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TRANSCRIPT – How to Renew Your Mind in Christ and Experience a Life of Victory / Ephesians 4:17-25
when Leah and I were dating and then we
got married and like I was still chief
of police and so my closet was full of
uniforms and I was still doing
triathlons and my master closet was full
of what she calls unitards and it was
bicycling jerseys and pants and and
shoes and helmets and and um and and I
had one pair of blue jeans
like I own one pair of jeans and I had
one pair of loafers and they were from
college 30 something years earlier
and I was so happy in my life
and when we met Leah’s like that ain’t
gonna cut it
and so she started like getting new
clothes and I was very resistant but I
understood that I considered my Crocs my
fancy clothes
but if I was going to move into a new
season of my life it required for me to
take off those old garments of an old
life and be willing to put on the new
garments
what I want to talk to you a bit about
today we’re gonna we’re continuing our
walk through the book of Ephesians
and and the one thing that the Lord put
on my heart for today to share with you
was we’re going to talk about renewing
the mind
and one thing he put on my heart was for
you it’s you got to get rid of that
stinking thinking
you got to get rid of the stinking
thinking like God is the creator of your
brain but only you can renew your mind
and why is it important well spiritual
maturity it starts with a mature mind
and we’re going to walk through Paul’s
going to tell us how do we get to that
state of having a renewed mind and we’re
going to start with our anchor scripture
so we can stand as the body and we’re
going to read the word that renews the
mind we’re going to read the word that
brings spiritual maturity and we’ll do
this in reverence of the Lord and we’ll
stand as the body and let’s begin
since you have heard about Jesus and
have learned the truth that comes from
him throw off your old sinful nature and
your former way of life which is
corrupted by lust and deception instead
let the spirit renew your thoughts and
attitudes put on your new nature created
to be like God truly righteous and holy
so stop telling lies let us tell our
neighbors the truth for we are all parts
of the same body thank you Jesus for
that word for that word
today we’re going to talk about about
the mind game
and and it’s about renewing your mind
everything begins with the renewing of
your mind and you know
the brain and mind they’re words that
are used interchangeably but they’re
actually very different and it’s
important that we understand a
distinction going forward for the rest
of the message is that your brain is is
the actual it’s the physical organ
that’s inside your skull so that’s your
brain that beautiful complex thing and
it actually is the most complex organ in
your body there’s over a hundred billion
neurons in your body that fire trillions
of connections through the different
synaptic gaps if you watch the video of
your brain the activity it’s like
lightning
it’s powered it’s back and forth
that’s the complexity of the of the of
the brain now your mind your mind is the
product of that brain your mind is is
amazing
your mind as amazing as it is
still limited to error and and and
limitation and erroneous thought
that’s why Paul tells us that we’ve got
to renew our mind we’ve got to renew our
mind not with another binge of your
favorite News Channel or or another
Scroll of Facebook reels you renew your
mind by the reading of the word
you know that’s what the that’s what God
tells us to do so you say that’s cool
that’s cool like I dig it I’ve got to
renew my mind like that’s like telling
me well you got to lose some weight okay
that’s cool I gotta lose some weight but
how do I do it well this is how we’re
going to renew our mind this is how
we’re going to do things uh Romans 12 2
says renew your mind by transformed by
the renewed over your mind in anatomy
and physiology and biology it’s called
neuroplasticity
I always love it when science verifies
what the word of the Lord’s always told
us renew your mind that’s great how do I
do it so the world in all its Academia
comes up because it’s called
neuroplasticity
and what is neuroplasticity
it’s Renewing Your Mind like your brain
so so I get to counsel a lot of men that
with addictions usually pornography and
they’ll say I was just born this way let
me tell you God didn’t create you with a
brain to consume pornography you see the
brain
your little baby brain it’s not the same
brain as your I know it all a 15 year
old brain and it’s not the same brain
that now we have because of because of
neuroplasticity because your brain
changes your mind changes as this as
your life changes
so the quick example where it refers to
addictions or pornography or false
thinking is usually statistically as as
horrible as it is children are first
exposed to pornography at about the age
of eight years old now it could be
unintentional or it could be intentional
but that first exposure and you’ve got
your pure baby brain and now you’re
about eight years old and that first
look
at something corrupt and it’s just an
etching on the mind and another look is
another etching and you continue to come
back for those looks and now you’re
starting to dig these neural Pathways
these tunnels in your brain that that
now pornography sin lust addiction it
travels through those tunnels
but let me assure you
that God’s got the answer
and it comes from Romans 12 2 renew your
mind
so if you looked at your mind and you
see all these trenches and tunnels and
neural Pathways and you start reading
the word of the Lord
and it starts to wash it it starts to
cleanse it it starts to smooth it and
then these neural Pathways they start to
fade they start to disappear and what’s
now trenched and what’s now etched and
what now becomes renewed
is scripture prayer faith belief
Miracles so when you look at the
undercarriage of your brain now you see
same neural Pathways but firing
different thoughts wiring together for
different thoughts that’s how we’re
going to do that that’s how we’re going
to get to spiritual maturity
you see spiritual maturity requires
mental maturity like everybody says oh
Armor of God Armor of God Onward
Christian Soldier give me my helmet and
my breastplate and a sword and a snack
because it’s heavy like you can’t forget
the snack but let me tell you something
what we don’t do is we’re not willing to
go through the process of maturation you
see any Warrior who shows up at boot
camp or special forces training and you
dump all that equipment on them they’re
going to fail they’re going to fail they
don’t have the maturity to carry because
they don’t they’ve not renewed their
mind
you see what I want to tell you is as we
move into spiritual maturation so we can
carry the armor of God so we can
understand the victory that we have over
the enemy is that you did nothing you
did nothing to earn the call of God
you did nothing
to earn the anointing of God
but you you got to do everything to grow
in the character of God
you see character don’t just happen
character comes from the process of
maturation we’re called to be a new
preacher I want to share with you when
when you go to when uh soldiers report
to boot camp when I reported a special
operations training that’s meant to
break you it breaks your body
breaks your body down
but it also breaks your mind you see and
and building your body is easy we can
all do it right now we could eat less
and move more
and we’ve improved our body you see but
if you can’t reprogram your mind
then you wash out of the program
you wash out of the program you see God
can change all things
but you got to change your mind
you got to renew your mind
we always talk about well I’m not a
robot I’m not this I’m not that you’re
right God gives you free will because
God’s crazy about you God gives you free
will you get the choice to renew your
mind you get the choice to go into
spiritual maturation
you get the choice to stop drinking milk
and start eating meat and the word so
how do we do that let’s look at
practical terms Ephesians 4 we’re still
walking through the book of Ephesians
and you know the first three chapters
where Paul was talking about the wealth
the riches in Christ you’re a coheir
you’re a coheir with the King you’re
sealed in the Holy Spirit now he’s
talking about the Walk The Walk For
Christ what does it look like to be a
coheir in the kingdom and then we’re
going to move in to spiritual warfare
and you’re going to realize you know
when I when I was carrying tactical gear
it was about 75 pounds of tactical gear
from helmet to ballistics to Weaponry to
water to Communications and if we’re not
going through that process of maturation
I’d have been just a heap on the ground
I would have been no good to anybody
that needed my help especially no good
to myself this is what Paul’s doing is
he’s walking us through the process of
maturation so we can put on the
Spiritual armor so we can declare our
Victory from a mature posture not like a
child screaming in the dark
so he tells us and and four um one a 17
I’m sorry this I say therefore and
testify in the Lord that you should no
longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles
walk in the futility of their mind now
Paul is talking to the church in Ephesus
this church is going to grow into the
largest Christian Church in the
Civilized world
so he’s talking to Believers he’s not an
evangelist out there yelling Against the
Wind
these are believers and he’s saying stop
walking like the heathens and the reason
you’re walking like them the Lost is
because of the futility of your mind you
see the battlefield for you is in your
mind
your spirit is 100 perfect because it’s
the righteousness of God you did nothing
to build up that righteousness except
receive Jesus as your savior Boom the
100 righteousness of God is your spirit
your soul we’re working on the
sanctification
your body
we’re working on that too
but you know what it starts in the mind
so in the Greek when Paul’s talking
about futility the Greek application of
this is folly or vanted vanity or wrong
thinking or false Doctrine
you can see how easy it is let’s go yay
team Jesus and somebody go well you know
this is what team Jesus is really about
oh
oh that team Jesus listen there’s only
one Jesus there’s only one team and
there’s only one way to understand team
Jesus and it’s by renewing your mind if
you get caught up in the futility of
your mind you’re going to get mired down
in false Doctrine in wrong air and
um erroneous thinking you know in the in
the Greek when he used futility of the
mind it refers to frame of mind and then
reference and what does a frame do a
frame boxes you in a frame limits Your
Capacity a frame defines the terms and
the functions
so what Paul’s saying is you’re limiting
yourself to wrong thinking you see like
false religion is not about your
emotions
it’s about shifting your focus if I can
get you away from the truth of the word
from the meat of the word if I can get
you away from Renewing Your Mind with
the word
then I’ve I’ve been able to steer you to
some false Doctrine now we’re in a whole
new religion
and there’s only one there’s only one
way to think about it and that’s the way
the Lord thinks about it so how do we do
that how do we make sure we stay on the
path of renewing our mind
you got to focus on God like what you
focus on you magnify
if you’re so worried about that that
blister on your toe and you’ve got a
marathon to run you’re not going to run
that Marathon you’re going to behoo the
blister on your toe
the blister on your toe that came
because you were training to run a
marathon
you got to stay focused you got to put
on the new self
you know how do we do that
well
it’s amazing how Lord has the answer for
it all in Colossians 3.
therefore you have been raised with
Christ
keep seeking the things that are above
where Christ is seated at the right hand
of God set your mind on the things that
are above not on the things that are on
this Earth
like that is so important and I just
want to give you a very practical
tangible example and so I asked the body
like do you give do you tithe do you sow
seeds into the kingdom
and like a lot of times when you mention
money in church people oh that’s my
money that my money like don’t make me
go crazy we’re talking about money well
if you believe God and you believe that
God created everything then you believe
that everything belongs to God so
everything you have from your money to
your old garments to my 30 year old
loafers from college God created and
they belong to God and if you believe
that
and if you believe that then I ask you
are you giving regularly are you making
an investment in someone sees into the
kingdom because if your first attitude
is well that’s my money that’s my money
then you’re missing the point you see
it’s God’s money and God don’t need your
money God needs your heart
God needs your heart so when I say
tithing giving investing sowing if your
first thought is your bank account
instead of the kingdom of God then I
would submit to you that you’re thinking
not of things above but things on the
Earth
the next thing is to elevate your
thinking Philippians tells us finally
brothers and sisters whatever is true
whatever is Honorable whatever is right
whatever is pure whatever is lovely
whatever is commendable if there is any
excellence and if anything worthy of
Praise hey y’all
think about these things
think about these things like don’t
worry about who’s going to take Don
lemon’s place on CNN don’t worry about
where Tucker Carlson’s going to show up
on the podcast don’t worry about what
Joe Rogan’s saying or who he’s talking
to if you if you’re like I don’t know
I’ll ask our kids hey what y’all doing
nothing
parents right worst thing you can tell a
parent when he said what are y’all doing
nothing or what’s the other thing I’m
bored oh let me tell you something
you’re going to be busy and you’re going
to be on board so if you’re sitting
there Renewing Your Mind and you’re like
well I don’t know what to think about
I don’t know what to think about let me
give you some suggestions
you think about what’s true
you think about what’s honorable you
think about what’s right
think about what’s pure
you think about what’s lovely
you think about what’s commendable
I mean if you can’t find something in
that list to think about
then you’re not willing to renew your
mind
yeah it’s good stuff so let’s rewire our
mind we started with the story of the
example of Romans 12 2 about renewing
your mind and let’s read it it says do
not conform to the patterns of this
world but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind now we’ve explained that
about the neural Pathways and using the
word of the Lord thoughts that that fire
together wire together if you’re looking
at porn and you’re thinking about
addiction and lust and you’re wondering
whether or not to return that text
message from the person at work or at
the gym then that’s where your mind’s
gonna go but if you if you’re reading
the word of the Lord and you’re speaking
the word of the Lord and you’re sharing
the word of the Lord that’s where your
mind’s gonna go so that’s cool why do we
do that well let me tell you why it’s
important it says then you’ll be able to
test and approve what God’s will is his
good pleasing and perfect will so so
many times we’re talking to brothers and
sisters like I don’t even know what
God’s will is I don’t even know what his
will is well let me ask you what’s the
standard with which you’re measuring
God’s will you know you go to Zachariah
and he talks about zerubbabel held the
Plumb line what’s the Plumb line it’s a
standard when we would take our kids to
Disney World it says must be this tall
to ride this is a Plumb Line This is a
standard if your kid’s not this tall he
don’t ride
if the word of the Lord doesn’t say this
then you’ve got nothing to measure that
standard by so why is that important let
me tell you why it’s important you know
when we’re oversaved and we’re and we’re
hashtagging on social media test the
spirits test the spirit test the spirit
What Spirit what test
what test
well we know whether or not our kid can
get on that ride why because there’s a
standard there’s a test but when it
comes to testing the spirits this is
what the test is
but it starts in your mind
first John 4 tells us beloved do not
believe every Spirit but test the
spirits whether they’re of God
because many false prophets have gone
out into this world
by this you will know the spirit of God
every spirit that confesses that Jesus
Christ has come in the flesh is of God
and every spirit that does not confess
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh
is not of God
and this is the spirit of the Antichrist
which you’ve heard was coming and is now
already in this word
you see this is the consequence it’s not
whether your kid cries because he can’t
ride the zubu roller coaster
that’s not what the standard in the
Kingdom’s meant to do it’s whether or
not the spirit of the Antichrist that
was there then and is here now whether
or not you’re gonna you’re gonna fall
for the false prophets for the spirit of
the Antichrist and believe me if if all
the if all the the roller coaster places
ah he looks okay next thing he’s being
ejected from the seat belt right this is
Kingdom consequences you’ve got to have
a standard with which to measure things
and you know what we do a lot of times
you know what our you know how we test
the spirit in the in the
by our feelings
oh I hear what you said
and I know you read it from that Bible
but it don’t make me feel good
you know what I’m going to do I’m gonna
go find me another church
that talks about your feelings and gives
me ice cream at the end of the service
and tells me how special I am
you know that’s the church I want to go
to
I want to go to the church with the
petting zoo and the bouncy houses look
there ain’t nothing wrong with petting
zoos and bouncy houses and ice cream
but if it ain’t anchored to the word of
the Lord
you just had an amusement park
you got to control your thinking why is
it so important well Second Corinthian
tells us we are human but we don’t wage
war as humans do we use God’s Mighty
weapons not worldly weapons to knock
down the strongholds of human reasoning
human reasoning
and to destroy false arguments we
destroy every proud obstacle that keeps
people from knowing god
we capture their rebellious thoughts and
teach them to obey Christ and after you
become fully obedient we will punish
everyone who remains disobedient like
again mentoring guys they’re like these
thoughts just pop up in my head these
vile thoughts these nasty thoughts this
fantasy this lust like they just pop up
listen that’s being a victim you have
the authority to take your thoughts
every thought captive every thought
captive
every thought captive you have the
authority
God’s not calling you to be weak-willed
and weak need and hoping that you
measure up to the ride measurement at
the at the amusement park God’s giving
you an eternal standard with which to
measure everything by
everything by you know I want to tell
you we started talking about my mole
shoes and stuff and and you know one of
the habits that I’m hoping I’m going to
stop is every time Lee and I go to leave
the house to go somewhere like the Cajun
in me I grew up down the body in the
south Louisiana I’m like you can wear
that
you go where that even if it’s like a
beautiful dress just out of my mouth
involves you’re gonna wear that
and I know she walked out before I said
it because she said I’m gonna punch you
if you say it in the second service but
but you know can you imagine God
looking at you
you can wear that
you’re still wearing that old garment
you go wear that
I Gave You All These Fine robes and you
go wear that
hmm you see out with the old
Ephesians continue to tell us that you
put off concerning your former conduct
the old man which grows corrupt
according to the deceitful lust and be
renewed where renewed where not in your
closet not in your wardrobe not at your
grandma’s house not on your video game
selection not on your iPad
but in the spirit of your mind
the spirit of your mind the beauty of of
sharing this message and picking
different scripture everything’s
consistent renewing of your mind
renewing of your mind if you don’t set
the standard if you don’t set the
standard with which to test everything
then everything tests you
but let me tell you you’ve got to make
the decision to strip off those old
filthy clothes you’ve got to make that
decision you’ve got to repent you’ve got
to repent and you’ve got to submit to
God you see that old church when you oh
I don’t know I don’t want to be told I
got to repent because that means I’ve
got to take action like I can’t just
take a pill and get better I can go to
sleep I can take a pill and go to sleep
but when I wake up I’m still wearing
them those same garments you got to make
the decision
you’ve got to repent and you’ve got to
submit to God let me tell you something
you cannot you cannot substitute the
cleansing power of God’s word with
workshops and conferences and social
media posts and other people’s opinion
other people’s opinion listen
I eat the meat
you’ve got to eat the meat of the word
if you want to grow spiritually mature
so now we took off the old what do we do
now
on with the new
Ephesians 4 tells us and that you put on
the new man which was created according
to God
and true righteousness and Holiness
again you got to make that decision to
put on those new garments
you got to make that decision it only
occurs through the renewing of your mind
that’s the only way it’s going to happen
man and you get to make that choice you
know people say
well you changed
hallelujah we’re supposed to change
we’re supposed to change
so when when the people that knew me for
30 something years
you got a new pair of jeans
what you do with them black Crocs
I changed
because I’m supposed to change
okay
you see second Corinthians tells us
therefore if anyone is in Christ
he’s a new creation
old things have passed away behold all
things have become new
and you know when you put on those new
dods
y’all remember
when you had those brand new white
sneakers the first day of school some
people were proud of them white sneakers
some people were a little embarrassed
because they’re a little too shiny you
kind of scuffing them up but you know
what this is what new looks like in the
Kingdom
from Ephesians 4 25 therefore
putting away lion
that’s the first thing
putting away lying controlling taming
your tongue that’s the first thing you
see
because you cannot Minister from a dirty
vessel
it’s next Let each one of you speak with
truth
speak truth with his neighbor for we’re
members of the same one body
see what is the truth and lie have in
common
they both take effort
they both take effort nobody’s ever just
accidentally tumbled a lie at it oh I
messed up my mistake I told a lie the
mistake is that you told a lie the LIE
wasn’t a mistake it was intentional just
like the truth you see the beauty or the
thing with a lie you got to have a good
memory because you got to remember who
you lied to and then what you lied about
and then when this person becomes part
of the lie you got to be able to
remember your Alibi you got to keep
lying and lying see the beauty of the
truth the truth’s like a lion right you
ain’t got to defend that thing you set
it free it’s going to defend itself
I had a brother oh Terry Terry’s telling
me one day I’m driving to church and I’m
like
it’s so good not looking over your back
it’s so good to be free and I’m like I
hear you
we both spent most of our life looking
over our backs
but we’re free you’re free you can only
stay free if you wear that new garment I
want to tell you something that trust
trust is gained and drops
but it’s lost in buckets
it’s lost in buckets you get to make
that choice and I want to go back a
little Old Testament and share this with
you from uh Zechariah says these are the
things you shall do now in the legal
side if you read a document and it says
you will do this that means there’s some
subjectivity to it the word will if the
legal document says shall you got no
choice
you got no choice you’re gonna do it
unless without and there’s not there’s
going to be consequences penalty of law
so this is this is what the Lord says
these are the things you shall do speak
each man the truth to his neighbor
give judgment in your gates for truth
justice and peace let none of you think
evil in your heart against your neighbor
and do not love a false oath
for all these things that I hate says
who
the Lord
the Lord
these things I hate
like we got the choice
we’ve got the choice to take off the old
garments we’ve got the choice to be
adorned with the new but it’s your
choice but listen it can’t just happen
by wanting to be a good guy or a good
girl
I’m just gonna behave
got to renew your mind
with the word of the Lord you’ve got to
eat the meat there’s no other way
so the one thing that I want to share
with you and it’s you got to get rid of
your stinking thinking you got to get
rid of your stinking thinking you got to
renew your mind with the word of the
Lord
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you know God loves you and God wants you
to walk in Victory
God wants you to wear the armor God
wants you to to proclaim the victory
but that comes to a process of
maturation
like like our 13 year old wants to drive
my my Bronco with a stick shift and he
will one day but not today physically
he’s not mature he doesn’t have the
skill set to work a stick shift I bought
a stick shift because I know nobody
under 50 is going to steal it
and I know that none of our kids will
ever drive it
it’s about coming into maturation
it’s about coming into maturation
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