Renewing Your Mind to Love God Intelligently

They have to be torn down, sanctified, and thrown out. And then God is able to actually deposit some things and build some things and construct some things in order to shape us into the image of Christ. So for example, we have to address this thinking that says, man, life is all about me. We are trained that way by the world that says, dude, just be happy. This is about your happiness. Your flesh confirms that. Yes. I want it to be all about me. The enemy confirms it, says, yes. It should be all about you. That has to be removed and replaced with that I have been bought with a price, and my life now exists not for its own pleasure or preservation, but to bring glory and honor to God. That's a shift. That that thinking that says, I will never overcome this addiction. I will never be able to break this cycle in my life. Must be removed and replaced with, I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength because if the tomb is empty, anything is possible. He can change and transform. [00:46:14] (61 seconds)  #WhoIsDisciplingYou

You are what you are because you think how you think. Your life is a reflection of how you've been thinking And God says, I wanna get in there, and I wanna do something different with that. I wanna transform you and get ready to conform you by changing the way that you think. That is an amazing thing. This is what Romans 12 is telling us. Because ladies and gentlemen, we don't get in life what we want. We don't. We get in life what we are, and what we are is a reflection of how we think. See, let let me say it to you this way. The question that you just need to settle now, the question is not, am I going to be discipled? You are being discipled. You have been discipled. We are being discipled. The real question is, who's doing the discipling? Is it the world? [00:50:24] (50 seconds)  #AssumeGodIsRight

has the world got more influence over your life in the way that you think than the word of God's a problem? Is your flesh fueling? Well, I don't that don't feel right to me, bro. What's that got to do with anything? I'm gonna say something to you. Buckle up, buttercup. Whenever you read the Bible and you read something that rubs you the wrong way, you must assume you are wrong. But let that marinate as heavy as it is right now. Because if you don't, you go, well, I know better than god. Really? The creation knows better than the creator. [00:51:15] (37 seconds)  #DoersNotJustHearers

Everybody loves the baby Jesus. It's just a baby. Everybody loves a baby. Nobody's threatened by a baby. It's not the baby Jesus the world hates. They love that. It's righteous Jesus they hate. It's the grown Jesus that said there is a way that seemeth right into a man. There is a standard. There is a standard of holiness. There are boundaries that I have set for your life. That's the Jesus they reject and hate. [01:05:31] (24 seconds)  #EmbraceTheRighteousJesus

He's not saying don't buy into Jesus. He's just saying don't buy into Jesus of the Bible. So they buy into this sloppy version of who god is and they say, well, god is love and so if god is love, I guess that means that anything goes. So, you just do you. Be spiritual. Have a good heart. Live as morally as you can. Be a good person. You'll be fine. No, you won't. No, you won't. No, you won't. The enemy has caused too many people to doubt, deny, deny, and be deceived, and we must stay in the truth. It is the only way that we will know the truth from the lie, which brings me to my third point. He tells us that we must, as followers of Christ, learn to fully embrace and welcome his word into our life. It is the only way we will ever be able to distinguish the truth from the lie. [01:05:55] (58 seconds)  #KnowTheRealJesus

You need a life application bible. It will make learning a priority and actually fun in your life. Major in the word. Watch this. Then I'm a big advocate of this. I've done this my whole life. Memorize the word of God. Psalm one nineteen verse 11, the the psalmist said, God, your word have I hid in my heart. I've hid it in my heart. He's talking about memorizing the word of God. The ability to recall it on demand so that it would refresh your mind and your soul, to make you armed and dangerous against the lies of the enemy. Now I I hear you already. Some people and forgive me for this. I'm not you're, like, being cynical, but I've had people come to me they go, well, that's it, pastor. The problem is I can't memorize anything. And I go, really? What's your phone number? And they tell me to go, wow. How'd you know that? And I go, how about your street address? Where do you live? Oh, I live on said, wow. How did you know that? What's your Social Security number? I said, okay. So the problem is the so okay. The problem is not that you can't recall, that you can't memorize. It's motivation. So you have to come to God's word like your life depends on it because it does. Let me ask you a question. If I if I said I'll give you a thousand dollars each verse you memorize, y'all would kill me out in the lobby coming to me quoting chapters of the Bible in about a month. [01:10:45] (82 seconds)  #MajorInTheWord

There is no power in the partially surrendered life, y'all. You'll live on this little level of frustration where, I'll just say it this way, It is possible to have just enough Jesus to ease your conscience but not change your life. [01:13:50] (18 seconds)  #AllInForJesus

I am married thirty five years because of what I've preached to you today. Come to the lord at 20. Told you a story. My wife was pregnant at 17. I was 18. I I was a I was a violent boy, not a man at all. Didn't know how to care for myself. Here I'm married, and all of sudden, I got two kids. Give my life to Christ and made up my mind that there was no way that we were gonna survive this, and there was no way that anything was gonna change. There was no way this was gonna turn out good. If I did not let something reshape my heart and mind and that thing was god and his word. He turned me into a man. He made me understand what being a man is about, preferring other people above myself, joyful acceptance of responsibility. I remember holding my son at 19. He was born on my nineteenth birthday. I remember looking down and saying, alright, boy. Life ain't about you no more because he didn't ask for any of this. He's innocent. I was the one that was guilty and I'm gonna do something different. I made up my mind that I was gonna read his word. I was gonna live it. I'm telling you, thirty two years later, the trajectory of our lives have been altered by the power of his word that has shaped our thinking about life, about money, about God, about marriage, about relationships, about parenting. [01:15:21] (74 seconds)  #TransformedByTheWord