1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:04,320 The gentleman that's going to the men's conference this Friday 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:08,480 and Saturday right after church, so we can decide on the leaving 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:13,360 time that would be appropriate for all those that are going. 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,160 And so right after service, we'll just jump in youth room. 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:21,160 We'll decide that that you go about your way also. 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,920 Then this coming weekend is South in the morning and the 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:30,040 brother Alex in the evening. Service next Wednesday will be 8 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,240 third part of the Self Worth series. 9 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,000 The weekend then after that will be our fifth Sunday. 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,800 Only one service at the AM and the gardeners will be with us 11 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:40,080 ministering the word of the Lord. 12 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:43,160 So that will be a great service to be a part of. 13 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:46,800 And then we'll be. Strotting over into the month of 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,600 October. And so coming up in the month of 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,800 October will be our annual chili supper and hayride in 16 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,800 conjunction with revival of the Maupin. 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,600 On the Friday and the Sunday and Saturdays we'll have our 18 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,200 festivities here at the church. So that's all coming up in 19 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,040 October. Going to turn to the book of 20 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,800 Romans chapter number. 12 And I'm going to read the first 3 21 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,920 verses of Romans chapter #12 and then you may be seated. 22 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:23,280 The Bible says these words. I beseech you, therefore, 23 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:28,840 brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a 24 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:33,480 living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your 25 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,280 reasonable service. And be not conformed. 26 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:42,600 To this world, but be transformed by the renewing of 27 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:47,520 your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable 28 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,840 and perfect will of God. For I say through the grace 29 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:56,120 given unto me to every man that is among you, not to think of 30 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,280 himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think 31 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,600 soberly, according as God have dealt to every man. 32 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:11,200 Major of Faith, Amen. This is our second part of our 33 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,960 Self Worth series. Brother Zach did a tremendous 34 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,160 job last Wednesday, Amen. Here in the absence then of the 35 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:24,680 ladies 2 tonight I want to talk about renewed mine, realized 36 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:30,440 birth, renewed mine and realized birth. 37 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:33,240 Amen. Let's pray Father, I love you 38 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:38,440 Jesus today God, you're able to help us Lord even tonight God as 39 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:43,800 we turn our attention to your word God as we planned the Lord 40 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,960 months ago that this would happen and come about Lord a 41 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,080 series as such. It was for the purpose of being 42 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,320 a benefit God to perhaps the Lord some Lord in our church. 43 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:58,320 I pray, O Lord today God that it would be that benefit God to 44 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:02,440 some God that it would help Lord it would encourage God perhaps 45 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,720 even empower Lord, we put our faith in our trust in you 46 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,640 tonight God knowing Lord that you can do all things beyond our 47 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:11,960 minds, even comprehension. God we love and appreciate you 48 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,840 today in the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray 49 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:19,880 Hallelujah and Amen. You may be seated in Jesus name 50 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,080 these verses of Scripture, particularly verse one and verse 51 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:29,920 2. If you've been in church any 52 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:33,240 length of time, you are not you're not foreign to these. 53 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,320 You're probably perhaps familiar with these two verses and we 54 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:42,880 usually approach them very much so in a a spiritual a spiritual 55 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:45,280 sense. And I'm not saying what I'm 56 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,000 talking about tonight isn't spiritual. 57 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,040 I think the thought processes of our mind is very spiritual, but 58 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,880 I want to approach them in a little bit more of a practical, 59 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,560 practical approach a practical way tonight. 60 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,360 It Paulsa Paul's right to the church at Rome and the believers 61 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,280 at Rome. And he says that I beseech if if 62 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,400 you want to use just some layman terms that. 63 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,280 You know, throw the king. James aside. 64 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,960 For a moment, he's really begging. 65 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,920 Apostle Paul's really in a begging posture to the church at 66 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,320 Rome. That they would present their. 67 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,440 Bodies and if I. If I could just be. 68 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:25,240 Practical this evening, that is. Want them to present themselves 69 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:27,680 themselves. One of the things he. 70 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:32,040 Says as holy and I understand. What we know holiness to be or 71 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,000 what holy. Is, you know, be there for holy, 72 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,120 for I am holy. That's what the Lord said. 73 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,160 And it does mean different, and it does mean set aside, and it 74 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,960 does. Mean distinct but even in the 75 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,360 fact. Of of people being holy. 76 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,040 Each of us can. Be holding we still have our 77 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:53,240 nuances and differences as individuals, all right. 78 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,240 With. With personalities, With, with. 79 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,760 You know, just just the way in which we operate in our lives. 80 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,240 And so if I can't tonight, Paul is urging them to present. 81 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,440 Themselves find. Even say it like this. 82 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:11,400 Present yourselves as originals. Present yourselves as originals, 83 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:13,280 right? Not not. 84 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,040 We're not cookie cut. I. 85 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,320 Thank God that he made. Each of us. 86 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,720 Differently, and we have. Variety in this world. 87 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,080 It'd be horrible if we were. All just like clones of Adam. 88 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,920 In looks and personality in, you know, body. 89 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,120 Type it it it. Would be a very boring world. 90 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,840 If that was the case, it was, and for that matter, it would be 91 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:35,960 real. Confusing, you know. 92 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,560 About who dad and uncle and all that was, you know, just, you 93 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,480 know, just as a side. Note but nonetheless if we were 94 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:43,040 just identical. To one another. 95 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:44,280 He. Said. 96 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,920 In the new King James. Version verse number. 4 of 97 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,960 Romans 12 he goes on and and and under. 98 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:53,320 Underscores the fact that we are originals or. 99 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,040 That we differ, he said. All members. 100 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,280 Do not have the same function says in verse number six that 101 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,840 they're gifts that there's differing gifts that they have 102 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,560 and so. With that, present your bodies 103 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,200 in a real, real sense. We our bodies, they are holy. 104 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,320 They're set aside, they're different, they're distinct. 105 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:15,560 Our bodies differ from one another, and Paul is using this 106 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,800 old sacrificial language from the old. 107 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,240 Testament because he's like present them as as a sacrifice. 108 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,360 He's using the old sacrificial. Language to draw a picture. 109 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,560 For us. Because among all the sacrifices 110 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,760 that were in the Old Testament. And there were several. 111 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,080 There were many. There was a particular 112 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,960 sacrifice. That was known as the whole 113 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:42,360 burnt offering. Everybody say whole, whole. 114 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,800 It was the whole burnt offering in which the entirety of the. 115 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:48,520 Animal, at least from. What we can see? 116 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,000 Except for the skins. Of it did that fur. 117 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,040 Belong to. The priest, but the entirety of 118 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,080 the animal was offered. Unto God. 119 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,800 And so whenever I hear Paul telling me to present my body, 120 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,080 I'm thinking in. Terms of that that whole. 121 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,800 Burnt offering. There was nothing left off right 122 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:06,240 there. There was nothing. 123 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:10,480 It was all presented, if we can even say it like this, when God 124 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,520 wants us to present. All of ourselves, He. 125 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,440 Doesn't want us to pick and choose about? 126 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:16,240 Well, I'll present that part to you. 127 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,760 Because I think that's something acceptable to you. 128 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,360 I'm kind of insecure about this part. 129 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,200 I'm not going to present that. Do you know to present our whole 130 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,920 selves unto the Lord? The sacrificial bodies, even the 131 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,600 sacrificial bodies? You could have 10 lambs, but not 132 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,000 all those. Lambs are the same. 133 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,920 You could have 10 Lambs that meet the criteria of being a. 134 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:41,760 Sacrifice, but they still have. Differences and nuances within 135 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,400 themselves. Yet they were completely Amen 136 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,440 given unto the Lord. The Amplified Classic Bible. 137 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,040 Says it like this concerning the scripture. 138 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,600 Here it says in. All in view of all the mercies 139 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,360 of God. Verse number. 140 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,360 One is what it's talking about here in the amplified. 141 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:04,480 In view of all the mercies of God, dedication of your bodies, 142 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:10,720 presenting all your members and faculties says in view of all of 143 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,280 the mercies of God. This kind of goes back to a 144 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,400 little bit what I said two weeks ago. 145 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,440 Part of the mercies of God that we are in view of that should 146 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:25,480 give us the ease and and to lift the burden of presenting our 147 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:31,240 full selves unto the Lord is again primarily two things. 148 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:35,120 And that is number 1. You were created in God's image 149 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,320 #2 you were redeemed by His sacrifice. 150 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:44,600 So in view of those mercies, in view of those mercies present. 151 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,640 Yourself. Because He thought enough to 152 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,280 create you as He did and redeem you as you are all right. 153 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,600 And so we can present ourselves then therefore unto the Lord. 154 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,720 And so there's not a single member of our bodies. 155 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,760 And whenever I say our bodies, I want you to know tonight I am 156 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:06,440 encompassing not just physical these physical bodies, but even 157 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,720 those internal things of our. Lives our, Our soul our. 158 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:14,280 Spirit our bodies, that we would give those unto the Lord. 159 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,720 You don't have to leave any. Part of yourself. 160 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,360 Ungiven or undedicated unto God, you have. 161 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,600 No reason for embarrassment. You have no reason for 162 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:29,000 embarrassment. God wants all of us, regardless 163 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,880 of our opinion of. Those different things. 164 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:36,760 Or their quote, UN quote, actual condition, whatever that 165 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,240 entails, Paul says. This is why I think this is 166 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,640 important. Again, we look at the spiritual, 167 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,160 but let's look at it very practically. 168 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,160 Paul is saying this during the time. 169 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:52,800 When Greek philosophy is is all over the Roman world, there are 170 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,040 people that are entertaining all of the philosophy of the Greeks. 171 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,480 They're given time and energy to listen and to speak and to talk 172 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,160 back and forth. And Greek philosophy at this 173 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:06,040 time, you look historically they depreciated. 174 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,960 The body. They depreciated the body, John 175 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:12,080 Murray says. The. 176 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:18,120 Ethical idea was to be freed from the body and it's degrading 177 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,800 influences. Well folks, that type of mindset 178 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,200 just runs total counter to your creator. 179 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:30,480 That runs total counter to God. Because your body is not 180 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:35,760 something to despise. Your body is not something to 181 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,280 hate. As a matter of fact, God thinks 182 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:45,280 so much about you, including your body, that the Bible says 183 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,400 those that have been born again in the water in the spirit, that 184 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,160 we're in an in a mode of waiting. 185 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,960 The book of Romans says for even the redemption. 186 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,240 Guess what of what? Our bodies. 187 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,480 Christ doesn't just redeem your soul. 188 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:07,800 He doesn't just redeem your spirit, He redeems your body 189 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,240 Amen. He redeems your body and so with 190 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:16,000 that the the Paul says US doing this this present presentation 191 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,600 of our full and host. Selves is our reasonable 192 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,520 service. Some other translations say it 193 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:24,120 like this. It is. 194 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:29,800 Our authentic selves to do. This is our authentic selves. 195 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,640 Amen. To do this is in comparison or 196 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:40,720 contrast then, rather than rather than conforming, are you 197 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:43,240 listening to me? Rather to do this, It's our 198 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:47,880 reason more often excels to do this rather than to conform to 199 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:57,120 the world and to the popular mentality ideology of the world 200 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:02,160 that you're presently living in. Because in reality that that is 201 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,600 the constant internal battle that we face. 202 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:09,320 We battle to fit in with the mode of the world. 203 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:12,200 And in this, I'm looking at this very practically and I'm not 204 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,720 talking about being worldly. I'm just talking about, well, in 205 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:20,800 order to be accepted by this world, I got to be XYZ in looks 206 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:26,760 and finances and in character. You hear what I'm talking about, 207 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,600 Amen. And so we sometimes even, we 208 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,840 live in this world, we're brought up in this world, and 209 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,280 whether we realize it or not, it may happen even subconsciously. 210 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:41,160 But we've been conditioned to accept some of the societal. 211 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:46,960 Norms even in our Christian saved, sanctified blood bought 212 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,200 lives. Amen. 213 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:53,000 And so again, we'll argue, well, we're only pretty, we're only 214 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:59,600 intelligent, We're only successful if we fit the mode of 215 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,280 XYZ. You know, we, we, we have a 216 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:07,120 literature and media material and things that constantly is 217 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,960 flooding our, our world about what is XYZ except acceptable? 218 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,040 I believe over time we've gotten better. 219 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:16,880 With that as a society. But, but there, there used to be 220 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:21,280 a day that there was just a 111, you know, you, you had a round 221 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,280 hoe and everything else that wasn't round. 222 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,400 You know, people trying to force square pegs into round hoes, but 223 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,000 square was OK too. But we've just been conditioned, 224 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,600 Amen, for this. And so we then derive our 225 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:38,720 standard of worth from the world, even the church world. 226 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,880 Please understand, I'm not trying to pit the world against 227 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:42,680 the church at this particular lesson. 228 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:44,440 All right? But but even the church world 229 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,680 would attempt to conform. All right, we do this. 230 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:49,880 Yes, we do. There's there's there's this 231 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,160 conforming that happens spiritually, but there is also a 232 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:57,960 conforming that happens naturally with our bodies, how 233 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:06,200 we talk, how we behave. Folks, God already made you in 234 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,480 his image. And I think I made mention 2 two 235 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,400 weeks ago, and I'm not here to bash anybody. 236 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,640 I want to encourage you, but to try to conform to something 237 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:19,560 different is to reject the original that he made you as 238 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:20,840 Robert McGee. And again, that's the. 239 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,760 Author of the book The Search for Significance. 240 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:24,520 All right, it's not my middle name. 241 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,760 I'm just using, you know, but as Robert McGee is my name as. 242 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,520 Robert McGee noted again, if you'll remember, he says this is 243 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:32,600 what we believe. We. 244 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,600 Believe our worth is based upon what our performance and others 245 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,360 opinions. Paul. 246 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:43,120 Says this is the new Living translation of verse #2 that 247 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,520 first phrase. He says don't copy. 248 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:47,320 The behavior and customs of this world. 249 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,920 Don't imitate the age. In which you live. 250 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,680 Don't allow yourself to become like your. 251 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,120 Surroundings. But again, we've swallowed the 252 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,480 lie and it is a lie. I'm going to pull the cover 253 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:02,920 back. It's a lie. 254 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,320 We swallowed the lie that there's one mode for 255 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,040 significance in these different areas. 256 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:11,840 There's one mode for significance. 257 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,800 And if we don't fit that, then you're not important. 258 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:22,360 I'm not important, but all these three adjectives in verse #1 of 259 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:27,760 Romans. 12 Refer to the sacrifice. 260 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:36,720 Which Paul's describing as us. It's living, it's holy, it's 261 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,000 pleasing. Again, it's holy. 262 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,040 It's it's distinct. It's different. 263 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,560 All right. He has all of these things, all 264 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:47,960 of these things, this holy, this, this distinct, different. 265 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,880 That's what's pleasing, that's what's acceptable unto God. 266 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,600 It's not just this combined of whatever the quote UN quote norm 267 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:57,680 is that pleases God. No, God is. 268 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:03,600 Pleased with the differences. So you present your body as 269 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:08,080 again, a whole person, and there's no part of you that is 270 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:12,800 deemed unworthy. And as we present our bodies in 271 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:17,600 verse #1 when we get to verse #2 again comes the other aspect. 272 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,880 He's not asking. Just for bodies, he's. 273 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:29,080 Asking for your mind the completeness of our selves. 274 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:34,520 Including our thoughts. Because whether it's sin, 275 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,080 whether it's your Christian life. 276 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,000 Whatever it is. Listen, folks, we know this, all 277 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,400 right? We know this. 278 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,080 The biggest struggle You. Ever have before it's played out 279 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:49,840 here is played right in here a lot of self. 280 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:55,560 Worth issues originate right here right here in the mind. 281 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,720 Can you walk with me for here for a little bit all right, you 282 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,160 know we're here, so we might as well take our time. 283 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,400 It is estimated that even the brightest. 284 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:11,319 People use only about 11% of their brain capacity. 285 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,640 That leaves almost 90%. Unused even at that. 286 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:24,040 The average person has more. Than. 30,000 thoughts per day. 287 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,800 Based upon that. 30,000 thoughts a day. 288 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,560 And considering that you may be awake, 16. 289 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:32,440 Waking hours. That's the perfect world where 290 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:34,040 you get 8 hours of sleep. OK. 291 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:41,040 But that 16 of waking hours that means we may think about 31 292 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:45,000 thoughts per. Minute per day now. 293 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:52,640 Researchers tell me that the vast majority or a full 70%? 294 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:57,000 Which with our with our. 30,000 thoughts per day thing would be 295 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,840 about 21 thousand thoughts 21. Thousand thoughts, some 296 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:07,640 researchers say of that day, are -70% of your thoughts that you 297 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,120 have each day. Are negative. 298 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:15,280 The Joy study, commissioned by Ulta Beauty, also found that in 299 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:21,920 spite of how common negative self talk was in more than 5000 300 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:28,400 people surveyed, 67% said it's so much a part of how they 301 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,040 function that they don't even notice. 302 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,720 That they are doing it. So not argue we only have an 303 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,560 almost 21,000 negative. Thoughts. 304 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,360 A day we're really not even realizing it's happening. 305 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:56,040 That describes, I believe to me, what it means to conform as it's 306 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,720 even displayed in our text, because conformity, the word 307 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:01,760 conformity in our text, it's a verb. 308 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:07,080 That is what's known as either a passive verb or a passive 309 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,120 permissive verb. What that means is the action 310 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:15,640 then is taking place either with us subconsciously not knowing it 311 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,040 or us having a semi. Awareness of it, but still 312 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:23,080 letting it happen anyway. Amen. 313 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:29,120 So our conformity is this is that negative self talk is such 314 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,760 a big part of our lives and how we function that we. 315 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,040 Don't even. We don't even. 316 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,080 Realize we're doing it. What I'm saying is this, when 317 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:38,760 that comes to self worth, there's. 318 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,800 Some of us that are cutting. Ourselves down and we're not. 319 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:47,400 It just happens so. Naturally, and so freely that it 320 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,480 is the. Course of life for us. 321 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,520 For instance, we entertain many times some misperceptions that 322 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:58,600 are not true, but listen if any of these may be true to you 323 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,800 statements that happen in your head. 324 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,800 God. Doesn't really care about me. 325 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,000 I'm an unlovable, worthless person. 326 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:15,800 Nobody will ever love me. I'm never able to change. 327 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,880 I've been a failure my whole. Life, I guess I'll always be a 328 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,360 failure if. People really knew me. 329 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,640 They wouldn't. Like me, Zig Ziglar says it's 330 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,720 impossible to constantly behave in a manner. 331 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,800 Inconsistent with how? We see ourselves. 332 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:45,160 We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative 333 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,600 about. Ourselves and so he's saying no 334 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:52,640 doubt that. We can try to fool what we're. 335 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,800 Feeling on the inside, on the outside. 336 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:57,080 He says. But that is. 337 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,280 Always short lived. They're little. 338 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,000 Stints of being successful and then we. 339 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,840 Default back just to the humdrum of what we're. 340 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,760 Experiencing on the inside because we can do. 341 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,360 Whatever we want to on the. Outside if the inside remains 342 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:14,000 unchanged. We are unchanged. 343 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,680 Amen. That's the reason why people 344 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,760 can, they can further, they can further. 345 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:23,640 Themselves on corporate ladders. They can acquire new homes and 346 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,280 new cars. Raise their societal status. 347 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:27,400 Do all these. Different things. 348 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:32,520 People can have plastic surgery to totally alter the way their 349 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:36,720 body looks and still not be happy with their body because 350 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,080 all the exteriors don't matter whenever the. 351 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:43,080 Inside is still having the loudest voice. 352 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,360 All right, negative thoughts and feelings about. 353 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:49,840 Ourselves and so whenever. We operate out of out of this 354 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,400 cluttered, negative mind. Here's. 355 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,120 What we do this is. According to Scripture, when we 356 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:59,600 operate out of our cluttered negative mind, we struggle to 357 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:04,440 correctly judge as verse #1 or verse #2 tells us, which is the 358 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,520 word prove. We struggle to correctly judge 359 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,560 or prove which the word prove means to uncover the true 360 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:17,560 quality of the good, the acceptable and the perfect. 361 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:23,000 Notice what the scripture says, be ye transformed. 362 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:28,720 How? By the renewing of your minds so 363 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:37,680 that what ye may prove, you may judge, you may correctly give 364 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:43,720 quality and decipher what's good, what's acceptable, what's 365 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,400 perfect. Listen to Pastor tonight. 366 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:51,400 When there isn't a renewed way of thinking, you don't have the 367 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:56,640 ability to classify the good and the perfect and the acceptable. 368 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,000 You will. You don't have the ability to do 369 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:05,240 that because your mind, your mind hasn't been renewed. 370 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:11,320 Only renewed minds can judge appropriately the degrees of 371 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,920 good and acceptable. You know what that means? 372 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:18,000 If we are just filled with negativity and our mind isn't 373 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,720 isn't renewed, then we can't even gauge our own quality, let 374 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,840 alone somebody else's quality, because only a renewed mind, 375 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:34,240 only a renewed mind can do that. And look what Paul says. 376 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,480 Paul reveals look now that a renewed mind renewed. 377 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,320 Minds, our thought processes transform. 378 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:48,640 Lives be transformed by how he said you're going to be 379 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,480 transformed. But he tells us then how it's 380 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,680 happening. It's happening by the renewal of 381 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:57,360 our minds. Transformation can't reach its 382 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,080 apex of completeness in our life. 383 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,520 Unless. We have a mind renewal. 384 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,880 Amen. A mind renewal? 385 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,960 The NIV says it like. This it says then. 386 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:12,280 You will be able. To test and approve. 387 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,320 But you can only. Test to prove the. 388 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,920 Quality of good acceptable. Perfect appropriately when your 389 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,640 mind has been renewed. Trees. 390 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,640 Why one of the? Verses, oftimes tell people says 391 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,800 and it's up there. Tonight, Philippians for a 392 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,000 Pauls. Wrapping up the The Book of 393 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,360 Philippians and he's given some. Final words, he says. 394 00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:34,560 Finally, brethren. Whatsoever things are true. 395 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,280 Whatsoever things are. Honest whatsoever things are 396 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,080 just. Whatsoever things are pure, 397 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:44,480 whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things have a good 398 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,880 report. If there be any virtue. 399 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,360 If there be any praise. Think on these things. 400 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,760 What is the first whatsoever? There in the scripture 401 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:57,960 whatsoever things. Are Yeah, thank you hear and 402 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,080 listen to me tonight. Herein lies. 403 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:07,480 The rub negative mindsets have. Redefined what is true. 404 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,400 I want that just to settle in for a moment. 405 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,880 This is this is the the loophole of the scripture so to speak. 406 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,880 This is the rub negative mindsets I've redefined. 407 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:26,840 What is true again? I cannot without a renewed mind. 408 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,760 Rightly decipher what's? True. 409 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:35,200 What's just what's honest? What's a good report? 410 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:36,480 What's? Lovely. 411 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:43,360 I'm in oblivion, I in reality, me being a human being. 412 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:47,960 I think I know, but without the renew of the mind, I don't know 413 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:54,960 if my mind hasn't been rewired. I'm I'm in a redef defining of 414 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,760 all those things that may not even be close to what true is. 415 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,920 And so here's the thing. Everybody doing OK? 416 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:04,760 Throw just a little. Science in there, right? 417 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,080 A little bit more brain in there. 418 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:12,200 The meaning we give to something can turn into what we believe. 419 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:17,160 With certainty about that thing. Or about even ourselves. 420 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,280 There's something in your brain called the reticular activating 421 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:25,440 system for sure. It's called just Ras. 422 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:30,600 It's in your brain. And what it does, it multiplies 423 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,000 the. Speed at which this happens this 424 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,040 this. Turning something that we 425 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:37,800 believe. In to be a certainty about it. 426 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,560 What happens? Is this Ras in our? 427 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,600 Brain. It's like a giant filter and so 428 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,560 whenever you start focusing on something, it is a. 429 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,960 Filter that. It filters out almost 99% of all 430 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,600 the other stimuli, whether it's visible, thought, whatever it it 431 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,400 filters out. All the other stimuli. 432 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,360 To help you focus. What you are focusing? 433 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:07,720 On that's important to you. That's how I can sit in the in a 434 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,840 room reading the book and my wife's talking to me and I don't 435 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:10,880 know she's I didn't even hear you. 436 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,680 I said, I said I didn't even hear you, dear. 437 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:17,400 My Ras is helping me out there. I'm so focused on something that 438 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,360 is important and valuable to me that it's shutting out the 439 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:25,120 stimuli, even my own voices, my own wife's voice, so that 440 00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:28,840 literally I'm not hearing her. I'm just focused on what I'm 441 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,480 focused on what's important to me. 442 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,520 But what happens is this. Then whatever becomes your focus 443 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:40,960 intensifies and multiplies your, your reticular or activating 444 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,400 system, Make sure of it. What you focus on, listen to me 445 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:50,440 well, becomes your reality. So when we start breaking this 446 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,600 down, what that means is this, if you give yourself a bunch of 447 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,840 negative labels and when you walk into the room, you start 448 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,040 putting those labels on you. Or even when you're at home or 449 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,840 if you go into a public place or something happens and you put 450 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:08,040 those labels on you. If those become a all consuming 451 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,160 thought for you, which most? People with self worth. 452 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:16,080 Difficulties it is then. Those are the thoughts they 453 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:20,080 begin to default to. And if it's deemed important to 454 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,840 you, I know you say, well, I hate that thought. 455 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,720 You do. But you concentrate on it. 456 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,320 And it always surfaces. So when it becomes important to 457 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:34,440 you, your brain helps silence all the other stimuli around you 458 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,240 that would distract from that thought, that would take away 459 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,680 from that thought. It's squelching everything else. 460 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,120 Let me say like this, when other people say no, you look great 461 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,280 and you're thinking you look bad, you'll squelch. 462 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,280 That thought of someone else. Saying that you look great 463 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,680 because you are focusing. Your brain is helping. 464 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,040 Your brain is helping you. Amen to see that. 465 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,800 And so it's helping you focus on those negative labels and you 466 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,680 know what's happening. You are through the process of 467 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,240 that redefining what is true for you. 468 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,040 Oh yeah. I mean, you've had 469 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,520 conversations. Some people that's. 470 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,960 Been caught in the vices of negativity and it seems like it 471 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:21,080 don't matter what you say, there's not a rope long enough 472 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,560 to help them out of that. Hole. 473 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:31,320 Their brains helping them. Focus on what they're focusing 474 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,640 on. Proverbs 23 and verse 7 we've 475 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,120 used. This first part of the verse a 476 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:36,720 lot. But I don't read. 477 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,800 The whole verse for. As he thinketh in his. 478 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,840 Heart. So is he. 479 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,440 Eat and drink. Saith he to thee, but his heart 480 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,240 is not with thee. We. 481 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,480 Seldom read the ring, we just. Always say as a man thinking in 482 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:55,320 his heart, so is he right? But the whole idea here is that 483 00:29:55,320 --> 00:30:00,520 if a man tells you to eat and drink, and as you are eating and 484 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,360 drinking, in his heart he's really begrudging you for doing 485 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:08,720 the eating and drinking, then he really doesn't mean eat and 486 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,360 drink when. He said eat and drink. 487 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,840 Hey man, the thoughts of his heart is the reality. 488 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,800 Of the whole situation. Not what he has said. 489 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,560 But what he's arboring in his. Heart as a man thinking my wife 490 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,760 all the time brings us yes the ETHA lot of. 491 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:24,840 Times. On the end of the word denotes 492 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,560 that it's not just. He thinks, and that's said and 493 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,560 done. But he thinks and continues. 494 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,280 To think. So as a man thinks and continues 495 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:38,000 to think our our heart, a man in his heart, so he is, or so are 496 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,840 we. The word heart here as it 497 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,640 oftimes is not always, but oftimes in the Old Testament. 498 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,880 Heart is often interchangeable with mine in the old. 499 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,600 Testament so as. A man thinketh in his mind. 500 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:54,240 So is, so is he. So a person's Let's get real for 501 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,720 a moment. A person's reality is really. 502 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:04,080 Comprised of their thoughts. Oh, Brother McGee. 503 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,640 Oh, no. Yeah, if it's real to you, it's 504 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,760 real. The. 505 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,880 Truthfulness of our lives is found in what we think. 506 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,280 That's why the Apostle Paul. Again urged. 507 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:21,520 Them in Philippians 4/8 to to to to think upon these things the 508 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,880 the the passion. Translation says it like this. 509 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,720 Keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic 510 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,600 and real. You hear me? 511 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,000 What is authentic? And real. 512 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,800 We're believing a lot of things about ourselves that are not 513 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,240 real, Reading a lot of things. About ourselves that are not. 514 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,720 Authentic The amplified Bible says it like this says fix your 515 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,080 minds on them. He charged them. 516 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:55,760 Look, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, you what 517 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,320 Paul saying? He's saying if you're the the 518 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:03,080 thought that you're thinking is worthy of praise, you hear me? 519 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,640 If the thought that you're thinking is worthy of praise, so 520 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,240 be it. But if it's not worthy of 521 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,680 praise, if it's not praiseworthy, don't entertain 522 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,440 it. I hate myself. 523 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:21,160 That's not praiseworthy, I'm big, that's not praiseworthy, 524 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,240 I'm stupid that's not praiseworthy. 525 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,840 No one loves me. That's not are you hear me? 526 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:32,040 If it's not praiseworthy, then don't entertain it. 527 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,680 Because negative thoughts, whether they're true or whether 528 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,440 they're fabled, they are not worthy of praise. 529 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:43,120 They're not worthy of thought. In verse #8 there of Philippians 530 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,160 4. Again, he talks to us about our 531 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,280 thoughts, but then in the merry that next verse he starts then 532 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,600 to talk to us about our actions or about our behavior, namely 533 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,720 because of this and you know this, but thought patterns 534 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,440 affect and determine our. Behavior. 535 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,000 Everybody doing all right, Here's how. 536 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,840 The vicious cycle. Goes Genie Allen in her book Get 537 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,400 Out of Your Head. Says this is the classic mind 538 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,560 trap of a self fulfilling thought pattern in which follow 539 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,720 me here. Our insecurity feeds. 540 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,560 Our isolation, which in turn. Feeds the lie. 541 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,600 That we are worthless and nobody really gets us or cares to. 542 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,000 We feel unseen and unloved and to protect ourselves from 543 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:29,800 further. Rejection. 544 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,000 We won't let anyone. Close enough to change our. 545 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:33,800 Perception. What is she saying? 546 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,440 She's saying here's the individual. 547 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,240 That individual doesn't feel like anybody cares. 548 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,360 About them? Does it feel like, you know, 549 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,760 they're worth the dirt that's on the bottom of their shoe? 550 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,120 And as a result of feeling like nobody cares about them, they 551 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,680 isolate themselves. People ain't isolating them, but 552 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,600 they isolate themselves from people because I feel like no 553 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:56,040 one loves them so as they're stuck over here isolated from. 554 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,120 Everybody, they start to think. See, nobody's around here to 555 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:00,920 care for me. They're the one that drew away. 556 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,160 Nobody around here cares for me, which just underscores their 557 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,200 thoughts that nobody cares for them, which makes them just go. 558 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,280 And so it's a vicious. Cycle a thought. 559 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,520 Thought pattern that is constantly impressing on a 560 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:15,320 behavioral pattern and it's just constant and it's negative and 561 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,679 it's a downward spiral. Huh. 562 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,760 Because our thought patterns lead to behavioral patterns and 563 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,199 sometimes we get caught in these. 564 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:30,800 Infinity loops 1. The thought and the behavior 565 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:36,159 support and endorse the other. It's a vicious cycle, Robert 566 00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:38,760 McGee said this. And again, these are whenever I 567 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,000 make mention of these things, these are people that are. 568 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,679 Doctors and doctors of psychology. 569 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:45,320 And so on and so forth, He says one of the most interesting 570 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,440 facts about behavior is that we often, this is what we do. 571 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,679 We often repeat the messages that hurt the most. 572 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,159 We don't repeat. In our minds, the things that 573 00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:56,440 are positive, he says. We often repeat the things. 574 00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,600 The messages that hurt the most and so all the lies that we are 575 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,760 telling ourselves are the. Ones that hurt the most. 576 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:11,600 Amen, Verse three of our text. This is according to the message 577 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:16,680 Bible says. It's important that and I like 578 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:17,600 how it's. Stated this, it's. 579 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,800 Important that you not misinterpret. 580 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:25,080 Yourself. The only. 581 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:30,200 Accurate way to understand that ourselves as by what God is and 582 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:35,440 by what he has done for us. Again, that really goes back to 583 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:36,720 my. Creator Redeemer thing. 584 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,560 But skewed skewed self worth there in verse #3 of. 585 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:47,200 Romans 12 really takes 2. Forms we typically only. 586 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:48,800 Look at it in One Direction right? 587 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,480 Low self worth. But you can also. 588 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,600 Have a high self worth which is just a skewed. 589 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,480 We're not talking. About this in our series, but 590 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,200 whenever people think of themselves. 591 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,880 More than they ought. That's a self worth issue just 592 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,520 as much as thinking of yourselves below what you ought. 593 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:15,640 Paul's advice is think soberly or moderately, or have a. 594 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,840 Balanced thinking according to what? 595 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,440 God. Has dealt us here. 596 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,280 Here is the advice of Scripture 2nd Corinthians 10 and. 597 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:26,400 Five. And I know. 598 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,200 Part of this dealt with. Philosophies and and worldly 599 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,440 reasonings, but also. Just look at it. 600 00:36:31,720 --> 00:36:36,040 It says casting down imaginations and every high 601 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:40,560 thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and 602 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:44,920 bringing. This is where the the dirt gets 603 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,560 underneath the fingernails. It's worth. 604 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:53,320 Bringing into captivity every, every, every thought to the 605 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,680 obedience of Christ. So we got imaginations. 606 00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,400 Are reasonings all right? Reasonings it's. 607 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,920 Opinions. It's. 608 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:06,640 Defined as opinions. So we got to we got to cast down 609 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:12,440 reasonings and opinions, right? We, we, we our ebb and flow. 610 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,200 Our high tide and low tide goes off. 611 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,200 What other people think about us, you got to. 612 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,920 Cast down. Cast down the opinions to have. 613 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,880 Have some balance, sober thoughts if you will. 614 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,280 High things, all right. The other end of the self worth 615 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,160 spectrum exalted opinions of yourself. 616 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,160 Those got to be those got to be those got to be brought down. 617 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:33,760 Proud thoughts have to be dealt with. 618 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,480 But also he says then every thought in general, every 619 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,160 thought it's got to be brought into captivity. 620 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:44,480 And again, Paul, it's for sure, no doubt knew the concept, the 621 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,960 military, he suffered at the hands of several of them at 622 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,600 different times. And so he uses military 623 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,200 terminology. Amen. 624 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,640 And so whenever he says a thought, bring in every thought. 625 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:58,920 He's referring more specifically as the meaning is not just 626 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,560 thought, but the, the mind, the, the mind structure, the, the 627 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,880 mind palace, if you want to call it whatever you want to call it. 628 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:08,240 He says you got to bring that thing because you know what he 629 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:12,840 says the mind and the thoughts many times are unruly. 630 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,960 They run on their own. If they're not captivated, they, 631 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,680 they just go here and there if they're not captive. 632 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,160 And so he begins to talk about high thoughts and he begins to 633 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,400 talk about low, you know, negativity thoughts. 634 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,320 He's classifying all of these things. 635 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:34,400 These are fugitive thoughts that need to be brought into 636 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,160 captivity. In other words, these things are 637 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,720 out of step when it comes to being in obedience. 638 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,360 Amen to Christ. Now that this is true, this is 639 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,400 true. Listen, God's not interjecting. 640 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:53,280 Those things into our minds and hearts if you have been sold. 641 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,680 A bill of goods today that that thought that you had. 642 00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,320 That's negative. Came from God. 643 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:03,120 You've been deceived. We read the verse over and over 644 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,400 for for graduations and everything Jeremiah 2911 and 645 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,880 it's whenever the the this is being spoken to the children of 646 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,080 Israel, the nation of Israel. This you want to know what God's 647 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,160 thoughts are. This tells us what they are for 648 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:18,440 I know the thoughts that I think towards you say at the Lord 649 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:25,000 thoughts of what and not of to give you unexpected which the 650 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,880 word expected basically means hopeful end. 651 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,640 Nobody loves me. Is that a is that a peaceful 652 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:38,200 thought or is that an evil thought? 653 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,760 Is that a hopeful thought I'm ugly. 654 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:47,480 Is that a peaceful thought? Is that a good thought? 655 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,480 Is that a hopeful thought Amen. So Paul's telling us often that 656 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,880 our thoughts. Take the path as Paul. 657 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:59,560 Said there in in in Second Corinthians chapter 10, our 658 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,800 thoughts take the path of against someone, say against the 659 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:08,960 knowledge of God. What are you saying? 660 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,600 There are thoughts that we. Think that God knows 661 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,560 differently. About. 662 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,000 Someone hear me? God knows you're not ugly. 663 00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:23,120 God knows you are not obnoxious. God knows you are not stupid. 664 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,360 God knows that you are not hated. 665 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,960 God knows, Fill in the blank. Other thoughts that stray from 666 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:36,200 what God knows are against the knowledge, Amen, against the 667 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,520 knowledge of God, Kristen Butler said. 668 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,800 This said, don't forget, I want to encourage someone tonight. 669 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,160 Don't. Forget While you're busy 670 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,880 doubting yourself, someone else is admiring your strength. 671 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,960 Folks, whenever you're thinking XYZ and everything negative 672 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:56,480 about. Yourself. 673 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,680 There's somebody else that's looking up to you and they're 674 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:05,240 just like blown away by you. They may never have articulated 675 00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:08,400 that or said that. To you, but in the privacy of 676 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,200 their own life. They're thinking man if I could 677 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:20,200 just be as Romans 12/3 Passion translation says it like this 678 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:25,600 that same verse in our text Romans 12/3 Instead honestly 679 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:30,080 assess your worth by using your God-given faith as the standard 680 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:34,000 of measurement and then you will see your true value with an 681 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:39,280 appropriate self esteem. So every thought that we have. 682 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:44,720 Matters. Matters a lot again. 683 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:47,560 Turn it out with me here for a moment. 684 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:54,760 Scientifically speaking, every thought we think changes our 685 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,720 brain. Every thought changes our 686 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,360 brains. Inside your brain again, Just 687 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:06,360 all along inside your. Brain are about 86 billion nerve 688 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:11,800 cells called neurons. If you're keeping count, that 689 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:17,720 represents roughly 0 point. 2% of your body's 37 trillion 690 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,200 cells. Inside. 691 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,480 Each of those 86. Billion or so neurons are things 692 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:28,720 called microtubules, each of which is thousands of times 693 00:42:28,720 --> 00:42:32,160 smaller in diameter than one strand of your. 694 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:37,720 Hair that's small. In other words, it's too. 695 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:41,160 Small to see. But their lack of visibility to 696 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,600 the human eye doesn't make them any less important to the human 697 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,920 experience. They mean everything. 698 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:51,200 And how we process life. Microtubules have been called 699 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,120 the brains. Of the cells. 700 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:59,560 Inside your neurons are those microtubules that are constantly 701 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:04,640 building, reconstructing, reforming, coming apart, 702 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:10,880 adjusting, shifting, stopping, starting again, all in 703 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:17,960 accordance with guess. What every thought you think? 704 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,640 With each thought, you think those microtubules work hard. 705 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:27,520 To provide what they call. Mental scaffolding to support. 706 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,320 That thought. That that scaffolding gives 707 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:35,000 structure to the entire nerve cell and to the true and since 708 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,840 then it alters your brain, you know how long it. 709 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:44,400 Takes a microtubule to finish the scaffolding that gives 710 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,360 structure to a cell after a thought has happened from 711 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,800 creation to completion. How long do you think of it? 712 00:43:51,880 --> 00:44:00,160 Yeah, they say it takes 10 minutes from the time you think 713 00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:04,520 a thought to that thought. Having a physiological, 714 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:10,720 scientific, indisputable. Change in your brain. 10 minutes 715 00:44:10,720 --> 00:44:15,800 have elapsed. In that time all those neurons 716 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,640 are going and these microtubule and these circuits are going. 717 00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,720 Causing some to die off. Some to come alive, some to be 718 00:44:21,720 --> 00:44:24,040 awakened, some to drift off. But it's in. 719 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:28,640 It's built this entire micro microtubular city in some part 720 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,000 of your brain. Because of a thought. 721 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:39,120 And so if you've made a habit of thinking negative thoughts, some 722 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:45,520 of us might have empires, but here's the hope. 723 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:54,200 You're just 10 minutes away from a fresh start, really with the 724 00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,160 thought. But but there being the 725 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,720 physiological change, you're just 10 minutes away from a 726 00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:02,720 fresh start. Here's the fact. 727 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,280 This works whether the thoughts negative or whether it's 728 00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:10,760 positive, whether it's truth or whether it's error. 10 minutes 729 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:14,680 away from brain change. And I give hope to you tonight, 730 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:16,040 huh? And. 731 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,760 God, I need a renewal vine. Yes please. 732 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,360 Scientists have found that. Brains of people who spend 733 00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,120 untold hours in prayer, meditation are different brains 734 00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:35,200 than other people. Oh yeah, your brains different. 735 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:37,880 The true transformation. You can stand with me. 736 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:43,920 I see what the time is. The true transformation comes 737 00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:48,200 when we allow God to renew our minds, right? 738 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:51,920 There's a shift in our thinking. Negative patterns. 739 00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:56,840 Been quoted that and I've already alluded to this 740 00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,320 somewhat, but nothing actually changes even when things change 741 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:06,240 all around you, unless things also change within you. 742 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:09,480 Say that again, nothing actually changes, even when things change 743 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:13,040 around you, all around you, unless things also change 744 00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:18,400 within. You so we could. 745 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,040 What that means is we can reshape our environment, we we 746 00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,640 can chase all the. The the the worldly. 747 00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,840 Modes that are out there we can modify our behavior we can do 748 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:32,000 all of that but we remain the same at the core unless there's 749 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:38,200 a change on the inside So what I'm challenges tonight is the 750 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,520 people in the self worth series talking about negative self talk 751 00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:47,560 here tonight nude minds and realized self worth got to be 752 00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,560 intentional we got to take. Cap. 753 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,000 Got to take cap of every thought, got to be intentional 754 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,280 about renewing our mind. We got to focus on. 755 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:57,280 What? Is true not what we think is 756 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,560 true, but what is true, what is noble, what is pure, what is 757 00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:04,440 praiseworthy. Because again, God desires that 758 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,640 you present your. Bodies, all of you are just the 759 00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,200 parts. That you feel are worthy. 760 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:14,120 That all of you, when we give Him everything, promise that 761 00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:18,480 He'll renew us from the inside out, empowers to live with will 762 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,280 and with a purpose. But we need God. 763 00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:25,280 We need God to touch our minds. I'm asking tonight as we close 764 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,880 this evening, if you'll just take one hand and just lay it on 765 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,400 your heart. Take the other hand and lay it 766 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:36,840 on your head and say, God, God, help me to take captive every 767 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:42,120 thought. God, I present to you me the 768 00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,800 unvarnished me. I present to you the unvarnished 769 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:50,440 me tonight, God. God, I've struggled with not 770 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,960 being enough. I've struggled, Lord, with 771 00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,600 thinking, Lord that that nobody really cares about me and I'll 772 00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,400 never find love. I struggle, God, I struggle. 773 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:05,040 God with how I believe I appear to other people or what people 774 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:06,840 may be saying. Whenever I walk into a room. 775 00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,040 Without a struggle, I present. To you, the unvarnished me 776 00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:12,480 tonight. But God, I want to take. 777 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:14,400 Captive these thoughts this evening. 778 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,720 God, for a man I know as a man, think of. 779 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:21,120 Lord, so is he God. I want to take captive. 780 00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,600 Lord Jesus, I don't want to. Produce a rut in my brain that 781 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:25,920 just. Defaults Lord to the. 782 00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:29,280 Negativity all the time, but God, Lord, those things that are 783 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:33,360 praiseworthy, God, those things that are not against your 784 00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,440 knowledge. You know God that I am loved, 785 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:37,920 but I need. To know it, Lord. 786 00:48:38,240 --> 00:48:41,240 You know, God, that I'm beautiful, but God, I need to 787 00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:43,440 know it. Lord God, let there be a 788 00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,680 restructuring tonight. God, I pray in the Holy Ghost 789 00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:50,920 tonight that there would be a shift, God, a shift at the 790 00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,680 cellular level. Father, today, God in the brain, 791 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,920 God over the thought processes of people's minds. 792 00:48:58,240 --> 00:49:02,080 God that's always Lord attempted to touch the exteriors. 793 00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,320 God, with the interior remaining the same and them still feeling 794 00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,760 as they feel, I'm praying. God, go to the inside tonight. 795 00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:11,600 Father, help us. God, go to the inside tonight. 796 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:14,640 Father, help us, God. Lord, to be honest, friendly, 797 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:18,280 honest with you, you, and it's OK to be brutally honest with 798 00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:19,840 God. Here I am. 799 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:24,680 Lord, I need a renewed mind. I can't even judge the quality 800 00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,760 of good and acceptable and perfect without a renewed mind. 801 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,360 God, I'm haphazardly living in this life. 802 00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:35,440 I'm accepting lies. I'm redefining truths, Lord, 803 00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:45,040 that are lies. Help me God, someone talk to the 804 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:48,320 Lord right now. We have the Creator that made us 805 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:52,280 in his hand, that we have a Savior that died for us in our 806 00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:57,560 condition. He loves us, He speaks the truth 807 00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,560 of our lives. God, I want you to accept. 808 00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,720 Your truth in my. Heart and mind right now. 809 00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:04,000 Hallelujah. Can we talk?