1 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:05,800 Thank you for listening to the river. 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:09,600 Bend Church podcast Reverb in church exists to lead all people 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,700 to know love and live New Life in Jesus Christ. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:18,600 We hope that you enjoy this message, we're in a series 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,100 called winning the war in my mind and I pray that God's 6 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:23,900 already. If you were with us last week or 7 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:26,900 you called it online, God is already started showing you that 8 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:28,500 we're at War because that's the thing. 9 00:00:28,500 --> 00:00:30,800 You will lose a war every time unless S, you admit that you're 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,500 in a war and so this is just me as a pastor over the last 11 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:35,900 several months and praying and going, we've got to come back to 12 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:37,800 this. Too many people are losing and 13 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,500 God wants you to win God. There's some things that we 14 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:43,300 can't win in this life or something's God never promised 15 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:45,900 us, but to win the war. In our minds, it's actually 16 00:00:45,900 --> 00:00:49,800 something he's equipped as for Look, what Jesus says here, he's 17 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:54,100 talking in context, he's talking about Satan and his desire for 18 00:00:54,100 --> 00:00:55,200 us. And then his desire, he says 19 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,700 this. The thief's purpose. 20 00:00:56,700 --> 00:00:59,400 That's what he refers to Satan as his going to kill or steal 21 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,800 kill and destroy. Troy, but did you know, this 22 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,500 Satan has no authority over you physically. 23 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,200 He can't touch you without God's permission it. 24 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:08,600 He doesn't have that kind of authority. 25 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,600 But you know what? He can do, he can lie, he can 26 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:12,700 lie. And what does he do? 27 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:15,600 Where does he go after us? Where are we being attacked more 28 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,300 than at any other time? It's in here. 29 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:20,500 It's between our ears in it. That's where so much spiritual 30 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:21,300 attack. The show. 31 00:01:21,300 --> 00:01:23,300 So much relational attack has come. 32 00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:25,600 It's right here. It would be so much better. 33 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:26,800 Tell me if I'm right. I know. 34 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:27,800 Is that dude. I know how, dudes. 35 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:29,800 Think guys would it be better for you? 36 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:31,900 Just put on the gloves and Duke it out with Satan every now and 37 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:34,000 then just get it over with like going in my bloody might, let's 38 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,100 come down to the front. Just go ahead and get it over 39 00:01:36,100 --> 00:01:39,700 with and get on with your weak. But what happens at the time, 40 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:42,100 you least expect it, you get attacked here, don't you? 41 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:46,600 That's where the war comes from. And so, these purpose, still 42 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:48,000 kill, destroy. What does Jesus say though? 43 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,100 My purpose, I want to give them a rich and satisfying life. 44 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:55,300 I'm convinced that so many of us missed the rich and satisfying. 45 00:01:55,300 --> 00:01:56,800 Let us that doesn't mean easy life. 46 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,000 Pain-free life, stress, free life. 47 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,800 That's not what Jesus said. Rich and satisfying, Abundant 48 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,100 Life, a life that you can only live. 49 00:02:03,100 --> 00:02:05,900 You can live your best life without Christ, but this life 50 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:07,900 he's talking about. It doesn't even compare so much 51 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:12,000 better, rich and satisfying life, to walk with contentment, 52 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,400 and love, and joy, and peace in your heart. 53 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,900 He desires that for us or why are we missing it? 54 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,200 I would argue that the reason a lot of us missed it, and I 55 00:02:19,208 --> 00:02:22,700 missed it on my own life and many seasons it Because I was 56 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:25,700 losing the war, my mind. I mean, I had Jesus, you know, 57 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:28,700 the old saying, I got Jesus in, my heart, is not typically just 58 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:31,900 there in my heart, like, my life is surrendered to him, but even 59 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:34,600 as a person who would say, well, my heart surrendered to Christ, 60 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:37,600 but in my winning the war in my mind, or is the enemy still 61 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,000 winning that? So part of this today, is this 62 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,200 us going not on our watch, man. Not on our watch. 63 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,800 Will we lose or at least not let you know that you can win? 64 00:02:46,100 --> 00:02:49,000 Let me give it a transforming. Truth from scripture here today. 65 00:02:49,300 --> 00:02:53,100 If you are in Christ, If you will change your thinking which 66 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:55,800 is a holy spirit empowered action, you have the ability to 67 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,600 change. How you think everybody here 68 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,700 walked in with the willpower today you can decide before you 69 00:03:00,700 --> 00:03:01,700 leave. I'm going to change how think 70 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:05,100 now, it is a holy spirit if you're belong to Christ and you 71 00:03:05,100 --> 00:03:06,500 have the spirit of God empowering this. 72 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:08,700 And here's what will happen, your life will change. 73 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,400 It's actually not contradictory to this idea what we say, new 74 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,200 life, one of your part of our mission. 75 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,600 We want to lead people to New Life to Live new life in Jesus 76 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:19,800 Christ. How do you do that? 77 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,800 Well primarily one of the things You do is let the Holy Spirit 78 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,100 begin to empower your change of thinking which will show up and 79 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:28,700 change of behavior. So many times. 80 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:31,300 We think, if I can just get my act together, if I can just get 81 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:33,600 my behavior right then I'm going to be okay. 82 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:36,400 But actually, you got to let the Holy Spirit work in your thought 83 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,400 life and in your heart life, if you really want to get life 84 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,400 change, if you want to live what he has for you. 85 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,200 Did you know this? If you study the word, 86 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,700 repentance in scripture, that's a word you'll see often. 87 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:50,400 In fact, no one can come to Christ without repentance and 88 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,200 it's often thought as a Change of Direction. 89 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,900 Like, I've been walking my own way and now I'm going to turn 90 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:57,000 around and go to God and that's not faults, that's true. 91 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,800 But if you dig to the root of the word, do you know what it 92 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,900 means to change your mind, to change your mind in such a way. 93 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:04,900 And and another way to think about it, change your 94 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:07,500 Allegiance, instead of being a, you know, I'm instead of 95 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:10,700 swearing allegiance to myself and my waist, I'm gonna go Jesus 96 00:04:10,700 --> 00:04:13,200 in my mind, you were Lord, and now want my feet to follow that 97 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:14,300 path. Sir, even in the word 98 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:17,500 repentance, you see a war in the mind, don't you? 99 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,800 I believe all that's keeping people from coming to Christ. 100 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:22,400 Don't know if you're here, Oakwood. 101 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,200 If you're watching online and you're just right on the verge. 102 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,500 You go, Joe, I like the message. I'm hearing you talk about 103 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:27,700 Christ. I'm hearing you preach it, but, 104 00:04:27,700 --> 00:04:29,200 but I'm just right on the line, I don't know. 105 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,000 Do you know with the Warriors? It's in your mind. 106 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:34,800 It's in your mind at the only thing, keeping some people from 107 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,100 coming to Jesus is the war in the mind. 108 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,100 The idea that I don't know if I can do it here. 109 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,500 I don't know if I can do it, you know, surrender myself in that 110 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:44,600 way. And so I'm praying that God 111 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,600 works in that this week. I brought this up last week and 112 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,400 I'll never make light of illness mental illnesses. 113 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,500 We talked about it, but, you know, there's so many people in 114 00:04:52,508 --> 00:04:57,200 the house impacted by anxiety. If it's not you, it's somebody 115 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,300 you love. So many dealing with like 116 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:04,400 depression and it's often secret, it's just inside an 117 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,300 inner circle. You know, so many dealing with 118 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:10,200 insecurities anger issues and you know what happens with 119 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,700 these. I mean, can it be really honest? 120 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:14,000 The many times? This war in the mind is what 121 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,800 drives our addiction are our coping mechanisms. 122 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:19,500 It's what drives us wanting to get some relief. 123 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:22,600 I can't blame you. I'm not looking at the church 124 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,000 judging. I wish we could just be more 125 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,500 real and say, yes, that's it. I got a war in my mind. 126 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,300 I've been losing. So I've been trying to cope And 127 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:31,700 there are some you know, healthy coping mechanisms and then 128 00:05:31,700 --> 00:05:35,100 there's some that are actually destructive to get you a point 129 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:37,200 though to say that that's what it is just to find it. 130 00:05:37,300 --> 00:05:39,800 Here's what I want to do I'm not making light of any of it but I 131 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,900 do want to get to a point where I say, let there be no more 132 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:44,600 stigma about the fact that we have mental health, wrestles and 133 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,000 the gospel speaks to it. The Gospel of Jesus in his word, 134 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 he's all about helping us win the war, in our minds. 135 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,100 Let there be no more paralyzed Christians, because we're stuck 136 00:05:53,100 --> 00:05:56,500 in our head, but to be no more suicide ever. 137 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,000 I say this and I say this to the day, I die. 138 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,500 If I never have to stay in this, a pastor of another person who 139 00:06:02,500 --> 00:06:06,400 got so low in self-worth, and so beaten down and insecure that 140 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,100 they took their own life. I would I would consider that a 141 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,400 huge win in the ministry that God has allowed me to do. 142 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:14,100 May it never be. I don't want it on my watch and 143 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:16,700 so this is just me going. Hey, let's remove the stigma and 144 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:18,800 talk about it. Let's get into this. 145 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:20,700 So here's what I want to do today. 146 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:23,600 I prayed over the last couple of weeks and got kind of change the 147 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,000 direction of today's message from about two weeks ago. 148 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,000 Because, as I looked at it, I want you to identify today 149 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,000 three, common lies that I think all of us are either believing 150 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,100 right now or either. We've decided not to believe 151 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:36,500 lies that. You may not even know you're 152 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:38,300 believing. That's when I look at these 153 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,400 there's some of them at every at a point in time in my life. 154 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,200 I was believing it and it was the soundtrack of my mind, but I 155 00:06:43,207 --> 00:06:46,300 didn't know I was believing it but it was showing up in how I 156 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:49,000 behaved was showing up the fruit in my life. 157 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,800 It's only walk through that. But before we walk through that, 158 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,600 actually want to go to the winning, the war kind of battle 159 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,700 guy. That that I gave you last week 160 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:01,500 and if you're just joining today, kind of review for us. 161 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:03,700 And so if you want to win the war, here's the first thing we 162 00:07:03,700 --> 00:07:06,600 have to do, evaluate your thoughts and behaviors, you got 163 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,100 to actually think about what you're thinking about. 164 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:11,200 Why are you hurting here so much? 165 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,300 I know that it's a scary thing. You go, Joe, you don't want to 166 00:07:14,308 --> 00:07:16,300 get inside my head. I don't even want to get inside 167 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:18,000 my head. I just want to live my life man, 168 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:21,900 but sometimes you have to stop and I call it this, turn the 169 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:24,300 white noise of life down down low. 170 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:28,200 And just get still and go God, what's going on in me? 171 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:31,000 What is this? And you go Joe. 172 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,300 It may be really scary. Yeah. 173 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:34,200 But what, if that's the only path to Healing? 174 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:37,500 If you get to that point where you say what's going on, 175 00:07:37,700 --> 00:07:41,200 evaluate, there's a guy that's there that I think you got on 176 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,200 the way in, if you didn't get this morning here and it Oakwood 177 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,300 and it'll be online as well this week, but you can pick one up 178 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:49,600 and here's what it has. It has kind of a guy to battle 179 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,000 playing guide that walks you through this process and you can 180 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,200 sort of take it like a journaling note guide this week 181 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:57,600 but the questions are this. If you want to evaluate your 182 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,600 life you have to think about this, what repetitive 183 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,800 destructive thought am I having what keeps coming in my head 184 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,600 about me, what intrusive Thought keeps happening to you. 185 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,000 What negative thoughts are triggered by emotions. 186 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:13,100 Some people when they get sad, all of a sudden all the optimism 187 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:14,900 and joy, get the leaves are life completely. 188 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:17,400 It's almost like everything has gone to pot just because they 189 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:21,400 felt sad for a moment. Some people have - mm actions or 190 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,100 negative thoughts tied to Joy Soon as you feel like okay, 191 00:08:25,100 --> 00:08:27,500 everything's good today. Well, something bad, just around 192 00:08:27,500 --> 00:08:30,600 the corner happens every time that's a broken thought process, 193 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,600 here's another two questions. What sinful thoughts are you 194 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,400 entertaining in your head? Was the enemy keep putting back 195 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:37,799 before. You went Temptations or 196 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:40,799 overwhelming, your thoughts. Once you evaluate those 197 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:42,900 thoughts. What'll happen is it'll rise to 198 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:45,100 the surface really quickly the ones that you know okay these 199 00:08:45,100 --> 00:08:47,300 are trouble. These are what's troubling me. 200 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,100 Paul says this in second Corinthians that we have to do 201 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:54,000 this take every thought captive and then make it obedient to 202 00:08:54,008 --> 00:08:55,900 Christ. You know what that means? 203 00:08:56,100 --> 00:08:58,300 If we don't take them captive, then then you're never gonna be 204 00:08:58,308 --> 00:09:01,600 able to win the war. You got to take them captive in 205 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,700 evaluate. Now, here's the second piece 206 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:07,400 once you have Evaluated you can't just diagnose the problem. 207 00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:10,400 You now have to do this in, this is the hinge point of the entire 208 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,400 series. If I had to say what's winning 209 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,600 the war in my mind about is this replace lies or truth, every one 210 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,000 of us, believe, a lie. We've been taught lies and we 211 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,700 don't sometimes we don't even know what the truth is. 212 00:09:19,700 --> 00:09:22,200 Once we know it though, and we do this right here, it literally 213 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,700 changes Us in the power of the Holy Spirit replace lies with 214 00:09:26,900 --> 00:09:29,400 truth. This is where transformation 215 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,300 comes. You know where we're Lies. 216 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:34,100 Come from we looked at it last week, Satan. 217 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,500 His weapon against us is lies. If I can lie to you, because you 218 00:09:38,508 --> 00:09:41,100 believe a lot about yourself about the world about God about 219 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:42,900 scripture, they can get you to believe a lot. 220 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:47,400 I can get you off track. Leave you powerless to live the 221 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:48,900 new life. We look last week at what I 222 00:09:48,908 --> 00:09:52,200 called a lie. What do you got a broken way of 223 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,300 thinking Naraku? It's called a neural pathway. 224 00:09:54,300 --> 00:09:56,900 If you got a broken way of thinking that's going to be your 225 00:09:56,900 --> 00:10:00,100 go to every time you come up on, you know, hurtful situation or 226 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:02,900 every time you, you know, every time you fail, you're going to 227 00:10:02,900 --> 00:10:04,800 feel like I'm a failure if that's the thinking process. 228 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:07,300 Going to go back to when you felt like a failure as a kid, or 229 00:10:07,308 --> 00:10:09,000 when you felt like a failure because your marriage didn't 230 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,100 work. When you felt like a failure 231 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:12,800 because you didn't do a good job raising your kids or now your 232 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,000 families, broken apart, whatever that broken thought process, 233 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,500 you're gonna go back there until you do something about it. 234 00:10:19,100 --> 00:10:21,800 God wants to help us. He's given this but Li ruts can 235 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,700 be replaced with what I call truth trenches. 236 00:10:25,100 --> 00:10:27,000 You have to change your mind. That's replacing lies with 237 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,500 truth. Now, what is our primary weapon? 238 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,000 If you're going to fight a war, you gotta have a weapon, right? 239 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:35,900 This is not surprising, but it's still Oh, something we Overlook. 240 00:10:35,900 --> 00:10:39,800 Do you know what the war is won? With God's word. 241 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,200 It's crazy. He designed it like this but 242 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,200 it's God's word. See, look what Hebrews says 243 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,800 about the word of God. The word of God is alive and 244 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,500 Powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest 245 00:10:52,500 --> 00:10:55,500 two-edged sword, cutting between Soul and Spirit between joint 246 00:10:55,500 --> 00:10:58,100 and Marrow. It exposes our innermost 247 00:10:58,100 --> 00:11:01,700 thoughts and our desires. The word not only is our weapon 248 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:05,200 against Satan, it's the weapon that transforms us internally. 249 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,800 Look what Ephesians says Paul second talking to the church 250 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,400 about putting on the armor of God, he says, put on salvation 251 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,400 as your helmet and take what the sword of the spirit, which is 252 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,400 what the word of God. Let me tell you this. 253 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,000 If you're only picking up God's word on the screen on Sunday 254 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,100 morning, that is not doing battle. 255 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:26,200 That is not War. I met, hang on. 256 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,500 I'm so glad you're here and you're taking in the word on the 257 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:31,600 screen, thank you for listening, but I'm just telling you like 258 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,200 you're fighting your fight to sword fight with a pocket knife 259 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,700 at best. Like, put your pocket knife up, 260 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:39,400 go home and get out the word of God could. 261 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,000 This is it is? It is powerful. 262 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:44,300 For you. You can find truth that you need 263 00:11:44,300 --> 00:11:48,200 for your specific situation. After you've replaced lives of 264 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,700 Truth, or you at least acknowledge what needs to 265 00:11:49,708 --> 00:11:51,000 happen. Here's what you have to do. 266 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:53,500 You have to, then? Establish new thought patterns 267 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:56,400 those true. Trenches you've got to decide 268 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:57,800 how you want to think about yourself. 269 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,700 Well, what informs that God's word? 270 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:02,500 If he says you're his child and he'll never let go of you, then 271 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:03,700 you got to start thinking that way. 272 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,200 If he says that his Mercy is new every morning, you got to stop 273 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:09,400 beating yourself up for stuff that he's already forgiven you, 274 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,500 for sure. You may have to walk through 275 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:14,400 some consequences on Earth, but you got to understand God is not 276 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,300 going to dangle your sin over your head. 277 00:12:16,300 --> 00:12:19,400 If you are forgiven him, when you come to him and you accept 278 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,800 his cross, and you accept his forgiveness, he says it. 279 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,300 You're forgiven. It's done. 280 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:27,400 So, the only people bringing it up again, as you and your enemy. 281 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,300 It's not him. So, you have to decide. 282 00:12:29,300 --> 00:12:31,700 I want to establish a new thought pattern. 283 00:12:32,700 --> 00:12:35,000 If you feel like I'm a failure and I'll never be good enough, 284 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,100 you're going to have to change it up and go to Ephesians 2:10 285 00:12:38,100 --> 00:12:40,300 where it says, you know what, you're a masterpiece and God 286 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:42,800 decided long ago that there are good things that he wants you to 287 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,100 do. So you're not a failure. 288 00:12:45,100 --> 00:12:47,600 You actually by Design who you are, you may need to work on 289 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,600 yourself and let the spirit of God transform you. 290 00:12:49,700 --> 00:12:52,600 But listen, you're not worthless established that new way of 291 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:54,200 thinking. And then here's the last one. 292 00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:59,600 Declare it If you read the Old Testament scripture, this was a 293 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,700 much bigger thing than and I think it's still something. 294 00:13:01,700 --> 00:13:05,600 That's so powerful families would speak, truth over each 295 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,500 other, the priest, before they dismissed from the temple, he 296 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:11,600 would speak truth and hope over people. 297 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,300 May the Lord shine his face upon you and be gracious to you and 298 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:17,500 give you his peace. They would speak things like 299 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:20,000 that. Over people, we speak things 300 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,400 over people. But how often is it? 301 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,800 Declaring truth and how often do you declare truth over your own 302 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,000 life? How would it change you? 303 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,200 If you got out of the bed every morning and said, I'm a child of 304 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,900 God and I'm going to live as such today, instead of saying 305 00:13:31,900 --> 00:13:33,700 I'm probably going to fail because I always do. 306 00:13:34,700 --> 00:13:37,000 What's that story? That self-talk is killing a lot 307 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,800 of people and you don't even see it as connected to the gospel or 308 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:43,500 the Holiness but it is it's a scriptural truth, declare the 309 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:45,800 truth, over your life. You go Joe. 310 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,200 I don't believe what I'm saying. That's okay. 311 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:51,200 Keep saying it. Declare it until you actually 312 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,400 begin to believe it especially if it's the truth of God's word 313 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,900 seat, we can't just hope we have to fight. 314 00:13:57,500 --> 00:13:59,600 Hope is not a strategy, and hope is not a battle plan. 315 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,200 That may help. Our hearts get up and get in the 316 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:02,700 fight. Hope is about inspiring us to 317 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:06,200 stay in the battle but it Battle plan actually helps us win. 318 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:08,700 So here's what I want to do. Walk through three lies in the 319 00:14:08,700 --> 00:14:10,300 rest of the time. We have this morning. 320 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,800 Then I think all of us are wrestling with or have, but let 321 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,300 me give you that reality again, you want to win the war. 322 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,500 You will never defeat what you refuse to Define. 323 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:29,500 I watch this as people. Get to go have lunch with people 324 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:32,600 who are struggling or do premarital counseling or do 325 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,300 marriage counseling and you hang out and you listen and do you 326 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:39,600 know, one of the common culprits of a lot of our issues is 327 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,200 refusing to acknowledge that. We're actually what we're 328 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,900 actually battling against. You just think it's another 329 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:50,400 person you just think it's your past and actually something very 330 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,700 Easy to understand if you'll just Define it. 331 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,200 Sometimes it is like when you when you define it then you can 332 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,200 begin to battle against it. If it's how you were raised then 333 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,600 just on it. Sometimes we're so scared to 334 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,900 say, you know, that my family messed me up that we think we're 335 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:07,200 going to not be loving our family to it on that. 336 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,100 I can love my family and say I picked up some things from my 337 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:12,700 family, that's not who God says I am and therefore I'm just 338 00:15:12,700 --> 00:15:15,500 going to own, I'm not gonna slam them, but I'm just going to own 339 00:15:15,500 --> 00:15:17,800 it in myself. God, there's some things I learn 340 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,000 some ways of thinking. I've learned some patterns of 341 00:15:20,008 --> 00:15:22,000 behavior, I learned. And it's Active. 342 00:15:22,100 --> 00:15:23,300 And that's not how I want to live. 343 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:25,500 I want to be a generational breaker if there's a 344 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:28,900 generational string of addiction in your home, guess what? 345 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,100 You can just Define it and say, yes that's not who I am, though. 346 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:33,900 I'm a Child of God, I'm in Christ. 347 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:36,800 That's not who I am. So I want to make changes in my 348 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,800 life, based on the strength of God's spirit in me, and you 349 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,700 actually can do that, but you will never defeat it until you 350 00:15:42,708 --> 00:15:44,800 define it. If you refuse to say that you're 351 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,700 at War, you're going to keep losing the war. 352 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:50,900 So as I thought, and I prayed, I thought I could give us 100 lies 353 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:53,000 that I think we believe, but only have time for three this 354 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,500 morning. And so these are these are I 355 00:15:56,500 --> 00:15:59,700 think kind of surprising one of the core lies. 356 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:00,600 I'm first one, I'm gonna give you. 357 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,200 I think it's one of the core lies that we don't believe that 358 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:04,700 we're believing and we don't know, we're believing, but we 359 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:07,600 doing here, it is lie. Number one doing? 360 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:09,200 Right means missing out. You come in that. 361 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,100 Don't even sound spiritual. Where's that in the Bible? 362 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:12,800 Hang on. I'm going to show you. 363 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,400 Doing right means missing out. Let's say there's somebody 364 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,600 walking down the sidewalk and you see a hundred dollar bill 365 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,700 fall out of their pocket. And they don't see it. 366 00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:27,100 What do you do? He like, bro, I just got me a 367 00:16:27,100 --> 00:16:29,900 hundred dollars, Finders Keepers, losers weepers, right. 368 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,900 But see this, if you pick it up and hand it back to him, you 369 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:39,300 know what you lost? You lost $100. 370 00:16:39,300 --> 00:16:41,900 But you know what, you gained relationship. 371 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,700 Trust it was built if you gain a hundred dollars, guess what? 372 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:48,500 You lose relationship, trust Integrity. 373 00:16:49,100 --> 00:16:52,400 See there's always a give and take when it comes to doing, 374 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,500 right? AKA following Jesus actually 375 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:57,600 being obedient because there are some things that whenever you do 376 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,700 it you're actually going to feel like you're missing out, but you 377 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:03,700 got to go back and say, but am I saying your will not mine God. 378 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:06,099 Like do I really trust that you won't best? 379 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:07,700 I'm gonna do right? And trust you. 380 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,700 And so as we look through this, I think it's a common lie that 381 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:15,900 we believe because it was the very first lie ever told. 382 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:18,200 Did you know that? It was the very first light ever 383 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:19,900 believed in scripture. Let me show you. 384 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:24,200 The very beginning Adam and Eve, Adam is in the garden. 385 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:28,099 It says the Lord placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend 386 00:17:28,099 --> 00:17:32,400 and watch over it, but the Lord warned him, you may freely eat 387 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,600 of the fruit of every tree in the garden except there's one 388 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,300 role Adam except the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. 389 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:39,600 If you eat it, you're sure to die. 390 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,700 Now, that's truth. That's God. 391 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:45,600 Saying you can have everything? Enjoy it all name, the animals, 392 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,200 climb the trees. Eat the fruit. 393 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,700 Like swing on the vine. Do whatever you want to do like, 394 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:51,200 enjoy. It is Paradise. 395 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,000 For you. There's one rule though this is 396 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,200 true. If you eat at this you're gonna 397 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,100 die so don't do that. There's one thing not to do. 398 00:17:57,100 --> 00:17:59,100 That's true. Enjoy everything except one now, 399 00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:03,700 Satan comes along possessing, the body of a snake and to this 400 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:05,300 day, most of us, you're smart like me. 401 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:07,200 You know, that snakes still possess the bodies to, I'm just 402 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,500 kidding. Got a good to keep a good shovel 403 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:14,800 at hand, right? Here's what it says, the serpent 404 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,100 was, the shrewdest of all the wild animals, the Lord God had 405 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:18,800 made, and one day he asked the woman. 406 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,700 Did God really say right here? The enemy starts twisting, just 407 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:25,700 a little bit. Let me just see if I can get you 408 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:27,700 off a little bit. I'm not just gonna throw a 409 00:18:27,700 --> 00:18:30,100 blatant lie at you, but let me give you a half-truth. 410 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:32,500 Did God really say, You must not eat the fruit from any of the 411 00:18:32,508 --> 00:18:33,800 trees in the garden. God didn't say that. 412 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,200 God said, you can eat the fruit. Just not from one, right? 413 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,000 So see how you starting to twist it already. 414 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,200 Of course, even answers, we may eat the fruit from the trees in 415 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,100 the garden. It's only the fruit from the 416 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:44,300 tree in the The middle of the garden. 417 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:46,900 We're not allowed to eat. God said, you must not eat it or 418 00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:49,100 even touch it if you do, you will die. 419 00:18:49,100 --> 00:18:51,300 Now, here's the blatant lie. He was warming her up. 420 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:52,800 This is how the enemy works, by the way. 421 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:55,300 He just Butters you up a little bit and getting any to hit you 422 00:18:55,300 --> 00:18:57,100 with a lie. You won't die. 423 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,100 The serpent replied, the woman God knows that you will your 424 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:02,900 eyes will be open as soon as you eat it. 425 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,600 AKA God is holding something back from you Eve. 426 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,300 I mean, listen, I know you got everything else, but why would 427 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:09,900 he tell you? You can't have that one. 428 00:19:10,100 --> 00:19:12,300 He is holding good things back from you. 429 00:19:12,300 --> 00:19:15,500 You won't die. You'll be like God knowing good 430 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:19,800 and evil verse 6. The woman was convinced first 431 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,000 six in scriptures. The first time any person ever. 432 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,700 Believed a lie. You ever traced all sin back to 433 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:28,000 somebody believing a lie. You want to know why today it's 434 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,800 so important that we replace lives of truth. 435 00:19:29,900 --> 00:19:33,100 It's his only tactic. It's what Satan comes with. 436 00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:36,300 I fucking lie to you and then verse 6, if I can convince you 437 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:38,600 that the Lions truth are going to start living as though it is. 438 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,800 You're going to believe nothing. God says about you and 439 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,200 everything. You feel about you and 440 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:43,700 everything. The enemy says about you. 441 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:47,700 And so she was convinced. She saw the tree was beautiful. 442 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:48,900 Its fruit. Look delicious. 443 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,700 She wanted the wisdom. It would give her. 444 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:53,100 So she took some of the fruit and ate it. 445 00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:57,600 And then she gave some to her husband who was with her and he 446 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,100 ate it too. At that moment, their eyes were 447 00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:04,700 opened suddenly they felt shame So when they believe the lie, I 448 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:06,900 guess what, just like many times once we realize we've been 449 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:08,700 believing a lot there was shame that hit their hearts 450 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:12,300 immediately so they sewed fig leaves together to cover 451 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:14,300 themselves up. They try to hide from God. 452 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:19,000 Do you know what Satan did? He calls Eve to doubt. 453 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,100 God's goodness. God's holding something back 454 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:24,200 from you. This is a wrestling match. 455 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,600 All, I wish I could say, you know what, let's just check that 456 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,600 box and move on, but hitting it hard, sometimes to do. 457 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,200 What we know God saying is the right thing. 458 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:36,200 Whenever we feel like we're missing out. 459 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,000 But isn't that part of the Christian Life, though? 460 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 It in part of it to say, you know what, Lord, there's some 461 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,100 things that I'm going to have to trust you home. 462 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:48,500 Satan comes and tells a partial truth and then he just hits her 463 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:51,900 with the truth and she's convinced and then she loses. 464 00:20:52,300 --> 00:20:55,400 What's the fruit of the LIE? How does it show up in our 465 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:56,600 lives? You know what happens when we 466 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,000 believe that God's holding back from us? 467 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,300 That will begin to doubt God's goodness. 468 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:03,200 Once you doubt God's goodness you stop praying the way you 469 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,400 used to pray. You stop treating people. 470 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,800 The way you used to you stop forgiving. 471 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,100 And you know what happens? You Unser render your life. 472 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,000 I used to be surrendered to Jesus Christ. 473 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,900 But you ever met people? And you can just tell, they're 474 00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:15,200 not as surrendered as they used to be. 475 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:17,900 What happens is we doubt God's goodness and we've start 476 00:21:17,900 --> 00:21:20,100 believing these lies like we did in Satan twist. 477 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:21,400 It. Did God really say you should 478 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,500 live a holy life. That got to really say don't be 479 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:25,700 jealous. You got a really safe forgive 480 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:28,300 those who wronged you? I mean, come on, doesn't it feel 481 00:21:28,300 --> 00:21:29,400 good? Just to hate somebody. 482 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,200 A little bit some of your like yeah. 483 00:21:32,300 --> 00:21:36,300 Feels good. Did God really say that? 484 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,100 She love the Lord, your God with everything. 485 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:43,600 Put him first in your life. Let me give you another fruit of 486 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,700 believing. That God is holding something 487 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:47,200 back, doing, right? Equals missing out. 488 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,200 Is this broken relationships? You see what happened in 489 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,800 scripture? Adam and Eve first were 490 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,800 separated, from God said, be kicked out of the garden only 491 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,900 because Jesus Christ came and shed, his blood for us can man 492 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,200 woman can be, we be redeemed back to him again, that's it. 493 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,500 But at this moment, the lie was believed the sin was committed. 494 00:22:05,500 --> 00:22:08,300 They exited the garden and relationship with God. 495 00:22:08,300 --> 00:22:11,800 The father was broken, they got to walk intimately with The Lord 496 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,700 up until that point. And then the relationship is now 497 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:16,200 broken. But not only that. 498 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:17,700 Do you know what happened to their sons? 499 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:20,900 They had two sons Adam and Eve after the the curse here, this 500 00:22:20,900 --> 00:22:24,500 happens Cain and Abel. You see the first murder ever 501 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:25,700 committed. Cain killed. 502 00:22:25,700 --> 00:22:28,600 His brother Abel. So the first two siblings, ever, 503 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,200 ever wonder if, you know why, my kids always fighting listens 504 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,200 ever. Since then came in the first two 505 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,700 siblings literally killed each other one of them killed the 506 00:22:35,700 --> 00:22:38,600 other It's the impact of believing a lie. 507 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,700 You can trace it back to Genesis 3:6. 508 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:45,600 She was convinced she was convinced that a lie was the 509 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:50,100 truth. And so what happens is, when we 510 00:22:50,100 --> 00:22:52,500 do that in essence, break up with God, break that 511 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:56,300 relationship up with God. And I thought about it, what if 512 00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:58,800 instead of breaking up with God by choosing not to believe him? 513 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,200 What if we just decided to break up with our sin every day? 514 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,500 You get up every day and go, you know what? 515 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:06,100 I'm a sinner and I messed up, but I gotta break up with you 516 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:08,400 sing because you are not my owner, you're not my master, 517 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,600 you're not my partner, You Don't Own Me Anymore. 518 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,200 I've been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. 519 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,100 I've been Blood Bought, I'm bought with a price. 520 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:15,700 I'm a new creation, I'm a new person. 521 00:23:15,700 --> 00:23:17,600 I'm a child, I'm Royal I'm a freestyle. 522 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,500 A queen. What if we begin to speak those 523 00:23:20,500 --> 00:23:22,600 things in Jesus name, over our lives? 524 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,300 Let me give you the truth. If the LIE is doing right is 525 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:27,200 missing out. Here's the truth. 526 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,900 If we do right and trust in Jesus, he'll promise to take 527 00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:31,200 responsibility for everything else. 528 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,500 You need everything else in your life. 529 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,200 Here's what Jesus said in Matthew seek the kingdom of God, 530 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:39,800 above all that. So let me break it down. 531 00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:42,800 Put God first, don't put anything else. 532 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,600 First in your life, just put him first. 533 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:48,200 I believe this God is stripping somebody down in the room so 534 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,500 you'll put him first. I've been there, I don't ever 535 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:54,600 want to be there again, but I may be, but God will do whatever 536 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,300 it takes. He will strip you down to get 537 00:23:56,300 --> 00:23:57,400 you to the place where you're like. 538 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:58,400 All right. Big boy. 539 00:23:58,700 --> 00:24:02,000 Now, who's first in your life? Now we can proceed with the 540 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,800 blessings in the favor in the plan that I want to pour out, 541 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:07,600 but maybe I'm stripping you down to a place to where you go. 542 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,800 God, your first seek me first and do what live righteously. 543 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,800 That's that change of thinking, that showing up in Behavior. 544 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,100 Got a, I'm not perfect, but I do want to put my feet in what's 545 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:19,900 right? And then it says, he'll give you 546 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,300 Everything you need. That's God saying. 547 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:23,800 Then I'll take responsibility for all the stuff you're worried 548 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,600 about. Stop worrying about all the 549 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,600 other things. Put me first, I'll take 550 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,900 responsibility if we can get to the point of believing that 551 00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:31,900 truth. Guess what? 552 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:35,800 There's an exhale. It's just God, you got this? 553 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,400 Let me give you the second lie. Here's the second one. 554 00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:41,700 I am my feelings and experiences. 555 00:24:43,100 --> 00:24:46,100 You'll talk about a lie that's not just destroying people who 556 00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:48,700 try to follow Jesus and our file is destroying the world. 557 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:52,800 I am my feelings and it feels to see this is a core identity lie. 558 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,000 It says that who you are is what you've been through and what you 559 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,800 feel inside. That's gotten so many things 560 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,300 into a mess in our world. Let me give you one of my 561 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:07,300 favorite verse first is intrusion. 562 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:11,200 All scripture says this and this is, this is, you know, you could 563 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,100 call this a core identity scripture. 564 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,700 Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person, that is an 565 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:20,200 identity statement. That means that you are not your 566 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,200 feelings and experiences, I'm not invalidating. 567 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,000 Your feelings and experiences. I'm not saying that they don't 568 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,300 matter. I'm not saying that they don't 569 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:29,000 hold weight in your life. I'm just saying when we come to 570 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,100 Christ, do you know what? We Do we're willing to say Lord, 571 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:35,900 I have feelings and experiences but I'm going to say that my 572 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:39,000 identity now is in Christ, which means my identity is bigger than 573 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,800 those things, I may still feel certain ways. 574 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,300 I may still wrestle with things. I may still have some baggage 575 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:46,200 from my past but I'm going to put you first. 576 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,000 So my new identity is in Christ belong to Christ. 577 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:53,100 It says it's the old, then is gone her passing away and the 578 00:25:53,108 --> 00:25:56,000 new is coming. And this is transformation is 579 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,500 where transformation comes from. So, what is the fruit of this 580 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:02,100 lie? Do you know what you'll start 581 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:03,400 believing when you start believing light? 582 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,600 Do you know it'll show up in your life, your work will begin 583 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,300 to be based on your performance Karma. 584 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:11,300 We turn Christianity into Karma often. 585 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,400 We think that because we've done good that God loves us and 586 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,400 because we've done bad, God doesn't love us and listen, 587 00:26:16,700 --> 00:26:19,400 karma is nowhere in Scripture. It says, for by Grace you have 588 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,500 been saved. God decided, I love you, you're 589 00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:24,700 jacked up and messed up and you can never be good enough. 590 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:25,900 And that's things you like, whoa. 591 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,100 But any good that God looked at us Romans 5:8 while we were 592 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:31,700 still Sinners at the lowest scum bag version of ourselves. 593 00:26:31,700 --> 00:26:35,000 That I'll take that one. You ever go pick out a puppy 594 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,500 before and, you know, there's that one little runt. 595 00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:39,500 Nobody's getting that one. God look at the runts and he 596 00:26:39,508 --> 00:26:41,200 said, I love that one. I'll take that one home. 597 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,200 So many times, we get to a place where worth is based on 598 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,100 performance. You know what happens when you 599 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:50,800 don't do well, you don't have any worth anymore. 600 00:26:51,900 --> 00:26:54,200 This goes back to addressing that place of work with this 601 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,200 where you can feel like it's not you're not worthy of existing if 602 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,900 that's a broken. Thought pattern in your head 603 00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:03,800 that what I, you know, my worth is based on what I've done, then 604 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:08,000 you have to change it. My, my grandfather, my Papa, he 605 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,400 was an amazing man. He's been gone. 606 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,800 A lot of years now and I have you don't even realize until 607 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,100 people are gone years. Slater how much they actually 608 00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:18,100 impacted you but he was a hard-working guy, he's 80 years 609 00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:20,900 old, he's getting up at sunrise and getting on a tractor every 610 00:27:20,900 --> 00:27:24,200 day he could and he come in at dark every night and that was my 611 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,600 whole life. So we went to the farm in the 612 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,700 Summers. Like we just we stayed with him 613 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:30,000 all day long. And so I thought, when I got my 614 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,100 first real job, this is the easiest thing I've ever done. 615 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:33,900 And I'm only working like six hours. 616 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,400 Because will Papa, man. I mean everything I ever 617 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,100 compared to. You pull corn for four and a 618 00:27:38,108 --> 00:27:41,100 half five hours in the morning when it's about 95 degrees and 619 00:27:41,100 --> 00:27:42,700 go work. Another job is so easy. 620 00:27:42,700 --> 00:27:44,800 You're like this. This is easy. 621 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:48,200 Well, he was such a hard worker and he instilled that in my 622 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,000 brothers but I had friends from school and they would go, I want 623 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,600 to go work on the farm with you this summer. 624 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,000 Like, oh cool, let's go. Well, they get down there and 625 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,200 they make it about 30 minutes man, they're like over there, 626 00:27:57,900 --> 00:27:59,000 you know, my what's wrong with you? 627 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,300 You Wimp. And so, my grandfather though is 628 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:03,900 one of these guys. I mean, he grew up in the Great 629 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:05,400 Depression. He went straight, grab got 630 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,400 drafted straight to WWII, came back with nothing and started 631 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,800 life. And so his work ethic was how he 632 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,500 valued people. And so for my friends, that were 633 00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:15,000 lazy, he go there, Sorry man, don't bring them back down here 634 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,400 that I'm not worth anything. Now, hang on I'm not saying he 635 00:28:17,408 --> 00:28:21,300 was a perfect guy, but very much because of how he was raised. 636 00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:24,000 He had this broken thought pattern of saying, well worth is 637 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,500 equal to worth is equal to whether you work hard or not and 638 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:30,400 I'm not brother and I, we were scared not to work hard because 639 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:31,700 you ever told it to custom before. 640 00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:33,900 You know what that is. If you do, you can do to cussing 641 00:28:33,900 --> 00:28:36,000 on the farm. If you didn't work just right. 642 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,800 And so listen, working hard was it? 643 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:39,900 But I thought, you know, I wonder if that if that's in my 644 00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:41,800 broken thought patterns though somewhere. 645 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:44,700 Because you start looking at other people and going with, 646 00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:46,600 they don't have work ethic. They don't have value. 647 00:28:47,300 --> 00:28:49,600 Do you know where that comes from your upbringing? 648 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:52,500 You don't even realize it. I'm not I'm not condoning. 649 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,500 That we should be lazy. I'm just saying sometimes it 650 00:28:55,508 --> 00:28:57,800 needs a little things, you didn't even realize were there 651 00:28:57,900 --> 00:29:00,100 and they're there. And you go, man, I need to, I 652 00:29:00,108 --> 00:29:03,300 need to back up and make sure my mind is not on the roller 653 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,800 coaster of squishy identity, but you're worth will be based in 654 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,700 performance. Also, here's another fruit of 655 00:29:09,708 --> 00:29:12,300 this like, you have a constant sense of inner Brokenness. 656 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,500 Yo, what do you mean Joe? Well feelings change. 657 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:19,600 Don't they? Especially passing fleeting 658 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,400 feelings, they can change. You can be livid one day and 659 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,300 then you have peace. The next day you can be okay 660 00:29:25,300 --> 00:29:30,000 again, You can be so upset with somebody and then, you know, 661 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:32,900 Mercy, the Lord is new every morning, you can get through it. 662 00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:36,300 So, what happens is, when we attach our identity to our 663 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:38,700 feelings and our experiences, there's constantly this inner 664 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:41,300 Brokenness like why can't I get out of this? 665 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,100 The LIE Drive some anxiety and depression that inner Brokenness 666 00:29:45,100 --> 00:29:48,500 is there the lie also drives people to get to a point where 667 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:52,000 you feel like it's not worth living anymore because the way I 668 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,500 feel right now, what I've been through, what's been done to me 669 00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:58,900 experiences, what I've done to other people experiences, 670 00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:03,500 failures, regrets all that's in that one statement, right? 671 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:07,000 Out there. So I get this, what we what we 672 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,400 do does matter, that's what we're talking about, change your 673 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,100 mind, change your life change, what you do, and so it does 674 00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:15,400 matter what we do. But what we've done doesn't have 675 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,400 to tell us who we are if we're in Christ. 676 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,300 Let me give you the truth here. Who then can tell you who you 677 00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:24,300 are. If it's not feelings and 678 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:27,900 experiences after study of scripture and prayer and looking 679 00:30:27,900 --> 00:30:31,300 for it, I really believe this only God gets to tell us who we 680 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:35,600 are. Who gets to decide when they 681 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,100 create something, how much they're going to sell it for the 682 00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:42,700 Creator, right? Who gets to decide how much that 683 00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:47,000 object is an object, is it's actually worth the person who 684 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,200 pays for it, right? If you go on eBay and you're 685 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,500 bidding on something. Guess who determines, what that 686 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:53,500 object is worth the highest bidder. 687 00:30:54,900 --> 00:30:57,900 The Creator gets to say, here's what I want for it, the highest 688 00:30:57,900 --> 00:30:59,600 bidder gets to say, here's what I'll pay for it, think about 689 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,700 this, why can God tell you who you are? 690 00:31:01,700 --> 00:31:06,800 Who created you He did. Who bought you? 691 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000 He did what price did he pay for you? 692 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,900 The blood of his only son. So if he created you and he paid 693 00:31:12,900 --> 00:31:15,900 blood for you, isn't he? The one that gets to tell you? 694 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,400 This is who you are stopped. Listening to the last. 695 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,900 Somebody needs to hear this, stop listening to the live from 696 00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:22,800 your past that you can't find Healing. 697 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,500 Stop listening from the LIE of your of your past, what your 698 00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:27,900 parents beat you down and said you'd never amount to anything 699 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,900 or a teacher. Or that terrible sexual 700 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:33,800 experience, you had when you were younger or that broken 701 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,600 marriage, that you've been through in the enemy, still 702 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,000 comes in. Just pounds on. 703 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,500 You about it all the time, can we? 704 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:41,400 In Jesus name? Be free so that we can live as 705 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,800 free people. So they could be lived a full 706 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,800 Abundant Life, that he's giving us only. 707 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,000 God gets to tell you as a Jesus follower who you are. 708 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,500 He gets to tell you before I get too fired up on that point. 709 00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:59,000 Let me go on to number three. This is the law that every 710 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,700 person here at some point, has believed in. 711 00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:03,100 You may not believe in this this one, I'm hopeless. 712 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:06,300 I'm not staying here at sometimes, we find ourselves in 713 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:07,800 what seems like a hopeless situation? 714 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,400 And I get that. But this is again, this is an 715 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:15,900 identity thing, I am hopeless, maybe it was because you failed. 716 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,300 Your experience is, I'm a failure. 717 00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:21,600 And then your feelings have told you and backed up and validated 718 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,000 that that you are worthless and hopeless. 719 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,600 And so you get to this place where you believe the lie I'm 720 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,700 hopeless. Do you know what the fruit of 721 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:30,800 the LIE is? This may be surprising, but when 722 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,600 you believe this lie, you will begin to live in shame. 723 00:32:35,900 --> 00:32:38,800 And shame is not this feeling that you've done something bad 724 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,400 because that's called guilt. God uses guilt all the time. 725 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,400 Listen God will bring guilt over us. 726 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,400 It's called conviction to bring us back to himself, but he never 727 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,100 pours shame out on a shame is something that the enemy brings 728 00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:51,800 and we bring on our self and it says not that you've done 729 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,600 something bad, but you are bad. You're messed up. 730 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,900 You never going to get better. Never ever going to get any 731 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:05,700 better. So you live in shame over and 732 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:09,700 over and over again, hopeless people feel that they aren't 733 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:14,500 worthy of forgiveness. I wonder if there's anybody here 734 00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:17,000 today. And you feel like I'm Unworthy 735 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000 of forgiveness. I'm Unworthy of it. 736 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,500 Maybe you've bought into the lie that I am hopeless and so shame 737 00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:25,600 is like a shadow that follows you around everywhere. 738 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:27,100 Let me show you. One of my favorite verses, in 739 00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:31,100 all the scripture first, John 1:9, if we confess our sins to 740 00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:34,500 him who is we? It's anybody in the house? 741 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:36,700 It's anybody at Oakwood, it's anybody watching on. 742 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,400 If you will confess your sin and say God, yes, I'm a sinner, I 743 00:33:39,408 --> 00:33:41,500 don't get it. All right, Lord, I get it wrong 744 00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:43,600 and here's some of the things I know that I've done wrong. 745 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,600 Here's some of the thought processes that have been broken 746 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,100 to me, confess it to him. He is faithful and just to do, 747 00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:51,600 what forgive us. Us of our sins and cleanse us. 748 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,500 You know what? Cleanses remove the shame so you 749 00:33:55,500 --> 00:34:03,300 can live in Freedom. Here's another fruit. 750 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:09,199 Of this lie, you begin to destroy your life and the life 751 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:11,199 of other she ever. Heard this hurt, people hurt 752 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:15,500 people, you show me somebody that lives as hopeless and 753 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:18,300 worthless and that's really what they believe inside you will 754 00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:20,500 begin to hurt other people, maybe not even intentional. 755 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:22,600 Broken people will often begin to break people. 756 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:26,500 This is where that suicidal thought demon comes in as well 757 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:28,100 by the way, comes over you to say. 758 00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:30,300 Yep, you're not worthy, you can't live anymore, you know, 759 00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:33,100 you're not, you know what you've done, you can't be forgiven. 760 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:35,800 And so the enemy. Spoken this over lives today, 761 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,900 you are hopeless. And I just want to look at you 762 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:41,699 and say no. What's the truth? 763 00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:44,100 Here's a scriptural Truth for us. 764 00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:46,699 No one is hopeless in Jesus Christ. 765 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:50,500 No one is hopeless in Jesus Christ. 766 00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:54,699 What situation has the enemy lied to you about and said it's 767 00:34:54,699 --> 00:35:00,500 impossible. Where do you wish you had 768 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:02,700 forgiveness in the enemy has lied to you and said it's 769 00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:07,400 impossible. If you're right on the verge of 770 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,500 surrendering your life to Jesus Christ, but you could judge, 771 00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:14,800 don't know if I can, it seems impossible like he would accept 772 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,200 me. I'm gonna give you a verse. 773 00:35:18,100 --> 00:35:20,300 This is a verse that's on repeat in my mind right now. 774 00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:23,100 By the way this is not something I just got for the message. 775 00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:27,700 This is something that's like my soundtrack and it's Luke 18:27. 776 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:32,100 What is impossible for people as possible with God. 777 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,800 Now, let me give you context and I don't take it out of context, 778 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,400 use his talking about people who are rich and don't have any 779 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,900 needs in this world that it's harder for them to come to know 780 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:43,300 him as Lord. Alright, that's the context. 781 00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:45,600 But I thought this actually applies because, didn't he? 782 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,500 The god, that spoke the Stars into existence in either God, 783 00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:52,600 that spoke everything we see into existence. 784 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,000 He got that formed us from the dust of the ground. 785 00:35:56,900 --> 00:35:59,100 He said what is impossible for people? 786 00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:03,400 Is possible with God. And so here's where I want to go 787 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,200 to, I don't know if maybe the Lord is showing you that you've 788 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:10,000 been believing a lie but you go, maybe I have. 789 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,000 I'm starting to see it and it didn't have to be one of the 790 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,200 three. It can be something else, but 791 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,000 the Lord is showing you today. You know what, you've been 792 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,800 believing a lot and it seems impossible to change. 793 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,000 Can you let that? What if we let this become the 794 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,100 truth? Soundtrack, what is impossible 795 00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:25,300 for people as possible with God? What is impossible with people 796 00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:27,100 as possible? Got what is impossible for? 797 00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:29,600 Michael is possible with God, what is it possible for? 798 00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:31,400 Estill. It's possible with God. 799 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:34,700 What is impossible Cheryl listen? 800 00:36:34,700 --> 00:36:37,000 You know what is impossible with Cheryl? 801 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,700 It's possible with God. It was impossible for Joe. 802 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:43,200 It's possible. We got if I didn't believe this 803 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,400 this morning, I couldn't preach with authority. 804 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,100 I couldn't bring this word as if it's actually part of my life 805 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:51,100 and who I am. But, you know, I do Doug. 806 00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:53,300 You know what, what is impossible with people, guess 807 00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:56,800 who it's possible for is possible with God being, what is 808 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,900 impossible with people whose it possible for its God, right? 809 00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:02,800 Like what, if what if we change the sound track instead? 810 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,300 Doubting God and believing he's not going to. 811 00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:07,800 What if we put our feet on the floor tomorrow morning and let 812 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,000 this be our statement? God, what is impossible with 813 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000 people? It's possible with you Lord we 814 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,900 only get a few more years to walk around on this dirt ball 815 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:17,000 before we're going to go Be Heaven. 816 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,800 What if we just change the soundtrack of our mind is Lord? 817 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,200 I'm not going to believe lies anymore. 818 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,500 I know who I am. It is possible for you to save 819 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:25,800 somebody like me. It is possible for you to redeem 820 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,100 somebody like me. It is possible for you to change 821 00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:30,400 somebody like me. It is possible for you to heal. 822 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:32,800 It's possible for you to bring the dreams and desires that you 823 00:37:32,900 --> 00:37:36,100 It in my heart to pass, it is possible for you to write new 824 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,000 life and new story Into Me. It's possible for you to bring a 825 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,100 kid into my life. Even though it seems impossible, 826 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,800 it's possible for you to bring a spouse even though I don't know. 827 00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:46,900 It's possible to find a healing after an abusive relationship. 828 00:37:46,900 --> 00:37:49,400 It's possible to find Freedom from addiction. 829 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,200 But we have to change the soundtrack and let the Holy 830 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,900 Spirit begin to work. So let me give you the question 831 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:59,000 this morning. What lies have you been 832 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,500 believing? And here's the Declaration. 833 00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:04,900 Let's go to war. Let's go to war Church. 834 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,900 Go to war over declare war and say I declare a thought War over 835 00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:11,700 this. Here's what I want you to do. 836 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,900 All over the house, Oakwood. I want you to stay with me if 837 00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:17,200 you're at home online, right now wherever you are, I love for you 838 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,300 to participate in this. But here's what I want to do. 839 00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:24,700 I want to pray for you today. If you'd be willing to say now 840 00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:27,000 just I'm gonna have you stand right where you are and just a 841 00:38:27,008 --> 00:38:28,300 moment. But if you'd be willing to say 842 00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:30,900 Joe, you know, I think I have them believing a lie and I need 843 00:38:30,900 --> 00:38:33,700 to change the script to whatever is impossible with man is 844 00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:37,600 possible with God want to ask you do is just by showing the 845 00:38:37,607 --> 00:38:39,600 Lord and you know, even the people around you, you're not 846 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,900 telling them what it is but just show them. 847 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,700 God's showing me today that I've been believing a lot and I've 848 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:46,600 got to declare war over it this week. 849 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:50,400 Maybe the lies men that I can't become a follower of Jesus and 850 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,500 you just need to stand up. And by standing today, you're 851 00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:54,700 saying I'm surrendering my life to him, I'm not holding back 852 00:38:54,700 --> 00:38:56,800 anymore, maybe that's your declaration as you stand. 853 00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:00,100 But both here to do quit, I'm gonna count to three and I, what 854 00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:01,900 I want you to do is I want you to stand to your feet. 855 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:04,800 And as you do, everyone else here, we're going to pray, we're 856 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,600 going to pray over you this morning as we declare a thought 857 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,300 or what lies. Have you been believing? 858 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:10,700 Stand with me. If you will, they are no code. 859 00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:11,700 Here we go. One two three. 860 00:39:11,700 --> 00:39:13,200 Come on. If that shoe right where you are 861 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:14,500 just stand up, I want to pray for you. 862 00:39:14,508 --> 00:39:16,700 Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for your honest. 863 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:20,700 Listen, the Lord sees your acknowledgement. 864 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:23,100 If you're there are no quick God sees your acknowledgement of 865 00:39:23,100 --> 00:39:26,100 even just being this a willing to say I'm standing to say I 866 00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:27,800 need help, I want you to pray for me. 867 00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:32,100 I'm declaring war today. So I want to ask you to do this. 868 00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:34,100 If there's somebody standing around you, you don't know their 869 00:39:34,100 --> 00:39:36,000 situation but your prayer is powerful. 870 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,000 And so will you join me both here? 871 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,200 And there and let's pray, let's pray over them in the thought or 872 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,300 this morning Lord. Thank you for people who are 873 00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:46,700 honest and got maybe today. You just brought him to this 874 00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:49,000 place of surrender or realization, they've been 875 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,100 believe in lies and Jesus. This series is about freedom and 876 00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:55,300 so I speak Freedom over it in your name. 877 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:56,600 But Lord, I just wanted to Claire. 878 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,400 You've already given them the weapons that they need. 879 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,600 You gave us the word. You gave us your spirit. 880 00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:04,000 It to dwell in US, you gave us forgiveness and healing and 881 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,500 hope. And so God you've already given 882 00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:08,100 us the tools you given us the spirit which means that we have 883 00:40:08,100 --> 00:40:11,300 love and patience and peace, Joy, kindness gentleness 884 00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:14,600 self-control in US, Lord. And the enemy of to tell it tell 885 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:15,800 them that they don't have any of that. 886 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,000 But God ice to Claire it, according to your truth. 887 00:40:18,100 --> 00:40:20,400 We do have it, it's hard, but Lord, we have it. 888 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,900 We can pick up the weapon and fight and so Lord. 889 00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:26,700 I just pray over your people. Today, Lord, those are standing 890 00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:29,200 to their feet right now. Lord, we declare war on these 891 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,000 thoughts that want to take them. Lord I pray against any 892 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,700 Suicidal. Thoughts this morning in the 893 00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:36,700 house, Lord, it Oakwood I pray against it in Jesus name that 894 00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:39,600 you would remove that demonic attack and Lord that you would 895 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,200 pour out your worth and your grace and your love and your 896 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,200 mercy over them. Lord we pray that we will be 897 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,300 able to get up in the morning. Got it wouldn't just be a Sunday 898 00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:51,500 thing we get up on Monday. We would declare thought or and 899 00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:54,500 we would use this when I speak it over and what is impossible. 900 00:40:54,700 --> 00:40:57,600 What is impossible for people this possible with you father. 901 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,400 So, Lord, I speak it over your people today. 902 00:41:00,700 --> 00:41:05,000 God may we walk out of here as Warriors in your name and we'll 903 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,700 give you all the glory. In Jesus name, everybody said, 904 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:09,700 amen, come on, let's worship together. 905 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:12,300 Thank you for listening to the river. 906 00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:15,100 Bend Church podcast. Learn more about who we are as a 907 00:41:15,107 --> 00:41:18,100 church and how to connect you can head over to our website 908 00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:19,500 Riverbend Church dot life.