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Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – How a Renewed Mind Think... · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: You've likely heard the familiar saying right thinking begins with
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  Speaker 1: right theology, plain and simple. It's a powerful statement, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: But what does it really mean to infuse our thoughts
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  Speaker 1: with theological truth. Today? On Insight for Living, Chuck Wendall
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  Speaker 1: provides a time tested picture. In our study of Romans twelve,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck explains how transformed thinking revolutionizes three critical areas, how
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  Speaker 1: we see ourselves, how we relate to others, and how
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  Speaker 1: we understand our spiritual gifts. And the marvelous outcome is
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  Speaker 1: thinking with the clarity that Christ intended. Chuck titled today's message,
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  Speaker 1: how a renewed mind thinks.
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  Speaker 2: I want to read for you from Romans chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 2: verses three through eight. If you have your Bible, please
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  Speaker 2: turn to Romans twelve, verse three. For through the grace
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  Speaker 2: given to me, I say to everyone among you not
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  Speaker 2: to think more highly of himself than he ought to think,
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  Speaker 2: but to think so as to have sound judgment, as
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  Speaker 2: God has allotted to each a measure of faith. For
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  Speaker 2: just as we have many members in one body, and
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  Speaker 2: all the members do not have the same function, so
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  Speaker 2: we who are many, are one body in Christ, and
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  Speaker 2: individually members one of another. Since we have gifts that
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  Speaker 2: differ according to the grace given to us, each of
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  Speaker 2: us is to exercise them accordingly. If prophecy according to
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  Speaker 2: the proportion of his faith, service in his serving, or
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  Speaker 2: he who teaches in his teaching, or he who exhorts
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  Speaker 2: in his exhortation, he who gives with liberality, he who
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  Speaker 2: leads with diligence, he who shows mercy with cheerfulness.
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  Speaker 1: to insight dot org slash offer Chuck title today's message,
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  Speaker 1: how a renewed mind Thinks.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that helps to have a word picture
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  Speaker 2: in your mind when you're approaching a book of the
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  Speaker 2: Bible or a letter in the New Testament. It occurred
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  Speaker 2: to me this last week that a good word picture
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  Speaker 2: for the Letter to the Romans would be a crossword
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  Speaker 2: puzzle where you work both vertically and horizontally in the project.
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  Speaker 2: The first eleven chapters of the Letter to the Romans
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  Speaker 2: are for the most part vertical in nature. They speak
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  Speaker 2: often of God, of the work of God, as he
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  Speaker 2: reaches his great arms of mercy and love into the
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  Speaker 2: ranks of humanity, and by his grace selects people like
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  Speaker 2: you and me, And as we trust in His son
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  Speaker 2: as Savior, he gives us the righteousness of Christ. He
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  Speaker 2: declares that we are righteous as righteous as his Son,
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  Speaker 2: and we therefore in gratitude to Him. Again, out of
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  Speaker 2: a vertical gratitude, we live out our lives to please him.
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  Speaker 2: We have a peace with God, we have a relationship
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  Speaker 2: with God. We begin to develop a walk with God
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  Speaker 2: for his great glory and purpose. Even in chapters nine,
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  Speaker 2: ten and eleven, where the Jews are brought into focus
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  Speaker 2: and we learn of our being grafted into that vine
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  Speaker 2: and by his grace gentiles being included in this family
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  Speaker 2: of God. Again we are grateful to Him, and our
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  Speaker 2: focus is vertical. When you get to chapter twelve, all
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  Speaker 2: the way through chapter sixteen, it seems as though the
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  Speaker 2: focus turns from the vertical to the horizontal. We learn
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  Speaker 2: in these last five chapters twelve through sixteen something of
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  Speaker 2: how we relate to one another who are in the
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  Speaker 2: family of God, understanding our role, our gifts, the purpose
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  Speaker 2: for which we are left on this earth, and then
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  Speaker 2: how to relate to one another in harmony and love
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  Speaker 2: and compassion and mercy and forgiveness and always grace. The
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  Speaker 2: turning point in these two focuses would be at Romans
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  Speaker 2: chapter twelve, verses one and two, where Paul urges us
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  Speaker 2: almost as if he's on his knees, saying, I beseech you,
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  Speaker 2: I urge you, by the mercies of God, that you
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  Speaker 2: present your bodies a living sacrifice. Remember last time we
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  Speaker 2: were together, we talked about the role of being believers
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  Speaker 2: who place ourselves our bodies on the altar. By that
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  Speaker 2: the symbolism includes the senses that characterize our physical emotional lives,
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  Speaker 2: as well as the organs literally our eyes, our ears,
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  Speaker 2: our mouths, our vocal cords, our hearts, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: our stomachs, our whole being to God. Some of us
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  Speaker 2: have more to offer to God than others, don't We
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  Speaker 2: We lay ourselves before the Lord, and as living, not
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  Speaker 2: dead or dying, but as living sacrifices. We conduct ourselves
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  Speaker 2: for His great glory and for His purpose. But all
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  Speaker 2: of that happens because we have the mind that's been
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  Speaker 2: renewed or is being renewed. Actions occur because there are
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  Speaker 2: right thoughts, and right thinking begins when the mind has
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  Speaker 2: been renewed. And if I were to put verse two
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  Speaker 2: into simple, everyday language, I would say, as we are
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  Speaker 2: transformed in mind, we begin to see life through God's perspective.
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  Speaker 2: We handle trials as Christ would handle. We deal with
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  Speaker 2: difficulties as Christ dealt with difficulties. We approach the challenges
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  Speaker 2: that hit us and sometime cut our legs out from
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  Speaker 2: under us as Christ handle the challenges in his life.
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  Speaker 2: All of that ties into how we think. Thinking correctly starts,
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  Speaker 2: of course, in the mind. To break patterns of the
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  Speaker 2: way we were taught to think is a big part
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  Speaker 2: of the work of the Holy Spirit. Look how the
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  Speaker 2: verse reads, Do not be conformed to this world, but
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  Speaker 2: be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that
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  Speaker 2: you may prove what the will of God is, that
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  Speaker 2: which is good and acceptable and perfect. In this world
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  Speaker 2: we are barraged constantly with temptations and force. Great areas, fortune, fame, power, pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing innately wrong in any of the four. Nothing wrong
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  Speaker 2: with a great amount of money, nothing wrong with fame.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing is wrong with influence and power, or even with pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: God has given us all things richly to enjoy. However,
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  Speaker 2: from the world's perspective, it will twist those things and
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  Speaker 2: turn fortune into greed, or make fame a dominating force
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  Speaker 2: where we take advantage of, even abuse others. We take
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  Speaker 2: power that we're given, and we run over others, and
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  Speaker 2: pleasures become nothing but sensual pursuits that fulfill the sexual
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  Speaker 2: drives of our minds and our lives. When we begin
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  Speaker 2: to think with renewed minds, we address the fortune, fame, power, pleasure,
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  Speaker 2: your temptations wisely as Christ would do. It occurs to
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  Speaker 2: me when I'm reading verse two of Romans twelve, that
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  Speaker 2: we need a parallel passage out of Second Corinthians chapter ten.
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  Speaker 2: Please turn over there, just a couple of letters to
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  Speaker 2: the right. You'll get through first and then come to
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  Speaker 2: Second Corinthians. Notice chapter ten, which addresses the mind in
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  Speaker 2: verses three, four and five. I want to suggest to
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  Speaker 2: you that the fortresses and the towers, and the imaginations
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  Speaker 2: and the words used by the apostles, speculations, all have
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  Speaker 2: to do with those things in our minds that had
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  Speaker 2: been long standing ways of thinking. And it's the work
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  Speaker 2: of the spirit of God to come through and destroy
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  Speaker 2: those things that have been in place all this time
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  Speaker 2: through our secular lives, and rebuild them as Christ would
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  Speaker 2: have them rebuilt. Look at Second Corinthians ten three. Though
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  Speaker 2: we walk in the flesh, stop right there. We conduct
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  Speaker 2: our lives in the flesh. We drive our cars, we
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  Speaker 2: go to work, We deal with life, We handle difficulties,
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  Speaker 2: we relate to others, we solve problems. We address issues
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  Speaker 2: in a flesh sort of way. We do it with
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  Speaker 2: our hands, with our minds, and even with our emotions
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  Speaker 2: and our wills. Though we walk according to flesh, the
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  Speaker 2: real battle is not of the flesh. It is not visible,
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  Speaker 2: It is invisible. See how he reads, how he writes,
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  Speaker 2: we do not war according to that same flesh. Now
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  Speaker 2: he explains that for the weapons of our warfare are
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  Speaker 2: not of the flesh, but divinely powerful. For the destruction
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  Speaker 2: of fortresses, I want to suggest these fortresses are long
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  Speaker 2: standing habits of thought. At least that's one way to
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  Speaker 2: view this. The warfare that goes on is in the mind,
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  Speaker 2: where the spirit of God comes to terms in our
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  Speaker 2: minds with long standing ways of thinking. Could be negativity,
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  Speaker 2: could be lust, it could be greed, It could be
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  Speaker 2: a power hungry mentality. But the spirit of God goes
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  Speaker 2: to work dealing with divine power in the destruction of
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  Speaker 2: fortresses that have been erected in our minds. Go further
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  Speaker 2: in verse five, we are destroying speculations. There's another category
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  Speaker 2: we'll not get into. In fact, every lofty thing raised
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  Speaker 2: up against the knowledge of God, how eloquent is that
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  Speaker 2: raised up against the knowledge of God? And here's our goal.
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  Speaker 2: We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: If you were to ask me the goal of the
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  Speaker 2: believer as it relates to the mind, it is to
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  Speaker 2: come to the place where every thought is captive to
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  Speaker 2: the obedience of Christ. The lofty things that have stood
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  Speaker 2: up so long and tall in our minds have been removed.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them we learned from our parents. They weren't correct.
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  Speaker 2: Most of our parents met well, but what we learned
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  Speaker 2: from them was not God's way of dealing with things.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them were, So those stay in place. Some
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  Speaker 2: of the things we learned in education, some of them
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  Speaker 2: in our days at university, or maybe in graduate work,
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  Speaker 2: where we began to build a system of thought that
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  Speaker 2: filled our minds through which we interpreted life and by
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  Speaker 2: which we dealt with life. The whole point back in
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  Speaker 2: Romans twelve, turned back to verse two, is that we
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  Speaker 2: not be conformed to life in those towers and the
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  Speaker 2: realm of speculations and all those fortresses, but to allow
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  Speaker 2: the Spirit of God to renew our minds. I love
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  Speaker 2: the way Eugene Peterson paraphrases the Corinthian passage, listen to
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  Speaker 2: these words. The world is unprincipled. It's dog eat dog
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  Speaker 2: out there. The world doesn't fight fair, but we don't
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  Speaker 2: live or fight our battles that way. The tools of
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  Speaker 2: our trade aren't for marketing or manipulation, but they are
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  Speaker 2: for demolishing that entire, massively corrupt culture. We use our
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  Speaker 2: powerful God tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers
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  Speaker 2: erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought
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  Speaker 2: and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped
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  Speaker 2: by Christ love the way that reads Our goal is
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  Speaker 2: to bring a new structure of thinking as we deal
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  Speaker 2: with life. This is part of Christian maturity. This is
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  Speaker 2: part of training ourselves to think correctly. And as you're
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  Speaker 2: in the process of rearing your children, it's a part
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  Speaker 2: of teaching them how to do it. It's all part
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  Speaker 2: of that. Now, with all of that as a background,
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  Speaker 2: let's understand when we come to verse three down through
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  Speaker 2: verse eight, we are turning a corner toward the horizontal
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  Speaker 2: as we begin to see things correctly. So I suggest
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  Speaker 2: for our time together today, Verse three talks about thinking
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  Speaker 2: correctly about ourselves. Verses four and five have to do
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  Speaker 2: with thinking correctly about others in the body of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: and then six through eight thinking correctly about spiritual gifts.
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  Speaker 2: We'll come to the last two in a moment. Let's
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  Speaker 2: start with ourselves thinking correctly about ourselves. Look at his
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  Speaker 2: initial command, through the grace given to me, I say
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  Speaker 2: to everyone among you, that includes you, that includes me,
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  Speaker 2: Our name is all over everyone among you. I say
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  Speaker 2: to every believer not to think more highly of himself
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  Speaker 2: or herself than he or she ought to think. Let's
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  Speaker 2: stop right there. What's the command all about. It's about
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  Speaker 2: guarding against arrogance. In fact, I find it interesting and
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  Speaker 2: in fact intriguing that in one verse the apostle uses
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  Speaker 2: the same root word to think four times. He renders it.
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  Speaker 2: I say to everyone among you not to think there's
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  Speaker 2: the first one more highly of himself than he ought
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  Speaker 2: to think there's the second, but to think there's the third,
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  Speaker 2: so as to have sound thinking, there's the four and
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  Speaker 2: two of the four. There are prefixes that deepen the
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  Speaker 2: meaning of the word. For example, this word frae o
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  Speaker 2: p h r o n e o f o has
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  Speaker 2: as a prefix hoopair. We got our word hyper from it,
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  Speaker 2: so let's use that. I say to everyone not to
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  Speaker 2: hyper think about himself. In other words, don't think more highly,
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  Speaker 2: don't think of yourself as above anyone else, don't superthink,
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  Speaker 2: don't overthink. It's a statement against conceit and arrogance. How
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  Speaker 2: does that come out? How does that work its way out?
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  Speaker 2: Will a number of ways. People who are conceited focus
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  Speaker 2: on how much they have done, and they love to
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  Speaker 2: tell you how well educated they are, and they will
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  Speaker 2: frequently drop whatever degree they have in case you haven't
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  Speaker 2: heard in the last three or four hours. They're there
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  Speaker 2: to remind you again how intellectually gifted or how quick witted,
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  Speaker 2: how much money they make, how strong they are, how
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  Speaker 2: far they've traveled, why they're the best qualified to get
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  Speaker 2: something done, how they're more gifted, and often it comes
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  Speaker 2: out more sophisticated, how they're better read or wider, red
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  Speaker 2: and better trained, more handsome, more beautiful. You've been around it.
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  Speaker 2: They love to drop names. A great place for this
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  Speaker 2: to happen is it pastors gatherings. It's amazing. You'd think
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  Speaker 2: most of them knew Charles hadn't Spurgeon personally. It's remarkable,
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  Speaker 2: if not, that they've hung around with George Bush privately
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  Speaker 2: named rule mentioning the jobs they've done, or the things
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  Speaker 2: they've accomplished, or size of congregation. That's always one of
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  Speaker 2: those bragging points. You're in a career, you're in a world,
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  Speaker 2: you're in a kind of work where you've come across
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  Speaker 2: that sort of thinking. Somebody wrote a little piece that
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  Speaker 2: helps put everything in perspective. Sometime when you're feeling important,
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  Speaker 2: sometime when your egos way up, sometime when you take
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  Speaker 2: it for granted that you are the prize winning pup.
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  Speaker 2: Sometime when you feel that your absence would leave an
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  Speaker 2: unfillable hole. Just follow these simple instructions and see how
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  Speaker 2: it humbles your soul. Take a bucket, fill it with water,
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  Speaker 2: put your hand in it up to your wrist. Now
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  Speaker 2: pull it out fast, and the hole that remains is
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  Speaker 2: the measure of how much you'll be missed. Following our
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  Speaker 2: second morning service this morning, a fellow walked up to
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  Speaker 2: me and he's that I heard a great motto this
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  Speaker 2: past week. He said. It's a very simple one, but
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  Speaker 2: you'll remember it. The cemetery is full of indispensable people.
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  Speaker 2: You're on your way there, whether you want to admit
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  Speaker 2: it or not. You've got to put your pants on
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  Speaker 2: one leg at a time, and a half dozen other
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  Speaker 2: cliches you've heard most of your life. Please no arrogance.
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  Speaker 2: We can't stomach much more of it. Furthermore, it's very
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  Speaker 2: unattractive for any of us to feel we are something special.
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  Speaker 2: Now when you hear that, you think, well, what I
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  Speaker 2: ought to do is look humble. I need to be lowly.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why it reads, don't think of yourself more
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  Speaker 2: highly than you ought to think, but put yourself down
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  Speaker 2: a lot, look lowly, gravel, become a human doormat. No,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't say any of that. It says, don't think of
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  Speaker 2: yourself more highly than you ought to think, but think
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  Speaker 2: so as to have sound owned judgment. The word means reasonable,
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  Speaker 2: have a reasonable assessment of who you are. That's how
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  Speaker 2: to think correctly about yourself, meaning you have strengths. To
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  Speaker 2: deny them is to deny the truth. You have gifts.
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  Speaker 2: To know what your gifts are and to carry them
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  Speaker 2: out is a part of your obedience. You're calling to
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  Speaker 2: act like you don't have such gifts. It's not at
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  Speaker 2: all attractive, and it isn't humble. Martin Lloyd Jones tells
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  Speaker 2: of an experience he had at the train while waiting
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  Speaker 2: for his train, a man walked up to him and said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Jones, I am just a chimney sweep in the
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  Speaker 2: house of the Lord, worthless to the core. Let me
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  Speaker 2: carry your suitcase. I am a nobody, and you are
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  Speaker 2: a man of great gifts. Doctor Jones saw right through
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  Speaker 2: that nonsense and didn't deal too kindly with him. Fact
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  Speaker 2: as I call he said, you know, I think you're right.
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  Speaker 2: That's a wonderful way to bring him down, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: When they're trying to look helowly you agree with them. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to go that far. With a young
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  Speaker 2: man who lived with us for a few months that
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  Speaker 2: his favorite line to us to impress us was I
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  Speaker 2: just want to be a servant. I just want to
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  Speaker 2: be a servant. I just want to serve you in Cynthia,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it may take. So I'd ask him to do
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  Speaker 2: some things and he'd say, well, now here's another way
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  Speaker 2: we might go about I'd say, wait, well, I thought
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  Speaker 2: you were going to be a I know. And he
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to be a servant. He wanted to look
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  Speaker 2: like a servant. He wanted to talk like a servant.
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  Speaker 2: When you have a proper assessment of yourself, you serve
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  Speaker 2: without calling attention to it. But you don't do it
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  Speaker 2: because you're a nobody. You have an eternal soul for
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  Speaker 2: which Christ died. You will be rewarded for your good
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  Speaker 2: works done in the power of the spirit. God set
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  Speaker 2: his affection on you as he saved you and called
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  Speaker 2: you into his family. You're not a worthless nobody. You're
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  Speaker 2: not a worm of no value. He's not saying that.
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  Speaker 2: He said, don't think of yourself more highly than you
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  Speaker 2: ought to think, but have a good assessment of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Think correctly about yourself. He moves from there into our
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  Speaker 2: relationship with other believers. Verses four and five sounded first
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  Speaker 2: like a tongue twister. Did you get that when I
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  Speaker 2: read it earlier? Listen to this. For just as we
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  Speaker 2: have many members and one body, and all the members
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  Speaker 2: do not have the same function. So we who are
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  Speaker 2: many are one body in Christ and individually members one
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  Speaker 2: of another. Sounds luck those ads you hear on the
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  Speaker 2: radio were at the end. They tell you fifteen things
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  Speaker 2: that aren't good about the product. But it's like and
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  Speaker 2: you miss it. This is not a tongue twister at all.
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  Speaker 2: This is all about the body. Think first of the
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  Speaker 2: human body. Each one of us is made up in
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  Speaker 2: a human body with many parts, a number of organs,
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  Speaker 2: none of them seen. And the limbs that we have
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  Speaker 2: are different, They serve different functions. They're different from what
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  Speaker 2: the fingers do, and the fingers work is different from
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  Speaker 2: what the toes do. All of us, though we have
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  Speaker 2: many parts, really are made up of one body. And
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  Speaker 2: this body, if it functions correctly, works in harmony with itself.
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  Speaker 2: If the arm no longer works, it's called a stroke,
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  Speaker 2: and it is of no help in the body. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: it in many ways sort of gets in the way
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  Speaker 2: of the body as we try to go about our
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  Speaker 2: work with the part of our bodies that work. The
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  Speaker 2: whole point being, every part of our being is important
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  Speaker 2: and the renewed mind remembers that what is true of
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  Speaker 2: the human body is true of the Body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: There is no s's thing as an unimportant, devalued member
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  Speaker 2: there are some gifts that are more public and prominent
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  Speaker 2: This seems to emphasize is three particular things about the body. First,
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  Speaker 2: the importance of unity. It works together, so it is
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  Speaker 2: in the Body of Christ. Second is diversity, variety and mutuality.
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  Speaker 2: We care for each other, We notice each other, We
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  Speaker 2: relate to each other. One of us hurts, the other
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  Speaker 2: one hurts too. One of us is weeping, the other
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  Speaker 2: one cares. One is laughing, the other rejoices with them.
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  Speaker 2: This is all part of mutuality. So we have unity, diversity, mutuality,
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  Speaker 2: and it all works together.
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  Speaker 1: When we allow God to renew our minds. This enables
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  Speaker 1: to discover the unique spiritual gifts God has given us
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  Speaker 1: By doing that, you'll be able to see progress as
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  Speaker 1: God's Spirit fills your mind with his truth. First, Insight
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