WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.200 I'm gonna go ahead and go back to Romans 12 as we've been doing. 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:06.480 And uh we're actually gonna finish up Romans 8 today, okay? 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:11.679 So Romans 8 is where we've been kind of hovering around as we've been our topic still transforming. 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:13.679 Uh, but we do always kick off. 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.000 I we're uh I'll show you what week we're in. 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:22.559 Uh if you're kind of new here, this is the first time I've ever done a series this long, which I don't even know if you call it a series anymore. 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:25.519 It's just become our topic uh since the year started. 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:32.000 Uh but do not be Romans 12.2 says, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:36.159 You may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:42.719 The topic of transformation, uh what we've been diving into since the year started. 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:50.880 And uh before I kind of really go into today's thought, um, I was having uh a discussion the other day with my dad. 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:55.039 And um I love my dad. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.119 It's not a bad story about him, I promise. 00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:58.640 Uh I love my dad. 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:10.560 And uh as I was looking at him, I was thinking to myself, he did something the other day and said something that when he said it and or or did it, I said, I say and do that. 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:12.799 And uh I wasn't bad about it. 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:22.319 I just kind of noticed right away that as I'm getting older, some of my parents maybe be a little more reflected out of me. 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:31.359 And I don't know if any of you want to admit that that as you're getting older, some things maybe your mom or does dad did or does kind of like come out of nowhere sometimes. 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:38.719 And uh even things where you think to yourself, I'll never do that, all of a sudden you're maybe doing it or acting that way stuff. 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:45.439 And um particular thing he did or said I um or did answer did answer. 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:51.040 I laughed, like I went back to we're here at the church, I went back to my office and I kinda laughed a little bit. 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:53.840 Because I said, you know, God, it's funny. 00:01:55.120 --> 00:02:08.479 I don't think we realize as a church, as a people sometimes how much we're impacted by how much we're influenced, how much we're molded and shaped by the people and things around us. 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.759 And I've come to learn that even when you don't realize it, you're being impacted sometimes. 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:18.159 You're being molded and shaped at times by what you hear, by what you see. 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:31.759 And I say that because I I prayed later on that day and I said, Lord, I think that's why it's even more important that I am being molded and shaped by the right things or in the right ways. 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:33.919 Because there's a hear me, look at me. 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:41.680 There's a battle for your soul, there's a battle for your life, there's a battle for your heart and the spiritual realm. 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:45.280 Kingdom of God is real, say amen to that. 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:48.719 The kingdom of Satan is real, say amen to that. 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:49.919 It's it's true. 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:53.599 There's a battle for you in your life and your soul at place. 00:02:54.159 --> 00:03:02.639 There's a battle for your character, there's a battle for uh your way of living, there's a battle for your mindset, there's there's these bat there's a battle going on for you. 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:06.879 And church, I'm t I want to just this is all just part of this little introduction today. 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:08.560 I always like to remind you what we're talking about. 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:14.000 Thought of transformation, this is why it can't stop and it has to continue for the rest of our lives. 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:15.520 Because hear me. 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:18.400 I'm a firm believer in this. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:25.680 If we're not striving to become more like Jesus Christ, then we're striving to become more like something else. 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:29.680 It's an offset, it's one or the other. 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:35.360 If you're not striving to be more like him, then you're striving to be more like you name it. 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:43.680 You whatever that I don't want to say the devil because I don't I'm not saying you're trying to be the devil, but I'll tell you this much, I'll say it like this. 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:46.319 Belong to two kingdoms. 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.800 You're either in the kingdom of heaven or you're in the kingdom of hell. 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:54.719 You're either in the kingdom of light or you're in the kingdom of darkness. 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:59.280 I know this sounds maybe a little like uh faster way to start a sermon today, you know what I mean? 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:00.639 But it's true. 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:02.400 You're in one or the other. 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:08.159 My question is as we're living life, which one do we want to represent? 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.719 Which one do we want to have impacting us more? 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:17.759 Do we want to become more like that which the kingdom of heaven promotes? 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:21.680 Or do we want to become more like that which the kingdom of darkness promotes? 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:27.519 This is why the topic of transformation isn't just a one-year thing or a one-week thing. 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:31.759 The idea of transformation should always be present in our minds. 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:38.800 What I'm trying to say is this never stop striving to become more like Jesus. 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:48.560 Never stop striving to live a life that pleases God and to be transformed, to be changed every day as much as possible. 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:52.800 And a little encouragement today, because I said this last week to someone after service. 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:56.160 I had a young man come to me and he was honest. 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:57.759 I appreciated his honesty. 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:00.480 I said, Pastor, I'm trying. 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:02.480 I'm really trying. 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:11.360 I'm not gonna lie, I've slipped up a couple times lately. 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:14.079 I I've had some hard moments a couple times lately. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:18.959 Um but I I I just saw tears in his eyes that I am trying. 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:25.439 And I remember what my pastor would tell people when they would they would come to him and they would say such a thing to him. 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:29.439 And I told this young man, I'm gonna tell you something that my pastor would say. 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:31.360 And here's the thing, look at me. 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.160 I promise you, it's not the most profound thing. 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:38.079 It's not the most like, wow, that's that's amazing kind of thing. 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.839 It was the simplest thing my pastor would tell this person. 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.959 And I found myself here as I heard my pastor, I would literally hear him tell this to people. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.240 And he I looked at the young man, I said, I'm gonna tell you what it is. 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:50.800 You ready? 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:53.680 I could tell with eyes wide open, the young man was like, Yes, yes. 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:59.600 And I was smiling, I'm like, it's not that deep, but I said, just keep coming. 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:03.600 And he looked at me and I was like, that's it. 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:04.639 I got nothing more to say. 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:07.279 Just keep coming. 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:08.800 Keep coming. 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:10.240 Keep coming. 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:11.680 Keep coming. 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:13.279 Keep coming. 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:16.319 I've learned there's power in those words. 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:18.639 Like, just keep coming. 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:21.600 Keep doing, keep trying. 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:25.439 I've met people that are on a journey to lose a hundred pounds. 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:26.480 I literally have met them. 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:31.199 Don't miss a week of going to the gym, but they'll get back on track the next week. 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:32.480 I've seen people like that. 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.319 And it amazes me how sometimes we falter and we fall short. 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:37.600 And don't look at me funny. 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:39.040 We all falter and fall short. 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:40.160 Say amen to that. 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:45.920 Just like that person that stopped going to the gym for the week, we give up on God after a bad week. 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:48.560 We give up our faith after a bad week. 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:53.680 No, even more so, I pray today that there's encouragement inside of you. 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:55.279 Say, you know what? 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.079 I have my faults, I've had my slip-ups. 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:00.560 How many are grateful for the grace of God? 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:05.040 Grateful for the mercy of God, the compassion of God, the love of God. 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.000 I'm not saying I don't care about your slip-ups. 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:09.920 Hey, let's address them, let's talk about them. 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:12.399 I appreciated the honesty of this young man. 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:13.759 But you know what? 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.639 I'm gonna tell you, let's keep going. 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:21.680 Let's keep searching for God. 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:26.079 Let's keep living doing our best to live for the Lord. 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:30.800 And I'm telling you, there's a power how can you just keep coming. 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.439 So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor we're gonna do this together. 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:39.040 Go ahead and tell your neighbor we're gonna do this together, and we're grateful for each other. 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:39.600 All right? 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:47.680 So, as we're on this topic, I said all that as we're on this topic of transformation, as we continue on this topic of transformation. 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:50.560 You're like, Pastor, I you don't want to know what happened last night. 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:52.000 I said something, they did something. 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:53.199 Hey, I don't need to know. 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:54.639 The Lord knows, talk to him. 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:57.040 I want to encourage you. 00:07:57.439 --> 00:07:59.680 Let's keep moving forward together. 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:03.279 Let's keep building forward, let's keep building together, okay? 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:06.720 So Pastor's not gonna just slap you around and tell you how horrible you are. 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:10.560 No, he's gonna remind you, we're all in this together. 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:11.839 Stay together. 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:13.439 We're gonna keep moving forward together. 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:14.720 Give the Lord a hand clap, okay? 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.240 Let's go forward, all right? 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:21.439 Because we're being impacted one way or another here. 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:23.360 Kingdom of darkness, kingdom of heaven. 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:24.399 We're part of the kingdom of heaven. 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:25.920 Say amen to that, okay? 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:28.160 Romans, uh, what part are we on? 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:29.279 Part 25. 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:31.920 So we'll call that our our silver week, all right? 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:33.200 Uh Romans 8. 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:34.480 Let's go to Romans 8, then we'll pray. 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:39.679 So Romans 8, verse 1, there is therefore no condemnation to those who belong in Christ Jesus. 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:40.960 Verse 2. 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:46.080 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:46.799 Verse 3. 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:51.919 Then the law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:53.840 So God did what the law could not do. 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:57.519 He sent his own son, Jesus, in a body like the bodies we sinners have. 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:04.399 And in that body, God declared an end to sin's control over us by giving his mighty, uh by giving his son as a sacrifice for our sins. 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:05.200 Verse 4. 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:12.080 He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us who no longer follow our sinful nature, but instead follow the Spirit. 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:12.799 Verse 5. 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:17.120 Now, up to this point, we've talked about verse 1, we've talked about verse 2, 3, and 4. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:21.360 Uh go to our Spotify, our Apple music pages, and you'll see those sermons there. 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.360 Last week we start on verse 5. 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:33.519 Those who are dominated by the sinful nature, think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit, think about things that please the Spirit. 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:34.320 Let's pray. 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:35.279 Father, thank you for your word. 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.360 According to X 242, your word is received gladly. 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:39.200 According to X 19, 20, your word well. 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:43.440 I pray now, Father God, according to John 6.63, your words are spirit and life today, Lord. 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:45.600 According to Hebrews 4.12, your word is powerful. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.840 And I pray, Lord, that even as I stand here, the Spirit of my Father speak through me according to Matthew 1020. 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:53.679 Use these lips of clay to speak your word without error and with excellence according to your desire. 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:02.320 I thank you that our hearts are open and the seed of your word takes root in the soil of our hearts, and we shall see the fruit of it in our lives. 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:03.840 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:04.720 Amen. 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:15.120 Now, I've been emphasizing to you the past few weeks, and I remind you today that our goal in living a life that pleases God, that that goal can be met. 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:17.519 That goal is a goal we strive for. 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:22.240 But in order to fulfill that goal, we need the help of the Holy Spirit. 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:30.080 We have the need in our lives for the Holy Spirit to be able to help us win this war against sin that we're in. 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:33.039 Because we are in a daily war with this thing called sin. 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:42.320 Uh you can even say in a daily war with our own will, in a daily war with our own desires, and a daily war with the desires of that kingdom of darkness we're talking about. 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:50.799 We're we're in a daily war, not trying to succumb to those things, but have victory over those things and to live a life that pleases the Lord. 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:55.600 And in order to do those things, we need the help of the Holy Spirit. 00:10:55.840 --> 00:11:14.399 And last week I took you to verse five, and I wanted to first point you out to this truth that in verse five that speaks to us about how we live according to the flesh and how we can follow after the flesh, how we can uh uh be in agreement, and I'll talk about that more in a second, be in agreement with our flesh. 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:16.960 Let me show you verse five again, this is the next slide. 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:27.279 Those who live according to the flesh, uh those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the spirit. 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:38.240 And I told you last week that if you're gonna live this life, you're gonna find out that there's two ways to live it. 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:43.120 You can live it according to the flesh, or you can live it according to the spirit. 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:47.519 That is, you can follow after the flesh, or you can follow after the spirit. 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:48.480 Put it on the board. 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:52.720 I remind you, the Holy Spirit is not the only one you can follow after. 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.159 The Holy Spirit is not the only one you can follow after. 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.960 You can follow after this thing called the flesh. 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:00.159 Told you a little bit about it. 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:31.600 We're not gonna go detail again, but you know the flesh, it's that self-centered part of you, that that part of you that wants your will, that wants your desires, that part of you that craves things that are against God's will and God's commands, that part of you that wants to do wrong, or that part of you that wants to resist uh the commandments of God or resist the ways of God, that part of you that dives into things and gets involved in things and finds joy and pleasure in the things that God looks at and says, I don't want you to find pleasure and joy in those things, but our flesh does, so we follow after that. 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.759 We live according to that, we fulfill those desires. 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:42.080 Because I tell you today, according to verse five, the flesh does have desires. 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:43.600 Read that verse with me again. 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:44.799 Let's go back to verse five. 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:49.120 Go back, trust me, right there. 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:56.799 Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. 00:12:57.360 --> 00:12:59.120 You're thinking about sinful things. 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:03.039 And you may say today, Daniel, I don't think about sinful things. 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:10.960 You're gonna tell me to go a whole day without thinking about something you probably shouldn't think about, or a thought crosses your head that probably shouldn't. 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:13.840 If you do, come pray, you come pray for me. 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:18.159 I'm not I mean that, like that's what I want, that's great. 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:26.320 Uh, you know, but if your car cuts you off in the middle of the road, some of y'all immediately forget you're saved, you know? 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:32.320 Somebody looks at you weird or sideways, you suddenly forget you're saved. 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:36.240 Somebody at work was talking about you, you kind of forget you're safe all of a sudden. 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:39.120 Wife upsets you, you forget you're saved all of a sudden. 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:40.960 Your husband upsets you, you forget you're saved all of a sudden. 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:46.000 Your kids make you mad, you know, as much as you love them, you maybe forget you're saved all of for for a moment. 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:49.279 We have this battle going on. 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:53.440 But here's the part that I really kind of want to start to emphasize on today. 00:13:55.440 --> 00:14:05.440 When those thoughts cross your mind, when those when those when you find yourself in those moments of even you acted and did something and you caught yourself, caught yourself there in that moment. 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:06.480 I I can. 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:09.840 I there's that there's where the the flesh was satisfied. 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:12.080 There's that moment where I I did fall short. 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:18.000 There's that moment where I didn't mean to, as Paul would say, the thing I want to do, I don't do. 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:19.519 The thing I shouldn't do, that's what I do. 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:21.759 Like that moment came, that moment happened. 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:24.000 Now move forward forward two sides for me. 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:25.440 Why is this happening? 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:27.279 Why is this going on? 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:28.720 Forward. 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:30.720 I'm sorry, I didn't put these in line for you. 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:31.840 Put them forward again. 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:32.799 Right here. 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:34.320 Why is this happening? 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:40.159 Those who live according to flesh have their minds set on the flesh. 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:44.320 And I know I'm recapping here for a moment, but just go with me. 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.919 Hang tight, because I I need to be able to flow into the next part. 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:50.320 Why why why hear me? 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:51.440 Why why in that moment? 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:53.360 What why what happened in that moment? 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:55.759 Like what what just just that the falter? 00:14:55.919 --> 00:15:00.399 Or maybe it's been just it's like this young man told me, it's been a rough week, it's been a hard week, it's been a tough week. 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:04.480 Like I just I just find myself in this battle that I don't feel like I'm doing well in at all. 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:06.000 What's going on? 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:10.080 Well, why do you follow after the flesh? 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:11.519 Why are you living according to the flesh? 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:12.720 Why are you in line with the flesh? 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:14.799 Hear me, it's a simple thought. 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:19.200 Because your minds are set on the desires of the flesh. 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:23.200 Your minds are set on the desires of the flesh. 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:25.120 Your mind's set on it. 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:27.679 And you may you may think that sounds strong. 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.559 My mind's set on that, and I'll show you that here in a second. 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:32.159 First, let me tell you this. 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:36.639 I remind you, next slide, we will follow after what our minds are set on. 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:41.279 We'll follow after what our minds are set on. 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:43.840 And what is it to have your mind set on? 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:48.559 It means you agree, you cherish the same views, you you are in harmony. 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:51.360 It means to be in the same party to side with. 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:08.960 It's wrong. 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:10.639 I don't agree with certain things. 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:11.519 I know those are wrong. 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:14.799 I'm not on the side of things that are against God. 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:15.919 I'm not, I'm not. 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:17.200 But here's the problem. 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:18.320 Look at me. 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:20.480 You have a mind. 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:25.679 Listen, you have a mind that unfortunately, look at me. 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:28.080 That mind has been trained. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:31.279 That mind has been taught. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:39.120 That mind has been impacted by so many things in this world and so many things in life. 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:41.200 I want you to think about it for a second. 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:45.279 Growing up, just a real quick, how many grew up in a Christian home? 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:46.799 If you're I mean a real Christian home. 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:52.879 I mean not like, eh, you know, no, no, I mean like like you know what I mean, like a real strict, strict Christian home. 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:54.000 Raise your hand. 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:56.480 Yeah, that sounds about right. 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:57.679 I did. 00:16:57.840 --> 00:16:58.879 Love you, mom and dad. 00:16:58.960 --> 00:16:59.519 I did. 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:01.039 I was blessed with that, by the way. 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:02.720 It's not a bad thing, that's a blessing. 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:04.559 I was blessed by that. 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:06.079 Hear me. 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:11.920 Your mind is taking in so much throughout the day and so much around you. 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:14.000 The unholiness, the ungodliness. 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:15.759 And you may say, well, my parents were bad people. 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:17.759 No, no, I get that, but hear me. 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:27.119 There was no sense of the gospel, there was no sense of a true foundation of biblical truth in your home or in your workplace or the people you're hanging out with. 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:31.279 And hear me, your mind is taking all of that in, man. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:33.759 It's taking in everything. 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:49.839 So for many of us, look at me, we're talking about now, maybe 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, I don't know how many years down the road where you finally awaken and your eyes open and you realize this is wrong. 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:52.000 I can't live this way. 00:17:52.160 --> 00:18:01.039 I don't want to be this way, which thank the Lord, we come to that realization, say amen to that, and we get saved. 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:12.720 But now here comes the battle where those 25, 30, 40 years of things that have just been getting downloaded into your mind are still there. 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:18.480 You don't realize it, but your mind is set on those things. 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.119 They talk to you like this, this is how you respond. 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:23.359 They look at you like this, this is how you respond. 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:25.680 They do something like this to you, this is how you respond. 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.319 They want to fight you, you step up and punch them harder. 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:29.759 Don't even try to walk away. 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:38.720 Like, like all these things that just can flood your mind of how to live, and now hear me, and now you're in this battle within your mind, so now hear me. 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:45.279 Renew your mind because listen, the way you were thinking before is not the way God wants you to think now. 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:54.000 But your mind has been like like uh remember those old school TVs, I really like them, that have that little dial that goes click, click, click, click, click. 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:55.279 My grandma had one of those. 00:18:55.359 --> 00:19:02.079 I just changed the channel because I like the way it sounded, click, click, click, click, and then when you were bored, just to do it. 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:07.519 But what happened is your mind was set on channel 12. 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:10.880 And you gotta get all the way to channel six. 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:18.160 Your mind, this TV is set, your mind is set on a certain way of doing, a certain way of believing, a certain way of thinking. 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:21.279 That's why we succumb to this flesh. 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:26.240 Hear me, because we've had a lot of practice giving this flesh what it wants. 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.039 And don't shut me down when I'm preaching, guys. 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:35.599 We've had years of giving this flesh the desires it desires what it wants. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:37.279 Say amen to that. 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:39.599 That's why the mind is set. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:43.359 And in that moment, it's like when you falter and go, God, I messed up. 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:45.200 And then thank you for the grace and mercy, God. 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:47.519 But what we did, you did something that was wrong. 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:52.000 It's simply put, you you turned back the dial, man. 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:56.480 Your mind got set on what the flesh desired. 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:58.480 And in that moment, you agreed. 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:03.039 You had the same view, you were in harmony, you were in the same party, you sided with, yeah, you know what, Flesh? 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:04.000 That does sound pretty good. 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:05.279 I'm gonna do that. 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:08.319 In that moment, yeah, you know what, Flesh, I do want to talk to them like that. 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:08.720 You know what? 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:09.359 Who do they think? 00:20:09.759 --> 00:20:11.519 You got the neck syndrome, the shaky neck syndrome. 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:13.119 Like, who do they think they are? 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.160 Yes, I'm gonna look at that thing I shouldn't look at. 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:19.839 I'm gonna do that thing I shouldn't do. 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:21.440 I'm gonna talk to my wife this way. 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:21.920 What? 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:27.440 In that moment, your mind got set back on the desires of the flesh. 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:31.599 And you may say, I didn't agree with it, then why did you do it? 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:34.960 I don't side with it, then why did you do it? 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:36.960 And I'm not even mad at you for it. 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:43.200 I'm trying to tell you, listen, that's how delicate we are, that's how fragile we are. 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:57.839 That in a moment's notice, the person who can to you at times be a person, just a prime example of a person who's holy and righteous and who loves God and does well, that in a moment's notice can fall short of the glory of God. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:58.480 Why? 00:20:58.640 --> 00:21:09.519 Because they still have a flesh that has desires, and if you're not careful, you set your mind on those desires, and you will follow after what you set your mind on. 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:14.799 And I'm blown away because you maybe some of y'all think this is kind of weird. 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:15.759 It's not. 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:19.759 You will follow after what you set your mind on. 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:23.599 Let's have some fun. 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:24.079 It's okay. 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:24.799 Laugh, smile. 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:26.079 Any of y'all ever been in love? 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:26.960 Raise your hand. 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:29.200 Those of you married better raise your hand. 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:32.240 The Lord. 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:37.119 Any point in your life. 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:38.559 So one more time. 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:39.680 Any point in your life. 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:41.119 Anybody, any of y'all ever been in love? 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:41.680 Raise your hand. 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:43.279 All right, okay, all right. 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:44.400 Golly. 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:50.559 Some of you husbands and wives have to explain it to each other later today. 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:58.559 We will follow after what our minds are set on. 00:21:59.440 --> 00:21:59.680 I 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:04.000 I've seen men that are in love do the craziest things. 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:10.000 I've seen women that are in love do the craziest things. 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:11.440 Why? 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:15.440 You will follow after what you set your mind on. 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:26.480 The goal to win the heart or of attention or attention of a person you love will drive you to do something that you're like, I don't even know why I'm doing this. 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:31.039 It's because you're so blinded by love, you're willing to do whatever you have to do. 00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:36.880 I've heard of men crossing the country to find the girl that they're chasing after. 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:42.480 I've heard of women crossing the country to find the man they're chasing after. 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:46.480 Go ahead if you're if you're married, look at your spouse right now and say, Yeah, you do that for me, right? 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:48.000 Just tell them right now, you do that for me, right? 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:50.240 You know, like not very many did it. 00:22:50.319 --> 00:22:51.359 So that tells me where you are right now. 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:52.559 All right, that's fine. 00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:59.440 I mean, they will they they will stand in line for things. 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:04.160 They will they they they will save money, put money to a side to buy them things. 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:07.519 They they will do whatever they can because they're infatuated. 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:08.240 Why? 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:13.119 Because you will follow after what you set your mind on. 00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:21.359 You set your mind on a person, you want that person's attention, you want their affection, you want their love, you want their companionship. 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:24.240 What do I gotta do to win this person's heart? 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:26.240 You follow after them, man. 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:27.440 You will be on top of it. 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:31.200 You'll talk to their friends, what do they like, you'll talk to their family, what do they like? 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:40.720 You'll you'll you'll you'll look them up on be with you'll follow them on Instagram and say, oh, they like to go here and go here and on Facebook, they like to go here and you're gonna stalker them all of a sudden. 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:44.319 Why? 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:49.119 You will follow after what you set your mind on. 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:57.279 Your mind becomes set, and I'm telling you today, hey, here's why this is so important. 00:23:57.759 --> 00:23:59.359 Put the next slide. 00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:05.359 We must have our minds set on the Holy Spirit's desires. 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:15.200 Because we have this flesh that we're battling, but there's also this other person, the not the third, but the part of our the Trinity, Son, Father, and Holy Spirit. 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:16.240 And guess what? 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:18.319 He has desires as well. 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:29.839 And as much as your flesh wants you to do the things that are against God's will, the Holy Spirit says, I want you to do the things that are according to God's will, that follow after God's will. 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:32.480 I want you to do those kind of things. 00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:50.880 So as I'm starting to realize now how powerful it can be when I set my mind on something and what it drives me to do if you're in love and your girlfriend or your fiance or your wife or husband has this desire and you're gonna do whatever you can to meet that desire. 00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:56.640 You're gonna travel wherever you have to go to just hopefully please them, you're gonna chase after them. 00:24:56.799 --> 00:24:57.680 Hear me. 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:13.279 We should have a mindset on the Holy Spirit in such a manner that I will do whatever he wants, I will go whenever he wants, I will fulfill whatever he wants, I want to know more of what he wants because my desire is to follow after him. 00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:18.480 Hear me, because he will never lead me wrong, he will never take me down a wrong path. 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:25.519 So, church, I want to just implore of you today and beseech of you today to begin all of us daily to have this thought. 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:26.319 Hear me? 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:28.799 What is my mind set on today? 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:32.960 What is my mind set on today? 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:37.599 Because according to Romans 8, 5, look at me. 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:44.480 You're set on two things the desires of the flesh or the desires of the Holy Spirit. 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:47.359 It's one or the other. 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:50.480 Can you go back to the previous slide, please? 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:52.319 Question. 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:56.240 Do you want to agree with the Holy Spirit? 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:00.720 Do you want to cherish the same views as the Holy Spirit? 00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:04.079 Do you want to be in harmony with the Holy Spirit? 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:07.519 Do you want to be in the same party with the Holy Spirit? 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:10.480 Do you want to side with the Holy Spirit? 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:18.880 And I pray that all of your answers to those questions are yes and amen. 00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:28.799 Because if my mind is going to be set on something, let it be set on the desires of the Holy Spirit. 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:31.200 And look at me. 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:33.680 Is that easy? 00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:36.559 It can be challenging. 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:53.920 What are the Holy Spirit's desires? 00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:55.759