Lawson Perdue - Winning In Life (Part 2)

June 10, 2025 | 29:55

Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ

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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Winning In Life (Part 2) | June 10, 2025

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- praise the lord, friends, and welcome to the broadcast.
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We're going into a live service
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Where i'm talking about the choice that god has given us
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To win in life.
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You see, the fact is that god has chosen life
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And blessing for every person,
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But we must choose to believe god so that we can enter in
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To what god has for us and begin to win in life.
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Stay tuned.
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I believe you're going to be blessed.
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The decisions that you make not only affect you,
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The decisions that you make affect other people around you.
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And ultimately, did you know the decisions that you make,
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Determine the actions that you take.
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The actions that you take have consequences,
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And sometimes you can't control the consequences,
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But if you start at the decision level,
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You can change the actions you take
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And what you ultimately receive.
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And we're gonna talk a little bit about what causes us
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To make the decisions that we make.
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Because i believe that god has a good plan for each
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And every one of us.
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And we can see that in the word of god,
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He not only has a plan for our salvation,
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But i believe that god has plans for each
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And every person to be blessed in this life.
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He says, choose life
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And blessing rather than death and cursing.
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But you know what?
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He leaves it up to us.
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So god made this foundational choice.
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Really, he made it in christ on the cross.
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And our choice is really a secondary choice.
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You know, the scripture says this in romans chapter eight,
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Verse 31 and 32, if god be for us, who can be against us?
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If god is for you, who can be against you?
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But then he says this in verse 32,
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How shall not he, right?
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He says, if he spared not his own son,
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But delivered him up for us all,
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How shall not he with him freely give us all things?
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That means if god gave jesus to save us when we were in sin,
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Why wouldn't god provide healing for our body?
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Why wouldn't god provide peace for our mind?
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Why wouldn't god provide blessing for each
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And every one of us?
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And the truth is that he's already made a good choice
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In christ on the cross, not only to save us,
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But to bless us.
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And when you follow him
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And follow his plan for your life, i believe ultimately
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That works out for good.
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But it begins with number one, what you believe.
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But then secondly, once you believe it,
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You gotta make a decision.
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I'm going to walk in what god has for me.
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That's why he says, choose life, that both you
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And your seed may live.
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So what goes into a decision?
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Why do we make a decision?
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In fact, there are four parts to faith.
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Joshua chapter one, verse eight says this, this book
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Of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, right?
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But you will meditate therein, both day
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And night, to observe, to do according to all
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That is written therein.
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For then you will make your way prosperous
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And you shall have good success.
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In other words, you know what?
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When you make a decision,
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But really, jesse deuplantis said this, he said,
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In the realm of faith, most of the time i make a decision
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And god honors that decision.
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But when you make a decision right, to follow god,
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When you make a decision to walk in god's plan,
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When you make a decision to walk in what god has for you,
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Then you'll begin to, number one,
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You'll begin to talk differently.
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If you've made a bold,
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If you've made a decision to follow christ, one thing
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That will help you do that is to make a bold confession
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Of jesus.
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Because when you make a bold confession of jesus,
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Did you know that will automatically shut some doors?
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See, i got born again when i was eight years old,
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But then i got baptized in the holy spirit
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And found out god had these good things
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For me when i was 14.
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And i had a very bold confession of jesus.
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Because i had a bold confession of jesus,
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That automatically shut some doors on relationships.
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In other words, there were people, you know what?
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If you got around me very much, i witnessed to you,
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I talked to you about jesus, praise god.
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Now some people, because i talked to 'em about jesus,
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They would like, right?
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I remember one time i took out the quarterback
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Of the football team.
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He lived like three miles out in the country.
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I lived 10 miles out in the country,
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So he needed a ride home.
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So i got the opportunity.
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So i preached to him jesus, right?
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So he didn't ride with me for another six weeks, right?
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Six weeks later, he got my car again
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And i preached him jesus.
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Amen?
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Now, he was making different choices than i was.
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He was going a different direction that i was.
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A number of years later,
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He did get involved a little bit with the church,
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But he had continued to make some bad choices.
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And actually, when we moved here
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And started this church, a few years
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After we started the church, he saw us on television.
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He called me up and talked to me.
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And after he made these bad choices that led to bad things,
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He completely surrendered his life to jesus.
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But he had some very negative consequences that happened
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To him because you know what?
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He waited to surrender.
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Amen?
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So i'm telling you, don't wait.
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It's best to do it now.
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Amen?
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But what affects your decision?
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Because once you make a decision, then you begin to speak.
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This book of the law shall not depart outta your mouth,
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But you'll meditate in the word day and night.
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If you meditate in the word day and night to observe,
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To do, it's the doers of the word
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That are blessed, not the hears only,
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All that's written therein, you will, amen.
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Make your way prosperous and you will.
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This is god's word to you.
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Joshua chapter one, verse eight, have good success.
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So making that decision will cause you to talk differently.
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It will cause you to think on different things.
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It will cause you to act differently, right?
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And receive different results.
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So the first thing
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That goes into a decision is your mentality.
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What do you think about something?
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And my question today is, first of all,
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What do you think about what god says in his word?
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Because even though the word gives us certain promises
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And certain things, there's a lot of people
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That believe more what the world says
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Then what the word says about them.
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I'll give you a good example.
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Caleb's been making some shorts
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And they're like 30 to 60-second videos of certain things
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That we preach and it gets views
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And then connects people to our teaching.
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So we've been really been growing in that area
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Of social media and different things.
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But he made one recently.
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And most of the shorts, you know what they're about?
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They're about 95% positive
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People that look at those
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And about 5% negative, their response.
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However, recently aaron was taking up an offering
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And caleb made this short, i think it was one
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Of the very best ones.
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And aaron shared this scripture
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From deuteronomy chapter 28, verse 11.
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And he said this, he said, the lord will make you,
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It's from the modern english version overflow in prosperity.
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He said, i think i wanna say some things about that.
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And then he just stopped
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And for 14 seconds he didn't say anything,
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He just looked around and then he said,
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I think i'll just let the scripture defend itself.
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And on that video, i think it's one
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Of the best ones we have.
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There are 76% likes
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And 24% dislikes.
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And you know what they're arguing with?
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They're not arguing with aaron.
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They're arguing with the word.
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And a lot of people don't know what the word says,
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Or a lot of people will take the world's opinion
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And they'll have the world's opinion
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Rather than god's opinion.
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And so you know what?
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Number one, you need to know what the word says.
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And i personally have made a decision in my life
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That whatever the word says, i'm gonna go with the word.
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I love you, but i'm gonna go with the word.
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If you like it, that's good.
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If you don't, that's just tough
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Because i'm gonna go with what the word says,
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I'm gonna go with what the bible says.
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But it kind of amazes me how many people in the church
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Or in the body of christ say that they believe the bible,
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But they don't really even know what the bible says.
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But if you wanna see different results, number one,
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You gotta change what you think,
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And so that's why joshua says this book
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Of the law shall not depart outta your mouth,
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But you shall meditate therein both day
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And night that you may observe to do according
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To all that's written there.
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And for then you'll make your way prosperous.
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So you'll have good success.
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Actually, ephesians talks about it
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In ephesians chapter four.
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Paul said it this way, he said it in a couple places.
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But let's look at ephesians first.
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Ephesians chapter four, verse 22.
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He says that you put off the former conversation
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Or the former lifestyle, the old man,
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Which is corrupt according to the deceitful lust.
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If you're gonna really follow christ,
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There's some things that you gotta put off.
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You can't keep living like the rest
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Of the world does in the vanity of their mind.
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You can't keep living like if it feels good, do it.
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You gotta start living by what god says.
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So you put off the former lifestyle,
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That word conversation is an old english word
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That talks about lifestyle.
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And then he says in verse 23,
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And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
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And i'm gonna come back
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And talk about what that means
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In its wholeness in just a little bit.
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But when it says be renewed, that word renewed means
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To have absolute renovation of your mind
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For the good.
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Hi friends, thanks so much for being part
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Of the broadcast today.
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I have a lot more to say about this subject, winning in life
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And many others.
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You can get the downloadable audios
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And downloadable videos free of charge
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On our website at charischristiancenter.com.
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Check us out there.
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We've got lots of stuff to be a blessing to you.
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(bright music)
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- what i think what i was always longing for
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Raised in a pentecostal church, when you are coming here
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And you're seen, there is no drama.
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Jesus showed us here how a healthy church is really working.
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God wants to show us like how church really worked.
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So that was wonderful to see here.
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(bright music)
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- mind renewal is a process.
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And guess what?
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It takes a whole life.
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You know why it takes a whole life to renew your mind?
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Is because the world's always working on you.
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And you're in the world, you're not of the world,
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But the world's always working.
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But then he says,
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And that you put on, notice this in verse 24, the new man,
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Which after god
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Or in the likeness of god, is created in righteousness,
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In true holiness.
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So when you're born again, when you believe on jesus,
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Your spirit is made righteous,
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And you are placed in right standing with god.
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And true holiness is something
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That comes from the inside out.
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Now, i grew up in a holiness church.
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And so talking about a holiness church,
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They talked a lot about the outward man, about the length
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Of your hair, the length
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Of your dress if you're women, right?
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Makeup or no makeup, all kinds of different things, right?
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They were focused on outward holiness,
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But not necessarily inward righteousness.
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In fact, if you would've said to most people in the church
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I grew up in that you are the righteousness
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Of god in christ, they would've been offended.
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In fact, i remember, you know, when barbara
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And i had been married a year, my pastor
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Who was over 10 churches in southeastern colorado, sent me
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To a holiness church to preach on a sunday
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Because the pastor was gonna be gone.
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It was a real small church.
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It was in campo, colorado.
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And if campo, colorado's not the end
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Of the world, you could see it from there.
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(congregation laughing)
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But i remember my pastor telling me, now,
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Don't wear a short sleeve shirt
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Because if you wear a short sleeve shirt, they won't be able
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To hear anything that you have to say.
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So guess what i did?
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I obeyed what my pastor told me.
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Right?
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Now, they had sunday school in the sanctuary,
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Little, little bitty old white church.
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And barbara went to sunday school.
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I went down in the basement and prayed
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Because i was gonna preach then during church.
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And barbara said they had all these questions
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About divine healing, whether it was the will of god's,
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So on and so forth, even though their doctrines, right?
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The doctrine of that church, pc nelson wrote a book
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And it's called bible doctrines.
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And in his book, he put one of his 16 points
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Of the faith in bible doctrines is defined healing
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Is provided for in the atonement, and it is the privilege
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And the will of god for every believer.
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Did you know that is the gospel truth?
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But i bet there's not 2% of those churches
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In that denomination that preach that anymore.
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But barbara said, actually,
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I came up from the basement, then i preached in this.
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She said, lawson, you answered every question
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That they asked during sunday school class.
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And you weren't here to hear 'em.
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It was the holy spirit speaking through you.
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Amen, the holy spirit knows how to minister to people.
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But holiness is really not talking about
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Such an outward thing as as your inward condition,
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You are made righteous.
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And then you let the righteous life of christ begin
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To direct you and it will affect your outward man.
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So he says, put off the old man, be renewed in the spirit,
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Renovate your mind, in the spirit of your mind,
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And then put on the new man, which in the likeness
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Of god is created in righteousness, right?
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Standing with god and true holiness.
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True holiness is something that comes from the inside out
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And you can't really legislate it.
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It's really about your relationship with god.
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Amen?
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So you've gotta renew your mind.
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Now, romans chapter 12 says,
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Talks about the same thing in romans 12:1 and 2.
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Paul says this, the first 11 chapters
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Of romans talk about god's plan of righteousness for jews
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And gentiles, which is faith in jesus christ.
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And then the last five chapters, beginning with romans 12,
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Talk about living out the righteous life of christ.
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And so romans 12:1 and 2 are transitional.
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And paul says in romans 12:1, i beseech you now,
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Therefore brethren, by the mercies of god
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That you present your bodies a living sacrifice,
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Holy and acceptable to god,
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Which is your reasonable service.
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And do not be conformed.
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Don't be poured into the mold or follow the pattern.
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Don't be conformed to this world,
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But be transformed by the renewing
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Of your mind that you may prove, that you may walk out.
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What is the good, the acceptable,
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And the perfect will of god?
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I don't believe anybody's ever born again
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And then walking in 100% of the will
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Of god for your life.
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I believe you walk it out, right?
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And if you're gonna walk it out
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And do it well, if you live very long
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After you're saved, amen, you're gonna have to begin
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To renew your mind
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And you'll have to continue to renew your mind.
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So the first thing really
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That helps us make the decision is our mindset.
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And if we're gonna have the mindset of god, we're gonna have
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To go with what the word says.
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And i may go to some of these things next week
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In our relationship with god
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And just talk about some of the things, the words,
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Because there's things that i just take for granted
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As this is the way i live my life that a lot
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Of people don't even understand.
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My son, peter, actually for a while,
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Went to a big evangelical church in southern california
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And he had a small group that he was over, him and kendra,
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His wife, and they had five couples come.
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He said, daddy, it's amazing
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How many people call themselves believers.
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And yet they don't even know what the bible says.
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And that's really the truth.
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So you gotta go with what the word says
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Over what the world says.
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But the second thing really that is foundational
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To your decisions is not only your mindset
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Or what you think in your mind, it's your attitude, right?
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And your attitudes many times are affected
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By the influences that you have around you
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Or the people that you listen to,
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The voices that you listen to.
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The scripture actually says this,
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I think it's in 1 corinthians chapter 12.
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It says, there are many voices in this world
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And none of them are without significance.
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In other words, everybody has a reason they're saying
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What they're saying, but it doesn't mean that they're right.
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So if you have the wrong influences in your life,
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It can cause you to listen to the wrong voice, right?
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And you can make a decision.
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In fact, you can be very emotional about that decision,
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And you can think that you're really right
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And you can be completely wrong.
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In fact, i have been.
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You know, i love people
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And there's times that because i love people, right?
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I've made decisions and i've tried to defend people
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And i've been completely wrong
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Because i was listening to the wrong voice.
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And then later after i got to know them more,
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I saw the fruit
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And i realized, listen, i was completely on the wrong side
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Of that issue.
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And even though i felt that way, even though i thought
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That way, my thinking was wrong.
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In fact, the andrew wommack came along
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A couple years later and i was sharing,
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'cause it took me a couple years to figure it out.
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And andrew wommack said, i've, i, this is one thing lost
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In how i live my life, if someone has a lot
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Of drama around them.
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And it was a case like that.
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He said, i hold them at arm's length.
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I don't let them get real close.
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Right?
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If they got a lot of drama around them,
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Because i found out that doesn't work very well in life.
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And so i said, you know what?
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That's a decision that i'm making.
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Lay hands.
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Paul said it this way, don't lay hands suddenly on any man.
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In other words, if they got a lot of drama,
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I'm gonna hold 'em at arm's length, then i'm gonna wait
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And wait for some of the fruit of it
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Before i just jump right in, in defense
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Of them when i really don't know them.
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Okay?
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So it's just a life lesson, right?
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And i've learned, praise god,
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And i've repented, what does repent mean?
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It means change your mind, right?
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Turn around, think differently, right?
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But your thoughts are governed primarily by your mindset.
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And you need to let the word be the foundational thing
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For the way we think, number one.
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And number two, your attitude
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And your attitude many times is affected
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By people around you.
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In fact, psalms says it this way, psalms chapter one,
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Let's turn to psalms chapter one.
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We'll read verse one through verse three.
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Psalm chapter one says this, blessed is the man
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That walks not in the council of the ungodly,
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Nor stands in the way of sinners,
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Nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
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Did you know that is a unhealthy direction?
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If you start walking in the council
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Of ungodly people, right?
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Bless the man who walks not in the council,
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You'll start standing in the way of sinners.
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Now, it's not wrong to love sinners.
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Jesus loves sinners.
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But if you start walking into council, ungodly,
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And then you start standing in the way of sinners
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And you start letting sinners determine what you think,
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You'll find yourself sitting in the seat
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Of the scornful.
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You know, there are people that scorn you.
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Sometimes people scorn you for things that you believe
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That came from god.
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For instance, i've been meditating on this scripture
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From genesis 26.
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It's about isaac and isaac sowed in the land in the time
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Of famine and reaped a hundred fold.
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And it says, and the lord blessed him
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And he began to prosper
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And he continued to prosper
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Until he became very prosperous.
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It says and he had possession of flocks,
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Possession of herds, much silver and much gold.
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And the philistines envied him.
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You know, a lot of reason the world is criticizing
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The message of prosperity in the church
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Is because they're envious.
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Now let me go a little farther.
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A lot of reason you are criticizing people
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Who are prosperous in the church
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Is because you're envious.
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And if you're in that realm,
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You gotta guard your heart baby.
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And that's why a lot of times people
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Who even prosper in the church try to hide it
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Because they're worried about the criticism of people
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And they've actually accepted the world's mentality rather
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Than god's mentality, sitting in the seat of the scornful.
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But he says his delight,
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His delight is in the word of god.
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And in it does he meditate day and night.
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And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers
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Of living water
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That brings forth his fruit in his season.
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His leaf also shall not wither,
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And whatever he does shall prosper.
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Lawson Perdue - Winning In Life (Part 2)

June 10, 2025 | 29:55

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