But we thought he was Mary and Joseph's son. But
then we discovered after the resurrection he wasn't just Marry and Joseph's son. He
actually was the Christ, the Anointed, the Redeemer, the scent One,
the supreme One, the one after the manner of Melkezedic, the one who
was the last Adam. Christ is the last Adam. Oh, what in
the world is an atom? In atom? Adam was the genesis of a
specie of humans. So the first atom was the genesis of us previously.
But now I've put that individual to death. Has anybody died to Adam?
That's why we get baptized in water. Why in the world do we get
baptized in water. Well, the water represents the surface of the earth,
and you're actually putting this person, the old atom, to death, and
the water and the baptism is a burial service. It's not symbolic of a
burial service. It is a burial service. It's not just symbolism. It's
a real deal. When you go under the waters of baptism, all of
the spirit realm, all of Heaven, and all of the spirit realm is
going to recognize that this old person is dead. Now, if you live
like the old person is still alive, then you're being dumb and all of
the demons can't figure it out. But they're glad to help you because you
are now hidden in a new atom. He is the genesis of a brand
new specie. So when you're born of the spirit and the spirit moves in,
actually what's happened is you just didn't get forgiveness of sins. You actually
got transferred out of the old atom, who was dominated by darkness, who
was in strife and ignmusty with humans who had no guarantee to fulfill their purpose,
and was no longer living as a son of God. You are taken
out of that completely through what Jesus has do. You're brought over here,
you're made a son or a daughter of God. You're accepted, you're covered,
you're righteous, you're justified. Hello, somebody that makes you royalty.
The code of many colors that Joseph wore it was symbolic of what you've come
into. You are now highly favored. You have an audience with God.
You can show up and the scepter will be given to you instead of come
across your neck. You have the scepter to rule. The scepter does not
depart from Judah. It's given to you, the sons and daughters of God.
You are accepted in the Beloved, and this is the chief cornerstone.
Acts Chapter four says Jesus has become the chief cornerstone to the building of your
house and the rebuilding of your life, as Adam was before the fall.
You have purpose, and you have a guaranteed purpose. It's unique in your
generation. You are set apart, you are blessed, and you have provision
for that purpose. God has all ready ordained. He's already put in your
bank account, your monetary bank account, everything you need to fulfill your purpose,
everything you need, every relationship you need, has already been given to
you. All the favor you need, every person you need, every partnership
you need, all of the harmony you need, all of the kindness you
need. It's all ready part of this new creation life. I don't need
to compete with anybody. They don't have my stuff. God's got me.
God can bless you and bless me at the same time. I can't bankrupt
God when I'm away from him, I need your stuff, so I'm going
to steal from you. When I come to him, suddenly, I don't
need your stuff. I've got a complete inheritance he carved out for me.
The fact is He's giving me so much. I can be generous and give
you some of what I have and be a blessing to you, so that
together in harmony, we can see our purpose is fulfilled. And I dominate
darkness. I'm not under it. I dominate darkness. I dominate the curse.
I dominate everything to do with the curse. It is all under my
feet. It's not going to be under my feet. It is now under
my feet. And I will see all of it put under my feet as
I continue to believe that this is all because of righteousness. He's imputed righteousness
to our account. Listen to Romans chapter twelve verse two. You know Romans
chapter twelve one and two. You're familiar with those really well, Romans chapter
twelve one and two, And do not be conformed to this world. Now
we have to die to Adam. We have to die to Adam where we
can't live in the last atom. And to the degree that you die to
Adam, to that degree you can flourish in the last atom. This is
important. So that's why he starts Revelation Romans chapter twelve in verse one by
saying, present your body as a living sacrifice. He's talking about this whole
All of Romans is talking about this new creation life and talking about death,
and I mean, it's just it's beautiful stuff. I wish we could read
the whole thing. I want you to go home and read Romans this week.
Read it two, three, four times. It's just so powerful.
Started chapter three and read all the way through to chapter ten and just meditate
on what's in there, because it's so beautiful for this season that we're in,
and so beautiful for this coming into Resurrection Sunday, Easter Sunday, and
just everything that's going to be transpiring as we think about it, and God
redoing it in us. He's re reawakening, getting at us. So we
present ourselves dead over here, We're dead to Adam. But then listen and
do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind. Well, hang on, hang on, hang on. I
already did a John three three through five thing. I already opened up my
heart, and I already welcomed the spirit to live within me, and I
already trusted in Jesus. I thought I was already transformed. The transformation that
he's talking about, the metamorphois here is actually a transformation of manifestation, not
a transformation of legalities. There's a legality that it is real. We open
up our hearts to Jesus. Jesus comes to dwell in our spirit. Man
and Holy Spirit is there bearing witness to the truth. But our external manifestation
doesn't change much until we begin to come into agreement. That's what renew your
mind means. It means come into agreement with what He's who He's made you
to be, Come into agreement with who He's made you to be. And
so, you know, you get up on Monday morning and you start,
you know, meditating what you're going to do this week, and then you
start thinking that you know, I don't even know if if what I do
is important. You let that thought rattle around a little bit. Uh,
that's not a renewed thought. I wonder if I have sufficiency to even get
done what it is that's on my heart to do well, that's not a
renewed thought. I wonder if I'm even important. I wonder if is my
purpose even unique or important. That's not every new thought, you know,
I don't know if it's ever going to get come to pass what it is
God's put on my heart. See what happens is oftentimes we come over here
and we think it's all about forgiveness of sin and born of the spirit.
But it's not. It's about you taking off your old dead's skin and the
old ugly caterpillar that you were, and putting on the butterfly that you are.
It's about the metamorphois of you living in this life, in the glory
of God and manifesting His glory every single day. Otherwise, as I told
you a week or two ago, we would just shoot you right after you
come to the Lord just or the Lord just you know, he could have
a dip tank. We could just have a hot dip tank, and just
you know, as you walk out of the sanctuary, those of you that
are newly in the Lord, we'd fun you through a spot and you know,
and it just be like a hot pool there you just dive in and
just you know you we'd never see you again. You know, there's a
lake of fire. You know, it's a kind of a why do you
have a lake of fire in the Fia, Well, because they go directly
to heaven. Now, God has so much more in mind for us.
The mandate of first atom has been restored to us. Go heavenize the earth.
Now, you can't heavenize the earth if you haven't come into agreement with
the Heaven that's living in you by the big ass on your chest, the
Holy Spirit dwelling in you. You can't heavenize the earth if you haven't come
into agreement yourself. You have to come into agreement with it. And so
he says, don't be conformed to this world any longer and the world way
of thinking, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that
you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good,
acceptable and perfect. Come on, somebody, now, I think renewing of
the mind. Yes, you need to know the word of God. You
need to know the promises of God. You need to know the word of
God, you need to know the prophetic word of your own life. That's
all super important. It's really true. But you know, if you know
these four cornerstones, as you know that, renewing your mind oftentimes just comes
into it. It's just coming into agreement with that stuff and then taking the
time to reflect on it. Satan is after your mind. Satan is constantly
after your mind through amusement, through through over a thousand television choices on your
cable TV. You have a thousand choices on your cable TV. And if
that weren't enough, you have a million choices on your phone. The enemy
doesn't want you thinking, and if he does allow you to think, he
just wants you thinking more about Yes, I'm forgiven. Yes I'm going to
heaven, but life is hell. Only once in a while will I cuss
in church, and it's hard to squeeze those words out. I apologize in
advance. But this is the perspective of so many of us who have come
to a religious experience in Jesus or in the church. We're seeing Jesus as
Yes, it's a born again experience. Yes my sins are forgiven. Yes,
I'm going to heaven. But that's the fullness of it, that's the
extent of it. It's not it's only the beginning of heaven on earth,
on earth as it is in heaven. So many times it's these we're making
this choice. We have to make the choice right. And as we think
about people, Oh my goodness, people are my friend. I have favor.
Wherever I go, God favors me, and I am somebody else's favor.
I need to be used of God to bless them, not used of
the enemy to take from them. As I'm used of God to bless them.
God blesses me because I'm coming into harmony with a house that's built on
a sure foundation. My purpose is guaranteed. I have dominion over it.
So it's sad with me this morning. Then I'm gonna try to close.
Somebody said, hello, loluj When I said that, what was that?
My wife? My world? I know, honey, I know, honey.
Bless you, honey, bless you, honey. I wrote a note
down to your worship. Mm hmmm, can you love? Can you hand
me that wader? The partial one, the partial one? Mm hmmm.
If Jesus is the genesis of a new creation. Not only do you bear
his image, but you you, your whole life is wrapped up in the
DNA of Jesus. He is the beginning of a new creation of superior people,
superior over darkness, superior in fulfillment, superior in fruitfulness, superior in
grace. I know the enemy wants to continue to convince us that this is
our reality, this is our identity, this is who we are. But
because you're dead to the genesis of First Adam, you don't have to listen
anymore. You don't have to cooperate anymore. You don't have to partner anymore.
You don't have to yield anymore. You don't have to agree anymore.
You don't have to let one of those thoughts have place within you. And
the truth is, the presence of those thoughts is the presence of a lie.
The presence of those thoughts is the presence of a lie. You know
where you discern spirits, you discern spirits, or you discern the spirit realm,
or you discern the word of a spirit in your inner men, in
your thought life. So Second Corinthians ten three through five says the weapons of
our warfare are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, taking every
thought captive to the obedience of Christ. I'm a new creation in Christ.
I don't see you as I did before, according to your flesh or your
lineage. I don't see him any longer according to his flesh or his lineage.
I don't see me any longer according to my flesh or my lineage.
I'm a brand new preacher. So for me to even entertain a thought that
contradicts what He's done in Christ for me and who he is, because who
he is is who I am. Who he is is who I am just
as sure as who Adam was I was, but who he is now I
am. So salvation is more than getting born of the spirit spirit moves in,
more than forgiveness of sins. It's becoming a brand new person who is
the same person as who he is. Hello, somebody. That's why John
said that right now we don't even know who we are. It doesn't yet
upp hear, but we're going to be blown away because when we see him,
we're going to realize we're just like him. When we see him,
we're going to realize we're just like him. And it all starts with righteousness.
It all starts with righteousness, justified and righteous. He's stamped your bank
account mass a prayer to him to come this morning. If you're here this
morning and you're just maybe the enemy has been accusing you. Maybe you've been
struggling in your purpose, feeling like you're under the curse, struggling with other
people, allowing thoughts, harmed with thoughts, hammered with thoughts, hit with
thoughts that contradict who God has made you in the New creation. Just come
and get some agreement on that. Allow the prayer team to pray with you.
Even even to cancel a lie is a powerful thing, right like just
to cancel a lie. There's been a lie. Thoughts, lying assignments,
lying words, harassing you. Come and let them be canceled. Come and
let them be canceled. Let those lives be canceled. You are who God
says you are. You are set apart, you are unique, You are
blessed, You are valuable, you are worthwhile, You have a guaranteed future,
You have all the provision that you need. What lie have you been
listening to? God has ordained that you would be healthy. God's ordained that
you would be strong, God's ordained that you would be restored. God's ordained,
He's ordained all of this in Christ, who is the beginning of a
brand new specie of humans, the Genesis, the genesis of a brand new
specie of humans. And you are in him. You by trusting in him,
you have hidden yourself in him. And now you are a new creation.
The old is gone, the old can no longer hold you, and
the new has come. Let's worship as we go, and as we do.
I just invite you, invites you, invites you. Come and cancel
alive. Come and put to death something that's been holding onto you. Come
and declare the dismissing of something that's been harassing you, worrying against your victory,
keeping you from the new creation, standing against your transformation, transformed metamorphosed
by the renewing of your mind. Or we choose a renewed mind this morning.
We choose a renewed mind this morning. We choose thoughts from above.
We choose thoughts like the thoughts of Jesus. We choose thoughts of victory.
We choose thoughts of grace. We choose thoughts of reigning. We choose thoughts
of power. We choose thoughts of dominion. We choose thoughts of health.
We choose thoughts of favor. We choose thoughts of friendship, we choose thoughts
of partnerships. We choose thoughts from above. We set our thoughts into agreement
with thoughts from above, in Jesus' name,