Winning the Internal Battle: Truth Over Lies

"How God calls us blessed, chosen, adopted, redeemed. Many of the things that God speaks about us. And then last week, we talked about the title of it was What You Say. And it was about what people say to us, what we say to others. I'm going to read it to you. And -talk matters. So what we say to ourselves. Now, I want to clarify something at the beginning." [00:05:16]

"This self-talk really is a war within it's going on within us from this point on this sermon this message is going to be about a war that's going on inside of us I don't know about you but I struggle with this self-talk stuff because the enemy wants to convince me that I'm no good my past history wants to convince me that I'm no good but God's word says otherwise which one am I going to buy into which one am I going to follow." [00:11:03]

"For in my inner being I delight in God's law for I see another law at work in me waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me what a wretched man I am who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death I'm going to read that one again what a wretched man I am who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death so this guy called himself the wretched man that he is wrote most of the New Testament he's the one that had a dramatic encounter with Jesus." [00:12:26]

"He says to be learn what he says about who we are what we're supposed to do take captive every thought I'll be honest with you sometimes it's a comedy show in my mind it's turned into that I'll give you a good example so I mentioned earlier it's been almost 20 years since the last time I used drugs even 20 years away from it sometimes in my mind it'll be like you know it's been 20 years." [00:21:31]

"Answer that's how you take control of your thoughts if we could do this on self-will we'd all walk around perfect and never making mistakes wouldn't we the fact is we don't have the ability in the desert he he had been away from Egypt for 40 years new life new home new world new family he hadn't thought about going back to Egypt at all it wasn't on his to-do list but God had it on there for him and so God spoke to the murderer Moses and said hey I got a job for you well whatever past sin whatever wrong self-thinking that you've had God has a plan and a purpose for you as well we get in the way of his plan and purpose now take every thought captive." [00:25:24]

"Ourselves confidence in ourselves will fail it'll run out the next mistake you make you're gonna lose it again and read back be right back into that I'm not good enough so chapter 6 verse 10 through 18 see he doesn't leave us as orphans he equips us he equips us to fight these battles that are already won by him they're not won by me I'm the stupid guy on the other side that keeps going into the battle forgetting that I got all these weapons to fight the battles with so what are these weapons I'm about to read to you finally be strong in the Lord and put and in his mighty power let me try that again finally be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes for our struggle is not against Not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers and." [00:27:09]

"They are ineffective, useless. They don't matter that you have them or not because you're not using them. It's only when we use them. Use the equipment that he has given us that we're able to do what he says. And I believe the number one is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is in us. It's with us. It gives us strength. It gives us direction." [00:30:02]