WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:02.919 I want to talk about I want to talk about 2 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:07.839 renewing our mind, and I want to give some context 3 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:12.599 to that talking about renewing our mind. And the reason 4 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:15.439 we need to renew our mind is that our mind 5 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:22.440 was of course connected to darkness, connected to first Adam, 6 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:28.199 connected to on the unclean realm. Our mind our thinking 7 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:32.640 before we come to the Lord. Our mind is perverse, 8 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:37.880 our mind is depressed, our mind is prideful, our mind 9 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.200 is fearful. We have all of these negative things going 10 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:45.679 on in our thoughts, in our lives and their contrary 11 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:48.560 to God. So that's the common thing with our mind. 12 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:51.640 When we come to the Lord, we give the Lord 13 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:57.159 our heart, we open up our life to him, we 14 00:00:57.159 --> 00:01:03.439 welcome him into our life, and we recognize that what 15 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:07.840 Jesus has done for us, the sacrifice of Jesus, has 16 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.519 opened the door for us to have our relationship with Father, 17 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:14.680 and that our sins are forgiven. When we come to 18 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:19.519 God through Jesus, then what happens is we're born of 19 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:22.519 the spirit. The Bible says we're born again, We're born 20 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.879 of the spirit. We're born a second time, because when 21 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:31.000 we're born in atom and in the fallen atom, we're 22 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:36.879 born wrong. We're born messed up. Anybody know what I'm 23 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:41.680 talking about in the room. So we're born again, and 24 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:43.439 that's when we're born of the spirit, and the Holy 25 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:46.560 Spirit comes to dwell on the inside of us when 26 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:50.519 we look to Jesus, when we trust that he's our salvation. 27 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:55.560 But we still have the old way of thinking. Most 28 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:57.519 of the old way of thinking sticks around. I mean, 29 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.280 you might get delivered from a couple things and you 30 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.120 pray that prayer of salvation, but for the most part, 31 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:11.280 our thinking remains the same, only now living on the 32 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:14.439 inside of our heart. The Holy Spirit is there to 33 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:18.919 coach us, to testify of truth, to convict us. You 34 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:23.960 ever felt conviction. When you feel conviction, it's more than 35 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:24.479 an emotion. 36 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:30.280 You feel a word, and it's like a word like. 37 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:35.919 Go this way, go that way, join yourself to this, 38 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:42.080 stop doing that right. Conviction is a feeling, but it's 39 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:45.639 also a word. And that word is a word of 40 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:47.960 direction or a word of correction, or a word of 41 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:51.159 counsel or a word of coaching right, and it's a 42 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:55.840 word that moves us in a right direction, and it's 43 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:00.159 Holy Spirit helping us. It's the testimony of Jesus on 44 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:03.800 the inside. Every Christian, every born of the spirit person 45 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:11.520 has this testimony of Jesus, this conviction. And actually that's 46 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:16.080 the word of God on the inside of you. Think 47 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:18.840 about how important that is. That's the word of God 48 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:22.439 on the inside of you. So even conviction, though it 49 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:26.319 might not, it might not fluff you ever. You know, 50 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:29.560 we talk about fluffing the wool on the sheep. You know, 51 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:33.439 the shepherd fluffs the wool on the sheep. You know, 52 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:36.400 it might not stroke your wool in a way that 53 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:42.080 makes you feel just absolutely amazing. But if you respond 54 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:47.039 to that correction or that direction or that coaching, the 55 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:52.199 result will be something fruitful, something good, right, something wonderful. 56 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:55.319 And so the only Spirit is talking to us or 57 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:57.960 seeking to talk to us once we come to know 58 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:03.319 the Lord. And even that talk is renewing the mind, 59 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.560 even that talking, because what we do is when we 60 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:14.680 hear Holy Spirit, when we hear that voice leading us, 61 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:20.040 coaching us, directing us, then we leave off what we 62 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:24.319 were thinking, We leave off what we were believing, we 63 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:26.720 leave off what we were meditating on. 64 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:28.560 We leave off a plan. 65 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:32.639 And maybe that plan was attached to something prideful or 66 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:37.240 something depressing, or maybe it was exaggeration or a falsehood 67 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:40.879 or deception, or maybe it was rejection or worthlessness. Right, 68 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:46.040 maybe it was something, maybe it was judgment or jealousy. 69 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.519 But when the Holy Spirit convicts us of that, that's. 70 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:51.920 An inner word. Now. 71 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:53.480 I know we're used to you know, I don't have 72 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:56.199 my Bible up here. We're used to thinking that the 73 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:57.879 word of God is the word. 74 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:00.439 But can't. 75 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:05.560 If you don't trust or believe that God can say 76 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:08.839 more than what's written in the canon of Scripture, you've 77 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:14.399 got the wrong God. God is omniscient God. That means 78 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:19.120 he's all knowing. He's omnipotent, That means he's all powerful. Right, 79 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:25.040 he's omnipresent. That means he's everywhere. So God is talking 80 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:29.000 to us, and when he talks to you, we should 81 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:32.920 value that speech on the inside of our heart like 82 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:36.360 we do the leather bound thing that we pack around 83 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:39.800 under our arm, or the Bible app that we open 84 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:43.160 up where we discover the truth of God's word, because 85 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:49.360 that coaching, that correction, that leading, that guiding is coming 86 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:52.839 by and through the living Word of God on the 87 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:56.959 inside of you. And what he's trying to do is 88 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:59.800 he's trying to wash he's trying to wash the crud 89 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:00.600 of us. 90 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:01.439 Right. 91 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:05.000 So Ephesians five says that he washes us with the 92 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:07.959 water of the Word, the water of the Word, not 93 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:10.360 just the water of the logos, but the water of 94 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:11.079 his word. 95 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:15.040 You think about this. Before we had the New. 96 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:19.240 Testament, Holy Spirit was working before the New Testament was written. 97 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:23.399 Holy Spirit was working before the New Testament was written. 98 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:26.639 There were Christians, there were people coming to know Jesus, 99 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:29.839 and they were responding to the voice of Holy Spirit 100 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:34.000 in them, the prophetic word of the Lord with ministering 101 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:38.879 to them. He was washing them with the water of 102 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:41.959 his word. We have to let him, We have to 103 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:44.759 draw near to him, We have to spend time with him, 104 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:47.319 because he wants to wash us with the water of 105 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:52.759 his word. And when he does that, he's renewing our mind. 106 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:57.199 And we leave off the old and we embrace the new. 107 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:02.879 We leave off the dead, we embrace the resurrected. The resurrection. 108 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:07.160 Life is a life that's abounding in the leading of 109 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:11.240 Holy Spirit. Yes, now, the reason that I handed out 110 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:14.160 this sheet to you two weeks in a row now 111 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:17.800 is because I want you thinking that you're a new creation. 112 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.959 I want you meditating that you're not a dirty, old sinner, 113 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:27.040 that you are not failing all the time, that you're 114 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.600 not just a big mess that needs constant forgiveness. I 115 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:34.319 want you thinking in terms of what Holy Spirit says 116 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:37.279 over you in the Word of God. That is, he 117 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:44.399 calls you a new creation. He calls you the righteousness 118 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:49.959 of God in Christ. Tewo Corinthians five twenty one says 119 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:52.720 that he calls you the righteousness of God in Christ. 120 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:58.120 Now that means that's your new identity. Even when you stumble, 121 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:02.800 that's your identity, your true north. When you stumble, the 122 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:05.519 true north of that compass is going to bring you 123 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:08.839 back to that true identity of who you are. You 124 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:13.160 are ordained for righteousness. You're ordained for peace or adained 125 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:18.079 for righteousness. You're ordained as one who is justified. This 126 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:21.160 is the Bible. The Bible says you're justified. That means 127 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:24.959 God sees you in Christ as long as you continue 128 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:27.680 to believe. Not as long as you continue to be perfect, 129 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.759 but as long as you continue to believe. Because it's 130 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:34.360 believing that brings perfection. It's not perfection that brings believing, 131 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:39.320 it's believing that brings perfection. If you let your perfection 132 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:42.159 get in the way. If you're believing that's religion. Now 133 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:44.360 you're backwards. It's not going to work. You have to 134 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:47.720 keep your believing ahead of your perfection because you're believing 135 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:51.559 is leading you into perfection. And God's ordained for you 136 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:55.720 to come into perfection. He's ordained for you to come 137 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:59.559 into restoration and the restoration that He's ordained for you 138 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.559 the image of Jesus. You are a Christian. That means 139 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:07.759 you bear the image of Jesus. Christopher Columbus Christopher. That 140 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:12.559 means image bearer, light bearer. You're a Christian. You're a 141 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:16.720 light bearer. You're a one who bears the image of illumination, 142 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:22.639 the light from above. That's your identity. That's who you are. 143 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:27.919 Even when you fall short, that's your identity, even when 144 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.720 you fail, that's your identity. That's your true north. And 145 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.159 so that's what we meditate on. And so I'm thinking, 146 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:38.039 how do we renew our mind right? How do we grow? 147 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:41.360 How do we continue to grow in who He's called 148 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.279 us to be so that we're actually renewing our mind 149 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:47.679 Because Romans twelve one and two, I think we might 150 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:47.919 have it. 151 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:48.639 I don't know if we have it. 152 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:54.279 But Romans twelve one and two says that transformation, true transformation, 153 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:59.639 comes in the manifestation of our life. Now the moment 154 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:04.200 you give your life to the Lord, if you died, 155 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:09.080 that moment like the thief on the cross being hung 156 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:13.360 beside the Lord who believed on the Lord. If you gave, 157 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.600 if you lost your life, that moment that you believe 158 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:21.919 upon him, you're going to heaven. But God wants you 159 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:26.200 to continue living. You're not on that cross right beside Jesus. 160 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:30.080 He's ordained for you to walk out your days and 161 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:33.480 have fullness of life. And so for you and I, 162 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:38.480 it's not just about going to heaven. It's about experiencing 163 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:42.960 Heaven on earth. It's about manifesting His glory. It's about 164 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:49.879 living like him, it's about it's about restoration. And so 165 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:54.759 for those things, then we're called to renew our mind. 166 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:58.919 That's the transformation he's talking about in Romans chapter twelve, 167 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.159 verse one and two. He's not talking about a metamorphos 168 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:05.440 or a transformation that takes you to heaven. It's not 169 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:09.399 a heaven transformation. He's talking about when we present ourselves 170 00:11:09.519 --> 00:11:13.039 under God as a living sacrifice wholly unacceptable, which are 171 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:18.320 reasonable active worship. Then we also are no longer conformed 172 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.320 to this world and the world's way of thinking, but 173 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:27.879 we are transformed into the likeness of His image by 174 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:32.200 renewing our mind to his way of thinking. This is 175 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.919 not exhaustive by any means, but this is a little 176 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.720 taste of his way of thinking. And the reason I 177 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:41.919 put it together is the way I did is I 178 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:46.799 want you thinking about His way of thinking, over the 179 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:52.960 things that pertain to you, your desires and your needs. 180 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:59.759 Your desires and your needs because woven in your life 181 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:04.240 into your heart before the Fall, God wove within you 182 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:10.159 desires and needs. Now the Fall came along and perverted 183 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:17.919 your desires and needs and iniquity. Through the fall deposited 184 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:25.360 seeds of iniquity within you, so that the method, the 185 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:29.639 method for us to go after the fulfillment of the 186 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:33.000 trees of our heart garden, the trees of life would 187 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:38.360 become perverted. But here I've outlined the tin trees of 188 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:43.639 our heart garden. And again this isn't exhaustive. It's just 189 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:48.320 a great overview for us, and it helps us move 190 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.919 from how do I renew my mind? To understanding. Oh, 191 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:57.440 here's some topics I can focus on. Here are the 192 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:02.360 things that pertain to me. And God has scriptures over 193 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:06.240 these areas of life. So if I give myself to 194 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:10.440 these scriptures, if I give myself to His word, if 195 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:13.559 I listen to His word, then there'll be a quickening 196 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:18.039 that comes in my life so that I can exercise faith. 197 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.519 I can partner with Him because faith comes by hearing 198 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:29.799 the word of God Romans ten seventeen. Faith faith God word, faith, 199 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:34.759 faith to believe God for something comes as we receive 200 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:37.720 the Word, as we welcome the word, and as the 201 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:41.799 Word is illuminated to us. So here's areas of our lives. 202 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.399 Number one, and this is not in order, but my 203 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:49.440 health and nutrition and my well being number two, my 204 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:53.519 finances in my household prosperity number three, My vocation and 205 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:59.039 purpose number four, my family relationships number five, my sexual 206 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:04.440 fulfillment number six, my wisdom and personal maturity number seven, 207 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:09.399 my religion and spiritual fulfillment number eight, my ministry and 208 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:14.759 serving of others number nine, my rest and recreation, and 209 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:21.240 number ten my influence in culture and my legacy. Now, 210 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:24.279 if you think about it, every one of those things 211 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:29.240 concern you. They've concerned you all of your life. And 212 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:32.000 if you think about it, this is what the temptations 213 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:36.519 were focused around. The temptations of Jesus. We're showing three 214 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:42.000 temptations in Luke four and in Matthew four we're shown 215 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:45.240 three temptations. But the Bible says he was tempted in 216 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:50.519 every way as we are. He was tempted in every 217 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:53.799 way as we are. We're only given three of those 218 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.879 that are in that particular passage, but it says at 219 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:01.840 the end of the temptations that say Sathan departed until 220 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:08.919 a more opportune time, temptations continued, and these temptations were 221 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:16.639 the enemy coming after those trees of the soul, of 222 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:22.360 the second atom, the last atom, Jesus to draw him away, 223 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:28.639 to seduce him, to pull him into sin or iniquity. 224 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:32.759 And the blessing for him is he didn't have in 225 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:36.559 dwelling iniquity in his heart because he wasn't born of man, 226 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:39.320 he wasn't born of the lineage of Atom. He was 227 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:44.159 a fresh start. So Satan was on the outside bringing force. 228 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:48.440 Satan was on the outside with words of seduction and temptation, 229 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:51.759 but he wasn't on the inside. We have a little 230 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:55.159 bit of a disadvantage because over a year. This is 231 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:57.679 why we need Jesus, by the way, why we need 232 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.000 to be baptized in water, why we need to put 233 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:04.279 the old person to death, because over here we have 234 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:09.159 the witness of uncleanness within us, and the witness of uncleanness, 235 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:13.399 these seeds of iniquity, they talk to us. It's how 236 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:17.759 the enemy accesses our heart, and these seeds of iniquity. 237 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:22.559 They'll say, Oh, the way for you to increase in 238 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:29.440 your financial well being is just act very prideful, act 239 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:31.799 like you've got it all together, and that'll be fine. 240 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:36.200 Even if you don't. Just act like you do, or 241 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:39.039 what you need to do is you need to just 242 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:44.080 falsify some of the information on that test. Maybe just 243 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.279 be a little bit deceptive, not a lot, but just 244 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:50.480 a little bit deceptive. Like when you sell that car 245 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:52.919 and it doesn't really go into fourth gear, don't tell them, 246 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:55.559 just let them figure that out. Don't really be honest 247 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:57.559 about that. That could cost you eight hundred dollars or 248 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:00.480 a thousand dollars. Why don't you just withhold that information 249 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:04.000 and that way you can prosper and increase that tree 250 00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:07.880 of financial well being in your life. That's a partnership 251 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:13.480 with deception. That's a partnership with a deceiving spirit, and 252 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:17.000 we're attracted to that. So we have these desires within us. 253 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:20.839 This is actually a desire. This is actually a desire. 254 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:26.079 There's a desire within us before the cross, before baptism, 255 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:32.599 before deliverance, there's a desire within us to deceive to prosper, 256 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:39.079 or deceive to get what we need in marriage, or 257 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:43.119 in sexuality, or in any of these trees. But when 258 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:48.400 we've been baptized in water, we've put that old person 259 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:52.799 to death. We have put that old person who was 260 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.079 born in the lineage of Adam, in the likeness of Adam, 261 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:58.920 with all those seeds of iniquity that are trying to 262 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:00.880 talk to us on the inside and they're trying to 263 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:05.640 partner with the demonic realm. We've put that person to death, 264 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:10.720 and we've agreed we don't have to listen anymore. Anybody 265 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:13.720 in the room doesn't have to listen anymore. We don't 266 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:17.599 have to listen anymore. So, and this is part of 267 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:21.519 why we experience deliverance right. Part of why we experience 268 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:27.480 deliverance is I want these seeds of iniquity, which are 269 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:30.400 really the testimony of the demonic realm within me. I 270 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:34.480 really want them gone. I'd like to get rid of those. 271 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:37.839 I really don't want to be tempted every day to lie. 272 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:40.079 I don't want to be tempted every day to cheat. 273 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:43.759 I don't want to be pulled into worthlesseners. I don't 274 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:46.559 want to be pulled into judgment over others. I don't 275 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:49.519 want to feel rejection or be rejecting. I don't want 276 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:52.640 a bunch of fear operating in my life and be 277 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:55.759 tempted all the time to be afraid of everything. I 278 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:57.680 want dread and fear out of my mind. I want 279 00:18:57.720 --> 00:18:59.920 it out of my heart. I want a renewed heart. 280 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:04.240 I want to renewed mine. So I want this stuff gone. 281 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:08.519 But when it's gone, here's what Jesus said in Matthew 282 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:13.240 twelve that when these influences are gone, I need to 283 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:16.000 renew my mind. He said in Matthew twelve that when 284 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:20.400 these influences are gone, I need to fill my house 285 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:25.960 with something better. I need to fill my house with 286 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:30.200 superior words. I need to fill my house with the 287 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:35.000 testimony of Holy Spirit, who loves me and who's testifying 288 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:37.359 of God's goodness on the inside of me. 289 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:39.319 And that's part of why we have this right. 290 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:43.759 Here, is because we know these areas of life are 291 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:46.519 important to every one of us. And here's what happens 292 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:50.559 if we don't fill our heart with the testimony of 293 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:55.000 something better. What color should we call the word of God. 294 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:59.480 Let's call the Word of God green. Forego if we 295 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:05.039 don't start filling our heart, oh, because green is lush, 296 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:08.759 and green bears good fruit, and green sprouts up and 297 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:13.200 springs up. And this is the Holy Spirit partnering with 298 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:16.160 the Word of God. And so we are now filling 299 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:19.680 our heart garden with the Word of God. The logos 300 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:22.160 and the rama. You got to dive into a bunch 301 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:25.319 of logos they written so that you can have Holy 302 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:29.160 Spirit bringing you more and more rama. And he quickens 303 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:31.920 the logos and makes it rama and makes it alive. 304 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:34.440 And so you're getting all this word within you. And 305 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:37.720 here's what David said in Psul one nineteen. He said, 306 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:41.880 your word I have hidden in my heart so that 307 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:48.480 I will not sin against you. Your word I have 308 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:52.880 hidden in my heart so I will not remember what 309 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:58.000 sin is. Sin is to pull back the bow, to 310 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:02.400 shoot the arrow, and to miss the bull's eye. That's 311 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:07.079 what sin is sin. The understanding of sin in a 312 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:11.480 word picture is to fire the arrow and to miss 313 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:16.400 the bull's eye. I put the word in my heart 314 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:19.920 so that I will not miss the bull's eye. I 315 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:22.400 put the word in my heart so that I will 316 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.480 be fruitful. I put the word in my heart because 317 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:28.759 if I don't have the word in my heart, what's 318 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:32.319 going to happen is automatically, I'm going to default into 319 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:36.000 the unclean realm. 320 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:37.119 Automatically. 321 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:44.079 Automatically, the reflex of my life is over here. And 322 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:48.279 if I don't have the word of God stored up 323 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:56.599 in me right. I remember, I got my real estate 324 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:00.519 license when I was eighteen years old. I was in 325 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.759 love with real estate and maybe one of the youngest 326 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:07.680 real tours in Oregon at that time, and I was 327 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:10.039 in college going to college. Got my real estate license 328 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:12.039 past the exam. Took me a couple times to pass 329 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:15.359 the exam. We went to the Memorial Colisseum in Portland, 330 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:20.680 Oregon for the test, and I was passionate about real estate. 331 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:24.440 But here's the crazy thing. Back in those days, interest 332 00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:30.799 rates were like fifteen to eighteen percent, and so even 333 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:33.759 though I had a passion about this, I had a 334 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:37.240 hope about my financial well being. 335 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:40.680 I had a desire. I had a hope. I had 336 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:42.000 a need, and. 337 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:46.839 That need, that need, that need is a desire. These 338 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:52.839 are desires. This is how the enemy works. He comes 339 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:58.240 to us based on desire. That's James Chapter one. James 340 00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:04.200 Chapter one says that we are drawn away by our 341 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:04.960 own desire. 342 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:08.799 We're drawn away by our. 343 00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:14.240 Own Satan uses our desire as a tool to draw 344 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:19.440 us away. And so here's a desire over here from 345 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:22.400 seeds of iniquity. But then we got this desire over here, 346 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:27.119 these desires. I want my trees to flourish. I want 347 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:29.839 to be fulfilled in marriage. I want to be fulfilled sexually. 348 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:33.400 I want to be fulfilled in finances. I want to 349 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:36.519 be fulfilled in my purpose, my vocation. I want to 350 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:41.000 be fulfilled in legacy and influence. I've got these desires right. 351 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:49.400 Interest rates are fifteen percent. So in my generation, in 352 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:52.839 that day, there was a lot of despair. There was 353 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:58.440 a lot of despair. And the thing that brought me 354 00:23:58.759 --> 00:24:01.480 hope and brought me faith was the word of. 355 00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:05.799 The Lord over my life, the word of the Lord 356 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:07.680 of your life. 357 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:14.079 And understanding what God says about his heart toward us 358 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:23.359 who are in Christ Jesus will trump economic peril. You 359 00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:29.240 are a participant in the riches of Christ Jesus. When 360 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:33.880 you understand that you have inherited the promises of God, 361 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:38.400 it doesn't matter what the economy is doing. You partner 362 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:44.440 out of a higher economy. So it's that word in 363 00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:48.839 me that moved me and motivated me to continue and hope, 364 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:52.119 continue in faith and see God work in my life 365 00:24:52.480 --> 00:25:02.759 regardless of interest rates. You see how a renewed mind 366 00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:09.000 will also shift the way you talk. Like right now, 367 00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:11.759 interest rates have been a whopping six and a half 368 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:16.759 or seven percent. It's paralyzed most people. Most people think 369 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:19.960 they can't prosper because they're used to three percent and 370 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:23.279 three point two five and so they're thinking, I really 371 00:25:23.319 --> 00:25:27.160 can't prosper because we had these low interest rates for 372 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:30.599 so long, And so I really can't prosper because now 373 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:33.000 the interest rates are over here. Now when I talk 374 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:35.960 that way, I'm failing to walk with a renewed mind, 375 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:39.480 and I'm actually making the interest rate bigger than God, 376 00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:43.839 bigger than scripture, bigger than the rama, bigger than the logos. 377 00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:46.880 I'm not renewing my mind and if I don't renew 378 00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:49.920 my mind, I come back over and I start partnering 379 00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:56.599 with this because the economy is so bad. Maybe I'm depressed. Wow, 380 00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:02.359 God just can't move in these terrible times. This is 381 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:05.480 a This is a terrible, terrible time. This is like 382 00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:08.119 the Great Depression. God can't move. Do you know what 383 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:12.440 people prospered during the Great Depression? Somebody prospered during the 384 00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:21.400 Great Depression, but not the depressed. The depressed didn't prosper 385 00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:26.119 during the Great Depression. The depressed were hiding somewhere like 386 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:33.000 Gideon treading out a few pieces of grain. So I 387 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:38.079 remember this one too, this one here, Uh that that 388 00:26:38.119 --> 00:26:40.200 thing that was on the platform just a few minutes ago. 389 00:26:43.480 --> 00:26:47.759 I was the quee, not the bald one, the quin. 390 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:54.599 I remember growing up, I was. 391 00:26:54.599 --> 00:26:59.559 Pretty aggressive with with dating, so I had I had 392 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:04.359 no shot whatsoever. So I had lots of girlfriends. And 393 00:27:04.359 --> 00:27:06.359 then that's not a brag on me. It's probably dumb. 394 00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:08.799 But yeah, I had lots of girlfriends. But I had 395 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:13.519 no fear even though I was I wasn't cool. I 396 00:27:13.599 --> 00:27:17.720 just had no fear. So but somewhere along the line, 397 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:20.880 you know, I had one that I really cared about, 398 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:22.599 a bunch. I thought this was going to be my wife, 399 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:27.920 and and that fell apart in a very terrible way, 400 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:29.640 like a huge, heart breaking way. 401 00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:30.640