The Secret To Change: Part 1 - The Weapons of Our Warfare - October 1, 2017

[Music] all right well if you have your Bibles you can turn to second Corinthians pretty bad we'll do the same and we're gonna look at 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 second Corinthians chapter 10 and let's see here we don't want to start yes I'm actually gonna start in verse 1 I'll start there otherwise I'll just back up there anyway so much we'll just start there so second Corinthians chapter 10 verse 1 Paul says now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ who in presence and base towards you among you but being absent am bold toward you and so notice he says he is base in your presence he says I'm base but when I'm absent I'm bold okay but I beseech you that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence wherewith I think to be bold against some no words I don't want to treat you like I have to treat some others which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh and notice there were people that thought that the Apostle Paul walked according to the flesh even though he wasn't right dr. Sommer I used to say other people's heads it's a terrible place to keep your happiness right don't base your walk with God or where you are with God based on what other people think about you amen so he says here now look and this is where we see this verse we've always heard this first quoted this is the context of it in verse 3 he says for though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds now we're gonna stop right there for just a moment then we'll come back into it but I want you to realize here a couple of things first off he says for though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh and there are times when Paul says that we're no longer in the flesh but in the spirit there is where he talks about we walk in the spirit and so we need to realize that you have to take what Paul says in the context of who he's talking to and under the circumstances in which he's talking otherwise if you try to put the exact same terminology in the same way everywhere you will end up taking it off in directions he never meant for it to go and so you have to look at who he was talking to and why when he when he is talking to the carnal Corinthians he obviously has to gear down a bit Paul was an extremely brilliant individual intellectually he was amazing and when he wrote to the Corinthians he had to gear down his intellect you might say to be able to talk on their level so here he's talking and he says and this is a key says some people think that we are walking after the flesh but we're not walking after the flesh and it's just because they're carnal and don't understand what walking in the spirit means so then he says for though we walk in the flesh verse three we do not war after the flesh we're in this body we're still here and he even talks about that later on he talks about being out of the body and being present with the Lord or being present here and wishing we were there and all this you know other aspects of it but he says here in verse four after he talks about walking how we walk in the flesh but not after the flesh he says and this is one because the weapons of our warfare notice the word weapons of our warfare are not carnal and what that what does that mean that means that you can never win your battle in the flesh it means you can never win your battle by going back to the flesh it means you can't do it yourself you never really enter into Christianity until you come to the end of yourself it's just that simple you have to get to the place where your entire dependence is upon Jesus for everything now I don't I'm not saying I'm just gonna sit at home and not work and expect Jesus to bring food by Raven I'm not talking about that kind of presumption I'm talking about the fact that you have to realize you're not going to fix yourself right Jesus fixed you right now how much of that fixing you have partook of will depend on how much you have yielded to him that's really what it just comes down to and so whenever he says that here and I want you to notice this he says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal so we cannot fight in the physical we cannot fight out of the soul now and I want to I'd have to really differentiate this here I guess when I say we can't war out of the soul that is true to the degree that your soul is unrenewed that your mind is in renew now the more your mind is renewed you still won't be fighting technically out of the soul of the flesh you'll be fighting out of the spirit because your mind will be renewed to the mind of the Spirit and the more and this is really you know it's amazing you've got the spectrum you've got your body on one side which is honestly for the most part just a sum total of every habit you've ever created bottom line that's what it comes down to and then at the other end you have the the other end of the spectrum you have your spirit which God fixed when you got born again and the battle is in between which is your soul and that's where the fight takes place really that's where most of the fight if not all of it really takes place because there's no struggle in the spirit there's really only struggle in the soul and that's to the degree that your soul or your mind is either renewed or not renewed now most people most Christians in this world have a lot of problems mainly because they are born of heaven their spirit has been renewed recreated we would say but their mind has not been renewed so the real battle is really not so much what's going on around them as what is going on within them because they are struggling against themselves and Paul even mentioned that actually Sarah the writers of the Bible did and said that they they actually war against themselves is actually where the Greek brings out is that there is a struggle going on and they are warring against themselves and so we have to realize that the more your mind is renewed the less struggle you have now here's the big deal most Christians will never do what it takes to truly renew the money because it doesn't happen automatically it doesn't just you don't go to sleep at one point and wake up at a different point on the spiritual spectrum with your mind renewed there is a process and it is time intensive and regardless of whoever writes books about effortless change or anything else like that the change that was made in your spirit was effortless on your part the change that will make that or change your life is absolutely and I will make up a word here effortful okay because it doesn't just happen if it just happened the world would be a totally different place Christians the church would be a totally different place because Christians would automatically be be being renewed and the problem is the renewal of the mind is in generally in Christians lives is so slow that it is almost I can say invisible because it takes so long and the bad part is most Christians think if they just show up at church on Sunday their minds gonna get renewed and the bad part about that is it is renewed by you're sitting here and then when you walk out you go back into the world you go back into your daily life and all of the the waters of the world wash away the change or the are the degree of change that was that happened in church and you and then they wonder why am i having a problem why am i struggling why aren't things getting better why aren't things getting easier and you know to answer the last question it's real simple when you're let's say you're a professional fighter okay one thing you can be or you can be assured of as a professional fighter every fight it's going to get harder every fight one because you're going up the ladder so to speak and if your fights don't get harder they're giving you bum fights okay and the whole point about a Christian is as we move toward Christ's likeness guess what your fights are going to get tougher it's just that simple now I would love to just tell you oh it's gonna be great it's all wonderful you know it says we're just gonna be you know tiptoeing through the daisies and that's why it's going to have it but that would be a total lie and then you'd go out and the world will hit you in the face and you'll say why didn't keury warned me about reality well the reality is the world is against you the world is against everything you stand for if you stand for Christ is it it is absolutely against you changing it doesn't want you to change toward Christ it wants you to change toward the world and that that will always be there that will never change the world is never going to be on your side right and the sooner we really accept that the sooner we can get into the business of actually changing because if we don't change we can't change the war it's that simple so and let's look at the rest of these here notice here for the weapons of our warfare so we know there's warfare so people that tell you oh there's no warfare the war is over wrong right there is warfare there will always be warfare unless of course you quit now and you think when you quit the warfare stops well it stops to the degree of the fact that you're beat right but now you've just given in and you're going in flow with it rather than against the flow so then he says but here's what we have to realize the weapons of our warfare are not carnal they're not fleshly they're not out of the mind they're not intellectual there is no intellectual reason to sin near that it makes absolutely no sense once you realize the wages of sin once you realize the effects of sin both in your life your family's life people's life around you there it makes absolutely no sense to sin the reason you sin is because of pride and selfishness that's what it comes down to at some point you say I don't care how it affects people around me I want what I want right now and you revert back now here's the key to that for the a secret I guess when you do that you have stepped out of Christianity because the essence of Christianity is not selfishness but selflessness right it is you dying on that cross and yes buried and resurrected with cry but most people have to realize while your spirit is resurrected your body your habits your attitudes have to stay on that cross they have to stay there either they're the grave whichever you want to call it but you cannot pick and choose and go back and forth and that's one of the bad parts about especially well I'm not going to pick on America because I see it now everywhere but we want it all and we want everything and we want it all now and we want heaven too and the problem is you were never meant for that say you were meant I first offer you maybe where to start back at square one and just say this God is not here for you you are here for him it is that simple you know he didn't come into being so you can have a good life right he didn't come Jesus did not come this earth so you can have your best life now maybe is that he came so that you might have life and that in abundance and so we have to realize and and our purpose here number one is to people would say was to worship God yeah that's part of it but our purpose here is to glorify God in everything we do everything we say we are to glorify and show it forth him that's our purpose here and if we are to glorify Him the only way you can glorify Him is to bring him pleasure and the way you bring him pleasure is by faith and faith means doing what the Bible says believing what the Bible says saying what the Bible says regardless of circumstances regardless of feelings regardless of emotions but the problem is we have made soul King rather than spirit and in the kingdom of soul then the absolute monarch is emotions this is how I feel and feelings has nothing to do with faith nothing whatsoever the more your land that's honestly this is a big part of all the problem that's been going on even here in the United States lately it's because it's not intellectual people didn't sit down and think things through and go well let's say if I do this and this is causing this now I'm gonna have to go out and tear this up and I'm gonna have to Bret that's not what they do it's their emotions they say I want stuff free and if I can't have it I will destroy everything and we have to realize nothing is free not even salvation it was the only you know salvation for it is not free it it might not cost you to get saved it will cost you afterwards right but it costs Jesus everything salvation was not free somebody had to pay for it nothing is free in that sense that that's the biggest problem we have the United States right now is everybody thinks something should be free and that they don't know where that somebody has to pay for something and so we have to realize and now we're seeing and I can tell you there's all kinds of stuff going on even now about endtime stuff and everybody's got dates and everything else and you know honestly who cares okay bottom line is I'm going to keep busy until I can't be busy anymore whether I'm you know dead and buried taken out who I don't care how it happens I'm gonna be busy I don't have time to come down off the wall to dilly-dally with emotions and all that kind of stuff it is useless all right and so the problem of that is that with all of this endtime stuff and I could say I can see things happening have you noticed how many hacks have happened recently in in the last several years anyway with major things it was it recently who has a 143 million Americans personal information was hacked it happens about every week you hear something you know political systems being hacked I mean you hear about it every week and it's some major thing and what we're realizing is that with all of our new technology and our technological security we're not safe and there we have to come up with another system to make it work and I guarantee you the next system going to be near as forgiving as a system we have now and so we have to realize where the world is going and there's a lot of other details we can go into at some point maybe you can just sit and talk about them but the bottom line with this is this here and now for us individually we have a lot of people that come to church and it's funny because you know jgm we're known for teaching people how how to heal the sick how to cast out devils how to renew your mind anyway that's our that's our purpose for the most part is teaching people how to actually live the Christian life and a lot of what we teach and it's kind of funny because it's like I saw a picture of it what we're trying to do and years ago no no I sound like I'm bouncing around here but I'm trying to put it all together years ago there was a movie wasn't that great of a movie so I'm hesitating even telling it name of it or anything I don't want you go to look it up and watch it the bet the the only part of the movie that's any good right so I can tell you now so you don't have to go watch it is it's a it's a movie and it's actually a remake from an earlier movie about a pool player named Fast Eddie Felson and he had gotten old and he was looking for a kind of a young protege and I'm not gonna give you all the details to it but the bottom line is this and this is the only good part of the movie is they came down to where the the master and the protege there was nobody else to beat and so they had to kind of face off and eventually and there's one line in the movie that really is worth remembering and that was whenever Fast Eddie played by Paul Newman said I just want your best game that's it that's the whole line it's the best line in the whole movie I just want your best game and if you were and I if you're going to sum up my life that would probably be a line you could use why because everything I've done has been to try to I don't say lav elevate Christians to the level of their inheritance bottom line that's what I've tried to do and many times you know it's it's I make my living communicating but unfortunately many times I'm not that greater communicator and sometimes it comes out harsh sometimes it comes out in a way that seems to be - at least according to some people comes out condemning like they haven't attained a certain thing they should and that has never been my intent my intent has never been to to be harsh toward people or to condemn people for not attaining something all I've ever tried to do was conveyed to people what I can see in the spirit of where they should be it's not saying woe to you because you're not there it's simply saying hey I don't care where you are there's still more there's still a higher level you can go to let's go there that's all I've tried to do is try to tell people let's go there that lets in that higher level is just being like Jesus bottom line that's it and so I've always pushed for that and and we can make great strides and we've done that in the ministry here we've it's been amazing what God has done even this year and honestly mostly without our help okay we've just basically been there and showed up whenever he needed us to show up but the bottom line is because we're we as I said we've made some great strides we have made some great accomplishments and it's been by the Spirit of God and yet as soon as sometimes before the dust settles there is you'll hear coming out of my mouth that's great but it can be better we can go further we can do more why because we can it's just that simple I never want to be guilty of telling people you're okay sit and do nothing you say well why not because I know I know no one including myself is walking like Jesus especially 24/7 why because if okay I know I'm not and if you were I'd be hearing about it because if Jesus was walking around Dallas or Plano guess what it'd be news and so far and this is what John Lake said years ago he said that Pentecost has failed about 90% of what it was meant to accomplish because it was meant to accomplish recreating Christ out of Christians and it has not done that it is not reproduced Jesus and so when we look at the potential that we have and this is probably my biggest complaint and this is probably where I get in trouble the most from people is that people will I see apparently a different standard then what I hear most preachers preach about because I'm talking when I talk about your potential I'm talking about your potential measured in being like Christ that's what I'm talking about but what I hear most preachers talk about is your potential in yourself for you to be the best you can be well the best you can be is Jesus and until you're walking like him you're not your best bottom line right now that does not mean that you have not grown I've grown I've made advances in my life you've groaned you've made advances you're not where you were a year ago or two years ago whatever it was you've advanced you've grown and that's awesome but we can't just sit back and go well I've grown so I'm done because the minute you stop growing you start dying and you say well I know I'm pretty well guy I got it all together if everybody just leave me alone okay that is not Christianity okay and the bottom line with Christianity is that probably you're never going to get it all together in that sense because you're gonna have to be dealing with people do you realize even Jesus had I mean as perfect as he was he had people constantly just cutting him down constantly saying things constantly judging his motives constantly trying to tell him oh you're this oh you're that oh we heard about you we've heard about you know your family history we know we know about your mom all these things whenever he was the only one that knew the truth about those things and you notice he never when people attacked him he did not retaliate against them he went after truth even whenever his own cousin was killed beheaded Jesus didn't attack he could have went right into Herod's palace and ended it all right then but he didn't you know what he did he attacked and retaliated in the spirit right after go read the story right after John the Baptist was beheaded Jesus went out to a solitary place and the next thing there the the multitude showed up and He healed them what was he doing he wasn't just healing the sick he was retaliating in the spirit against the spirit that had killed John the Baptist and he was retaliating in the spirit by healing the sick you overcome evil with good right you don't overcome evil by resorting back to evil and trying to beat it face to face that would be a carnal warfare and our weapons are not carnal our weapons and I will tell you this you know salvation is the greatest gift ever offered to the world but the greatest gift ever offered to the church is the Holy Spirit and because of that because we have the Holy Spirit and we're gonna talk about that even I believe in the ten o'clock session because we have this Holy Spirit that was given to us we can accomplish whatever is necessary at the moment because we have God with us and his power now that can go all the way from healing the sick raising the dead all the way over to healing emotions getting you past that thing that keeps hanging you up getting you past that trigger now I'm going to talk about some aspects of it because I wanted you to see this nextpart here he says here and now notice he says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God so you have God's power in these weapons mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds so now you know the purpose of your weapons is to pull down strongholds so the enemy cannot defeat you ok and I'm know I'm not gonna have time to really get into this like I want here but we will be talking about the 10 o'clock also like I said and we're probably doing an entire series on this in the near future your as I said in the very beginning your life is pretty much the sum total of your habits what you habitually do your routines the things you do everyday things 8 now you don't even think about that you do you know one of the well actually yesterday I was watching a program on DVD of dr. Caroline leaf and she was talking about obviously the mind and some of the things going on and it reminded me of some things that she even said about what she calls deep thinking or deep thought and in it she says the the real problem and I agree with this wholeheartedly she said the real problem is that most people don't think about what they're thinking about now think about that okay most people they just let thoughts just flow through and whatever thought comes through they just let it go in here and look at this next verse verse 5 first office says our weapons are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds so we know that with this next part is gonna have something to do with strongholds and then he says in verse 5 these weapons are mighty through God to the casting down of imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God yeah that okay strongholds are simply thoughts that you allow to not go in one ear and out the other as they would say but to go in one ear stop and it creates a two-layer and then the next thing you hear that agrees with that layer it stops and pretty soon now you're having it's just like layers of concrete that once it hardens and they harden together and then you keep pouring new layers on it and it just gets thicker and thicker and thicker and it is creating a stronghold in your mind that causes you to think and in line with certain processes see and so and honestly modern television now even the Internet is become is fad if it's not already it's fast becoming their number one source of strongholds against God why because every television show every movie coming out has an agenda behind it and if you look at the agenda you can go back let's say to Hollywood and you can find out what are the agendas of the people making the movies because whatever their agenda is that's the agenda in the movies and that will be in the movies it'll be in their television programs there's some things that have come up recently some people text me about and informed me about and it is amazing and that that now they're doing there were shows television shows that were on television years ago that for the most part America allowed they put up with it there were things in it that made them uncomfortable but because it was so funny they put up with it and that's the number one thing now they try to do is they try to get you laughing and try to put their agenda in because while you're laughing that emotion is you think oh but that's just funny it's just jokes but the reality is they are putting strongholds in your mind to accept certain lifestyles as they would say and now they years ago it wasn't quite accepted it was allowed but it wasn't embraced but now they know the time is ripe that America will embrace those lifestyles and now they're doing a revival of those shows that completely show the exact type of sins that God Himself said would bring destruction on the earth and now America is ready for it and even embraces it why all in the name of tolerance and we have to realize God said there are things he will not tolerate and we have to do the same thing he tells us to abhor evil hate evil well guess what they're already calling us haters might as well embrace it yes I hate evil and if you think I hate you all you're saying is you're evil because I don't hate anything but evil amen now that doesn't mean that we don't show the love of Christ of people but we would showing the love of christ does not mean not having a standard or taking a stand right what didn't what when you don't take a stand what you're actually showing is that you love people more than God and even that is not acceptable God says I will be first I want you to love people but love me first and there's a whole aspect that so well I'm sure we talked about it and sometime in the near future no he says in verse 5 casting down imaginations and that word in the Greek means reasonings that what that means notices imagination means reasonings it means you're thinking things out but you're in it's an imagination because it's not real a lot of people have an idea of reality that is not real but it's because they base it upon false assumptions and they put these things together now I want to hurt them get to a certain point here I want to show you there's really some good news in this ok we'll get to it in just a minute there's not a whole negative sounding but notice that our weapons can cast down imaginations or reasonings which shows that the weapons we're using operate in the mind but they don't originate from the mind you got that and they cast down imaginations reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God now as I said dr. Leif was talking about how people don't think about what they're thinking about they just let thoughts come in and one thing that you will find if you go back to all of the early church fathers that amazingly were brilliant you can go back and read all of the things that they wrote and you think wow this is some deep stuff I mean they they really sat around and thought about this stuff well yeah they did because they didn't have internet they didn't have television they didn't have amusement which means not to think they actually had to sit around and think because that was their only form of activity and so he says here every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God so our weapons are geared to get this you have weapons from God that are geared to bring down imaginations tear down reasonings tear down strongholds that are being built and have been built and that tearing down of strongholds is the renewing of the mind right building strongholds is having your mind in alignment with the world tearing down strongholds is the aspect of you renewing your mind with the knowledge of God and tearing down every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and so we have to look at it what has gone on because we are humans in this world and have had a lot of input from a lot of sources that were not godly we have had our heads solidified in many ways with ideas thoughts doctrines not Bible doctrines but doctrines of the world doctrines of devils and they have been solidified in our mind to the point where they they cause us to think in line with certain as I said a process and so we have to stop in a wait a minute why do I think that way but most people don't do that why because if you'll notice the whole earth and everything about society today is hurry hurry do it quick don't think just act calling out don't wait and that's what you'll hear constantly order now you know we've extended this for another three minutes but you to call in three minutes and if anything is the same commercial will be on 30 minutes later right so that they are using you and they're using psychology to try to get you to act and they want you to act now and the whole point is to get you to hurry that's why I've told you before people say well I need to know and I need to know right now well if you need to know right now the answer's no real simple I don't mess it I don't have to think well you don't know what I'm asking I don't need to know if you know the answer now the answer is no why because that's safe now if you give me a few minutes I'll think about it look at it and decide what God wants me to do but the world is geared to try to get you to hurry why because if you hurry you don't have time to think and the world doesn't want you to think the world wants you to feel because feelings have to do with emotions and unfortunately that is also 99 percent of the church ninety-nine percent of the church is based on experience and feelings and not the knowledge of God notice okay let's go back read it look what he says casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God the knowing of God what God knows his thoughts his ideas not how God feels you give that but the church pushes people toward a feeling one because they have embraced Madison Avenue and knows that if they can get you to feel something then you'll bring a friend back next time and the whole thing becomes a feeling and they start with mood lighting and we've been in places where I've even done seminars and things and they start to smoke machines and you have smoke coming out and it's like okay you know people see them right okay don't don't take pictures and say it's the glory of God because it was made by this machine right and yet that's what people do well because they want you to have an experience and what and they think that by you having feelings you're experiencing God and you're not experiencing anything except the man-made direction that they want you to go and we have to realize if you want to experience the best way to experience God is get off by yourself and start talking to him and not look for the feeling but to actually engage him according to his word and according to his knowledge Holly you got that not according to your feeling most people's fear really if you go down to it they are very accurate and when they say oh I felt God yep because gut because your feelings to you is God and that's why you felt him because your feelings have nothing to do with God Jesus didn't feel like he wanted to go to the cross he didn't feel like he wanted to be whipped at that post but he knew the knowledge of God and he submitted his will to do what God wanted him to do and so just and that's the big thing even was love oh I don't feel love well you know what you can't feel love why because loved I never feeling love is not a feeling it's not an emotion love is an act of your will and it is an act of your will and because of that you can you you can love anybody you choose to right but you have to get past your feelings to do it your feelings have no right to dictate who you love amen yeah you might want to get a copy of this and just go through it line by line right later on okay I mean how he says here it casting down imaginations and every no it's not some well yeah but I like that thought no it's either every or none casting down every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and watch this and bringing into captivity every thought now if you if you move too quick thoughts get in you and you'll have 15 thoughts and they all land and maybe 13 out of the 15 are not good and yet you'll have it sandwich between two good ones but you let the 13 sit there bad and they will become a stronghold why because you move so quickly that's why I tell you all the time it's the same thing reading the Bible how do you read the Bible you know how most people read the Bible they zip through it how many chapters I can read today well I read 13 chapters man I'm doing good no you just told me that you didn't really understand anything you read you read because it's not how fast you read it's what you understand mark chapter 4 says that the thief comes immediately the enemy comes immediately to steal what was sown in your heart and what he can steal is what you don't understand it's better to have one verse that you understand than to read a thousand verses that you don't have a clue of what they're saying because you're it's not the mileage that God gauges by it's what you know and what you live and so we have to realize he says here now watch this bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ you cannot do that and think quickly you get that now I'm not I'm not against you know thinking quick I'm just saying that you have to be able to analyze what thoughts are coming into your head and where they're coming from and the ones that are good you need to say yeah that's by the Spirit of God I agree that a hundred percent and I lock that thing in that no no no that that is saying that God won't answer my prayer see that thought is saying that if I get sick God might not heal me no no no I'm bringing that thought into captivity and I choose to say that and the way you do that is by using you look at that thought you have to stop and look at that thought and go that thought is wrong the truth is what the Word of God says this is the truth and so I captured that thought and say you will have no place in me you say how to do that with every thought yes that's it see that that's why modern life is not conducive to you renewing your mind it is not renew trager's not conducive to it why because modern life is hurry right and and I will tell you okay recently when I was in Arkansas I had to obviously I'm in Arkansas or anywhere and I have to go to Walmart it's just the way it is and so I was and there were some people ladies and I guess children out front I think they were selling like cookies or something like that and you know I wasn't in a particular hurry or anything but I knew what I was going to Walmart for I'm a man we don't go in and just browse around we go on a hunting trip right we go we find we capture we leave right we don't spend all day there we don't have to look at everything you have to turn it over I can tell it's gonna say made in China that's what its gonna say you don't have to turn over and look at it right and so we don't have to analyze everything it's all garbage right it's all cheap it's all gonna break so you don't have to analyze it you can just whatever you need just go get it and use it or whatever you need to do but I was on my way in and it's funny because some of the staff has said the same thing to me here before when I walked through and but this lady was sitting there at a table and I could tell you know they were talking everybody that comes up and trying to get him to buy cookies and you know how you know back whatever it was and I saw him but my mom wasn't on them because I had things had to get done so I'm heading in into the door and his lady didn't even ask me if I wanted to buy anything she goes there goes a man on a mission well that's the same thing I hear at the office I'll have time when I walk to you yeah you're you're walking with purpose you're going through well I am I don't get up and just wander around I'm going somewhere on purpose why I didn't tell you in my life I'm not just wandering around I'm going somewhere home purpose I know my purpose I know my destiny I know why I'm here I have no questions about it people say oh I got a word for you great I don't care either way if you got to work wonderful tell it to me if you're gonna do it I'm not gonna stop what you do walk with me right I'm not gonna wait for one because I got a whole bunch of words right here I hadn't even done yet I'm not looking for another word now if God gives you a word I'll take it you know and now I will judge it according to scripture and then will apply to whatever you need to do but I'm not I'm not guessing you will never hear me sit at a desk and say what am I here for what is my purpose why am i here now see that that is that doesn't even register with me I know why I'm here now I know why I'm here and this time I know what I'm doing here I know where I'm going and I am headed that direction and I will tell you this and this is what makes a lot of people uncomfortable I have chose to eliminate people from my life that would hinder me in accomplishing what God put me here for and people said was let's say you don't you know you don't have this or you don't have this person you don't have any empathy or compassion no I have empathy I have compassion but I refuse to let any person stop me in where I'm going I refuse what and if you want to be a friend then you're gonna help me get where I'm going and I'll help you get where you're going but if you're not going to help me get where I'm going we ain't gonna be friends it's just that simple one because I'd rather to spend time with God then listen to you tell me why I can't do what God called me to do and then it's just that simple no that means I walk alone a lot but at the same time I'm good with that why because my time alone gives me more time with God these last two weeks I've spent a lot of time just with God just analyzing things and just even talking about certain things going is this what you want and in sin am I seeing this correctly because the last thing I want to do is get you know bullheaded to the poem right up it's lit and I'm going there and be wrong because I want to make sure that I know where I'm going but it's not just where you're going it's how you get there and so I want to make sure that I get there right so all this has to do with going back to this and even dr. Leif was saying that you have to be able to stop and think about these things now here's the thing when you first start doing that it is tedious it's hard it is it's just like starting an exercise program you know it's you're not in the habit of it and so it's hard to create new habit but I will tell you this now you'll probably hear me repeat it in the next session there is very little if anything that cannot be fixed with number one simplification number two organization and number three the formation of habits almost everything in your life can be changed with those three things and that includes renewing the mind renewing the mind is what causes the life to change but let me tell you the way that you renew your mind is in the morning you have to simplify organize and then create the habits of thinking according to the Word of God it's just that simple now we've made it all super spiritual because people want God to do it all and they don't take any responsibility for themselves but you have a responsibility to be who God created you to be in the spirit you have a responsibility to attain to the level that Jesus has provided for you now your attaining it doesn't get you brownie points but I'll tell you this it will make your life a lot better it'll make your life in many ways easier it'll make the lives of those around you better and easier so now read the last partner will be done he says against casting down imaginations every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ again to the obedience of Christ and that one because we have the mind of Christ and if we have the mind of Christ our mind is to be operating in the mind of Christ to do that you have to stop analyze what you're thinking take control of your thoughts and bring them into captivity this this scripture is not there just for us to read and go oh that's nice no this scripture is there for us to do and it's up to us to do it God is not going to do it for you he says I've given you all the tools I've given you I've leveled the playing field I've given you the power of the Holy Spirit in you you can do this now what do you want to do I'm giving you everything sure me what'd you do with it how much do you want it what do you want because what you I can tell you right now what you've done over the last 168 hours is exactly what you wanted to do right and he said no I didn't want to go to work on it no you wanted to go to work rather than not have a job so you chose to go to work because you didn't have to go you could have stayed home lost your job and went hungry right but you chose so everything you do you choose to do if you're gonna sit for hours in front of a television you choose to do that instead of renewing your mind if you're gonna sit and gossip sit and talk you know just ramble on about stuff that has no purpose and nobody's going to remember tomorrow that's your choice to waste your mind and your time which you can never get back at least your time maybe your mind maybe you can get your mind back right but there's a reason why Jesus talked about about a man losing his soul right you technically can't lose your soul but you can have absolutely no control over it and when you don't have control over your soul I can tell you your life is going to be a mess and for the most part that's what that's how Christians live most Christians do not live the victorious overcoming abundant life that Jesus died to give us they live constantly struggling and just trying to keep their head above water spiritually mentally physically in every area that is not God's idea but the way God brings his life to you is by you taking control of your thoughts changing them and forming habits of thought that will lead you I had don't have a better word for it - success success in Christianity let's put it that way right because I have to qualify that because Jesus didn't die just so you can be successful on this earth he died so that you can be profitable for the kingdom so I'm overtime let's take a quick break and we will come back at 10 o'clock and we will pick this back up and do it guess a part two of it y'all get your thing out of this this morning right I'm telling you you want you want the secret of you know success in Christianity this is it this is it you have to take control of your thoughts and you have to form correct habits of thought words and actions you have to get up move around greet one another and we will be back in just a moment [Music] you

Channel: John G. Lake Ministries

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Keywords: John G. Lake Ministries, JGLM, Curry Blake, Divine Healing Technician, DHT, New Man Seminar, Life Teams, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Dominion Bible Institute, Diversities of Tongues, God's Son Man's Servant, Renewed Mind, Healing in the Atonement, Killing Sacred Cows, iChurch, JGLM Media

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Length: 50min 48sec (3048 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 03 2017