The Power Of The Mind // Sunday Morning Service

good morning it's all standing turn around meet somebody use your elbows nice to see you Father we come before you this morning to thank you so much for your love and grace and mercy Lord Father for your wonderful people or God father for the work that you're doing that you want to do Lord father the privilege of being able to be here Lord to hear your word father to have your people in this place God but I pray for their families that you touch them that you annoyed them Lord know that the church would get back to normal Lord Lord we know that these are different days father a lot of this reminds me of the days father word and I got saved Lord the Jesus people movement Lord father the violence and the rebellion against government against a military father against everything Lord although you use that time for your Holy Spirit to be poured out and look for so many including myself Lord to be saved father we pray that through this somehow father you would race up young men young women Lord take the message to give them message and then we would see another great revival Lord as lor we we just really stand father this morning here asking you well as we look at people's minds or God or what is in our mind and then I pray that your Holy Spirit father would continue to move and then we with that we would put on the mind of Christ Jesus Lord I pray for their families I prefer their finances a pretty father for everything that they're doing God for those outside the pati and those watching through the Internet Lord we pray God that they would be ministered to and Lord that we would sit quietly and just open our ears to hear what the Holy Spirit has to say to each one individually yes for Laura we ask you now to baptize us with your Holy Spirit and with power in Jesus name we pray amen I don't have to mention anything we know what's going on in the world today and surely we need a miracle we need a revival like never before why don't you turn to the book of ezekiel chapter 8 ezekiel chapter 8 the tower my message is the power of the mind the power of the mind have you ever stopped you think how powerful the - it's literally the control panel of our thoughts good and evil and yet the - like a computer the way it operates it keeps it keeps everything in order as you're thinking and you're you're going back maybe to the past or in the present of the future but so many people have been destroyed because of what they're putting into their minds you have to really be careful magazines you read movies you watch television programs whatever it may be you know and your computer going to different websites and looking at things you shouldn't really be looking at and I think that's really for me an important thing as a pastor teacher that I known in the past a lot of teachers a lot of pastors people in ministry they have gotten involved in pornography you know in the middle of the night you know the husband will be downstairs of the computer and also the wife comes down and they're watching something that there should be watching we had a guy in in where my kids you rise to live that I had a son and I he would have his oldest son and some of the girls in the heist will come in and watch pornography on the weekends that's an that infecting all these kids and eventually he got caught and he got in big trouble I think that we have to be careful in the things that were showing people maybe there's some things we shouldn't really be showing people because when you watch something your mind already adapts to my little grandson blows me away because when I talk to him things that I say to immediately he memorizes them he comes back and it tells me I said well how did you know that you know I only told you once and he already memorized her or he watched something and already as a picture in his mind Paul the Apostle said this let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus the mind of Christ the devil likes to mess with your mind he knows how to do that but when we read the Bible and we're reading the Scriptures the scriptures are going into our mind into our heart we get the pictures of the Sea of Galilee we get the pictures of Nazareth you get the pictures of Jesus standing there feeding the 5,000 or the 4,000 and when you remember pictures in the scriptures they become part of your life especially have you been to Israel when you're reading the Bible you go wow I've been there I can tell exactly where that is I can tell exactly what is there it may be if they haven't meant to Israel by reading your Bible you still God can speak to you you can memorize scripture and I think it sort of importance because when you go to work you know you have a day off what do you do with your time individually what do you do with your time when you turn on the television well you turn on movies you go over to Netflix or you go to any other day house movies you know maybe your wife's gone or maybe your husband got your kiss another home and you get this temptation to go ahead and click the television good of the cable or go to anywhere you want to go especially with computers and all of a sudden we get to see these things and you get adapted to it or you get hooked by it the Lord called Ezekiel he said good a prophet call them to a heavy task and I'm gonna show you in a moment here but I said 26 3 says you will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you or God because he trusts in you trusting in the Lord knowing who he is what is that what he wants to do in your life Paul the Apostle in Romans 1:28 says and even as they did not retain God in their knowledge God gave them over to the victor the debase mind into those who do those things which were not fitting for them to do god gives your you want to watch that you want to read that go ahead but you're gonna reap consequences to watching and reading in doing whatever you do you will reap in your hearts in your minds God has caused ever a regenerate mind a mind and that's peaceful a mind that is renewed every single day to the way I live my life Paul said in Romans 12:2 and do not be confronted this world that do you transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and complete perfect will of God what is the will of God to know him intimately to know who he is what he's doing what he wants to do and it may not imagine he seek your being there with his friends sitting down and then all of a sudden the Lord comes to him and when the Lord comes to him he says I'm going to take you Ezekiel and I'm gonna transport you from here all the way to Jerusalem remember they're in captivity and I'm gonna take it to Jerusalem and I'm gonna show you my people's mine's what they're thinking what's in their minds you know when you read the Bible we put on the mind of Christ Jesus the Bible is my beautiful water that cleanses and washes us from any fill that is in our minds takes it all out because you're reading scripture you're memorizing scripture you're reading the stories of the Bible and God wants us to not only be that type of a person empower possessed by the Word of God and when we do that when you not only talk to people you're gonna be able to converse with them about the things of the Lord and they're gonna ask you questions and because you've been reading memorizing you'll be able to communicate with them the things of God that God has given to you the things that God has given to you in verses 1 through 18 we have the temple that is defiled the house of God hey and you see well we'll begin in verse 1 of chapter 8 here the temple being defiled he starts out by saying and they came to pass in the sixth year of the six month of the fifth day of the month that I ecq said of the house of the elders of Judah sitting before me that the hand of the Lord fell upon me there so they're sitting around talking about the Lord and all of a sudden the Lord comes to Ezekiel and he grabs ahold of him look what it says sitting before me and the hand of the Lord fell upon me there and then I looked and there was the likeness like the appearance of fire from the appearance of his waist downward fire and from the waist upward like the appearance of brightness like the color of an amber can you imagine what he saw I've never seen anything like that but he saw the brilliance of the Lord that God was going to speak to him he see kill I'm coming I'm gonna use you I'm gonna speak to you and I'm take you and I'm gonna show you what I'm going to do with your life I want you to see what my people are doing verse three and then they stretched out the form of his head and took me by the lock of my hair and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and in heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem and the doors of the north gate and the inner Court where their sceners were the seed of the image the city of the image of jealousy was which provokes to jealousy so here is he seek you by the spirit the Lord grass the whole of his locks carries him all the way to Jerusalem brings him down in the house of the Lord and he says he seek girl I'm gonna show you things that you never imagined there are in the house of the Lord it's upon people's minds he goes on in verse four he says and behold the glory of God of Israel was there like the vision that I saw in the plane so he comes to the house of the Lord the actual notice again the Shekinah glory of God is there verse five and then he said to me son of man lift up your eyes now toward the north so I lifted up my eyes to the north and there in the north of the altar gate was this image of jealousy in the entrance so he's coming to the temple he's coming to the gate he sees this image of jealousy he says verse six furthermore he said to me son of man do you see notice do you see what they are doing I mean imagine that have the Lord took you somewhere and he says okay I want you to look in do you really see what they're doing is a spiritual or is it Cardinal he says the following my name or is it honoring my name and I think with each one of our lives we have to remember it's not just here at Calvary Chapel but in your homes what is your mind like in your home what are you thinking about all day long throughout the week throughout the month throughout the year what seems to dominate your mind the mind is very important what dominates your mind it's a good or is it evil look what he says verse seven or let me go back to verse 6 he said furthermore he said to me son of man do you see what they are doing the great abominations that the house of this are commits here he says to make me go far away from my sanctuary now turn again and you will see greater abominations he says you think you've seen something you haven't seen nothing yet I'm gonna show you you haven't seen nothing yet you're gonna blow your mind see kill you never thought that my people would be thinking these things but I'm gonna show you verse 7 and so he brought me to the door of the court and when I looked there there was a hole on the wall imagine coming here to Calvary Chapel you're outside or maybe here wherever and there's a hole and you look in and you see all the people sitting here but what are they thinking what's in their minds well verse 8 and then he said to me son of men dig into the wall and when is it and when I dug into the wall there was a door so he's digging to the wall and here is the door what are you gonna see when you open the door there's all these surprises when you open doors now remember God is guiding him the Lord is guiding him leading him to something that is going to show him that is gonna shock him and say this is what my people do this is what they think and they want me to deliver them and they want me to bless them how can I do that verse 9 and then he said to me go in and see the wicked abominations which there are doing there we're in the house of the work here there are some churches and really compromise there are homosexual churches lesbian homosexual churches none by my house there is a church with a big sign outside with the rainbow you know the rainbow flag and it's a homosexual church and lesbians you know Sunday mornings they have services it was really sad about it is they have young people in there these parents that are homosexual legends they bring their children to this church infecting their minds and Jesus said this be careful what you do with their children because he says if you offend any one of my little children he said if you better for you to take a room put around your neck and hang yourself and catch yourself into the deepest part of the Sea of Galilee great great judgment great judgment I've met homosexuals lesbians they have been converted to the Lord and they'll tell you I don't I can't believe that I was in that lifestyle I can't believe that I did the things that I did Jesus forgives he forgives he forgives anybody you don't have to be a homosexual lesbian you can be a fornicator a liar whatever you are we all have sinned we're sinners and crisis forgiven us if I was a secret I would've said well Lord I mean where am I gonna be looking at and the Lord said you know what you have enough time you're gonna watch what you're going to see is gonna shock you you're never ever going to forget it that's why I brought you here so you can see my people's heart and why they need the teaching of the word of God and the preaching of the word of God to repentance he goes now to verse 8 again and then he said to me son of man dig into the wall so he digs and when I dug into the wall there was a door he goes to the door what's first tent and so I went in and I saw there every sort of creeping thing about normal beasts and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed Oh all around the walls so when you come into the sanctuary you look around all the walls and there's all these pornographic pictures pornographic pictures in the house of the Lord in the house of the Lord he's watching all the way through I cannot believe it in what God will say this what I'm showing you is the people's minds this is what's in their minds this is what they're thinking this is what they're putting into their minds that's why when we read the Word of God we study the Word of God we put on the mind of Christ Jesus you need to teach your children that you're young adults they need to know that if you're here you need to know that taking time throughout the day in the morning reading your Bible praying asking God what he wants you to do that day when you go to work you go to school whatever and God will honor God will give you the wisdom the knowledge to be able to share as God not only has actually put things into your mind you never thought that morning you would have as you read the Word of God and the Scriptures come through your mind just like that and the Lord says I give you the scripture so you can give them to them Ezekiel must have been wiped out when he saw that when he walked into the minds of the people and he saw pornographic things in their minds when he should have seen the Lord in their minds but he was not there was no worship of God that's why they were in captivity God took them in took him over to Babylon and what he did is he put him in Babylon so they could learn the hey there's only one God a holy God not a time clean God be you holy for I am holy the Bible says and the Lord says to you seek you you think that's something I'm gonna show you more things he goes over to verse and there stood before them 70 men of the elders of the house of Israel so he says okay let's let's go outside let's look at the elders these are the leaders of the church so they go outside he sees a 70 men the elders of the house of the Lord in the middle stood I have nyah-nyah the son of shaphan each man had a sensor in his hand and a thick cloud of incense went up so they were sitting there you know doing this whole thing but it bring into her eye it's a picture of the prayers of the saints when actually the smoke would go up so they're sitting there the prayer of the people going up but it was going nowhere nowhere the prayer of the saints was bouncing off the walls because there was no power there was no holiness he goes on to say this in verse 12 and then he said to me son of man have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark not in the light in the dark the elders are supposed to what watch over the church watch over the people they're supposed to be holy men of God pastors holy men of God congregation holy people of God that's what God has called us to do you know it's like like people like priests if the if the pastor is going through a lot of dirty things then the congregation is going to be dirty because that's what the Bible says but if the pastor the priests the elders the Deacons are holy as he is holy you're gonna have a holy congregation nobody will be able to stay in the church that is not holy because of the great conviction they'll have because of your lives because of your reliance people will tell Wow don't hang on that person and I don't want to hang out that person because something's up with these people man there this is they're pretty different now that you're we're you're pretty different yes because you love Jesus and because you're reading because you pray because you do all these things that you're supposed to be doing as children of the light as children of the light there's another story in the Book of Jeremiah chapter 7 and in chapter 7 it would be like you guys coming up to Calvary here you're coming through the gates where I say the gates when you coming through the street coming up the parking lot and all of a sudden you're driving up and the Lord says to switch out to Isaiah Isaiah they are skip me Jeremiah Jeremiah I want you to do this for me this time this Sunday I don't want you to go into the house of the Lord I want you to stand out here in the front and I want you as if people are parking their cars or whatever they're doing they're walking up to the sanctuary say hey you guys this is a Sunday we're not gonna go into the sanctuary until you repent and he goes on to see the problem he says the Lord says tell him not to say the temple of the Lord the temple or the hustle or the hustle that don't tell him not to say that anymore I'm sick of it because they're saying the house of the Lord but they're not living according to the house of the Lord they're not living according to the Word of God what they were listening and I wonder what God would say today in all the churches all the churches if he walked in what would he see in your mind what would he see in my mind after Saturday night what did I put into my mind what am i put into my mind today I hope the Word of God the mind is so powerful you know and I think that I say CQ here is in the minds of the people that is he goes on in verse 12 notice what he says here again then he said to me son of man have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark every man in the room of his idol they snows before they say the Lord does not see hey we can hide they don't see what we're doing God doesn't see what we're doing in the dark yes he does God sees everything we can not hide anything from God you cannot hide anything for I cannot hide anything from God he sees everything 24/7 365 days in a year to the day you die everything I want you to understand that because I want you to understand that he right now God is watching wait not while we're doing here when you leave here God's eyes are upon you God's eyes are upon me God's eyes will be on the next service that comes in here the same thing will happen and if I have that conscience if I have this mind and I'm aware that in everything that I do everything that I think in my mind that God sees it and God hears what I say and surely I'm gonna stand back and I'm gonna say Lord forgive me I repent Lord I want to know your mind I want to know your heart I want to know you intimately in my life and that's what all of us should be able to desire even here this morning so awesome to see you as we come now from one hearing the Word of God growing together for whatever God has in the years to come it seemed to get probably worse in the America the world yet we have Jesus in our hearts and God's going to speak to us and we're gonna do what God says not what the world says we're gonna do so we can have the peace of God we can worship God in spirit and in truth we can open our Bibles and we can be ministered to by the Lord the Holy Spirit speaking to me where you can speak to other people because of the Holy Spirit governing my life and Ezekiel was totally just blown away by what he heard what he saw he goes on verse 13 and he said to me I want you to turn again and you will see here in the skin greater abominations that's the third time greater greater greater it gets worse it gets worse it's thought it starts out very light but then it gets heavy it gets heavier and meant to the point that it just sinks you it takes you down the word of the Lord important he says verse 13 again and he said to me turn again and you will see greater abominations that they are doing doing they're doers of what they're doing it's evil it's not good it's not right so I think within each one of our hearts what have we done this morning what are we gonna do this afternoon what are we gonna do this evening what are we gonna do next week you see every day I have to examine my my mind put on the mind of Christ Jesus he goes on verse 14 so he brought me to the door of the north gate of the Lord's house notice the Lord's house and to my dismay women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz Tammuz was a god of fertility a God were the mothers would actually would they take their children and sacrifice him to Tammuz could we say the god of abortion if anyone events could be done abortion here you're a Christian guys forgiving you don't do it again don't do it again you're killing a baby it's murder it's murder and I think that as believers as Christians as brothers and sisters in the Lord that when he seek you saw this the god Molech is another god the god Molech he you know here like a little oven and he has his arm stretched out like this and the women could bring their little babies and they put him in the arms of Molech and they would barbecue their babies how can you do that watching your little baby being barbecued by the God Tim Lewis or by the god Molech they did so many things in the Old Testament but we do such things today believe it or not by different names but the same action chiko is informing us he goes on to say verse 15 and then he said to me have you seen this O son of man turn again on me how many can shout to turn Lord I'm already shocked I can't believe it turn again you will see greater abominations can you believe that sounds like Sodom and Gomorrah than these so he brought me to the inner Court of the Lord's house the inner court or the holiest of holies and there at the door of the temple of the Lord between the porch and the altar were about 25 men with their backs and I checked this out here are 25 pastors pastors the Sun rises to here on the east they had their backs turned away from the house of the Lord and there were worshipping the Sun worshiping the Sun not worshiping God they had something else to worship and he goes on to say this so he brought me to the inner Court of the Lord's house and there are the door of the temple between the porch and the altar were 25 men with their backs toward the Temple of the Lord in their faces toward the east and they were worshiping the Sun the sign just like the Buddha's do the son sitting there worshiping the Sun instead of worshiping God we worship God in spirit and in truth in spirit and truth god help us god help us to learn from the lessons that we have in the scriptures he goes on to say verse 15 and then he said to me have you seen this O son of man again abomination verse 16 and then so he brought me into the inner Court of the Lord's house and there at the door of the temple Oh Lord between the porch and the altar were twenty five men with their backs toward the Temple of the Lord and their their faces toward the east and they they were worshiping the son of the east and then he says this and he said to me Ezekiel have you seen this or son of man it's a travail thing to the house of Judah to commit these abominations plural which they commit here for they have filled the land with violence then they were returned to provoke me to anger indeed they put the branch to their noses they took this branch and they put it through their notes another type of worship another type of worship therefore I also will act in fury Ezekiel I'm not gonna hold back I am going to judge I believe with all my heart that was happening right now in America it's the beginning of God's judgment or God is going to bring a revival one or the other it starts in the house of the Lord I prayed by repenting as we read as we pray as we share the gospel we should not no Christian should partake in these rallies no Christian should it be at any one of these rallies you want to be that's your own problem but as a child of God instead of being there you should be on your knees praying asking God to stop this in the doors that are demonstrated all of them many of them will come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior because that's what we did in the Jesus people's movement we prayed and we prayed and we prayed and we invited people to church to hear the word of the Lord and guess what happened that's how I got saved and that's how my brother got say that sedale got saved that's how Joe got say how all my friends got saved by giving them the gospel of Jesus Christ but people have to see the difference they had to see the difference in my life if there is no difference in your life nobody's going to believe you you will never bring anybody to Jesus Christ ever but if you stand if you stand tall in the kingdom of God God will bless you God will use you and you will see great great fruit come out of what you're sharing with other people conclusion he says verse 18 therefore because of all this I also will act in fury my I will not spare nor will I have pity and he thought that crisis and though they cry in my ears will allow voice I will not hear them there's a time there's a place where God says enough is enough enough is enough is God saying today enough is enough when the nations of the world are seeing our weaknesses our weaknesses we're supposed to be the land of the free the land that trusts us in God the land is supposed to be an example to the whole world but most important is not the people it's the Christian Church or is the people that love Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior that's why he saved you that's why he saved me so in the midst of chaos in the midst of judgment we can get on her face and save God's please spare us Lord please for your Holy Spirit so that we may see my parents so that I may see my brothers and sisters so that I may see my friends and I can see my employers my employees I can see them come to know Jesus Christ it's only to repentance father I thank you so much for your grace and love and mercy lord I pray that your Holy Spirit will do a tremendous work here this morning in this afternoon lord I give you all the glory and all the honor and I thank you thank you for such people that are here Lord that love us we love them they pray for us Lord we pray for them and lord I beg you I beg you Jesus for those watching through the internet those watching outside those inside here Lord God that all of us together may agree Lord that for me and my house we're gonna serve the Lord we're not gonna compromise we're not gonna put up with sin and we're not gonna support people that are against our country and against our God so lord I thank you so much for that and Lord baptize us now with power your Holy Spirit and the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior we pray and everyone said amen let's all stand may the Lord bless you guys good to see you guys this continued fight you know fighting the fight and see what God's will do in the next couple of weeks next couple of months and the victory that God has given to us in Jesus Christ let's sing one more song love you guys god bless you [Music]

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Published: Sun Jun 14 2020