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Change Series - Part 2: No More Stinking Thinking (Change: Your Mind) | Andy Yeoh · Generations Church

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Hey, you welcome to the Generation's Church Podcast. We pray you will be
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blessed by this message. Today I made a word of God both encouraged and
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challenge you to be all God purpose you to be. Now, let's dive
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right in today's title is no more stinking thinking. We're talking about change,
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but we're talking about your mind. Change, but change your mind, Amen,
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Romans twelve, verse two. I think we touched on this last week.
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Do not be conformed to this world. We said last week. If
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you're not transforming, you are then just conforming. You're just becoming like everybody
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else or what the world wants you to be. But God wants us to
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transform by how, by the renewing of our mind. God actually told us
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the secret how to do this, how to become a new person by renewing
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your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect
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will of God. Amen. We all want to grow. Anyone here doesn't
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want to grow, and I don't mean sideways. I mean grow in knowledge,
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grow in heart, growing spirit, because all of us automatically grow older.
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You are now two seconds older than before. You have no choice.
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Growing oh is automatic. Growing up is optional. We want to grow up.
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You know, you look around the world, there are forty year olds
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who still behave like it's fourteen year olds because they've grown, oh, but
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not grown up. But we want to grow up. Amen. So growth
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that's like growth is about change. Somebody say change, growth is about change.
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If you don't change, you're not growing. So stop changing, you
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actually stop growing. There's no way you can grow without changing. Amen.
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And to change your life, you must change the way you think. The
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Bible says. You want to transform, You want to change change your mind,
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ringing your mind because behind everything you do, behind every behavior is a
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thought, is a thought. Whether the thought is active or is subconscious,
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there is a thought behind every action. Amen. So if you change the
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thought, you change the action. You change your to change your life,
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change the thinking, because every behavior is motivated by a belief, and every
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action is prompted by an attitude. Amen. The Bible says in Proverbs twenty
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three, verse seven, for as he thinks in his heart, so is
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he. So we become like what we think. The Bible says, for
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as he thinks it is hard, so is he. As you think in
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the inner man, is you think in your heart? That's who you become.
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You are what you think your life. My life is shaped by our
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thoughts, everybody. Okay, so the Bible has given a secret to transform,
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to become a new better person. Change your mind, change the way
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you think. It's kind of like an autopilot imagining a speedboat. Okay,
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everybody, imagine a speedboart Okay, the speedboat, and imagine this speed boat
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is set to autopilot to go east. Whereas is okay? Wherever is okay?
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One way. So let's just say easy is over there. Your boat
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is set to go to autopilot to go east. Themes a hands free it
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will just go over there right now to make the boat go west instead.
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When the boat has been autopiloted to go east. There's two ways you can
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do it. One he could, by sheer strength and greet just push the
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steirring west and make it go west. Right, And it could work,
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right, It could work until his muscles get sore and he gets really tired
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and he lets go for a while, and then what would the boat do?
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Just go back east again, because it's said to the old pilot,
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right, that's kind of like how most of us try to change our life,
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right, our life is set to autopilot to go one way because our
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thinking has not been renewed, so we go one way. But we share
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determination shure, like just brute strength. We try to change our life.
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And when our gods are down, usually when we are stressed out, our
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gods are down, we just go back to the same ord, same old
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habits. Because you know, this kind of determination is short term change.
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It's good for short term change, but not long term. In fact,
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the long term is a better, easier way change. The autopilot set it
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to go west, and you'll go that way. That is like our mind.
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Amen, Our mind is like that. When you change the way you
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think, you think west, or you think is when you change the way
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you think, then it goes that way. The actions and the behavior follows
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the thought follow me so far? Okay? Great? So Romans twelve us
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do says, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by
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the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and
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acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans telve us to in a new living
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translation, this is really this way because it sounds simpler. Don't copy the
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behavior and customs of this world. But let God transform you into a new
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person. God wants you to be a new person. Remember last week about
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new wine into new wine skins. You are the wine skin, God's spirit.
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God's work is the new wine. Amen. God wants to transform you
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into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know
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what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing
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and perfect his will really is. Amen. So change often starts where starts
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in your mind, because the way you think determines the way you feel,
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and the way you feel influences the way you act the way you think.
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So, for example, let's just say you think, simple simple example.
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Are you think money is to be spent? I have money is to be
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spent. Some people think money is to be saved. Some people think money
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is to be spent. Right, So how you think we effact the way
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you feel about money? Right? Oh, I have money. Money is
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to be spent. So when I see something I want to buy, my
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impulse will be to buy it because money is to be spent, not saved.
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So you end up buying the thing whether you need it or not.
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You see how our thinking is the root of it. And then in fact,
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the way you feel I must I must have this iPhone fifteen my work.
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Your current food works perfectly fine, but I gotta have this one because
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I need it when you really just want it. You see how our thinking
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does that. Yep, if it's in four verse seventeen to twenty four,
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this is a neutral living translation version, right, So it's okay with the
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Lord's authority, Paul says. Let me say this, leave no longer as
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the ungodly do, for they are hopelessly confused. Their closed minds are full
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of darkness. They are far away from the life of God because they have
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shut their minds and hidden their hearts against Him. They don't care any more
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about right and wrong, and they have given themselves over to immorl ways.
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Their lives are filled with all kinds of impurity and greed. But that isn't
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what you were taught when you learned about Christ. Since you have heard all
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about Him and have learned the truth that is in Jesus, throw off your
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old eble nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and
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through full of lust and deception. Instead, there must be a spiritual renewal
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of your thoughts and attitudes. You must display a new nature because you are
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a new person created in God's likeness, righteous, holy, and true.
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Amen. Cool. So the Bible says, don't be like the ungodly.
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If you all claim that you're in crime, and your Christians and the followers
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of Christ, we shouldn't be behaving like the world anymore. Right, we
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should and the way we should not behave the way anymore is to have a
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renewed mind in your mind. Amen. So discipleship is which is what we
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we say we want to do in church. The great commission, the command
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of God to us Exchristian is to make disciples. So discipleship is the process
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where we're all going through the rest of our Christian life. Disciplosh it in
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summary is described as to be like Christ. That's what we're being discipled to
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be. We're not discipling you to look like the pastor or disapple you to
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look like the church brand, or disciple you to look like I don't know
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what. Okay, but there's no discipleship. Discipleship is let's become like Christ.
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But to become like Christ is to develop the mind of Christ. Because
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the way God thinks affects the way he feels, and it influences the way
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he acts. Right Like for example, when Jesus saw the five thousand hungry
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people, the way he thought about people intros the way he act, he
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said, let's feed them. Was he gonna be a big problem feeding seven
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thousand, eight thousand people? Joshua does k thing? Hey, five thousand
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people, No joker. Imagine all the place you have to watch somebody chicken
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you to cook, all the rubbish after that. See, that's what the
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disciples saw. They're not bad people, they're practical people. Phelix said,
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no money, I can do this job. The rest say, Jesus,
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I have a batter idea. Why don't we just send them home? Let
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them buy their own food. No, people nowadays are very fussy. You
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know, someone k told someone you know, Vegan lah someone how to everybody,
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but had to let them choose. You See, if I, if
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I were one of the disciples, I would do the same thing like Jesus,
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paciously, like let's just let's just let them go, like get us
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some money, let him buy himself. Because I would I would have thought
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three steps a hit, Oh the rubbish later, Oh the requests you have
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to deal with it. Can you please give me chicken breas I don't want
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you can tie the chicken tag, yeah, kind of have the left one
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good left with a bit more more muscular or more linear, can because a
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left like chicken? So like you and all the requests, no, eight
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thousand people, all the children want to like, Oh I can I have?
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I did want to do now bro, so send them back. See
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the discappoos. We have thought of all the work and Jesus thought about.
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Just know they need to be fed. Let's just feed them. See thinking
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your mind is everything, Amen, it's really. If you don't like the
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way your life is, right now, try changing the way you think.
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I know it's easier sat than done, but it can be done. Otherwise
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the Bible won't say it right. So discipleship is to be like Christ.
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To be like Christ is to develop the minor Christ. Think like Christ and
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you will act like Christ. That's why the word repentance. When you say
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repent, he's not asking you to feel sorry about this thing you did last
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night, So you, guys, you not ask you to feel sorry.
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He's asking you to change your mind. The word repentance in the gree is
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meta noah, which means change your mind. That's repentance, because if you
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no longer think the same way about pawn. I know, I'm looking at
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you porn. It's like, okay, you okay, you wouldn't do the
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same thing we did anymore because you've changed the way you think about it.
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You look at it. It's disgusting. This is exploiting somebody's cousin's sister,
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brother. Yeah, okay, this is bad the way you think. Meta.
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Noah, there's repentance. Repent I feel so bad. I watched it
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last night. It's no, it's I don't think the same way about it
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anymore. Amen. So repentance is changing the way you think by adopting how
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God thinks about everything? What does God think about money? We think the
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same way. What does God think about relationships? We think? They say,
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what does God think about spouse? What a God think about work?
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What does God think about money? What does God think about anything? We
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adopt the way He think about everything, and that becomes our mindset. It
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changes our life. Amen. That's why in Philippines two five, he says,
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in your lives you must think and act like Christ. Jesus must think
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and act like Christ. Jesus everybody. Okay, you look too serious?
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Ah, do I need to tell some jokes? Huh? Okay, cool,
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you must think and act like Jesus Christ. Okay, So Christianity,
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discipleship, this thing we're trying to do here and live out here is not
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just a religion. It's not just a philosophy. I know I'm talking about
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thinking, but it's not just a philosophy. It's not just a way of
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thinking. It's a relationship and a lifestyle that is developed by the way God
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thinks. So if is so much to do with our minds, if we
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have to fix this mind in order to fix our life, Okay, let's
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address the problems with our mind. What is the problem in our mind?
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Next live? Please see If our mind had no problem, God would have
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pointed it out right. God, God would not say something like, don't
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worry about tomorrow. If we don't worry about tomorrow. The problem is we
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all worry about tomorrow. We all worry about mostly things we have no control
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off, like tomorrow, like what our kids will do when they go over
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season, and yeah, without us and all these things. God knows.
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That's why he says don't worry. He knows your fears, he says,
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don't fear. He knows our minds are messed up. That's why he said,
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we need our minds. So what's the problem in our mind? Okay?
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There are many people in our world today who think that the problem with
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our mind is that it doesn't have access to all the knowledge that he needs.
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Our brains don't know enough. We don't have enough knowledge. If only
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I know the Bible more, then O will be more spiritual. For example,
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if only I knew the ways to be prosperous, you know, then
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I will be a rich person. We think the problem of mind is that
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it doesn't have enough access to information or knowledge, or maybe we think it's
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therefore therefore, we think, maybe the is The solution is education. The
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more we learn, the smarter we will be, the better we'll be at
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life. We think that that's our problem with our mind, so therefore feed
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it with more information. It can happen in church too. We think that
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if we just listen to enough sermons, you know, the the the more,
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the more American, the better, or I don't know what, the
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more and more the better, and then we'll become better. We think that
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we think the problem of mine is information knowledge, education, and so we
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think to fix it is to learn more, hear more, listen more.
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But the Bible has a more profound analysis of our problem. So Effesions four
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twenty three says, be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Some say
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spirit. What on earth is the spirit of your mind? Mine is mind?
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Spirit? That one? What is it? But Paul talked about the
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spirit of your mind, and then yeah, what the world is this the
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spirit of mind? It means at least there's a at least this that the
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human mind is not just some sophisticated AI or authentic intelligence or computer. There
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is a supercomputer's managing data and then processes this data and then sends this data
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to the heart and then the feels what he feels. No, it's not
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just a machine. It means that our mind has a spirit. Somebody say
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spirit. In other words, our mind has this thing called a mindset.
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It has a spirit, It has a mindset. It means that our mind
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doesn't just have a view It has a viewpoint. Demissa, we all can
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look and see different. So Isaac and Aidan can look at the same girl.
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Which guy you want to look at? Me? I'm not a girl.
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This is your turns not to confess. Whicl you want to see Jeffrey
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okay? Cool? So he made Isaac and Aidan can look at Jeffrey and
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go Jeff, Jeff sorry Jeff, and go ada go Wow, he's good
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looking. I want to grow up and be like him. I know this
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perfect weight, perfect shape. I love it. I want to be like
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Jeff is said my goal? Are you blind? You call that good looking?
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Let me show you good looking? And you know, take a selfie
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of himself or something. Right. They are both looking at the same person,
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but they're seeing very different things. One seeing him as some wow,
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some goal to reach, and another one is like whoa, whoa, whoa,
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hands off? Right it happens. We all look, but don't see.
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We all have the same where we have the same view. We're looking
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at the same thing, we're listening to the same sumon, but we have
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a different viewpoint. We see it from a different angle. The spirit of
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our mind. So that means our mind doesn't just have the power to perceive
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and detect, but our minds has a posture, a spirit, a demeanor,
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a bearing, an attitude, a bent Because the spirit of our mind.
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Our mind has a spirit, it has attitude. It's not just machine
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ones and zeros. It's got an attitude. Amen, So we needs to
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it's not just some ones and zeros and just code it and then it just
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changes. It's got resistance. He's got attitude. It's got like I don't
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want this. No, don't try to change me. Don't don't. It's
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got attitude. And Paul says, we need to do not just renew the
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mind. But we knew the spirit of your mind. Are you okay?
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So far? And then we saw this. We see this in Romans one
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eight. Romans one today says this. And since they did not see fit
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to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debates mind to do what
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not to be done? Kind of like God gave up on some people who
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will not change their mind about God. Their mind is totally against God.
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In rebelling against God, God's like, okay, La, just just I
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will just leave it to you, okay. But this is who we are
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by nature. We're all born into a nature of sin. By nature,
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we are in rebellion against God. We don't think like God. We don't
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naturally think like God. Amen. We don't. That's how we have to
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be renewed. We do not see God as someone worthy of knowing well and
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not someone we treasure above all things. If you're really honest with ourself.
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And here's the elephant, right, we say, as Christians, we've been
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trained and groomed to say all the right hallelujahs at the right time, all
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the right amens at the right time. Right, see all the right things
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right. Thursday Nights, Now we have devotion with the youth on discord thirty
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minutes, nine thirty to ten. If your kids haven't told you yet,
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now you know. Ten Thursday Nights we for a thirty minute devotion. We
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just go straight into the word. No games, so nothing. You just
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goes straight into one worship song. We talk about the word. Last Thursday,
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we asked the question what do you value most in life? I mean,
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you hear a question like that, the Christian, you go better say
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God, my family, All these things we will say, but I challenge
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them, Hey, let's not just give all the right answers. Let's give
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real answers. What do you really mostly? For example, if there was
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a fire in your house, okay, and you're just in time, to
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be able to run in to grab something. Who would you grab first?
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Because that would say something right, That will say something right? What you
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value most harmony? If you were going there and grab your bible. Ah.
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But then you're complete saying, oh I look got the most hard what
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a god? But you grin there and grab your phone first or something,
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you grab your golf bag, or going in there and grab your coach back
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your Michael, cause I don't know. He will say something about us.
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Right, there's a fire, you're run into the house. You can grab
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one day, you get your rubber duck. No one, no do that,
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your cattle? No man? What do you value most? So God
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is telling us our natural minds, we don't value God most. We don't.
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We don't naturally do that. We don't naturally get up and want to
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pray. There's so most of the time it's called it discipline. Yeah,
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and so God says, okay, there's this battle in the mind Romans one
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twenty three, and they exchange the glory of the immortal God for images resembling
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mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. See this is called idolatry.
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We've replaced the real God with false gods, and the false gods can
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be anything can be black, pink can be, pokemon can be tailors,
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sweet, your Instagram will come, your job, someone's even our own children
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can become bad if you're not careful women. This is what human being does.
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We now fall in mind, we replace the immortal good with mortal images.
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And for some of us, and for many of us, if we
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care to be honest, the mortal image we worship most is the one we
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see in the mirror. That's the one we worship most, right, I
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mean, just think about the time you spend the last one week. What
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do you do? Some of you did your hair, you went to salon,
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some of you went shopping. You bought a new belt, I don't
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know. So you went online and uh pick for robots. You bought a
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game or you I don't know, you bought a book because you want to
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fied your mind, study or so many things we did? How many of
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those things? Actually it's invested into your spirit. Most of it, most
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of it, if you're honest, even myself, right, most of it
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is I of physical body because we worked out, or maybe our mind because
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we read a book, or we did research and A lot of it is
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got to do with just the self, right, And it's why God says,
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hey, we have exchange real, the real God, with all these
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other lesser gods and deaths idolatry. So see, that's what's wrong with our
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minds. That's what our minds need to change, because already it's not naturally
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wired to behold the glory of the immortal God, and we behold the glory
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of something else, the one in the mirror or somewhere else. So we
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need to be renewed. Amen, Now is it any wonder now we'd be
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reading Romans twelve verse two, right, we haven't read twelve verse one.
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You can see what telve on one says. I beseech you. Therefore,
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how don't you use this language? I beseech you? Who police? I
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b sees you jan lasaman okay, I b seich you. I urge you.
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I use everything within me to encourage you. Friends, brother and sisters,
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please by the mercies of God, meaning because God has been so good
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to you. Because he's been so good to you, he's given you his
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mercy and grace, things you don't deserve. He's given you everything by virtue
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of that please love, please wall say, please present your body's living sacrifice
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holy acceptable to God. Which is your reasonable service. He's not even radical,
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living wrong. We think live for good so radical. No, the
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Bible says, what do you mean redical? It's the right thing to do.
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He's like, if the bread is wanting to gain, you pay and
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gain. Oh, you're so ridical. I paid money for bread. It's
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not so, it's it's reasonable. God is saying, I've done so much
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for your life. It's only reasonable. Reasonable you live for me. And
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this whole thing, this whole ver was one I can summarize himTo this one
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word, worship. All of life is about worship. Amen. And verse
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two is telling us you can't do this if you don't change your mind.
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You can't make all of your life into worship until God, if you don't
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change the way you think. If some of your days in the week is
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God cannot touch. And God can touch my Saturday. God can catch my
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Sunday and maybe Thursday nights too. But God can't touch the other day because
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that's mine. Then not all of life is worship. Worship is not the
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twenty minutes before at the beginning of the service, there's four songs, two
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songs, three songs, twenty songs. If you come from those churches,
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I don't know. It's not that singing is part of expressional worship. But
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worship is all of life. The Bible says presents your body as a living
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sacrifice, living sacrifices on them. You put it on the althar, you
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guts get you can crawl off. No, not today, God, maybe
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tomorrow. I was sacrificed myself constantly happen. This is a self discipline to
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put yourself on the altar every day. Okay, God, I'm yours at
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work, I'm yours. In class, I'm yours. When nobody is looking,
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I'm yours. How I spend my money is yours. How I don't
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spend money is yours. How I treat people, it's yours. How I
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treat the God that serves us every day is this worship. The aim of
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life is worship, and we cannot do it if we don't change the way
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we think. And seriously, if we are honest, we don't think like
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we should think, because there are still areas we just do not want God
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to touch. We're very protective over certain things. Amen. Again, I'm
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not I'm not asking you to be to open yourself up to abuse. You
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know, this is a lot of spiritual abuse in churches everywhere, right or
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we usually scout like concepts to guilt trip you into serving and giving, and
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I don't want to be like that. Get hold me, uncomfortable. This
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is not what I'm trying to say. I'm not trying to say give your
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life to the church where you know in just six days a week. Now
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you're not holy enough. No, yeah, you know holy because you're not
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the seven days a week. Uh, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying
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everything's worship. Everything. How you talk to your grap driver, it's worship.
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How to talk to your kids worship. Everything is worship. How do
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you treat your employees? Worship Gods's do everything. Everything means what I'm sorry,
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but everything. It's you. When you poop what you got, thiles
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always worship you know how you poop poo? Holy? Amen? Everything means
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everything. Amen. So we need God to renew our minds so that we
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can worship Jesus through our very lives. This is my point today. Why
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we need our minds renew and change is so that we can effectively worship Jesus
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through everything, not just through songs. Until this is renewed, we can't
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fully worship him, which is the point of life to worship Jesus. Amen,
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we know what is important because how we think affects how we feel and
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how we act, and how we act forms our lifestyle. All the sum
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of your behavior becomes your lifestyle. Yeah, your lifestyle lif styf could be
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like every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, I jog. That's your lifestyle because
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every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, you get up and you put on your
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shoes and you run your action. Some of your action becomes your lifestyle.
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Every month, every morning you wrote, you do that consistently. It's your
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lifestyle. So you want to change your lifestyle, you change the way you
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act, You change the way you act. You have to change the way
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you think. Now ultimately you get a you have healthy thinking, you have
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healthy lifestyle. Follow me so far. So we need God to renew our
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minds because that's how we can worship Jesus through our very life. Because how
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we think affects, how we act, and how we act forms our lifestyle.
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So if you want to live a lifestyle or worship, renew your minds.
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Worship God in spirit and in truth. That is to say, worship
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God both in your heart and in your mind. The hard part we can
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understand because with most of the time worship we feel like, oh I'm so
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touch God. Amen, hallelujah. Yes, now I'm challling. Just to
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worship God with our mind too. Worship God to the way we think about
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business, about family. Amen, Word God in spirit and in truth.
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