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Series Code: TDYL
Program Code: TDYL190025B
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00:11 Thank you and welcome back.
00:12 Those of you that were a part of our first hour, 00:15 if you're just joining us, 00:16 we're talking about the battle for, 00:18 or the battle of the mind. 00:19 And since every one of us has a mind, 00:22 this is an interesting program. 00:24 We're disseminating information, 00:26 both from the Bible, 00:27 and we are not professional psychologists, 00:29 but we have had enough experiences to know 00:32 what works and what doesn't work. 00:33 And so we're limiting all of our professional advice. 00:36 We're not giving any doctor advice. 00:37 We're not saying take medication, 00:39 but we are approaching this 00:41 from a very practical and scriptural perspective 00:44 to be able to lay out in the second hour 00:47 ways that we can find the victorious path 00:50 to having a healthy mind. 00:52 Whatever your age, wherever you live, 00:54 whatever the situation you may be in, 00:56 somebody may be talking or listening to the program 00:59 that they are dealing with depression. 01:01 Some young person may be trying to find 01:03 meaning to life. 01:04 Somebody may say, I don't matter. 01:06 No one cares about me. 01:08 God doesn't love me. 01:10 And all of these thoughts are born 01:13 and incubate in the mind. 01:15 So we're going to talk about from Scripture 01:16 how to handle some of these turbulent things, 01:19 because at some point, 01:20 every one of us had a tough day. 01:22 But we don't want that tough day 01:23 to turn into a life of difficulty 01:26 that will take you down the wrong path. 01:28 And once again, we want to remind you 01:30 that you can send your questions in, 01:33 you can call us here at (618)-627-4651 01:37 or you can email those questions 01:38 to live@3abn.tv, 01:41 and before we go to our music, 01:42 I just want to remind you who our guests are today, 01:44 our family. 01:46 Shelley Quinn, good to have you here again. 01:47 It's lovely to be here. 01:48 And you were here in the first hour. 01:50 I'm glad you stay for the second. 01:51 Ryan Day, Pastor Ryan Day. 01:54 Pastor John Dinzey. 01:55 And if you're driving your car 01:57 and you don't know who these individuals are 01:58 program, program director... 02:00 Program Development Manager. 02:02 Program Development Manager 02:03 and you come up with some really good ones. 02:04 Praise the Lord. 02:06 When one year goes to the next and the year's closing out, 02:08 Shelley says, here's what's on the drawing board. 02:11 And you do an excellent job. 02:12 And, Ryan, musician, pastor, evangelist, singer, 02:16 appreciate all those gifts. 02:17 Pastor Dinzey, teacher, preacher, 02:19 and the head of 3ABN Latino. 02:21 But not a singer. 02:23 Okay, not a singer. 02:25 We're going to leave that alone. 02:26 Okay, he's a husband of one wife 02:27 and of two male children. 02:30 But we're going to begin our second hour 02:32 with Pastor Wintley Phipps. 02:33 He's a man that loves to sing. 02:35 He smiles before he sings. 02:37 He smiles while he sings, 02:40 and he smiles when he's done singing. 02:42 And this song is one to smile about. 02:44 It's on the newest 3ABN project 02:47 about the Three Angels' Messages. 02:49 It's called, "Glorious Church." 02:51 Sit back and enjoy. 02:53 Amen. 03:12 The shining jewel 03:14 Of the ancient world 03:18 Babylon worshiped gods of stone 03:25 Power and pride were evil twins 03:31 That ruled her heart and throne 03:39 She was likened to a harlot 03:45 Fornication was in the wine 03:52 That filled the cup 03:55 From which she drank 03:58 Sins of every kind 04:18 The golden head Of Daniel's vision 04:25 Would topple, given time 04:31 As would nations, kings 04:34 And merchants 04:36 Intoxicated by her wine 04:46 The prophets tried to warn her 04:51 Heed the writing on the wall 04:57 Turn from her wicked ways 05:01 Before the day 05:04 The wrath of God would fall 05:12 Oppressor of God's people 05:19 Babylon, so powerful and strong 05:24 She thought she was invincible 05:31 But God 05:32 Would prove her wrong 05:49 An angel filled with glory 05:54 Shall descend With a shout proclaim 06:01 "Babylon, the great is fallen." 06:07 She will die in sin and shame 06:16 Another voice from Heaven 06:21 Will be heard across the earth 06:27 To give a warning Loud and clear 06:32 To those who claim to be 06:36 God's Church 06:43 Come out of her, My people 06:49 Be not partakers of her sin 06:54 For I'm coming back For a glorious Church 07:00 Undefiled and pure within 07:07 To him who worships Me In spirit and truth 07:13 And is faithful to the end 07:17 I will say, "Well done! 07:23 A crown of life you've won 07:29 Come sit and reign with Me 07:35 Through all eternity" 07:41 Thus saith the Lord! 07:49 To him who worships Me 07:53 In spirit and truth 07:55 And is faithful to the end 08:00 I will say, "Well done! 08:06 A crown of life you've won 08:12 Come sit and reign with Me 08:18 Through all eternity" 08:25 Thus saith the Lord! 08:35 For Thine is the Kingdom 08:42 And the power 08:45 And the glory forever 08:57 God's glorious Church 09:06 Amen. Amen. 09:21 Okay, you can get your mind back on driving now. 09:24 That was a powerful song, can we get an amen? 09:26 Praise God. Amen. 09:28 Thank you, Pastor Phipps, for that song 09:29 God's Glorious Church. 09:30 And just a side note, 09:32 if you'd like to find out more about the CD 09:34 that has all the other songs 09:36 from the Three Angels' Messages Project, 09:38 you can also call us here at (618)-627-4651 09:43 to find out more about that. 09:44 But if you want to email and ask questions, 09:46 also that same number, 09:48 as well as emailing it live@3abn.tv. 09:51 And we're continuing on the topic of the battle 09:54 of the mind or the battle for the mind. 09:57 Who'd like to begin the second hour? 09:58 We have a question that came in, Miss Shelley? 10:02 This is from Debbie, and she's in Wisconsin. 10:07 And she asked, "Could Eve have repented?" 10:10 We believe, and we know, Eve did repent. 10:13 God set up the sacrificial system. 10:16 And she trained up her sons. 10:18 Of course we know. 10:20 Abel chose to follow that training. 10:22 Cain did not, he killed Abel. 10:25 And the interesting thing in Genesis 3:15, 10:28 when God talked about a deliverer, he said, 10:33 someone of your seed, the woman's seed, 10:37 he will crush the head. 10:40 He's talking to the serpent, 10:41 he said, he will crush your head, 10:43 you're going to bruise his heel, 10:45 but he'll crush your head. 10:46 So she expected her deliverer to come from her loins, 10:52 because he said it's the woman's seed, right? 10:56 And when you look at the name Seth, 10:58 her with a child, 11:00 the son she had after Cain killed Abel. 11:04 If you look at the name in the Hebrew, 11:07 it indicates that she thought Seth was her deliverer. 11:11 She thought he was the Messiah. 11:14 Okay, so God's covenant promise of a Messiah 11:18 came right after the sin. 11:19 I like to add. 11:22 There are a couple of scriptures 11:23 that show evidence 11:25 of her continued relationship with the Lord. 11:28 When Cain was born, she said, 11:30 "I have gotten a man from the Lord." 11:33 When Seth was born. 11:34 And then when Seth was born, she says, 11:37 and Adam knew his wife again 11:39 and she bore a son and named him Seth. 11:42 And she says, "For God has appointed 11:44 another seed for me instead of Abel, 11:47 whom Cain killed." 11:48 So she's continuing her relationship with the Lord 11:51 and she's expressing God has done this, God has done, 11:54 showing her gratefulness to the Lord and His mercy. 11:58 That's right. 11:59 Can you imagine what it must have been like, 12:01 they had never sinned. 12:03 I never really thought about fact 12:04 she never heard a lie. 12:06 But they had never seen death, flowers hadn't faded or fallen, 12:10 they never seen any death. 12:12 And for them to suddenly for God 12:15 to have to sacrifice an animal, for them to have skins to wear, 12:21 as you know which all was showing 12:23 the righteousness of Christ, 12:25 He was going to be the sacrifice 12:27 and it's as we are clothed in His righteousness 12:31 that we are saved. 12:33 But can you imagine what that must have been like 12:35 to know these little lambs that they had named 12:38 and everything suddenly, wow, what an impact. 12:42 So they knew the consequences, 12:44 I mean, they got kicked out of the garden. 12:46 They knew the consequences of their sin immediately. 12:48 That's right. 12:50 You know, for me, as I look at that as well, 12:53 I think we have lost something 12:56 and that is the sensibility to suffering 12:59 and to some degree 13:01 because when Adam and Eve saw 13:03 that an animal had to be killed for them 13:06 to have their clothing, 13:08 I think they wept, even in the act of repentance, 13:13 realizing that what, 13:15 the Son of God 13:17 is going to going to die for us? 13:19 I think there was this repentance that, 13:22 that you weep. 13:24 And there's this deep repentance 13:25 that maybe some people 13:27 that are listening have experienced, 13:29 you weep because you know you have done wrong. 13:32 But then again, there's the, there's this weeping for joy 13:35 that God is so good that He is forgiving me. 13:38 That's right 13:39 Amen. Amen. 13:41 I'm glad you brought that up because the question came in 13:42 earlier this week 13:43 from pastoral department that they sent to me. 13:46 Someone had written in and this is about Adam, 13:49 about Eve and about Cain. 13:51 And someone said, well, the Bible doesn't say 13:53 that Cain was Adam's son, 13:55 it said he was a seed of the evil one. 13:57 While the seed is not talking about 14:00 in the sense of conception, 14:02 because the Bible says in Genesis 4:1, 14:05 Genesis 4:1, "Now Adam knew Eve his wife, 14:10 and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 14:14 'I have acquired a man from the Lord.' " 14:16 And Pastor Dinzey, you brought that up 14:18 in your reference a moment ago. 14:20 So the conception of Cain was the result of Adam and Eve, 14:25 as a husband or wife conceiving this son. 14:29 And it was not, 14:30 the devil didn't have any relations with Eve 14:32 to bring about Cain. 14:34 That was a suggestion that somebody was saying, 14:35 well, there's proof that Cain was not Adam's son. 14:39 Here Genesis 4, 14:41 just four chapters into the book, 14:43 it tells it very clear 14:44 where Cain, how he was conceived. 14:46 And, you know, when you look at the covenants of God, 14:49 the word seed is a covenant word as well 14:52 because you look at the covenant of God, 14:54 it is the story of the seed from Genesis 3:15 14:58 all the way through to the end, 15:00 so the seed of the woman, 15:02 it was the God who is going to come down here 15:06 and become a man. 15:07 And when it's talking about the seed of the devil, 15:11 this is because the way I say, 15:15 we all have spiritual DNA 15:17 after this cataclysmic fall, 15:21 their DNA, their spiritual DNA was messed up. 15:25 They had the devil's nature acquired. 15:29 Now, in 2, 1 Peter 2:3 and 4. 15:36 It says that God's given us 15:38 exceedingly great and precious promises 15:41 so that when we partake of them, 15:43 we partake of His divine nature. 15:46 So we go from the devil's nature choir 15:48 back to the divine nature choir as you get into the Word. 15:51 And Romans 5:12, another passage. 15:53 Pastor Dinzey, before we turn there, 15:55 only five seconds. 15:56 Well, I look at this you know, God is so good 16:01 because it shows us that Eve, through Eve entered sin. 16:07 But consider this. 16:10 When Eve, 16:11 Adam really doesn't say much 16:14 after, after sin goes in, and Eve is the one talking. 16:18 God has given me a man, 16:20 God has appointed me another one, 16:21 Adam is just quiet. 16:23 He's not saying anything, 16:24 because God is trying to tell us 16:25 that even though through Eve entered sin, 16:28 Eve repented. 16:30 Right. That's right. 16:31 And so, showing her relationship 16:33 and I want to thank the Lord for godly mothers. 16:35 I say, Eve was a godly mother, she showed her children, 16:39 yes, men participate as well. 16:41 But it's the mother that does 16:43 a lot of the fashioning of the mind 16:46 leading the children, 16:48 and Eve did a good job. 16:49 Well, you know, we're not going to see 16:52 all of our children making good decisions. 16:54 Cain made a bad decision. 16:56 But she had the joy of knowing that, 17:00 you know, not all her children went bad. 17:02 You know we have, she had Abel, she had Seth 17:04 and she had other children. 17:05 And so I want to thank the Lord for godly mothers. 17:07 Amen. Praise the Lord. 17:09 And getting back in line, 17:10 there was a question that somebody asked... 17:12 He was talking about Romans 5:12. 17:13 I don't know if you still want to go there. 17:15 Yeah, that's what I wanted. 17:16 But the lady asked a question, 17:18 asking me if I could repeat the verse 17:21 I referenced from Ezekiel. 17:23 That was Ezekiel 28:15, Ezekiel 28:15, 17:28 that was the passage where it says, 17:31 "He was perfect in the ways 17:33 from the day you were created, " 17:35 speaking about Lucifer, 17:36 "till iniquity was found in you." 17:39 And so that, that iniquity was not found, 17:40 as I said, in His garment or His arm, 17:42 it was found in His mind. 17:44 He yielded his thoughts, 17:45 and that's one of the biggest things 17:47 that I want to bring up the spiritual 17:49 and you know, Shelley, you and I, and Jill, 17:52 and we are Romans. 17:54 Absolutely. We love Romans. 17:57 And I want to dive into that 17:58 because this book really brings out 18:00 a whole lot about what happens in the mind. 18:04 And then we want to wind up our program 18:05 with giving some remedies. 18:07 Sure. 18:08 Some spiritual remedies, 18:10 how can we train our mind and going in another direction? 18:12 I see Pastor Dinzey's hand up there. 18:14 Well, it's because I don't want to leave. 18:17 There may be some people thinking 18:18 that God created a defective angel. 18:22 You know, the Scripture say that he was perfect 18:24 in all his way, 18:25 till iniquity was found in him. 18:27 It doesn't mean 18:28 that it was there but it was hidden. 18:31 It means that he made a choice to sin, 18:35 he made a choice to do evil. 18:38 And the way 18:40 it is expressed there in the Hebrew 18:41 is that it surface within him 18:44 of his own making of his own decision. 18:47 He decided, he chose. 18:48 It wasn't that God made a defective angel and God, 18:51 I don't want to add that nobody in this world, 18:55 Judas made his decision to betray Christ. 19:01 He wasn't, 19:02 okay, this is the one that we're going to, 19:04 that's going to be born and he is marked, 19:06 he is going to be the one. 19:08 He was not a defective person. 19:10 He chose defective or bad, he made bad decisions. 19:14 So let me rephrase that, he was defective, 19:17 but his nature, 19:18 he had that human nature 19:20 that he allowed the devil to beguile him again, 19:24 Judas, speaking of him. 19:26 Yeah, and you know that, 19:27 there wasn't a fallen nature in Adam. 19:30 Can I point this one thing out? 19:31 'Cause to me it's fascinating. 19:34 What Lucifer sin was self-determination. 19:39 He wanted to, 19:41 and isn't it interesting that it is, 19:43 you know, sometimes people talk 19:45 about the tree of the good and evil. 19:47 It's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 19:50 God was saying you can eat of all of these trees, 19:54 but don't try to decide for yourself 19:57 what's good for you or what's bad for you. 20:01 I'm the Lord your Creator. I love you. 20:04 And I'm giving you these parameters 20:06 because it's good for you take my word for it, 20:10 it's good for you. 20:12 And this is, 20:13 so it was Eve's self-determination, 20:16 it was Adam's self-determination. 20:18 And that's where everybody's heading today 20:21 is they want to be in control. 20:23 Nobody wants to be humble and depend on the Lord. 20:27 That's right. 20:28 And I just want to add one more thing. 20:31 And that, you know, you mentioned the tree. 20:34 The tree was not defected either. 20:35 No. That's right. 20:37 Because when God created everything, He says, 20:38 and everything, 20:39 He saw that everything was very good. 20:42 So the tree was very good. 20:44 It was perfect. 20:45 It's just that this tree was chosen 20:47 by the Lord to reveal faithfulness. 20:52 You eat, you have been unfaithful. 20:55 If you do not eat, 20:56 you have shown yourself faithful. 20:57 Right. 20:59 They had to choose. They had to choose. 21:00 And I'm gonna throw it to Ryan, just next here, 21:01 but what a lot of people don't understand 21:04 is from the very beginning, 21:06 not in Romans but from the very beginning, 21:08 Romans 6:23 was the truth, 21:10 "The wages of sin is death." 21:11 That was from the very beginning, 21:13 the gift of God is eternal life. 21:14 And now I want to add something 21:16 that may be going around in your mind, and maybe not 21:18 but a man was not created immortally. 21:21 Man was not created with immortality. 21:23 If he had immortality, at the very beginning, 21:25 he would not have been able to die. 21:27 The gift of God was eternal life. 21:29 If they had been obedient, 21:32 they would have received that gift in the beginning, 21:33 but were disobedient, 21:35 so they got death instead. 21:36 Now, Ryan, I'm going to throw it to you. 21:37 We have some questions here, 21:39 because you have something you wanna share with us 21:40 on this particular topic. 21:42 Sure. 21:43 You know, I want to bring us 21:44 back to the spiritual aspect of this, 21:46 this mind conversation. 21:48 Yes, that's right. 21:49 Because a lot of people are of the opinion 21:51 and I say this respectfully, 21:53 but I talked to more and more Christians today, 21:55 who are of this opinion that when you start talking 21:57 about this mind manipulation 21:59 that, you know, the controlling of the mind 22:01 or the manipulating of the mind, 22:03 the power over the mind. 22:04 A lot of times we have Christians 22:06 that have this idea that think that 22:07 because I'm a professed Christian, 22:10 well, that doesn't affect me, because I'm a believer, 22:12 that doesn't affect me, that's for those non-believers, 22:14 that's for those 22:15 who don't necessarily follow Christ or whatnot. 22:18 But we see in so many different passages. 22:20 In fact, I made a list here 22:22 and I don't have enough time to read them all. 22:23 But there's one particular passage 22:25 that comes to mind that I want to highlight 22:26 how Paul 22:28 who obviously the author of Romans, 22:30 notice what he says here in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4. 22:35 I want to highlight something here, 22:37 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4, 22:42 and there's just a particular point 22:45 within this passage 22:47 that I want to highlight and project. 22:48 But notice 22:50 what this particular passage says. 22:51 Again, that's 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4. 22:52 Okay. 22:54 It says, "Now, brethren, 22:55 concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 22:57 and our gathering together to Him, " 22:59 and I want to pause and just remind, 23:00 the book of the first and second Thessalonians. 23:03 Obviously, these are letters. 23:06 These are epistles that were written by Paul 23:08 to the church. 23:10 So these counsels he's given is to the church. 23:13 And so this is, I'm trying to highlight 23:15 and amplify the importance of us Christians, believers, 23:18 understanding the importance of this battle of the mind 23:22 or battle for the mind. 23:23 Because if you think for one moment 23:25 that "Oh, I'm a believer now 23:26 and well, the devil is laid off of me 23:28 because he can't touch me." 23:30 That's when he mounts up. Very much wrong. 23:32 Absolutely. So notice what Paul says here. 23:34 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2, beginning with verse 1. 23:36 He says, "Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 23:38 and our gathering together unto Him, 23:40 we ask you, 23:42 not to be soon shaken in," what? 23:45 "In mind". 23:46 So who is this, who is he speaking to? 23:47 The Christian. 23:49 He's speaking to the Christian, he's speaking to the church, 23:50 so not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, 23:53 either by spirit or by word or by letter, 23:55 as if it was from us, 23:57 or though the day of Christ had come. 23:58 So he's saying, "Look, 24:00 there's going to be some possibilities 24:01 that there's going to be some stuff floating around 24:04 saying Jesus has called me, 24:05 He's revealed Himself, He's come. 24:06 But look, don't be soon shaken in mind, 24:08 I just want to highlight that, 24:09 that can clearly communicates 24:12 that the devil is out to deceive Christians. 24:14 Shake our mind. 24:15 He's wanting to shake up our minds, 24:16 he's wanting us to have troubled minds, 24:18 and he's doing it in the form of deception. 24:20 How do I know this? 24:21 Notice the next part, part of this passage, verse 3. 24:24 Notice what he says, "Let no one deceive you, 24:27 by any means, for that day," 24:30 and of course that day, 24:31 speaking of the second coming of Jesus, 24:33 "for that day will not come," 24:36 so he's almost speaking prophetically here, 24:38 "for that day will not come unless, " 24:41 notice, "the falling away comes first 24:45 and the man of sin is revealed. 24:46 And then he goes through this description 24:48 of whom we believe to be this, 24:49 this central leading Antichrist figure 24:52 in the last days, who's 24:53 going to pose himself above all 24:55 that is called God that is worship 24:56 so that he sits as God in the temple of God 24:58 showing himself that he is God. 24:59 We're not here to talk about the Antichrist, 25:01 but I want to highlight this part that says, 25:03 "For that day will not come 25:05 unless the falling away comes first." 25:07 You want to talk about mass mind manipulation 25:10 within the church. 25:11 This scripture talks about it 25:13 because when you look at this word falling away 25:14 and when I was studying this, 25:16 the concept of falling away, 25:18 if you go to the original Greek, 25:19 it's an interesting Greek word 25:21 that might sound familiar to us, apostasia. 25:24 That's right. Apostasy. 25:25 Before we get our English word apostasy. 25:27 But when you look in 25:28 at the definition of this apostasia, 25:32 it means a defection from truth. 25:36 Notice this, to divorce. 25:38 To divorce. 25:39 Now can you divorce yourself 25:42 from someone whom you weren't married to? 25:44 No, no, you cannot. 25:46 So what this proves to us as Paul is actually warning us 25:48 of this great controversy battle 25:51 between good and evil, 25:52 that Satan through this Antichrist power, 25:55 through these evil as you mentioned, 25:57 it is not a battle against flesh and blood 25:58 but against spiritual wickedness 26:00 in high places and all these, 26:01 these spiritual principalities. 26:04 We see very clearly here that through these means, 26:07 through these mediums, 26:09 Satan is going to work to deceive people 26:12 into believing in the church, 26:14 that they know God, when they really don't, 26:17 that they have a relationship with Him, 26:19 that they're married to Him, but really, 26:21 they've divorced themselves from Him. 26:23 Now the reason why I brought this up 26:24 is because I have found a couple of quotes on this 26:26 and I have to read these quotes because they're powerful. 26:28 Go and read those quotes. 26:29 This comes from the SDA Bible Commentary, 26:32 volume six, Manuscripts 17, from 1893, 26:36 notice this quote here, very short, very simple. 26:38 "Satan cannot touch the mind or intellect, 26:41 unless we yield it to him." 26:43 Okay, Romans 6:16. 26:44 But then if you really want to amplify 26:46 the seriousness of this, 26:48 of this battle between good and evil, 26:50 this mind, this battle for the mind 26:53 and how serious this is in the spiritual realm. 26:56 But there are powers to be that are warring for your mind, 26:59 warring for your heart, warring for you. 27:01 Manuscript 1:18, 19, notice what this says, 27:05 "Either the evil angels, 27:07 or the angels of God 27:10 are controlling the minds of men." 27:12 There's no straddling the fence. 27:14 You're either one or the other. 27:16 Our minds are given to the control of God 27:18 or to the control of the powers of darkness 27:21 and it will be well for us 27:23 to inquire where we are standing today. 27:26 In other words, some self-examination 27:28 needs to be done, 27:30 whether under the bloodstain banner 27:32 of Prince Immanuel, 27:34 or under the black banner of the powers of darkness. 27:37 What did John say? 27:38 Test the spirits whether they are of God. 27:40 We are in a spiritual battle, 27:43 and the enemy is warring for our minds. 27:45 If he can manipulate our minds 27:47 to be so far in the opposite direction, 27:49 then the mind of Christ, as you called it earlier, 27:52 let this mind be in you, 27:54 which was also in Christ Jesus. 27:56 We live in a world, Pastor John, 27:57 where today it seems 27:59 like the devil has every distraction 28:01 at every corner. 28:02 And you expect the outside world, 28:05 you expect those outside the church 28:07 to be under this oppressive power. 28:10 But when you step inside God's Church, 28:12 we see it as Revelation 12 tells us, 28:15 he is warring against the saints. 28:17 He is, He is making war against the remnant 28:21 who keep the commandments of God 28:22 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. 28:24 So we need to be aware of this. 28:26 And we need to know how do we fight against this. 28:29 And you know, the distraction here, 28:31 I'm with Shelley and then Pastor Dinzey, 28:34 it's the distraction is in the form of a cacophony. 28:38 A cacophony is just, 28:39 if you throw a whole bunch of cans 28:41 down the steps in a subway, that's a cacophony. 28:44 You can't tell what is what, it's just a whole lot of noise. 28:47 And the world is becoming noisier and noisier 28:50 to distract the mind from as is in days of Samuel. 28:55 Speak of your servant here. 28:57 How can you hear 28:58 in this cacophony of media today? 29:00 There's a book I want to talk about, 29:01 but I can't do it tonight. 29:03 We'll do a special program later on that. 29:04 And Romans 6:16. 29:06 Pastor Dinzey is going to cover real quick 29:07 and then I'm going to throw it to you, Shelley, 29:09 because that that's the key right there. 29:11 The passage that we're going to read now, 29:13 Romans 6:16 is the pivotal to me, 29:17 it's probably 29:18 one of the most important verses in the entire Bible, 29:22 is in fact, this seesaw. 29:23 It tells you, you're going to be on one. 29:25 There's no, 29:27 nobody rides the seesaw in the middle. 29:29 Right. Okay. 29:30 You're on one side or the other. 29:31 That's right. 29:33 And have you ever played the game before? 29:34 You know, you walk on the seesaw 29:36 until it starts tilting, 29:37 and then you're on that side for good. 29:39 This passage is powerful, Romans 6:16 29:41 and is all about the mind. 29:44 "Do you not know 29:46 that to whom you present yourselves 29:50 slaves to obey, 29:51 you are that one's slaves whom you obey, 29:54 whether of sin leading to death, 29:57 or of obedience leading to righteousness?" 29:59 It's a question. 30:01 And you know, 30:02 now, we all have to make this choice. 30:04 How many categories are there? Two contentment masters. 30:07 And what do you do? 30:08 You have a choice. You have the choice. 30:10 You know what's the words that are used there? 30:13 Do you not know to whom you yield or present. 30:17 The moment you yield. 30:18 That's right. 30:20 Somebody is in control, 30:21 leading, leading to obedience to righteousness, 30:27 obedience to righteous or sin to death. 30:30 Somebody is leading, you're never leading. 30:31 The moment you yield, 30:33 the moment you take that thought 30:34 and that action 30:36 and you move in one way or the other, 30:38 you're no longer leading. 30:39 That's right. 30:40 Shelley or Pastor Dinzey, you might amplify that further. 30:43 You can go ahead. 30:44 Well, I was just gonna say, 30:48 yielding is the, 30:52 this is where it's all at because Jeremiah 17:9, 30:55 I believe it says 30:56 that the heart is desperately wicked 30:59 and nobody really knows their heart. 31:01 So Proverbs 4:23 says 31:04 that you've got to guard your heart. 31:05 And remember, heart and mind are the same thing. 31:09 You guard your heart 31:10 because out of it flows the issues of life. 31:12 That's right. 31:14 I took when I went back to college, 31:16 I thought I was going to work on a master's degree in IT. 31:21 And I was taking four different... 31:23 Information Technology? Yes. 31:24 And I was taking 31:26 four different programming languages 31:27 in one semester, 31:29 which never, I wouldn't advise to anyone to do. 31:32 But what happened was, I soon learned GIGO, 31:38 Garbage In Garbage Out. 31:41 And so, here's the thing 31:42 when the Bible says to guard your heart, 31:46 there are toxic books, 31:48 there's toxic television programs, 31:51 toxic movies, toxic relationships, you... 31:55 Toxic internet. 31:58 Yeah, and so what you've got to do, 31:59 our toxic music. 32:02 You have to guard your mind in Psalm 103, 32:07 excuse me, Psalm 101:3. 32:11 The Psalmist says, 32:13 "I will set nor base a wicked thing before my eyes. 32:17 I hate the work of them 32:20 who turn aside from the right path. 32:23 It shall not grasp hold of me." 32:25 So, when you think about Romans 6:16, 32:29 one of my favorite verses because it does show there, 32:33 you're going to be a slave, 32:35 either to sin or to righteousness. 32:37 There's two contending masters, 32:39 you really don't have the choice. 32:41 You're either going... 32:42 Oh, that's all you have. 32:44 Okay, I like that. Yeah. 32:45 That's all you have, 32:47 when you choose one or the other. 32:48 You're either going to surrender to Christ 32:50 or you going to surrender to the devil. 32:52 That's right. Wheat or tares. 32:54 There's no third category. That's right. 32:55 And that's, you see the right action of the will 32:57 and I want to bring this back 32:59 and I'll throw it back to my panel 33:01 here in a moment, 33:03 you have a desire and a desire says okay. 33:07 Okay. 33:08 And that's a daily choice, 33:10 that's a moment by moment choice. 33:12 Once that desire goes into an action, 33:16 okay, this is the one I want. 33:19 You know, years ago, there was a guy who said, 33:21 the blue pill or the red pill, one way or the other, 33:24 you're gone down, you're going down. 33:25 One way or other, 33:27 you're going right or going left. 33:28 There's no third category. 33:29 There's east and west, 33:31 you don't drive on the yellow line. 33:32 And so you got to recognize, 33:34 your choice is going to put you in one direction or the other. 33:36 And once it's there, 33:38 and now it goes 33:41 to Romans 7:17, 33:43 "It is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me." 33:48 So that 6:16 bad choice, it gives life to Romans 7:17, 33:52 "It is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me." 33:55 Pastor Dinzey? 33:57 Yes, I'd like to share this because you know... 33:58 We have some questions here 34:00 I want to get to before the program. 34:02 It's going to say it in better words and again 34:04 and this is from a book called Acts of the Apostles, 34:07 page 482 and 83. 34:09 It says, "God wishes us to have the mastery of over ourselves, 34:14 but He cannot help us without, 34:17 without our consent and cooperation. 34:20 That's the key. 34:21 The Divine Spirit works through the powers 34:24 and faculties given to man, 34:26 of ourselves we are not able to bring 34:29 the purposes and desires and inclinations 34:31 into harmony with the will of God. 34:35 But if we are willing to be made willing, 34:39 the Savior will accomplish this for us, 34:42 casting down imaginations 34:43 and every high thing that exalted itself 34:46 against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity, 34:49 every thought, to the obedience of Christ." 34:52 And that's quoting 2 Corinthians 10:5, 34:55 which we talked about earlier. 34:57 So there's this, 34:58 we have to give our consent for good, 35:01 or our consent for evil. 35:03 That's right. 35:04 And if we consent for good, Christ comes in 35:07 and accomplishes the marvelous thing 35:09 that He wants to do 35:10 and that is to make us a marvelous person. 35:12 You know, I always, always appreciate 35:14 when I get notices from friends on, 35:17 I got an email from a friend the other day, 35:19 and they said, "If you get this email, 35:21 do not click on it." 35:25 It's like Jesus saying to Adam and Eve, do not touch it. 35:29 They said, "It unleashes a worm 35:33 in your infrastructure of your computer," 35:36 and you have to pay 35:40 for that company to release that. 35:42 We live in a wicked world. 35:44 Now that I just need to say, 35:46 that's more likely to happen in a PC, 35:48 sharing the Mac. 35:49 That's right. 35:51 I just had to say that. 35:53 I forget... Who have Mac's nod. 35:54 That's right. 35:56 We have some questions here. 35:57 I'm going to throw back to Ryan. 35:59 You have some things that you want to share. 36:00 Yeah, sure, absolutely. Let's hear the question. 36:02 Somebody, I guess a comment, Alana, the Bible says, 36:09 "Let this mind be in you, as it was in Christ Jesus." 36:14 Do we understand this to mean, 36:16 man has the ability to choose to be like Christ, 36:21 or control the will to do what's right? 36:24 Oh, can I answer that real quick? 36:26 Please. 36:27 All we have is a choice. That's right. 36:29 Joshua 24:15. 36:31 And this is not just to the Israelites, 36:32 every day you wake up, 36:34 choose you this day whom you will serve. 36:37 When you choose who you serve, 36:39 this is powerful. 36:41 Write it down, hit record. 36:43 You cannot choose what to do. 36:44 You can only choose who to serve, 36:47 and they choose what to do. 36:48 Yeah, could I make a comment? Sure you can, Miss Shelley. 36:51 The Lord has shown me something recently. 36:53 Okay. 36:55 Is that there are two levels of surrender. 36:58 Okay. 37:00 There is a general surrender where you said, 37:03 "Yes, I accept Christ as my Savior." 37:07 And I'm still going in that direction. 37:11 But there is that moment by moment surrender. 37:13 And I'm speaking from personal experience 37:15 because I was going through a week 37:17 that after kids camp, 37:18 I think I was on the edge of burnout. 37:20 I was going through this thing 37:22 where it was like 37:23 at the end of the day I was going, 37:25 Lord, was I really surrendered to you, 37:26 because He's still, devotional prayer, 37:29 but through the day, He was, I wasn't. 37:33 I didn't have that divine awareness 37:34 of His presence, 37:36 and God showed me this. 37:37 So I think that when He's talking 37:40 about having the mind of Christ, 37:42 yes, you've got to make that choice. 37:45 But in Romans 12:2 37:47 that we looked at earlier about renewing the mind. 37:50 The only way you can renew your mind 37:52 is if it's saturated in the Word of God. 37:55 So when Paul said 37:56 that we have the mind of Christ, 38:00 by being in the Word of God 38:02 and being filled with His spirit, 38:05 we can understand God's thoughts. 38:08 He does have a plan for our life. 38:10 He makes it clear. 38:11 But you have to be in the Word. 38:15 That's right. 38:17 I'm glad you said that because the Bible, 38:19 the Bible tells us that the Word of God is a lamp 38:22 to our feet and a light to our path. 38:25 And the devil tries really, really hard 38:28 to keep us from reading the scriptures, 38:31 because he knows 38:32 it has a transforming power in our lives. 38:37 So there are thousands of things 38:39 that draw our attention. 38:41 Call us to do this or look at that and read this, 38:43 read that or watch this and hear that to keep us away. 38:48 And even people, he even uses people. 38:50 Hey, come on over, you know, we're going to do this, 38:52 we're going to do that. 38:53 Let's go do it. Come on. 38:54 Don't be a party, whatever they call. 38:57 And so he has thousands of ways 39:00 to distract us, 39:02 but we need to make a commitment 39:04 to spend time with the Lord 39:06 and that's why I'm going to read 39:07 Proverbs 4:23, 39:09 "Keep your heart with all diligence, 39:12 for out of it springs the issues of life." 39:16 Proverbs what again? 4:23. 39:18 Chapter 4, verse 23. 39:19 Proverbs 4:23, Ryan and then we're going to... 39:24 Now we're going to transition after that to the remedies. 39:26 We've been given some of them already, like Romans 12:2, 39:29 and these passages Shelley brought up. 39:30 Absolutely. 39:32 In fact, what I have to speak on here really quickly 39:34 is going to help us transition nicely 39:36 into those remedies. 39:38 You know pastor, I've, 39:40 I don't stay I don't get on Facebook much, 39:42 I don't get on social media much, 39:44 but I'm baffled 39:45 by how many people I hear these days. 39:50 They get on social media 39:52 or they kind of hear through the grapevine 39:54 or you just run into someone you know, 39:55 whether it's a friend, family member, 39:57 or an acquaintance 39:58 and it seems like 40:00 more and more and more and more these days, 40:01 we're hearing of people 40:02 who are not obviously suffering so much 40:05 from the spiritual aspect that we've been talking about. 40:08 Obviously, we all have, we've all been deceived, 40:10 we've all sinned, we've all been manipulated, 40:13 our mind has been manipulated by the enemy, 40:15 per se, spiritually. 40:17 But, you know, this thing can even go 40:19 as far as being very physical. 40:21 And I'm seeing more and more these days 40:24 of people calling out crying out for help, 40:27 because they're suffering from things like, 40:29 you know, mental disability, such as anxiety and depression, 40:33 and many of these other aspects, 40:34 and I just wanted to just touch on that a little bit, 40:35 because I know, 40:37 there may be someone watching at home tonight, 40:39 that is saying, you know what, 40:40 talking about the battle of the mind, 40:42 you know, I have a real battle in my mind each and every day. 40:45 And if you know of someone 40:47 who suffers from anxiety or depression, 40:48 they know how powerful, of how powerful this is. 40:52 I just want to say for the record, 40:53 my wife is probably watching this program right now. 40:56 And, you know, I have to give her credit 40:58 where credit is due 40:59 because when I was coming up with these, 41:00 when you would ask us for some suggestions, 41:03 she was the one that suggested this topic. 41:05 And I sit at the table with her this afternoon 41:08 before we done this program 41:10 and I just kind of interviewed her. 41:12 And the reason why I did is because if you know my wife, 41:14 she has been open about this and told people about this, 41:16 but she has a history of suffering 41:18 from severe anxiety. 41:20 And when you're dealing with someone that is, 41:22 that has that or struggle with that 41:24 or you're someone watching this program. 41:26 And that's you, I. 41:27 You might be saying, I suffer from anxiety. 41:29 You know, it's a battle of the mind 41:31 constantly every single day. 41:33 And these people truly do. 41:36 I know my wife, she wants victory. 41:38 She wants victory. 41:39 And it seems like 41:41 sometimes it doesn't come the way 41:42 that they would expect it to come. 41:44 I want to read this quote, 41:45 and then I want to share some scriptures 41:47 and maybe just some council 41:48 for those who are dealing with anxiety, 41:51 that there is hope, 41:52 but it's not you know, just like anything else. 41:54 There is hope in Christ 41:56 and that this is something that you can have victory over. 42:00 But notice this quote here and this is powerful. 42:02 This is Councils on Health, page 325. 42:05 "So Satan is the originator of disease. 42:10 And the physician is warring," 42:12 speaking of Christ as the physician, 42:13 "He's warring against His power and His work. 42:17 Sickness of the mind prevails everywhere." 42:22 And then notice this, "Nine-tenths of the diseases 42:24 from which men suffer, 42:26 have their foundation here." 42:28 We're going to talk about how powerful the mind is. 42:30 Nine-tenths of all diseases originate in the mind. 42:35 And I want to add to that 42:36 some of those diseases are not really diseases, 42:39 but they are formulated in the mind. 42:43 I heard a doctor once said, if you tell a child, 42:45 if you're outside, you're going to catch a cold. 42:47 You know that child is expecting 42:49 to catch a cold. 42:50 Because cold air doesn't give you a cold, 42:53 but the mind starts to switch. 42:55 If that were the case, 42:56 people that are part of the polar bear club, 42:58 they'd all die of pneumonia 43:00 but they don't think that way in their minds therefore, 43:03 the expectation as a man thinketh so is he. 43:06 Okay, so I wanna give you a chance... 43:07 Could I reiterate real quick 43:09 'cause they're in the thought real quick, 43:11 about nine-tenths of the diseases 43:13 are in the mind, 43:14 think about this, 43:16 my doctor repeatedly tells me 85% of our diseases 43:19 are caused by inflammation. 43:21 And I mean, inflammation is one of our real enemies 43:27 and worry, anxiety causes inflammation. 43:33 Stress and anxiety causes inflammation. 43:38 So that was just kind of an interesting. 43:39 Absolutely, you know, 43:40 and I just want to just real quickly add to this 43:43 you know that I have heard people 43:46 you know, complain and really cry out about this, 43:49 you know, I want victory over this 43:50 but it seems like you know, God is not giving me victory. 43:54 Something like this can easily become 43:56 pointing the finger at God, 43:57 Lord, You're allowing 43:58 or You're the one that gave this to me. 44:00 And I think back of the parable of the wheat and the tares 44:03 where it says the master sowed the good seed. 44:05 If you read in there He says, 44:07 you know, they come to the master and they say, 44:08 "Did you not sow good seed?" 44:09 Almost as if there's an accusation 44:11 against God there, 44:12 you know, did you sow all this bad seed, too, 44:14 but now he says, an enemy has done this. 44:16 God does not cause anyone to have anxiety or depression, 44:20 He's not warring in a negative way. 44:22 In your mind, He's trying to save your mind. 44:25 He's trying to save you. 44:26 But I think of scriptures like Philippians 4:6 and 7, 44:30 and also verse 8, it says, 44:33 "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything," 44:36 and again, this is Philippians 4:6 and 7. 44:38 Yeah. 44:40 That's the remedy, 44:41 one of the remedies is coming up now. 44:42 Absolutely. Philippians 4:6 and 7. 44:44 And we're also going to read verse 8. 44:46 It says, "Be anxious for nothing, 44:48 but in everything by prayer and supplication, 44:50 with thanksgiving, 44:53 let your requests be made known to God, 44:56 and the peace of God, 44:57 which surpasses all understanding, 45:00 will guard your hearts and minds," 45:03 there it is, "through Christ Jesus." 45:05 And I love verse 8 says, 45:06 "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things..." 45:08 And this is a key, I'm going to say slow it down 45:10 because this is a remedy. 45:11 This is a remedy. This is the key. 45:13 And I don't know 45:14 some people who are struggling for this, 45:15 it's like, oh, these are just words. 45:17 But I think sometimes you know, there's that trust aspect. 45:20 They go back to Proverbs 3:5, 45:22 you know, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart 45:23 and lean not on your own understanding. 45:25 When we really put trust in God's Word, 45:28 He has given us the power. 45:29 Verse 8 says, there in Philippians Chapter 4, 45:32 "Finally, Brethren, whatsoever things are true, 45:36 whatsoever things are noble, whatsoever things are just, 45:40 whatsoever things are pure. 45:42 How can you expect your mind to be healed 45:44 if you know you're constantly being, 45:48 you know, looking at or listening to 45:50 or focusing on impure thoughts or impure things? 45:53 He goes on to say whatsoever things are lovely, 45:57 whatsoever things are of good report. 45:59 If there is any virtue, 46:01 if there is anything praiseworthy, 46:03 meditate on these things. 46:05 And I just want to say in closing here 46:06 as we're going to start 46:08 kind of transitioning into remedies 46:09 on how to and that is the remedy, 46:11 in and of itself that is the remedy, 46:12 that is the ultimate remedy. 46:14 But, you know, in my wife, if she was here, she would say, 46:17 you know, maybe say something along the lines of, 46:20 you know, people who are struggling from this, 46:22 it's, sometimes it can be 46:23 that it's people take on themselves. 46:25 The mentality of this is all my fault. 46:27 You know, it's my fault that I'm here. 46:28 And I know that we do play a certain part in this, 46:31 but the enemy is attacking God's people. 46:33 That's right. He is attacking the mind. 46:35 And I promise you, you have a Savior, 46:38 you have a God of God 46:39 who is more powerful than any power, 46:42 than anything 46:43 that the devil can throw at you. 46:44 And you know, while you may be going through 46:46 what appears to be a dark valley, 46:49 He will bring you to that mountaintop. 46:51 If you trust in Him, He will give you victory. 46:54 Persevere, the Bible says, 46:55 those who persevere to the end shall be saved. 46:58 But then we've got to read verse 9, 47:01 Philippians 4:9 because... 47:04 That's the capstone. 47:07 That is the capstone to me, 47:09 is that He tells us to meditate on these wonderful things. 47:13 But then verse 9, he says, 47:15 "The things which you learned and received and heard, 47:20 and saw in me, 47:21 these do and a God of peace will be with you." 47:25 Let me tell you something, 47:26 whatever we practice is what we believe. 47:28 That's right. 47:30 You know, if we say we believe something, 47:32 but we don't practice it, 47:34 then we've got a mental assent to the belief, 47:37 but we don't really believe it. 47:39 And I just want to encourage people. 47:42 I am so excited 47:44 that our God is a covenant keeping God. 47:48 He keeps all of His promises. 47:51 And you know, He tells us in Isaiah 58, 47:54 or excuse me, Isaiah 55:8, He says, 47:57 "Hey, my ways are higher than your ways. 48:00 My thoughts are higher than your thoughts." 48:03 And that's why I think Proverbs tells us 48:05 to trust in the Lord with all of our heart, 48:08 lean not on our own understanding 48:10 because we can't understand. 48:11 But then God says in Isaiah 55:11, He says, 48:16 He's talking about how the rain comes down 48:19 and make everything blossom. 48:21 He says, "So shall it be with my word, 48:24 for my word accomplishes 48:27 every purpose for which I sent it." 48:29 So if you realize 48:31 and 2 Corinthians 1:20 is telling us 48:34 that all of God's promises are yes and amen in Christ. 48:38 You've got to get into the Word. 48:40 Pray those back to God, 48:42 pray His promises as a petition to God 48:45 knowing that you are returning His Word to Him 48:47 and He won't turn it away. 48:49 Pastor Dinzey, then we got to get 48:50 these questions answers. 48:51 Oh, yes. Okay. 48:53 The Bible is full of nuggets, beautiful treasures and Psalms 48:55 is a wonderful place to go. 48:57 I'm going to share from Psalms 16:11, 49:00 "You will show me the path of life 49:03 in your presence is fullness of joy, 49:06 at your right hand are pleasures forevermore." 49:09 So as we spend time with the Lord, 49:11 He's going to lift us up from the darkness 49:13 and anxiety 49:15 and depend on Him because in Psalm 46:1, it says, 49:19 God is our refuge and strength, 49:21 a present help in time of trouble. 49:24 That's right. Amen. 49:25 And Philippians 2:13, 49:26 "Remember, for it is God who works in you 49:29 both to will 49:30 and to do of His good pleasure." 49:32 As Shelley said, get the Word in you. 49:34 When the Word is in you, 49:35 it's going to produce what God intends for it. 49:37 As Ryan said, you got to meditate, 49:40 meditate and focus on the right things. 49:42 So many people want results without doing the work. 49:45 Now salvation is the work of Christ, 49:47 but molding in making choices 49:49 is the work that He has given to us. 49:51 When the Bible says in Philippians, 49:53 I think it's 2:12, 49:54 "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." 49:57 Okay, but it goes on, 49:59 "For it is God who works in you." 50:00 As one person said, 50:02 when you get the bread together, 50:03 when you make a cake, you got to work in, 50:05 you got to work out what was worked in. 50:07 And so the Lord has given you all the tools you need 50:09 and we could say, I can't make it 50:11 or we can say I can do all things through Christ 50:14 that strengthens me. 50:15 Very quick questions here. 50:17 And so quickly, the remedies are, focus, 50:20 get God's Word in you. 50:21 Meditate differently. 50:23 Choose, make conscious choices about what you're focusing, 50:28 what you're thinking, what is true, what is not true, 50:31 because the devil lies to you. 50:33 If it's not true, don't meditate on it. 50:34 If it's not, just don't meditate on it. 50:37 If it's not pure, don't meditate on it, 50:39 because what you meditate on as a man thinketh so is he. 50:43 And pray without ceasing. And pray without ceasing. 50:45 And pray for the Holy Spirit daily. 50:49 That's right. 50:50 We need, we're leaky vessels, 50:52 so we need to be filled day by day. 50:54 Real quick, real quick question. 50:57 We need to fortify our minds with the Word of God. 50:58 We just said that 51:00 and the battle as the battle rages, 51:01 let us ask God 51:03 to fill our minds with godly thoughts. 51:04 We just read that Philippians 4:8 and 9, 51:07 Philippians 4:8 and 9. 51:09 "If someone is trying to overcome 51:11 an addiction by praying, 51:12 but still is struggling with that addiction, 51:15 like nicotine, 51:17 and it feels like 51:18 one's prayers for trying to quit 51:19 hits the ceiling every time, 51:21 what else can one do to overcome 51:22 in God's strength if they are still struggling? 51:25 Now, I want to make a recommendation here. 51:28 I think that in some cases, 51:30 you need to seek medical advice. 51:31 Absolutely. 51:33 We can't give you the cure by saying, 51:34 for some people like my mom, 51:36 she prayed and immediately was delivered 51:39 from three packs of cigarettes a day, 51:41 and alcoholism. 51:43 Never went back for the rest of her life, 51:45 but not everybody is that place. 51:47 Some people need the patch, 51:48 some people need medical direction 51:50 and I would strongly recommend find a medical physician, 51:53 somebody that can help you break some of those habits 51:55 in your life 51:56 that are keeping those things there. 51:58 But I also would recommend that you claim this promise, 52:02 Psalm 129:4 says, 52:06 "The Lord is righteous, He has cut me in pieces, 52:12 the chords of the wicked." 52:14 There's another version that says, 52:16 "He's cut me free from the chords of the wicked." 52:18 So I think part of it is our attitude of believing 52:24 that all of God's promises are yes and amen, 52:26 that we are new creations in Christ Jesus, 52:29 and that He will strengthen us, 52:31 He will work in us to will and to do, 52:35 sometimes He changes our will, 52:38 always He has to change our will first. 52:40 But He doesn't force us to act. 52:44 What He does is has to take 52:46 as soon as we are changed in the way we're thinking, 52:49 He lines our thinking up with His. 52:51 Then He says, 52:53 "Take a step of faith and when you do, 52:54 the power of the Holy Spirit shows up 52:57 and He works in you to do." 52:59 That's right. 53:00 And I got to get these questions in it. 53:03 If Eve was the only one that sinned 53:06 and if Adam chose not to sin, 53:08 would Jesus have still come to die 53:10 for just Eve 53:11 or would the Lord have given Adam a new wife? 53:14 I think the Lord has to answer that one. 53:15 Because we could say one or the other. 53:17 He's capable of doing both. 53:19 But we know that the beguilement was Eve, 53:20 the deception there, 53:22 but Adam opened the door 53:23 to bring that sin into the world. 53:24 Romans 5:12. 53:26 Very quick question, did Eve, 53:28 a lot of questions about Eve and Adam, 53:29 and I think we answered most of them all together. 53:32 But I want to go to, 53:34 I think one of the capstone scriptures. 53:36 Let's go to Isaiah 61, 53:38 because we talked about the remedies 53:40 and we'll have after this just a few moments 53:42 to do closing thoughts. 53:44 Because this program, I tell you, 53:46 I didn't know is going to go so fast. 53:49 Who came up with the idea 53:50 that was only going to be two hours. 53:52 This is an administrative decision. 53:54 I've got a capstone, I hope we can get into. 53:55 Okay, real quick, Isaiah 61. 53:57 This is what the Lord has promised to do 53:59 for all of us in every capacity that burdens us. 54:03 "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, 54:05 "this is Isaiah 61, 54:07 and this is what Jesus said, 54:09 "because the Lord has anointed me 54:10 to preach good tidings to the poor, 54:13 not people that are materialistically poor, 54:15 but spiritually poor, 54:16 he has sent me to heal the broken hearted 54:19 to proclaim liberty to the captives, 54:22 and the opening of the prison to those who are bound. 54:25 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord 54:28 and the day of vengeance of our God, 54:30 to comfort all who mourn." 54:31 These are all things that happen in the mind too. 54:34 "To console those who mourn in Zion, 54:36 to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, 54:39 the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, 54:42 that they may be called the trees of righteousness, 54:44 the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified." 54:48 All these things, 54:49 the majority of this list starts in the mind 54:52 manifest themselves in the life, 54:54 but the Lord can deliver us from every one of them. 54:56 Closing thoughts, Shelley. 54:58 Closing thought, I've got to get to Ephesians 6. 55:00 You go forth. 55:02 I'm not going to read it all, 55:03 but if you want to look it up at home, 55:04 it's Ephesians 6:12-18. 55:07 And he says 55:08 that we don't struggle against flesh and blood. 55:12 But he says, "Put on the whole armor of God. 55:16 You've got to put on the belt of truth," 55:18 which is God's Word, 55:19 "the breastplate of righteousness, " 55:21 which is Christ, 55:23 "pick up that shield of faith 55:24 because without faith, you can't please Him. 55:26 And then the helmet of salvation 55:28 that you have assurance of salvation, 55:31 pick up the sword of the Spirit, " 55:32 which is the Word of God, 55:34 and that's the only way you can do 55:37 spiritual warfare 55:38 is with that sword of the Spirit 55:41 to deal what Paul says. 55:42 Pastor Dinzey? 55:44 I will read from Isaiah 55:6 and 7, 55:47 "Seek the Lord while He may be found, 55:49 call upon Him while He is near. 55:53 Let the wicked forsake His way 55:54 and the unrighteous man his thoughts. 55:56 Let him return unto the Lord and He will have mercy on him, 56:00 and to our God for he will abundantly pardon." 56:03 A wonderful promise. 56:04 Amen. Ryan? 56:06 I, you know closing all this talk, 56:08 perfect Colossians 3:1 and 2, it says, 56:12 "If then you were raised with Christ, 56:14 seek those things which are above, 56:17 where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. 56:21 Set your mind on things above, 56:26 not on the things of the earth." 56:27 We focused on the earth and not on Christ, we lose. 56:30 But if we look to the uplifted Savior, 56:33 we will win every time. 56:34 The difference between an eagle and a buzzard 56:36 is a buzzard always is picking dead things. 56:39 An eagle seeks to fly to higher heights. 56:42 You can be an eagle in Christ. 56:45 We're not going to be ethereal or this is not just an idea, 56:49 but we can all find freedom in Christ. 56:51 May the mind of Christ be your mind 56:54 and maybe the wholeness that He wants to give to you 56:57 be the experience that you possess. 56:59 May God bless you until we see you again, 57:02 have faith in Christ. 57:04 Amen. |
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