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8-Minute MindShift Wk 35 · Mental Health and the Mission of the Church

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Good morning, everybody.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Man, I'm looking forward to talking to you this morning.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Got my coffee, got my little mug, so I don't spill it on anything.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's got a lid.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Just excited about some of what we're gonna talk about.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: I uh I I opened the uh little descriptor today with this question Do you understand uh the most important thing that's ever happened to you?
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: And um now I'm hoping that some of you listening aren't what we would call Christians yet, born again, whatever.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: And um, so I I just want you to understand that it may not have happened to you yet.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't mean that ugly, I just mean it as a statement of uh, you know, kind of what I believe and what we're talking about.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: But for you guys that have uh would consider yourself Christians that have uh aligned with you know somewhat the Bible would teach on this kind of thing.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: Not as one's better than the other, but one is just seen and received revelation in some areas.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I just believe there's some things, as we've been talking about the last couple of weeks, there's some things about how salvation, how being brought back into a relationship with God, there's some things about how it works that I think if we understand them better, it'll help us live more effective, enjoyable, victorious Christian lives.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: And um, and you know, if occasionally I sound like, you know, I got a little like issue with the church at large, uh not our church, that church, whatever, but just in a sense at large, I do because I think we've been teaching it wrong.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: And um I think it's led to some weakness in our Christianity and some um just disappointment in people's lives because they're they're they're led to believe that they should be living a certain way, that um it's just a little trickier, harder, and slower to get there than most of us are willing to deal with.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: So, a question I like to use just to make you think, don't freak out.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: How saved are you?
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: John 3 talks about being born again.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: Nicodemus came to Jesus, talks about being born again.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the spirit is spirit.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: 1 Thessalonians 5.23 says that you would be saved or sanctified wholly, W-H-O-L-L-Y, I think, uh, or entirely.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: And then it says that your spirit, soul, and body would be preserved blameless.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: So again, it it highlights this three-part thing: spirit, soul, body.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: John 3 says that which is born of the flesh is flesh, that's body.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: That which is born of the spirit is spirit, and that's uh what I believe 1 Thessalonians 5.23 confirms.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: But stuck in the middle between spirit and body is this thing called a soul.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: So, what I want to do right now is I just want to walk through kind of a weird little way of talking about it.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm gonna hold up little cards.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna do old school on you here.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: This is how I did it back in the day before you had all this technology, and um, you know, I haven't perfected the way to do this yet, where you guys can get a uh, you know, uh a version that's screen sharing and all that.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm just gonna do it old school.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: So here's what I want you to think about.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to think about the fact that um that you are three parts, and each of your three parts has different things going on, you might say.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: So here's what I want to say to you.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: I am your spirit.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm listening to what I read.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm reading this off the back of it.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your spirit.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: I was saved, past tense, the moment you received Jesus as your savior and Lord, and put your trust in him.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: I was literally reborn.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: I was recreated by the living word and God's spirit, and I am totally acceptable and pleasing to God.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: I look like Jesus right now.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: Now, there's a bunch of scripture I could go to to say to verify everything that I just said.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: But my point is, when you become a Christian, when you put your faith and trust in Jesus, what happens is in your spirit, you are completely recreated.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: You you get to say a fresh start is an understatement.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: You you it's almost like God ended creation and started over inside of you.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: You are a brand new person.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: Now, great news, absolutely great news.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: But here's the deal: you've got other parts of yourself.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: So here is I am your soul.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: I am your soul, I'm being saved.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, I am your spirit, I was saved.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: Past tense.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm being saved by the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_00: Truth, which is a person, is what sets me free.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: God's truth is an antidote to the poison of this world that I have eaten, either by choice or by not having a choice.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, your soul, well, let me read you this other part because it kind of continues that.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: This is some more about your soul.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: I never forget anything.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: I act and react to life based on what is stored in me.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: One of my chief goals is to avoid pain.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: If I have experienced pain in the past, I try to forget it or alter it so it doesn't hurt so much.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: I also work really hard to avoid that pain in my present life.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: Any situation or person that reminds me of that past hurt must be avoided or attacked before he, she, or it hurts me again.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: My whole life can be controlled by my attempts to avoid that pain.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, well, you're talking about people that aren't Christians.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm not.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about Christians.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: Because when you were saved, your spirit changed.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: Your soul still has everything that ever happened to it is still there.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: And in essence, that is the point.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: The point is that that's why you can be a Christian and still act in ways that are very unhealthy.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's why you can be a Christian and still think in ways that are hurtful and destructive and unproductive at least.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, just to make sure we finish it out, here's the third part of us.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: Spirit, soul, body.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your body.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: I am yet to be saved.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, what are we doing here?
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: Your spirit, I was saved.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_00: Past tense.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: The moment you say, Jesus, I'm a sinner, I cannot save myself, will you please forgive me of all my sin and come and live your life in me and through me.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: Please be my Lord, be my savior.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: The minute you align yourself from your heart out with Jesus and the work that He's done for you, your spirit is boom, recreated, done.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: I was saved in my spirit.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm being saved in my soul.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: Present tense.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: That means that from the time I become a Christian to the time I leave this earth, my soul is constantly uh being renewed, redeemed, restored, transformed.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: Romans 12, 2, be transformed by the reading of your mind and other verses.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is the body, and what does it say?
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your body, I'm yet to be saved.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's in the future.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: On that glorious day when Jesus returns to this earth, I will be changed in the twinkling of an eye into an immortal, incorruptible body.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Until that time, you better keep an eye on me.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: I get all caught up in this world and its ways, and I'm used to getting what I want.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: The bottom line is your body is kind of, think of it as a spoiled brat, and it wants what it wants.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: Your spirit wants to do right, your soul wants to look right, your body wants to feel right, you might say.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: So, why?
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: This whole little mini-series we're doing here on spirit, soul, and body, this whole thing is about the simple question: how can I be a Christian, love God, love people, and still do things that are destructive and hurtful to the very people that I care about.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to understand as we go through it, spirit, soul, and body is one of the best ways I know to help us as Christians understand this incredibly most important thing that's ever happened to us.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: So bless you guys.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: Hang in there with me.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I hope this is helping you.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: I know for some it's a new way of looking at things, and it's a lot to take in.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: But uh bless you guys.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: Look forward to next week.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.