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Ed Young - Mind Set

May 19, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - Mind Set
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Mind Set | May 19, 2026
  • The holy spirit is not in it.
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  • I t no, no, no,
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  • When somebody says it can't.
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  • Oh no no no no.
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  • The holy spirit is a person
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  • With personality,
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  • With definition, counselor,
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  • Helper.
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  • Paraclete is the word
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  • Prosecutor, healer, the one who activates
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  • And works in all so many aspects of life.
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  • The holy spirit is a person,
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  • Not an it.
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  • We look
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  • Briefly at roman chapter seven.
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  • That's where paul is mixed up.
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  • We know it.
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  • He said, i want to do this, but i do that.
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  • I don't want to do that, and i do this.
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  • We all identify with that.
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  • That was pre-christian paul.
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  • And then we see he comes to the point.
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  • It tells us if that's how we're living,
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  • This kind of inconsistent life.
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  • Mountain valley, good intentions.
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  • Sweet strike out.
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  • He tells us that he felt like that
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  • And he got so upset about it.
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  • God brought conviction to him, on him.
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  • And he said,
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  • You know who will deliver me from a body of death?
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  • He wasn't physically dead.
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  • He just felt dead.
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  • Conflicted, confused, depressed, down.
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  • Questioning. out.
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  • We've all felt like that.
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  • Have we not?
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  • Just disgusted with others?
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  • Disgusted with ourselves.
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  • Fed up, empty out of bullets.
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  • And he said, i just feel wretched.
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  • And you can study that word wretched there in the greek.
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  • And it is a horrific word sick,
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  • Mad, confused.
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  • Down. wretched.
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  • It sounds like a bad word, doesn't it?
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  • Wretched.
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  • He said, who can get me out of this?
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  • He says, remember, thanks be to god through jesus christ.
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  • Well, you know jesus is the answer.
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  • Then he tells us how that works.
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  • But actually he gives away how it works when he says,
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  • Who will deliver me from this emotional crisis?
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  • I'm in this immoral dilemma i find myself.
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  • He says, thanks be to god.
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  • But the little phrase, through jesus christ, my lord,
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  • He gets us through
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  • These dark places when he is lord
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  • Commander in chief,
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  • In charge of your life, in charge of my life,
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  • Not just through jesus christ, but jesus christ.
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  • I have to be lord in charge of.
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  • And then that leads us
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  • Right into romans chapter eight.
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  • We looked at the first verse.
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  • He said,
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  • Even though that you've been messed up,
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  • You made a lot of wrong choices, a lot of decisions.
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  • You feel wretched about it.
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  • But he says there is no condemnation.
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  • The judgment that god feels
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  • For those of us when we rebel against him.
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  • By the way, sin has a built in punishment.
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  • Have you noticed that you know there will be a judgment day?
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  • Undoubtedly.
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  • But yet when we disobey god and go against his law,
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  • His commandments, his way in which he calls us to live.
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  • It has a built in kind of judgment.
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  • And he says there's no condemnation to those who are.
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  • Here we come again in christ jesus.
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  • That's it.
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  • There's no condemnation.
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  • If we're going to see a lot of ifs in our study today,
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  • If we are really in christ
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  • Jesus, he is lord.
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  • We are in christ jesus.
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  • There's no condemnation.
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  • And then i try to think of a sentence that summarizes
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  • All of this.
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  • It's an interesting sentence.
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  • Christ became what we are
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  • So we could become what he is.
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  • You can take that simple english sentence
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  • And unpack it.
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  • And guess what?
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  • You've got all
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  • Of romans eight and all of christianity.
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  • You've got all the basic doctrines of our faith built
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  • Into that, from justification, from sanctification,
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  • From propitiation to glorification.
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  • It's all built in, really, that one sentence.
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  • That's christianity.
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  • That's what we're going to learn about.
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  • And it's going to catch fire in the lives
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  • And the hearts, i believe, of many of us.
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  • We looked at chapter eight, verse one through four,
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  • And then we look today, verse
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  • Five through verse 11.
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  • Boy, that's a lot of verses we've been handling just 2 or 3
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  • For now.
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  • We've got a whole heard of them.
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  • Look at verse five, what it says
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  • For those who are according to the flesh.
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  • Socks set their minds on the things of the flesh.
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  • But those who are called the spirit,
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  • The things of the spirit.
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  • We're talking about a mindset.
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  • You set your mind on the flesh.
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  • Are you set your mind on the spirit?
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  • Let me say up front.
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  • People get spooky when you talk about
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  • Set your mind on the spirit.
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  • Certainly there's a desire for all of us
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  • To have health, to have pleasures,
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  • To have means to live on, to have friends.
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  • And we have the idea.
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  • Well, that's on the flesh.
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  • No it's not.
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  • All of those things are okay.
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  • But if that totally defines your life and totally defines
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  • My life, that is flesh.
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  • But if in all of these things that are worthy,
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  • We have a whole new view of life
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  • And what life is all about that is in the spirit.
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  • So don't think that i'm in the flesh.
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  • I live one way, but i'm in the spirit.
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  • I'm sort of reserved, and i walk around with a pulpit
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  • Bible under my arm and quote scripture about everything
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  • And have little pious siblings that i prayed this morning
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  • As to whether or not i could should fill my car with gas.
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  • And god told me this is the i mean,
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  • That kind of spooky junk.
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  • Folks, don't waste god with it.
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  • Don't be silly about holy things.
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  • We have
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  • The idea that we are super spiritual and super pious.
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  • That doesn't impress anybody.
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  • It doesn't impress god.
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  • That is not what it means to be in the spirit.
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  • We are in the flesh.
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  • We understand that.
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  • So a lot of people are geared on flesh,
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  • And a lot of people we trust our get on the spirit.
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  • And he tells us what a flashlight looks like.
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  • Paul delivered. doubt about it.
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  • Look at verse five.
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  • He said, for those
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  • Who are according to the flesh,
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  • Set their minds right on the things of the flesh.
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  • Then he goes on and says, what a fleshy life looks like.
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  • Look at verse six, for the mind on the flesh is death,
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  • His death.
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  • So when i'm still alive,
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  • A lot of people are breathing,
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  • But they're not alive.
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  • I meet them, i know what i see in their eyes.
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  • They're countless.
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  • There's no joy.
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  • There's. there's no thrill.
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  • There's no lightness.
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  • There's no light.
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  • And so this is a part you're living.
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  • But you're dead inside.
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  • You've given up.
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  • You've surrendered. you're bored.
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  • There's no joy, no anticipation.
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  • Your mind is set on the flesh.
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  • That's not the way we are to live.
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  • And he says, verse seven.
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  • Because the mindset of the flesh is hostile to god,
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  • For it does not subject itself
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  • To the law of god, for it's not even able to do so.
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  • In other words, the mind of the flesh.
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  • You're boxing god, you're fighting god.
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  • Why did god let that happen?
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  • I don't know what god is doing there.
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  • That doesn't make any sense to me.
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  • Hostility to god.
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  • You're you're angry at god.
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  • Upset of god.
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  • Thank god. doesn't know what he's doing.
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  • You can run this world better than i mean,
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  • This is hostility to god.
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  • Sometimes it's subtle.
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  • Sometimes it's overt that somebody who is
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  • Got their mindset on the flesh.
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  • And then he says in verse eight,
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  • And those who are in the flesh cannot please god.
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  • You'll never
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  • Know the smile of god on your life.
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  • You may become a billionaire.
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  • You may have everything the flesh can offer.
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  • But if you don't have the smile of god on your life,
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  • You have bottomed out on life.
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  • Biblical truth, living proof.
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  • Some have set their minds on the flesh.
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  • What do you think about
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  • When you've got nothing else to think about?
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  • When you wake up in the morning?
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  • What comes to your mind before you go to bed?
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  • Go to sleep at night.
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  • What are you thinking about?
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  • What is your mind?
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  • What does your mind go on?
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  • Things of the flesh
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  • Could be.
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  • We could have our mind set solely on the flesh.
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  • Then he says, a mind set on the spirit.
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  • He tells us what that is. also
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  • He said, the mind set on the spirit.
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  • What does he have?
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  • Life and peace.
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  • Verse six, your life, you have peace with god.
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  • And then verse nine is a pivotal verse.
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  • Now remember something.
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  • Remember romans chapter eight
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  • Tells us about the holy spirit and elaborates
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  • Our understanding of the holy spirit.
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  • But primarily it's about eternal security.
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  • What is that?
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  • The fact that we know we're in god's family
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  • And nothing can separate for us from the lord jesus christ.
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  • We're in his family. period. see law.
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  • End of quotation, end of story.
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  • It's about eternal security.
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  • But also there is a problem here.
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  • You say it shows that i am saved and salvaged in god's
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  • Kingdom forever, but also it'll show us if we're not.
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  • If we're not,
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  • Now we go to romans chapter seven.
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  • It's all full of i, me, my my, my personal pronoun.
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  • Right, i.
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  • Talk to somebody.
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  • All they know is i.
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  • That's chapter seven.
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  • Paul's a mess.
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  • Chapter eight is on the holy spirit.
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  • The personal pronoun is not mentioned.
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  • One time you know what takes place of the i
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  • We find in seven in chapter eight, it's the holy spirit.
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  • It's a spirit of god.
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  • And so now he tells us in verse nine is a transitional verse.
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  • Look at it.
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  • It says, however, you are not in the flesh,
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  • But in the spirit.
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  • If indeed the spirit
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  • Of god dwells in you,
  • 00:12:33.131 --> 00:12:35.967
  • If the holy spirit has taken up residence in you,
  • 00:12:35.967 --> 00:12:40.905
  • And if anyone does not have the spirit of christ,
  • 00:12:41.873 --> 00:12:45.777
  • Holy spirit, nother name, he does not belong to him.
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  • If the holy spirit
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  • Isn't dwelling in your life and in my life.
  • 00:12:50.615 --> 00:12:53.318
  • We're not in christ, and christ is not in us.
  • 00:12:53.318 --> 00:12:58.790
  • If anyone does not have
  • 00:12:59.290 --> 00:13:00.925
  • The spirit, he does not belong to him.
  • 00:13:00.925 --> 00:13:02.527
  • And then verse ten, if christ is in you,
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  • Though the body is dead because of sin, yet
  • 00:13:06.898 --> 00:13:09.667
  • The spirit is alive because of righteousness.
  • 00:13:09.667 --> 00:13:12.370
  • If christ is in you, certainly our physical bodies would die,
  • 00:13:12.370 --> 00:13:16.808
  • But because we're in the flesh and already we discover
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  • The verse
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  • We have endured and been filled with righteousness,
  • 00:13:21.112 --> 00:13:23.214
  • Remember that we've been in filled with righteousness.
  • 00:13:23.214 --> 00:13:26.351
  • That's when christ came within us.
  • 00:13:26.351 --> 00:13:28.820
  • That goes back to our pivotal phrase.
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  • We said
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  • When i was a boy, there
  • 00:13:33.458 --> 00:13:34.926
  • Was a popular little song called mother.
  • 00:13:34.926 --> 00:13:38.496
  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
  • 00:13:38.496 --> 00:13:42.800
  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
  • 00:13:43.568 --> 00:13:45.703
  • They are certainly universal in their application
  • 00:13:45.703 --> 00:13:49.007
  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
  • 00:13:52.343 --> 00:13:53.444
  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
  • 00:14:41.426 --> 00:14:50.568
  • Christ became
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  • What we are so that we can become what he is.
  • 00:14:53.171 --> 00:14:56.908
  • What is that?
  • 00:14:57.275 --> 00:14:57.942
  • To get to heaven?
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  • We talked about it. perfection.
  • 00:14:58.643 --> 00:15:01.112
  • How's that working for you in your own fleshly activity?
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  • I, i tell you, i'm not even. you're not.
  • 00:15:04.115 --> 00:15:06.718
  • We're not even in the world.
  • 00:15:06.718 --> 00:15:07.919
  • But christ comes and puts his righteousness.
  • 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:10.955
  • It is fuzed.
  • 00:15:10.955 --> 00:15:12.890
  • It is filled up in you.
  • 00:15:12.890 --> 00:15:14.359
  • So remember we said, when god looks at you and me,
  • 00:15:14.359 --> 00:15:17.195
  • He sees jesus christ so well.
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  • I don't know if i want to be like jesus.
  • 00:15:20.832 --> 00:15:22.967
  • Well, that's just let me tell you something, folks.
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  • Do you think to be with jesus, to travel with jesus, to live
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  • With jesus, to be around him would be a a heavy trip man.
  • 00:15:29.741 --> 00:15:35.179
  • Talking about somebody fun,
  • 00:15:35.780 --> 00:15:38.383
  • Talking about somebody you ought to celebrate.
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  • Somebody that knew how to live.
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  • Somebody you.
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  • The values of life, man.
  • 00:15:44.889 --> 00:15:46.924
  • There can be nothing more exciting than that to camp out.
  • 00:15:46.924 --> 00:15:50.461
  • You already know somebody.
  • 00:15:50.461 --> 00:15:51.796
  • Travel with them.
  • 00:15:51.796 --> 00:15:53.464
  • Take a two week trip with somebody.
  • 00:15:53.464 --> 00:15:55.133
  • You get back, you'll know them.
  • 00:15:55.133 --> 00:15:57.602
  • It's like marriage, for better or worse.
  • 00:15:58.436 --> 00:16:00.405
  • Or sickness anyway,
  • 00:16:00.405 --> 00:16:03.441
  • To travel with jesus.
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  • He was fun.
  • 00:16:05.476 --> 00:16:07.812
  • He was a magnet.
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  • He was alive.
  • 00:16:09.680 --> 00:16:12.016
  • And he was revealing truth and insights.
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  • And we can have that throughout all eternity.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen.
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  • Oh, don't want to be like jesus. no,
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  • No no no.
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  • The beauty of it.
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  • So this is if the righteous is in us.
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  • That's when we see jesus as savior and as el o d.
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  • Verse ten, if christ is in you, there's our praise again.
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  • Though the body be dead
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  • Because of sin, this physical body is going to die.
  • 00:16:41.612 --> 00:16:45.316
  • Yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
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  • The spirit is alive
  • 00:16:50.288 --> 00:16:51.889
  • Because see all those ifs if he is lord,
  • 00:16:51.889 --> 00:16:56.360
  • If the holy spirit is beginning to rule and reign
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  • In your life, in my life, if we have received him
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  • As savior and lord and his righteousness
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  • In us, we are safe.
  • 00:17:05.536 --> 00:17:07.371
  • We have eternal security in the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:17:07.371 --> 00:17:12.810
  • What a beautiful, beautiful truth. now
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  • Let me talk
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  • A minute about the holy spirit.
  • 00:17:20.218 --> 00:17:23.054
  • Not a physical minute, but a minute,
  • 00:17:23.821 --> 00:17:26.357
  • Because we're going to be dealing with and understanding
  • 00:17:26.357 --> 00:17:29.260
  • The holy spirit.
  • 00:17:29.260 --> 00:17:30.261
  • First of all, the holy spirit is not in it.
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  • I t no, no, no,
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  • When somebody says it can't.
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  • Oh no no no no.
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  • The holy spirit is a person
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  • With personality,
  • 00:17:43.774 --> 00:17:46.144
  • With definition, counselor,
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  • Helper.
  • 00:17:50.882 --> 00:17:53.050
  • Paraclete is the word
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  • Prosecutor, healer, the one who activates
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  • And works in all so many aspects of life.
  • 00:18:01.192 --> 00:18:06.063
  • The holy spirit is a person, not an it.
  • 00:18:06.063 --> 00:18:10.401
  • Also, let me give you some illegitimate questions
  • 00:18:10.401 --> 00:18:14.472
  • To ask about the holy spirit that i here all the time.
  • 00:18:14.472 --> 00:18:19.010
  • Someone will say, do you know the holy spirit?
  • 00:18:19.010 --> 00:18:23.781
  • That is the most biblically
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  • Stupid, ignorant question you can ask.
  • 00:18:26.384 --> 00:18:30.388
  • The holy spirit has a
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  • Ministry.
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  • It is a ministry like floodlights.
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  • Operator on a building.
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  • You look at a building, it's light it up.
  • 00:18:41.165 --> 00:18:43.834
  • Oh, look at the.
  • 00:18:43.834 --> 00:18:44.835
  • It would be dark, but they have floodlights
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  • And you don't see the floodlights, right?
  • 00:18:46.938 --> 00:18:49.006
  • That's the lights go up and the building shine.
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  • The holy spirit has a floodlight ministry.
  • 00:18:51.609 --> 00:18:53.878
  • And the holy spirit is to honor and purpose
  • 00:18:53.878 --> 00:18:56.814
  • Primarily is to honor jesus christ.
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  • This doesn't say it all, but in one sense,
  • 00:19:00.818 --> 00:19:04.922
  • The holy spirit is jesus without skin.
  • 00:19:04.922 --> 00:19:09.560
  • The holy spirit is to be
  • 00:19:10.094 --> 00:19:12.296
  • Have a floodlight ministry in that the holy spirit lights
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  • The lord jesus christ elevates the lord jesus christ.
  • 00:19:15.967 --> 00:19:19.770
  • So do you know the holy spirit is an illegitimate question?
  • 00:19:19.770 --> 00:19:25.042
  • It's like asking a philosopher
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  • Why your motor knocks when you go over 30 miles an hour.
  • 00:19:28.212 --> 00:19:31.582
  • I don't think he's going to answer you.
  • 00:19:31.582 --> 00:19:33.784
  • That's out of his realm. so you don't ask.
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  • Do you know the holy spirit?
  • 00:19:36.020 --> 00:19:37.421
  • You ask, do you know jesus?
  • 00:19:37.421 --> 00:19:39.957
  • Have you come to know him?
  • 00:19:40.524 --> 00:19:42.059
  • Has he come to know you?
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  • Have you received him to run your life?
  • 00:19:43.561 --> 00:19:45.863
  • That's the question.
  • 00:19:45.863 --> 00:19:46.864
  • The holy spirit, knowing the holy spirit,
  • 00:19:46.864 --> 00:19:48.766
  • The holy spirit, is they a hidden person in the trinity
  • 00:19:48.766 --> 00:19:52.503
  • Who has a floodlight ministry to light up jesus christ?
  • 00:19:52.503 --> 00:19:58.042
  • The question, do you know the holy spirit?
  • 00:19:58.042 --> 00:19:59.744
  • The other question do you have the holy spirit?
  • 00:19:59.744 --> 00:20:03.414
  • That's an illegitimate question.
  • 00:20:04.115 --> 00:20:05.916
  • We don't have the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:05.916 --> 00:20:07.451
  • The question does the holy spirit have you?
  • 00:20:07.451 --> 00:20:11.489
  • Is he running your life?
  • 00:20:12.023 --> 00:20:13.357
  • Is he flowing through your life?
  • 00:20:13.357 --> 00:20:14.992
  • Is he active in your life?
  • 00:20:14.992 --> 00:20:17.795
  • You see, we have to understand the holy spirit is a person.
  • 00:20:17.795 --> 00:20:21.565
  • You don't ask if you know the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:21.565 --> 00:20:23.367
  • The holy spirit wants us to know jesus.
  • 00:20:23.367 --> 00:20:26.337
  • Do you have the holy spirit?
  • 00:20:26.937 --> 00:20:28.205
  • Yes, we have the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:28.205 --> 00:20:29.774
  • When we invite
  • 00:20:29.774 --> 00:20:30.908
  • Jesus christ to come to our heart and our life, boom!
  • 00:20:30.908 --> 00:20:34.378
  • We are baptized in the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:34.378 --> 00:20:37.682
  • Now we leak
  • 00:20:38.015 --> 00:20:40.518
  • And that's the reason we stay available and open to him.
  • 00:20:40.518 --> 00:20:44.622
  • And and lisa and i pray virtually
  • 00:20:44.622 --> 00:20:46.857
  • Every morning and night
  • 00:20:46.857 --> 00:20:47.925
  • To let the holy spirit come and just fill my life.
  • 00:20:47.925 --> 00:20:50.928
  • I want to be available to him with clean hands,
  • 00:20:50.928 --> 00:20:53.664
  • Pure heart, right motivation.
  • 00:20:53.664 --> 00:20:56.567
  • So we understanding the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:56.567 --> 00:20:58.836
  • And now we go back to the mindset.
  • 00:20:58.836 --> 00:21:02.873
  • When we receive jesus christ, the holy spirit takes
  • 00:21:02.873 --> 00:21:05.876
  • And should set our mind on the spirit
  • 00:21:05.876 --> 00:21:09.413
  • And move our mind from being set on the flesh.
  • 00:21:09.413 --> 00:21:13.351
  • And we're
  • 00:21:13.651 --> 00:21:14.752
  • Going to deal with this as we go through romans eight.
  • 00:21:14.752 --> 00:21:17.355
  • So we understand that
  • 00:21:17.855 --> 00:21:21.525
  • The holy spirit,
  • 00:21:21.926 --> 00:21:25.162
  • When we come to christ, and we're men and women
  • 00:21:25.162 --> 00:21:28.032
  • And teenagers in christ,
  • 00:21:28.032 --> 00:21:30.768
  • We have a new mapping of our minds.
  • 00:21:30.768 --> 00:21:36.207
  • We have a reset of our spirit,
  • 00:21:36.807 --> 00:21:40.077
  • Which may have been on the flesh.
  • 00:21:40.077 --> 00:21:42.079
  • It was and now is on the spirit.
  • 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:44.315
  • And we've come to know jesus christ.
  • 00:21:44.315 --> 00:21:47.818
  • Those neural pathways
  • 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:50.721
  • In your mind, you know what i'm talking about.
  • 00:21:50.721 --> 00:21:53.758
  • We know in our brain there are neural pathways.
  • 00:21:53.758 --> 00:21:56.894
  • And this these neural pathways determine how we respond
  • 00:21:56.894 --> 00:22:00.798
  • In certain situations.
  • 00:22:00.798 --> 00:22:01.966
  • Bang, i criticize you.
  • 00:22:01.966 --> 00:22:04.769
  • We have a neural pathway that's in our mind.
  • 00:22:04.769 --> 00:22:07.705
  • There's a way that you respond, you you give me
  • 00:22:08.639 --> 00:22:12.643
  • Praise as a neural pathway into a mind bang.
  • 00:22:12.643 --> 00:22:15.713
  • That's how i respond.
  • 00:22:15.713 --> 00:22:16.714
  • Those those neurons are in there.
  • 00:22:16.714 --> 00:22:18.315
  • That's how i respond.
  • 00:22:18.315 --> 00:22:19.717
  • You see, that's a neural pathway.
  • 00:22:19.717 --> 00:22:22.853
  • What causes these pathways in our mind?
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  • Knowledge.
  • 00:22:28.292 --> 00:22:31.796
  • Experience and repetition.
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  • Right.
  • 00:22:35.966 --> 00:22:37.535
  • But what does it take to do that.
  • 00:22:37.535 --> 00:22:40.438
  • Vascular cells.
  • 00:22:40.805 --> 00:22:44.208
  • What do vascular cells do.
  • 00:22:44.208 --> 00:22:46.143
  • The vascular cells have blood in them.
  • 00:22:46.143 --> 00:22:49.680
  • So for those neurons that old path to be changed
  • 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:53.384
  • Or to have a new path in, you have to go
  • 00:22:53.384 --> 00:22:56.454
  • Not only with knowledge and experience
  • 00:22:56.454 --> 00:22:59.123
  • And repetition, but also in the body.
  • 00:22:59.123 --> 00:23:02.259
  • There has to be a change
  • 00:23:02.259 --> 00:23:03.594
  • Of those pathways, those neural pathways
  • 00:23:03.594 --> 00:23:07.164
  • As to how we think and how we respond.
  • 00:23:07.164 --> 00:23:09.633
  • It has to have not only the neurons or change, but also
  • 00:23:09.633 --> 00:23:14.004
  • The vascular part comes in because the vascular part
  • 00:23:14.004 --> 00:23:17.675
  • Contains blood, contains blood,
  • 00:23:17.675 --> 00:23:22.213
  • The blood of jesus christ.
  • 00:23:22.780 --> 00:23:25.483
  • We receive him in our heart,
  • 00:23:25.483 --> 00:23:26.917
  • In our life that is propitiation.
  • 00:23:26.917 --> 00:23:29.687
  • We receive him not only as savior and as lord.
  • 00:23:29.687 --> 00:23:34.024
  • All of a sudden, those neural pathways are
  • 00:23:34.024 --> 00:23:37.862
  • Totally changed and our lives are redirected
  • 00:23:37.862 --> 00:23:40.931
  • And our mind is not set
  • 00:23:40.931 --> 00:23:42.600
  • On the flesh, our mind is set on the spirit,
  • 00:23:42.600 --> 00:23:45.336
  • And therefore we have a whole new view of life,
  • 00:23:45.336 --> 00:23:49.406
  • Joy and salvation and fun and pleasure.
  • 00:23:49.406 --> 00:23:52.576
  • And whatever we have,
  • 00:23:52.576 --> 00:23:53.978
  • We have known you of life, that god in christ has given us
  • 00:23:53.978 --> 00:23:58.549
  • A new mindset.
  • 00:23:58.883 --> 00:24:01.919
  • Boy, the beauty and the glory
  • 00:24:02.553 --> 00:24:06.690
  • Of what god can do in any person.
  • 00:24:07.458 --> 00:24:09.860
  • You say, well, you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
  • 00:24:09.860 --> 00:24:12.530
  • Yes you can.
  • 00:24:12.530 --> 00:24:14.365
  • Well, i can't be changed.
  • 00:24:14.365 --> 00:24:16.000
  • Yes, we're changed and we get this power
  • 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:19.570
  • From our last verse in the scripture.
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  • Don't miss it so well, i don't know if i can do that.
  • 00:24:21.438 --> 00:24:24.241
  • Look what it says, verse 11.
  • 00:24:24.241 --> 00:24:26.210
  • But if there's that, if the spirit of him who raised
  • 00:24:26.210 --> 00:24:31.315
  • Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
  • 00:24:31.315 --> 00:24:35.653
  • He who raised christ jesus from the dead will also give life
  • 00:24:35.653 --> 00:24:40.457
  • To your mortal bodies, though his spirit who dwells in you.
  • 00:24:40.457 --> 00:24:45.596
  • The resurrection power of jesus christ is in you and in me.
  • 00:24:45.596 --> 00:24:49.733
  • If we're in christ and christ is in us,
  • 00:24:49.733 --> 00:24:52.102
  • And therefore we can move this mindset from here
  • 00:24:52.102 --> 00:24:56.540
  • Over to here, because the resurrection power
  • 00:24:56.540 --> 00:24:59.777
  • Comes to us through the substitutionary atonement
  • 00:24:59.777 --> 00:25:03.013
  • Of jesus christ and the blood that was shown the cross.
  • 00:25:03.013 --> 00:25:06.784
  • Clean us up and give us the power to
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  • Reset our minds.
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  • When i was a boy, there
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  • Was a popular little song called mother.
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  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
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  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
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  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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  • Before we go,
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  • Let me remind you, as i remind myself,
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  • No burden is too heavy when it is shared with the lord
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  • And with caring people
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  • Who stand beside you and stand beside me.
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  • If you're facing financial pressure, family
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  • Struggles, marriage difficulties,
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  • Or a season of deep doubt and uncertainty.
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  • Please reach out to us.
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  • Our prayer team will be honored to personally listen to you,
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  • And to pray with you, and to encourage you
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  • And help you stand up in your faith.
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  • You're not alone.
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  • God bless you and thank you for spending time
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  • Today as we are learning more and more how to have in life
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  • Or when he woke, especially with our families.
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