Joseph Prince - How to Break Free from Toxic Thoughts

August 18, 2025 | S E | 29:45

Break free from mind games and learn powerful keys to protect your heart from every spiritual attack.

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - How to Break Free from Toxic Thoughts | August 18, 2025
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  • Joseph prince: and i just want to say a word here to
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  • All the believers that are being oppressed, going through
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  • Depression, and going through all kinds of, you know,
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  • Mind games, and you feel like at night you can't even sleep
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  • Because you have all these thoughts you are battling.
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  • Even your body is still, right, and you hear all kinds
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  • Of thoughts, and i know because i've been there before, amen,
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  • And friend, this is warfare.
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  • Thank god the weapons of god are mighty.
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  • For what?
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  • The pulling down of strongholds.
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  • Let's pull them down in jesus's name today, amen?
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  • Female announcer: have you ever struggled with mind games
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  • You can't shake off?
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  • Or felt troubled and weighed down by life's challenges?
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  • In today's message, joseph prince shares
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  • God's solution for experiencing peace in your mind
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  • And victory over every defeat.
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  • And now, here is pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: the bible says as we face the future, we have
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  • To have the helmet of salvation on, amen, because it's part
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  • Of our spiritual warfare.
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  • That that helmet of the hope of salvation is something that i
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  • See that the body of christ needs more than ever
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  • In these days that we are in.
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  • My friend, i want to share with you something about the hope of
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  • Salvation that is found in the gospel of jesus christ, amen.
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  • 2 corinthians chapter 4, it tells us clearly, "even if our
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  • Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,
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  • Whose minds the god of this age has blinded."
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  • "the god of this age," the small g-o-d,
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  • Refers to the devil, amen.
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  • Actually, in a sense, god made adam to be the ruler
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  • Of this world, but adam committed high treason,
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  • Bowed his knee to the devil, and as a result, all men fell.
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  • When men fell, all creation fell, and that's why the world
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  • Is not in a good shape, because of adam's sin.
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  • And the bible says the devil plays as a small g-o-d
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  • Of this age, and notice, he blinds the minds of people
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  • "who do not believe," notice that phrase,
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  • "who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory
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  • Of christ, who is the image of god, should shine on them."
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  • Friends, this gospel that we are preaching is so radiant.
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  • It is glorious, amen, that the devil has to blind
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  • People's minds to it.
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  • You know, the gospel that we preach is not glorious.
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  • It is not beautiful.
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  • It is not radiant, amen.
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  • Why would the devil need to blind people's minds?
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  • Let them see it.
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  • No, the gospel of christ is like no other, amen.
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  • The bible says, in that gospel "the righteousness of god is
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  • Revealed from faith to faith," and that righteousness is given
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  • To us as a gift, and we receive that gift, amen, it transforms
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  • Us, amen.
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  • Righteousness first before sanctification, before holiness.
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  • You cannot try to be holy without being established
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  • In righteousness, amen?
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  • Even the bible says christ is made unto us wisdom.
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  • Seeing the whole picture of god's plan and purposes in this
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  • Gospel, and then after wisdom, being made to us wisdom,
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  • It says christ has made unto us righteousness, and then he
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  • Has made unto us sanctification in that order.
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  • So we need to follow the pattern, amen.
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  • Those he justified, them he also glorified.
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  • The pattern is always righteousness, justification,
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  • Before glorification, amen.
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  • God wants his glory to shine through you, my friend, amen?
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  • So the devil wants to blind people's minds, lest the light
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  • Of the glorious gospel of christ should shine unto them, amen.
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  • So notice that the mind is the area where the devil tries
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  • To blind, and i just want to say a word here to all the believers
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  • That are being oppressed, going through depression, and going
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  • Through all kinds of, you know, mind games, and you feel like
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  • At night you can't even sleep because you have all these
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  • Thoughts you are battling.
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  • Even your body is still, right, your mind is like a war room,
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  • You know, and you hear all kinds of thoughts, and i know because
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  • I've been there before, amen, and friend, this is warfare,
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  • And god has given us weapons and our weapons are not
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  • Material, they are not carnal.
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  • Look at this.
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  • 2 corinthians 10, "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal
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  • But mighty in god for pulling down strongholds."
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  • Now, carnal means anything you can do naturally, amen.
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  • No, no, god's weapons are not carnal, and when it's not carnal
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  • It means god's weapons are spiritual,
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  • Amen, but they are mighty.
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  • So, "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty
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  • In god," for what?
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  • "for pulling down strongholds."
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  • Now notice, where are these strongholds?
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  • They are called strongholds because they have been erected
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  • By the enemy and it is a stronghold.
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  • If we can find where the strongholds are,
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  • We can bring it down, right?
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  • Maybe you have a stronghold of fear in your life and you
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  • Don't know how to get around it.
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  • The more you try to tell yourself, i will not be afraid,
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  • I will not be afraid, you end up afraid.
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  • You know, it's like people who listen to what job says
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  • About his predicament.
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  • He said that, "the thing which i greatly fear has come upon me,"
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  • And then we have preachers that say, "whatever your fear
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  • Will come on you," and then people are more fearful.
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  • I think we got to teach it in such a way that we need
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  • To unveil the love of god, amen, to the people so that it's
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  • The perfect love of god that casts out fear.
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  • We don't focus on fear to get rid of fear, amen?
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  • We experience the love of god to have that fear, amen,
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  • Evicted, amen, from its place in our hearts.
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  • Praise the lord.
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  • Only the love of god, and the more we discover the love of
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  • God--so god bless every preacher that unveils the love of christ
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  • For the people, amen!
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  • Amen, thank you, jesus, and notice also that the bible
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  • Says that this pulling down of strongholds is actually
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  • "casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts
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  • Itself against the knowledge of god, bringing every thought
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  • Into captivity to the obedience of christ."
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  • So that's our warfare.
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  • It's in our mind.
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  • Okay, "the weapons of our warfare is not carnal
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  • But mighty in god for pulling down strongholds."
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  • Thank god, the weapons of god are mighty.
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  • For what, the pulling down of strongholds.
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  • Let's pull them down in jesus's name today, amen?
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  • Praise the lord.
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  • And notice that these strongholds are actually
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  • Arguments that the devil has put in your mind
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  • And they are actually thoughts.
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  • Notice, "arguments and every high thing,"
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  • "every thought."
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  • So these are thoughts, and what the devil does
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  • Is that he comes to you and puts a thought
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  • In your mind, and this is the nature of the warfare.
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  • The warfare is not outside.
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  • You know, it's not a matter of like, meeting someone and then
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  • They are demon possessed, and that's warfare,
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  • We command it to come out.
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  • No, that's casting out demons, it's different, amen.
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  • Spiritual warfare, we need to know first and foremost,
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  • Where is the arena of the spiritual warfare?
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  • Where is it taking place?
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  • If we do not know where it's happening, we do not know where
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  • The warfare is taking place, how can you fight, right, and--you
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  • Know, it's like you can't even find where the game is held.
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  • You'll be going to the wrong stadium
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  • To watch a different game altogether, amen.
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  • You need to know where it's happening, praise god,
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  • And it's happening in our mind.
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  • So the mind is the battle arena, all right.
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  • That's where it happens, and the devil's stronghold is
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  • Actually a pattern of thinking that he has put into your mind
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  • That has grown into a stronghold after a number of months, after
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  • A number of days, and sometimes even a number of years.
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  • It's been there for a long time.
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  • Now, you think those thoughts came from you.
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  • Always remember this, your emotions, right,
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  • Are a reflection of what you are thinking.
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  • That's why i just told my son the other day, if you feel bad,
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  • It's because you are thinking bad.
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  • You are thinking bad thoughts, all right, thoughts of darkness,
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  • You know, things won't look good tomorrow, i don't think i'm able
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  • To do that, you know, and you are negative.
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  • So your emotions follow your thoughts, but if your thoughts
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  • Are positive, i told him that, you know jesus will be
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  • With you, amen.
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  • When you go to school, he's going to walk with you,
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  • He's going to be your best friend, amen.
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  • He never leaves you.
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  • And your thoughts are positive, guess what?
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  • Your emotions will be positive, amen.
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  • So my friend, your emotions are an indicator of what you
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  • Are thinking.
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  • Because we are so used to thinking certain thoughts,
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  • It's been there for a number of years, that we don't even know
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  • We are thinking those thoughts, but our emotions cannot lie.
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  • Our emotions, if you are experiencing depression,
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  • You are experiencing thoughts of self-loathing, you know, you
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  • Feel inferior, you feel lousy, you feel--even boredom, it's
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  • Always based on the thought that has preceded that emotion, amen?
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  • So right--i always say, right believing is so crucial, amen,
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  • To right living, but right believing also produces
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  • The right emotions, amen.
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  • The right emoting, praise the lord, and don't say, you know,
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  • Emotions are not important.
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  • Then why did god create them?
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  • Unfortunately, amen, our soul realm needs restoration.
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  • Our spirit man, recreation, needs to be born again, but the
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  • Soul realm needs restoration.
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  • It's the same soul realm, amen.
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  • God doesn't cause your soul realm to be born again.
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  • He causes your spirit to be born again, but your soul realm,
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  • Which is your emotions, your mind, needs to be restored, and
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  • Your body, one day when jesus comes again, will be glorified.
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  • Amen, praise the name of jesus.
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  • So, come back to this again, on your strongholds.
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  • It is built up of what?
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  • Thoughts.
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  • Arguments the devil has put down there.
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  • Yeah, arguments like, you know, are you sure?
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  • Look around you.
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  • How many people that you know that have this disease
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  • That have lived long?
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  • How many of you?
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  • You know, you have this condition.
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  • You think that you have a bright future.
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  • Look at those who have this condition, amen.
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  • Look at others.
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  • He will point you to others, always, always.
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  • Or, you know, if you have a challenge in the area
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  • Of eating, all right.
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  • What the devil wants to do is that at the first moment
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  • That you shun food and all that, you are--he doesn't say in the,
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  • You know, in the second person, amen.
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  • He speaks in the first pronoun, first person pronoun, amen.
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  • He comes, he puts the thoughts in your mind and say,
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  • I am anorexic.
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  • Maybe i am anorexic, and the more you think, i am.
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  • He doesn't say, you are.
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  • All right, that's telling you already where the thought comes
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  • From, but he comes so subtly, he makes you think that it is
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  • Your thought.
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  • Just like jesus says in the sermon on the mount,
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  • "take no thought."
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  • "take no thought, saying."
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  • How do you take a wrong thought?
  • 00:11:27.630 --> 00:11:30.399
  • You know, devil shoots thoughts in your mind and you take it.
  • 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.002
  • You take it by saying.
  • 00:11:33.002 --> 00:11:34.136
  • "take no thought, saying, what shall we eat?
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  • What shall we drink?
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  • How shall we be clothed?"
  • 00:11:38.507 --> 00:11:39.775
  • Worrisome thoughts, thoughts that cause you to be depressed.
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  • Thoughts that cause you to feel all this sense of hopelessness,
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  • Helplessness, amen.
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  • A feeling of abandonment.
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  • Friend, you take those thoughts by saying.
  • 00:11:53.222 --> 00:11:57.059
  • So jesus said, "take no thought, saying,"
  • 00:11:57.059 --> 00:12:00.663
  • What shall we-- how shall i be healed?
  • 00:12:00.663 --> 00:12:03.399
  • How shall i find that good life that god promises me,
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  • The abundant life that jesus said i would have?
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  • Where is it?
  • 00:12:09.638 --> 00:12:10.639
  • He will put thoughts in your mind.
  • 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:11.874
  • He will argue with you and he will make you think that you
  • 00:12:11.874 --> 00:12:14.043
  • Are arguing, and it's a very intelligent argument.
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  • He will tell you, look, you know, look at the facts, and he
  • 00:12:16.412 --> 00:12:19.415
  • Will talk about natural things, natural facts, but friends, we
  • 00:12:19.415 --> 00:12:23.652
  • Don't--we are in this world, but we are not of the world, amen.
  • 00:12:23.652 --> 00:12:26.956
  • We live not by what is sin.
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  • For the world, what is sin, what is felt, is natural fact,
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  • All right.
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  • We transcend that to god's truth.
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  • Truth is higher than facts and truth outlasts facts, amen?
  • 00:12:36.165 --> 00:12:41.804
  • Truth will always outlast facts.
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  • Facts may remain and facts can change also.
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  • There are people who have-- it's a fact that they have
  • 00:12:47.009 --> 00:12:49.511
  • This condition, amen, a certain disease, whatever.
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  • Today, they are freed from it.
  • 00:12:52.481 --> 00:12:54.316
  • All right, that's the truth that set them free, amen.
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  • That fact did not outlast the truth.
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  • Praise the name of jesus.
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  • We have so many testimonies of that, and not only that,
  • 00:13:00.022 --> 00:13:02.491
  • In the scriptures, we have abundance of testimonies
  • 00:13:02.491 --> 00:13:05.227
  • Of people that transform the natural fact into the truth.
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  • "by his stripes we are healed," amen.
  • 00:13:10.266 --> 00:13:12.735
  • That's truth, amen, but you might say, the fact is my body
  • 00:13:12.735 --> 00:13:16.438
  • Feels the pain, my--yeah, but friend, the truth outlasts
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  • The fact, amen.
  • 00:13:19.708 --> 00:13:20.743
  • So the devil put thoughts in your mind.
  • 00:13:20.743 --> 00:13:22.344
  • It's in the form of arguments.
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  • It's in the form of the personal pronoun.
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  • He will try to make you sound like, you know, it's you, amen.
  • 00:13:25.848 --> 00:13:29.251
  • He will come in that voice, but it's him all the while.
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  • This is warfare.
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  • I'm depressed, i'm just a very unlucky person.
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  • I'm just hopeless.
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  • I always make mistakes.
  • 00:13:43.899 --> 00:13:47.236
  • I will never measure up.
  • 00:13:47.236 --> 00:13:49.004
  • He'll put those thoughts in your mind.
  • 00:13:49.004 --> 00:13:50.506
  • I remember when i was a teenager and i was battling
  • 00:13:50.506 --> 00:13:55.844
  • All these blasphemous thoughts.
  • 00:13:55.844 --> 00:13:57.513
  • You know, every time i pray, i had a blasphemous thought
  • 00:13:57.513 --> 00:13:59.214
  • About god.
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  • I don't know why.
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  • I had blasphemous statements coming into my mind.
  • 00:14:01.283 --> 00:14:03.485
  • Even when i'm sleeping sometimes, there's a bad thought
  • 00:14:03.485 --> 00:14:05.321
  • About god.
  • 00:14:05.321 --> 00:14:06.588
  • I mean, it's horrendous, and i couldn't sleep at night and i
  • 00:14:06.588 --> 00:14:11.360
  • Was concerned that i might commit the unpardonable sin.
  • 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:15.464
  • At one point, i even believed i had committed the unpardonable
  • 00:14:15.464 --> 00:14:18.033
  • Sin, which is blasphemy against the holy spirit.
  • 00:14:18.033 --> 00:14:20.135
  • So i went through, literally, i went through a depressed state
  • 00:14:20.135 --> 00:14:24.006
  • During that time.
  • 00:14:24.006 --> 00:14:25.107
  • It's almost like the valley of the shadow of death
  • 00:14:25.107 --> 00:14:26.942
  • At that time.
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  • All the while, i didn't realize it was the enemy putting
  • 00:14:28.077 --> 00:14:30.379
  • Those thoughts in my mind and making me feel that these
  • 00:14:30.379 --> 00:14:34.249
  • Are my thoughts.
  • 00:14:34.249 --> 00:14:35.484
  • It's based on natural facts.
  • 00:14:35.484 --> 00:14:37.386
  • I look around me, from what i read, from what i know
  • 00:14:37.386 --> 00:14:40.489
  • Naturally, this is so.
  • 00:14:40.489 --> 00:14:43.258
  • So, it's an argument, but the bible says, "casting down
  • 00:14:43.258 --> 00:14:45.961
  • Arguments, and every high thing that exalts itself."
  • 00:14:45.961 --> 00:14:49.398
  • So every time the devil says, you are this, amen, you need
  • 00:14:49.398 --> 00:14:52.167
  • To come back with--by the way, my story ends with the re--
  • 00:14:52.167 --> 00:14:55.771
  • The discovery of the gospel of jesus christ,
  • 00:14:55.771 --> 00:14:58.874
  • In which i found out that i am righteous as a gift,
  • 00:14:58.874 --> 00:15:02.411
  • Because all the while, the devil is pointing me to my action,
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  • Amen.
  • 00:15:05.881 --> 00:15:06.749
  • I'm always failing.
  • 00:15:06.749 --> 00:15:07.716
  • I'm always falling into sin.
  • 00:15:07.716 --> 00:15:09.518
  • I'm always having these bad thoughts.
  • 00:15:09.518 --> 00:15:11.620
  • I'm always having these blasphemous thoughts,
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  • And i'm a blasphemer, and god doesn't accept blasphemers.
  • 00:15:14.023 --> 00:15:18.794
  • You know, god rejects blasphemers, amen.
  • 00:15:18.794 --> 00:15:20.562
  • He will put all these arguments in your mind, and every time you
  • 00:15:20.562 --> 00:15:22.965
  • Have a project, guess who comes beside you and says, you
  • 00:15:22.965 --> 00:15:25.267
  • Know you can't make it right.
  • 00:15:25.267 --> 00:15:26.802
  • You know you are subject to making mistakes, and most likely
  • 00:15:26.802 --> 00:15:29.271
  • You'll make one or two or a few in this project.
  • 00:15:29.271 --> 00:15:32.408
  • You know, who is the one that comes to you and puts
  • 00:15:32.408 --> 00:15:34.009
  • Those thoughts in your mind?
  • 00:15:34.009 --> 00:15:35.277
  • Every time you post something on instagram, you know, right,
  • 00:15:35.277 --> 00:15:37.146
  • There will be haters.
  • 00:15:37.146 --> 00:15:38.280
  • You know there will be people, you know, who will say
  • 00:15:38.280 --> 00:15:40.149
  • Bad things, and he will try to put the thoughts in your mind.
  • 00:15:40.149 --> 00:15:42.985
  • Why you will not succeed, you will not make it,
  • 00:15:42.985 --> 00:15:46.255
  • Because he knows that you have the fear of man.
  • 00:15:46.255 --> 00:15:48.657
  • You have the opinion of men that you exalt higher
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  • Than god's opinion.
  • 00:15:52.194 --> 00:15:53.395
  • So he knows he has you there and he comes with all these
  • 00:15:53.395 --> 00:15:56.632
  • Thoughts and these arguments.
  • 00:15:56.632 --> 00:15:59.268
  • Friend, that's the battle arena, amen.
  • 00:15:59.268 --> 00:16:03.572
  • So when i discovered that i am the righteousness of god
  • 00:16:03.572 --> 00:16:06.308
  • In christ, first of all, i wasn't so established.
  • 00:16:06.308 --> 00:16:09.278
  • I knew it, but it was still a process of being established
  • 00:16:09.278 --> 00:16:12.381
  • In it.
  • 00:16:12.381 --> 00:16:13.248
  • Remember what we read just now?
  • 00:16:13.248 --> 00:16:14.450
  • That when we are established in righteousness, it's going
  • 00:16:14.450 --> 00:16:16.385
  • To affect our children.
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  • They will be taught directly by the lord.
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  • They will observe us and they will see that security,
  • 00:16:19.421 --> 00:16:22.791
  • That confidence in the lord, that helmet of hope,
  • 00:16:22.791 --> 00:16:26.762
  • That when we look forward, there's a positive expectation.
  • 00:16:26.762 --> 00:16:29.364
  • We expect good things to happen, and it's very contagious,
  • 00:16:29.364 --> 00:16:32.134
  • That spirit, amen.
  • 00:16:32.134 --> 00:16:33.469
  • Just like a negative spirit is contagious when we
  • 00:16:33.469 --> 00:16:36.538
  • Are depressed and we complain.
  • 00:16:36.538 --> 00:16:38.774
  • It's passed on to the children.
  • 00:16:38.774 --> 00:16:40.909
  • Many of the times, you know, in parenting, this is one aspect
  • 00:16:40.909 --> 00:16:43.479
  • That is not well taught.
  • 00:16:43.479 --> 00:16:44.680
  • All right, we teach people about discipline, we teach people
  • 00:16:44.680 --> 00:16:47.683
  • About what to tell our children, how to communicate,
  • 00:16:47.683 --> 00:16:50.085
  • And all that is well and good, but the most crucial area
  • 00:16:50.085 --> 00:16:52.688
  • Is the parent himself.
  • 00:16:52.688 --> 00:16:54.389
  • You are parenting even without words.
  • 00:16:54.389 --> 00:16:56.425
  • You are parenting by your life, amen, and if we are fearful,
  • 00:16:56.425 --> 00:17:00.863
  • They will pick up on our fears.
  • 00:17:00.863 --> 00:17:02.397
  • Many of the fears that children have today are learned.
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  • Be careful of what you say to your wife.
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  • Be care--you know, watch what you say in the presence
  • 00:17:07.302 --> 00:17:09.471
  • Of your children.
  • 00:17:09.471 --> 00:17:10.672
  • They learn to fear, and they hear it and they will start
  • 00:17:10.672 --> 00:17:12.975
  • Feeling the world is not safe.
  • 00:17:12.975 --> 00:17:16.178
  • The world is not a safe place.
  • 00:17:16.178 --> 00:17:18.247
  • It's scary, right?
  • 00:17:18.247 --> 00:17:19.815
  • Then later on when they have some phobias, you know,
  • 00:17:19.815 --> 00:17:22.784
  • Phobia that they have and fears and all that, you wonder where
  • 00:17:22.784 --> 00:17:25.254
  • It came from and you're trying to resolve it, but you're trying
  • 00:17:25.254 --> 00:17:27.890
  • To deal with the branches, not the root, amen.
  • 00:17:27.890 --> 00:17:30.692
  • It is you.
  • 00:17:30.692 --> 00:17:31.927
  • So when we are established in righteousness, it has an amazing
  • 00:17:31.927 --> 00:17:34.997
  • Impact on our children.
  • 00:17:34.997 --> 00:17:36.465
  • Great shall be their peace.
  • 00:17:36.465 --> 00:17:38.634
  • You know why?
  • 00:17:38.634 --> 00:17:39.535
  • Because you are at peace, amen, amen?
  • 00:17:39.535 --> 00:17:42.204
  • So we want all believers, amen, to be established
  • 00:17:42.204 --> 00:17:46.542
  • In righteousness because this is your god-given inheritance.
  • 00:17:46.542 --> 00:17:50.078
  • In fact, the whole chapter there ends with, "no weapon formed
  • 00:17:50.078 --> 00:17:53.148
  • Against you shall prosper, and every tongue that rises
  • 00:17:53.148 --> 00:17:56.418
  • Against you to judge you," amen, "you shall condemn."
  • 00:17:56.418 --> 00:18:01.123
  • And it says this, "this is the heritage of the servants
  • 00:18:01.123 --> 00:18:05.394
  • Of the lord," you and i, "and their righteousness,"
  • 00:18:05.394 --> 00:18:08.497
  • Is not from them.
  • 00:18:08.497 --> 00:18:10.132
  • It's not something that they do themselves.
  • 00:18:10.132 --> 00:18:12.734
  • "their righteousness is from me, says the lord."
  • 00:18:12.734 --> 00:18:15.037
  • That's a gift.
  • 00:18:15.037 --> 00:18:15.904
  • That's the gospel of jesus christ.
  • 00:18:15.904 --> 00:18:17.105
  • No wonder it's in isaiah 54 that comes after isaiah 53, that
  • 00:18:17.105 --> 00:18:21.143
  • Talks about all the sufferings of jesus in isaiah 53.
  • 00:18:21.143 --> 00:18:23.979
  • It's where you find, 'he was wounded for our transgressions,
  • 00:18:23.979 --> 00:18:27.015
  • Crushed for our iniquities."
  • 00:18:27.015 --> 00:18:28.684
  • "with his stripes we are healed."
  • 00:18:28.684 --> 00:18:30.385
  • All that in isaiah 53, and the fruit of jesus's finished work
  • 00:18:30.385 --> 00:18:35.057
  • Is this gift of righteousness, amen, that affects peace
  • 00:18:35.057 --> 00:18:40.162
  • All around us because we are established
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  • In righteousness.
  • 00:18:42.397 --> 00:18:43.632
  • Hallelujah!
  • 00:18:43.632 --> 00:18:44.833
  • So this area of warfare, my friend, is in your mind,
  • 00:18:44.833 --> 00:18:49.371
  • Amen, and notice that the way we battle the enemy
  • 00:18:49.371 --> 00:18:53.041
  • Is just with one thought.
  • 00:18:53.041 --> 00:18:55.010
  • Every time whatever thoughts come to you, just come back
  • 00:18:55.010 --> 00:18:57.746
  • With one thought.
  • 00:18:57.746 --> 00:18:58.814
  • The devil might say, you are this, you are that.
  • 00:18:58.814 --> 00:19:00.916
  • Notice, you felt that pain just now.
  • 00:19:00.916 --> 00:19:03.518
  • It might be this disease, all right.
  • 00:19:03.518 --> 00:19:05.387
  • You know, one in ten people have this disease.
  • 00:19:05.387 --> 00:19:07.556
  • You might be the one.
  • 00:19:07.556 --> 00:19:08.790
  • You are the right age for it, and he will put the thoughts
  • 00:19:08.790 --> 00:19:11.727
  • In terms of argument and become a stronghold that produces what?
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  • Fear, anxiety, worry, sleeplessness.
  • 00:19:15.831 --> 00:19:20.168
  • You're tossing and turning.
  • 00:19:20.168 --> 00:19:21.770
  • You know, sheep cannot sleep, they cannot rest, unless they
  • 00:19:21.770 --> 00:19:27.976
  • Know the shepherd is nearby, amen?
  • 00:19:27.976 --> 00:19:30.812
  • So the bible says, "he maketh me," he,
  • 00:19:30.812 --> 00:19:33.148
  • The shepherd, "maketh me to lie down in green pastures."
  • 00:19:33.148 --> 00:19:37.019
  • So in the midst of all these natural things that's happening
  • 00:19:37.019 --> 00:19:39.855
  • In your life that's not good, bring the good shepherd
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  • Into it, amen.
  • 00:19:43.692 --> 00:19:44.526
  • Talk to the good shepherd.
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  • Even in the midst, amen.
  • 00:19:45.794 --> 00:19:48.096
  • Going through the midst of the valley of the shadow
  • 00:19:48.096 --> 00:19:50.198
  • Of death, jesus is with you.
  • 00:19:50.198 --> 00:19:52.034
  • "you are with me," though i walk through, and thank god,
  • 00:19:52.034 --> 00:19:55.837
  • You are walking through.
  • 00:19:55.837 --> 00:19:57.205
  • Walking through means you're not there to camp and stay,
  • 00:19:57.205 --> 00:20:00.442
  • Build a house, you know, and remain there forever.
  • 00:20:00.442 --> 00:20:03.645
  • No, you are walking through.
  • 00:20:03.645 --> 00:20:05.714
  • Yes, nonetheless, you still go through it, right?
  • 00:20:05.714 --> 00:20:08.216
  • You feel it, you experience it, but friend, you are
  • 00:20:08.216 --> 00:20:10.619
  • Walking through.
  • 00:20:10.619 --> 00:20:11.586
  • It's only a season in your life, amen.
  • 00:20:11.586 --> 00:20:14.289
  • The one that will come out with you permanently
  • 00:20:14.289 --> 00:20:16.825
  • And will always be with you is the good shepherd, amen,
  • 00:20:16.825 --> 00:20:20.128
  • And look around you.
  • 00:20:20.128 --> 00:20:21.496
  • Look behind you.
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  • Look on your left and right.
  • 00:20:22.364 --> 00:20:24.466
  • His goodness and mercy is pursuing you
  • 00:20:24.466 --> 00:20:27.035
  • All the days of your life.
  • 00:20:27.035 --> 00:20:28.837
  • All the days of your life.
  • 00:20:28.837 --> 00:20:30.305
  • You need to get up every morning and say, well, if goodness and
  • 00:20:30.305 --> 00:20:33.075
  • Mercy pursues me all the days of my life, and the hebrew word
  • 00:20:33.075 --> 00:20:36.945
  • Is pursue, "radaph."
  • 00:20:36.945 --> 00:20:38.680
  • Radaph is not just, surely goodness and mercy shall follow.
  • 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:42.150
  • It's actually the word, "hunt you down."
  • 00:20:42.150 --> 00:20:43.819
  • Hunt you down, amen.
  • 00:20:43.819 --> 00:20:45.420
  • Every time you turn to the right, goodness
  • 00:20:45.420 --> 00:20:47.189
  • Smacks you, amen.
  • 00:20:47.189 --> 00:20:48.490
  • The goodness of god.
  • 00:20:48.490 --> 00:20:49.658
  • You run smack into the goodness of god.
  • 00:20:49.658 --> 00:20:51.760
  • You experience something on that day.
  • 00:20:51.760 --> 00:20:52.928
  • Wow, i know that god is so good.
  • 00:20:52.928 --> 00:20:55.063
  • It makes you want to say, god is so good, amen.
  • 00:20:55.063 --> 00:20:57.366
  • You turn the other way, mercy, amen.
  • 00:20:57.366 --> 00:21:00.068
  • Surely goodness and the word is "chesed," grace, god's favor
  • 00:21:00.068 --> 00:21:03.472
  • Smacks you in the face, amen.
  • 00:21:03.472 --> 00:21:05.307
  • You experience god's favor, and you feel so favored,
  • 00:21:05.307 --> 00:21:08.110
  • So loved, and you know how long you experience this?
  • 00:21:08.110 --> 00:21:11.413
  • All the days.
  • 00:21:11.413 --> 00:21:12.714
  • Surely, not maybe, surely goodness and "chesed," favor,
  • 00:21:12.714 --> 00:21:17.219
  • Will pursue you all the days.
  • 00:21:17.219 --> 00:21:20.722
  • So the bible says that--i was saying that just one thought,
  • 00:21:20.789 --> 00:21:23.458
  • And this is the thought.
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  • Bring all the arguments.
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  • Bring every high thing the devils try to establish or may
  • 00:21:26.128 --> 00:21:30.265
  • Have established in your mind.
  • 00:21:30.265 --> 00:21:32.234
  • "bringing every thought into captivity
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  • To the obedience of christ."
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  • Now, it's very important because the phrase here is, "bringing
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  • Every thought to the obedience of christ," not your obedience,
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  • And it's not saying, make every thought obey christ.
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  • That would be--in the greek, obey would be in the verb,
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  • But over here, if you look up this word in the greek,
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  • Obedience, it's a noun.
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  • The word obedience is a noun, not a verb.
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  • If you say, bring every thought to obey christ,
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  • Then it becomes a verb.
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  • And who can do that?
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  • Notice that everything the devil argues about in your mind
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  • Is always things that make you self-occupied, and the key
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  • To being delivered from self-occupation, which is
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  • A very painful state to be in, is to be christ-occupied, to see
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  • His beauty, and the bible says in 2 corinthians 3, that as we
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  • Behold his glory, we "are being transformed into the same image
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  • From glory to glory," not by our efforts, but,
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  • "by the spirit of the lord."
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  • By beholding--the holy spirit needs you to behold christ,
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  • Amen?
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  • It's a warfare.
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  • You are in the warfare, my friend, amen.
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  • You have to bring all those thoughts
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  • To the obedience of christ.
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  • Not your obedience, but his obedience.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • "the obedience," in the original,
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  • The definite article is there.
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  • "the obedience of the christ."
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  • That's in the original.
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  • So what is that?
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  • It's referring to one obedience.
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  • What jesus did at the cross.
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  • Let's look at romans chapter 5, verse 19.
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  • "for as by one man's disobedience many
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  • Were made sinners, so also by one man's obedience,
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  • Many will be made righteous."
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  • People are sinners because of adam's sin.
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  • People sin because they are sinners.
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  • They are sinners not because they sin.
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  • They are sinners because of one man's disobedience, amen?
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  • That first man, adam.
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  • By the same token, by the same token--look at this.
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  • This analogous with this.
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  • "also by one man's obedience many will be made righteous."
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  • Friend, we talk about being established in righteousness.
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  • How are we made righteous?
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  • How are you made righteous?
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  • How?
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  • By one man's obedience.
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  • Who is that one man?
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  • Jesus.
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  • So every time all these thoughts come, there's only one answer.
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  • Turn it back to: his obedience made me righteous.
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  • I have the gift of righteousness, amen?
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  • Declare i am the righteousness of god in christ.
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  • So this is the area of the warfare, and every time
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  • We hear god's word, we are changing our minds, amen?
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  • No, i'm not going to think destructive anymore.
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  • I'm not even going to think negative anymore.
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  • I'm not going to think thoughts of sin anymore
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  • Or thoughts of darkness, hard thoughts about god.
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  • I'm going to think thoughts of grace, thoughts of his love
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  • For me, amen?
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  • Thoughts of that one man's obedience that made me
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  • Righteous.
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  • These are the thoughts i'll focus on, amen.
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  • When the devil comes and says, look at what you have done, or
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  • What you have not done, or what you have not done enough, i'll
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  • Focus on one man's obedience made me righteous.
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  • That's bringing every thought to the obedience of christ.
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  • Bringing every thought to whose obedience?
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  • His obedience that made us righteous.
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