Renewing Your Mind God's Way

amen praise God I think we ought to just pause and get a lot of little praise or something right now [Applause] so father I thank you for this another opportunity to minister to these your precious sheep Thank You Lord that revelation knowledge will flow freely uninterrupted and unhindered by an assent at an accord demonic force and father I pray that you speak through my vocal cords and think through my mind none of me and all of you it's in Jesus name we pray and everybody said a man to have your Bibles go with me this morning to the book of Galatians chapter 5 and 16 you know one of the things that we have dealt with in times past is that the grace of God means first of all grace is a person not just a curriculum or a subject matter grace is a person jesus full of grace and truth and so Jesus has already finished the work so everything that pertains to life and godliness is finished everything that you need as far as the blessing you have already been blessed not you're going to be blessed you have already been blessed said out loud I've already been blessed I've already been healed I've already been delivered so you know whatever whatever it is you're trying to do to get God to do the news is he's already done it it is finished healing is a part of the finished works deliverance is a part of the finished works your prosperity and success as a part of the finish works it is finished now either that's true or it's not it is finished so what do you do when something's finished you're told that something is done it is finished well you you take hold of it if it's finished you take hold of it you're going and say I'm hungry and and and and your spouse say well your dinner is finished well what do you do you you take whole of the dinner you're not having to go and do something to get dinner dinner's done and now what we say it's done amen and so you take hold of it but as Christian people we find ourselves a lot time's trying to to get involved in doing something when the word makes it plain done and we're still trying to do something and we're doing that because number one our mind has not been renewed and number two because our mind has not been renewed we hadn't changed from those religious roots that tells you you always got to do something to get God to do something that's that's that's not that's not true under this covenant of grace and so one of the things that I want to deal with today is how important it is for Christian people to maintain a life of renewing the mind to continue to renew your mind renewing the mind is so important because there will not be change if you do not recognize how important it is to renew your mind now the grace of God is working in us Jesus is working in us the Holy Spirit is working in us and they're trying to bring us to a certain place but now we've got to learn how to cooperate with what's going on in fact go to Titus let's start there I think it's Titus - let's start at Titus 2 and 11 then we'll come back to Galatians 5 Titus 2 11 and 12 I want to show you that the Holy Spirit is working the spirit of grace has an objective the spirit of grace wants to to initiate and be a part of the change in your life everybody say change because don't think for one moment that under grace you're gonna stay the same under grace there will be change grace is not something that covers your addictive behavior your bad behavior or your sins grace is gonna be responsible for the transforming of wherever you are right now to a better place look at Titus chapter 2 in 11 he says for the grace of God the same grace that brings salvation remember in Ephesians chapter 2 he says you are saved by grace but you got it how through faith so grace made salvation available to you but if you did not release your faith to take possession of it then you would not be saved today so Jesus has made salvation available to the whole world so the difference between you and the rest of the world is you decided to take possession of what Jesus what grace is made available and now you are walking in possession of salvation but not only with salvation made available by grace salvation involves deliverance salvation involves soundness salvation involves healing salvation involves wholeness everything you need for your life Jesus has already what finished and so now it's gonna be up to us to what appropriate or take possession of it bless God it is time for us to learn how to take hold of what's already been done amen amen for the grace of God that bringeth salvation has appeared to all men it's Bizet's it's available verse 12 now notice what the grace of God does and remember grace is a person his name is Jesus so notice what Jesus has done notice what grace the spirit of grace what Jesus wants to teach us teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts so grace wants to teach you to deny ungodliness everybody's gonna have temptation with ungodliness grace is gonna help you to deny it he says and worldly lusts oh my god I mean there's so much competition for your for your attention but the grace of God Jesus said I am going to teach you how to deny worldly lusts and ungodliness and he says so that you can live soberly notice grace wants you to live with a sober mind see when you're not sober that means you have a drunken mind you're intoxicated you understand what I'm saying when you're intoxicated you do some things you know what you're doing but you do some things that you don't intend on doing but maybe your thought about doing and intoxication makes it easier to eat to move into it you know a lot of people use excuse I know what doing out with drunk now you knew what you were doing okay it was just easier to do he says that you should live soberly he says he also wants grace wants you to live righteously he wants you to live right he wants you to be godly amen he wants you to be sober righteous and godly in heaven in this present world he wants you to be like that in this present well I think sometimes I have to make it clear sometimes that grace is not you know giving you the rubber-stamp I was just living Wow Wow grace won't leave you and Jesus won't leave you and and he's made tremendous commitment to to work in you and to change you and not give up on you and when you missed the mark he's still gonna be there he's still gonna be loving he's still gonna be kind God does not make a habit of injuring his children so that's not God I mean think about it God is why God's not gonna do something to injure you so now we see a lot of good people injured died early do all this kind of stuff we see people who are hooked on habits people dying of the drug addiction people who are confused about their sexuality people who are who have been damaged emotionally and you ask yourself well I don't know what happened they got saved do you know that salvation you get born again is not going to be responsible for changing what you were and where you were before you decided to get born again the only thing that happened when you got born again is your spirit got saved your soul didn't get saved you know your mind your soul is your mind your will and emotions a lot of you hesitated when I said your spirit got saved your soul then gets a your soul and spirit are not the same your spirit is who you are your soul is what you have you have a soul you are a spirit your soul is your mind your will and your emotions your soul is your thinker your chooser and your filter your soul is that part of you that thinks the way it thinks and feels the way it feels and that didn't change when you got born again you mean the song I looked at my hands and they did they look new I looked at my feet and they did - not when you had the same bunion on that left left foot as you had no no no your your body didn't get saved your soul did not get saved what got saved with your born-again spirit one third of you is already perfect and just like God and when you got saved since death is the separation of your spirit and soul from your body when you die you get you made Jesus Lord of your life your spirit is saved and so you can go to heaven because you made Jesus the Lord of your life but if you don't understand how to change your mind your soul and your body is gonna be like going to heaven from hell and the Bible talks about having days of heaven on the earth but how does that happen so I got to tell you right now and you know what when man a lot of people their status will still remain there you'll have a few good days when you got born again you feel good and you're close to God and all that but then when those maybe month is over with and you by yourself that mind is gonna pull up the same thing you've been doing and then you're gonna tell yourself what you're not supposed to do while you continue to do it I'm not supposed to be drinking them or cuz I'm a Christian but you drinking I'm not supposed to be calling sadly for that kind of call at nighttime you know the kind of call I'm talking about ain't saying it at church but you know the kind of call I'm talking about you said I supposed to be making this call romo but you're doing it there's a reason why why is it that people who are born again still stuck in the alcoholism still stuck in their pornography still stuck in their adultery still stuck in their different addictions and they're saved in some cases there's more sinning going on in the church than in your neighborhood y'all ain't gonna like me here this morning but I decided to preach this sermon cuz I knew a whole lot of will go steer being the bed and I just had to take my risk with a few that don't show up here this bar why is that well that's what that's what I want to talk about what what do I need to be doing for the rest of my life to be delivered from that place and to see myself go to the place where grace wants to get me I'm telling you right now it's renewing the mind it's renewing the mind and that's a lot of church folks don't like that they like coming to church getting a good feeling shouting hop-hop hallelujah and getting on out here but if you don't impact your thinking you won't impact your life that's why I switched from whooping and hollering 30-some years ago because I would be whooping and hollering and screaming and the church shouting and we all up dancing and all that kind of stuff but then when I got with them st. people I was preaching with an unchanged and unchanged and I didn't want them going to God after was over to my lord I went to church but Reverend dollar never said nothing significant to my my soul see you do that now I'm gonna be right behind the throne share and I'm gonna put my head I use a lot it's so I decided that I was going to take my time and give you some understanding and I know I won't lose some people or some folks come to church they go out of here I can't drop it I'm gonna make sure you you seek after my summers I want you to have a dream or a nightmare my granddad said nah he said uh he he never could get my name right my name is creflo my granddad is a little cliff it's not cliff granddaddy is well I call you look cliff my granddad said you know I appreciate all that and everything but I like when you're hauling I like I like the hooping and stuff like that now you know that stuff fine for everybody else but I need to holler a little bit so I basically when granddaddy came to church up when he visited got a holler a little bit of a grand in impact some of y'all came from some of those places impact what did you learn what did you get are we giving you something here so you can use it to reprogram your thinking to see a change in your life all right does everybody understand what we're going here this morning so go to Galatians 5 5 to 16 let's just break this down a little bit because a particular thing I'm headed towards is you renewing your mind where it's where your confession is concerned a lot of you have become so bogged down with making the right confession but you still believe in the wrong way and you got to renew your mind the confession is not what's going to make it right it's Jesus that's already made it right and your faith in what Jesus is already done all right now look at this collisions 5:16 let's read it out loud together ready read this I say then walk in the spirit walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh now I'm gonna tell you at the beginning here the foundation of walking in the spirit is walking in this covenant of grace the foundation of walking in the flesh is walking in the law that came by Moses that is eventually where we're going if you if you're still living by the law that came by Moses you are going to eventually walk in the flesh if you're living by the grace that came by Jesus you will be walking in the spirit now let's break this down a little bit more so you can can see what I just saw now let's look at the New Living Translation of Galatians 5:16 and then the Messick's translation and you can see this unfold and because what he says is basically says you know you walk in the spirit you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh fleshly desires and cravings well I can't do that if I absolutely don't know what it means to walk in the spirit and over the years we've tackled this all kinds of different ways on our way to understanding the truth of it and that is the grace of God now notice he says here so I say let the Holy Spirit guide your lives Oh walking in the spirit let the Holy Spirit guide your lives you know the Bible says my word is spirit and truth he says let the Holy Spirit guide your life how about as Christians under the new covenant of grace it is the Holy Spirit that that will lead and guide you how to be led by the Spirit of God and a lot of Christians come to church and they don't have a sense of the Spirit of God leading their lives the Holy Spirit guiding you and leading your life he said then you want to be doing what your sinful nature craves so you have this sinful nature and where is that sinful nature somebody said it's the body now the body's got to have something to tell it to do so it's up here say out loud my mind is the arena of faith so you're gonna lose it or you're gonna win it right up here this is where the the sinful nature resides this is this is the a mind that set on doing the law will be a mind that is open to sinful cravings

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Published: Sun Mar 08 2020