The Secret To Change: Part 2 - Forming Habits - October 1, 2017

[Music] now if you have your Bibles yep we're gonna lose a couple of things in the last session this morning early session we mentioned 2nd Corinthians 10 and we went through verses 3 actually from 1 to about 5 to get this fixture wobbling ok so there we talked about the fact that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds and then it talks in the next verse about casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and it talks about all these different aspects that have to do with the mind and so we want to look at this because your problems are not in the spirit you know for years I was raised in a spiritually in a camp I guess you should say that basically taught if you're sick it's because there was because your spirit was sick usually a sin or something in the spirit and everything came out of spirit and that's not true your spirit when your spirit is recreated your spirit is recreated perfect complete it is good your problems are not in the spirit now that does not that's not to say that you can't pollute the spirit in certain ways because there is an aspect of it but and we are to cleanse ourselves of all filthiness of the flesh and spirit and so there is an aspect there that we have to guard our heart because our heart is the entryway into the spirit and we're told to guard our heart it says that out of our heart come the issues of life so everything about us comes out of the heart so we have to guard the heart but we have to realize that and and I maybe I can explain a little bit of this until Osburn said it this way and and he said it better than anybody else I've ever heard and so I want to give him credit for that but he said that the Spirit of God in a human makes a Christian super simple very easy to understand but many times and this is probably where some of the confusion because then you get in you know last session we talked about people thinking deeply and taking these things and looking at the Bible and thinking deeply on these topics and and then I'll say topics topics of the Bible and when you do that you automatically get into discussions like once saved always saved or you can lose your salvation you get into the aspect of the new creation what is now what is future all these different things and one of the best ways that I have been able to convey it and actually I've said I've never seen it anyone say it this way but it's kind of the way that I picture it and I can see that it fits in with Scripture is that if you take for instance if you take water that is just out of the gutter somewhere not clean not good water all right and you take it and it has particles in it that are not good and you want to clean it purify it then you can take it put it on a fire and boil it and a lot of the impurities will actually come out in the steam in other words they will be boiled out and the water will become purified to a degree right now I know there's levels of purification all that but I'm just trying to give a general idea if you thought and many times when we talk about spirit soul and body well the body is pretty simple we know what that is but the spirit and soul is so in many ways and to many people so confusing because it's not clearly divided and the Bible says that the Word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword even to the dividing asunder of spirit and soul and so the only way really you can divide spirit and soul is by the Word of God it you really can't divide it any other way and so why because they are so closely united but what the way and I should have brought up a dry erase board to draw this but if you can just picture with me most the time when you see pictures of spirit soul body you would see a person some type of figure standing there and then they would have three outlines of that person and that's okay this is the outer outline that's the body and then there's the sole outline and then there's the the spirit outline and it's many times when we think about the spirit we know that the spirit wherever the spirit is in the body or I should say if there's a place in the body that the spirit is not connected to the body that part of the body does because it's the spirit that gives life to the body so but now if you talk about soul many times we if you were gonna draw a diagram of the soul you just put it in a head and just make a little circle there and then the spirit covers everything else and that's not technically right right either biblically or physiologically biologically it's not right actually a better way to look at it would be to see spirit let's say you took if I were to draw an outline of a human being and then took two different color markers and just did dots all over it to the point where the entire outline was filled to where there was no if it's on a dry erase board like a white board where there was no more white it was just dots and let's say one was red and one was blue probably shouldn't use those colors because now you're thinking republican-democrat will go a different way okay but let's say you have different colors in there that totally completely cover this area outline of this of what we think of as the spirit well that would be closer to how the spirit and soul operate because your soul now the CPU the the command unit of your soul is in your brain and it is that's where it's seated basically but it we also know that it is connected to the belly right meaning the inward man meaning this area and it's funny because you can find this in the Bible but it also because even Jesus talked out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water whether which was where the seat of the spirit would be and yet you can find the exact same thing in eastern Far Eastern religions and you have to remember Christianity is an Eastern religion right it was created in the Middle East but if you go to the Far East you also have other religions there and other philosophies that would say nearly the same thing they say that the seat of the soul or the spirit is about three inches below your navel and that's why they when they meditate they put their hands like this and they do everything in there and everything is centered there well if you when you look at science your body used to they thought that if you had a pain in your leg that that pain would travel to your brain and then it would be deciphered and then it would register and then you know if it's out there Harris where the pain is and now they know that's not true now what they know is that there is an aspect of your soul meaning the mind or dealing with the mind and a cognitive aspect that if something hurts your leg that the place where that is deciphered is at that spot where it hurts that it doesn't have to go to the brain to register it right and that's really why you can be well for instance in my background in martial arts we had certain things that we did to train what was called tactile reflexes to the point where your brain didn't have to think you would respond based upon sensory input and the sensory input didn't go to the brain and then come back and then you respond it responded based on where the sensory input was at in other words you know if we crossed hands and I moved or if you moved I would sense that I didn't have to go to the head did it I would sense it and react from that point meaning that part of my soul is at that point so your soul is not just located in one spot your soul literally covers your entire body just like your spirit so now you have spirit everywhere in you and you have soul everywhere in you right one of the end now you say what I thought the soul was in the brain no that's not true first off if you have brain damage in a certain area of the brain for instance I was just watching a documentary amazing thing this man was he could see as a child and then around I think he was three three or four years old something like that he there was a reason there was some reason but he went blind and he was blind for twenty two years and then they did some stuff some surgery that actually functioned the surgery went perfect accomplished exactly what it was supposed to everything was registering he could that he could see light and that he was actually seeing but even though he saw everything he couldn't decipher what anything was because he hadn't seen it in you know 22 years something like that and so he couldn't see that he couldn't decipher oh that's what that means and what they started noticing was that his deciphering of it wasn't getting any better and I think about that because we learn by doing and so if he started seeing things and someone smiled he would say oh they're smiling so that's a smile so now I know what a smile is and then you would put that in your memory and then the next time somebody smile did you say oh that's a that's a smile that didn't that didn't work with him he saw everything but the part of the brain that dealt with transferring what you what he saw into a cognitive memory of saying oh that's what it is that part of the brain had not been used for 22 years so because of that it and this this is the part that really got me because it had not been used and that part of the brain started being allocated for other things so his sense of hearing had developed but now his hearing didn't go to the place where it normally would go for hearing it would now have to go through the place where his brain used to decipher visual context so now he had a much larger space for hearing and it wasn't because he didn't need it for visual so he could hear a lot better and he could actually hear tones and differences in tones that the human ear is not supposed to be able to hear but because the brain more brain space was allocated for that it allowed the ears to do better job now think about that and so now what that means is this and the reason I'm talking about is because I want you to realize that number one we know this the brain is a muscle we know that it's the old you know saying use it or lose it so if you don't use your brain you start losing your brain right how many of you know someone like now they're doing good there some but one of the ways and and here's what we did your your body and your brain amazing thing the most amazing thing on this earth as a matter of fact especially your brain even your eyes are so far beyond what even science can reproduce that they have no idea they will they'll probably never be able to reproduce something as amazing as the eye but if you realize everything that man creates is based on how man thinks computers are based upon how man's mind works television is based on how man's mind works all these everything we build everything we do is based on how our mind works so as a creator we are creating things that are based upon how we see things you know that hopefully you see where I'm going right now we were created by a Creator who created us in his likeness in His image so we automatically have that connection with him that we automatically see and know deep inside and I would even say I don't say feel as in feelings you know but we see things the way he would see them that's why we know that there is something against in us that whenever someone says oh you know God took my baby you know meaning killed their baby there is something in you that says oh no now but you have to be listen carefully we're gonna talk about religion okay but it's not technically religion it is also a philosophy of how the world thinks because if I just walked up to somebody that didn't know anything and I said I heard your baby died well God took your baby then if they've never heard that before they'd go oh no no of course not why because they would know inside them whether they're Christian or not there is that thing inside them that truth is in there to tell them the truth about God because you can see God even in the according to Roman's you can see God in how things are in this world and we know if a father did something to a child we even know they could be arrested why why do we have that in us because we know that goes against the basic nature how do we know healing from from a physiological aspect how do we know healing is God's will well you know come up here I'll pull up my pocket knife will cut your finger and then we'll put it under a microscope and you will watch your fingers start to heal immediately why because your body will begin to heal itself immediately why because God made it that way which means healing is God's will you go that now now you don't even have to be religious to know that that's science right and that fact shows you God's will it shows you his mind toward it and yeah and now take that and go further with it you you can take it all the way up to cancer you can take it all the way up to everything and and they will tell you even that because there's really not going to get into the the industry of cancer but your body is your best weapon against cancer because your body and does the same thing with HIV your body produces the antibodies to fight against it and they know that as long as is they catch it early enough your and especially if you're doing certain things even you know diet-wise and all that kind of stuff that your body can produce what it needs to overcome and fight and that's what we know as the immune system right and it's funny it's called the immune system but immune means that it can't be affected right well why don't we call it that because we know that in in us we know that God's idea for us is that we be immune to sickness or disease not that we overcome it but we'd be immune to it so now we're talking to Vine health and I hadn't even mentioned Scripture via that so we can we can logically intellectually prove God's will for healing for divine health strictly from physiological evidence of the human body amen so yeah I'm saying that because I want you realize that as part of your soul and your spirit now I want you to see it as not clear defined lines but I want you to see it in terms of particles in you and here's a particle of soul here's a particle of spirit here's a particle so here's a particle spirit and it's all of these particles and you are made up of all of these particles of soul and spirit and you take all of these invisible things and if you can take and get this and okay we're talked about man but we're talk about creation okay you take all of these invisible things and you pile them up in one place and it becomes visible now how can you take a whole bunch of invisible put it in one spot and all of a sudden it becomes visible why because that's the way God created the world he took all of the invisible stuff and created this visible world from everything invisible you got that and when you put everything invisible in one spot it becomes visible that you figure that out okay I know how it works but that's that's what it is yeah so we have all these invisible particles we have invisible particles of soul and invisible particles of spirit and they're all in there and you've got you know the best way okay I can't do it like that because you'll see this but I can do it like that we're all you can see is that right now if you talk science we're talking string theory right but you're also talking quantum physics because it's not just a string it's a it's a point right and so you have all of these points in us these particles in us that are soul and spirit and they're all in their mixed in there together each one takes its own space but it's so tiny that you can't see it right because even the even modern science has not yet been able to create a machine that can show soul or spirit I mean they can show macroscopic you know Matic Andreea and all this custom but they cannot show spirit and soul one because there comes a point and this is this one of the things always fascinated me here we are living beings life is in us and we're made we are alive because we have a spirit in us and that spirit in us gives us life so life comes from our spirit when your spirit leaves this body the body drops dead right so the life of the body we would say here is that spirit now that spirit in you being the life for the body to become alive because the spirits in it that means that at some point spirit has to touch flesh together it has to touch it there has to be a place and not a individual place on saying there has to be a point where and I would say a point in time where the spirit has to catch the physical body to give life to the body so at any point that that the spirit is pulled away from the flesh that flesh dies you got that now so you got soul and spirit you know the only way you can tell the difference between soul and spirit is or in the Word of God if you're doing the Word of God you are doing spirit you know that that's spirit if you're not doing the Word of God we know for a fact that soul but now go with me to Romans Romans and we'll go where Chapter 12 of course chapter 12 starting in verse 1 Paul says yea first one I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you who's going to do it you're going to do it right that you present your bodies a living sacrifice and notice you have to present your body that means at some point in your life you have to go to God and say I give you my body I present my body to you a living sacrifice not waiting until I die I'm doing it now my body my physical body belongs to you you got that now John Lake hit this point he he reached this point and it's in one of us one of his sermons and it was on the topic of consecration and he said that if you get back to early Christianity primitive Christianity that you will find that true Christianity was a total 100% consecration spirit soul and body most Christians so-called or whatever you know I don't know what definition you use for a Christian I'm just saying people who call themselves Christians most of them only ever consecrate their spirit that's as far as I go most of them never consecrate their soul and even fewer consecrate their body right that's why now when if you and and I met you cannot I'm just gonna make this a blanket statement I do not believe you can consecrate your body to God first because you would have no contact with him I believe first you have to consecrate your spirit to him and you do that by making him Lord right now real quick digress over to an area I received a letter we're getting lots of letters now from the television program from all over the United States everywhere I mean it's amazing it's really even surprised faith USA people because we're whenever people call in to the minute thing they say we're the program they mentioned so that's that's awesome we're number one on faith USA right here in America right now and it's funny because we're probably the cheapest program out there for they mean this is our set I mean it's pretty cheap when you look at some of the other stuff that's out there but it just shows people want truth and they're not concerned about the you know all the accoutrements that go along with it and so but a matter of fact they've actually asked me in the first month of November right after the conference the day after the conference on that Sunday whenever we finish up on that on that Saturday night Sunday I'll be here for church but then Sunday afternoon after fly to South Africa at South Africa because faith USA is going to be doing a live week worth of broadcasting from South Africa and they've actually has asked me to come over and be the keynote speaker for that program for the whole week that they'll be broadcasting worldwide and so we're really excited about it and God has given us great favor net so keep us in prayer there that that we that God will give us the message that needs to come out because we will have a worldwide audience for at least for that week and so we're really excited about so now but if you with this soul cuz I want to get that I want to just stick on this for just a minute with the soul you have soul and spirit in there and you can't divide it see if it was if it was layers if you had a layer of and this is the way most people picture I know I did four years you picture a layer the inner layer of spirit then there's an outer layer maybe just around the head of soul and then there's the third outer layer which is the body and really that's not it really there's an outer body that keeps spirit and soul all in there together but spirit soul is mixed and now as I'm talking about this the spirit is your connection with God and that is how you are connected to God the the I know why I digress now a lady wrote me a letter because I know it was a man actually they wrote me a letter saying you said that nobody's a Christian unless I make Jesus Lord and most people just call him Savior and don't make him Lord and you've said that if he's not Lord he's not Savior and I said yeah that's pretty much what I said and I mean they blasted me I mean they they cussed me okay wrote me a letter cussing me about teaching that and you know I all I did was quote scripture but it's just funny because there are certain things and what that tells me is that that person's security is in that doctrine that he thinks of him as the Savior but has not made Jesus Lord and we have to realize if he's not Lord he's not Savior maybe that well because he didn't come to save us in our sins he came to save us from our sins and the way he says it's from our sins is we have to bow our knee to him and make him Lord that's the Bible talks about him being Lord and it talks about receiving him as Lord making him Lord it does not talk about receiving him as Savior right we have to realize he's Savior whether we like it or not I'm not talking about we still have to participate but I'm saying but we have the way we participate in him being Savior is making him Lord it's just that simple so now and you know like I said you can write me and customi all you want I've been cussed before it won't bother me that much okay so but we have to realize here what he says when he talks about presenting your bodies a living sacrifice like I said dr. layke reached a point which he called a hundred fold or a hundred percent he called a hundred fold consecration and that hundred fold consecration was he realized as a young man sixteen years of age he had consecrated his spirit to God but he and and back then they didn't really see a whole lot of difference between and soul until way later when he started talking about it but he said most people he said dinner whenever he was with John Alexander Dowie he actually realized that he needed to present his body to God as a living sacrifice and he needed to consecrate his body now I'm going to tell you a real reason why a lot of people have physical problems is because you've never consecrated your body as a living sacrifice to God you've not listened he does not take care of what you don't give him say if you're having problems in your finances it's because you have not given them to him right and you said well I have given them to him really okay we would have to sit down and go over what you mean giving it to him right do you still decide what you do with it because if you do you haven't given it to him right if and and there's a whole lot more to that but I'm just saying he does not fix he's not obligated to fix what he doesn't own and I'm not obligated to fix you know somebody's house that I see on the way down over that's all messed up I'm gonna I'm gonna go by there and fix it next week no I'm not obligated now I could do it but I'm not obligated do that and we see that in healing with people we see people that God heals that have not consecrated their body to him but he's not obligated that's just out of his goodness and mercy and somebody had faith to reach out to that person but usually not that person and so we have to realize that we need we need to make sure that we have given a hundredfold consecration of God we have as believers we have consecrated our spirits to him and look what a good job he did with it say what you give to him he will really do a good job with but then many people have not given their bodies to him and because of that they still struggle with a lot of stuff in their bodies because they've not consecrated it to him but now notice the main area and that this is one of the amazing things another main area that people have never consecrated to God is there so right and he tells us very careful very clearly I should say that we are to take heed to what we hear even to what we see and we know we have not consecrated our soul to God if we're not taking heed to what we hear and what we see and many times what you hear and what you see will have much more damaging effect on your soul and body than anything physically you do right and because I listen carefully my wife's tell me many times you need to tell people you're not telling them to drink coca-cola because people think you're telling it's okay right because I drink cokes and you know but I will tell you this listen okay in full disclosure okay I do drink more cokes and I should okay I don't eat like I should I still don't eat vegetables and stuff I've never sat down with a plate of vegetables and ate them now however for years I mean even when I was in martial arts I had a big chest thing that was full of vitamins and supplements because I was completely into vitamin supplements I did research on it I worked at president's first president's health club back then and I did floor training and all this kind stuff and you know I was totally into it and I studied all this stuff I studied nutrition you know so I have no excuse all right I mean I'm not making excuses here I know what I should be doing I just don't do it right kind of like how most people do Christianity so what I do though is this I have all kinds of supplements even now at my home if you say I have all kinds of supplements when I travel I take them with me half the time I don't take them but I carry them with me you know hoping against hope that at some point I will actually start taking them and the best I get out of them is the exercise of carrying them from the car to the room that's that's the best I do for me and so but I but I will tell you I believe in good nutrition I would love to eat right if anybody could actually tell me what that is because everybody argues over that nobody knows exactly what are you I mean you know there's ideas and some of it I see is true but I you know even lately when I'm home and I can get into a routine yeah I'll get up and I have a protein drink that I'll mix in it's a it really tastes good I found one that actually tastes good and I mix you know I got a protein drink and I've got some beet powder and throw in a raw egg mix it all up and down it I mean now listen I can I can drink I can down anything like that right now sit down with a bowl of broccoli ain't gonna happen right but if you can blend it I can drink it all right because I I have no I do not care about taste whatsoever right when it comes to it and so I'll mix this stuff in and then I got you know vitamin actually I've got two liquid vitamins and some I'd do some vitamin C powder stuff just stuff like that that I'll do on a regular basis especially when I'm home and when I travel forget it you know it's all out the window but when I am home I get into the routine of it and so and the amazing thing is the more I do that when I do that I don't drink cokes it literally makes me not want to drink them and so when I do that it's actually better and so now I've got you know these super greens and powders and all this kind of stuff that you mix and then you know people now say I tell you I don't eat vegetables but if you ever see me it's a story you don't think I'm lying because I'll be getting the organic stuff and put it in the buggy or the car to avoid anyone call it and then I'll take it home and I'll blend it right blend it chop it up or what everyone's got it and then I'll drink it but you won't see me eat it right because I don't like the texture okay so that's why I don't eat anyway so what I'm saying is that and my wife always says tell people there's not right to drink cokes okay it's not good for you to drink cokes the only reason I've ever mentioned it is because when we started the big thing was and and this is what I notice about every healing ministry everybody that's known for healing starts hardcore believe God trust God and then at some point they move toward exercise and nutrition at some point right and I said I don't know why they do that so the only reason I've ever mentioned my drinking cokes and not eating vegetables is because I want you to know and listen that's not the best way to live you understand it's not the best way to live but you can't live what because God can take care of you now I'm not saying you know if I ate right and didn't drink cokes I don't know maybe I'd have more energy maybe I'd feel better I don't know I don't know I feel great so I don't know how I could feel better I'm sure it's possible right but all I'm the only reason I ever mentioned that stuff is because I want people to realize health exercising nutrition is not God and I'm not going to devote myself to it I consecrate myself to God spirit soul and body right now that does not mean that I ignore because the the one of the reasons I take supplements is because I know that my body doesn't get just the basic needed requirements in my daily diet right and so I know that and so I will take you know certain vitamins different things whatever I want to add to it whatever supplements that I know I'm not getting but the only reason I've ever said that was because I want people realize notice where you put your faith because the people that put their faith for some reason as soon as you start talking about diet nutrition that kind of stuff that's where people's faith goes all of a sudden oh now you know yeah it's like I've had people tell me oh yeah oh yeah yeah see I take my vitamins religiously hmm well that's maybe are to take your religion like vitamins you know and maybe maybe you got it backwards there right because we need to realize that yes your body needs certain things but all I'm trying to say is don't put your faith in them right like I said I've got all kinds of supplements and all this kind of stuff and I'll rotate through different and it's good so I'm not I'm not against that I'm for exercising nutrition what because if you exercise blood gets to your brain you actually think better right it affects the whole body just don't put your faith in it to the point where what the first time you have something weird going on you go home let me go look up what do I need to take what not say you just crossed that line first trust God first pray now if God says hey the reason you're you know muscles are drawn up because you don't have any potassium okay go eat a banana great but but don't make that a rule to wear cuz see here's what happens it for me personally I don't know about you I'm pretty sure I know about you but I'm saying I don't want to just you know put a blanket statement out there but I think most of you that come here especially those of you that come for prayer because you're dealing with something when you come to me and you say well you know I'm having muscle atrophy I'm pretty sure you don't want to hear me give you a diet recommendation I'm pretty sure you're not coming well here's what you need to do now I want to I want you to do you need to do six sets of seven squats every morning when you get up and then I want you to take a protein drink mix they say that's not why you come to me you come to me because you believe I can trust God and if I lay my hands on you God will heal you that's what you believe is that right you don't come for a nutritionist right now could I give that to you yeah believe it or not I know more than I talk yeah believe it or not because I talk a lot but there's areas I don't talk about why because I don't want your faith there I want your faith in God now I'm not saying ignore that I'm doing like I said there were you never mentioned coats and things so it's to say look even if you don't do it right God can protect you it might just be his mercy you know he and people throw you're tempting God but you know maybe you know and if you think so you better not live this way right but the bottom line is I trust God know personally you know I gave up cokes for an entire year on purpose just to make sure I could do it right because I know caffeine can be addicting and all I concept and so I just quit and four years it didn't it Coke's didn't affect me at all no when I quit working out regularly it started affecting me but how did it affect me right there right and so I really I had to do something right 58 years old you know they say every decade you you you lose so much muscle and bone density and muscle mass heart kind stuff well you know I I never want to be the guy that goes on a mission trip at the bottom of the mountain where else ahead of them and you're going to go ahead I'll be there in a minute okay no I don't want that right I want to be right there in the middle of it if not at the head of it going hey come on guys let's go right that's what I want and you know so - but to do that you don't gain cardio by driving places right you actually have to do something those are physical laws right now if you want to pray and God give you cardio energy wonderful if that happens for you come lay hands on me all right me I got I got a do treadmill okay I got to do something like that so but all I'm saying is that where do you put your faith in God now again going back to the the soul aspect of this and this is I'm gonna wrap it up with this if your spirit and soul is mixed in there together you have to realize we have the Holy Spirit and now here's a part of us so now he's mixed in there with our spirit now the only way and people say well seen him because he's there then that's the way it is and you know he can't be removed or whatever it is and there's a entire theological debates on that but let's let's say for a minute the Holy Spirit can be removed from you okay if he's mixed in there people say well how could he be removed if he's mixed in there well i guarante to you if it could be done God could do it right I mean let's say if it could be done I'm not saying it can or can't I'm just saying if it could be done God could do it right or else he's not God there'd be something he couldn't do now but you would still have to separate spirit and soul but you don't need to separate spirit and soul if your soul mind has been renewed to the Word of God you get that I I'm I'm leanin okay I'm not gonna make a hard-line dogmatic thing on this but I'm leaning toward a human losing their soul in the sense that a person even a Christian they does not renew their mind would lose their soul at death their spirit would go to be with God I know this is gonna open a can of worms I know I'm gonna get letters emails I know that but you know what I surely hope that this makes you at least think because for some of you it might be the first time you've done that in a while so okay do you understand what I'm saying now okay here's here's what here's what I'm getting if your mind if you're if you're born again in your spirit okay your spirits right with God if you die your spirit goes be with God right we can agree with that now but it's your soul is carnal not renewed not spiritual but carnal now what does the Bible say about the carnal mind death there's another word enmity hostile an enemy of God do you think that a hostile enemy of God is going to be ushered in to God's presence could that be a way that a person loses their soul because spirit and soul could be separated by the Word of God this is why let's look at this and I'll finish I promise this is not gonna be a seminar today okay but he says I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice notice he doesn't say even spirit or soul there he says your bodies holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service he says I'm not asking you for more than what you should do you realize and yet most Christians never consecrate their bodies to God they never do it you know what they talk about instead my problem you know my problem I have this problem I have a problem with drinking I have a problem with tobacco have a debuff have a problem no you don't have a problem you have a you have a sin in the fact that you have not presented your body a living sacrifice now here's an aspect that healing ministries never talk about unless they get over into the nutrition and diet thing God said if you destroy his temple he will destroy you how do you destroy his temple well that's a big question because you know according to some me drinking my cokes is destroying the temple right it's definitely not helping the temple okay but columns and I'm not trying to I'm not trying to be dogmatic here I'm just trying to say at some point we have to realize God helps us he's force if I was to ask God do you want me to drink coca-cola okay I'm pretty sure he'd say bad before you not do it you know you'll stick around longer maybe if you do if you don't right maybe I don't know I don't know because I've never asked him why haven't I asked him because I don't want the answer okay let's be honest okay come on transparency right we're okay come on all right hot and see so but he's but he said that so at some point we have to decide what is destroying the temple what is doing this because I can tell you you can destroy the physical body and that's bad but what's worse is destroying the spirit and soul and and spirit and soul can be destroyed a lot easier than your physical body because your physical body has antibodies to work against these things automatically but when you submit your soul to have strongholds built in it that's a choice of your will and it can be destroyed in and of itself and you're allowing it right you're causing it in most cases so he says and now what's verse 2 and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God now I'm gonna say one last thing here yeah notice here he says it is by the renewing of our mind that our life is transformed you've been here very long you've heard me say this over and over and over again the key to changing your life is to change your mind it is to renew your mind to the Word of God if your life is not where you want it to be it is because you have not renewed your mind to the Word of God in that area end of story there is no other options nothing else now the problem is we tend to be as humans we tend to take the path of least resistance we don't take the hard way that's one of the great things about Marcus Aurelius which was a what's called a stoic at that time and he wrote his Maxim's and one of his Maxim's is the obstacle is the way the obstacle in other words you don't go around a mountain you go through it you get to it now from the stoic aspect is we will conquer that mountain I will climb it go over it it will not stop me Christian viewpoint I will stick to that mountain and it will move I will not vary my path I will continue walking straight and I refuse to let a mountain decide my path I decide my path according to the Word of God and I will do the Word of God and speak to that mountain and had it removed and that is the obstacle being the way what does that mean yeah okay you really want to you want to stretch today here it is if your path doesn't include a mountain you're on the wrong path think about that Jesus said speak to the mountain that means mountains are part of your destiny mountains are part of your path you're there why because you need something to put resistance against you because whatever if you go long enough without resistance you atrophy your faith will either have resistance or it will atrophy so you have to if your if your path if you see mountains to the left or to the right and okay if you see look let's just be real clear most people if you saw a mountain to the left or the right you're not going to turn left or right to go to the mountain you're gonna try to go the path of least resistance now what's between two mountains Valley why do most people cry about being in the valley because you didn't choose the mountain path does that make sense choose the path of most resistance when you do you glorify God because you show your faith and you show I believe God is with me and that no mountain can stand before me otherwise you're gonna spend the rest of your life walking through valleys and crying about how come I'm never on a mountaintop cuz you never go there you won't choose the path of greatest resistance as a human but you have to remember you're not here to be human you are here to be Christian amen we're not here to walk as mere mortal men we are here to walk as sons and daughters of God amen so the more your soul your mind is renewed to the Word of God remember we had these I said earlier - unchanged the color red and blue dots right one spirit one is soul let's say the blue dots are soul the more you have your soul your mind renewed to the Word of God the more your soul will line up with your spirit that means that the blue dots start becoming red dots and pretty soon spirit and soul can't even be divided by the Word of God because your mind has been renewed to the Word of God right you don't need to divide it if it's working with you you only need to divide it when it works against you so the key to all of life renew your mind to the Word of God and I plan on the next one but that's a couple of weeks we're going to go specifically in how to do that and the steps for you to take to actually renew your mind I'm not just talking about memorizing scripture a lot of people memorize my mother had a parrot that could quote scripture it's mine was not renewed okay it was parroting what it had heard my mother say all right so we have to realize it's not just memorizing do you have to be renewed in the spirit of your mind and to be renewed in the spirit of mind means you don't just quote scripture you live it and that means spirit soul and body thought word and deed have to unify in one direction according to the Word of God amen all right jug anything out of this this morning all right well we're gonna finish there amen there's a lot more we're gonna I was going to talk about but I'm not going to keep you that long so try thing or anything else I need to say no think that's it all right well let's all stand up father we thank you your word is true we thank you for your word we thank you Father that we can obey your word that we can choose to actually hear and obey your word we thank you that you've given us your spirit that we thinking that you're not done with us you fixed us in the spirit and you're working on us in the soul and in the body and father we thank you that what we present to you that you are able to keep and you are able to fix and you're able to move forward with and to make sure that it ends up the way you want it so father we thank you and even today those of you that those that are here now under the sound of my voice and would even like even now to desire to make that commitment and yours I'm not asking you to come forward I'm just saying you make that commitment in yourself I present my body a living sacrifice I present my soul to be renewed to the Word of God and I thank you Father that I've already presented my spirit to you and that you have received it and that you will keep it so father I thank you even now for these decisions today these commitments because committing our spirits so embodied to you means that we look to you as our life source of every aspect of our being and that we go to you first before we go to anything else that we pray first for remedy before we turn to anything else because you are El Shaddai are all sufficient one father we thank you for it father I thank you the hearts and minds of the people here today those listening and watching by internet by television in the future father we thank you that what they commit to you you will keep and that you will change into the likeness of your son Jesus father I speak life I speak blessing and in the name of Jesus right now be healed be made whole and if you've never made Jesus the Lord of your life do it now don't wait for a feeling don't wait for any motion do it now it's always right to do the right thing and the right thing is to make Jesus Lord commit your spirit to him give him your life and as you do so his life will completely flooded in Jesus it's that's it so god bless you in Jesus name Amen amen amen [Music] you you

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Length: 53min 51sec (3231 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 03 2017