WEBVTT 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:10.960 Hey, I'm Steve Holt, the senior pastor of the Road at Chapel Hills. 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:12.480 This is the Road Podcast. 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:13.839 Thanks for joining us. 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:17.120 My heart is to empower you to change the world. 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:19.920 I hope this message impacted you. 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:27.760 So turn your Bibles to Ephesians chapter 4. 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:29.359 We're in the book of Ephesians. 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:32.320 And we actually are going to talk about that. 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:36.000 I've decided to call this Don't Be Deceived. 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:38.000 You're a New Person. 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:40.000 Don't be deceived, you're a new person. 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:42.159 And we're going through Ephesians 4. 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:53.200 If you're a guest with us today, you may not have been in a church like ours, but we teach the Bible chapter by chapter, verse by verse, book by book, and we're in Ephesians. 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:59.280 And the first three chapters, you guys, of Ephesians is about the wealth that we have in Christ. 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:06.959 Chapters 4, 5, and 6, where we are now, the second half of the book of Ephesians is about the walk we have in Christ. 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:08.959 So the first part is doctrinal. 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:10.640 The first part is theological. 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:11.840 We covered that. 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:13.040 And that's important. 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:30.799 And I've said again and again that if you're serious about your faith, that doesn't necessarily mean you're a scholar, but you're serious about being a wholehearted disciple and loving God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength, you should get Wayne Grudom's book, Systematic Theology. 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:33.120 Wayne Grudom's book, Systematic Theology. 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:34.079 It's now in paperback. 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:34.959 It used to be a hardback. 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:37.200 It's like$57 when I got it. 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:40.159 And I think it's down to like$25 now. 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.359 But you need to understand doctrine. 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.000 Because there's a lot of deception out there. 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.640 And so the first three chapters are about doctrine. 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:50.959 They're about the wealth we have in Christ. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.400 And then 4, 5, and 6, where we are now, is very practical. 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:55.920 It's how to walk in Christ. 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:03.680 And so what we're seeing as we come in to chapter 4 is first of all, 1 through 6 is talking about the unity, the unity of God. 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:08.159 We already covered this, and the unity we have as the body of Christ in Christ. 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:15.120 Then the next part of Ephesians 4, starting around verse 6 or 7, is dealing with the empowered church. 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:25.039 So the last two times that I've spoken, last week I was not here, Brian spoke, but it's about the empowerment through spiritual gifts. 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:27.280 And I'll say this again to you that missed that. 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:32.479 That spiritual gifts, there's not a number of spiritual gifts. 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:38.960 If you actually took the six passages in the New Testament and talking about spiritual gifts, if you counted them up, there'd be 22. 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.599 I believe there's 222 gifts. 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:45.439 In other words, I think they're just examples through the inspiration of Scripture. 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:47.120 So you may be an engineer. 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:48.639 That can be a spiritual gift. 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:53.199 An engineer could be a spiritual gift if it's under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:54.080 Does that make sense? 00:02:54.319 --> 00:03:02.240 So you could be an artist that's beautiful at seeing things and painting things, or you're a graphic artist, you use a computer. 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:04.879 That can be a spiritual gift that's under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:06.240 So I talk about three things. 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:07.840 I think about acquired skills. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:17.360 That's through your education, things like that, or seminars that you go to to develop your skills, natural talents that you were born with, but then spiritual gifts are part of that. 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:24.479 And so part of the goal of this church is to help you reach convergence. 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:25.919 Write that down. 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:28.240 You're taking notes, write down convergence. 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:35.840 When we talk about empowering people to change the world and empower you, our goal is for you to reach convergence in your lifetime. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:48.319 In other words, that when I think about convergence, I think in terms of acquired skills, natural talents, spiritual gifts, under the rubric of godly character. 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:48.879 Okay? 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:57.280 And we talked about that, how there's many people, their gifts get ahead of their character. 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:58.879 And so they fall. 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:06.960 And we're seeing in the Christian, you know, we know what's happened with the revelation of Robbie Zacharias and some of the stuff that's come out about him. 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:15.919 And others in the last few years that are top Christian leaders that have fallen because their gifting was ahead of their character. 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:24.879 And so we want our character to stay locked up in barrel with our vision and gifting and dreams that God has given us. 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:26.959 Because you're gonna get attacked. 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:34.879 And so as we come now into Ephesians 4, we're looking at who you are and how you think. 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.040 Who you are and how you think. 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:52.399 And there's a story told, and it's probably true actually, but it's a great metaphor if it's not, of an eagle that fell out of its nest, and when it landed on the ground, it became a part of a flock of turkeys. 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:56.480 And so this eagle started hanging out with turkeys. 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.160 It learned to eat like a turkey, it flew like a turkey. 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.680 And if anybody turkey hunters in here, but I've had turkeys. 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:09.439 And turkeys, they they only fly, you know, they'll fly up to their roosts, and that's it, because they're pretty much a ground bird. 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:10.879 So that's as far as they go. 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.160 And the story goes, it's turkey hanging out with turkeys. 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:18.879 Well, sometimes look up and see eagles fly by, and man, I wish I wish I could fly like an eagle. 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:23.920 I mean, I'm kind of sick of just going 15 feet up into that dumb pine tree, you know? 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:27.360 Dreaming about being an eagle when he actually was an eagle. 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:34.800 Didn't know that actually the DNA within him was an eagle, but he's hanging out with turkeys. 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:43.120 Well, the church today has built a flock of turkeys when you're actually an eagle. 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:51.040 The reason I know that is because I see the state of the church right now in America, and I go, we need some eagles. 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:53.680 We need some eagles. 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:55.839 And guess what? 00:05:57.680 --> 00:05:58.639 You are one. 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.480 We just need you to understand that you are one. 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:07.680 And I can preach till the cows come home, and if you don't believe it, it doesn't matter. 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:11.680 If you said, you know the truth, the truth shall set you free. 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:13.360 Truth doesn't set you free. 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:17.759 You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.199 If you don't believe it, then it means nothing. 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:26.319 We got a lot of Christians with big heads and small hearts because they're turkeys. 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:28.879 When God's called them to be eagles. 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:30.720 Because actually they are eagles. 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:32.240 So that's what this is about. 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:38.879 This is talking about turkeyism and eagleism. 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:46.560 2 Corinthians 5.17 says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:47.920 He's an eagle. 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:52.800 Old things, being a turkey, have passed away. 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:55.199 Behold, all things have become new. 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:57.279 So look at Ephesians 4.17. 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:01.040 And what we're going to look at today is Turkeyism. 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:04.560 So we're going to look a lot here about what it means to be a turkey. 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:10.240 And then we're going to next week go into how to be an eagle. 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:24.240 So, verse 17 says, This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles, as the rest of these turkeys walk, in the futility of their mind. 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:34.000 So the first thing we need to understand is that Satan deceives you, and the way he deceives you is he begins to cause you to think in terms of futility. 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:44.879 And futility is a really destructive part of our thinking process because it actually means empty and it means vanity. 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:48.560 And so he's saying, look, this is how everybody else walks. 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:49.439 Don't walk that way. 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:50.800 Now he's writing to Christians. 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:56.000 This is to the Ephesian church, of which he all he has is commendations for this church. 00:07:56.079 --> 00:08:03.040 This is a solid, spirit-filled, word-rooted, happening, culture-impacting church. 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:04.319 Understand that? 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:05.360 They are. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:06.879 And so this is a good church. 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:07.680 This is a solid church. 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:12.720 He's saying, look, don't, even you, you're an eagle church. 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.680 Don't go back because you can, right? 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:26.160 You can start thinking wrongly, and you begin to think vanity, and what happens is your faith is destroyed because of fear. 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:29.839 And fear is so prevalent right now. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:31.839 It is prevalent in society. 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:44.000 I was up at our cabin in Fairplay, and we were talking to a guy, one of our neighbors, we're just getting to know him, and he works in the government of the city of Frisco. 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:53.679 And he was saying how they keep posting these jobs that they need well-paying$50,000 a year jobs that are available, people won't even apply. 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:54.879 And I said, Well, why? 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.200 And he said, Well, part of it's the government checks they get. 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.360 But he said, the second thing is fear. 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:01.279 They're afraid they're gonna get COVID. 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.320 And he said, that's a he said, no, I didn't say this. 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:10.240 I'm very careful with people I don't know. 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:13.360 He said, it's a pandemic. 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:19.200 And you can tell he he was sort of testing me, you know, like I wonder what he's gonna think about that. 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:21.120 And I said, Amen, brother. 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:22.879 You and I are on the same team. 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:25.360 But fear. 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.480 There's a spirit of fear. 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:39.039 It's because we let our we let our thinking and our walk fall into what we would call a futility of the mind. 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:47.440 So if you look at commercials, if you spend much time watching movies, you're influenced by that. 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:51.200 I forget the name of the drug company. 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:53.120 So it starts with a K. 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:57.200 It's on all the, and I was watching the Georgia game yesterday. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.320 The only time I watch TV is when Georgia plays. 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:08.639 And um, so it was some something like curve or crevet some kind of a drug you're supposed to take, okay? 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:10.960 And um it's supposed to help you with something. 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:18.240 And I'm telling you, I'm telling you, you guys, you know how they do the thing, you know, beware of this. 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:34.080 And then seriously, the commercial was like one minute and 45 seconds was all the things talking about vomiting, death, suicidal thoughts, you know, leave your husband or your wife, you know, um, sex outside of marriage. 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:34.799 I mean, I don't know. 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:36.080 It's like all kinds of stuff. 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:37.840 I'm listening, I'm like, what? 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:46.080 But if you're watching a lot of TV and you're listening to those kind of commercials, it influences you. 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:48.639 Talk about futility of mind. 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:56.559 You're gonna you're gonna put this drug in your bloodstream with that kind of a warning? 00:10:57.840 --> 00:10:59.440 And here's the thing. 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:04.080 Oh, I promised myself I would not do this today. 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:08.399 Okay, I'm not gonna do it. 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:09.360 I'm not gonna do it. 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:10.559 Verse 18. 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:11.279 No, no, no. 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:12.240 Verse 18. 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:13.840 Okay, verse 18. 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:17.120 Having their understanding darkened. 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:22.159 Having their understanding darkened. 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:25.440 Being alienated from the life of God. 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:30.639 You see, when your thinking is darkened, you alienate yourself from God. 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:33.519 Man, guys, that's not a good thing. 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:39.039 You want to be in partnership with God, not alienated from God. 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:42.240 Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God. 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:46.080 The life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them. 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:47.840 So we still have ignorance in us. 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:49.840 You're still ignorant sometimes. 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:57.360 You still tend by habit to act and think like a turkey. 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:00.159 When you're really an eagle. 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:05.120 But guys, if you don't retrain your thinking, you'll go back to the old way. 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:11.679 Alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart. 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:12.960 Wow. 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:15.519 Who being past feeling? 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:44.240 See, that's amazing to me that our understanding and our thinking can become so skewed that it's past even the ability to feel it anymore because you've so developed a way of life and a habit pattern, kind of a mental type of habitual thinking, that it doesn't even affect your conscience anymore. 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:45.759 You've been seared. 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:51.360 So where you know you used to do this a little bit, and you're like, I hope I don't get caught. 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:57.039 Or I hope my wife doesn't find out, or I hope my husband doesn't find out, or whatever it is, and then it doesn't even bother you anymore. 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:13.519 It's past feeling because you're so darkened by it, have given themselves over to lewdness to work out all uncleanness with greediness, you've not so learned Christ this way. 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:16.399 So it's a darkened understanding. 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:17.919 That's what drugs do. 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:20.399 That's what drugs do. 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:25.039 Pharmacia in the Greek means witchcraft. 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:30.639 Okay, it doesn't mean we don't take drugs sometimes because they're healthy and they're good and they can, they can. 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:32.960 I mean, he took nitroglycerin right here. 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:34.000 You know, using that. 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:34.960 I'm not saying that. 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:40.080 Every time I say this, I've been a pastor 27 years. 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:44.879 Anytime I bring up pharmacia, I get, if you email me, I'm not, I will not respond. 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:45.440 Okay. 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:48.960 Oh, well, you're against all drugs. 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:51.120 I'm not against all drugs. 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:54.720 I believe all truth is God's truth wherever it comes from. 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:57.759 So if science has developed a truth, it's helping it's a good thing. 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:07.279 I'm talking about drugs injected or put into your bloodstream that are not good, that become addictive. 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:20.480 There's a reason why big pharma has just shoved opioids into small towns all over this country. 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:23.519 Because they're trying to make zombies. 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:26.399 That's what they're trying to do. 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:28.159 In the name of good. 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:43.759 It's demonic. 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:49.840 So we're being we're being warned right here by Paul 2,000 years ago. 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:51.840 There's nothing new under the sun. 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:54.720 They were doing it back then, they're doing it now. 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:56.720 It's just more sophisticated. 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:02.399 And what's beautiful about today is you can find out information on all this stuff. 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:04.480 We didn't know before. 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:06.639 Man, we know stuff now. 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:08.799 But you have to do the research. 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:10.480 You have to look it up. 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:15.200 You need to be asking the question is that really true? 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:16.879 Is that really true? 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:21.519 Who, does that, does that fly with science? 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:23.120 Does it? 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:25.440 Have they done their homework? 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:27.440 Are they telling me the whole truth? 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:30.080 It's called critical thinking. 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:34.000 It's called you, my dad would have said using your noggin. 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:36.879 A southern for being a good thinker. 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:38.240 Use your noggin. 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:45.919 And so God's given us the ability to do that because demonic powers, satanic powers, come in and they darken your thinking. 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:51.840 And it's even beyond your feelings because what it does is it sears your conscience. 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:54.720 You start to have a seared conscience. 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.159 So, guys, look for alternative forms of news. 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:00.799 Learn to, and we're going to talk about this. 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:03.120 We're going to do a medical conference. 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:05.840 First weekend in November, we're going to do a medical conference. 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:09.759 We're going to bring some of the best doctors in the nation talking about what's happening right now. 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:12.480 Because we want to train you, we want to equip you, we want to empower you. 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:15.360 The two classes that we're doing with Empower You. 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:17.919 The first is on leadership by Jerry. 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:19.440 And the other one is by Devin. 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:20.639 It's on spiritual warfare. 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:25.120 Both are really going to be key because we want to empower people to change the world. 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:26.960 But look at, listen to Ephesians 2.2. 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:27.679 Write this down. 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:28.639 You don't need to look it up. 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:29.679 Just write it down in your notes. 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:30.639 Ephesians 2.2. 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:43.200 You once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:49.039 So Paul is warning us earlier in Ephesians that there is a course. 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:57.360 There is a graduate level course of this world led by Satan. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:16:58.799 So let's just think about it. 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:00.240 Let's think logically here. 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:12.240 If you kick God out of the schools, if you kick God out of the church, if you kick God out of government, if you kick God out of society, who rules? 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:15.920 Somebody's going to rule. 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:19.200 There's always a ruler in every vacuum. 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:23.200 And if it's not God, it's Satan. 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:24.160 He rules. 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:34.400 We should not be shocked by the kind of stuff that comes from big tech, big gov, big pharma when Satan's in charge. 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:36.559 It's a course, the graduate school course. 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:41.039 Well, we should be having graduate school courses and how to renew our minds in the church. 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:43.759 That's why we come here. 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:45.599 That's why we have community groups. 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:46.799 We have house churches. 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:48.160 We have empower you. 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:49.359 Because we've got to get trained. 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:52.319 We've got to, we've got, you don't battle by saying, I'm not going to think about that. 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:53.359 I'm not going to think about that. 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:56.720 No, you've got to actually start thinking about truth. 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:00.160 2 Corinthians 4, 4. 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:10.079 Whose minds the God of this age has blinded who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:13.200 So, in other words, the enemy blinds you. 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:16.480 Some of you are here today, someone invited you here. 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:20.480 You're like, man, I cannot believe I showed up at this church. 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:23.039 This guy's a nut up here. 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:24.799 The music's too loud. 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:26.880 The pastor's too loud. 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:30.079 And your heart is blinded. 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:32.559 And God's going to take the bail off. 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:34.319 Just keep coming. 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:39.759 God will get on you and you'll get set free and you'll quit walking in bondage. 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:42.880 Because that's what Jesus does. 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:44.640 He sets the cap is free. 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:47.359 And it's really, really cool to get set free. 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.279 It's a real bummer to walk. 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:57.200 Some people would rather be comfortable and be enslaved than be uncomfortable and be free. 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:59.039 I like uncomfortable and free. 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:00.160 How about you? 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:07.359 And the only way you can stay uncomfortable and free is use your noggin. 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:09.519 Think for yourself. 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:11.039 Don't let other people think for you. 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:12.640 Don't even take what I'm saying. 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:13.920 You get into the word. 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:15.440 You dig into the word. 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:17.759 You start reading systematic theology. 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:19.759 You start listening to good broadcasts. 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:22.319 You renew your mind with truth. 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:24.079 Because that's what it says in verse 21. 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:24.720 Look at that. 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:26.079 Verse 21. 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:37.200 If indeed you have heard him and have been taught by him that truth is in Jesus. 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:39.680 Write this down. 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:40.559 Big letters. 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:42.720 Renew your mind with truth. 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:44.960 Renew your mind with truth. 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:46.799 Renew your mind with truth. 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:48.640 Reject lies. 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:51.200 Reject falsehood. 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:54.480 Reject dumb theories. 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:56.720 Follow the science. 00:19:57.519 --> 00:19:58.799 Follow Christ. 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:00.400 Go after Jesus. 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:01.839 Hebrews 12. 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:13.920 Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:20.559 Looking unto Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:32.559 Until we start looking at Jesus, we will not be able to have a faith that's being authored, developed, built, and strengthened for the days ahead. 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:41.599 Focus on Jesus, taking our minds off of the weights that ensnare us, the fears that some of us are carrying. 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:45.039 The only way you break that's not going, man, I gotta quit being fearful. 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:50.319 You've got to take your eyes off of your circumstances, put your eyes on Jesus, being in his word. 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:51.680 We call it PB and J. 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:57.680 PB and J is not peanut butter and jelly, it is prayer Bible journal. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.119 Prayer Bible journal. 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:01.839 Doing prayer Bible journal every day. 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:03.839 You've got to renew your mind. 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:06.240 You've got to see yourself as you're back in school. 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:08.319 You're back in school, right, Mandy? 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:09.599 Like that smile. 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:11.039 You're back in school. 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:12.319 You're back in school. 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:22.480 You've got to keep growing and keep learning because the enemy is on the move and he's gonna cram a bunch of stuff down your head that will cause you to have a darkened mind. 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:26.559 And the only way to break out of a darkened mind is you gotta shine light on it. 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:28.880 And every time you read God's word, you shine the light on it. 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:31.119 Every time you go to a community, you shine the light on it. 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:43.359 Every time you stand up for righteousness in a loving, kind way, not in a mean-spirited way, but in a loving, kind way where you don't bend, you shine the light. 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:45.839 And people are hungry for that. 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:48.640 They just want some courage. 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:51.920 Your kids want to see you be courageous. 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:59.599 Your boss, right now, who's having to maybe push a mandate that he doesn't even agree with, just needs some. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.319 People with some backbone to stand up. 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:10.079 So you gotta have your focus on Jesus because truth is in Jesus. 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:11.759 Truth is in his word. 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.839 This is the inerrant, infallible word of God. 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:19.920 You're not inerrant, I'm not inerrant, God's word is, he is. 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:29.440 And so the more we spend time in God's word, the more we memorize God's word, the more we love God's word, and we focus on Jesus and worship, prayer. 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:31.200 That's what I love about what Brian's doing. 00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:41.839 I mean, I can't tell you, 27 years I've been a pastor, and when I was at Mountain Springs, I said a hundred times, if I said it one, we should start equipping more worship leaders. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:43.839 We should start equipping more people. 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:45.759 And it never would happen. 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:47.519 Brian gets it. 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:55.440 And so you've got young guys now leading worship when you come in here because we've got to raise up a new generation of worshipers and warriors. 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:01.680 It's not, I don't have much left in the vast spectrum of things. 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:04.240 These young people have their whole life before them. 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:07.440 You've got to empower them and equip them and believe in them. 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:12.400 So Paul's saying, truth is in Jesus. 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:13.759 Renew your mind with truth. 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:14.720 Verse 22. 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:30.480 That you put off concerning your former conduct, the old man, which grows corrupt according to the deceitfulness of lust, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, that you put on the new man, the eagle man. 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:40.079 Take off that old turkey, put on the eagle, which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:42.319 So we got to put on the new person. 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:44.720 You're a new person, but you have to put it on. 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:45.759 You know? 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:48.720 It's like putting on clothes. 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:58.960 So yesterday, I was doing all this work related to some stuff that I was building, and I had on, you know, my car heart stuff. 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:02.319 And then today I put on this outfit. 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:06.240 And there's an old and there's a new, but just like you put on. 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:12.160 I don't put I don't put a shirt and a jacket over a car heart stuff. 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:16.480 Okay, I have to take that off and put on the new. 00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:24.160 So some of you just need to take an index card and write, you know, on a card, put on the eagle today. 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:27.359 Take off the turkey. 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:29.200 Put on the eagle. 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:30.880 You're an eagle. 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:33.039 In this church, you're an eagle. 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:35.839 I can't speak for other churches, but in this church, you're an eagle. 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:37.680 Start acting like it. 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:39.440 Just be who you are. 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:43.680 Be who you are in Christ. 00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:46.079 Don't be who be who you are in you. 00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:48.160 We already don't like you. 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:52.480 We like Christ in you, though. 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:58.960 And if you're not saved, if you're not born again, if you've never given and surrendered your heart to Christ, do it today. 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:01.279 Smartest move you'll ever make. 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:03.200 Don't be a turkey. 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:04.400 Be an eagle. 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:08.559 Because when you start walking as ego, you walk as a free man. 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:10.480 When you walk as a free woman. 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:13.119 Nobody has to kick you around. 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:15.359 You can say, stop doing that. 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:18.160 That's disrespectful. 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:20.559 I don't believe you. 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:22.400 I don't believe that's true. 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:23.839 And you can believe that's true. 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:24.240 That's fine. 00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:25.119 It's a free country. 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:26.880 I just don't believe it's true. 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:29.759 And I'm going to walk in Christ. 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:40.319 And when you do that, what happens is there's just a few people, not many, but there's a few people that go, wow, I want to be like him. 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:42.000 Or I want to be like her. 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:44.960 And before you know it, we start building an army. 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:47.920 Kingdom of God revolution happens that way. 00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:50.400 But somebody's got to stand up. 00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:52.079 You're an eagle. 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:53.759 Do it. 00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:55.359 Do it today. 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:56.720 Do it tomorrow. 00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:00.000 Confidence and joy in your heart. 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:05.119 Hey, thanks for listening to the Road Podcast. 00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:08.880 It's been my joy to be a part of your life today. 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:16.960 And you know, that's part of what we do here at The Road, and this is what I do in having this Road Podcast is to empower people to change their world. 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:26.240 My passion and desire is that you would take God's word through the power of the Holy Spirit and make that relevant for your life. 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:32.079 You know, the reality is that God has placed your life here on this earth to make a difference. 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:41.279 And if you'd like more information about how to grow in Christ, if you need prayer, if you want more equipping in different areas of your life, go to the road.org. 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:42.720 God bless you.