Keith Moore Transformed Pt 5 A change of Mind

something's on me amen thanks guys y'all can be seated if you would turn in the scripture this evening to Romans chapter 12 Romans chapter 12 if you didn't bring a Bible with you hold up your hands real high we got a extra Bibles you can use one of ours and and turn to Romans chapter 12 we begin a few weeks ago on a series on Friday nights called transformed transformed and our main text is right here in Romans the twelfth chapter Romans 12 and verse 2 Romans 12:2 says be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God here he says there's something that will transform you and enabled you to know the will of God are you interested in Asia in the New Living Translation new living says don't copy the behavior and customs of this world but let God transform you everybody said out loud let God transform you how is he going to do it now when people think about what God doing an amazing thing in your life oftentimes they don't think of their involvement they just think oh yeah God could just send a lightning bolt of transforming power and wopo zap oh and behold the new me and he it is his will to do an amazing miraculous transformation with you and me but it requires our involvement transform you into a new person by changing the way you think then you will learn to know God's will for you which is good and pleasing and perfect knowing perceiving discerning identifying being sure of the will of God is a part of this I became convinced in my early teens teenage years that if I could find out the will of God I had it made and I know that to be true today because I had already made up my mind if I could find out and say I know this is the will of God for me to do I'm gonna do it and if I'll do it I'm convinced he's going to bless me he's going to take care of me he's going to help me and in essence I'd have it made right well here is the the key if you will of finding and knowing the perfect will of God we need our minds changed in the the God's word translation he says don't become like the people of this world instead change the way you think then you'll always be able to determine what God really wants do you want to always be able to determine what God really wants in your life what is good pleasing and perfect today's English version says it like this do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world and let your stuff right here when the Bible says don't do something what should we do don't do it what did he say don't do don't conform now conform means literally to fashion alike are there pressures are there things at work in this world to make you conformable to make you like everything around you I mean you hear people talk about peer pressure and other pressures and and public opinion and politically correct and only know these are conforming pressures to mold you into a cookie cutter copy of everybody else but the truth is you're not supposed to be like everybody else you're supposed to be different very different from those who are not born again those who don't follow Jesus those who are not a part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ there is to be a market difference between you and the unsaved true and one of the big things that makes that difference is how you think what you think and how you think he said it would transform you if your mind is renewed if your mind you change the way you think it says it would transform you that word transform is the word we get our word metamorphosis from like caterpillar to butterfly could you change that much now he's writing to his people that's born again they've already been born again did you go back to the beginning of the book of Romans he's writing to the saints that are at Rome and he's telling born-again people that they can be transformed yes and how would it happen by the renewing of your mind how could you tell if you believe these great truths hmm you would not yawn when I read them if you really believed that the Lord can and will change you into another person from where you sit right here tonight now we're talking about a better person a greater person a more glorious just like Jesus person you believe it yeah how does it go happen of course that's gonna involve his goodness and his power and His grace but it's also gonna involved us changing what we think and how we think can you say Amen thank you master go with me if you would you believe in with me this evening to the the Book of Psalms and the tenth chapter we asked the question in previous services what is a thought and where do thoughts come from what are they actually it's something we are so familiar with I mean from the time we had any self awareness or consciousness that was what they thought whether it was a thought of I want a bottle or I like popsicles or whatever you you had a thought and until this present hour I mean you're sitting there you might not be doing a whole lot physically but you're doing something and if you didn't understand English then this wouldn't mean anything to you but if you do understand the English language thoughts are being conveyed right now what is a thought words are simply thought carriers thought vehicles if the word doesn't convey the thought it's a useless word means nothing just letters strung together what would it mean languages vary but the thoughts are the same but what is a thought I'm saying something you're understanding something what is that thing a thought the same word Hebrew word is translated thought and also imagination is is translated frame and make as well thoughts are not how can I say they aren't they are not nothing thoughts are something thoughts have substance thoughts have spiritual substance and thoughts are the framing of what's to come thoughts are the forms of what is to follow God formed man from the dust of the earth let's just stop where was man before that he was in the mind and heart of God God formed Adam formed man his his nose his eyes his ears his fingers his toes exactly the way he saw him inside he we know how it works because he has made us in his own likeness and image an artist a Potter a painter a sculptor does the same thing just with stone and canvas and lesser materials but when a Potter is forming a vase before that vase is finished and drying in the oven where was that vase that vase was in the Potters thoughts what can you say that what was in them was nothing it existed there before it existed here if it hadn't existed there it would have never existed here so you're going to say that a thought is meaningless and nothing when it's where the pot came from and we understand according to Hebrews what is an 11-3 that the worlds were framed by the Word of God so that everything you see in touch was created and made from things you can't see things that don't appear are y'all with me friends a very very big part of who we are and what we are is what we think and how we think much bigger than we've realized the reason why you're here tonight in church instead of somewhere else doing something else is the result of what you think and how you think other people that could be here are not here because they don't think it's worth their time they don't think it's valuable enough to them they don't think the word would have that much impact on them or being in the presence of God would have that much change cause that much change they just don't think that but you thought enough of it to drive a distance too even if you were tired cleaning yourself up and and get here and focus and pay attention and spend money they exert energy because of how you think you think God is everything you think the word is life eternal life you think the word will do everything God will heal you and fix you and meet your needs and and that the presence of God is their most amazing experience and place you can ever be and you think right you all right about what you think I didn't say you're right about everything that's you think but you're right about that can you say glory to God Psalm ten y'all believe in with me to sleep leave with me use your faith for exactly what should come out to come out what are we after we're after God's thoughts God's thoughts some 10 and for some 10 and 4 says the wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God God is not in all his thoughts there folks that go for years at a time and don't think about God they have no interest thinking about God God is not in their thoughts and that is a huge part of what makes them who they are and what they are because if God is not in your thoughts God is not in your life and he is not influencing the person you are if you have a godless thought life you'll have a godless life remember in in Romans 12 transformed by the renewing of your mind the simple and powerful truth is changed the way you think change you you change this hasn't been real enough to us if you're thinking changes significantly enough you change into a different person are you with me friends this is amazing why because what you are right now was formed in your thinking last year 10 years ago 20 years ago things thought you got from your parents grandparents teachers and coaches at school or in university or in meetings or churches that all these thoughts some of them you rejected some of them you kept but these thoughts because when you came into this world you were a blank sheet of paper you didn't have a bunch of thinking and thoughts you got these thoughts from from people and what the reasons you do and I do what we do is because of how we think and what why do we do this instead of this why don't we go here instead of there why do we do it this way instead of that way because before we did it we thought it and we thought that'd be a good thing to do that would be a good major to take that would be a good job to get that would be a good trade and skill to learn that would be this before you ever became that you thought that maybe in the beginning you didn't think it was so hot but before was over with you thought to give years to that and and and learn and and developed but your thinking has led you to the point where you are now and we have become what we are today not what we have to be no matter what you've become that doesn't mean you're locked into that because oh yeah but I I just always thought well that's what we're told my you can change the way you think yeah but I've just always believed and I've just always thought that doesn't mean it's right look in Psalm 50 Psalm 50 and verse 21 the Lord says these things have you done and I kept silence just because the Lord didn't say anything our judgment didn't fall on you immediately doesn't mean he approved of it you thought I was all together such an one as yourself God is saying you did some stuff you were some ways I didn't stop you I didn't say anything to you about it and so you assumed that I was like you but he said but I'm gonna reprove you I'm gonna correct you I am NOT like you do people get to thinking wrong about God and how he is and who is and this is one of the biggest problems is that people church-going people and unsaved people think wrong about God you know just like this guy that that caught Rob and he thought we're charging people to come to church and they had to fork up money to even come and be in the service and be a part now that was never true that never even came across my mind not that I never even thought anything like that and yet he really did think that so he thought we're that way hell with me but it was wrong thinking we'll see people think all kinds of stuff about God they think he's that way because they heard a preacher say it or because they heard grandma say it or cuz they dudes come up with something on their own they read half a verse and around backwards and misunderstood it hmm and so well that's how he is and that's what he said but he never said it and that's not how he is and he's never been that way but you got all kind of people thinking he is such a one as they are and as they think you should be or he is but we did our minds renewed there are you hungry to have your mind renewed so that you don't think wrong about him that you see him as he is and you know him truly and what you're thinking about is right now the only way you will get that is to have a willing heart and to allow yourself to be immersed in his thoughts night and day and not just for their two or for a week or two or for a year - that's why he told Joshua this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth but you will meditate in it day and night why because you do that and you go start learning how God thinks what he thinks and how he thinks and when you do that you're gonna start thinking like he does you're going to become like-minded with the Most High God and instead of being deceived and being all messed up and you're thinking and thinking he thinks like you you can get renewed and actually think like him and as we do it will transform us into different people transform us not just slight improvements different people different people glory to God somebody say thank you master thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you Lord you know God's thoughts revealed in his word show who he is as a person and what he is as God and what his will is and what his ways are I remember I was I was reading the Bible through from the beginning in the Old Testament as a boy I was Pro you know for the first time and I got into reading about David and about his mighty men and about the exploits and about the miracles and you know the way the Lord helped him to conduct himself I mean he had an opportunity to kill his enemy that was making his life miserable and he would not touch him he said no he's the Lord's anointed something could happen to him but it's not gonna be by my hand and and some things about honor and about integrity and I I couldn't explain it all but I could tell something was getting in me something was changing my insides I I could not try to explain it but these are God's thoughts and when you think his thoughts after him and don't reject them believe him and receive them they actually have the power to conform you to think like him and if you think like him you become like him because a huge part of what God is and who he is is what he thinks and how he thinks are y'all with me friends and we have the privilege of having a book full of his thoughts now see that's why the enemy pushes so hard to try to convince people all that's not you know divinely inspired no maybe out amazing poetry outstanding life stories no no no this was not written of men's personal private interpretation holy men of old spoke and it was written down as they were moved by the Holy Spirit this is something beyond man's intellect this is God's thoughts God's thoughts now if you don't have that respect for the word you're in trouble because you you can't get out of it what's there if you're an unbeliever if you study the scripture to argue to try to disprove God I don't care how brilliant you think you are it is a closed book to you you'll get nothing of life but if you'll open up your heart the Bible talks about different states of mind one of them is a willing mind one of them is readiness of mine and if you'll do that and open up yourself the very thoughts of the Almighty who sits on the throne tonight in glory will come into your mind and you will think come on are you with me say you will think the same thoughts God thinks you will think in the same veins and same ways he has always thought and that those thoughts are transforming they change you as you meditate on what he said and you think what he has always thought and you think in the veins and ways your insides are being changed you are becoming some else that's the power of his words can you say I believe it mm-hmm thank you master transformed by the renewing of your mind the Lord was reminding me about this in recent days about you know the the way of thinking just say it's just in this country in the u.s. the laws of our land the so much of the thinking about what's right what's fair what's not it came from God now a lot of it's been twisted in recent times but this country was founded to be a Christian nation no let somebody tell you it wasn't it was and I say something real bold and it's not politically correct and I don't care but we don't need freedom of religion we need freedom to worship the one true Living God and His Son Jesus all the other stuff is a scourge on our country and can bring judgment and curse on us you read what happened when they allowed the worship of other gods in their Nations there ain't nothing good about it it was around we need to be open-minded we just need to be tolerant in it we've had problems in our country too he cases where God couldn't fully protect us cases where God couldn't fully provide for not because his army short no no the laws on so many of our books that's why the Ten Commandments were in the courthouses and all kind of stir and whine God We Trust is on the money and it's just all over the place you just have to be willing you don't want to know the truth to try to turn it into something else but the law revealed what's fair and just and right I want to give you a quick example of it you go to Exodus 22 and I'm gonna read to you from another passage and then we'll I'll go I'll make my way over there you're going to Exodus 22 but I'm reading from Deuteronomy for a moment he said what nation is there so great who God has near to them as the Lord our God what nation is so great that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day that's Deuteronomy 4:8 the law revealed what's right and what's fair down to details and you do yourself a disservice if you never read the Old Testament you need to read it because there are there's so many things in there about how God thinks our approach to him has changed we no longer need to sacrifice animals we no longer have to try to go through a a priest we have the great high priest and he's already made the sacrifice come on are you with me but yet what God said is still true and he's never changed and if he thought that way then he thinks that way now he doesn't need to change because it was perfect and he said what nation is there so great that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which he said I have set before you this day and to even know what is fair and what is right and good versus what is unfair where did we get the concept how did we ever find out what I learned from mama and then where did they learn huh well my his daddy taught him well where did he learn going back generations how did anybody ever have a concept of right and wrong it was all over the map until God made it plain and in in Exodus 22 just noticed this one little example Exodus 22 14 he's telling them details about how to live he said if a man borrow all of his neighbor and it be hurt or die and the owner is not with it he will surely make it good he'll pay for it verse 15 if the owner is with it he will not make it good he won't pay for it because it's a hard thing it came for his high if he's paying for the man's time and the man brings his ox and his ox dies while working on his job well that's not his responsibility but if he borrowed demands ox and he's working the man's ox and the Ox dies it is his responsibility now that doesn't mean you couldn't love the guy and help him get another ox even if it was a rental job but how would you know what's right in the situation this kind of Revelation is throughout the whole Word of God how to think what's right what's the right thing to do what's the fair thing to do what's the good thing to do you wouldn't have a clue unless you've got a hold of his thoughts and the amazing thing is now being born again and receiving the Holy Spirit you got the author who who penned this through the human instrument inside you 24/7 and even if you didn't know one scripture and you just got born again yesterday if you'd follow the leading of the Spirit he would lead you in line with that verse if that was your situation and there might be years later you'd find out about diversion you think well that's exactly what he led me to do said out loud right thinking righteous thinking God thinking if you don't think like him what needs to happen that's exactly right you need to change your little mind you need to change the way you think when you come up against you and he thinking differently you need to change do you reckon you have arrived and total Christlikeness and all your thought processes tonight well then what needs to happen then the reality is that a lot of the way you think is not in agreement with him the way he thinks as you sit right here right now either that or you have already arrived at christ-like perfection now which one is then where you sit and where I stand here tonight there's a lot of stuff that we have thought even up until five minutes ago that is wrong and here's the problem it's not just that it's wrong is that it's wrong and we think it's right you're with me see if it's wrong and you know it's wrong then you know to deal with it but if it's wrong and you think it's right that's what deception is it's wrong but you don't think it's wrong this guy is actually contradictory to Bible verses but you think his Bible it's in a disagreement with what God thinks but you think he's fixed just like you but this ignorance and deception leaves the door open to the destroyer in that area of your life and that's why people keep having problems in the same area and they're pulling their hair wondering why because they see no need to change that area because they're sure me and God think the same about this but the truth is he's never thought like that and you're wrong and the solution is for us to be changed renewed in our mind but for that to happen we gotta have a different thought no we've got to have some thoughts come in that slap us and go hey hey hey this is not right with you and mom and them and great-grandma manum have thought for the last 100 90 years has been it was off the wall 200 years ago and it's off the wall today it was messed up then and it's messed up now and you got to change and some of these things my friends poppin em would fight you and beat you down over and it was engraved in their preachers and they were just sure it was God and we'll fight you over it and some of it is like cutting off a hand it's like pulling out of I because it's a part of who you are and what you are but it's a part of what's wrong with who you are and what you are and needs to be removed and replaced and mine renewed are you willing are you willing let me go over getting this real slow have you arrived at thinking a hundred percent like God in every area of your life right now where you say no you have not so what does that mean that means there are multiple areas in your thinking that are wrong right now not right and need to change been better if that had been changed 20 years ago 40 years ago when you were three years old but but you can't you can't change it any sooner then now are you willing to change anything that the Lord would show you so come on put your hands up and pray out loud with me say father God I desire this show me where you and I are not in agreement in thinking show me anything and everything I have received I have assumed I have believed I thought was you thought was the Bible thought was right and it's not I want to know open my eyes open my ears give me understanding reveal it to me I'll receive it and by your grace let me be renewed in the spirit of my mind and think like you in Jesus name hallelujah thank you lord thank you lord did you pray it in faith are you expecting expecting do you believe that he desired is this his will count on it he'll do it here he'll start showing you things immediately now when he does don't get mad don't don't get rankled don't get distorted nada how to shape let him do it let him show you let him show you make sure you're not defending something that's not God watch about that got any more time tonight or can you take some more go over to the Book of Luke mmm-hmm thank you master thank you master why you going to the Book of Luke the eighth chapter I'll read another verse to you who are you where are you going there don't want to waste any time when I could get another scripture in you're going to Luke 8 we read this last time I minister to you on this a Psalm 139 17 he said how precious are your thoughts to me O God how great is the sum of them is that true in your heart how precious are your thoughts to me have you you know you hear people talk about boy I'd like to I'd like to talk to this person or that that maybe he's been dead for hundreds of years I'd like to pick their brain I've heard people say you know just hear what they think and what they think no I tell you who you want to know their thoughts the Almighty and the amazing thing is you can you can and this book can be just dead letter and King James English and mean very little or nothing to you or you can have a living relationship with him and he can speak to you right out of this book he can speak to you right by his spirit and something can come up in you and you can go wow wow I never saw that like that before and that coin Ischia Sheila forefather and Mara groans no Laura sure Alice near a kiss dear ferati and that's what's happening here and now the Most High would reveal a greater revelation the Most High would expand our insides he would enlarge our mind and our spirit to comprehend things he's known from Aeon past to grasp an embrace glorious light glorious truth that most have not embraced and seen nor care to know but if you desire if you covet if you reach for I'll show it to you hallelujah hallelujah you believe thank you master he would show us things we've not known were there he would show us oh my lord he he just sent him he said I would show you things previous generations missed I would show you things previous generations overlooked missed didn't see how they knew you and you know some things have been lost the first generation in the church it was real that's how they lived but then by five hundred years later it had been lost and the Lord hadn't changed he hasn't changed just because people changed and lost things he hasn't changed now think about the patience and mercy of God he's wounded his people in the earth to think certain ways for hundreds of years that they lost and he just keeps being willing and ready if somebody will open up to him to show it to them and bring them into it but what we've already prayed is a significant part of us this wrong thinking is in the way of the right thinking it's in the way it is taking up place in our life in our values or morals or standards that should be occupied with the real and the Lord will help us we go have some things pulled out of us and the glorious thing is it's gonna make room for the real how they loo you let's go and change us that's gonna make us different people better people yeah loo Kate are you there loo Kate in this part of the chapter deals with the madman of Ghaderi who ran through the cemeteries screaming at night cutting himself and you know that lets you know you hear nowadays about people cutting themselves where does that come from the Spirit of God leads you to cut yourself never that's that's the devil any people Saul I can't help it that's a lie that's a lie how do people get to the place where they cut their self before they cut their self what happened thoughts came to them about cutting themselves and sometimes they might have went months and years and not cut themselves but the thought kept coming back to cut yourself and they just it just and then the pressure and then then just you know cut yourself cut yourself where's it coming from who would bring thoughts and pressure you to cut yourself that's the devil same one that was motivating the madman of Ghaderi to cut himself do we as born-again believers with the greater one inside have to let the devil conform us into a self-mutilating foolish person no you're a child of God young person teenager adult you're a born again child of God greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world and if something comes to you and says cut yourself you say you cut yourself I'm not stupid I'm thankful for this body God gave me I'm not gonna scar it and deface it I'm so vexed well honey cutting yourself ain't gonna make you feel better there's peace in Jesus that's what you don't cutting yourself is not gonna fix anything it's gonna cause all kinds of other problems and I assure you you're gonna risk your head and had enough don't do it well I have cut myself for luck but the Lord will forgive you it can be behind you just quit listening to it now realize where it's coming from and stop it stop it stop it he was running through the cemetery screaming naked naked no clothes and he came and fell down to Jesus and Jesus set him free and verse 35 they went out to see what was done and came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the Devils were departed sitting at the feet of Jesus clothed and in his right mind they were afraid they should have been glad it's amazing people see the power of God and they get scared they should be glad no more screaming idiot in the cemetery a naked j-bird that now think about this if he's in his right mind where was he earlier that day he was not in his right mind what does it mean not in his right mind now we use that phraseology limitedly but I want you to understand they're all kind of degrees of being in your right mind or being in the wrong mind he was in such a wrong mine that he kini he's not even living in public he's not even he's not holding down a job he doesn't have a family he's running crazy man through the cemetery naked lost his mind but how did that happen before he was the madman in Ghaderi he was some mama's baby come on are you listening he was he was some daddy's son he was somebody's brother might have been somebody's husband somebody's coworker how did he become the madman of Ghaderi thoughts came to him nobody might have known it on the job or at home for months or even years but thoughts came to him like that thought about cutting yourself thoughts came to him perverted wrong distorted thoughts and he thought on him and yielded to it until he became obsessed with that thing that means you think about it night and day does it matter what you think well if we think on what the Lord is telling us we're transformed into being like the Lord well what if you think on this ugly stuff this evil stuff this perverted stuff will it also change you it will conform you into being like the enemy the enemy wants you to make a fool of yourself run around naked in the cemetery and try to destroy yourself and kill yourself and that's what he does and he could not he can't just come in and force you to do something but he can bring thoughts and bring thoughts but do do you agree we're foolish if we think if we sit around and think them and meditate on him wouldn't that make us foolish especially a child of God who's got the greater one inside and so now he's in his right mind somebody say right mind how would you know you're in your right mind well first off you put some clothes on that's a good indicator good at one good indication and he's not screaming through the cemetery he's sitting quiet at the feet of Jesus with peace when you get in your right mind you want to be close to Jesus don't you it even goes on to say that the Lord was told him what to do and go out and tell him he said all want to stay right here with you and when you get in your right mind you want to be as close to Jesus as you can if you think you don't you're not in your right mind simple if that doesn't mean that you're a lunatic you can be different degrees not in your right mind are you with me friends and if you're not in the right mind or right thinking or right mindset what needs to happen you need to change you need to you need to not quit trying to change all the outside change the way you think and the transformation will come in your life in now just just receive those new thoughts and those different thoughts and begin to think them and think that and think like that and transformation the scripture says will result he changed I want you to notice go you're there in Luke go over to I guess is it Matthew please stand by get all my notes yeah go to Matthew the first chapter we need to look at a couple of more of these situations now was that guy a little bit off in his thinking or was he way Huff running through the cemetery naked screaming cutting yourself that's way off that's out there right aren't you glad you're not out there like that tonight mmm thank you master but if the Lord could take him and it within minutes he's sitting at the feet of Jesus clothed and in his right mind then if you've been to a lesser degree out of your right mind he could sure get you back easy right up me I don't mean doesn't matter how far you've been out of your right mind he can get you right back in a hurry in a hurry minutes you can be right for you thinking like you need to think and when you think like you need to think life looks different it doesn't look hopeless it looks amazing you heard the testimony of the lady I'm you could tell she was thinking about quitting thinking about Quentin family marriage relationship occupation she was thinking about that and he it didn't look good didn't look worth getting up in the morning to go to try to do but now she's excited she said it's better than it's ever been and then yes she says not everything changed she changed she's thinking differently and what changed her thinking she said the word dead the Word of God got in her and changed the way she thinks so she's not just enduring daily life she's enjoying daily life because she sees it differently you see young people and older people as well get to the point where they think about suicide because life is not worth living why because girlfriend broke up with me because my wife had an affair because my husband had an affair because they just don't love me anymore because this because that life is not worth living that's a lie that's a lie yeah but you don't know what they've done to me it doesn't really matter I know some things are hard to deal with I'm not saying that we don't care but you're not being able to go on that is not the determining factor the psalmist said even if my mother and father forsake me the Lord will take me up does he have the ability if people fail you forsake you betray you does God have the ability is he big enough to come up inside you heal your broken heart fill your mind and not just help you to survive we're not just survivors we are thrivers we are overcomers and more than conquerors come on are you listening cuz that's how big God is if he can get you to think with him I I know just in the last several years my thinking is changing changing changing I'm so thankful for it a lot of stuff that used to shake me don't shake me anymore I just don't I don't see it the same what he's getting bigger and bigger and bigger in me is how big God is he is filling up my windshield did anybody know what I mean by that I don't know that I've ever said that before when something feels your windshield what does that mean that's all you can see God is filling up my windshield you think about get it think about think about what kind of being can make a solar system can make the vast expanses the it's challenging for us to even begin to try to wrap our mind around what's there this is not figment of someone's imagination just go out and look up in the night sky it's there look through telescopes what kind of person can make that what kind of person and the same person made bunnies and puppies and kittens who makes a puppy everything that's in that puppy cold nose waggy tail floppy ears wants to run jump slide by that all came out of God that was in him before it was out there that's part of him that's part of who he is solar systems and puppies and everything in between it's gone curly hair and strawberries the smell of vanilla chocolate and alligators his the scope of an breath of his person and diversity who he is what he is how he thinks we will never begin to tire of it it is so vast it is so amazing and you don't have to wait till you get to heaven to begin to tap into it you can begin to learn more about who he is what he is what he thinks how he thinks and I'm telling you if you let him fill up your windshield uh people can fail you people can mess up people can hurt you they can say and do things that they should not have done but if he is filling up your windshield you will not let it cause you to become hopeless you will not I didn't say you wouldn't shed a few tears you wouldn't have to talk to yourself some but he can be so big in you that if everything went wrong you still have your soul anchored and he can help you see a brighter tomorrow anyway well my friend left me well he could bring them back there could be a better friend for Zola or he could just give you a better friend our Tim better for himself do you believe these that big if you do then you won't just roll up and curl up in the bed and then cry your eyes out and say it's no use I just want to die that's when God ain't filling up your windshield you are filling up your windshield and no wonder you feel bad looking at at all that sorrow and junk and problems and failures if we would diss in our minds and certain things we just would not let ourself think no matter how pressing or real they are we just said no I am NOT think I don't care how I don't care that it happened I'm not thinking about that if you do that we would spare ourselves from untold pain so much stuff we just wouldn't go through and and I'm telling you the Lord is working that in us he's helping us with that that is happening inside us until what will become different people will become so strong and people look at you and they'll heart you crying and do you need to take off work and do you need to do this and that you go no I'm fine and you really are and it'll be amazing effect how in the world can you be fine because God is filling up my windshield everywhere I look I just see solar systems and puppies somebody say glory to God where are you you hold in your place I don't think I have time for all of that tonight go to Jonah the third chapter maybe you can come back for another time or if you can't you can go for the following rest of the series you can download it for free off the internet and if you're from out of town or whatever go to Jonah the third chapter Jonah chapter 3 now God sent Jonah to preach which was his call and his job and he's preached before probably lots of places but he sent him to preach at Nineveh and Jonah didn't like Nineveh and didn't want to go preach and none of them so he ran he booked a a cabin on the ship went for a cruise get his mind off of his preaching at Nineveh stuff baba said he fled from the presence of the Lord how you gonna run from God how are you gonna flee from the presence of the Lord I mean you can take the fastest jet and go to the furthest remote island and hide behind the palm tree and soon as you get there he's going to go hey what are you doing over here get away from God he's everywhere but that's what he tried to do and you know that he had the that workshop with the great fish worked some things out in itself got clearance and on his goals and it wasn't that finished fit him up he hit his feet and headed to Nineveh to preach you know you can do things the easy way or you can do things the hard way so many choose the latter but he did he did exactly what the Lord don't do which he did not want to do but he did it and he told him judgment was coming and and he preached it and he preached it hot and strong and then he went back outside on the city limits edge to watch and see the judgment fall because he's prophet and when he prophesized it comes to pass but in verse 9 they all repented and verse 10 God saw their works that they turned from their evil way and God repented of the evil that he said he would do to him and he did it not yeah but God said judgment was coming the next amount of time yeah but he said no they changed so I'm gonna change what's gonna happen see a lot of things are not set in concrete are they they're not etched in stone if you check maybe something was going to happen but if they change it can change but it made Jonah furious cause his prophecy didn't come to pass and when the Prophet prophesied and it know what happened well then the word gets out and your reputation is that Jonah of the Prophet yeah I know you're that last prophecy he made nothing Zippo nothing happened that's bad for your reputation false prophet he could just hear the names now and verse 1 chapter 4 verse 1 is keep reading it displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was very angry verse 2 he prayed to the Lord he said I pray you Lord wasn't this my saying when I was yet in my country for our left home for I took that cruise I told you I knew that you were gracious God I knew it and I knew you were merciful and slow to anger and great kindness and you would repent you of the evil I knew it verse 3 I knew this is what happened I show up over here I preached my heart out they repaired okay no judgment Jonah's a liar prophecies are dead I need it for left that's why I took the cruise and so lord I beseech you just take my life from me because it is better for me to die than to listen to some of what we were just talking about is Jonah in his right mind he's not is he thinking right I want to die why why why does he want to die because his pride has been hurt his reputation everybody at school will know she broke up with me all the other kids will see that picture that stupid hairdo everybody will know that is not the end of the world people that have been alive for a while help me out is that the end of the world it is not go have you an ice cream take a nap you'll feel better right it is not the end of the world come on help me out it is it older people experience people help me out it ain't the end of the world yeah but I loved him much as you know but you don't know much and on a thrill no no I'm not I'm not saying it's not real the pain is real it's real and care about somebody and them not caring about it's real and it's painful I'm not discounting that but it's not as bad as you think it is I know it feels like it I know it feels like it's the end of the world but it's not and the best stuff in life getting him touched yet don't quit before you get started but Jonah won't start he wants to go Lord just take me out please it's better for me to die than to live that's good I keep reading the Lord said do you do well to be angry I'm gonna ask them a question are you doing well are you doing good is it right for you to be so mad do you have a right to be this man what I mean a thinking person would pick up on that wouldn't he and they would go you know I may not be seeing this right way when God asked you are you right to be this mad why would he ask you are you right to be this man unless you ain't right and he's not in his right mind do you do well to be angry but notice what he says when you get worked up like this there's what he says verse 5 did I miss it back up we missed something here that's not the whole verse verse verse 9 excuse me he said I'd do well to be angry even unto death yes I got a right to be he's talkin to God no God he is so mad Jonah you got a record why are you so mad peace and I got every right in the world to be mad I'm mad enough to die now what had happened in the previous verses the Lord he stays out there on the edge of the city not in the house not an inn in the shelter and the Lord caused the gourd to grow and the leaves to come up and it grew real fast and it put it it provided some shade for him so instead of just being out there with the Sun beating down on his head about to have a heat stroke this this leaf is over him and he's got some shade and he's enjoying it but didn't the Lord let a worm come by and just clip the little vine and it died and wilted and now the sun's beating down on his head things can change quick Cathy sometimes it don't take much to change him in a big way and verse 10 the Lord said you had pity on the gourd for which you have not labored you didn't make it grow it came up in the night and it perished in the night and yet he's all concerned about this gourd and he's mad because his shade is gone and his prophecy didn't come to pass and his ones to die and God tells him come on Jonah you really should you really be this man you got a right to be so angry this gourd that you are so upset about came up and the night's gone the night you didn't make it grow you didn't do anything about and he said in this city Nineveh there's more than six score thousand persons that can't tell right hand from left that's little kids and children and also much cattle and what he's saying is you're not thinking right the over here wanting to die mad about it gourd are you not realizing all these babies all these children lives have been spared whole city repented and misjudgment and all you thinking about is your reputation and this gourd was Jonah in his right mind Jonah's a man of God he's amazed a real man of God called a God God could have picked any number of any thousands of other people to send to do the job he picked him there's a reason why and yet his thinkin was so far off that he's gotten distracted and he's mad and he's upset and he's depressed and he wants to die can you see what the Lord did he had to use an object lesson to get through to him because he was so mad so he used the gourd and the leaf and then the Gordon leaf went away Gordon leaf no Gordon no leaf and he said let me help you out here Jonah you know what I see what do you say six score thousand little ones that can't tell right from left yet and all these animals and all these people that are spared they won't get just that's how he thinks now Jonah is beginning to pick up on how he thinks would it make any difference in Jonah wanting to die or Jonah being miserable or Jonah being upset if he could see it the way the Lord sees it if he sees it through the Lord's eyes if he thinks of it the way the Lord's thinking of it his whole outlook his whole perspective and therefore all his feelings his temper his anger melts away come on can you see his concern about his reputation is out the window joy begins to come because of a whole city and all these thousands and thousands of lives that have been spared and instead of seeing the the ministry as a failure he sees it as a total success that God in yes he's a merciful God yes he wants people to repent it's why he sent you to start with because the Lord was wanting them to hear this message and repent so he could spare them you're a success Jonah it worked out exactly the way the Lord wanted to work out what more than you old come on can you see it difference between wanting to die and shouting being glad being thankful differs between being in your right mind being in the wrong mind everybody's telling you

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Length: 75min 32sec (4532 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 02 2011