Dr. Tony Evans

Tony Evans - Heaven to Earth

September 21, 2025 | 28:40

Dr. Tony Evans is known as a relevant expositor and is a pastor of pastors and a father in the faith.

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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - Heaven to Earth | September 21, 2025

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Tony evans: some of us have been held hostage to stuff
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All of our lives.
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"i'll never get better. i'll never overcome this."
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And the worst statement of all: "this is just who i am."
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No, that's not who you are.
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If you've become a christian, you have died in christ
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And you have been set free simply because god said so.
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It's just we gotta set the mind so that you begin to experience
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The freedom that god declares is yours.
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Tony: today i want to talk to you and me and us
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About how an eternal perspective can change all of that
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And how, with this shift in perspective--
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In how you look at life--
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You can become a lion that roars,
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A bird that flies, a fish that swims,
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A dog that barks, a cat that meows.
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In other words, you can live out
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What the creation was designed to produce.
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When you and i accepted jesus christ,
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The bible says we became new creatures in christ,
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Another kind of creation; yet, at the very same time,
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We often are not living up to the newness
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And, unfortunately, find ourselves
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Many times living opposite to the uniqueness.
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Paul, in writing the colossian church,
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Addresses this reality.
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So stay with me today,
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And let's see how an eternal perspective
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Can be transforming.
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He says in chapter 3, verse 1, of colossians,
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"therefore, if you have been raised up with christ,
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Keep seeking the things above, where christ is,
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Seated at the right hand of god.
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Set your mind on things above, not on things that are on earth,
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For you have died and your life is hidden with christ in god.
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When christ, who is our life, is revealed,
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Then you also will be revealed with him in glory."
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Many are suffering from what i might call
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A disease of spiritual alzheimer's.
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Alzheimer's is where the mind, or the brain,
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Can no longer formulate accurately thoughts, words,
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And ideas in order for the life to move as it ought to move.
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This dysfunction and death of brain cells
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Produces inactivity within the life.
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The body can't do what the body was meant to do,
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Because something has gone wrong in the head.
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Paul makes it clear that your victory in life
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Is tied to your mind.
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It is in the shift of your mind
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That will determine the redirection of your life
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And my life.
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Whatever is in your life that ought not be there that is wrong
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Is not starting with what you do;
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It's starting with how you thought about it,
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And that's why there's so much in scripture
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About the redirection of the mind
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And the need for the mind to be reprogrammed.
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The bible declares that, when you and i accepted christ,
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We got the mind of christ.
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He says that, when you became a christian,
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You became identified with jesus christ.
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He says that you are raised up with him,
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You're seated with him, you've died with him,
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And your life is hidden in him;
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That jesus christ, his resurrection,
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Is to produce the new point of reference
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For your life and my life,
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And if we lose sight of that new point of reference
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We may function in terms of our old life,
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Not in terms of our new life.
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All of us knows what it is to jump-start or hot-shot a car.
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That means that there is a dead battery,
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Which means the whole car can go nowhere.
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So we ask somebody who has a living battery
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To pull up next to our dead battery
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And take out jumper cables.
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They take the positive and hook it on to the dead positive,
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The living negative and hook it on to the dead negative,
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And then there is a transference of life.
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The transference of life from the living battery
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Via the cable enters into the death of the dead battery,
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And the dead battery piggybacks on the living battery
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So that the dead battery becomes alive
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Because it is borrowing the life of another,
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And so that which could not move in the right direction
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Is now able to move because of a hookup.
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God is saying, when you came to christ, you got the hookup,
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But the hookup--
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Without turning on the ignition--
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Will still leave you dead, stuck, and going nowhere.
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And so he, first of all, wants you to understand
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That the difference you want in your life and my life
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And our lives is going to start by understanding with your mind
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The hookup that took place as a result of your conversion
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So that, in the mind of god, you and christ
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Have been linked together,
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And it is an understanding and activating
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The new link of your salvation in your mind
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That will take your life
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Being able to turn over the ignition
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So that the body can go
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Where the body is designed to go.
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So, first of all, you need to understand mentally
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That the hookup has occurred, okay?
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Then what's the process of getting this ignition turned on
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In my head so that it moves through the rest of me
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And how i function in my christian experience?
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He says, in the second verse, the key phrase: set your mind.
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You see that? set your mind on things above.
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Many of you got up because you, yesterday, set your clock.
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You set your clock on the time to wake up
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In order to prepare to come to church.
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To set the clock is to intentionally identify
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The time that you want to wake up.
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In other words, clocks are not set casually.
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They are set on purpose--
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'cause you set it for 6 or 6:15 or 6:30.
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It is an on-purpose thing.
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Therefore, in order for the transformation to occur,
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He says it must be an intentional, planned setting.
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You are to set the mind, and the mind is to be set
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On a specific thing: on things above.
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So you are to intentionally think heavenly, above.
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You are to think with a heavenly perspective,
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But he does not mean you are disassociated with earth.
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The whole point is to think, while on earth,
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With heaven's viewpoint in mind, and to do so on purpose.
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Until you learn to do it naturally,
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You have to set it purposefully.
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Some people don't have to set their clock
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'cause they are their clock.
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In other words, they are self-set
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So that they will wake up in the morning
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When they're supposed to wake up
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Without a buzzer going off
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Because they've gotten so used to it
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That it's automatically built into their system.
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I would suggest if you get a new job
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And you've not been used to waking up on your own,
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That you set your clock and don't depend on yourself
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'cause yourself hasn't been doing it long enough
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To do it on its own.
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When you learn to on-purpose set your mind on heaven
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While living on earth
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Until your system learns to do it automatically,
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Then the transformation will begin to occur
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Because your mind will automatically know
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To engage heaven
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In order to have a proper movement in history.
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In super bowl 43,
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With just a couple of minutes left in the game,
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The pittsburgh steelers were marching down the field.
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Ben roethlisberger, the quarterback,
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Threw the football to santonio holmes,
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And he dropped it.
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They came back to the huddle.
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There's less than one minute left in the game.
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He's now gotta score if they're gonna win
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The super bowl.
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He calls santonio holmes's number
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To try to get the winning score.
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Santonio holmes comes to the end of the edge of the goal line,
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In the end zone,
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And roethlisberger throws in the ball.
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He reaches up high and catches the ball.
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The referee says, "touchdown."
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The reason why it was a touchdown
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Is 'cause two things happened.
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Number one, he reached high and caught it.
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But, number two, he kept his feet firmly planted
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On the ground.
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If he would have caught it,
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But his feet were not on the ground
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In the end zone,
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It would have been an incomplete pass.
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If his feet were down and in the end zone
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But he didn't catch it,
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It would have been an incomplete pass.
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Because in order to score a touchdown,
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He had to reach high and still touch low.
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His feet had to be firmly planted on the ground,
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But his hands had to reach up high.
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In order for you to score the life
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That god wants you to live
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And in order for me to score the life wants me to live,
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We gotta reach high to heaven
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While keeping our feet firmly planted on earth.
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Both happen simultaneously.
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God doesn't want you to be so heavenly-minded
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You're no earthly good,
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But he doesn't want you to be so earthly-minded
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You're no heavenly good.
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He wants you to reach high and touch low
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So that you live out on earth heaven's perspective in time,
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But to do that, he says, you've gotta set your mind.
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You've gotta say, "today i have set my mind
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To live my life,
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And make my decisions from heaven's point of view."
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And unless that has been naturally built
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Into your system,
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You've got to intentionally tell yourself that
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On a daily basis.
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You must set your mind, why?
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"because i now no longer belong to myself.
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I belong to jesus christ, and my life is hidden in his."
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Let me explain. i don't drink black coffee.
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To me, black coffee is nasty, okay?
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I don't like black coffee.
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So whenever i make coffee or coffee is made for me,
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There is an understanding there will be cream in it.
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There will be cream in my coffee;
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And the sweeter the cream, the better.
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I love them flavored creams.
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And so cream is placed in my coffee,
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And when cream is placed in my coffee
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A transformation occurs, a change happens.
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I watch black become brown
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Because something has been introduced to it
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That didn't stop it from being coffee,
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But it sure changed how it tastes.
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But i am not satisfied with an introduction of cream.
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I want an inculcation of cream.
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So i take my spoon, and i stir the cream around in my coffee
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'cause i ain't trying to get it just sitting on top.
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I want it all up in there.
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I want it from the tutti to the frutti.
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I want it from the bottom to the top.
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I want that cream to make itself known
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All the way through my coffee
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Because i want it to be good to the last drop.
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I want all the coffee to taste like the first bit tastes
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Because i have integrated it, intermingled it.
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I have absorbed it in the total blackness of the coffee.
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See, some christians are satisfied
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To throw a little jesus on top.
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They wanna put a little jesus on top,
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And jesus is saying, "no, i want you to stir me in,
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And i wanna be part of the tutti to the frutti,
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From the bottom to the top
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So that from the beginning of your day
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To the end of your day you are consumed with me
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Because your life is hidden in me.
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I need to be the sum total
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Of the definition of your existence
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If you wanna experience
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The transformation that i'm offering."
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And so a little jesus on top,
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A little prayer a day to keep the devil away,
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A little "lord, have mercy" without stirring that thing in
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When i get up and when i go to work
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And when i come home
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And when i do this and when i do that.
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"unless you stir me in to the totality of the coffee
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Of your existence,
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Then the transformation of the mind--
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That is, the key to the change in the life--
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Will not be experienced."
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Every quarterback has, in his ear,
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A system designed for him
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To hear signals being given to him
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From the man upstairs in the booth
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'cause the man upstairs in the booth is seeing
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The whole film and seeing the whole field
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And seeing all the arrangements.
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And so he'll send a signal down
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Into the receiver of the quarterback's ear
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'cause he's got a bigger picture than the quarterback has
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In order to steer him in the way he ought to go.
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So the receiver is designed to pick up somebody
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From--who's sitting high and who's talking low
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In order for him to navigate all the things
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That are trying to defeat him on the field of play.
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It says in the text jesus is seated up there,
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But we're living down here, but there's a receiver
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That he wants to send to your mind, to your mind.
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In other words, god will share his thoughts with you.
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He will take his thoughts, make 'em your thoughts
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So that you think what he thought,
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And when you think what he thought,
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You can now do what you think
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'cause the only reason you think it
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Is because you thought it,
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And the only reason you thought it
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Is 'cause he sent it,
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And the only reason he sent it
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Is 'cause he could see it.
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And so he begins to shift and shape the mind
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So that you, in fact, begin to think differently,
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Which is always the basis of how you operate.
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You only do what you do 'cause you think what you think.
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And so he says that this happens in the mind,
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But your life must be viewed as hidden with christ.
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In other words, totally absorbed by him.
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Not just a point of reference you visit every now and then,
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But total ownership by him.
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Because he is seated on the right hand of god,
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He's gonna give information from that location.
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So if you want heaven's information,
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You must be tied to heaven's location;
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And when you're tied to heaven's location,
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That feeds information into the mind,
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Which is the spiritual aspect of the brain
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That infuses and informs the soul.
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So that raises a question now.
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"then what must i do?
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How do i get this thing working
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So that i begin to change what i do
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Because i change what i think because i now know who i am?"
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He tells you in verse 5:
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"therefore, in light of the principles
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That have just been taught,
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Consider the members of your earthly body as dead.
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Wow.
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Consider the members of your earthly bodies as dead.
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Look at it differently.
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Look at the physical, your earthly body,
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Being dead when it comes to
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Those areas that are outside of the will of god.
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He names a bunch of 'em:
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Immorality, impurity, passions, evil desires, greed--
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Which is idolatry-- in which you used to walk.
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That's how you used to live.
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He includes a bunch of other things in verse 8:
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Wrath, malice, slander, abusive speech.
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So he's talking about consider your body as dead
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When it comes to those things outside of the will of god.
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So god says, "i want you to consider,
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I want you to think,
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I want you to operate in light of,
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I want you to think like you're already in heaven."
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He says, "i want you to think this way
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Because now you're thinking from heaven's point of view,
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Not earth's point of view."
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Because that's what god says happened
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When you came to christ.
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You might wanna take the thing that's killing your life
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And write its obituary.
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So once he gets your mind to do this, once you say,
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"okay, i'm gonna operate each day,
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And i'm gonna bring those things
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That are outside of the will of god,
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And i'm gonna declare it to be dead,
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Even though it still is trying to jump up
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And do its own thing in me.
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I'm going to declare it to be dead."
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Some of us have been held hostage to stuff
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'cause it's been there all of our lives.
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"my mama had it. my daddy had it.
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My daddy was an abuser. my mama was a drunk.
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My mama cussed and fussed. my daddy cussed and fussed.
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I'm just doing what i always have seen,
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And i've been doing that."
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And you get ready to transfer it to your children
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'cause it's just been there so long.
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So that's called a plantation mentality,
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And satan wants to keep you with a plantation mentality
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That "i'll never get better.
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I'll never overcome this.
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I'll never get victory over this.
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I'll always be defeated by this."
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And the worst statement of all-- "this is just who i am."
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No, that's not who you are.
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If you've become a christian, you have died in christ,
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And you have been set free,
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Even if you don't feel free, simply because god said so.
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It's just we gotta set the mind, he says,
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So that you begin to experience over time
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The freedom that god declares is yours.
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So watch this.
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He says in verse 8, "put aside all these things--
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Wrath, malice, slander, abusive speech--
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'cause what that means is
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That the world is crouching in on you,
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The world is imposing itself on you,
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The world is doing its thing against you.
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He says, "put aside the abusive speech."
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So he tells you to put aside,
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But then he gives you the other half of that.
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He says, verse 10, "put on the new self."
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Put on the new self. put off; put on.
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This is a reference to changing clothes.
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So follow this now.
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This will be the key. take off; put on.
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When you take a shower and i take a shower,
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We don't put on
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The same dirty clothes we took off--
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I hope--
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[congregation laughing]
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Because we all know if you put on
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The same dirty clothes you put off,
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You've canceled out the shower.
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The shower is designed to make you zestfully clean.
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The shower is designed to purify the dirt.
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But if you put on the same clothes
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That you had on after you took the shower,
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The shower, while real, is of little benefit.
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The worst thing you can do is sit
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Next to somebody with dirty clothes on
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Who has the audacity to tell you,
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"but i took a shower."
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What good is a shower without a change of attire?
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Jesus christ says, "i am your shower.
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I want you, after considering yourself to be dead"--
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You gotta start there--
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"i want you now to take off the old clothes"--
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That is, the old way of thinking,
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The old way of operating, the old pattern of life--
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"because with the change of mind,
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I've given you the power to take off the clothes."
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But it's not enough to walk around nude
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Just 'cause you took a shower.
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The whole idea is you must dress up with something else
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To replace what you took off.
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So it's not just "don't do this.
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Don't do that. don't do this.
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Don't do that." that's taking it off.
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And you know you need to take it off,
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But you gotta cover up with something else.
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So what he says is "when you consider yourself
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To be dead and you pick up this new way of thinking,
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New way of operating, new life,"
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He says, "something is gonna happen," verse 10.
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"you will be renewed in a true knowledge," okay?
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Watch this.
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He will take care of changing your mind
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When you change your clothes.
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When you decide after considering, fantasizing--
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So you done got up, you fantasizing,
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You saying, "boy, i'm dead, i'm dead to this.
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I'm dead to that. i'm dead to that.
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Now, it's not been my pattern.
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I've been struggling with this all week;
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But i am dead to this, i am dead to that,
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I'm dead to the other."
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He says, "now i will begin
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In the mind that you have started
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To do the habit that you have started
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To renew the mind
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So that what was traumatic
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Now becomes more and more natural."
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You're gonna find it more and more natural.
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Now let me ask a question.
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Let me ask-- 'cause maybe i'm confused.
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Maybe i don't understand.
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So i want you to help a brother out here.
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So help me out.
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When you took your shower this morning,
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Will that be good for you till next sunday?
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I don't wanna assume,
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'cause maybe your soap is different than my soap.
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Maybe your soap will keep you smelling good from this sunday
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To next sunday, and you gonna... smell good all week long
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'cause you just had a good shower today.
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I don't think so.
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You're gonna shower every single day
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'cause you wanna be clean every single day.
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But a lot of folk think
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'cause they took a bath at church on sunday,
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That's gonna keep them clean till next sunday.
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It don't work like that.
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Every day you get up, you gotta set the clock to wake up
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To have the funeral in order to declare yourself
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To be dead to that which is outside of the will of god,
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And then after that declaration, you take off the old, okay?
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Just to pick one, "computer, i'm not gonna look at you today
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'cause i've considered you to be dead to me
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With regard to that which is outside of the will of god.
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Mouth, you not gonna cuss today,"
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'cause, cussing you're dead to.
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And you declare it to be so.
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You shower yourself, confessing that,
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Inviting heaven's view into your life.
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You declare what you are going to do.
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"i'm going to speak righteousness.
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I'm going to speak peace.
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I'm going to speak the will of god."
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You put on the new clothes, and then god begins to kick in
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And shift the mind
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So that, over time, you are controlling it;
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It is no longer controlling you,
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Because you are adopting a heavenly perspective.
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Tony Evans - Heaven to Earth

September 21, 2025 | 28:40

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