1 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:07,680 You're very welcome to today's Triumph Church podcast. 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,440 We pray that you enjoy the message. 3 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,040 Thank you. Thank you. 4 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,280 Wow, what an honor to be here and be in your beautiful 5 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,920 country. Can I tell you something you 6 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:27,960 have? A beautiful country. 7 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:33,720 We've been here for 9 days, 10 days and we haven't seen an ugly 8 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,560 place yet. And I'm going to tell you, we 9 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:39,400 haven't seen ugly people. Yet. 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:44,440 Well, there might have been 2IN Dingle, but other than that they 11 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,600 were on the line whether they were ugly or not. 12 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:52,000 Every The country is so beautiful, so green. 13 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,560 Oh my goodness, I wish every day I get up I have to fight envy 14 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:01,000 because my yard does not look like any yard here. 15 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,160 Any field. Your roads are mostly green 16 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:09,240 compared to my yard. And it it is just at we have had 17 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,240 the time of our life. Last week we got the to minister 18 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:20,960 at Pastors Amy's parents church and it's just it's it's just you 19 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:24,920 just have absolute beautiful country and it's we have known 20 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:29,760 pastors Brad and Amy for known about them for years, many 21 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,320 years. We are dear friends with their 22 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:35,600 pastors, Mark and Janet Brizzy and we would see them from a 23 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,440 distance and I get their newsletters and things of that 24 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,560 nature and we've just admired them for years. 25 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,080 A young couple would leave the comforts of the States and come 26 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,880 to a land that they know nobody in and and have no roots in. 27 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,960 But they come because the Lord sent them and and and have set 28 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,760 up home and have this has become their home and you have loved 29 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:04,000 them and we just we honor you. We honor you and it, it's so 30 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:08,639 wonderful to see the greatest young man in all of Ireland, 31 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,400 Aiden and, and, and the reason we know that's because his 32 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,120 grandmother told us and she said, you get to see my 33 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:23,560 beautiful, my handsome, talented, brilliant, smart 34 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,400 grandson. And I'm thinking, my God, this 35 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:33,640 is his father, son, Holy Ghost. And Aiden, I mean, it's, that's 36 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:36,920 the order and he hasn't disappointed me yet. 37 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:42,800 Yes, yesterday pastors Brad and Amy took us, showed us around, 38 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,480 showed us several things and was so fortunate to get to have a 39 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,000 meal with them. And Aiden didn't get to go. 40 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,800 He had to have tea with his baby sister. 41 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,720 Now I'm going to tell you what an 18 year old that willingly 42 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,880 has tea with his baby sister. You are part of the Trinity. 43 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:03,800 I guarantee you we don't see that in the States. 44 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,480 Tea. I ain't having tea with that 45 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,200 brat, you know, and the name you know. 46 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:12,840 So it's just such a such an honor to be here. 47 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:19,440 Let me tell you about this book. If you know Trinity College here 48 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:24,160 in your Trinity College and Manuth University did a study in 49 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:28,600 2023 that came out at the end of 2023. 50 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:37,360 That tells us that 42% of all adults in Ireland are dealing 51 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:43,320 with some type of mental health issue. 42% that's not, that's 52 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,480 your university's. Trinity College and Manuka 53 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:52,040 University did a study. 42% of all adults in Ireland are 54 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:56,480 dealing with some mental health issue and they think it's higher 55 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,200 than that because they do know this. 56 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:04,520 And this is true in every nation that the majority of people who 57 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,800 are struggling never seek treatment. 58 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,440 They're either ashamed or scared or don't know how to seek 59 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,600 treatment for some type of mental health issue. 60 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,760 And so they really don't know what the numbers are. 61 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:24,080 That 42% are those numbers that they know of it because those 62 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,560 people have sought some type of treatment. 63 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,080 And when we talk about mental health issues, we're not 64 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:30,880 talking. Most people think, well, they're 65 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:32,920 just crazy. They're we're not talking about 66 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:34,840 that. We're talking about depression. 67 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,800 We're talking about being bipolar. 68 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:42,000 We're talking about dramatic mood swings that it hinders you 69 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,120 from being your best on certain days. 70 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,760 We're talking about fears, phobias. 71 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,680 We're talking and many of the people because sometimes the 72 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,120 weather, a lot of the time the weather might not have the sun. 73 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,640 We've been blessed with sun this week, but a lot of people here 74 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,120 struggle with the lack of sun here and it makes them feel 75 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,680 gloomy. And so it could be 76 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:09,000 schizophrenia, multi personality disorders, it could be some type 77 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,600 of family situation that your family, your grandmother was 78 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,400 depressed, your mama's struggle with depression or daddy 79 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,400 struggled with depression and now you're struggling with 80 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,720 depression. It could be a myriad of 81 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,920 different ailments. Anything that affects us 82 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:29,320 mentally that hinders us from being our best for God. 83 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,640 Your country, your universities have discovered that 42% of the 84 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:39,040 adults in this in this nation. And the reason why that is, and 85 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:43,040 it's true about every nation, the reason about why that is, is 86 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,800 because Satan operates in the arena of thought. 87 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:49,640 And that's one thing we must learn. 88 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,280 And we Christians have been slow. 89 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,280 We know there's a devil and we talked about spiritual warfare 90 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:59,200 and we read about it in the book of of Daniel where Daniel prayed 91 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:04,280 and the Angel came back and said the Prince of Persia or the 92 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:06,680 demonic personality of Persia, that's over. 93 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,640 Persia has withstood us coming back and giving you the answer 94 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,720 from God. So we get to get this solo 95 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,640 thinking, this focus thing that all spiritual warfare is up in 96 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,360 the heavenlies and we got to pull it down and take authority 97 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,640 over it. And there is spiritual warfare 98 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,840 in the heavenlies. The Bible talks about that. 99 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,360 But the greatest spiritual warfare that happens in our life 100 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:36,560 takes place between our ears and behind our eyes because Satan 101 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,760 operates in the arena of thought. 102 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,840 He's never showed up at my house, and he'll never show up 103 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:46,760 at your house in a red devil suit in a pitchfork and ring the 104 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:48,440 doorbell and say, hey, I'm the devil. 105 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,680 I'm here to torment you. How does he come? 106 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,040 How does he mess with us? How does he tempt us? 107 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,040 He tempt us in our thought life. And here's how. 108 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,640 Here's how. How a creative he has learned to 109 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:07,920 be is that he'll get on one side of your shoulder and whisper a 110 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,080 thought in your ear and then immediately come around the 111 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,080 other side on the other side and whisper this thought. 112 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,080 If you were really a Christian, you wouldn't be thinking that. 113 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:20,440 Yet He's the one that put it in your mind. 114 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,800 And I didn't understand these truths, and I didn't understand 115 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,720 the five simple truths I'm going to share with you this morning. 116 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:33,600 And when I was 29 years old, my grandmother was a frequent guest 117 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,440 patient at a mental hospital. Back years ago, they in America, 118 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:43,600 they called them insane asylums. OK, where they just and years 119 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:48,200 ago, the compassion care for those people struggling mentally 120 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,840 wasn't as compassionate as it is today. 121 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,000 Back then, when my grandmother was alive and struggling with 122 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:00,120 it, they just put people away, out of sight, out of mind, and 123 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,080 she was in a mental hospital. My aunt, her daughter, spent 124 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,680 time in the same mental hospital. 125 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:12,520 My dad struggled with mental health issues. 126 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,400 And I thought growing up, I thought they were. 127 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,440 Weak. I thought they were just being 128 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,160 lazy, get out of bed, go to work. 129 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,880 Stopped acting that way. I just thought because it never 130 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:30,080 affected me. And then, at the age of 29, out 131 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,960 of the clear blue, a spirit of depression got on me. 132 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,919 And I wouldn't. I didn't hardly leave my house. 133 00:08:36,919 --> 00:08:40,840 For a solid. Year because of paranoia and I 134 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:45,360 couldn't turn my mind off. Terrible, harassing, tormenting, 135 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,400 unhealthy, impure, faults racing through my mind, Fearful 136 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,800 thoughts racing through my mind. I never slept over 3 hours a 137 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,400 night. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't get 138 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,880 my mind to turn off. And it was during that one year 139 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,440 period that the Lord began to teach me how to break that thing 140 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:07,000 over our family and how to overcome thought attacks and 141 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,600 this spirit of mental health crises that had been running 142 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,040 through my family. And that's where this book came 143 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,520 from, conquering the chaos in your mind. 144 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,800 It's literally my story and how the Lord appeared to me and 145 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,880 taught me some things and how I went to heaven once and, and he 146 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,440 shared with me some things about I'm why I'm here today. 147 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:29,880 He showed me that this would be my ministry. 148 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,440 So everywhere I go nationally or internationally, I teach on the 149 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,400 fault life because I'm under mandate to do that to help 150 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,120 people get free. So if you would like this book, 151 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:42,880 you can get it back. There's just my story. 152 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,880 I'm not here to sell books. If you don't have the money and 153 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,240 would like to have it, you don't have the money, just grab you 154 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:50,720 one. Just grab you one. 155 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,240 OK, We have in America they call grab it and go. 156 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,000 So they go, they go into department stores and whatever 157 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,120 they want, they grab it and go, well, don't grab it and go tell 158 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,520 somebody back there I'm grabbing it. 159 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:06,160 And then you go, OK, but, but they are, I think they're $15 160 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,280 euro. But if you'd like 1, you can get 161 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,120 them back there or you can just take one. 162 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,160 If you don't have the money, we'd love to give it to you. 163 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,960 We just want our message is just to get the message out. 164 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,440 Anybody want this one? Anybody, anybody want this one? 165 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,640 I'm I've got it up here. Anybody want? 166 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,880 Nobody want you want it, sister, You want it? 167 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,320 All right, here you go. You can have it. 168 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:29,240 Pay the lady back there. 15 year olds OK. 169 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:32,960 I'm just kidding, it works every time. 170 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,240 It don't make any. There's what city I'm in, what 171 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,960 nation I'm in. People, suckers fall for that 172 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:44,600 line every time. 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 For though we walk in 173 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,440 the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. 174 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,920 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty 175 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,960 through God, to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down 176 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:01,560 imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against 177 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:06,920 the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every 178 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,280 thought to the obedience of Christ. 179 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,040 Here's something I want you to understand. 180 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:20,360 If you and I do not take our thoughts captive, our thoughts 181 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:25,000 will take us captive either. You and I will take our thoughts 182 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,280 captive, or our thoughts. Will take us captive. 183 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:33,040 How many of you have, like me in the past, have had a thought get 184 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,960 in your mind and it just ruined your day? 185 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:42,240 It might have ruined your week and then you found out later 186 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,800 that that which was ruining you. That thought wasn't even 187 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,440 accurate at all. It was inaccurate information, 188 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:54,440 or that fear that paralyzed you for a week, or a day, or maybe a 189 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,720 month. Turned out it never 190 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,080 materialized. It never happened what you were 191 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:04,280 scared of and the thoughts that were tormenting you never came 192 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:07,480 into reality. See, we have to learn this 193 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,320 truth. Satan operates in the arena of 194 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:14,000 thought and we have a choice as believers in the Lord Jesus 195 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,480 Christ. Because remember what Jesus said 196 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:19,520 in Luke chapter 10. Behold, I give you authority 197 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:25,040 over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means 198 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,640 hurt you. And where Satan's power lies is 199 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:34,760 by putting deceptive thoughts in our minds and we grabbing hold 200 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:39,760 of those and believing that. So we have to take every thought 201 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,080 captive. It's not a suggestion, it's a 202 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,160 commandment from the Lord. And 2nd Corinthians chapter 10, 203 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:47,680 Satan operates in the arena of thought. 204 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:50,080 Let me show it to you again from the Scripture. 205 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:51,760 Turn with me. You have your Bibles. 206 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:56,400 Turn with me to 2nd Corinthians chapter 4. 2nd Corinthians 207 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:00,800 chapter 4 verses 3 and 4. Second Corinthians chapter 4 208 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,320 verses 3 and 4. I'm just going to read it from 209 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,360 the new King James Version. I like them all, but it's just 210 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,640 the one I happened to pull up. Listen to what the Apostle Paul 211 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,480 says to Christians. He's talking to Christians now. 212 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,920 He's not talking to sinners. He's not talking to people that 213 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:19,680 that are drunkards. He's not talking to people that 214 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:21,920 are heathens. He's talking to Christians. 215 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:26,440 Bible believing spirit filled Christians in Corinth. 216 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,120 Amanda and I was just back there in Corinth in October of this 217 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,320 past year. We were there and and taught 218 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,600 over in Corinth. But listen to what he says. 219 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,480 If our gospel is veiled one translation, I think the King 220 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:42,240 James. Says if our gospel is hid, it is 221 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,120 veiled to those who are perishing. 222 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,480 Now notice this. Why are they perishing? 223 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:51,360 Why is the gospel veiled or hid from those who are perishing? 224 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,600 Whose minds? Everybody say they're mine, 225 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,440 mine. Who's mine? 226 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,800 Who's mine? The God of this world has 227 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,880 blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel, of 228 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,240 the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on 229 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:10,760 them. The Bible tells us here that 230 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,200 Satan operates in the arena of thought. 231 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:17,160 Have you ever talked to a friend, a family member, and 232 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:22,040 witness to them about Jesus, told them about Jesus, and they 233 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:26,000 just looked at you or responded like we're crazy? 234 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,040 What are you talking about? That's the craziest things. 235 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:35,080 And yet you think about it. We serve a God who came to 236 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:40,120 earth, left all of his wonderful glory and riches, and came to 237 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:45,120 earth and became a man, never sinned, and paid the price for 238 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:49,480 our eternal judgement so we could spend an eternity with God 239 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,320 in heaven. And he offers it to us free of 240 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:55,720 charge, Salvation free of charge. 241 00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:01,000 Who in their right mind would not accept such a wonderful 242 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:06,000 gift? Christianity is such an amazing 243 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,080 and wonderful gift. Why wouldn't anybody want to be 244 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,280 a Christian? Why would if God says, I'll, 245 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,240 I'll bless you with all the blessings of heaven? 246 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,600 Why wouldn't anybody want the blessings of heaven? 247 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:22,080 And yet we talk to people and they'll just look at us and say 248 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:23,720 you're crazy. You don't know what you're 249 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,200 talking about. You, you're and they look at you 250 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,720 like we are mad. And they just, they just don't 251 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,360 see it. They can't see it. 252 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,600 Their eyes are blinded. Amanda and I have been to 253 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,360 Israel. We take pastors to Israel. 254 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:43,320 We've been to Israel 8 times and we'll go over there and we'll 255 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,360 witness to people when in, in certain areas. 256 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,640 We get to witness to people and, and, and they, they're so 257 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,600 friendly and they're so kind, but when it comes to Bible and 258 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,720 they just don't see it. Their eyes are blinded. 259 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:57,720 Why? Because Satan, the Bible says, 260 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:02,400 blinds people eyes to the truth, lest the light of the glorious 261 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,200 gospel should come upon them. Notice what he says. 262 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,440 He blinds their minds. No, she didn't say blinds their 263 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,560 hearts. He blinds their minds because 264 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,160 we've got to be able to get it through the mind before he can 265 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:20,440 ever get to the heart. Satan operates in the arena of 266 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:24,560 thought and you and I need to understand unless we take our 267 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:28,080 thoughts captive, our thoughts will take us captive. 268 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:32,200 So there's five simple little truths that I want to share with 269 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:37,640 you today and about how to what the word says about your thought 270 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:39,200 life. First of all, I'll say this. 271 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,400 Did you know that studies have shown us that the average 272 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:51,000 person, the average person in this room processes neuroscience 273 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,440 has told us the average person in this room processes around 274 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:59,160 between 50 and 60,000 thoughts a day. 275 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,280 The average person now now brilliant people like brother 276 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:11,160 Aiden and according to his grandmother and and these two 277 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:16,599 who are studying physics at at the university, they're 278 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:20,760 brilliant, brilliant people process according to 279 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,760 neuroscience up to 80. Thousand thoughts a day. 280 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:30,160 But average people like me and Amanda and and Pastor Brad, 281 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:38,000 Pastor Amy's a little higher on the scale, but we we do between 282 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,800 process between 50 and 60,000 thoughts a day. 283 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:43,720 Now, have you ever thought about this? 284 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,400 Did you know they're 86,400 seconds in a day? 285 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:57,400 86,400 seconds in a day? And if you're processing 60,000 286 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,880 thoughts a day, did you know you're See, the Bible says we're 287 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:07,480 fearfully and wonderfully made. Did you know every 1.3 seconds 288 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,040 your brain is processing a thought? 289 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:17,000 Every 1.3 while we've while I've been standing up here in the 290 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,360 last 15 minutes, I know your brain. 291 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,760 Your brain has processed 1000 thoughts. 292 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,960 I know what you're thinking. Does everybody in Tennessee 293 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:25,920 tall, dark and handsome like that little fella? 294 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:32,320 I know what your brains process it, but every 1.3 seconds we're 295 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:36,000 processing the thought. Now here's what's amazing. 296 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,800 Neuroscientists tell us that out of the 60 thousand thoughts a 297 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:47,760 day that we process that our brain, 90% of them are 298 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:55,680 repetitive or the same thought. So if we're processing 60,000 299 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:02,680 thoughts a day, 90% of them 54,000 of those thoughts are the 300 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:07,680 same thought repetitive. You say, what do you mean? 301 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:13,440 Have you ever got a tune, a song stuck in your head and it just 302 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:18,000 keeps playing over and over and over and over? 303 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,000 I don't know if y'all know this song, but year years ago there 304 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,880 was a song in America and it was a rock from a rock band. 305 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,160 And I know pastors aren't supposed to listen to rock 306 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:28,680 bands, but have us having a bad day. 307 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,880 So I listen to the rock band and and there's and there was this 308 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:38,360 song called She's a Brick. House and it was talking about 309 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,720 the the girl's friend's body. She's built like a brick house. 310 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,240 All right, it's not what a pastor needs to be listening to. 311 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:51,400 OK, but that was years ago. Well, I heard that song few 312 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,560 years ago again just to heard it on a radio station and it 313 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,400 brought back all these memories. Well, I got that song hung in my 314 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:11,840 mind and I'm humming it. I was at a pastor's lunch and I 315 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,080 was sitting with some pastors and this pastor looked at me. 316 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,640 I didn't realize it. This pastor looked at me and 317 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,920 said, what are you humming? I said, am I humming? 318 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,160 He said, yeah, what are you humming? 319 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:30,520 And I started humming it a little louder and I. 320 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,920 And I was so embarrassed. I said, I said, that's a new 321 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,480 rendition of Amazing Grace. That's what that is. 322 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,360 So that's called a looping thought. 323 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:48,360 It's a looping thought. It just keeps over, over and 324 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:51,640 over and over. We deal with all. 325 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,680 I deal with a lot of people who are struggling with, we call it 326 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,520 PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. 327 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:01,760 We deal with a lot of. Military veterans who've been in 328 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,640 war, we deal with a lot of first responders, police officers, 329 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:10,360 firefighters who've seen some terrible and tragic things, and 330 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,720 they get those looping thoughts because of an accident they have 331 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,080 been to or a terrible moment in their life. 332 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:24,840 Now, that's just a small segment of society, but we deal every 333 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,120 single day and we get letters and emails from all over the 334 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:29,920 world of people who've gotten the book. 335 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:36,920 And they've had a conversation with an ex where he told the 336 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,360 spouse that he'd been unfaithful to her. 337 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:45,160 And it caused such a traumatic event in her emotions, in her 338 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:51,880 mind, that she replays that over and over and over again. 339 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:58,440 Or maybe an employer that tells you that you're being fired or 340 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:04,800 let go and you remember that over and over and over again. 341 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,280 It doesn't have to be some terrible tragedy or accident. 342 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,560 It can be a betrayal, a moment of betrayal, a moment of fear. 343 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,720 It could be a conversation that you've had that's brought you 344 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:21,480 such a trauma in your life. But the truth of the matter is 345 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,640 we've all experienced those moments where those thoughts, 346 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,480 those moments of trauma happen in our life. 347 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:33,600 It could be as a child being abused, molested, but we've all 348 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,000 had moments. And if we're not careful, and if 349 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,640 we don't know how to catch those moments and take those thoughts 350 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:43,640 captive, those moments will replay over and over and over 351 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,320 again. And what happens is that it 352 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,880 replays over so much that your body and your emotions begin to 353 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,400 react. Every time you see something 354 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,240 that reminds you of that traumatic moment, you hear 355 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,760 something that reminds you of that traumatic moment. 356 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,200 Or even I've had people tell me I get around a place and I 357 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,480 smell. The smells, and it reminds me of 358 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,120 a traumatic moment, all the emotional upheaval that they 359 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:12,120 experienced maybe years ago. When the moment happens, it 360 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:15,800 comes back fresh and new all over again. 361 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,840 So we must learn to take our thoughts captive or our thoughts 362 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,760 will take us captive. And here's what the Lord has 363 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:28,200 taught me about the fault life. 5 simple things that I want to 364 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:35,000 share with you #1 the direction you and I pursuing life is 365 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,600 totally determined by our thought life. 366 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:45,440 Your direction, where you're going, Aiden's, Aiden's, Aiden's 367 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,680 wanting to go to university and he's already thinking about it. 368 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,840 You guys have come to the university to study physics 369 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:59,680 because you thought about it. You you are here today because 370 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,400 you thought about it. See, the direction we pursue in 371 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,560 life is determined by our thought life. 372 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,960 In fact, what you're wearing today, especially you women, 373 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,520 what you're wearing today, you thought about. 374 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,640 In fact, some of you started thinking about it on Thursday. 375 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:17,640 Well, Sunday I'm gonna wear this. 376 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,360 You probably changed your mind two or three times. 377 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,560 You might have changed your mind this morning, but you thought 378 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,200 about last night. Tomorrow at church, I'm gonna 379 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,800 wear this. See the direction we pursue now, 380 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,800 we men, we're not that way. We don't think about what we can 381 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,200 wear. You can look at us and tell. 382 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,920 We don't think about. We pull a shirt out and give it 383 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,240 a sniff. Oh, that's good. 384 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,920 Let's go see. But the direction we pursue in 385 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,600 life is determined by our thought life. 386 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,000 The let me give you Scripture for that. 387 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:48,840 Let me give you the Scripture for that. 388 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,520 Turn with me to Romans chapter 8, verse 5. 389 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,120 Romans chapter 8, verse 5. Notice what it says. 390 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,360 Paul's talking to Christians in Rome. 391 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,480 He says for those who live according to the flesh. 392 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,480 If you live according to the flesh, notice what he says. 393 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:08,840 In the New King James Version, you set your mind on the things 394 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,680 of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set 395 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,680 their minds on the things of the Spirit. 396 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,960 So our direction in life is determined by our thought life. 397 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,560 My question is, what do you been thinking about lately? 398 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,200 What have you been thinking about doing lately? 399 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,800 Where have you been thinking about going lately? 400 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,480 So our direction in life is determined by our thought life. 401 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,280 That's number one. Number two is simply this. 402 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,640 Not only is our direction in life determined by our thought 403 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:45,720 life, but our quality of life is determined by our thought life. 404 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:51,520 Not only are you here today because you thought about coming 405 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,400 to church this morning, but the attitude in which you are here 406 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,840 with is the attitude that you've allowed in your thought life. 407 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,120 Not only is our direction in life determined by our thought 408 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:05,640 life, our quality of life, because let me give you 409 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,640 scripture for that. Look at Romans chapter 8 verse 6 410 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,800 next very verse Romans chapter 8 verse 6 in the new king J the 411 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:18,240 mind governed by the flesh. The mind governed by flesh, 412 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,560 selfish carnal desires. Notice what it is it's death. 413 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:28,120 That word death in the original language means empty, lacking 414 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,200 void. The mind governed the mind. 415 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,280 The fault. Life that is governed by 416 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:43,520 selfish, carnal thoughts is empty, lacking in void. 417 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,400 But the mind governed by the spirit notice is life and peace. 418 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:52,480 You're mine. See my not only is my direction 419 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,600 determined by my thought life, my quality of life is determined 420 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,240 by my thought life. You choose. 421 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,760 You and I have to understand. We choose what kind of day we're 422 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,800 going to have. Circumstances don't choose it. 423 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,840 Our family doesn't choose it. Our employer doesn't choose it. 424 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,240 The government doesn't choose it. 425 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,640 Listen, the weather doesn't choose it. 426 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:17,360 We choose what kind of day. The mind governed by the flesh 427 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,960 is death, empty, lacking in boy. The mind governed by the spirit 428 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:26,960 is life and peace. I can't tell you the number, the 429 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:32,000 dozens, literally dozens over the years of very wealthy people 430 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:38,800 who have come to see me and, and, and their wealth. 431 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,520 I mean, some of them super wealthy. 432 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,720 Their, their wealth made their life comfortable. 433 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:49,400 It made their life more able to have things maybe other people 434 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,880 didn't have. It enabled them to go where they 435 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:56,360 wanted to go and do what they wanted to do, but their wealth 436 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,720 never gave them Peace of Mind. I can't tell you the number of 437 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,600 wealthy people who've come to me who are who, who have more money 438 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,840 than they ever spend, but they'd give it all away if they had one 439 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,440 night apiece. On the other hand, my 440 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:17,960 grandmother, my my grandmother on my mom's side, my, my dad's 441 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,320 mother, my grandmother on my dad's side, she's the one that 442 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,680 that's the line that had the mental health problems. 443 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,320 My grandmother on my mom's side, my grandfather was a. 444 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:32,040 Preacher and and back when preachers, you know, they paid 445 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,800 you in America years ago, many years in groceries here and the 446 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,640 most he ever made as a preacher. I still have his little book was 447 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,720 $42.00 most he ever made for a week. 448 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,120 And so when it came time for we call it Social Security. 449 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,880 What do they call it here in the the the pension things of that 450 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:56,400 name. She only got 42 dollars $342.00 451 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,560 a month. That's all she got. 452 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,240 And $342 a month from the government. 453 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:03,400 You. You couldn't. 454 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:08,600 Live on that and so, but you know what, we would go to see 455 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,720 her and every time we would leave her house, we felt like 456 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,040 kings and priest because she never said a negative word, 457 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,440 never had a bad day. Every missionary would come to 458 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,200 her little church. She made she gave an offering to 459 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,720 because the thought life governed by the flesh. 460 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,400 Like the people who had plenty of money, but they couldn't 461 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,600 control their thought life. They'd give it all away for one 462 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,000 night of peace. Here's my grandmother that 463 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,320 didn't have hardly anything, just barely getting by. 464 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,480 And she was so full of joy and full of life, because the mind 465 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,000 governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 466 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,920 See, not only is our direction in life determined by our 467 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,720 thought life, but our quality of life. 468 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:55,960 Is determined by our thought life. 469 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,200 And then here's the third thing. Your thoughts. 470 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,960 My thoughts are blueprints for actions. 471 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,960 People tell me have told me this for years. 472 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,240 What doesn't matter what you think, what does matter? 473 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,800 What you think? The Bible doesn't say as a man 474 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,880 does, so is he. The Bible says as a man 475 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:19,480 thinketh, so is he. It does matter what you think. 476 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,320 Faults are blueprints for actions in the States. 477 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,560 If you're going to build up something, if you're going to 478 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,800 build a house or even a garage or any type of building, you've 479 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,800 got to go to the authorities to get approval to build that, and 480 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,760 you take what they'll ask for you. 481 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,680 We need to see the blueprints, and the blueprints are just 482 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:43,360 drawings on the paper that gives the authorities the dimensions 483 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,480 of the, the building, where the building's going to be located, 484 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:51,520 and they approve it if it meets within the codes of the the 485 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,800 area, they approve that. Now, the blueprints are not the 486 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,960 building. You don't eat in the blueprints. 487 00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,560 You don't sleep in the blueprints. 488 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,560 The blueprints are just showing you what the building's going to 489 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,920 look like. Well, listen, faults are 490 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:12,400 blueprints for actions. You keep thinking those same 491 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,760 thoughts long enough, you'll eventually do it. 492 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,040 Remember what I said to you earlier that the average person 493 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,920 thinks 60 processes 60,000 thoughts a day, and that 494 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,960 neuroscientist tell us that 90% are repetitive? 495 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:34,280 So if we think 60,000 thoughts a day, 54,000 of them are the same 496 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,480 thought. Now that's wonderful. 497 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,960 That's a wonderful truth to know if your thoughts that you're 498 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:46,480 thinking are you're blessed, God loves you, He wants you well, he 499 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,480 wants you healed. He wants you family well, he 500 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,320 wants you family healed. If you're thinking those kind of 501 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,520 thoughts, 54,000 of them a day would be wonderful. 502 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,360 But if you get those negative. Thoughts. 503 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,320 Go kill that person. Go injure that person. 504 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,920 People ask me all the time how in America, how in the world in 505 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,720 America, can people grab a gun and go into an elementary school 506 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,240 and kill innocent babies? How do they? 507 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:22,240 Do that because 54,000 times a day for the last week proceeding 508 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,520 they thought it. It was stuck in their mind. 509 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,560 And thoughts are blueprints for actions. 510 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,000 You think it long enough, you're going to act it out. 511 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,360 See, that's why it's so important. 512 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,080 You and I take our thoughts captive. 513 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,440 OK, let me give you a script. I can tell some of you look at 514 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,040 me like you're crazy. No, I got delivered from. 515 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,440 Crazy years ago. Let me, let me give you some 516 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:45,800 scriptures that prove that to you. 517 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,040 Turn with me to Matthew chapter 15. 518 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:53,760 Matthew chapter 15, verse #17 If if you read your Bible at all, 519 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,720 you've read this verse of Scripture and I'd read it for 520 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:01,680 years and the truth slipped by me until one day the Lord showed 521 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,200 it to me. Look at Matthew chapter 15, 522 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,520 verse 17. Jesus is talking. 523 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,080 This is this is red letter stuff. 524 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,760 Jesus is talking. He says, do you not yet 525 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,120 understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach 526 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,400 and is eliminated? Now there's no spiritual truth 527 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,600 to that whatsoever. There's no, there's nothing 528 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:22,920 spiritual about that right there. 529 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,680 I just want you to know I'm just reading it because it's in 530 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,960 there, OK? Literally what he's saying, fish 531 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,760 and chips in, fish and chips out. 532 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,560 That's exactly what he's saying. But look at the truth comes in 533 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,200 verse 18 and 19. But those things which proceed 534 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,080 out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 535 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:47,080 Now look at verse 19. For out of the heart proceed 536 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,200 evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, 537 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,200 thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 538 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,880 These are the things which defile a man. 539 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,080 But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man. 540 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,320 Now if I was to tell you somebody quote that verse to me, 541 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,840 you'd say for Alba heart proceed murders, adulteries, 542 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,080 fornication, thefts, false witness, blasphemous. 543 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,120 You would quote that like that for Alba heart proceed murders, 544 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,960 adulteries, fornication, thefts with false, false witness and 545 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,800 blasphemous. But notice what he said. 546 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,840 The first thing that comes out of your heart is for out of the 547 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,800 heart. Notice what he says, verse 19. 548 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,239 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts. 549 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,880 Now how can an evil thought come out of your heart? 550 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:32,920 I don't know what you're thinking. 551 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,239 I don't know what Aiden's thinking. 552 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,520 I don't know what my friends are thinking here. 553 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,040 I don't know what any of you are thinking. 554 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,280 Yet Jesus says for out of the heart, the first thing that 555 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,920 comes out is, is evil thoughts. How can you tell a person's? 556 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,360 Nobody knows what you're thinking, but you and God. 557 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,000 Out of the heart precede evil thoughts. 558 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,840 How do we know what a person's thinking? 559 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,520 Notice out of the heart. Proceed evil thoughts, murders, 560 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,240 adultery's fornica. You know, murder begins with a 561 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:07,120 thought. Adultery begins with a thought. 562 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,520 Fornication begin. Why? 563 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,560 Because thoughts are blueprints for actions. 564 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,120 You think it long enough, you're going to act on it. 565 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,560 You're going to do it. It's going to become a reality 566 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,400 in your life. I get calls quite often from 567 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:25,000 businessmen and business women. Who travel for their work, 568 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:30,320 they're in a H2 or three nights a week and out there in this 569 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:34,400 world, it's a very sensual, seductive world and good 570 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,120 Christian godly men and women will call me and say pastor, 571 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:44,000 it's seductive, sensual. How can I stay faithful to my 572 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,480 wife? How can I stay faithful to my 573 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,640 husband? I'm around people of the 574 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:53,240 opposite sex all day long. I'm I'm, I'm eating with them. 575 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:56,760 We are doing social dinners, we're doing business dinners 576 00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,560 and, and we spend more time with them than I do with my, my own 577 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:06,200 family many weeks of the year. How can I maintain my my honesty 578 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,720 and and faithfulness to my family? 579 00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:14,080 And it's very simple. You don't think it, you don't go 580 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,480 there in your thought life. You will not go there in your 581 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:21,280 actions because thoughts are blueprints for actions. 582 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:26,480 Every sin that you and I have committed, it began with a 583 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:32,200 fault. We entertain the fault, and then 584 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,120 the thought became an action. So number one, our direction in 585 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,560 life is determined by our thought life #2 our quality of 586 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,480 life is determined by our thought life #3 Our thoughts are 587 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,920 blueprints for actions #4 As Christians, how many of you are 588 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,720 believers in Jesus Christ? Raise your hand. 589 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,680 Yeah, thank you. As Christians, you and I are 590 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:58,440 commanded to be the gatekeepers of our thought life. 591 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,600 It's not your pastor's jobs, not your spouse's jobs, not your 592 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:03,400 parents. Job. 593 00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,760 It's not the government's job. It's not social media's job. 594 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,600 You and I are commanded to be the gatekeepers. 595 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,840 Of our thought life. Look at Romans chapter 12 verse 596 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:20,640 one and two, Romans chapter 12 verses one and two. 597 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:26,320 In Romans chapter 12, verses one and two, it says in the new King 598 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,000 James, Romans 12/1 and two. I beseech you therefore, 599 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,520 brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a 600 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,960 living sacrifice wholly acceptable to God, which is your 601 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,360 reasonable service, and do not be conformed to this world, but 602 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:45,360 be transformed by the renewing of your What's that next word 603 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,640 mine that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and 604 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,040 perfect will of God. Do you realize he's talking to 605 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,960 believers. He's talking to people who've 606 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:55,840 made Jesus the Lord of their life. 607 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,600 He's talking to people who've been delivered from the power of 608 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,800 darkness translated into the Kingdom of God's dear Son. 609 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,360 He's talking to people who've been filled with the Spirit. 610 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,520 He's talking to people who've been discipled by the apostle 611 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:12,200 Paul personally. And he said, now once you give 612 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,680 your heart to Jesus, you've got two things you're supposed to 613 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,920 do. You got to keep your fleshed 614 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:23,640 under control, and you got to make sure your mind changes the 615 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:28,280 way it thinks. See, we are commanded to be the 616 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,160 gatekeepers. Of our thought life. 617 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,560 And see what happens. A lot of us, we give our heart 618 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,360 to Christ. We get changed here, but we 619 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:41,120 never get this changed. We still think the same way. 620 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,680 Have you, have you? The apostle Paul said it this 621 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,200 way. It's amazing what he's he said 622 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,000 it this way. He says the things I don't want 623 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,920 to do, I end up doing. And he says the things I wished 624 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:58,200 I would do, I don't do them. And he says, oh, wretched man 625 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:02,240 that I am, who deliver? Who would deliver me from this 626 00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:05,400 body of death? I don't know about you, but I 627 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,120 have a struggle every day with my flesh. 628 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,600 Have you? I struggle and you guys are so. 629 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:18,920 Polite in traffic? I've never seen that politeness 630 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:23,760 in all my life. I honestly, I'm, I'm, I'm not 631 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,240 blowing smoke here. I mean, people will let you out 632 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:31,320 in the middle of traffic. They'll let, they'll stop and 633 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:36,360 let you turn and cut them off. In America, you don't do that. 634 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:42,080 It's every man for himself. If you get out, you got to bully 635 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,360 your way out. Or you wait till the end of the 636 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,040 line, 2 hours later, that's when you're getting out. 637 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,040 You folks are the most kind people. 638 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,960 I need your patience when it comes to driving. 639 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:59,320 Because if somebody cuts me off in traffic, my flesh wants to 640 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,720 pull up beside them, shake my fist. 641 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,400 What do you mean cutting me off in traffic? 642 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:11,040 And here's my greatest driving. I hate people drive in America. 643 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:15,320 We drive on the right y'all drive on the left, so your fast 644 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:21,160 lanes the right correct our fast lanes the left peep in America 645 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,840 people's driving slow in the fast lane. 646 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:31,880 Oh brother, that incites my flesh to the point that I want 647 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:35,640 to go Antichrist on them. I mean, it's, it's just here, 648 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,600 it's driving fast, slow in the right lane. 649 00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:45,240 And, and you know, when that happens and you understand this, 650 00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:47,920 there will be things happening in your, your flesh wants 651 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,880 revenge. Somebody says something hurtful 652 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:56,680 to you and your flesh wants to respond with something hurtful 653 00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:00,520 to them. Somebody says something to you. 654 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:06,160 And and and and and stabs. You with a with a comment or 655 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,680 with a joke or something and you want to stab them back. 656 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:13,960 Somebody does you wrong and you want your flesh wants to get 657 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,440 revenge. See that's our flesh, but our 658 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,520 spirit man that's been born again. 659 00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,840 When they cut me off in traffic, my flesh says drive around them, 660 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,320 cut them off and wave your fist in their face. 661 00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:31,920 That's my flesh. My spirit man says let him go be 662 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:36,240 Irish, let them go be nice to them. 663 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,120 Don't drive up beside them and just forgive them and let them 664 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:42,920 go. Be patient. 665 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,400 See, there's this constant, there's this constant tension. 666 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,000 There's this constant pull every day of our lives between our 667 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:55,240 flesh wanting to go selfish and revengeful and hurtful, and our 668 00:41:55,240 --> 00:42:01,200 spirit that has Jesus wants to walk in love, kindness and 669 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:05,200 forgiveness. Every day there's this tension. 670 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,160 It's tension and you and I have to decide, are we going to 671 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,280 follow our flesh? Are we going to follow our 672 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,200 spirit, our heart that's born again? 673 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,240 Paul says it like this. He says we have this treasure, 674 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:20,680 this born again experience, this salvation experience in an 675 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,280 earthen vessel. See, our spirit is born again, 676 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:28,600 but our flesh is not born again. We got to keep it under control. 677 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,840 So you've got your flesh pulling you towards sin and selfishness. 678 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,040 You got your spirit that's born again, that's pulling you toward 679 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,880 righteousness in Christ and love and forgiveness and it's one 680 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:41,520 against one. Just do the numbers. 681 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:42,800 It's a. Fight every day. 682 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,320 Your flesh fighting against your spirit, your flesh wanting to 683 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,680 cuss them out, your spirit wanting to love them out. 684 00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,640 I mean, it's just a there's just this tension every day. 685 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:57,080 And the arbitrator, the one who will determine which direction 686 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,360 you go. Is your soul, your mind, your 687 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:04,200 will and emotions? And if your mind has been 688 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:08,200 renewed with the word of God, guess what will happen when that 689 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,800 temptation comes? When that injury comes? 690 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,320 Your mind, which has been renewed with the Word of God. 691 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,440 Will be reminded of God's scripture to walk in love, walk 692 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,960 in forgiveness, walk in mercy and your your soul will hook up 693 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:28,000 with your spirit and guess what? Two against 1A win. 694 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,440 Every time people ask me I'll tell how can Christian people do 695 00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,960 such sinful things? I know they love Jesus because 696 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:37,080 they ain't got their mind renewed. 697 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,440 See their flesh, all your flesh will always want to do bad, and 698 00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,200 your spirit will always want to do right. 699 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:45,800 It's who you got if you got your mind renewed or not. 700 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,840 Because if you're, if you have Jesus in your heart wanting to 701 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,280 do good and your flesh is wanting to do bad, but your 702 00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,360 mind's not renewed with the word of God. 703 00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,960 And that temptation comes. All of a sudden you don't have 704 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,400 any scriptures to come to mind. And all of a sudden your mind 705 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:03,680 will just jump in with your flesh. 706 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:05,400 Yeah, get them back. Yeah, talk about them. 707 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,040 Yeah, get revenge on them. Yeah, hurt them back. 708 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:12,680 And all of a sudden, 2 An unrenewed mind. 709 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:17,960 And a selfish flesh will win every time against the Spirit of 710 00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:22,640 God that's on the inside of you. So this, this battle that takes 711 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:27,400 place, that's why you and I are the gatekeepers of our minds and 712 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,920 our thought life. That's why the Bible says get 713 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:31,640 your mind renewed with the word of God. 714 00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,360 And you do that every day by being a disciple of reading, 715 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,880 reading the word of God, committing the word of God to 716 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,320 your mind and into your heart. Finally, the fifth thing, 717 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,360 because I'm getting hungry. The fifth thing is simply this. 718 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,360 More fish and chips and seafood chowder. 719 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:49,080 Hallelujah. If you don't remember anything 720 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:50,840 else I've said, and I'm said a lot, thank you. 721 00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,920 You're so kind, you're so patient, attentive. 722 00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,680 The fifth thing is this, if you don't remember anything else I 723 00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:01,640 say remember this. You don't have to take ownership 724 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,040 of every thought that pops in your mind. 725 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,640 Have you ever had a what I call a rogue thought? 726 00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:15,360 I mean, you, you'd be just doing nothing in particular and just 727 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,240 having a good day. And all of a sudden now the 728 00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:23,240 clear blue, the craziest, dirtiest, unhealthy, fearful 729 00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:28,200 thought, or just pop in your mind and you'll say, man, where 730 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:32,360 did that come from? Where did that thought come from 731 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,160 years ago? That's what sent me into my 732 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:40,120 depression. A terrible, impure and unhealthy 733 00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,880 thought popped in my mind out of the clear blue. 734 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:50,080 And I thought because it popped in my mind, it came from me. 735 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:57,560 You do not have to take ownership of every thought that 736 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,880 pops in your mind. Satan operates in the arena of 737 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:07,200 thought #1 The direction we pursue in life is determined by 738 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:11,160 our thought life #2 Not only is the direction we pursue, but the 739 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,160 quality of life is determined by our thought life #3. 740 00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:20,120 Our thoughts are blueprints for actions #4 You and I are the 741 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:24,720 gatekeepers of our thoughts. We must keep our mind renewed 742 00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:29,080 with the Word of God. And finally #5 you don't have to 743 00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,880 take ownership of every thought that pops in your mind. 744 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:40,800 If an unhealthy, fearful, revengeful, tormenting, doubtful 745 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,280 thought pops in your mind, you don't have to say, well, that 746 00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,080 must be me thinking that you just say no, I don't. 747 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,280 I resist that thought. I will not receive that thought 748 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,440 that did not come from my born again, spirit filled spirit. 749 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,320 That's from the devil. And I'll not have it and it will 750 00:46:56,320 --> 00:47:00,880 not entertain it in my mind. But if you ever take ownership 751 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:06,760 of that thought, then you'll start thinking I'm terrible, I'm 752 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:12,120 dirty, I'm ugly. See, I can't tell you the young 753 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,200 ladies who have been in our prayer lines and services, 754 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:21,000 hundreds of services, who when they walk up and they'll say, 755 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:22,360 I'll say, what are we praying about? 756 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,640 And they say, I just have such a low self esteem. 757 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,320 I said, what do you mean? You have a well, I've just 758 00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:33,240 always believed I'm ugly and they're beautiful, absolutely 759 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,200 beautiful. But because they took ownership 760 00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:43,840 of a rogue fault, it affected not only their direction, but 761 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,400 their quality of life. And you don't have to take 762 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,520 ownership of every thought that pops in your mind. 763 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,880 Amen. Thank you for being so 764 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,400 attentive, Josh. I see why you love them so much. 765 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:04,160 I see why you love them so much. Lord Jesus, Amanda and I are so 766 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:11,840 honored to be here today to receive this invitation to 767 00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,280 common speak for these beautiful people. 768 00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:23,640 Now I pray, I pray, I ask that you would take these truths that 769 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:31,400 you've taught me and help our people to feed on them and it 770 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:36,720 make change in their thinking. Your words alive and powerful 771 00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:42,160 and I've taught them the word so let the word do its work in 772 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:48,840 their lives in Jesus name, Amen. Now we're going to finish here. 773 00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:51,920 I'm Amanda and I want to pray for anybody. 774 00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:55,640 We always end our services praying for people who are 775 00:48:55,640 --> 00:49:01,880 struggling with depression or bipolar or any type of fear or 776 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:06,560 or mental health, post traumatic stress or whatever it might be, 777 00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:10,800 just just you're stuck in your thinking and it's making you 778 00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,160 blue and discouraged. We want to pray for you. 779 00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,320 We're going to lay hands on you. Now what will happen? 780 00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,000 We lay hands on you because there's an anointing upon us for 781 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,160 this. We lay hands. 782 00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:21,560 There'll be a temporary reprieve. 783 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,120 There'll be a peace come upon you. 784 00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,080 But then after you leave here tomorrow, you've got to get your 785 00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,200 start, getting your mind renewed with the word of God. 786 00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:32,880 And I talk, I give you step by step how to do that in my book. 787 00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,600 I just didn't have time today step by step how to do that in 788 00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:38,960 the book, how to get your mind renewed with the word of God. 789 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,800 So if you want prayer, pastor's going to come. 790 00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,400 Pastor Brad's going to come and give us some direction how to do 791 00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,240 it. But if you want prayer, we would 792 00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:49,600 love to pray for you. If you don't want prayer and 793 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:53,080 we're up here busy praying, it's just been an honor and I don't 794 00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,240 get to talk to you. It's just been an honor. 795 00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:59,760 And once again, we're going to pray for you from now on. 796 00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:03,960 The you Irish people have gotten our hearts. 797 00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,960 Thank you for listening to the Triumph Church podcast this 798 00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,520 week. If it was a blessing to you, 799 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:16,440 share it with someone you know. For more information on Triumph 800 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:22,360 Church, you can visit us at www.triumphchurch.ie.