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Thank you for listening to the 
river. 

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Bend Church podcast Reverb in 
church exists to lead all people

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to know love and live New Life 
in Jesus Christ. 

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We hope that you enjoy this 
message. 

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We're going into a brand new 
series and here's what I know 

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about this series already. 
It's for everybody sometimes. 

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I'll tell you you like there's 
something for one person in the 

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room or maybe for your wife 
today or in some of the ladies 

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that like, I need something for 
my husband. 

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You need to talk to him Joe. 
But here's what I'm going to 

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tell you this series is for 100%
of the people in the room today.

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And here's why every single 
person has a war going on in 

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your mind and see some people 
are winning the war. 

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I don't, I'm not saying 
everybody's losing some people 

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know how to win the war but then
there's Some of us and because 

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there's debilitating anxiety, 
depression insecurities 

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destructive thought, patterns, 
even Suicidal Thoughts in the 

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deal. 
Is it's an, if it's not you, it 

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may be somebody that you love. 
And so if you want to know why 

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I'm so passionate about this, 
it's because so many people are 

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losing the battle and God says 
this, you can win say this, I 

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can win. 
Say it. 

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Listen declarations are going to
be a big part of this series 

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because I believe it just is and
changing and in fight and 

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changing our mindsets and win. 
The war. 

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Let me show you what Jesus says 
about his people here. 

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He says, the thieves purpose is 
to steal, kill, and destroy, and

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in context, he's actually kind 
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The enemy comes, and he wants to
steal kill, and destroy, and do 

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you know where he's succeeding 
in our world and in the church 

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in the battlefields of our mind,
stealing killing destroy taking 

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things away. 
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He says, my purpose is to give 
them my people a rich and 

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satisfying life. 
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You know what that requires 
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We also have a rich and healthy 
mind that we have a rich in 

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healthy ability to fight and win
the war that's in our mind. 

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So you didn't know this up 
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Jesus says you can win and he's 
giving you the tools to win. 

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And so the cool thing about this
today, when you walk out, you're

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going to have some tangible 
tools to go start winning the 

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war in your mind. 
I'm not saying God is not a part

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of it. 
I'm not saying the holy spirit 

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that you can do it without him. 
What I am saying is because he 

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wants us to win, he's going to 
give us everything we need to. 

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Walk out of here and go. 
I can have a healthier mind. 

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I can win that battle that's 
going on in here and let me give

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you the transforming truth. 
That's going to kind of guide us

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through this entire series here 
in Christ. 

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So if I am a follower of Jesus, 
if I change my thinking in 

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Christ, I can change my life. 
Literally, and you go man. 

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That sounds way too easy. 
Joe. 

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It's seriously straight from 
scripture. 

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Something I want to show you 
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See many people, there's a 
disconnect. 

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Do you know why we never get to 
the true new life change that 

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God. 
God wants us to have us because 

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we focus all the time on our 
Behavior changed. 

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My behavior changed my behavior.
If I can, hey, don't we want our

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kids to behave? 
Come on right now and River 

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kids. 
I guarantee send me yells kids a

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little snot-nosed. 
I'm just kidding. 

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Some of those kids are back 
there and River kids right now 

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and somebody's having to say, 
hey don't eat that, don't do 

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that. 
Change your behavior, you know, 

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stop hitting him, stop doing 
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We love the kids are here, but 
I'm just saying, don't sometimes

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you just want your kids Behavior
to change, right? 

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But if you only focus on 
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that there's something deeper 
behind Behavior behind Three 

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crazy behavior is a broken 
thought, pattern is a broken way

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of thinking and so here's what 
I'm saying in Jesus Christ, you 

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change your thinking and your 
literally change your life, 

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you'll be changed. 
All those things that God wants 

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new life for you to him. 
We have a disconnect, though. 

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We think it is just changing our
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life-changing Christ, new life. 
It's about a mindset change as 

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well. 
And so this is it self-help 

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theology. 
Change your thinking, change 

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your life? 
You're like, man, I've heard 

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that somewhere before. 
No, it's not my idea, it's not 

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even a professional. 
Sling ideas, actually, God's 

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idea, first people. 
So let me show you what he says 

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here. 
Romans 12:2 us so, dear, 

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brothers and sisters, I plead 
with you to give your bodies to 

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God because of all he has done 
for you, let them be a living 

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and holy sacrifice. 
The kind, he will find 

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acceptable. 
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we're looking at here, he says, 
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God. 
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AKA Surrender Your Life to 
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There are a lot of people in the
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You may not be there yet, that's
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But there are several of us here
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you said, you know what, I'm 
ready for Jesus, to surrender my

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life to him. 
I want him to be my boss. 

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I want to receive him. 
I want to receive his new life 

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that he has for me. 
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Give your life to God. 
But do you know why there's so 

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many Christians that have given 
their life to God that are still

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not seeing New Life 
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It's because of the next first. 
He says that this is truly the 

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way we worship him. 
Look at verse 2 though. 

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Don't copy the behavior and 
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The old word is don't be 
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world, but let God transform 
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Into a new person by changing 
the way you think, or Renewing? 

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Your Mind then you will learn to
know, God's will, which is good 

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and pleasing, and perfect. 
See many people give their lives

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to Jesus, but then they get 
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We get stuck. 
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It's because we leave out verse 
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Don't copy the behavior, and 
customs of the world, no copy 

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that instead, change the way, 
you think, let God change you 

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through that. 
You know, I find a lot of 

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encouragement in this this 
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This was written 2,000 years 
ago, nearly Years ago, people 

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were struggling with broken 
thought patterns and don't we 

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know today with all the access 
and all the information we have 

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even more ability to have broken
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So in 2023, we have thinking 
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There's an old country song. 
It says, I admit that I have a 

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thinking problem. 
So y'all can't you people here 

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you know and talk. 
Sometimes you just gotta get to 

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the place to just say I admit it
I have a thinking problem, I 

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have a thinking from, you know, 
as soon as you get there though,

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you can start picking up the 
weapons that God has given you 

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to fight this. 
War. 

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Now here's the thing. 
I looked past couple of weeks, 

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just reading over some 
statistics and a glance that 

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mental illness stats. 
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It tells us we're struggling one
in five adults right now in the 

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United States, experienced 
mental illness each year, 

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somebody on your row. 
I mean I'm not saying we're 

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stats. 
I know we all want to think not 

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us, not in church but that means
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There's somebody wrestling with 
mental illness and there's no 

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Stigma to that. 
One of the things I hope to do 

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through this here is let's 
remove the stigma and get stigma

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and get healing. 
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let's get involved in and 
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Let's get ourselves in a place 
to get whole again, but that's 

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crazy. 
When I look across the room, and

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if you're online today sitting 
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your row, statistically at 
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people have serious mental 
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That means one person on every 
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wrestling to a point of danger 
overwhelmed with mental illness,

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fifty percent of the people in 
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In their Lifestyles will be 
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or disorder. 90% of the people 
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of mental illness, and I would 
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of them were in a place of 
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of the those who committed 
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Guess what we're men. 
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the room and I say, are we 
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That much? 
Can we remove the stigma you 

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want to know, why your pastors 
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I can't imagine one of you men 
whose God has called, who God 

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has a call on your life, in a 
purpose for your life to get so 

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low in broken in your mind that 
you feel You don't matter 

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anymore. 
I can't imagine a mom in the 

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room. 
I can't imagine a young adult in

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this room. 
I can't imagine a teenager or 

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college student or grandparent 
getting to the point where they 

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feel so low and so worthless and
so attack they go, it's not 

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worth being here anymore. 
So if I can just stand in the 

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Gap as a pastor and say not on 
my watch, that's part of this 

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whole series. 
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Looking at this suicide. 
As the 10th leading cause of 

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death in the United States, 
every 100 minutes, a teenager 

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dies from suicide. 
No, not to mention all the 

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debilitating anxiety in the 
variety of other mental 

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illnesses. 
And so this is just me saying 

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again, not on our watch church. 
I've been praying about this for

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a long time since last year 
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And so we will not stand by. 
I Can't Stand By and Watch the 

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church and watch people that I 
love and Friends lose a war that

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God says, you can win because 
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that's just how you are. 
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Maybe a friend told you, that's 
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Yes, this part of your 
personality, you'll never be 

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able to win that work, as I just
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Go but but didn't their new life
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A holy spirit that raised Jesus 
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That can change how we think, 
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How we think, put us back on a 
healthy path, get some new 

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mental processes going. 
So let me give you the starting 

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point for winning today. 
Here it is. 

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I put this in your notes for 
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If we really want to win, you 
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what you're thinking about. 
So many times, we just think, 

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but we never think about what 
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that's what the Apostle Paul is 
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Let me show you. 
You what I mean? 

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Look at this. 
Verse again, don't copy the 

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behavior and customs of the 
world, but let God transform you

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into a new person. 
There's a couple of things to 

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point out. 
Paul said, obviously our 

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Behavior as followers of Jesus. 
Our behaviors should not look 

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like those that don't follow. 
We should we should have hope 

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and love and joy that comes only
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Not to say there's not good 
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Not saying that this is really 
con people to do a lot of good 

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things but it's there's a 
difference in being a Jesus 

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follower and just being a person
who does get on the He says, we 

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should not copy the behavior and
customs of the world, don't 

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conform yourself to that. 
So he acknowledged the fact that

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we are tempted to conform our 
Behavior to other people, but he

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didn't say. 
So instead conform your behavior

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to the likeness of Jesus, what 
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Let God transform you, let me 
point this out. 

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The transformation were talking 
about, in our thought process, 

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it cannot happen apart from the 
Holy Spirit and he said that 

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again, it cannot happen apart 
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That's why people try and try 
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But without the anointing And 
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It's impossible to truly change 
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God wants you to be, but God 
will transform you into a new 

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person. 
How by changing the way that you

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think changing the way that you 
think see, do you know what 

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behavior is behavior is the 
outward showing of how we think?

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Think about it with a child. 
Do you know why they're selfish?

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You know, why they still toys, 
you know, where they bite, your 

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sip bite their siblings because 
in their mind, the thought 

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process that's mine. 
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It's my there's entitlement 
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little rug rats. 
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entitlement. 
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grow out of that way of 
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So you have like forty 
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right? 
Still biting people spitting on 

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people cussing at people? 
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we get older, right? 
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showing of wrong thinking. 
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it. 
Changing your behavior doesn't 

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transform. 
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frustrated. 
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shouldn't. 
If you see things about 

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yourself, Behavior wise, you can
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actually really clear that just 
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You know what, I'm going to 
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That's actually falls into the 
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You gotta check boxes and do 
enough good to get to heaven. 

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Owen see transformation comes 
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Christ. 
Then we can change our thinking 

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and change our lives. 
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life but you have to focus on 
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God work there. 
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transformed from the inside, out
that new life version of you. 

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Now another way to translate 
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older version says, Renewing 
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interesting. 
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an ongoing process. 
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You cannot come to church. 
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Message you go, I renewed my 
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whenever Paul was preaching this
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he was saying, renew your mind, 
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God's work. 
Constantly look at, think about 

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what you're thinking about 
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Make sure that you got the 
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on in your head but also it not 
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think. 
It means change the way that you

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perceive things in life. 
Change the lens that you view 

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your life through whenever 
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Whenever thoughts come what 
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Are you viewing? 
Those sure. 

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That's what it means. 
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take God's truth. 
His word and allow that to be 

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the lens that you filter. 
I don't filter it through my 

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feelings. 
I don't filter through what 

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other people say, not first. 
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God, what do you say? 
What is your spirit leading 

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here? 
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as Lord changing your thinking 
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your power, but here's another 
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Well, I got to point out, you 
will never defeat what you 

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refuse to Define. 
There are some people that are 

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in denial. 
I don't have a problem. 

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I don't have an anger problem. 
Joe. 

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It's just, it's just my wiring. 
I don't have a drinking problem.

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I just like, you know, I just 
like to get relaxed, you know, I

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don't have a drug problem, I've 
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There's thing I'm not knocking 
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what I am saying, if you will 
never Define the problem, you 

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will stay stuck in the pattern 
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The bit destructive Behavior 
cycle that's over and over. 

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If you're unwilling to stop and 
Define it, why don't people do 

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this? 
Why don't we stop? 

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And Define the problems in our 
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it's because it's painful. 
See many people walk around 

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missing, God's best for our 
lives, living in the feet, 

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simply because we're not picking
up the tools. 

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We won't diagnose the problem. 
Pick up the tools and start 

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fighting How many have you drove
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Don't raise your hand with a 
check engine car, light on in 

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your car. 
This one don't raise your hand. 

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See when it comes on for most of
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little picture of our family and
slide it over that little area 

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in the car and you just keep 
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You know what? 
Check engine light, baby, I'm 

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good. 
But the thing is, when the check

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engine light comes on, guess 
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There's a problem somewhere, it 
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but once the light comes on, if 
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I didn't go get this thing 
plugged in maybe something 

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really small plugged in. 
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oh, you just need, you know, 
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that'll be seven thousand 
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Here you go. 
Right, it's the same way in our 

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lives. 
You know why we're doing this 

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series? 
Because I think there's some men

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and women of God, her driving 
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light on in their heart and in 
their mind and then their family

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and in their life and in their 
dorm room, the check engine 

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light is on the check, thought 
life is, you know, light is on 

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right now and you haven't slowed
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Why did, why is it this way? 
What's going on in my heart? 

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Why do I feel this way? 
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But as soon as you're willing to
let the Holy Spirit, do the hard

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work of searching you and going 
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Formation is right around the 
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I really believe transformation 
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people in the house today, but 
you gotta get your mind right? 

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And so we invite the spirit of 
God today to search our hearts 

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to search our mind so that he 
can bring change thinking and 

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transformation. 
Listen, there's a war going on 

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in our minds and this verse that
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It's not just about the war in 
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defines it because you did. 
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unhealth and spiritual battle, 
actually go hand in hand because

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where does the enemy attack you?
You, you could argue that. 

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He may seem to throw things that
you physically, but it's when 

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you're laying in bed at night 
and your mind won't shut off and

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anxiety starts revving up and 
you either got to grab a drink 

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or grab a pill or go smoke. 
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miss. 
You gotta do something like all 

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of that is just going on inside 
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In that moment. 
Let me tell you what happens, 

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the enemy capitalizes on that he
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says. 
That's right, you're not good 

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enough. 
That's right. 

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You should be scared. 
That's right. 

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That you really are wrong in 
this situation, you really may 

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lose everything and he starts 
putting He starts in your head 

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and it just ramps up. 
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It's just a reminder of what I 
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In our head, we are not fighting
against flesh and blood enemies.

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Wouldn't be great if we just put
on the boxing gloves and just 

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battle it out physically for our
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beat me up but like, I want to 
know I've been in the fight 

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physically but the harder part 
is it's not flesh and blood. 

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He said this against evil rulers
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translate demons in the Heavenly
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fight against Mighty powers in 
the dark world and against Evil 

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spirits in Heavenly places. 
Doesn't that describe? 

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A lot of the battle that goes on
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And so this is us today, 
declaring war. 

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If I were to say, one, two, 
three, four, I declare Thumb 

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war. 
That's right. 

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I know you got that Oakwood. 
I want to change it up a little 

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bit today. 
One, two, three, four. 

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I declare a thought War We're 
going to declare war on those 

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Unholy thoughts for any kind of 
War on those debilitating 

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anxiety, thoughts. 
We're going to declare war on 

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the things that keep taking you 
back to the addiction that 

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you're trying to get out of, 
we're going to declare war. 

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You know why? 
We declare war because we are or

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but before we get to the weapons
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depress us but I do want to 
understand how do we get broken.

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What is it that gets us to the 
place where we can have metal in

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health because there's actually 
several common things that we 

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all Wrestle with what causes 
mental Brokenness and the you 

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the first one here. 
Starts. 

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When your kid childhood 
influences, now, you can trace 

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it back to the Garden of Eden 
and say, well, sexually sin. 

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It's when we chose to do wrong 
against God. 

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That's where you know, a curse 
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that's where people became 
Sinners. 

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But there was somebody that 
raise you to be like, you are 

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They weren't. 
Perfect. 

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And even if your parents are 
great, there's probably some 

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other influence in your life 
that had a negative impact on 

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the way. 
You think, listen, I had great 

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parents, my mom and dad were 
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But you know what? 
There were older kids on my 

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street and in my neighborhood, 
there were others in my circle 

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of influence, even at church 
some and they spoke things over 

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me. 
Like this, Joe, you'll never be 

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enough. 
You'll never be big enough. 

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You'll never be strong enough. 
Just Give up. 

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I mean, just little thing and 
usually, you know, it was said 

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as a joke, like, just kind of 
taking a jab at you a little 

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bit, but you have no idea what 
that does to a little mind, 

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because they had somebody's a 
little bit older. 

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You got our just cutting up, 
we're just goofing. 

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But as a kid you start taking 
that to heart and see. 

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Here's what I know about me. 
I have a performer personality 

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and so without Jesus, my natural
tendency is if I do. 

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Well, I feel like I'm worth 
something if I don't then I feel

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like I'm worth nothing. 
And so you pair all that 

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together and you know what? 
You get you get a very Keep in 

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mind, but you get somebody who's
styling about it for years. 

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But, you know, the question did 
have gone through my mind since 

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I was literally, since I was a 
kid and this is painful to dig 

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up because I've been going 
through it. 

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So, for so long, the questions 
like this. 

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Am I enough? 
Not till you guys course I am. 

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I'm called by God, but I'm going
to preach the word but it can I 

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tell you the back story? 
My mind. 

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Am I really enough? 
Am I good enough? 

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Am I smart enough because I look
around in the room. 

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There's a lot of you guys are 
way smarter than I am. 

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I just don't it. 
You're way smarter than me, you 

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more educated than me and I look
around. 

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My God. 
Why do they want to listen to 

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me? 
I'm not smart enough. 

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I look at my wife many times and
I go a, my husband enough. 

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A my dad enough I look at my 
kids and my daughter-in-laws, 

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and I go and my father-in-law 
enough and my dad enough. 

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I look at the church as a whole 
and I go and my pastor enough 

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and if you want to think that 
the enemy comes sometimes late 

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at night and just start pounding
on my yes it happens. 

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See for much of me though, I've 
traced it back with the help of 

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a good counselor and some 
mentors in my life. 

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I trace it back to things that 
happened when I was a kid. 

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You start thinking wrong, when 
your kids to listen There are 

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many things in your life that 
you may not have defined it. 

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And you're not defeating it 
because you didn't Define it, 

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but it's things that happened to
you as a kid. 

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You've never actually said, you 
know what, that's not how God 

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wants me to think, that's just 
how I was taught to think is 

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again. 
So there may be one of the most 

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freeing statements of holiday 
today. 

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God wants to free you from how 
you were taught to think, and 

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let you think like a child of 
God. 

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Also another thing that can be 
biology, just the way you are. 

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Some people may say, Hey, Joe, 
just the way I am, I just 

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wrestle with anxiety, you know? 
There's some truth to that. 

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There could be chemical 
imbalances. 

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In our brains, and in our 
bodies, there can be hormonal 

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changes that happen. 
We know this and listen, just 

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because it's not happen to you, 
don't judge your neighbor, don't

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judge somebody else. 
They may be going through 

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something you've never felt 
before. 

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Stop judging, we're not here to 
judge. 

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When it comes to what other 
people are feeling, but biology 

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can play a part. 
See some people may be prone to 

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be more mentally healthy than 
others. 

453
00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:20,300
That's not fair. 
That's just called life. 

454
00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,600
That's why we have to lift up 
people, but there are those 

455
00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,300
prone to anxiety, depression and
security, mental and help. 

456
00:20:26,300 --> 00:20:28,600
Here's another thing that brings
mental and health in our lives. 

457
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,300
Enos and what the Studies have 
shown is, especially prolonged 

458
00:20:33,300 --> 00:20:35,700
illness. 
It can be you, or you could be 

459
00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:39,600
caregiving for someone you love.
And so, we have to lip up our 

460
00:20:39,608 --> 00:20:41,600
lift, up our family, and 
friends, and neighbors during 

461
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,700
these times because it is really
easy to get to a place where you

462
00:20:44,700 --> 00:20:47,300
feel like it'll never change. 
I'm never going to be better. 

463
00:20:47,300 --> 00:20:49,500
I don't have any purpose anymore
and then the enemy comes over 

464
00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:50,900
and says you shouldn't even be 
here anymore. 

465
00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:54,500
Why be here. 
Let me give you another calls of

466
00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:56,600
mental and health substance. 
I just put substance but 

467
00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,500
especially substance abuse. 
Use of alcohol and drugs. 

468
00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:05,600
Now, here's the crazy thing. 
Every time you feel like you're 

469
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,100
under attack or your minds and 
healthy got I mean there are 

470
00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:10,400
these things that the enemy 
wants to say, why don't you just

471
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,400
numb it out? 
Why don't you just drink a 

472
00:21:12,408 --> 00:21:15,600
little too much that way. 
You'll just kind of forget about

473
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:16,300
it. 
You won't feel it. 

474
00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:18,900
You'll just feel Joy. 
I mean, just go smoke. 

475
00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:20,400
I know you. 
I know it's bad for you. 

476
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,600
I know you probably want your 
kids doing that but just go do 

477
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:24,300
it anyway, man. 
Because like, you know, that you

478
00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:26,000
can't you can't handle life 
without it. 

479
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,500
So just go every time you feel 
that way, just go smoke. 

480
00:21:28,500 --> 00:21:31,400
Now here's what the research 
shows though, the things that we

481
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,300
use to numb the pain or actually
like And fertilizer on the 

482
00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:35,700
problem. 
This is where addictions come 

483
00:21:35,700 --> 00:21:38,900
from many times mental 
Brokenness, you try to numb it. 

484
00:21:38,900 --> 00:21:41,300
And then next time, guess what? 
It takes more to nominate and 

485
00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:43,900
then it takes more to numb until
you're at a point where you feel

486
00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:45,800
so low. 
There's no help. 

487
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,300
This is where Jesus comes in, he
can lift you out, he can bring 

488
00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:52,500
you out of that. 
He can help you get a new 

489
00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:54,100
thought pattern going in your 
life. 

490
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,800
Here's another cause of mental 
and he'll trauma. 

491
00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:01,500
I don't know everybody's story, 
but I guarantee there's people 

492
00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:03,200
in the room and you have 
something in your past. 

493
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:07,200
That was That it could even be 
PTSD at this point that you've 

494
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,200
walked through or still walking 
through right now. 

495
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,700
It's very real. 
But it's not just about one big 

496
00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:14,700
event trauma that happens. 
Did you know that it's been 

497
00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:16,500
proven? 
Trauma can also be repeated 

498
00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:19,600
abuse, you can even call it. 
Small abuse repeated, small, 

499
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,300
abusive. 
You were beaten down verbally 

500
00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:23,600
for a long, long, long time. 
It's this, it equals the same 

501
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,600
thing in your brain as one big 
traumatic experience. 

502
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,400
It just leaves you to this place
where all of a sudden intrusive 

503
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,300
thoughts would just come over 
you and you'll feel worthless or

504
00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:36,200
afraid or fearful and it 
literally trauma literally can 

505
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,000
break your brain. 
But here's the good news, 

506
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,100
remember you can win. 
There's no trauma that can break

507
00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:45,100
you so badly that you can't find
healing in Jesus. 

508
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,200
Here's the last one. 
I'll talk about. 

509
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:48,500
And again, there could be a long
list. 

510
00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:51,300
I just wanted to kind of unpack 
these and say, hey, let's remove

511
00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:53,000
the stigma and just say, 
everybody in the room is 

512
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,500
impacted by some of these but 
the last one is self-inflicted 

513
00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:56,400
wounds. 
Whoo. 

514
00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:59,400
Like, I felt that one deep 
because I was like, how many 

515
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,400
times have I made decisions that
hurt myself and hurt my own 

516
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,900
mind, how many times has my own 
sin hurt me? 

517
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:09,300
So I want you to look one more 
time. 

518
00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:10,500
We're going to get this verse 
today. 

519
00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:15,200
What Paul says don't do like 
everyone else does. 

520
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,100
Don't just try to behave like 
everybody else. 

521
00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:19,700
Don't copy the customs and 
behaviors of the world, but let 

522
00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:23,700
God transform you into a new 
person by changing the way you 

523
00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:25,800
think. 
So we're going to walk through 

524
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,200
this idea over the next few 
weeks, but I want to introduce 

525
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,800
you, to the whole process. 
The Lord's really put on my 

526
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,300
heart. 
The first step to changing the 

527
00:23:33,300 --> 00:23:37,400
way you think is thinking about 
what you think about that. 

528
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,400
What we've said so far, but 
winning the war. 

529
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,000
In your mind is this you have to
evaluate your thoughts and 

530
00:23:43,008 --> 00:23:46,200
behaviors. 
Paul said, don't copy the 

531
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,700
behaviors. 
So you have to not only think 

532
00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:52,000
about your thought life, but 
where is a broken behavior in 

533
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,900
your life that you know, you 
need to change once you identify

534
00:23:55,900 --> 00:23:57,900
the broken Behavior? 
Here's what you'll find, there's

535
00:23:57,900 --> 00:23:59,800
a thought process somewhere 
behind that. 

536
00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:04,500
And so, where is God calling you
hire your warning to transform 

537
00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:07,300
you? 
We have to take time to evaluate

538
00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:09,500
and again, do you know why we 
don't evaluate? 

539
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:15,300
Because it's painful. 
Because it's painful evaluate 

540
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,300
take time to ask questions, you 
have to work on yourself and not

541
00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:20,800
just in the middle of the 
battle. 

542
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,600
Look what Paul says in 2nd 
Corinthians. 

543
00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:25,800
He said we destroy our arguments
and every lofty opinion raised 

544
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,000
against the knowledge of God and
we do what take every thought, 

545
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,900
captive, there's a war sentence 
for you. 

546
00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:34,300
It wore in my mind, I'm gonna 
take every thought, captive. 

547
00:24:34,300 --> 00:24:36,900
And I'm going to make my 
thoughts obedient to Christ. 

548
00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:38,000
You know what, the flip side of 
this. 

549
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,200
I'm not going to let my thoughts
rule my life. 

550
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,000
I'm going to make my thoughts 
obedience to Christ. 

551
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,600
Christ and my feelings obedient 
to Christ. 

552
00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:47,500
So how do you evaluate yourself?
Let me give you some questions 

553
00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:49,300
and by the way, we're going to 
put these questions out. 

554
00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:51,300
I didn't have them in the notes 
are on here today, but over the 

555
00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:53,600
next few days, we're going to 
put out a guy that has these 

556
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,100
questions for you and so if you 
can't get them all written down,

557
00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:58,000
that's okay. 
But we're gonna get them to you 

558
00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,900
both to Gainesville Oakwood. 
We're going to get this out to 

559
00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:02,200
you. 
What repetitive destructive 

560
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,000
thoughts. 
Do you have? 

561
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,600
Think about that for a minute? 
When you're sitting there out of

562
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,200
nowhere, what repetitive thought
runs in your mind, what 

563
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,600
intrusive thought do you have? 
And what I mean by that is if 

564
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,200
you do have trauma in your past,
you can be doing fine. 

565
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,900
And then all of a sudden, 
something can trigger you in 

566
00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:18,500
this, intrusive thought comes 
over you like you're gonna die, 

567
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,900
you shouldn't get in the car. 
You should never get old flame. 

568
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,600
I mean, it's these things that 
can just come over you. 

569
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,700
Listen to this question. 
What negative thoughts are 

570
00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:32,100
triggered by emotions in your 
life when you feel sad what- or 

571
00:25:32,108 --> 00:25:33,900
destructive thought patterns 
come up? 

572
00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:36,800
Here's something crazy. 
But I've seen this is, I've 

573
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,400
counseled people as a pastor, 
sometimes people even have 

574
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,200
negative thought patterns 
associated with joy in their 

575
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,800
life. 
As soon as everything's good, 

576
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,500
like everything's okay. 
I'm joyful. 

577
00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:49,300
It's a great day but you know 
what the thought pattern is 

578
00:25:49,300 --> 00:25:51,500
well, something bad's about to 
happen because every time I've 

579
00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:53,600
ever had peace in my life right 
around the corner. 

580
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,400
With something bad. 
You know what that is? 

581
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,300
That's a broken thought pattern.
So what does God say? 

582
00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:01,100
I'm working all things together 
for your good. 

583
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,800
I love you. 
I have plans for you. 

584
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,600
I purpose for you don't think 
like that, it's not that hard 

585
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,100
times are not going to come, but
I want good for you. 

586
00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:11,300
Here's another question. 
What sinful thoughts? 

587
00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:14,900
Do you entertain? 
What Temptations overwhelm your 

588
00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:17,500
thought life? 
That's evaluating your life. 

589
00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:21,100
Evaluating how you're doing? 
If you'll take time to answer 

590
00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:23,900
those questions, listen, You'll 
find Freedom in Jesus in one 

591
00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:25,700
area. 
Do you know what the enemy 

592
00:26:25,700 --> 00:26:28,000
hates? 
He hates it. 

593
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,500
When we stop just wanting to 
feel good about church and we 

594
00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:33,900
start taking action on getting 
life change, he hates it, do you

595
00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:36,600
know why the enemy hates it? 
When you start evaluating what's

596
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,800
going on in your mind? 
It's because at that moment 

597
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,900
meant was Wrong hole start 
breaking down and you start 

598
00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:44,500
taking your thoughts captive and
transformation comes you know 

599
00:26:44,508 --> 00:26:47,900
what the enemy hates a transform
man or woman of God in Jesus 

600
00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:51,200
Christ. 
But after you evaluate, here's 

601
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,400
the second piece, you have to do
in replace. 

602
00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:56,300
You have to replace the lies 
with the truth. 

603
00:26:56,300 --> 00:26:59,300
So as you evaluate, you then 
have to identify. 

604
00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:01,500
What am I believing? 
This is the great journaling 

605
00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:03,400
process by the way. 
What am I believing? 

606
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,600
What thought process is there? 
That shouldn't be there? 

607
00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:08,100
It's always going to be based on
a life. 

608
00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:10,500
There's a broken thought process
whether it's from the time you 

609
00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:12,800
were a kid till the last week 
something happened. 

610
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,900
It's always going to be based on
a lot. 

611
00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:18,800
So we have to identify lies and 
then we have to replace the 

612
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,400
lies. 
With true. 

613
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,800
See it's not just good enough to
say. 

614
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,500
I'm not going to believe a lie 
anymore. 

615
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,700
You have to also say I'm going 
to start believing the truth. 

616
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,700
You ever thought about this? 
Where does Ally come from? 

617
00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:34,900
Like you don't have to teach 
your kids to lie. 

618
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,300
Nobody had to teach me to anyway
maybe y'all holy when I was a 

619
00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:40,500
kid. 
I mean, nobody had to teach me 

620
00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:43,200
to lie. 
Where do those come from? 

621
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,300
Only show. 
You what Jesus said he's talking

622
00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:46,900
to the Pharisees here. 
So it's kind of getting really 

623
00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:48,500
hard on him. 
He's like dropping a bomb. 

624
00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:51,700
You're the children of your 
father, the devil. 

625
00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:53,600
It's pretty strong statement, 
right? 

626
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,900
And do you you love to do evil 
things? 

627
00:27:56,900 --> 00:27:58,400
He does. 
He was a murderer from the 

628
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,400
beginning. 
His always hated truth because 

629
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,500
there is no truth in him. 
When he lies it is consistent 

630
00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:08,000
with his character for. 
He is a liar and where do those 

631
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,800
come from? 
He's the father of them. 

632
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:17,400
The devil is the father of Lies 
so anytime you have a broken 

633
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,600
drop thought process guess what 
it's based on a lie that the 

634
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,700
enemy has told you somewhere 
could have come at you, not 

635
00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:25,900
through Satan himself, but 
through another person but it's 

636
00:28:25,900 --> 00:28:28,100
based on a lie. 
See, Satan's greatest weapon is 

637
00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:31,200
this lies? 
Deep, do you know what? 

638
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,600
The good news is about this. 
He has no new weapons, he has no

639
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,600
new tactics and he never will. 
Do you know what he did? 

640
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,000
The first sin was committed 
because Satan tempted Eve. 

641
00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:42,800
And then Adam failed in the 
garden. 

642
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,800
Do you know what he did? 
He lied, but he mixed just 

643
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,600
enough truth in with Ally to 
wear it sounded okay. 

644
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,300
But what does the scripture say?
There's no truth in him. 

645
00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:54,200
He hates the truth. 
He is the father of Lies. 

646
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,400
The good news is he has no new 
tactics, we know that he's 

647
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,500
coming at us with lies. 
Therefore, we can prepare to win

648
00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:02,700
our greatest weapon against the 
lies. 

649
00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:05,800
It's the truth of God's word. 
The truth of God's word. 

650
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,800
Say here's the deal. 
If you believe the lie that you 

651
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,000
are not enough then, guess what 
you will live as though you're 

652
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,400
not enough. 
Let me speak to all the women in

653
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,900
the house for a moment. 
If you believe the lie that you 

654
00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:19,900
were not enough, you will 
continue to live as though 

655
00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:22,900
you're not enough, even though 
God says your chosen your minds 

656
00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:27,700
your redeemed, you are worthy. 
Let me speak to the men in the 

657
00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:30,200
room for a moment. 
Maybe life is beating you down? 

658
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,000
Maybe it's your fault. 
Maybe it's somebody else's 

659
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,800
fault. 
If you live as though, you are 

660
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,800
not with, if you believe in your
mind that I'm not really worthy,

661
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,200
then guess what you will live as
though, you're not worthy. 

662
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,000
Let me speak to the addicts in 
the house who love Jesus but 

663
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,400
you're still struggling or maybe
you don't love Jesus yet maybe 

664
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,200
you're not surrender but your 
stroke if you don't believe you 

665
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,600
can beat Addiction in Jesus 
name, you never will. 

666
00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:54,400
I'm not saying that you don't 
need help and counseling and 

667
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,400
rehab and you don't need small. 
Group community in God's word, 

668
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,300
you need all the tools but I'm 
just saying if you believe I can

669
00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:03,000
never beat that and guess what? 
You probably never will. 

670
00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:06,500
If you don't believe that you 
can be forgiven because the I 

671
00:30:06,508 --> 00:30:08,200
know some of you like me, you 
gotta pass. 

672
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,600
How many of you got a pass? 
Come on Oakwood. 

673
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,700
If you got a pass, the enemy 
will come along and say you can 

674
00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:17,900
never be forgiven and if you 
believe that you will live in 

675
00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:21,800
Shane for the rest of your life,
Here's the saddest part. 

676
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,500
There are some followers of 
Jesus who have given their lives

677
00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:27,200
to him and still live in shame 
every day. 

678
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,100
If you don't think you can be 
transformed by Christ, then you 

679
00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:35,100
won't pick up the weapons. 
He's giving you the live New 

680
00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:38,500
Life by the spirit. 
Let me give you a powerful 

681
00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:40,000
truth. 
This actually came from a book. 

682
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,400
I read from Pastor Craig 
groeschel on the subject. 

683
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:47,700
If you believe a lie that lie 
will impact your life is those 

684
00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:50,900
true. 
Thought about that when I 

685
00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:53,600
believe lies about me when I 
believe I'm not worthy all of a 

686
00:30:53,608 --> 00:30:57,000
sudden I live as though, I'm not
worthy when I believe that I'm 

687
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,400
not good enough to pass through 
this church. 

688
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,100
Guess what? 
I started making decisions like 

689
00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:02,900
I'm not good enough to pass 
through this church I believe I 

690
00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:04,400
can't be a good enough father 
guess what? 

691
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:10,200
I start making decisions as 
though See, once you thought 

692
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,000
something enough times, 
especially alive. 

693
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,600
Do you know what it creates in 
our lives? 

694
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,400
It creates a rut in our brain. 
Literally that's my country boy 

695
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,300
term for a neural pathway. 
All right. 

696
00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:20,800
I would never use that word in 
the sentence. 

697
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,100
But rut I know it'll run is 
neuropath way. 

698
00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:27,100
I know what it is to get your 
mind in a rut, and you can't get

699
00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:30,000
out of it, but it's called 
scientifically a neuro pathway 

700
00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,400
see when she thought a negative 
thought over and over and over 

701
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,200
again, and maybe it's been 
reinforced in your life. 

702
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,400
Let me give you an example 
somewhere along the way. 

703
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,300
Somebody told you when you're a 
kid, you're not enough for your 

704
00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:41,600
parents made, you feel like that
and then you made a bad grade at

705
00:31:41,608 --> 00:31:44,400
school and the teacher said, you
know what, you're not smart and 

706
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,000
then you tried out for the 
basketball team and you didn't 

707
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,700
make the basketball team coach 
said, hey, you're not good 

708
00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:50,500
enough. 
And then you ask the girl on the

709
00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:52,100
date. 
Finally, and she I said no and 

710
00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:54,200
that told you again rejection. 
You're not good enough. 

711
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,600
You know what you believe after 
a while there's a trench in your

712
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:57,900
brain that the rest of your 
life. 

713
00:31:57,900 --> 00:31:59,400
I'm not good enough. 
I'm not good enough. 

714
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,000
I've tried it, I'm not good 
enough but here's the beauty. 

715
00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:06,200
Did you know that lie? 
Ruts can be replaced with truth 

716
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,800
trenches. 
You can actually physically 

717
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,200
change and rewire your brain to 
where your natural throat 

718
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,300
process. 
I can do this because the Christ

719
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:16,200
I can do all things through 
Christ. 

720
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,400
Who strengthens me? 
So we can literally change remap

721
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,200
our brains. 
Its Fizz is scientifically 

722
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,100
mapped out now. 
And again there's a lot of words

723
00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:26,500
I had in my first set of notes 
and I'm like I can't pronounce 

724
00:32:26,500 --> 00:32:28,900
that so I can't say it to you 
but here's what I will tell you 

725
00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:32,900
truth, trenches can literally 
take the place of lie. 

726
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:34,600
Ruts, you ever been four 
wheeling before. 

727
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,900
I'm going to help my country boy
Roots again here. see if 

728
00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:40,200
somebody went through a mud hole
before you and a truck that was 

729
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,100
bigger than yours, You know what
you got to do? 

730
00:32:43,100 --> 00:32:44,200
Stay out of the ruts. 
You know why? 

731
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,200
Because once you fall off in a 
rut that you can't get out, I 

732
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,000
mean, you were either stuck. 
Are you gonna have to follow 

733
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,600
that rut all the way through the
mud hole? 

734
00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:53,900
So many of us in our brains, we 
fallen off in the Rut like a mud

735
00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:56,300
hole and we can't get out. 
We're just spinning our Wheels 

736
00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:58,200
right now, same little track, 
all the way down. 

737
00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:02,100
Here's the good news. 
We can replace lie, ruts with 

738
00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:05,300
truth, trenches and God's word 
gives us hope of that. 

739
00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:08,400
Change the way you think, the 
Holy Spirit has given you power 

740
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,700
to get out of the rut establish,
a new trench of thinking? 

741
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,900
A true trench of thinking, see 
it's an ongoing process here. 

742
00:33:15,900 --> 00:33:19,500
But here's the third part of it,
we must then, establish you got,

743
00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:22,200
evaluate your thoughts, you 
gotta replace lies with truth, 

744
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,000
but you can't stop here. 
Honestly, this is what can 

745
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,700
happen on a Sunday morning. 
Sometimes you can be sitting out

746
00:33:27,700 --> 00:33:30,500
there thinking, man. 
He's right, there's a broken 

747
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:33,700
thought process I'm evaluating 
right now in church and you know

748
00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:37,000
I need to get some truth from 
God's word to replace that lie 

749
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,000
with. 
But then we walk out of here and

750
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,400
guess what life is you and your 
wife getting a I don't know, way

751
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,300
home, you're not speaking. 
You kids are, you know, beating 

752
00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:49,700
each other in the back seat, you
get home and you get the bills 

753
00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:52,300
out of the out of the other, you
know, out or you get a phone 

754
00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:55,000
call collections calls, you get 
right there and then at that 

755
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,200
moment you think you know what 
you're not worthy, you're not 

756
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,300
worth it, you'll never be it 
comes right back on you. 

757
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:01,900
Again, this is the part where 
you were going to have to work 

758
00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:03,400
over the next four weeks. 
If we want to see 

759
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,600
transformation, establish these 
true trenches, it's not a one 

760
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,600
and done. 
This is why you can't just make 

761
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,199
up your mind to change. 
And and we Fall. 

762
00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:15,100
Right back many times. 
You have to renew your mind that

763
00:34:15,100 --> 00:34:19,400
ongoing process letting the Holy
Spirit and God's true change. 

764
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,800
How you think and what and 
perceive what's going on around 

765
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,300
you thinking establishing new 
thinking habits? 

766
00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:26,800
Here's something amazing that I 
found it. 

767
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,800
I studied this. 
Do you know what the weapons to 

768
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,400
establish, true? 
Trenches are like to establish 

769
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,500
them obviously being in God's 
word every day. 

770
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:38,199
Simply what it means to follow 
Jesus. 

771
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:39,800
Just like I'm going to read 
God's word every day. 

772
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,100
I'm gonna get my Bible app out 
instead of scrolling Facebook. 

773
00:34:42,100 --> 00:34:44,100
First, I'm going to open up you 
version. 

774
00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:46,300
I'm going to start reading 
scripture over my life. 

775
00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:49,100
First thing, I'm going to open 
my bible at the table. 

776
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,500
I'm going to read that God's 
word is a weapon to start. 

777
00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:55,900
Forming a new true trench prayer
is a weapon. 

778
00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:59,600
Christian Community, is a weapon
that God has given us being in 

779
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,100
church together. 
Worshiping there's something 

780
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:04,400
powerful about rewiring your 
thinking being around other 

781
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,200
people who are going to lift you
up instead of pushing. 

782
00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:09,100
Down pull you out. 
Instead of pushing you back 

783
00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:11,400
where you came from? 
Listen, that changes everything.

784
00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:14,000
And so, renewing our mind in 
Christ. 

785
00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:16,000
It's actually just following 
Jesus. 

786
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,100
Just being a follower of Christ.
Now, you may need a counselor, 

787
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:20,900
sometimes we may need 
medication. 

788
00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:23,000
Listen, you may need help, you 
may need mentors. 

789
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,100
You may need a small group is 
just pour into you. 

790
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,800
But who knew the daily practices
of changing? 

791
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,100
Our thinking habits is literally
just daily Walking With Jesus. 

792
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,100
I thought about it. 
You ever been to some of you did

793
00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:36,800
this in January. 
You haven't been to the gym all 

794
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,300
year, but then in January, like,
I'm going to change my health 

795
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,100
and you went to the gym. 
How did you feel the next day? 

796
00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:45,300
Terrible? 
Right, there's somebody I Greg 

797
00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:46,800
on our staff. 
I remember he went to the gym 

798
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,300
the first time he was like, I'm 
tapping out matters to our, he 

799
00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:51,700
finally got back in there, he's 
like, but he pushed through it 

800
00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:53,300
when I first started going back 
to then. 

801
00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:55,800
Just guess what? 
You hurt all over. 

802
00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:58,000
This is how it is with changing 
out. 

803
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,100
The way that we think at first, 
it hurts all over, but then, 

804
00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:03,400
eventually time after time, you 
just keep going. 

805
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,800
And Day by day, and you get 
stronger, and stronger than that

806
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,500
new way of thinking takes over. 
And remember, you got a holy 

807
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:11,200
spirit, super power, that's 
going to help you with this, but

808
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,900
there's actually one more step 
that I've got to point out today

809
00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:17,700
and that's this once we've 
established it. 

810
00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:20,600
Okay, I'm establishing this, I'm
going to start declaring it. 

811
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,700
This may be the most powerful 
piece declare the truth over 

812
00:36:24,700 --> 00:36:27,600
your life until you believe it 
can see. 

813
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,300
For some of you I can look at 
you and I can say, you know, 

814
00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:36,000
that God says that he has a good
Plan for your life and you hear 

815
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,200
that and it kind of impacts how 
you think for a second. 

816
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,300
But then your old thought 
process takes back over again. 

817
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000
But the next week when I see, 
you know, I always say you 

818
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,800
matter so much because you don't
believe it. 

819
00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:47,900
Sometimes you come in, not 
believing it. 

820
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,600
And so I come up again and I 
say, you know what Oakwood you 

821
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,000
matter I look at the people here
in Gainesville, you know what, 

822
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,500
watch it. 
We have so many faithful one 

823
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,000
reporter Riverbend that watch 
online. 

824
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,100
I look at you and I say you 
matter, you know why? 

825
00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:01,900
Because you get so beaten down. 
You don't believe it. 

826
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,500
But every time somebody else 
says, it to you, every time you 

827
00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:06,700
say, it out of your mouth, you 
know what I do matter in Jesus 

828
00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:09,100
name, all of a sudden, a new 
trend starts getting cut in your

829
00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:11,900
mind and eventually you'll start
living in such a way. 

830
00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:15,600
And so we have to evaluate 
replace establish and declare. 

831
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,000
Now we talked about this idea 
before, but look what Jesus 

832
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,400
said. 
It's not what goes into your 

833
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,700
mouth that defiles you your 
defiled by the Words that come 

834
00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:25,300
out of your mouth. 
Check this out. 

835
00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:27,900
You often think that your words 
are just impacting other people,

836
00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:30,000
but guess whose ears also hear 
the words? 

837
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,100
You say, you do. 
In Jesus name, the truth of 

838
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:37,500
God's word spoken from our 
mouths. 

839
00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:42,600
Literally can change how we 
think make a declaration over 

840
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,700
your life. 
Speak truth until you believe 

841
00:37:44,700 --> 00:37:47,300
it. 
Hopefully do this process. 

842
00:37:47,300 --> 00:37:49,000
Some of you guys are going to 
write a sentence. 

843
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,200
That's a declaration that you 
need replace the lie with truth.

844
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,200
Start establishing a new way of 
thinking about your life about 

845
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,300
your spouse, about finances, 
about the addiction you wrestle 

846
00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:03,100
with about the piece in your 
piece of you, you want to see 

847
00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:05,800
transformed by Christ, start 
thinking differently, but this 

848
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,700
start declaring God's word over 
it just speak it over you. 

849
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,200
Instead of saying I am not 
enough you can say in Christ. 

850
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,400
I know that I'm enough. 
I have a Hard time with that. 

851
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:21,000
I have a hard time saying. 
I am enough still to this day 

852
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,900
because they're still old rut in
my brain up here. 

853
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,900
They want to go down that path. 
I used to go down but eventually

854
00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:27,700
you come to the point. 
Go ahead. 

855
00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:29,600
It's not about me. 
I'm not being prideful, I'm just

856
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,800
saying Jesus died for me. 
He thought I was that valuable 

857
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,100
as to die for me. 
So I must have some value right 

858
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:40,100
in him. 
So I say, I am forgiven, I'm a 

859
00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:43,500
Child of God, I do have purpose,
I can change because Jesus said,

860
00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:46,500
I can, I can start over. 
Or because the mercy of the Lord

861
00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:48,700
is new every morning, I am free 
in Christ. 

862
00:38:48,700 --> 00:38:50,700
There's no sinner bondage that 
can hold me back. 

863
00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:53,000
I'm a new creation. 
I am loved. 

864
00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:56,100
Do you hear how even just 
reading those things over the 

865
00:38:56,100 --> 00:39:01,500
room, like lifts the room today?
Listen, the bottom line is, we 

866
00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:03,900
begin the stalwart journey 
journey today is this. 

867
00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:06,000
We're going to walk in deeper in
these in the next few weeks. 

868
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,000
But for you, is it time to start
thinking about what you're 

869
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,300
thinking about, do you need to 
declare thought were so you can 

870
00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:14,100
start winning in Jesus name 
Church? 

871
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,900
It is time to fight. 
I'm so tired of people thinking 

872
00:39:16,900 --> 00:39:20,500
that hope is a battle tactic. 
We talked about Hope and 

873
00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:23,000
projecting hope we do. 
We have hope in his name is 

874
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,400
Jesus. 
He's the anchor for our souls. 

875
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,900
I know all that. 
But listen if you hope and you 

876
00:39:26,908 --> 00:39:28,500
don't fight, you're going to 
lose. 

877
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,800
You can't just hope. 
You've got to actually say, I'm 

878
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,300
at War, I'm declaring, thought 
war, and I'm ready to win it in 

879
00:39:35,308 --> 00:39:36,900
Christ. 
I'm going to change my thinking 

880
00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:41,100
and let him change my life. 
So, I'm going to ask you both 

881
00:39:41,100 --> 00:39:43,800
here in at Oakwood. 
Just a couple of difficult 

882
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,300
questions. 
Are you wrestling in your mental

883
00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:49,700
health today? 
And in your thought processes, 

884
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,300
you may not even see it as 
mental unhealthy. 

885
00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:54,700
You may just see it as I just 
got some broken thought 

886
00:39:54,700 --> 00:39:57,800
processes in my brain. 
How I think about myself, how 

887
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,800
think about the world around me?
And the second question is this,

888
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,100
are you really ready to do was 
going to take to get 

889
00:40:04,100 --> 00:40:07,400
transformation? 
So you may be for you today, may

890
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,000
be watching online maybe at 
Oakwood today. 

891
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,300
If you are at a place where 
you've never surrendered your 

892
00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:14,100
life to Christ, then you're 
fighting alone. 

893
00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:16,300
That's why I say you can take 
all these. 

894
00:40:16,300 --> 00:40:19,200
You can take these steps and you
can apply them to your life. 

895
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,400
But without surrender to Jesus, 
you're missing the superpower 

896
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,200
which is the spirit of God that 
helps you. 

897
00:40:25,700 --> 00:40:28,400
The lifts you up that empowers 
you to make a change? 

898
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,400
He is the life change. 
He is the new life inside of you

899
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,600
and so maybe the first step to 
winning the war in your mind is 

900
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,400
Just Surrender Your Life to 
Jesus and say Today. 

901
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,200
Jesus, I'm ready to surrender. 
My life is yours. 

902
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,800
My life is yours, but I do want 
to ask you. 

903
00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:47,600
Today to respond with your feet.
So in just a moment, I want to 

904
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:51,000
ask this both here in at Oakwood
to stand up and as I asked us to

905
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,000
stay in. 
Here's what I want you to do a 

906
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,900
bold declaration and say Joe, I 
need somebody to declare some 

907
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,900
truth and some hope over my life
today I'm ready to start the war

908
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,100
but here's what the Lord led me 
to end with today whether you 

909
00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:06,200
just surrendered your life to 
Christ or you're already a 

910
00:41:06,207 --> 00:41:09,800
Christ follower or you just want
this decoration spoken over you 

911
00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:12,300
in Christ. 
If you change your thinking you 

912
00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:14,600
can change your life but I think
it's gonna take a bold and 

913
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,200
courageous step. 
Someone asks you to come down 

914
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:17,600
here. 
That's you in just a moment 

915
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,200
Oakwood. 
I'm gonna ask you to push your 

916
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,300
way to the front and I'm going 
to declare God just kind of led 

917
00:41:22,300 --> 00:41:24,400
me to write down some words and 
I want to read it, but I want to

918
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,700
declare it over you today 
because I believe what it, what 

919
00:41:26,700 --> 00:41:28,900
if this is the first step is 
somebody else. 

920
00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:31,100
Because maybe, you don't even 
believe you can win, but I do. 

921
00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:34,500
And so I wanted to clear it over
you today. 

922
00:41:35,900 --> 00:41:38,900
Here's what I asked us to do, if
that's you and you go Joe. 

923
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:41,700
I'm wrestling in my mind. 
I need somebody to declare it 

924
00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:43,300
over. 
Listen, remove the stigma, who 

925
00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:44,400
cares? 
We're not talking about what 

926
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,700
you're wrestling with, it can be
brand-new or and old thing. 

927
00:41:47,700 --> 00:41:49,900
But what if the first step is 
you getting honest with God. 

928
00:41:49,900 --> 00:41:51,900
Thinking about what you're 
thinking about and let's start 

929
00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:54,700
declaring hope over it today. 
So here's what I want to do on 

930
00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:56,800
the count of three, I'm going to
say standing as you stand. 

931
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,200
I want you to come both here in 
Oakwood one, two, three, come 

932
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,400
on, stay and come on down here 
right now, if that's you, I want

933
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,100
you to crowd in as close as you 
can. 

934
00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:04,700
Come on down here. 
Come on right here y'all. 

935
00:42:04,700 --> 00:42:07,100
Come on over. 
Yes, come on Oakwood. 

936
00:42:07,100 --> 00:42:08,900
Come on down, right here to the 
front right now. 

937
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,100
Thank you for your obedience. 
Y'all crowd in right here. 

938
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:14,200
Come on. 
I'm gonna give you a minute, 

939
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,200
don't wait. 
If the if the if the Lord's 

940
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,800
already spoke to your heart, you
already felt like that drawing. 

941
00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:20,800
I want you to come on down here,
come on right here to the front.

942
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,300
Come around me right here. 
It's okay. 

943
00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:24,200
There's nothing's gonna bite 
right here in the front. 

944
00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:28,500
Come on down, waiting on you. 
Come on Oak Wood, right here to 

945
00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:34,500
the front on down here. 
Here's what I want you to do 

946
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,500
during the room today. 
I want you to help me and just 

947
00:42:37,500 --> 00:42:39,500
pray for the people that are 
here because I'm tell you guys, 

948
00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:42,000
I'm proud of you because this is
a bold step to get out of your 

949
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,300
seat and come here you guys at 
Oakwood. 

950
00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:47,000
I'm proud of you because it's 
hard, it's not easy Bears. 

951
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,100
Don't want you to do. 
If you're here, I want to ask if

952
00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:51,300
you feel comfortable with it, 
you know, close your eyes, and I

953
00:42:51,308 --> 00:42:53,700
want you to listen to the words,
I want to speak over you today. 

954
00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:02,800
In Christ, you are enough. 
No matter what addiction or 

955
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:04,800
regret or past sin or 
Brokenness? 

956
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,700
You've come here with in Jesus 
Christ, you are forgiven and 

957
00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:11,000
free. 
If you feel like a loser, you 

958
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,800
are a winner in Christ. 
If you feel defeated, you are a 

959
00:43:14,808 --> 00:43:18,500
Victor in Christ. 
If you feel like your life is 

960
00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:21,300
not worth living, you have a God
who stepped out of Heaven. 

961
00:43:21,300 --> 00:43:24,200
His name is Jesus Christ. 
He thought your life was so 

962
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,700
valuable that he went to the 
cross for you, he has purpose 

963
00:43:28,700 --> 00:43:31,200
for you. 
If you feel like you miss the 

964
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,000
opportunity in the past, your 
life isn't over your serve. 

965
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,200
A God, who says your story isn't
over? 

966
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,100
Jesus can redeem time and make 
something out of nothing. 

967
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,000
The mercy of the Lord is new 
every morning, over your life, 

968
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,600
you're gonna go to sleep tonight
and God's Mercy is gonna hit you

969
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:49,400
brand-new in the morning. 
No matter how broken you come to

970
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,300
him today, whether your thoughts
are broken, whether you have 

971
00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:55,000
mental illness, whether you just
been beaten down by life. 

972
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,400
For too long listing, you are 
loved. 

973
00:43:57,500 --> 00:44:02,800
You are valuable you matter and 
today is a new day as you 

974
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,800
surrender your life to Jesus 
today. 

975
00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:07,100
As you make this bold 
declaration to get out of your 

976
00:44:07,100 --> 00:44:10,000
seats, we Proclaim as your 
friends, as your brothers and 

977
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,600
sisters, you can change your 
thinking, Let Jesus change your 

978
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,500
life. 
May the Lord set you free today.

979
00:44:17,500 --> 00:44:20,300
In Jesus name and everybody 
said, amen. 

980
00:44:20,300 --> 00:44:22,200
Can we just give the Lord a hand
for what he's doing today? 

981
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,100
Thank you, guys. 
I'll let you all be seated and 

982
00:44:25,100 --> 00:44:26,700
Oakwood. 
You can be seated, come on, 

983
00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:29,600
stand up together unless worship
together as we close this time 

984
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,800
out today. 
We declare war. 

985
00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:35,100
Thank you for listening to the 
Riverbend Church podcast. 

986
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,000
Learn more about who we are as a
church and how to connect you 

987
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,000
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