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is [Applause] [Applause] be worthy of the highest praise [Music] [Music] me lamb of god messiah of all names precious lamb oh god messiah [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] is [Music] glory i will see his face and there i'll serve my king forever in that hole [Music] well good morning it kind of sounded like curry well good morning that's how it is yeah that's how it starts praise the lord good to be with you this morning are the saints excited about jesus excited to be in covenant excited to be baptized hallelujah amen well i declare today is going to be a good day because today's the day he made and we have the privilege to rejoice and be glad in it it's your privilege it's your choice amen amen um just before we get started i want to say welcome and those joining us online wherever you are uh literally wherever you are all over the globe this is awesome um just for us here i want to just make you aware of some some new handouts and stuff that we have we have a jglm basic principles you can kind of take this wherever you go as the basic principles that we follow as those that minister under the name of j.j lim so you can these are all in the foyer for you to grab what the bible says about divine healing so just reminders of of what what the word of god says so you can stand on it just something you can take with you um this is my brother these are all by brother carrie blake uh this is the simple gospel it's a pamphlet that brother curry has created um it just talks about the the gospel you know and uh put it in a simple way that you could uh hand to somebody they could look through and then we have something that just talks about the jglm app and so just want you to know that all those are available in the lobby for free or if you um get it from guy will probably be five dollars [Laughter] he's always telling me everything so let's pray before we uh enter into the word of the lord this morning lord we just thank you and honor you for your word we do lord your word is amazing you hold all things together by the word of your power and that's us included lord we thank you that your word is a light to our feet a lamp to our feet and a light to our path and we lean not on our own understanding but in all our ways we acknowledge you because we trust lord that you are faithful and that you will accomplish the things that you said you would accomplish which is your word and we thank you lord that your word is alive and active in us working in us working through us that your word is spirit and life we thank you for your holy word given to us this morning we receive it with thanksgiving in jesus name amen amen amen amen amen amen um what i wanted to speak on this morning uh i asked the lord last night um lord what do you want me to share i went to a couple different thoughts and then i finally settled on the mind of christ i know i've been talking a few weeks now uh when i've been in the pulpit about godly conduct our character our nature our new nature and remember everything that that we share everything that so you always have to view everything that jesus talked about everything the disciples talked about the apostles talked about when they wrote when they shared when they spoke it is all through the lens of the new creation they're not trying to suppose principles upon non-believers and saying hey if you just do these things then you'll it'll be okay no no that's that's a perversion of of you know god's truth which was what people do all the time they write books they take god's truth they take him out of it and they take these principles and they give him to non-believers and say hey just live this and with with the expectation and the hope now see here's here with the expectation the hope that it'll somehow bring salvation if they just do it but the word jesus is very clear salvation is only found in one name right and if you call on that name you shall be saved amen and so it's not a matter of just doing doing the principles it's about being born again having your nature changed and then you live from your that new nature amen that's what christianity is it's not just another way it's the way it's the way it's the only way right humanity diverted from the way when adam fell you understand that when adam and eve fell they diverted from their the image of god they diverted from the way that is god and jesus came back to restore us back to that way and the way he did is is is we died with him when we were baptized and then we rose with him when he raised from the dead in newness of life and so we put on a new nature we are partakers of his divine nature and everything that jesus teaches and everything that the disciples and apostles teach they teach from the place of the new nature so you have to view it in that that light so when we talk about the mind of christ we're talking about the mind that we ought to possess that is consistent with our new nature it makes sense and so because this is more of like a bible study class sunday morning class let's let's define some terms so when we talk about mind when we when you hear the word mind and this is it's okay for you to respond um what how would you define the word mind tell me and then i'll repeat it so that people online can can hear christ mind what else when you hear the word mind reason thinking knowledge anybody else underst human understanding say it again empty is that from you from experience that i just play with we say oh no most no brother you have you have the mind of christ the amen training up the mind amen uh so looking in in the the hebrew or excuse me the greek dictionary and the thayer's dictionary the strong's concordance uh these are some of the definitions that that arise and it's a lot of what we said it says comprising alike the faculties of perceiving or perspective so the mind is the place by which we perceive or where we draw our perspectives from you you heard the the uh the the saying uh your pers was your perception is reality or something like that you know and and there there's a a bit of truth to that but it's not totally true you know what i'm saying so just because i perceive something doesn't make it reality maybe it makes it my reality but my reality could be totally messed up and skewed right so yeah perception or perspective can be your reality but you could have a wrong perspective you could have a wrong perception and then create a totally bogus reality right because jesus is the way the truth and the life and i believe the word truth can also be translated or which jesus is the way the truth and the life one of them can be translated as reality he is the reality which is true he is our reality we look to jesus to know who we are we look to jesus to know who we ought to be who we have become how to think how to live and this is why it's important when we talk about the mind of christ so we talked about perceiving or perspective understanding somebody talked about understanding the mind is the place of our understanding and the the mind is also the place of our feeling of how we feel it's it's from our mind right our feelings don't come from touch you feel from the way you think right because if if feelings are comple are only relegated to the physical feelings are immaterial because the feelings are only relegated to the physical then how can you have your feelings trained to discern from good and evil right now now i'm not talking about the senses of touch and taste those are feelings i'm talking about emotions when i when i say feelings those are in our minds in our in our thought processes and and those things can be washed by the blood and the truth of god those things can be renewed they're immaterial right uh it's where we judge from judgments right uh it's actually when you look at this this up in in the um in the thayer's dictionary it it says judging with the parentheses of calmly soberly and impartially calmly soberly and impartially judging you know that you know um judgment is a a hot topic in the world today you know oh don't judge me don't judge me you know don't only god can judge me when people say that i'm like you have no idea what you're saying like the bible says this is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god only god can judge me okay do you really want god to judge you in your sin like it would be better if if you let me call out whatever things need to be touched by him so that you don't have to be placed in the hands of god who will judge you for you know what you do and what you say and how you think like there are no secret deals under the table with god well you know my circumstances such this and that and the other and you know you know god just understands and he treats me differently because you know you know me and god you know we got an understanding no it doesn't work that way there's no you know he shows no impartiality you know and so um and a lot of people think that um that you know jesus says you know when jesus says do not judge he says judge not lest ye be judge judge not lest ye be judged with the same measure you meet it will be measured back to you so he's saying don't he's not saying don't ever judge he's saying be careful how you judge because i could judge you from the standpoint of blessed man i judge you you're a blessed woman of god i judge you you are you're a healed man of god it's still a judgment that i'm declaring guess what that will be measured back to me but if i judge you as no good well guess what we measured back to me right so he's not he's not just saying don't judge ever but he's saying judge with righteous judgment judge with righteous judgment because the same measure you meet it'll be measured back to you right so so that is so when you talk about the place of judgment is in our mind we do it calmly soberly and impartially and righteously okay uh it's the place where we make determinations in our mind also it's the place under the seat of our intelligence right our intellect is is in our mind so uh that's just quickly well that it wasn't too quick uh talking about some some definitions of of the word mind yes yeah those who are spiritual judge all things yeah um it says those who are spiritual are judged by no one but we don't come under judgment but he was spiritual judges all things why because yeah when you're when you're spiritual now understand when he says spiritual he's not talking about this false like sense of like you know i know it all and i'm you know i'm special you know no he when he's talking about spiritual he's meaning it from the the most purest biblical sense scriptural sense you know there ever was and there ever will be so when he says he who is spiritual he's somebody he who is who is has dealt with pride has dealt with ego has dealt with you know the desires of the flesh the desire he's the one who was walking in the fullness of the spirit when he says spiritual that's what he means so he who is spiritual is judged by no one but he also has the ability to judge all things because what he judges with with calmness with impartiality with righteousness and soberly right and that's where it says he who is spiritual if someone falls under sin that him who is spiritual restore such a one right so he shows the distinction of spirituality so um but we're going to get into first corinthians chapter 2 uh in us in a moment um but this is why it's important for us to talk about the mind of christ because you're going to begin to see i'm going to lay out some scripture to see the importance of the mind and i know we know in romans chapter 8 it talks about uh the bible talks about two types of minds okay it talks about being double minded so it talks about you can you can have two types of minds right so you can have uh a carnal mind or you can have a mind that is ruled by the spirit a spiritual mind or we could say the mind of christ that'll be the best term for me to define it you can have a carnal mind or you can have the mind of christ right and so this is why it's important for us to make sure and ensure that we are always operating out of the mind of christ because we're called to love god with all of our mind we're called to love god with all of our mind so you cannot love god from a carnal mind you you cannot you can't love your neighbor from a carnal mind so that's why because remember the two greatest commandments remember this is involving one of the two greatest commandments jesus says which is to love god with all you are including your mind and to love your neighbor as yourself so it's important that we understand the importance of our mind of the mind of christ and how it must be submitted to it our mind must be submitted to first corinthians 4 14 15 it tells us uh paul's saying what is then the outcome i will pray with the spirit and i will pray with the mind also i will sing with the spirit and i will sing with the mind also so god's not into you just you know not using the mind you know oh the mind is is evil you know like you know the scripture that says the heart is wicked above all else you know and people you know christians still believe that like their heart is still wicked above all else well you have to reconcile that with with god saying i'm gonna give you a new heart i'm gonna take the old heart out and i'm gonna give you a new heart now the only thing that we don't see is god saying i'm going to give you a new mind but he does say i'm going to put my law in your mind right he doesn't he never says i've never seen where he says i'm going to give you a new mind but he says i'm going to put my law in your mind and your job is to ensure that you renew your mind as often and as quickly as you can to the truth into the mind of christ and so when we talk about the mind of christ we're talking about his perspective we're talking about what he knows what he understands and i it's brilliant i remember brother curry talked about you know how so many people are talking about when jesus is coming back the the you know when when the trump when the final trump sounds and jesus ascends and with with the voice of an archangel and the end times and everybody's always trying to figure it out and what's so interesting to me is that people um i remember i sent an email out um about the healing camp no no it was about the dht the weekly dht and i got an email back from somebody saying oh you know this is nice and useful but on july 25th we're going to be transformed and i was like what and then they like plug their youtube channel i was like huh so i was a little interested so i went and checked it out and this person is just talking about how jesus is coming the rapture is going to happen july 25th and i was like bummer you know like and i'm looking at the comments people are like oh yeah right on yeah right on and i'm like so i'm like okay i'm interested okay i'm interested because because people generally always say the god the father told me the father revealed it to me the father revealed it and then you go and you look at and all they do is just look at the process of time and this calendar and if you multiply this times that and you subtract this and you carry the one and then you see we get this time in this date and if you use the hebrew calendar but you don't use the hebrew calendar but you use this calendar and use so all they did is just by a process of trying to figure it out figured it out and then they they say oh the father told me no you just figured it out or you thought you figured it out through a process of trying to figure it out well guess what what's today september 12th you know like and it what amazed me is that this particular person kept going back and saying oh i forgot to carry the two oh i forgot to oh i forgot to and then now instead of actually saying okay the rapture is going to happen or we're going to be transformed they're just saying oh it's watch dates now oh here's the new watch date that's every day that's every day right because even paul in his time was like you know watch you know be sober minded because he could come at any moment he paul believed jesus was coming back in his time and so he lived like that and he taught others to live like that and we need to live like that also but see the tell sign to me as to if people really believe these so-called predictions is what are they doing what are they doing are they out running in the streets trying to get as many people saved no which tells me they don't believe it at all they don't believe it at all you know i mean at the very least i remember there was a prediction i don't know if it was like 15 years ago uh knows was it 20 it was either y2k no couldn't have been y2k it had been 2012. where where uh so many people were totally convinced that god was going to come back that jesus was going to come back and the world was going to end and yada yada yada and billboards were going up i at least people were like selling everything they had like at that level they were believing it which is a bummer because a lot of people you know sold everything they had so either a lot of people sold everything they had and then like went up to a mountain or they like bought a whole bunch of junk thinking that the world was gonna hit i shouldn't laugh but it's just it's it's a bummer that people get carried away with these things but the reality is i said all that to make the point that we have we have the opportunity the ability the privilege to know what christ knows and if christ knows when he's coming back then we would know but even he even said i don't know only the father knows that's the wisdom of god that's the wisdom of god it's like knowing the day you die you know like what would you how would you live if you knew when you when the moment exact moment you were gonna die like you might do whatever and then when you get close then reconcile not you i'm saying people nobody in this room would do that but but people you know because that's how people are you know and so but it's it's the wisdom of god to say listen nobody will know not even the son knows only the father knows the father will determine okay now it's time and then all of heaven will know and then those who are christ-minded spiritually minded we might know too that i mean because it i'm saying he's not going to say all right guys it's on the calendar he's going to say no now's the time and then it happens that's how i believe it will happen and if i'm wrong it doesn't matter because i'll be with him anyway so i'm again i'm not predicting a date i'm just saying when god determines its time it will be time jesus will know and if i'm christ-minded i will too in that moment so but we have the the grace and the privilege to pray with our mind this is the importance of of of not just tossing out the mind the mind is important because we pray with our mind we pray with our spirit and we pray with our mind so there's times where we pray with our mind but if your mind is carnal you might be praying a miss like james says and if you pray and miss his will you will not have received the things you ask for right he says you do not receive the things you ask because you ask according to your own pleasures that you may spend it on your own desires that's carnality but if we pray with the mind of christ then we have those things we ask but there is the aspect of praying with the mind he says also i sing with the spirit but i also sing with my mind so it's important to sing with the mind also paul says romans 1 28 he says and just as they did not see fit to acknowledge god any longer god gave them over to a depraved mind to do those things which are not proper well this is why we need to have the mind of christ because apart from him we can be given over to a depraved mind that's essentially happens when our conscience gets seared we steer our conscience we keep blowing past the the the know of the holy spirit the uh uh the holy spirit the stop of the holy holy spirit the red flag of the holy spirit speaking in in our conscience and what happens is our our conscience gets seared and then you start finding yourself compromising and compromising a little bit more and a little bit more a little bit more and then at some point you just are given over to a depraved mind and it's really bad it's really horrible i've seen it happen to people i've seen it happen to christians just little compromises this is why it's important to have the mind of christ romans 1 28. um actually i should have said i should have read the whole thing i guess it's not important but um no it is important it says and just as they did not see fit to acknowledge god any longer god gave them over to a depraved mind to do those things which are not proper being filled with all unrighteousness wickedness greed evil full of envy murder strife deceit malice gossips slanderers haters of god insulin arrogant boastful and vendors evil adventurers of evil disobedient to parents without understanding untrustworthy unloving and unmerciful that's what happens when you get when you you allow yourself to be given over to a carnal mind you become depraved in your thinking and these these fruits of the flesh be become to be evident in your life this is why we have to deal with our with our mind and submit it to the mind of christ here's another aspect of why it's important for us to to to have the mind of christ matthew 16 jesus is talking to um brother peter and this is right after peter just uh it's sometime after peter had just received this one of the most incredible revelations he says who who who do men say that i am the son of man who who are they saying that i am and some say well some of you you're a prophet some say you're elijah so well okay but who do you say i am peter says i know you're the christ the son of the living god blessed are you simon barjona for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but my father in heaven refilled this to you peter is like yeah awesome right he got it right praise god for peter and it wasn't that much far after peter's probably feeling really good really confident that jesus is like okay i'm going to share with you that the son of man will be betrayed into the hands of sinners they're going to crucify him they're going to kill him but on the third day he's going to raise up and peter's like wait a minute the one who god speaks to has something to say and he rebukes jesus he says never shall this happen to you jesus and i thought i believe peter really thought he was trying to protect jesus jesus was the best thing that ever happened to peter ever happened to the world so he's seen you know that what he's hearing what jesus is saying and he's like no you are the christ you're the messiah this will never happen to you far be it from you and what is jesus's response get behind me satan you're like ooh uncomfortable moment for peter he got it so right and then moments later he got it so wrong why but the question is why he says you are not setting your mind on god's interests but on man's you are not said you're not you're not thinking like god would think you're not thinking with the mind of god with the mind of christ you're not setting your mind on the things that god cares about you're setting your mind on the things that man cares about and and he he calls that thinking like satan thinking like a natural man is like thinking like satan yikes that's why we have to deal with the mind that's why we have to daily submit to the mind of christ that's why we have to daily offer our bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto him that's why we have to declare and confess that we have the mind of christ i operate in the mind of christ i speak from the mind of christ and and if you need more terms look up what the word mind is and just begin to fill in i have the understanding of christ i have the knowledge of christ i judge as christ judges it it might be helpful for your own understanding to do that you know because mind can be abroad a too broad of a term you know so um so let's look a little bit about god's mind isaiah 40 13-14 it says who has directed the spirit of the lord or as his counselor has taught him with whom did he take counsel that instruction might be given him who taught him the path of justice and taught him knowledge and showed him the way of understanding so basically he's saying there's nothing that y'all can teach me there's nothing that you can teach my spirit there's nothing that you can show me that i don't already know god is the author of justice not social justice warriors god is the author of justice he knows what's right that's why it so shocked me how so many churches were just so given over to social justice when i'm thinking why are you borrowing from the world's justice where god is purely justice like just just just use his justice his justice is perfect it's pure why are we letting the world dictate well what happens when you think like a man what is that like it's like thinking like the devil that's why you got to be careful romans 11 33-34 it's kind of it's it's the same passage it says oh the depths and the riches and wisdom and knowledge of god how unfathomable are his judgments and his decisions how untraceable mysterious and undiscoverable are his ways his methods and his paths for who has known the mind of the lord and who has understood his thoughts or who has ever been his counselor that's that's paul quoting that uh isaiah 40 13 but maybe just changing it slightly and putting it in his vernacular saying listen man god is is is complete in all his his understanding and his wisdom he's unmatched and in his thoughts and what he knows and truth and his justice and his righteousness his ways are amazing and there was a time where he could say and i think you could still say it today for the non-believer for the unrenewed mind that his ways are not your ways but he made a way for his ways to be our ways he made a way for his thoughts to be our thoughts but if you reject the mind of christ then it's that's not your reality right romans 12 1-2 we talked i i quoted this it talks about um that we would be transformed by the renewing of our mind he says listen i urge you by the mercies of god to present your body as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto god which is your spiritual act of worship and do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind renewing your mind truth renewing your mind to the word of god saying what god says thinking how god thinks ephesians chapter 5 verse 1 tells us to be imitators of god as dearly loved children why remember what i said in the very beginning because it is a 100 consistent with your new nature in christ jesus to think like him i mean that's how adam operated in the garden he thought like god house did he name all the animals how else did does god choose to trust that whatever he names him is just what it's going to be and he even gives him the privilege to name his his wife i think about that today you know but it shows it shows that perfect union between god and man and then what man did is man entered into a place of trying to get illegally what god would would freely give through relationship and we still do it today i mean why else does he send us his spirit and i'm we'll get in i'll get into the reality of what we can attain and what we can have god never required you to be a scholar you to be you know the smartest person in the room in order to follow him he chose really unintelligent people by the world's standards and it's because they were empowered by the spirit of god it's what is it's written of it's the testimonies that they were unlearned men and yet they're filling jerusalem up with this teaching and they had known that they had been with jesus because they were operating with the thoughts and the understanding the judgments the care the truths that jesus taught the mind of christ i'm telling you when you have the spirit of god when you yield to the spirit of god and the mind of christ you become the smartest person in the room because you're not leaning on your own understanding you're leaning into his and if we truly get this what will be fulfilled is what jesus said that he will give you a mouth which your adversaries cannot overcome he will give you a wisdom with your adversaries cannot overcome that's why he tells the disciples when you when you stand before leaders do not prepare beforehand what you ought to say because the spirit will give you what you need to say in that moment because he'll give you words that will totally confound them you do not have to be i don't know what's a high iq 200 150 you don't have to be a 150 iq you don't you just have to be smart enough to submit to god's word because he has been made unto us wisdom jesus has been made unto us wisdom and in the mind of christ there is wisdom john 16 13 is what we talked about when we were talking about the spirit of truth the holy spirit it says however when he the spirit of truth has come he will guide you into all truth you guys the holy spirit's job is to guide you into all truth for he will not speak on his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to come where is he hearing from the holy spirit yeah he's hearing from the father he is the spirit of christ he is the spirit of god so whatever he hears he speaks because of the union and the communion and the unity of the godhead it says he will glorify me jesus is saying he will take of what is mine and declare it to you and and all things that the father has are mine jesus says therefore i said to you that he will take of what is mine and declare it to you so all the things that the father has belongs to jesus and all the things that jesus has he says i will declare the holy spirit will declare it to you and the question is do you believe that because all the promises all the things this is a promise it's to the believer it's to the believer and we we ought to be believers we ought to be those that say you know what i don't know a lot but what i do know is that jesus said that the spirit will will guide me into all truth so boom you know i don't i don't know much but what i do know is that all that the father has belongs to the son and the son said jesus said that the spirit will take what he has and give it to me that's all i need like we need to really allow it to be that simple unless we we we think then we you know we i read the scriptures about how god's you know his thoughts are higher than our thoughts and you know who who's been here to counsel him so let's just look at first corinthians chapter two unless we in any way think that god is trying to withhold from us because first corinthians chapter 2 really gives us uh the beautiful blueprint of just our union with him and what he gives us in terms of the wisdom of god the mind of christ and this is what paul says and starting in verse 1. he says when i came to you brethren i did not come with superior superiority of speech or of wisdom proclaiming to you the testimony of god so quickly he's saying listen i didn't come all learned now listen if anybody remember paul both in his his his acumen his accolades he's like man i'm a pharisee of the pharisees hebrew of hebrews i was you know circumcised on the what sixth day and of the stock of israel and da da da da like i know and then when he says listen when i came to you man i didn't come like all high-minded and with superiority of speech and excellencies of speech it's like man i just i just came to you i didn't come that way declaring the testimony of god he says for i determine not to know anything among you except jesus christ and him crucified he's like man i just i just i just know him i just know jesus i just have his mind he says i was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and power he says listen i'm not trying to reason you in remember he tried that paul tried to reason some people into the into the kingdom and a few believed others didn't some rejected others were like well we'll hear more of this and then they didn't believe so then he was like you know what i'm done with that he said i'm just going to preach christ and christ crucified and so here when he comes to the corinthians he says listen man my message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom but then in demonstration of the spirit and of power because then on that day when they stand it's like jesus when he pronounced woe over the cities he's like man if if the miracles that were done in you were done and sodom and gomorrah are tired and sight on man they would have repented long ago in salt class and ashes and yet all the miracles that they did they still rejected christ which means not even a persuasive argument would have won them man you hear somebody raised from the dead and you still reject jesus man i don't care how persuasive your your words are if they if they still reject christ after somebody raises from the dead there is no cure for that unbelief they just don't want to believe so then you dust your feet like jesus said and you move on to the next place he says yet we uh he says so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men but on the power of god yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature a wisdom however not of this age nor the rulers of this age who are passing away but we speak god's wisdom in a mystery the hidden wisdom which god predestined before the ages to our glory the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the lord of glory but just as it is written things which i has not seen in ear has not heard and which have not entered into the heart of man all that god has prepared for those who love him and it's it amazes me how much how there are a lot of christians that love this scripture because they love being aloof they just like not knowing god's will for whatever reason they they because they've not attuned their hearts to the scripture to know that they can know his will so this gives them the excuse to not do his will because no eye has seen man no ear is heard you know he's mysterious nobody knows you know he just you know he'll do one thing one day and he'll do another thing and it's just his ways are above our ways no eye has seen well if you would just please keep reading he says for to us god revealed them what them the things that i has not seen nor ear has heard through the spirit for the spirit searches all things even the depths of god so if they would just keep reading they would realize that the spirit that jesus spoke of the one who would lead us into all truth the one who would take of what is his and reveal it to us paul is also encouraging the the the christians saying the spirit will reveal these things that eye has not seen nor ear hazard to you because he searches all things and he searches the very depths of god for who among men knows the thoughts of man except the spirit of the man which is in him even so the thoughts of god no one knows except the spirit of god now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit who is from god so that we may know the things freely given to us by god which things we also speak not in words taught by human wisdom see how many times he's talking about human wisdom earthly wisdom we don't do it by earthly wisdom we don't do it by human wisdom we do it by the wisdom that the spirit gives but in those taught by the spirit combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words but a natural man does not accept the things of the spirit of god for they are foolish to him and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned but he who is spiritual appraises or judges all things yet he himself is judged by no one for who has known the mind of the lord that we that he will instruct him but we see again he's asking the question who has known the mind of the lord that they may instruct him but we have the mind of christ we have the mind of christ what a privilege what an incredible gift and unfortunately time doesn't permit so i'll throw out some scriptures that you you can look up on your own first john 2 27 it talks about the anointing the sacred appointment that we've received that teaches us all things second second corinthians chapter 10 three through five talks uh uh chapter 10 three through five talks about um us not uh warring according to the to the flesh anymore but at warring according to the spirit our weapons of our warfare are not carnal right so we're not to use a carnal mind nor are we to use carnal weapons in the fight but we bring these things into the obedience of christ what what are we bringing into obedience of christ knowledge and thoughts that that try to exalt themselves above god thoughts thoughts where where do thoughts generate in your what in your mind so a part of our warfare is taking thoughts captive into the obedience of christ christ being the truth christ being the way christ being the life christ being wisdom so you subvert the lie you subvert the the the these things these temptations these lofty things that that that try to come up against us to the truth of god with the mind of christ philippians 4 6-8 read that one again these are the things that a godly mind is set on actually let me just i'm going to take the liberty to take one and a half more minutes philippians 4 because this this is the this is the renewed mind it says be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving so amma the mind of christ supplicates with prayer and thanksgiving the mind of christ is thankful he says let your request be made known to god and the peace of god which surpasses all understanding will guard your height your hearts and minds through christ jesus see you see your heart and your mind is guided what through christ i just read it your hearts and your minds are guarded through christ jesus amen did y'all did y'all hear when i said that the first time your hearts and your minds are guided through christ jesus through christ jesus the mind of christ it says finally whatever things are true so your mind should be flooded with the things that are true your mind should be flooded the things that are noble your mind should be flooded with the things that are just your mind should be flooded with the things that are pure the things that are lovely the things that are of good report the things that are virtuous the things that are praiseworthy these are the things that your mind ought to be set on to set your mind on things above where christ is seated and these things are found in his word you set your mind on his word you set your mind on the things that he said about you so what has he said about you you're a chosen generation that's right you're a priest unto your god you're a child of the most high you're an imitator of god you are more than a conqueror you are his workmanship you are love you are a peacemaker you know and you can go on and on these are the things that are of good report that your mind ought set on because these things are in the mind of christ and we're called to possess the mind of christ so that when we pray with our spirit there's fruit and when we pray with our mind there's fruit we don't want to be like those that are double-minded constantly going back and forth between a carnal mind and a spiritual mind because the carnal mind is death but the spiritual mind is life and peace amen amen so let's decide to believe that we put on the mind of christ let's decide today that we believe to walk in to thinking to talk in this to sing through to reason through to feel through emote through the mind of christ amen amen was this helpful at all amen well bless you uh we're gonna break for um the 10 a.m service and so you have about a 10-minute break say hi to somebody bless them in jesus name get some water use the restroom do what you got to do [Music] [Music] all names [Music] thank you [Music] is glory i will see his face and there i'll serve my king forever [Music] for giving us is for giving us is [Music] here [Music] this is this is can you source of change this is [Music] [Music] this is [Music] [Music] is in a world [Music] there's [Music] tonight darkness turns to lies rushing [Music] is [Music] we is [Music] is is is [Music] you're worthy of the highest praise when they lifted you up you did it all hey everyone and welcome to dominion life church we are so glad you could join us today it is our desire to accurately declare and demonstrate the gospel of jesus christ so we can reproduce disciples who walk in the fullness and fulfill the great commission we would like to stay connected with you and give you an opportunity to become a member therefore allowing us to pray for your specific needs you do not have to be here physically to join or be a member of our church so you are welcome to join membership from wherever you are there are three ways you can access our membership you can download the jglm app from the app store and google play right on your phone you can also go to dominionlifechurch.org and click on join the church third you may fill out a physical membership form right here in our lobby at dominion life church if you're interested in becoming a certified divine healing technician starting or joining a life team please visit startlifeteams.com forward slash locate there you will also find links to our weekly get started calls and our q a calls the get started calls are every tuesday at 8 30 pm central standard time and the q a calls are every thursday at 8 30 pm central standard time we are so excited to see what god is going to do during our month-long healing for everyone campaign this will be september 1st through september 30th there will be an evening teaching and healing service monday through thursday from 6 to 8 p.m right here at dominion life church be sure to register for every night that you plan to attend we will be hosting our annual leaders summit on october 20th this event is by invitation only if you are in leadership you will receive an email with a personal invite by which you may register we look forward to seeing everyone at our annual conference this year which will be held in lewisville texas october 21st through the 23rd this conference is open to all but registration is required we wanted to inform you of several ways you can partner with us through giving you can give online at jjlm.org or dominionlifechurch.org and click on give you can also give through the jglm app or you can text to give by texting the keyword jglm and the amount to 833-245-6345 if you want to give by check please make it payable to jglm or dominion life church how is everybody blessed amen if i could get you all to stand up if you don't know the person next to you just introduce yourself this morning if you do then speak life over them in jesus name speak wholeness over him in jesus name healing in jesus name peace and joy and hope and love [Music] on three i want y'all to shout i'm alive one two three i'm alive in jesus name you brought me out of the grave [Music] say thank you [Music] worthy to be jesus you are worthy to be praised all glory and honor is yours jesus we love you jesus we thank you jesus [Music] you are worthy to be praised [Music] is [Music] don't be shy this morning join us in praising jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] around us [Music] is [Music] [Music] you feel the is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] hold us down [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 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[Music] to jesus you give beauty for ashes you turn shame into glory you're the [Music] you get beauty for us [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're the only [Music] you're the only one [Music] nothing is better than you oh there's nothing better than you know there's nothing [Music] better than you oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] you're the only [Music] hallelujah thank you jesus yes [Music] [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus you are worthy you turn morning to dance you keep beauty for us you turn shame into glory you're the only one who there's cares better [Music] nothing better there's nothing better [Music] jesus [Music] jesus [Music] jesus jesus [Music] jesus christ [Music] jesus rescued and redeemed [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] his name is [Music] jesus praise you jesus [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] in your name power well there is power in the name of jesus oh jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus 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bless your [Music] names will bless you i will bless you i will bless yours i will bless you i will bless you yes [Music] i will bless your name jesus [Music] [Music] is yes you only knew some faith you were worthy of all the praise jesus you're so faithful you are worthy of all the praise [Music] [Music] praise you lord praise you jesus [Music] you are the reason yes lord you're worthy of it all you're worthy whoever praises yes give it praise [Music] every word of worship with one accord every praise every praises to our gods [Music] [Music] is [Music] sing hallelujah to our god oh glory hallelujah is every praise every [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is to our god every word of worship with one accord every praise [Music] hallelujah is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is to our god every word of worship with one a chorus every praise every praise [Music] is [Music] yes he is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] yes you are yes you are [Music] [Applause] [Music] every praises to our goddess lord sing hallelujah to our god oh glory hallelujah is [Music] lord my savior [Music] yes you are [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] to our god highest praise glory hallelujah [Music] is [Music] [Music] to god give jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] lord what an honor it is to serve you father what an honor it is to worship at your feet lord we thank you lord for all that you do for us father we thank you for the authority and dominion that you've given us lord through your son we worship you this morning lord we adore you all of our praises are to you lord it is all about you jesus everything that we do in our lives lord help us to be more like you we just praise you lord we give you all of the glory lord and all of the honor and in jesus mighty name we pray amen amen god is good amen all the time right well welcome to dominion life church at this time if you had your children signed up for kids ministry they are dismissed you can pick them up before the healing line after the service so do we have any first time guests with us this morning awesome praise god we're so happy that you joined us and anyone joining us live for the first time thanks for joining us we're here every sunday so we're excited that you're joining with us this morning so if you guys missed the announcements we did have video announcements before worship if you happen to stroll in during worship we do have all of our announcements at jglm.org under schedule so you can check it out there currently we have the healing for everyone campaign and that's monday through thursday from 6 to 8 p.m we have service here so if you're local to the area or you're going to be around here or if you just want to come it's through the month of september so come god's been already doing so much and people are getting healed leaving their canes behind so we're really excited and so tomorrow there will be service starting at 6 p.m also quick announcement for the local body if you are looking for an outreach opportunity there is the ending justice ending human trafficking meeting that's going to happen on the 25th at 6 30 p.m here this will be the second meeting if you missed the first one and you can find all that information out with brother aaron he's in the back over there and if you i think i believe we'll be sending out an email as well with more information if you're interested in just a reminder so that's on the 25th at 6 30 pm also one more announcement um how many of you guys have been to the exalt jesus march this year already praise god so we're actually having another one this one is october 30th in mckinney and there's little flyers out here out there somewhere in the back that you can grab it's going to start 10 a.m will be fellowship and prayer and then 11 a.m is the start of the walk so the information for how long the walk is and what to do what to wear bringing flags and things like that or on this flyer so if you are local to the area and you want to participate in the exalt for jesus march that's october 30th in mckinney but we are ready to receive this morning's offering so if you would like to give you can make checks payable to john g lake ministries or dominion life church or you can give through our jglm app or jglm.org under give the app is a really easy way for you to give so if you would like to give that away please download the j dilla map but father we just thank you so much that this offering is already blessed and will do so much to advance your kingdom here on earth in jesus mighty name so while the offering is being received by our lovely ushers i'm going to read a testimony that was submitted from australia it says hello i'm in australia i would appreciate the prayer team joining with me to pray for my niece she's suffering badly from shingles and it is now affecting her brain her sister asked me to pray a healing on her however my sister believes in the cosmic energy of the universe being the source of healing and she does what's called spiritual healings i told my sister that i would pray and that is to command the sickness to go in jesus name but i could not do it in partnership with her i said that jesus is the only healer and that it is by his stripes that we are healed i am not the healer but jesus is i am the believer by whom the power of the holy spirit brings healing so here is the result my sister agreed that i was the only person to be praying for her healing and that and that should she would not be involved in any way i said to the holy spirit it looks like it's you and me here on this one i spoke the word over my niece rebuked and commanded the thing to go in jesus name and to never bother her again the following day my niece messaged me and said uncle dave you will be so happy to hear i woke up today with no pain at all praise the lord hallelujah god is so good and it's also a testimony to his sister that jesus is the only healer amen amen so that we love receiving testimonies so please please submit them to us you can go to dhtraining.com testify really easy form to fill out and we if you want to you can include photos as well and we're just really encouraged by these testimonies and want to share them with you all so be sure to do that but without further ado it is my honor to present my friend and sister in christ my sister marie good yay praise the lord it's awesome all right you heard a good word about the mind of christ i mean it's impossible it's really impossible to um to be a christian and not want to have the fullness of the mind of christ operating in your life that means that you have to be trained by it you have to you have to renew your mind to the word of god and god gave us the substance to which we can receive which is his word and we can actually get our minds renewed it's not just words on a page you know where it says in romans chapter 12 to have our mind renewed it is a reality what uh brother ethnic was talking about the reality is who christ is in us you know and that is the hope of glory and then the reality is that everything that christ is now he wants out of us and he made it he made it possible for that to happen by giving us the mind of christ so that's it was it was an awesome time awesome time um in the word uh how many of you love the word you know um my husband is here with me today praise the lord um and we love the word of god and i thought i loved the word of god but when i came into the message by brother curry it gave me a new appreciation for how the word of god has been set in order for our lives and how simple it is to just read it in order to understand it and how simple it is to um basically put passages together and receive meat receive maturity you know uh right then and there like you don't have to wait to grow up you know that was one of the things that that really um captured my attention is the fact that you don't have to sit and wait and and get your mind renewed 30 years to then do something for god you can be doing something for god as you're getting your mind renewed and and the more you do that the faster you grow the more mature you become as a as a believer as a son as a christian so praise the lord am i going to be given some time up there because i don't see anything so i'm like oh go right we're going to be here till 3 o'clock no i'm just kidding just kidding so okay so i um i do have a little powerpoint that i put together really fast so if there's any typos or anything um you know forgive me but um i wanted you guys to see um some of the things that i was able to find in the word of god and i wanted you guys to also see the um greek words and stuff like that that go along with the teaching but before we get started i wanted to call malcolm up malcolm is a life team leader him and his wife are live team leaders and i've had the privilege of speaking to them several times oh i got the declarations for you i got them for you you can come up you can come up um malcolm and han are um live team leaders here in richardson texas and give them a hand you know you don't realize what it takes to become a live team leader but you do have to go through a eight to nine minimum eight to nine months you know process to become a live team leader here at jglm because we want to know those that labor among us and we want to also know that they they own the message that they care for people you know that they love god that they love people that they own the message that they that they're multiplying things that they're getting things done and i've seen them here at work they get things done praise the lord so they're they're awesome christian workers now what we're gonna do before we get started this is one thing that we do in our life teams you know and we continually do it it's just like brother curry says how long do we have to do this forever why because it's just something that it's good for you you know why would you deny yourself doing something good a good work you know declaring the word of god over your life and declaring and letting the powers that be you know where you stand with things that's the the grandiose part of of um declarations you're you're making a stand you're taking a stand and you're boldly declaring these things and now i put together some declarations you know a little bit beyond the little booklet that we have you know now you can get the booklet at the store and it's awesome to own and to have in your pocket and to always be able to open to it but i put a little bit of the declarations geared more towards what we're going to be talking about today and they're going to be it's going to be on the board and it's also going to be here in front of you so you don't have to be looking back but i'm gonna have him lead us in the same manner he leads us in in life teams i'm gonna have him lead you guys so if you can please stand and you know and declare this with your whole heart okay and then follow along all right so by in the book of philemon it says that by communications of your faith can be made effectual by acknowledging every good things in christ jesus so i want you guys to say this but say it like you mean it okay there you go all right repeat after me the holy spirit the holy spirit has joined me has joined me to god to god i am i am in union with christ jesus in union with christ jesus by his spirit by his spirit the spirit of god the spirit of god is in me is in me to serve and please to serve and please the father the father as jesus did as jesus did i am i am a worker together a worker together with the spirit of god with the spirit of god on the commission on the commission the holy spirit the holy spirit helps me helps me i am his witness i am his witness and his ambassador and his ambassador to the earth to the earth in this time in history in this time in history i have i have the vision of the new covenant the vision of the new covenant word and work word and work i stand up i stand up for the truth for the truth and bring people into christ and bring people into christ i make disciples i make disciples that mature into that mature into the fullness of christ the fullness of christ i will not i will not deny jesus deny jesus his right to use my life his right to use my life every day every day i will be i will be believing and living believing and living by his every word by his every word until the end until the end amen amen please pretty awesome thank you that's awesome isn't it yeah and so um we have brought if we have been brought into a new covenant that is basically the the understanding of coming into the new covenant that is in christ jesus post-resurrection is one of the things that should be the quickest thing that happens as far as mind renewal in a person's mind because why would we want to go to the old when the new is so much more glorious you know and so we're going to talk a little bit about that it's intertwined into the message but today we're going to open to acts chapter 17. i got notes everywhere today usually i don't have a lot of notes today i have notes everywhere they're popping out of my bible yeah so in acts chapter 17 we're going to read something that happened to the thessalonica church and excuse me if i mispronounce some of these words but you know you know how the bible is with names and words and cities and all that stuff so okay so acts chapter 17 it says now when they had passed through amphibol amphibolus and apollonia they came to thessalonica where there was a synagogue of the jews okay so basically these synagogues were everywhere still this is after jesus was raised from the dead all right and this is paul and silas going out and and um preaching the gospel then paul as his custom was went into them and for three sabbaths that's three weeks right because the sabbath is from one saturday another so for three weeks he reasoned with them from the scriptures notice that he reasoned with them and it was from the scriptures that he reasoned with them the old testament scriptures that is because we still didn't have the new explaining and demonstrating so there was a demonstration of these things and there was an explanation of it so that's how the reasoning came together right it says that the christ had to suffer and raised again from the dead saying this jesus whom i preached to you is the christ now look what happened when he did that for three weeks during the course of three weeks look what happens and some of them were persuaded so paul spoke in a way that the hearers were persuaded now what category are heroes are we talking about here here it goes on to describe and a great multitude of the devout greeks all right so we have gentiles the devout greeks gentiles right so a great multitude right and not a few of the leading women i don't know why it words it that way but it's just say the great multitude too of the leading women but but i guess there's like let's not be repetitive right so and not a few of the leading women so women were paying attention you know so they were there and they were leading women not just they were prominent women now if you go back in some of the chapters previous the prominent women of the area were actually against the teachings of christ for a while there you know but now i think they've come to their senses and paul paul's words and paul's explanation and plows demonstration from the scriptures was so persuasive that now these women have joined on board and they're like you know what there's something to this right so it goes on here to say um not a few leading women joined paul and silas but the jews who were not persuaded so even in the midst there was people that were not persuaded you're going to get an audience like that today we have an audience here choose to be persuaded just choose just say you know what i'm going to give my i'm going to give ear to what the word of god says i'm going to see that if it is rightly divided if this preacher girl is you know saying something that makes sense that's out of the word of god and doesn't deviate from the new cust the new testament doesn't deviate from what jesus did doesn't deviate from the truth i'm going to give heat to it i'm going to pay attention to it i'm going to adopt it as my own and i'm going to move with it now if there's anything that that is contrary to the word of god yeah i'm not going to pay attention to that but i'm not going to speak to you anything i can i can tell you right now i'm not going to speak to you anything that's contrary to the word of god because it's with a word that works it's the word that works and it's the word rightly read understood slowly word by word you know in the right context of things and that's what we're going to do today we're going to bring things into the right context of things so you can see you know that paul's work was a new covenant work all right our work today is not just to sit around and you know and and cry out to the lord or or you know just to sit around and and just you know bask in his presence for you know as people say our work is to is to be persuasive with our life with our words with our actions is to be in places of discomfort you know is to step out of ourselves and step into the things that christ would want done through our lives you know we read it in the declaration he has a right to use our lives because we're no longer our own this this body doesn't belong to us anymore this life does not belong to us anymore if we really turned it over to his lordship it belongs to him that has to mean something there has to be some meat to that there has to be some fruit to that some evidence to that it just can't be something that you know that we just say it has to be something that we have fruit to show you know if you're gonna if a person's gonna tell you or if you're gonna tell a person i am a disciple of christ okay where's your evidence you know where's the evidence of that paul had evidence right we're going to see some of his evidence and his companions evidence in here and so he was persuasive with this form of reasoning the way that he that he brought out the scriptures from the old testament and showed them how christ had to suffer how christ had to die and he had and he was raised again and then he demonstrated these things so i'm pretty sure there was some form of deliverance healings and things like that even though the word doesn't say it there because there was a demonstration that christ is who he says he is right so here goes and it says becoming ambiance took some of the evil men noticed that they took some of the evil men from the marketplace so those evil men were being they were able to be taken to do this awful work to do this evil work so they were already evil right so what identifies a person as an evil person against christ against life against all that's good and righteous and true now a person can still you know still not maybe not come into christ but still have a an essence of goodness when we've talked about this before that that doesn't gain any favor with god having a sense of goodness but still you see even sometimes the natural person has a little bit more common sense and a little bit more integrity than some of the people that call themselves christian you know i see that a lot i see that in the in the attitude people have and the things that people say to each other in the way that people act you know i see that a lot in the things that people try to get away with you know and how close that they they can they can get um you know benefited instead of instead of being able to live like with a clear mind with you know with i just want to be clean i just want to be good i don't want to do anybody any harm you know stuff like that i don't want to have evil intentions i don't want to be manipulative i don't want to do none of that i just want to be upfront truthful even if it costs me you know you rarely find people like that anymore because everybody's trying to get away with stuff you know and that's not the kind of people that paul and his companions were you read it throughout scripture he's he always like i did no man any harm you know he always he always made it a point to exalt the fact that that god working in him meant something and you know the bible says that he works in us to do and to will his good pleasure not only to do his good pleasure but to will it god works that into us amen and then it says here that these guys took these evil men from the marketplace and gathering a mob set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of jason poor jason you know they singled him out because he they were they were um friendly with the preachers they were friendly with the people that were given to the ways of christ right and it says and sought to bring them out to the people but when they did not find them they dragged jason and some of the brethren to the rulers of the city crying out these who have turned the world upside down come on was there a little area of the world you know they they were too lofty because they're saying that thessalonica and if you go to the map look at desolates like this little area right there you know you're like okay that's the world and they're like they're turning the whole world upside down right all right so drag jason some brother rulers crying out those who have turned the world upside down have come here too because evil people exaggerate think about that people that have have an evil level nature they'll exaggerate they'll they'll blow things out of proportion you know so it says here jason has harbored them and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of caesar oh now these jews are in defense of caesar right saying there is no there is no there is another king jesus and they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they had heard these things so when they had taken security from jason and the rest they let them go all right so that's all i wanted to read from here so here paul and silas are in thessalonica right this thing has happened so there was much affliction going on there was much persecution going on in that area you can tell by what happened here right there was the the believers there had to suffer for the sake of his name they had to suffer to come into christ now like you see people today just coming into christ you know and there's there's you know a lot of people aren't giving up a lot you have to give up your life to come into christ othniel talked about it earlier you know you give up your life you it's a great exchange you give up your life and you take on his life and when you do that your life starts taking a back seat in the sense of you know you just you don't you don't want to do things for yourself anymore like even if you wanted to you can't you know it's like you want to like what am i doing people are always pulling on me there's a lot of things going on you know it's like i i don't have a moment to myself like you think those things but then when you think about about doing things for yourself in that sense you're like what would that be like i'm like i'm going to take that thought that way i don't think i want to live there i want to live for christ if i gave my life for christ i want to live for him i want to do things that please him that honor him that serve him you know it's like it's obvious to god he's like yeah you're my child you're my son we're going to be in good relationship we're going to be in such a good relationship that you're going to want my life more than you're going to want your own and you're going to want to do the things that are that are of you know of my nature right and so that's that's what paul possessed you follow paul's life you know it's it's an incredible study to do you know to follow paul's life and his journeys take out a map of the times of the times of paul and look at his journeys look at his look at his trajectory of things look at what he did in all these different places look at all these different places were touched by what paul and his companions did you know and by what he raised up and and when then you go back to the letters which is what we're going to do today we're going to go to the letters and we're going to see some of the things that he said in those letters to the thessaloni thessalonica people to the church in thessalonica right that he raised through much persecution right so now i want you to get one word from here um the next slide is the word reasoned where he says here in verse two that he reasoned with them for three sabbaths we have it up there okay good okay so that word is dia lego mai it's g 1256 and it's to say thoroughly to discuss in argument or exhortation so when he was reasoning with them he wasn't just like oh well you know this is no no no there was a tone and an attitude in his reasoning with him because he knew he had the truth he had the truth of christ he had the truth of god he had the truth that prevailed that gave life that produced godly men and women that that you know that changed the nature of the person right he knew that he received that revelation from god so it says um as far as this word is concerned to dispute to preach unto you know like be a preacher everybody everybody that comes into christ should be a preacher a preacher of his goodness a preacher of the truth a preacher of what is the reality of what is right now for us right reasoning with speak now look at this this is also part of this this word to think different things with oneself mingle thought with thought to ponder revolve in mind to converse discord with one argue so there is a like uh brother audio is talking about the word judgment there is a thinking through things you know with the mind of christ when you have the mind of christ you're going to be thinking through these things things are going to make sense to you you're not just going to be like oh it's a mystery i don't understand none of this i don't know how i don't know how people get no no no no i'm a child of god i'm supposed to understand these things i'm supposed to receive these things i can't receive what i don't understand i'm supposed to be able to put this together and say yes this makes total sense this is exactly how i'm supposed to live yes i have an agreement with it i think it in myself there's an agreement there's a collaboration there's a co-laboring part that god does with us you know it's not just on his side it just doesn't happen by osmosis you know it just doesn't happen by him you know just giving us a few words not saying no it happens with a constant dialogue and an inner witness to ourselves the bible says that the holy spirit gives us an inner witness that we are the sons of god and if the sons of god then we're going to have a certain behavior a certain thought pattern a certain way of seeing things a certain perspective that doesn't you know that takes on the nature of god so then that that way we get to a point where we speak like god where we ca we're able to speak like him we're able to come into situations and change situations we're able to come into you know arenas and change whatever you want to call it atmosphere situations you know um circumstances you we're able to change those we're able to change the weather we're able to change the the things that are happening in washington we're able to change the things that are happening around the world we're able to change the things that are that are occurring why because we can speak like god and when god speaks he doesn't go back on the good on the goodness that he says he doesn't go back on what he has judged as righteous right the thing is that if you speak and then you think oh well maybe that didn't work was it was it wishful thinking what you know no you just have to you our minds need to be renewed to the point where when we speak we mean what we say [Music] so if you did that then you would you would go to where it says in proverbs 18 21 you know that life and death is in the power tongue you would be very judicial and very careful with how you speak about other people with how you speak about yourselves with how you speak over your family with how you speak about the situations at hand you know you're like nope before i say anything that's contrary to what needs to happen i'm gonna keep my mouth shut there's nothing wrong with keeping our mouths shut if people if people are talking those things i'm going to combat it by saying the truth you know the you know if somebody comes and starts talking to me about the world and and then that it's ending and all this stuff i'm like no it's not going anywhere the truth is this is ours to keep now it will go through a renovation but it's not going anywhere it is ours god gave it to us and it's not going to be taken away from us how dare anybody say that this that this is you know ending and we have to do this and we have to do that to maintain it and all that stuff okay i understand a level of stewardship and responsibility but sometimes it's hypered up just taken out there to a degree where it's bondage you have to know when things have crossed the line to bondage you know you have to know that paul talked about that concerning foods seasons arguments everything and life things can be taken to a level of bondage and you have to be able to say no i'm a free woman i'm a free man i'm a free child of god i walk in freedom i think in freedom i think with justice i think what's right you know i said and start judging things based on those based on that character based on that nature because that's how that's how god sees it amen so you know just don't get into bondage and if you recognize if you don't recognize that there's bondage ask the holy spirit he will be very pleased to point out to you where the bondage line is at very pleased because he doesn't want his kids in bondage he doesn't want live inside a vessel that has a level of freedom and a level of bondage he doesn't want to live that way the holy spirit does not want to subject you don't want to subject the holy spirit to that and he doesn't want to be subjected to that he wants like let's freedom freedom in christ jesus and not use that freedom and liberty to go into bondage right because sin and everything degrading is bondage and anything that's negative that's contrary to god's word is bondage so we want to be able to think straight in that sense now i'm going to take you through a little journey through acts real quick and i think i'm going gonna have the verses up there too and it's just really quick though really quick because i want you to get the feel for the words that paul was using when he was persuading and reasoning when he was thinking these things through when he was bringing these things out to these people he was not playing games he was serious about what he was doing as serious or more when than when he was you know before in bondage um to the law and trying to kill the christians and you know persecute them and stuff like that he was even more adamant about this message because he finally found the truth he was born again born of the spirit of god finally found the truth and this was serious to him i want you to see how many times in the scriptures he does what was his custom like it says here in acts 17 that he would go into their sin he would go into them and try to change their mind about things watch go to verse 17 in chapter 17. look at what it says there now actually let's start in verse 16. now while paul waited for them in athens at athens his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols therefore he reasoned this is the same exact word that g 1256 same exact word therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the jews and with the gentile worshipers and in the marketplace daily with those who happen to be there so he reasoned with him what did he do he discussed he argued he brought these things out and it wasn't just a a moment a moment notice it was time that he spent with them now turn to chapter 18. chapter 18 and look at verse 3. so because he was of the same trait he stayed with them and worked for by occupation they were tent makers and he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath and persuaded both jews and greeks see this was this was his this was what he was doing you see that okay now go to verse 19 in that same chapter and he came to ephesus and left them there and he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the jews that word reason is the same word at 1256. all right he dialogued with them he persuaded them he was persuasive with his words now go to chapter 19. this is leading somewhere pay attention this is leading somewhere because this is going to hit home in just a minute chapter 19 look at verse 8. and he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the kingdom of god so first he was he was already introducing the the gospel message through the the death burial raising of jesus christ now he's talking concerning the things pertaining to the kingdom of god right so he's also growing in the in what he's persuading these jews and these greeks alike right and then we remember we got prominent women we got a lot of greeks great multitude of greeks you know involved so there's a raising up of people so the fruitfulness is in the people coming and being persuaded by paul and listening and giving their heed at the same time in between he's got the persecution of the jews that hated him and would get evil men to join in and try to persecute him and try to try to you know bring down or dereputate everything that paul was saying so all that was going on at the same time now it goes on to say here but when they were um hardened and they did not believe but spoke evil of the way before the multitude he departed from them and withdrew the disciples reasoning daily in the school of tyranus so he withdrew the disciples and he's like okay these guys are you know are affecting these disciples that their minds are being persuaded they have a readiness of mine to receive the message that i'm giving now i'm going to pull them aside and i'm going to continue speaking to their lives i'm going to continue you know discipling them right in the things of god and this continued for two years look how serious paul was about these disciples two years so that um all who dwelt in asia heard the word of the lord jesus both jews and j and and um greeks do you see that two years he spent so that everybody in that region heard the word of the lord the word of the kingdom right now turn to chapter 20. and in there he met akilah and priscilla he he he started meeting people people started joining his team and things like that which is how this thing grows so you're not gonna get it without the word it's not gonna happen without the word of god without persuasiveness on our part see we have to push for this we the christians have to push for this we can't wait for preachers to push for this we can't wait for people to just for us to be on on all you know tv whatever you know the social media and to push for it we have to be pushing for this everywhere we're at i need to sit down with you i need to take you out to dinner i need to talk to you let's you know let's get our people involved they're trying to separate the human contact and god is saying no you can't let that happen that's that's it's on us it's our watch we can't let that happen that we can't let the world dictate paul did not let the world or these evil men from the marketplace dictate what he was going to do he kept running they were still back in chapter 17 trying to figure out how to take him down and he's here in chapter 20 getting everybody moved around the word of god getting everybody persuaded and attentive to pay attention to these words to the words of life amen and so here he goes on to say and he says now now on the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread paul ready to depart the next day preached to them and continued his message until midnight boy it seems like with every chapter he increases his time right you know because he went from you know three weeks to two years now to like okay he's gonna be with them and now he's gonna preach until midnight how would you guys like to be here and we preach to you till six o'clock in the afternoon that's equivalent to him preaching till midnight right praise the lord so it says here um paul ready to depart the next day preached to them and continued his message until midnight his message his message right because he owned it that's what we do we own this message this is ours it's our possession it's the it's an inheritance you know too that we have so i wish i could talk about that but we're going to talk about that today there were many lamps in the upper room where they were gathered together and in a window side a certain young man named ichi ichikas ittikus who was sinking into a deep sleep i know that's about thinking into a deep sleep but anyways he was overcome by sleep and as paul continued preaching he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead but paul went down fell on him and embraced him i just wanted to include this in the story just so you can hear it do not trouble yourselves for his life is in him this this has nothing to do with the message necessarily but it has to do with what happened right so this kid you know fell into this deep sleep fell over you know dead lifeless paul grabs him and says no you're not you're he's alive he's fine and then if you go on to see to read he continues preaching he continues with the thing you know it's like it was like he was so focused on getting the people to understand the things of god before he left them it's like i don't know if this is going to be my last time with you you know it wasn't in his mind but he didn't know for sure so it's like if it's the last thing that i tell you i need up to midnight to tell you all these things you know i need to share all these things with you now turn to um chapter 24 because paul's not done he he got you know as he preached the more he preached the better persuasive he got the better in his persuasion he got that's why he was able to raise people so fast in that sense and raised churches everywhere he went right now in chapter 24 look what it says uh in verse 25. actually let's read verse 24 chapter 24 verse 24 of the book of acts and after some days when felix came with his wife jerusalem who was jewish he sent for paul and heard him concerning the faith in christ now as he reasoned about righteousness okay now look look at how from 17 to 24 how paul has changed you know more he's gotten more into when we talk about the depth of god's word it's not getting outside of god's word you talk about depth of word it's staying in the word it's getting deeper in the message that is the word now going outside of it to make something deep you see what i'm saying so he went from preaching jesus died resurrected from the dead and is now alive and this is how you receive him to the kingdom how the kingdom works and everything about the kingdom to now about righteousness the the ways of righteousness the ways you know what is righteousness what is holiness what is grace all these things right because it's all involved in righteousness grace the right teaching of grace which is in titus chapter 2 verse starting in verse 11 is the you know is the right teaching of righteousness it involves the grace of god because without god's grace we're not we wouldn't be able to be righteous right so about righteousness and look at look at what else about righteousness about self-control and judgment to come so these three things righteousness self-control and the judgment to come right felix was afraid and answered go away for now when i have a convenient time i will call for you so he was being persuaded because he got afraid that's one of the first things that happens to a person that's resisting the truth of god's word there's there's a fear there's an intimidation like oh i don't know if i want to go there because i like my life you know you know you like your life yeah people like their lives but the thing is that they maybe they haven't been persuaded at how how um much of a lack of life they have because the bible says in john 10 10 that god jesus came to give us life and that more abundantly and it's his kind of life now what kind of life are we preaching that people still like their lives right because the life of christ the bible says that we are being we are we come into him we're saved from the wrath to come the bible says not only are we saved from the wrath to come but we're put in right standing with god god himself in right standing with him without us having to lift a finger in that sense we don't even have to do anything except believe and receive what jesus did in actuality and then walk in that and just as we received him we receive everything else from him the bible says you know and then the thing is that people don't get into the word into the bible themselves to really absorb what that what all that means and that's what paul did to felix where felix was like wait a minute this is getting too close for comfort here you know and if you think that paul was not persuasive turn to chapter 26. this is what happened to felix too look at verse 24. now as he thus made his defense festus said with a loud voice paul you are beside yourself much learning is driving you mad so what was paul doing paul was talking paul was preaching to him right but then he said this is what paul answered i'm not mad most noble festus but speak the words of truth and reason he stood up for truth he stood up for god's reasoning not man's reasoning god's reasoning right and he says for the king before whom i also speak freely knows these things for i am convinced that none of these things escapes his attention since the thing was not done in a corner he had an attitude right this was this was him persuading a king having an attitude saying look i'm speaking to you the truth i'm speaking to you with reason and let me tell you the things that i'm talking to you about i'm sure they didn't go unnoticed because it didn't happen in a little you know little corner over here of the world this happened worldwide this was a worldwide event this changed time this sliced time in half okay so this this is not something that you should not take notice of oh festus you need to take notice because this is the truth he was he was adamant about it right and that's how you have to get sometimes right and then it says here um where am i in accordance king agrippa do you believe the prophets i know that you do believe so what did jesus do when he was talking to the guys from that was on their way to emmaus what was he talking to him from the prophets forward he taught them about himself now don't you think a king in his nobility is going to be well informed for the sake of his own kingdom he's going to be well informed as to everything that's going on and where it's coming from that's why paul was able to tell that king you know i know you know the prophets i know that you pay attention to the prophets now look what this guy says then agrippa said to paul you almost persuaded me to become a christian so his tone was not light he was not trying to be nice he was not trying to be accepted he was not trying to be accommodating he was trying to be effective and fruitful and look at what paul responds i would to god that not only you but also also all who hear me today might become both almost and almost and all together such as i am except these chains i would that you would that you guys and everybody here listening and everybody under the sound of my voice would be just like i am right now in christ jesus i would that that would happen right that's that's paul okay okay all right that's paul talking to jews greeks prominent women kings um governors all that stuff right and trying to get them persuaded that's paul a man filled with the spirit of god filled with the spirit of jesus right doing that work from 17 through 26. is that what i just read to you okay let's go to hebrews chapter 12. remember the scripture that we read at first acts 17 verse 17 i mean acts 17 in the beginning one through five and we took out that word reasoned okay remember that greek word that we took out right now chapter 12 says hebrews chapter 12 therefore we also since we are surrounded by so greater cloud of witnesses and brother curry has preached an awesome message out of this chapter need to go back and read it let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us looking onto jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endure the cross excuse me despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of god for consider him who endured such hostility from sinners now did paul endure hostilities from sinners too okay so jesus endures hostility from sinners paul followed in his footsteps right against himself lest you become lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls now did paul let himself become discouraged and weary in his soul you saw him all the way through the end and more could have been written but he ran with this he ran with this everywhere he had an opportunity he ran with the message right all right you have not resisted to bloodshed striving against sin so we will never be in that in this point we will never be in our lord's shoes you know we he has been in our shoes right so he is he will always be in front of us in that sense that's why he's the author and finisher of our faith he will always be before us in that sense and there's a scripture also that talks about in hebrews chapter 2 it talks about that he that he was tempted in all points but he didn't sin that he is able to save us in the same manner that he overcame temptation he'll save us from our temptations in the same manner did he fall no he overcame temptation so he's able to save us from the falling into temptation jesus is not gonna pat us on the back and say oh i know you're you're struggling you're you're weak i know that no no that will never happen because that's not what the bible says he's gonna he's gonna teach us to overcome the thing he's going to cause us to to override that overcome it you know get out of it you know get get through it in that sense you know if there's something that has to be gotten through because a lot of times the things that have to be gotten through are usually things that people put on you that you didn't put on yourself the bible says in james that we we are tempted by the our own desires so there's desires there we do have to kill those desires you know and that's what he helps us do how does he kill those desires well he kills those desires by giving us the word that acts that is the truth that causes us to stand up against it right and we're going to read that here in just a minute you have not resisted till bloodshed striving against sin and you have forgot and have and you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as sons you see that word speaks you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to us sons that's the word reason so in the same way that paul with the message of god reasoned greek you know the greek 1256 that word thought things through disgust preached and all that stuff in that same way in that same persuasive way that paul did that to the jews to the gentiles to everywhere he went god is doing it to his sons god is speaking to us in that same way he speaks to us a word of exhortation he speaks to us a word that leads to righteousness what does second timothy 3 16 say that the word of god is profitable it is profitable for instruction in righteousness what did paul preach to these people he spoke though he spoke the word of righteousness to them of self-control right didn't we read that in in in the book of acts of self-control of righteousness of the kingdom of god you know of everything that god is that's how god disciplines us because this is the context this is the chapter of the supposed chastising of the sons of god god chastising his own children how do they do it by speaking by persuading by bringing out a word by bringing out um lessons by bringing out instructions by by putting up guards in your mind and in your heart and in your life of how things should be in him right by bringing out what the word of god how the word of god rightly divides itself in that sense as you read it the bible says here he speaks to you as sons my sons do not despise the chastening of the lord it's in the speaking it's in the preaching god preaches to us by his spirit he preaches to us how to live he preaches to us how to think this thing is calculated for us this thing is set out for us it's it's put in motion for us it's not something that is that is that we have to wonder about you see and so that's the thing we have to have a readiness of mind we have to force our mind we have to stay stay awake we have to say don't fall asleep mind don't fall asleep heart listen to this word of god let this be what energizes you let this word be what what moves you what causes you to come alive you know what i'm saying you know sometimes i'll go to places and i'll see you know i'll see people that we're we're preaching the word of god we're bringing out the word of god we're bringing it in a way so that it's understandable so that it's that it's acceptable so that it's you know so that it's um effective in the minds but there's no readiness of mine there it's just like they're just sitting there like okay yeah this is good and you can tell that they're thinking about you know lunch dinner whatever whatever plans they have and i'm thinking like this is the word of god this is the living word of god this ought to excite us if i just came up here and read it and that's all i did and i didn't even speak in between that ought to be exciting in itself you know because it is what it is the truth it is it is what's where's life is really at you know and until you experience the life that's in the word of god until you experience the life that's in the instructions in the instruction in the you know and obeying it and following through with it you know you you don't you know you you don't know how to really embrace you know you don't know how to really how to really you know um say like i don't want this life i want this life you don't know you know it's like you have choices in your life we have choices in our life to do one thing or the other you know in order to do one thing you have to put away the other right you know and god is never going to say oh yeah turn on the tv go ahead and just just bask in the presence of the tv because that's going to be beneficial for you you know bask in the presence of just sitting around chit chatting and you know going around the mountain of conversation and not getting anywhere you know that's going to be so beneficial for you god's never going to do that he's going to say no you know what put that off for now let's get into my word for a little bit and you know we we ought to be the type of people that do like smith wigglesworth did like every half an hour be in some sort of word either meditation reading it receiving something you know so that the flow of god's word is never stagnant the bible says that it flows like a river of living water you know and it is the word that you understand the word that you receive like brother curry is always telling us it's not you know it's hard knowledge that needs to become head knowledge because it's in our heart if we have the spirit of god it's in there amen now i don't wanna i'm not going to read too much more in here but i want to finish a little bit of it up to verse 11. it says here um nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him for whom the lord loves he chastens i love it when god meddles with my life you have to love it you know don't ever you know if you catch yourself saying oh why is he why is he pressing down on me on this i really don't i really don't want to do that you know i really don't want to i really don't want to um study and and try to figure this out i i really rather just somebody tell me no no no no when god presses in on you and he tells you he's going to tell you this he's going to say stop letting preachers you know tell you what you need to study go in the word of god yourself and if a preacher preached a good word if a teacher preached a good word go look it up yourself and get it yourself you know get the same excitement that that person had you get it you know for yourself because the word of god is that exciting you know when you when you really look at it i mean i was up last night looking at it and i'm like i don't know where to put it down i mean at some point i have to go to sleep here you know it's like but it's just like one thing leads to another leads to another leads to another and you're like this is so good amen so anyways and he scorches every time who he receives all right if you endure chastening god deals with you as sons right for what son is there from a father that the father doesn't chase him a good father will will make sure that the son is well able to understand things right and well able to mature into things but if you are without chastening of which of which all have become partakers then you are illegitimate and not sons we don't want to be that right furthermore we have had human fathers who correct us and we paid them respect shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the father of spirits and live for they indeed for a few days chastened us as it seems best to them but he for our prophet that we may be partakers of his holiness partakers of his divine nature partakers of his of godliness partakers of life right now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present but painful nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it you see so there is a training that takes place with god speaking to us you know you have we have to train ourselves to hear from him and then put to work what he we hear from him you know and see it as profitable you know the word of god him speaking it to us through the script through us reading it you know is is the first place and then after us we're walking he'll bring remembrance to that word amen now i encourage you we have about 10 minutes and i'm not gonna have time to read all the scriptures in thessalonians but i encourage you to go back to the books of thessalonians and compare it to acts chapter 17 but just to just to start this okay just to start this we're gonna go to first thessalonians chapter one and hopefully we'll get uh to this one at least this one word that i have here first thessalonians chapter one not forgetting everything that we've discussed already not forgetting everything that we saw in paul in his persuasive words now we see in the father persuading us through speaking to us you know it's in his speech to us through his word that we are that we are made profitable for him that we are that we are able to receive the word of righteousness so we're able to understand these things okay now here's remember the thessalonians were the ones that um were afflicted in acts chapter 17 because paul preached and there was an uproar and all that stuff right we read that now look at verse two it says we give thanks to god always for you making mention of you in our prayers remembering without ceasing your work of faith note that that's one thing your work of faith your labor of love and your patience of hope in our lord jesus christ in the sight of god and the father knowing beloved brethren your election of god for our gospel did not come to you in word only but also in power and in the holy ghost in the holy spirit and in much assurance right you saw you saw that character in paul in the book of acts as you know what kind of men we are among you for your sake and you became followers of us and of the lord having received the word in much affliction he's referring to acts chapter 17 with the joy of the holy spirit so that you became examples to all in macedonian archaea who believe for from you the word of the lord has resound has sounded forth not only in macedonia and ikea but also in every place your faith toward god has gone out so that you do not need to say anything for they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you and how you turned to god from idols to serve the living god and the true god and to wait for his son from heaven whom he raised from the dead even jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come that's salvation what do you say from when they ask you oh you're saved what do you say from because when somebody's saved they're safe from something what are we safe from the wrath to come so why are we talking about the stuff that's happening around us right now like if it's the wrath to come no we're safe from the right to come and i'm here to save you from the route to come with a message that i have which is my labor of love right but i wanna i want you to notice three things because when paul wrote letters he thought about these things right and he was inspired by the holy spirit in verse three let's compare verse three to verse nine and ten in verse three what is what is it that they're thanking first of all it is fitting that they be thanked that they their thankfulness be up going up to the lord about them why because they were working the work of faith right there was something that they were doing they were they were being effective they were being fruitful productive right it says your work of faith right comparing it to what what's the work of faith turning look at verse 9 turning to god from idols what's the work of faith turning to god from idols and i think i have it in the slide so the first thing is the work of faith turning from god to idols the second thing the labor of love what's the labor of love to serve the living and true god in a living and true way you serve the living and true god in a living and true way that's the labor of love now number three the patience of hope what is that his appearing loving his appearing not that i'm not going to go like neil was talking about earlier i'm not going to go and try to figure out when not when the appearing but the appearing just the appearing in general loving his appearing knowing that there is an appearing of a second time and that i'm loving it i'm looking forward to it and i'm delivered from the rat to come that is my patience of hope my patience of hope the reason i have patience in hope and the reason i have expectation and it's wonderful amazing awesome expectation is because god has delivered me from the wrath to come but it's still a hope because it's not been fulfilled yet right and his appearing is still also a hope yes he's coming back and the bible says in i think in peter he says that some people will say oh they've been saying that for years whatever and you know people are going to want to work the word to water it down and degrade what it says but we have to keep the momentum up on the word of god we have to keep the momentum up as to what is happening for real we have a labor of love and that labor of love means that we serve a true and living god he is living and he is true and he reigns jesus reigns right so when we serve him we serve him from the reigning side of it not from the suffering side of it in that sense and when we now we will suffer in serving him but we don't suffer we don't suffer um a suffering that is not bible you know you look up the word suffer you'll see what i'm talking about i don't have time to you know to share all that with you but it's a suffering for laying down my life for my brethren laying down my life for the lord laying down my life for the message doing what sometimes maybe i don't feel like doing and doing it anyways because it's the right thing to do amen and so and second another thing i want to i wanted to share with you before moving from here but um in second thessalonians okay you're going to see first of all that in chapter 2 you're going to see that paul writes in a way there that you understand that there was forgeries these people that were evil they were forging paul's letters and trying to bring another message and you'll see it in chapter two of second thessalonians and so they were trying to say that that paul had you know he was writing as paul they were writing as paul forging his signature trying to say that the the things of the appearing of the lord were not so as he explained but you see in there that he explains when you read chapter 2 of ii thessalonians you'll see that he explains no you know as i told you when i was present with you this is how this is what's going to happen this is how it's going to be you know and then in chapter 3 he gets into talking about um unreasonable men and that word unreasonable men is a person that is out of place a person that is injurious they're harmful they have no discipline they're absurd they're absurd they're disgusting they're disorderly they're out of place and they're improper and he's he was persuading them don't listen to these people they're unreasonable men and they're they're out for your destruction they're not out for your benefit they're not out for the benefit of god they're they are out for your destruction and that is not right that is not good amen now i'm probably going to talk a little bit more about this later but i want to tell you that if if you if i gave you an assignment would you do it okay read first and second thessalonians slowly word for word specifically chapters one through three specifically in those books you know i know the first one has chap goes through chapter five and it's good that you read it it doesn't take long but today if you can even today after you heard what paul did after you heard what jesus did you know after you heard what um what jesus the father is doing to us as far as speaking to us these words read us slowly word for word and look exactly what paul is saying there to the thessalonians see where they came from and see how they got there you know and embrace what he says to them there have a readiness of mind towards these things you know do put your hand to the plow and don't look back labor you know with love in god you know let it be the love of god the true love of god which is persuasive which is towards life which just doesn't put up with stuff you know that people talk about the love of god but in god's love we there's things you cannot put up with you cannot there's things you can't tolerate because there's things that people tolerate that end up dominating and there's things that change the course of people's lives when they let things that are outside of god's word dominate them and it's where it starts is in the thinking that's why i'm glad brother arthel brought the mind of christ in the morning because that's where it starts the enemy starts weaving in certain thoughts in certain certain ways that are acceptable and you have to be able to stand up with it from the word of god and say no this is not how the word of god speaks this is not how the word of god is i'm going to receive i'm going to receive what it says there we go well we're done now we're really done so praise the lord so my encouragement to you if this was the last thing that i was that i would tell you is like get in get internalized with the word of god you know and don't deviate from it you know love the word love it love love every chapter love every verse you know pay attention to the words of paul pay attention to the things that that paul thought was worth repeating the things that he repeated over and over and over again look at the times that he was thankful for people and look at what they did that made him thankful and then look at the times where he rebuked people and look at what they did that caused them to be rebuked like the book of galatians who bewitched you to listen to another gospel you know it pleased paul it pleased paul just like it pleased god for them to be followers of paul in that sense because he said follow me as i follow christ and he said i am not i am i come with sincerity of heart i come with everything that is true and godly and pure and right i come at it for you nothing holding back nothing be that type of person don't hold back anything from people you know don't just love them with with an essence of emotional love which is not true anyways love them love them to change them love them enough to change them sure do you need changing we all need changing but don't ever think don't think weak like that don't say you know i need um i i still need changing how am i supposed to help people when i still need changing no i have changed you have to start thinking don't think you know how they say the glass is either half full or have empty think of the glass half full say i have changed i've changed enough that could be effective to help another person i have changed to a level and that level that i've changed to i'm going to change others and as i change others i continue changing i continue growing i continue prospering the bible says that beloved i desire that you prosper be in health even as your soul prospers so our soul needs that prospering but that doesn't mean that doesn't cut us out from being able to prosper other people up to that level take people with you and that's what paul was doing and as he grew he grew people around him amen and jesus is pleased with that it pleases the father for us to help each other and for us to help other people out there don't be silent don't let nothing silence you use words words are powerful the word of god is powerful words on your mouth are powerful the truth is powerful amen amen so that is um that is it for me today but we're also going to minister so oh thank you darling thank you very much so um we're going to minister so how many of you in here today need ministry we're going to minister to you up here if you need ministry if you need to be prayed for and i think brother asmil is coming up to um get us oh he's going to do his happy dance yeah i hope you receive something from the word of god because it is the word of god it is the word of truth and you know and we take it to heart here you know we love scripture we want to open scripture time and time attack and we don't get bored of it do you get bored of the word of god we don't get bored of it because it is the truth it is it is life to you as brother russian also said in early in the morning it is life to us it is a light to our path it is strength to our feet it is strength to our walk how many of you want to walk without stumbling all right right that's what the word of god does it fixes you so that you're not you don't we don't stumble you don't falter you don't fail amen so be blessed and we're going to minister to you amen i mean so much truth in what she's saying you get to a point in your love for the word of god where it becomes your leisure like you want to sit down and relax you open up the word you know what i'm saying you really get to that point i used to go to other things the world entertainment now i go to the word and i'm like oh thank you lord yeah i mind mine the jewels that's in there the gold the the excellence that's in the word right amen sounds good so good so let's thank the lord for that word again this morning thank you jesus you know we thank you in such a way that it's landing here and it's landing here so that it brings life to our to our bodies to our lives in jesus name and so if you again would like to receive ministry just keep your hand up until we get a card to you we're going to pass out a card we ask that you fill out the card uh please fill that as legibly as you can so that we can uh read it i don't know any softer way to say that so that we can read it we can discern um and so that we can do some follow-up with you um and then we'll invite you as soon as that's completely filled out i will invite you to please come on forward and we'll line you up from the left to the right side to side and then we will minister the life of jesus to you otherwise if if you need to go we bless you in jesus name and uh go in his strength and remember you got tools so so go use them you got the word so go use it you have the holy ghost so go use them he desires you to use what he gave you to use amen so be blessed as you go this morning and uh if you would like to stay we'd ask you to to get involved just get involved by releasing your faith for those who came to receive this morning a ministry or or prayer or healing or deliverance just begin to release your faith begin to say that they are they will be free there's again there's no bystanders in the kingdom we all we all are in this fight together we're all in this victory together amen amen so again if you uh have not received a card please keep your hand up and we'll get you a card and then we'll have you come forward and brother reuben will dj ruben will put on some music you

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