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26 - Carnal Thinking vs Kingdom Thinking · The One Gospel Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Together with our host, Johann Tuit, we'll unpack scripture to understand what's written and grow as a disciple of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's open the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am your host, Johan Tut, and as always, I'm excited to share the Word of God with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I've been uh starting this teaching called Stinking Thinking.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_01: And um just to have a like a small recount, we have uh spoken about uh you know how you know we need to renew our minds and how we can renew our minds uh you know with the word of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um just continue here two Hi there and welcome to today's episode of One Gospel.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Yelan Tooth, and as always, I'm excited to share the word of God with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I've been teaching uh on uh stinking thinking, and uh what I have uh what I have covered in the previous episode is about you know how we are born into this world with a fallen nature, and that we are born into this world with a mindset that is not of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a mindset that is alienated from the things of God and the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is the mindset of the God of this world, you know, uh the spirit that is now working in the children of disobedience, in whom we also uh were uh before Christ came into our lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we are alienated, we were far off, and we were strange.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was a strange thinking.
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  SPEAKER_01: When Satan came to this world, he brought a strange thinking in alien thinking, and you know, that caused you know the world to think in a certain way that is not you know the way of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so uh it's the way of the world, it's the way of the God of this world.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, um, you know, and also by by our fathers, you know, they have encouraged us to think the way that this world thinks, to reason the way that this world reasons, you know, our our our mindset, our focus, the things that we meditate, ponder on, think on, speak on, you know, respond on and live by is according to the ways of this world.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's according to the course of this world, which is not the way of God, you know, and therefore the Bible says that we are no longer of this world, even though we are in the world, we are no longer of this world.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: And so I have shared on how you know we have been what how we have lived before Christ with this mindset that was alienated from the kingdom of God, and then Jesus came and Jesus called us to repent.
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  SPEAKER_01: And repentance in the in the New Testament in the Greek is met the new way, and it really means to think different, to change your mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what it literally means.
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  SPEAKER_01: And repent in the old covenant means shoop, and shoop just means return to starting point, start over again, and so it doesn't say change your mind because they couldn't change their minds, they couldn't change their mind in that sense, like you know, they could change their mind, like okay, I'm gonna put on blue socks, or no, I'm gonna put on white socks.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: They could put they could change their mind in that way, but they couldn't change their mind from the mindset of this world into the mindset of the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: They couldn't because the kingdom of God hadn't come yet.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then Jesus comes in Matthew 4:17 and he says, The kingdom of God has come near to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Repent and believe the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we showed that now we can adapt this mindset, we can accept this mindset that is becoming available for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a new faith system, it's a new way of thinking, it's a new way in this world, you know, that the kingdom of God brought when the kingdom of God came, and we can adapt that way of thinking, we can now think on the things of above, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when we repent, it means that we turn away from the old way of thinking and we adapt and accept this new way of thinking, and and that's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I've been covering that, and so there is where we left, and now we're gonna continue with it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, Father God, thank you for this word.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the name of Jesus, I pray that people will receive it, and it's gonna be a blessing to them and give you all the honor in Jesus' name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we now can change our minds.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can change our minds, we couldn't before Christ, uh, before the kingdom of God came.
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  SPEAKER_01: But now the kingdom of God has come, and now we can change our minds, we can put it off the old way of thinking, and we can put on the new way of thinking, and that's what repentance means that you start to think different.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh, you know, if you if you change your mind, you know, your mindset, you know, then you actually are renewing your heart, you are renewing your soul the way that he thinks.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: You are renewing that, you know, by changing your mind, by renewing your mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so let's quickly say what it says in Ezekiel, Ezekiel 18.
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  SPEAKER_01: A little bit more this way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ezekiel 18.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, and then it says in verse 30, very interesting, therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord God.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: For why should you die, O house of Israel?
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  SPEAKER_01: Get yourself a new heart and a new spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have no pleasure, verse 32, in the death of one who dies, says the Lord, therefore turn and live.
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  SPEAKER_01: So make yourself a new heart and a new spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, how do I make myself a new heart?
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  SPEAKER_01: This heart that it's talking about is a mindset.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have to make myself a new mindset, a new way of thinking.
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  SPEAKER_01: I cannot get myself a new fleshy heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, God will pull out my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh.
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  SPEAKER_01: By what?
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  SPEAKER_01: By the mindset that changes, by the born-again experience that I have, because I now receive the nature of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I have to make myself a new heart and I have to make myself a new spirit.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: This spirit is talking about your mindset as well, it's about your thinking.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I make myself a new heart, a new way of thinking, and I need to make myself a new spirit, a new mindset.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, how do I do that?
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  SPEAKER_01: By repenting, by changing direction, by thinking different, changing my mind.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the way that I do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it doesn't mean it means that you now no longer have to think in that works in law, in religion, in own performance, you know, and own capacities and all that stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to think anymore as the way thinks.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: Let me just say that again.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to think as the way thinks.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are no longer of this world, John 17, 16.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to think the way that this world thinks.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can now think as that as the kingdom thinks.
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  SPEAKER_01: We no longer have to think the things that alienate us from the things of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can think on the things of God, we can think on the things of above.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: You know, a mindset, a thinking that fills our thoughts with lust, with desire, and with pride, a mindset that causes us fear, doubt, and worries are all things of this world.
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  SPEAKER_01: 1 John 2 16 says that all that is in the world that is the lust of the eyes, and is the lust of flesh, and is the pride of life, it's not of God, it is of this world.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is not of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: The things of this world, the thinking of this world, the mindset of this world, the philosophy, the doctrine, however you want to say it, you know that the cause of this world is not of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's alienated from the things of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there is a carnal thinking that's from here down below, and there is a spiritual thinking that is from high where up, up from heaven, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: From the things of the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so let's read Matthew 16.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: I already said we're going to use a lot of Bible verses, and I think it's important because we need to stay in the accuracy of the word on what I'm teaching here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 16, verse 13.
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  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 16, verse 13 it says, When Jesus came into region of the Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?
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  SPEAKER_01: So they said, Some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, other ones say Jeremiah or one of the prophets.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then Jesus said to them, But who do you say that I am?
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  SPEAKER_01: And then Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then Jesus answered and said to them, Blessed are you, O Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood have not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so Jesus says to Peter, this thought, this thing that you say now comes from my father, comes from heaven.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a spiritual thought.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's something from the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not from man, it is from God.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's what he says.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then Jesus, after they spoke with them, he started to predict his own death and his resurrection.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: And then it says here in verse 21, Matthew 16, 21, From that time Jesus began to show to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and the scribes and be killed and be raised the third day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, Far be it from you, Lord, this shall not happen to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then Jesus turned and said to Peter, Get behind me, Satan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Get behind me, Satan, you are an offense to me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but of the things of men.
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, this is just like crazy if you think about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, just a few verses back, Jesus says, Man, this thought, you know, this this inspiration, this reasoning, this thing that you just said, you didn't receive that from man.
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  SPEAKER_01: You received that from God.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a that's a spiritual thinking, that's a spiritual mindset.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, the things that you just said is spiritual.
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  SPEAKER_01: You received that from my father.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then a few verses along the road, he says, Get behind me, Satan.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are not thinking on the things of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're an offense of me.
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  SPEAKER_01: You are not you're not you're not mindful of the things of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your mind is not full with the things of God, your mind is not full with the things of above, your mind is not full with the truth of the kingdom, but it's full with the with the things of the man of man.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what happened?
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  SPEAKER_01: What happened was that first he had a spiritual thinking, and now he had a carnal thinking.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so there is a carnal thinking and there is a spiritual thinking.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you see that that often also reads in some translations as a stumble block.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the things of man, you know, this worldly mindset is enmity against God.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: That doesn't mean that you are an enemy of God, but the way you think is enmity to God, to the things of God and the thinking of the kingdom, the kingdom mindset.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, and it's inspired by the devil, it it belongs to our fallen nature, a nature that we had before Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't, it doesn't, it isn't part, it doesn't belong to who we are now in Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: It just doesn't belong there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So carnal thinking is a stumble block for God to to flow in and through your life with his divine flow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because you do not trust in God.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: When Adam and Eve sinned against God, they didn't trust God and what he had said, and they trusted the alien with his mindset and thoughts and words and thinking and whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they started to think and to started to believe what he said instead of what God said, and so it was a lack of trust.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: It was a lack of knowing what God said, you know, and believing the lie from the enemy, and they adapted that mindset and they didn't trust God, and so it was a stumble block for God, you know, to work in and through their lives, and because the flesh, you know, desires against the spirit, and the spirit desires against the flesh, and so those two are opposite of the gat of each other, Galatians 5 17.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: Now let's go quickly to Romans 8.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: Romans 8.
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  SPEAKER_01: Romans 8, verse 1 it says, There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: And then it says in verse 5, for those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_01: For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace, because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: So then those who are in the flesh cannot please God, but you are not in the flesh, but you are in the spirit, if indeed the spirit of God dwells in you.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he is not of his.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that's a lot.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: But listen, there is no condemnation, you know, for those who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit, that have this mindset of the things of above, that are thinking on the things of above, and therefore acting on the things of above, walking according to the things of above.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and it says here that those who live according to the flesh, that are fleshy, sensory men, they live and they have their minds set on the things of the flesh.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: They are focused on the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh and the pride of life.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: They are focused on the things here down below, the course of this world that is inspired by the God of this world.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: That's the spirit that is working in the children of disobedience.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: These are the people that set their minds on the things of the flesh.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: But those who live according to the spirit, they set their minds on the things of the spirit.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: They set their minds on the things of above.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you set your mind on the things of the flesh, if you set your mind on, you know, how the world thinks and reasons and all this kind of things, then that is enmity against God.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's enmity against God.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: And so those who are in the flesh cannot please God, but you are not in the flesh.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: So the word of God says that I am no longer in the flesh because I am now in God, I'm in the spirit, but I can still live after the flesh.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: I can still think and set my mind on the things of my flesh, on the things of the flesh, on the things of this world.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: I can still think earthly instead of heavenly.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: I can still think naturally, carnally, with my sensory man instead of thinking spiritually, and set my mind on the things of above and think on the things of above.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: And so a carnal thinking, a carnal mindset, it keeps us away from the walking, uh, to walk in the things that God has for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: It keeps us away from it.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's enmity against God.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: Worry, doubt, fear, desire, lust, pride, the things of this world, they're all a stumble block for Christ, man.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand this?
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  SPEAKER_01: This offense that it is for Christ.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: This thinking is an offense for him.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_01: Thinking of man, thinking of this world is an offense to Christ.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: It is a stumble block, it just blocks him from flowing freely through your life because you do not think on the things of above.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: You are thinking on the things of the world, you do not trust in the things of above, you are trusting on the things of this world.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: And he he just can't work through a mindset like that.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: There is no trusting in God in his thinking, it's the mindset of this world.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: Sensory reasoning, thoughts influenced by circumstances, the thorns and the thistles, the noise and the distractions of this world, the doctrine and the philosophy of this world, these fiery darts, it all tries to stage a coup against your thinking.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: It tries to stage a coup against your mindset, you know, where where you know who you truly are.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: It tries to stage a coup, all that stuff tries to distract you, tries to tries to deceive you from who you really are in Christ Jesus.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_01: So they try to overflow your brain, you know, in such a way, influence your brain in such a way then that you only have poems and pistols, and you cannot think normally anymore.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: You can't think normally anymore because there's too much trash coming in.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I always say to people, you know, be careful to what you listen to.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: Be careful to what you set your heart on and what you think on.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: Be careful of what you're listening, you know, whether it's music, whether it's the news, whether it's television shows and programs and films, movies, series and all that stuff, you know, what you read, you know, the people that you're hanging around with, you know, and what they are talking, be careful to what you listen and what you set your heart and your mind on.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: Because when you start to think on these things, that's a problem, man.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's a problem.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: You can't think normal anymore.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: And so without you being aware of it, you know, when you start to think on these things and focus on these things and meditate on it, you know, without being conscious of it, you know, um uh being aware of it, you know, it's just you know, it it it it makes you, you know, that you're gonna stress out.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: And it makes you um worried, you know, about everything and anything.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: It just it's just like you know, it's like Marta.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Marta was constantly busy with all those things.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this, then I need to do that, if I'm gonna do that, then I'm gonna need to do this, I'm gonna go here, and I'm gonna go there.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's what you was constantly thinking, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: You know, your your thoughts, they are they are not your thoughts never stop being thoughts, you know.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: We have about 80,000 thoughts per day.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I've got millions, but you know, normal people have about 80,000 thoughts a day.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: 80,000 thoughts.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine that?
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: Then don't stand still for a second.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just going like, how I'm gonna do this, how I'm gonna go there, and if this happens, then that.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: And if that happens, then this, you know, I have to go here, I have to go there, I don't wanna do this, I don't want to do that.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no, no, you know, and how about this?
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_01: So you're constantly, constantly, it's just like going on and on and on and on and on and on.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't stop.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: No, my mind doesn't stop and at all.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: I can lay in my bed with Brenda, my wife, and just you know, talk with her, you know, tomorrow I'm gonna bake a cake, so I'm gonna need eggs, I'm gonna need milk, and you know, I'm gonna need wake up and say, I'm gonna need butter, you know, I'm gonna need flour, just continue the conversation because my mind just don't stop.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's just like constantly going on and on and on.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: And so if you're focused on your circumstances, if you are focused on the thoughts that bring anxiety, you know, that bring worry, then before you know, you are running over with all those doubts and fears and that stuff, you know.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: If you if your thoughts are being influenced by this world, if your thoughts are being influenced by the things of below, the things of the earth, the things of man, you know, the spirit of the God of this world.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: If you are thinking on those things, if your mind, if your thoughts are being influenced by those things, you know, it will cause you to have worry and anxiety and stress and you know, fear and doubt and all that kind of stuff.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: Because, you know, without you being aware of it, you are meditating on these thoughts.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: You are meditating on it.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: You need to submit your thoughts to God and then adapt his thinking.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: Now, there is a, you know, my mom always uh, you know, in when I was younger as a little kid, you know.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: My mom and dad always had these little tiles on the in the toilet that had these proverbs, you know, they have uh they have these sayings, you know, and and there was one hanging there, you know, and it was in Dutch, so the translation is not really cutting it, but still it will make a point.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: But it said something like this in English, it says thinking.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: First, I thought, don't think about it, and I did.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: But then two seconds later, I thought about it anyway.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's not that simple because you know what you do, you also think about it when you think you shouldn't think about it.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: And how true is that?
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: And if I look, you know, like my own thought life, you know, as I mentioned, I have millions of thoughts.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: My my head is like overloading all the time, you know.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: I speak against all the time.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: Silence in the name of Jesus, you know, it just keeps going and going and going and going and going.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: And so my thought life has a million little sidracks for each thought.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: So if I have one thought, then it has a lot of sidetracks for that same thought.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: So every thought has new possibilities, have new solutions, have new outcomes, new answers, and all that kind of stuff.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I've tried my whole life, I've tried not to think on all the things that I'm thinking.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: Does somebody recognize himself in that that you try to think, to not think on the things that you're thinking on?
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's impossible.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's impossible.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: The moment that you think I shouldn't think about it, you're thinking about it.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: The moment that you think, no, I I mustn't think that, you're thinking it.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you it's just impossible to take that under control.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: It never, never happened to me.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: So I thought I learned that as soon as thoughts are flooding my mind, my thinking, my thought life, then and they want to influence my thought like negatively, I'm I'm I'm I'm I I have taught that I shouldn't think, I mustn't think about it.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: I've taught myself, don't think, don't think about it.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: Because the moment you say don't think about it, you're thinking on it.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's very complex, my brothers and sisters.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: So Paul says in 2 Corinthians 10, verse 5, he says, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself to the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: So you take that carnal thought captive, you reject it, and you don't give it any thought.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: You just don't give it any attention, don't give it any thought.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: Because the moment that you give attention to it, you're attending it.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, that's what the word says.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: You're attending it because you give attention to it, then you know it will get a hold of you.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: And so you need to repent immediately, so change your mind immediately by thinking on the things of above.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna leave it here and I'm gonna continue in the next episode.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I really pray that you will bless and it helps you.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: You know, my English is not always perfect, but I really do pray that it I can bring over to you what I'm trying to say.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: But man, this is something powerful, this is something very deep.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm excited to go to the next episode.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: God bless you, and I hope to see you there.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: Bye-bye.
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