Mind Games - Week 3: “Rewiring Your Mind” - Full Service

Here's the good news. Because God loves you, he sent Jesus Christ into the world to take all the punishment that all your sins deserve. And yes, to provide forgiveness of sins, but also more so. But to also provide, get this, freedom from the messages of those scripts, telling you who you are and what life's supposed to be about. And our text says that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. [00:39:40] (30 seconds)  #InChristNoCondemnation

The law of sin and death is like the law of gravity. Everybody sins. And what does gravity do? It pulls you down. So all of us are susceptible to the downward pull of the reality of sin, which ends in death. So if the law of gravity is like the law of sin, it always pulls you down. The law of the spirit, the holy spirit, is like aerodynamics. The law of aerodynamics overcomes the law of gravity and gives you a capacity and experience of being lifted above that law. [00:41:25] (29 seconds)  #SpiritOvercomesSinGravity

So listen, never fight feelings of self condemnation by promising to do better. Reject the lie that feeling self condemnation somehow pleases God because it doesn't. What pleases God is fixating on your new freedom in Christ to walk as a person in whom there is no condemnation. You are now free to live into a whole new reality. So God is glorified when we fixate on the love of God to us in Christ, on the forgiveness and freedom, from God to us in Christ. [00:47:10] (37 seconds)  #FixateOnFreedomNotCondemnation

Now listen friends, if you belong to Jesus, you have a new landlord. And your new landlord has a message for you. You don't have to live like this anymore. You don't have to live in fear anymore. You don't have to live in insecurity anymore. You don't have to listen to the voices shouting at you about being kicked to the curb every time you turn the next corner. You don't have to live like this anymore. [01:05:50] (29 seconds)  #NewLandlordNewLife

The moment you surrender your life to Christ to save you, you are placed in Christ. Oh, and Christ is placed in you through his holy spirit. That's what Jesus said when he that's what he meant when he said you must be born again. That's what he's talking about. So if you're in Christ, guess what? You don't have to pay God back for your sins. Jesus already did that. [00:40:34] (21 seconds)  #PlacedInChristNoDebt

Why is it you could put two Christ followers in the same experience? Same exact experience. Same situation. One stays positive and overcomes. The other turns negative and it is overcome. What's the deal breaker? What's the the crux of it is the mindset. One is wired to think, feel, and act according to the resources of self. That's just the default. The other is rewired to think, feel, and act according to the resources of the spirit. [00:53:44] (33 seconds)  #MindsetIsTheDealBreaker

Self help is a really good thing, but it's a very limited thing. There's only so much you can do. Your willpower doesn't have the power for long term change, and certainly not to empower you to live the life that God intended in Christ. So let me just say this, God never intended for you to live successfully apart from him. Apart from a relationship with God, you cannot live successfully. [00:48:56] (30 seconds)  #BeyondSelfHelpDependOnGod

Truth is, these sheep are free to move any direction they want to get over to the open space, but they don't. They are single they are squeezing together, crushing into each other to file through that narrow opening. Why? Because this is what we're supposed to do. This is how we do it. This is the way it is. We just we do this. This is what we do. Friends, there is no fence. [00:35:12] (28 seconds)  #NoImaginaryFences

When you take a step of obedience to do what God has called you to do, God will meet that step with an empowerment that is not your own to enable you to do what you could not have done on your own. Walking in Christ in obedience to do what God's called you do is like walking on a moving walkway. Every step you take to do what God has called you to do will be an empowered step. [01:02:26] (23 seconds)  #ObedienceBringsEmpoweredSteps

Now, wanna say this, there's not no condemnation because you have forgiveness. That's a part of it. There's no condemnation because you are in Christ. And so many Christians do understand the forgiveness piece, but don't understand the in Christ thing. So this week in the podcast, we're gonna lean in heavy into what does it mean to be in Christ? How does that work? And basically, it works this way. [00:40:15] (19 seconds)  #BeingInChristExplained

The only fence exists in the minds of the sheep. These sheep that want to go from a pen to freedom are literally fenced in by something that's in their own head. The only fence that exists is the one in their minds, and the signals from all around. This is the way it is. We're the way we gotta do it. We gotta crush together. This is how it's supposed to be. [00:35:39] (24 seconds)  #LandlordRepairParable

Because we all need to be told the truth. And the most important person that we need to hear tell us the truth is ourselves. In fact, doctor Martin Lloyd Jones put it this way in his famous book, Spiritual Depression is Causes and Cure. If haven't you read that book, it's very, very good. He said, have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? [00:30:26] (27 seconds)  #TrainYourThoughts

Is that what don't I would say no. I think it's quite the opposite. I think crazy people are people who listen to themselves more than they talk to themselves. Healthy people talk to themselves more than they listen to themselves. In fact, it's all throughout the scripture. Let me give some examples. Psalm one zero three verse one, David said, bless the Lord, oh my soul. [00:29:29] (20 seconds)  #TalkToYourselfHeal

Think about the power of your thought process. Because here's the bad news today, my friends. The way your mind works can actually work against you. Sometimes your thought process and your headspace can really be a big problem. It can be a significant barrier in our lives. But here's the good news. God cannot only change your mind, he can change the way your mind actually works. [00:27:32] (22 seconds)  #MindCanWorkAgainstYou