WEBVTT 00:00:07.690 --> 00:00:10.150 Thank you for listening to this message from 00:00:10.150 --> 00:00:24.699 Lifehouse Church. This is it, man. This is it. 00:00:24.940 --> 00:00:27.579 We've been waiting a long time. There are mixed 00:00:27.579 --> 00:00:29.339 emotions all through the house, a little bit 00:00:29.339 --> 00:00:32.600 of tears, a little bit of excitement, a little 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:35.359 bit of everything in between. I've gone through 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:37.039 that over the last couple of weeks, just kind 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:39.799 of lamenting as I pull in and pull out and all 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:41.960 those kind of different things. But God is on 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:44.810 the move. Amen. He's doing new things. We're 00:00:44.810 --> 00:00:46.729 super excited about what's coming up in the new 00:00:46.729 --> 00:00:49.090 space. And I really just wanted to take a moment 00:00:49.090 --> 00:00:52.509 to thank everyone. Everybody in this house has 00:00:52.509 --> 00:00:54.789 been part of the move. And there have been individuals 00:00:54.789 --> 00:00:57.850 who have worked tirelessly over the last two 00:00:57.850 --> 00:01:01.509 weeks, put crazy hours in, volunteers and staff 00:01:01.509 --> 00:01:05.159 alike. to make the move happen. And there's still 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:07.920 more happening this week. But thank you for all 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:09.819 of you that have prayed, for all of you that 00:01:09.819 --> 00:01:12.420 have been a part from the very beginning. And 00:01:12.420 --> 00:01:14.519 God has just moved in so many different ways. 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:17.719 Someday we'll get to tell the stories of all 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:22.040 that God's done. And as we take this last opportunity 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:26.019 here, hopefully just, listen, just worship God, 00:01:26.219 --> 00:01:28.159 right? And what God's done here. Some of you 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:29.620 have a lot of memories. Some of you have been 00:01:29.620 --> 00:01:31.959 here a long time. We were thinking back through. 00:01:31.980 --> 00:01:35.579 that. Halfway between 2011 and 2012, we moved 00:01:35.579 --> 00:01:38.340 into this building. And it's been some time in 00:01:38.340 --> 00:01:41.920 2016, we went to two gatherings here and began 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:44.480 the two gathering thing, which was a big shift 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:47.000 culturally. And now God's moving us to a new 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:49.459 spot for just Sunday a .m. We're going to maintain 00:01:49.459 --> 00:01:51.739 this building for all the other things that take 00:01:51.739 --> 00:01:54.000 place here through the week. But we're just excited 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:55.959 about opportunity for God to expand the kingdom. 00:01:56.019 --> 00:01:58.180 That's really what this is all about. This isn't 00:01:58.180 --> 00:02:01.680 about us. It's about him. Amen. So we're excited. 00:02:01.900 --> 00:02:05.500 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being a part. 00:02:05.659 --> 00:02:07.599 And I'm going to get you to stand as I read the 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:10.020 first scripture, just as a way of honoring God 00:02:10.020 --> 00:02:12.139 and honoring his word this morning. And I thought 00:02:12.139 --> 00:02:15.939 this particular scripture would be fitting for 00:02:15.939 --> 00:02:18.240 our last Sunday AM gathering here this morning. 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:20.840 And it's Ecclesiastes chapter three, verse one. 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:23.840 It says this, to everything there is a season. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.740 Amen. Everything. A time for every purpose under 00:02:27.740 --> 00:02:30.689 heaven. A time to be born. and a time to die, 00:02:30.830 --> 00:02:33.389 a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is 00:02:33.389 --> 00:02:36.949 planted, a time to kill and a time to heal, a 00:02:36.949 --> 00:02:40.150 time to break down and a time to build up. There's 00:02:40.150 --> 00:02:43.110 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to 00:02:43.110 --> 00:02:46.110 mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast away 00:02:46.110 --> 00:02:49.150 stones and a time to gather stones, a time to 00:02:49.150 --> 00:02:51.810 embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, 00:02:52.090 --> 00:02:55.509 a time to gain and a time to lose, a time to 00:02:55.509 --> 00:02:58.490 keep and a time to throw away. a time to tear, 00:02:58.669 --> 00:03:01.469 a time to sow, a time to keep silence, and a 00:03:01.469 --> 00:03:04.370 time to speak, a time to love, and a time to 00:03:04.370 --> 00:03:08.810 hate, a time of war, and a time of peace. To 00:03:08.810 --> 00:03:11.659 everything, there is a season. If you would, 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:13.159 if you'd bow your heads. Father, we thank you 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:15.580 for this day. I thank you for, God, the opportunity 00:03:15.580 --> 00:03:18.020 to come one more time in this place on a Sunday 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:20.699 morning and worship you together as a body of 00:03:20.699 --> 00:03:22.159 believers. And Lord, we just give you praise 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:24.159 and glory. Lord, we know that there's going to 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:26.099 be plenty of worship services taking place here 00:03:26.099 --> 00:03:28.560 with the youth. And God, so many things are going 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:31.099 to happen with, God, life groups. And Lord, we're 00:03:31.099 --> 00:03:32.620 just excited about all the things that are going 00:03:32.620 --> 00:03:35.939 to take place. But Lord, we celebrate this season, 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:38.840 this page that's about to turn. We thank you 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:41.379 for all that you've done. in this house, and 00:03:41.379 --> 00:03:44.680 we just give you praise and glory in Jesus' name, 00:03:44.699 --> 00:03:48.000 and amen and amen. God bless you. You may be 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.199 seated. I thought this verse was appropriate 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.680 to start this last gathering here this morning, 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:56.520 the last first gathering. We've still got one 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:58.520 more to go, right, after this. But I thought 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:00.580 it was important for two reasons, because one, 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:03.840 there really is a season to everything. Nothing 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.180 is forever, right, other than the Lord himself, 00:04:06.419 --> 00:04:09.120 and one day we'll be with him. But on this earth, 00:04:09.219 --> 00:04:12.639 everything has a season, and it's a time to change 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.560 that season to turn the page, right? But the 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.120 second reason I use that verse is because that 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:19.870 verse talks about about something that I've talked 00:04:19.870 --> 00:04:22.129 about last week and have been talking about along 00:04:22.129 --> 00:04:26.370 the way, and it's this. Life is full of change. 00:04:26.910 --> 00:04:30.410 It is full of change. It's always shifting gears, 00:04:30.550 --> 00:04:34.649 month to month, week to week, right? Day to day, 00:04:34.850 --> 00:04:39.750 minute by minute, it changes. There's a barrage 00:04:39.750 --> 00:04:42.529 of change that takes place in our life on a regular 00:04:42.529 --> 00:04:45.370 basis, day to day, week to week, month to month, 00:04:45.490 --> 00:04:48.189 minute by minute. It's true. And if we would 00:04:48.189 --> 00:04:51.189 actually stop the inventory, the decisions that 00:04:51.189 --> 00:04:53.290 we make in a given day while we're navigating 00:04:53.290 --> 00:04:55.870 change, it would amount to, and this is what 00:04:55.870 --> 00:04:58.149 they've checked this, this is what it averages 00:04:58.149 --> 00:05:02.589 to. The average person makes 35 ,000 decisions 00:05:02.589 --> 00:05:08.290 about change in a day. Wow. Go ahead, say, wow. 00:05:09.219 --> 00:05:11.699 right? That's a big deal, right? And it could 00:05:11.699 --> 00:05:14.279 be as simple, it could be as simple as like you're 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:17.139 navigating change, right? When maybe you pull 00:05:17.139 --> 00:05:19.439 up to a red light, and it's red, and you gotta, 00:05:19.540 --> 00:05:21.899 and it turns green, you gotta, there's a change 00:05:21.899 --> 00:05:24.060 that took place, right? It went from red to green, 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:26.019 and you gotta hit the gas pedal and go, because 00:05:26.019 --> 00:05:27.420 if not, there's gonna be three people behind 00:05:27.420 --> 00:05:29.980 you hitting a horn, right? And you gotta navigate 00:05:29.980 --> 00:05:32.560 that change. It could be as simple as that, or 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:34.779 it could be a life -changing decision of making 00:05:34.779 --> 00:05:37.279 a decision of who you're going to one day maybe 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:40.600 propose, to and spend the rest of your life with, 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.339 right? An engagement that would take place. There's 00:05:43.339 --> 00:05:47.579 change constantly taking place. And 35 ,000 times 00:05:47.579 --> 00:05:51.000 a day, you're making a decision in the midst 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.139 of some kind of change. That's crazy. It's true, 00:05:54.259 --> 00:05:57.199 right? Decisions in the midst of change. And 00:05:57.199 --> 00:05:59.579 the challenge in the middle of the change is 00:05:59.579 --> 00:06:01.759 always this. It's always about keeping my head 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.500 straight and keeping my mind on track. It really 00:06:04.500 --> 00:06:08.089 is. Keeping my thoughts in the right place. navigating 00:06:08.089 --> 00:06:10.730 the change, keeping good thoughts, God thoughts 00:06:10.730 --> 00:06:13.029 in my head, and not all these other thoughts 00:06:13.029 --> 00:06:14.949 that can come along with it, right? Keeping my 00:06:14.949 --> 00:06:19.389 mind in a good place during the change, because 00:06:19.389 --> 00:06:24.850 where I'm at in my head, in the middle of the 00:06:24.850 --> 00:06:28.129 change, is going to have everything to do with 00:06:28.129 --> 00:06:32.689 where I land on the opposite side of the change, 00:06:32.810 --> 00:06:36.420 right? So an important thing to ask myself at 00:06:36.420 --> 00:06:38.279 the beginning, in the middle, or even at the 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:42.220 end of change is this question. What, now if 00:06:42.220 --> 00:06:43.860 you're taking notes, it's a good place to write 00:06:43.860 --> 00:06:47.379 down. What in the world was I thinking, right? 00:06:47.860 --> 00:06:50.560 What in the world was I thinking? Did you ever 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.800 ask yourself that question? What in the world 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:56.459 am I thinking, right? What was I thinking? What 00:06:56.459 --> 00:06:59.500 was I thinking in the middle of that change? 00:07:00.250 --> 00:07:03.529 What were my thoughts fixed on when things were 00:07:03.529 --> 00:07:06.370 shifting and moving from here over to here, right? 00:07:06.529 --> 00:07:09.110 Where's my head at in the middle of the change? 00:07:09.709 --> 00:07:12.550 Chuck Swindoll says this, life is 10 % of what 00:07:12.550 --> 00:07:15.610 happens to us and 90 % how we respond to it. 00:07:16.029 --> 00:07:20.610 It's true, right? 90 % of how we respond to the 00:07:20.610 --> 00:07:23.949 change. What's going on in your head has everything 00:07:23.949 --> 00:07:27.990 to do. What in the world were you thinking in 00:07:27.990 --> 00:07:31.720 the middle of the change? More than once, I heard 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:33.500 my parents speak those words to me or something 00:07:33.500 --> 00:07:36.100 similar to those words. Come on, some of you 00:07:36.100 --> 00:07:36.980 are laughing because you're right there with 00:07:36.980 --> 00:07:39.980 me, right? What were you thinking? And I'm not 00:07:39.980 --> 00:07:42.720 sure if I told this story or not when I was young. 00:07:42.819 --> 00:07:45.959 And listen, if I did tell this story before here 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:47.600 at LifeHouse, here's the thing. I'm a little 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:49.860 gray, and that gives you a pass to say your story 00:07:49.860 --> 00:07:51.420 all over again. How many know that's true, right? 00:07:51.660 --> 00:07:53.459 Because old people repeat ourselves. We do that 00:07:53.459 --> 00:07:56.120 all the time. It's okay. It's true, right? But 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:59.100 when I was about 14 years old, we lived on 50 00:07:59.100 --> 00:08:01.019 acres. It was a small farm. When I was about 00:08:01.019 --> 00:08:04.180 14 years old, my dad made the decision to teach 00:08:04.180 --> 00:08:07.699 me how to drive a truck. What was he thinking, 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:10.720 right? I was 14. We had this old farm truck. 00:08:10.860 --> 00:08:12.879 And if you don't know what a farm truck is, it's 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:16.040 an old pickup truck that is actually not roadworthy 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:19.199 anymore. It won't pass inspection. You don't 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:20.959 drive it on the road, but it's good enough to 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:23.060 haul things around on the farm and move things 00:08:23.060 --> 00:08:24.980 from one spot to another. And about 14 years 00:08:24.980 --> 00:08:27.129 of age, My dad decided it was good for me to 00:08:27.129 --> 00:08:29.230 learn how to drive the farm truck. So it was 00:08:29.230 --> 00:08:31.509 a stick shift, and he got me in, and he taught 00:08:31.509 --> 00:08:34.070 me how to start out on a hill and on the flats, 00:08:34.169 --> 00:08:36.710 right? And I learned how to drive a truck at 00:08:36.710 --> 00:08:39.429 14 years of age. And to a 14 -year -old, it's 00:08:39.429 --> 00:08:41.870 like, yes, right? It's the coolest thing in the 00:08:41.870 --> 00:08:45.710 world. What was my dad thinking? Because here's 00:08:45.710 --> 00:08:47.809 the thing, and some of you that are a little 00:08:47.809 --> 00:08:50.110 bit older like I am, you're going to remember 00:08:50.110 --> 00:08:52.809 this TV show, but me and the kid that lived down 00:08:52.809 --> 00:08:55.429 the road, his name was Sam. friend of mine, we 00:08:55.429 --> 00:08:58.779 used to watch the Dukes of Hazzard. Yeah, right? 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:00.720 And if you know anything about the Dukes of Hazzard, 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.120 right, it's not a complicated plot in that show, 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:06.200 by the way, right? It was Daisy Duke, Bo, and 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:08.159 Luke Duke. They're all three siblings who lived 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.720 with Uncle Jesse. And the premise was they lived 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:12.379 in Hazard County out in the middle of Georgia 00:09:12.379 --> 00:09:14.539 somewhere in the sticks, and there was this kind 00:09:14.539 --> 00:09:16.700 of crazy sheriff who would just chase them around 00:09:16.700 --> 00:09:19.620 all the time in a car, right? Roscoe P. Coltrane 00:09:19.620 --> 00:09:22.100 was the sheriff, and he would chase them all 00:09:22.100 --> 00:09:23.700 the time, try to catch them, but he'd never ever 00:09:23.700 --> 00:09:26.419 catch them, right? And the whole premise of the 00:09:26.419 --> 00:09:28.659 show was, that they would jump through barns 00:09:28.659 --> 00:09:30.960 with the car. They had this hot rod car, and 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:33.679 they'd jump through barns. They'd jump over ditches. 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.080 They'd climb up over hills and jump in the air. 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.340 And me and my friend Sam thought, that's pretty 00:09:38.340 --> 00:09:41.259 awesome, right? I bet you the farm truck could 00:09:41.259 --> 00:09:44.809 do this. So there was a property next door to 00:09:44.809 --> 00:09:48.269 us that had a very big pile of dirt, and let's 00:09:48.269 --> 00:09:51.149 do it. So I gave that truck everything it was 00:09:51.149 --> 00:09:54.289 worth, and I got a good run. And I don't know 00:09:54.289 --> 00:09:56.389 how much air I caught, but I know this. When 00:09:56.389 --> 00:09:58.750 I landed, I tore the entire exhaust system straight 00:09:58.750 --> 00:10:00.669 out from underneath the truck. He was laying 00:10:00.669 --> 00:10:03.789 in a heap behind the truck, right? And unbeknownst 00:10:03.789 --> 00:10:06.549 to me, my dad was standing up in the field watching 00:10:06.549 --> 00:10:11.529 me. Yeah. What in the world were you thinking? 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:14.519 I heard that a lot over the next day or two. 00:10:14.659 --> 00:10:17.340 What were you thinking, right? What were the 00:10:17.340 --> 00:10:19.559 thoughts in your head while you were going through 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:23.220 this change called teenage life, right? And let 00:10:23.220 --> 00:10:25.220 me tell you something. I did not fare well on 00:10:25.220 --> 00:10:28.240 the other side of change. I didn't. And here's 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.100 how critical this really is. My thoughts while 00:10:31.100 --> 00:10:35.019 I'm experiencing change is so critical it would 00:10:35.019 --> 00:10:38.399 determine who I become. That's how important 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:41.100 this is. The thoughts that I have, some of you 00:10:41.100 --> 00:10:42.399 don't believe me, but I'm going to show you. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:44.779 We're done, right? My thoughts while experiencing 00:10:44.779 --> 00:10:49.279 change will determine who I become on the other 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:51.899 side of change. Not just where I land, but who 00:10:51.899 --> 00:10:55.940 I become on the other side of change. If my thoughts 00:10:55.940 --> 00:11:01.289 are fixed, on fear in the middle of change, while 00:11:01.289 --> 00:11:05.090 I'm experiencing change, if all I can think about 00:11:05.090 --> 00:11:09.190 is what could happen and what might happen and 00:11:09.190 --> 00:11:11.269 how horrible it's going to be, you know what 00:11:11.269 --> 00:11:14.710 you'll become? You will become fear in the change. 00:11:14.889 --> 00:11:18.250 You will become fearful. It's one thing, it's 00:11:18.250 --> 00:11:21.690 very natural to experience fear in a change. 00:11:21.850 --> 00:11:24.490 It's a whole other thing when your identity becomes 00:11:24.490 --> 00:11:27.950 fear in the change. Whole different thing, right? 00:11:28.350 --> 00:11:33.470 If my mind is only fixed on loss. in the middle 00:11:33.470 --> 00:11:35.850 of change. What I'm going to lose in the middle 00:11:35.850 --> 00:11:38.590 of change, right? The lack that's going to take 00:11:38.590 --> 00:11:41.490 place. Do you know what happens to you? You become 00:11:41.490 --> 00:11:44.230 lack. You know what that means? You're depressed. 00:11:44.450 --> 00:11:46.169 That's what it means when you're depressed. It 00:11:46.169 --> 00:11:48.409 means something's lacking in your life and you 00:11:48.409 --> 00:11:51.909 become depressed. If your mind is fixed on that 00:11:51.909 --> 00:11:54.350 in the middle of change, you will become that 00:11:54.350 --> 00:11:56.169 out the other side of the change. If you get 00:11:56.169 --> 00:11:59.049 caught in that, if it's not just a passing thought 00:11:59.049 --> 00:12:01.629 or something that you deal with, right? If I'm 00:12:01.629 --> 00:12:05.039 constantly angry in the change. I will become 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:09.320 anger. I will become rage. I will become wrath 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:11.740 on the other side of the change. I really will. 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:15.100 If my brain's fixed on things or being out of 00:12:15.100 --> 00:12:18.159 control in the middle of the change, I will become 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:22.179 chaos on the other side of the change. What we 00:12:22.179 --> 00:12:26.080 think on in the middle of change is what we become. 00:12:26.860 --> 00:12:29.659 It's true. Proverbs 23, 7 says this, and it's 00:12:29.659 --> 00:12:31.519 actually a portion of this scripture, says, so 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:35.620 a man thinketh, so he is. I thought this was 00:12:35.620 --> 00:12:37.620 an exaggeration, honestly. The first time I read 00:12:37.620 --> 00:12:39.580 it, I thought, well, this is real good. But it's 00:12:39.580 --> 00:12:42.799 true. It's completely true. What we think on 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.379 in the middle of change will become who you are. 00:12:45.419 --> 00:12:47.379 Turn to the person beside you, tell them, you 00:12:47.379 --> 00:12:49.159 know, you're going to become what you're thinking. 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:50.879 Just tell them right now, testify. You're going 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:52.419 to become what you're thinking on in the middle 00:12:52.419 --> 00:12:54.779 of the change, right? Tell them that. Come on. 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:58.179 And listen, the apostle Paul, he gives a little 00:12:58.179 --> 00:13:01.059 more instruction about this thinking process 00:13:01.059 --> 00:13:03.220 and this thought of life in the middle of change. 00:13:03.419 --> 00:13:05.440 And he does it in a letter to Philippi. Now, 00:13:05.539 --> 00:13:08.399 Paul's letter to Philippi is not like other letters 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.259 that he wrote to Galatians and Colossians, right? 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:14.379 Those were more epistles and letters that were 00:13:14.379 --> 00:13:17.320 in response to crisis. And if you read the book 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:19.299 of Corinthians, that's going to be more about 00:13:19.299 --> 00:13:21.840 spiritual correction. But the Philippian church, 00:13:22.019 --> 00:13:25.159 the believers of Philippi were actually very... 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:29.000 immature believers. And Paul would write them 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.120 and he would encourage them. It was the inspired 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:33.399 word of God that the Holy Spirit would write 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:35.659 and that he would pen. And it's why you hear 00:13:35.659 --> 00:13:37.460 a lot of times, you'll hear scriptures that are 00:13:37.460 --> 00:13:39.779 quoted out of Philippians, right? You'll hear 00:13:39.779 --> 00:13:41.759 things like, he who began a good work in you, 00:13:41.860 --> 00:13:44.220 right, will perfect it until the day of Jesus 00:13:44.220 --> 00:13:47.000 or Christ Jesus, which is Philippians 1 .6, or 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.879 to live as Christ and to die as gain. You'll 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:52.000 hear that. I can do all things through Christ 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:55.190 who what? Yeah, who strengthens me. We quote 00:13:55.190 --> 00:13:58.210 those, and Paul was writing to these mature believers. 00:13:58.429 --> 00:14:01.649 But in Philippians 4, 6, he begins to give us 00:14:01.649 --> 00:14:04.649 some thoughts. He begins to give us direction 00:14:04.649 --> 00:14:09.029 on thinking in the change. And 4, 6 begins like 00:14:09.029 --> 00:14:11.350 this. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything 00:14:11.350 --> 00:14:13.029 by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, 00:14:13.250 --> 00:14:16.250 let your requests be known to God. And the peace 00:14:16.250 --> 00:14:18.129 of God which surpasses all understanding will 00:14:18.129 --> 00:14:20.690 guard your hearts and your what? Minds, right? 00:14:20.830 --> 00:14:24.539 Through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever 00:14:24.539 --> 00:14:26.360 things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:28.740 things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever 00:14:28.740 --> 00:14:30.620 things are lovely, whatever things are of good 00:14:30.620 --> 00:14:32.940 report, if there's any virtue and if there's 00:14:32.940 --> 00:14:37.000 anything praiseworthy, meditate, right? Think, 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:40.360 focus on these things. The things which you've 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:42.419 learned and received and heard and saw in me, 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:45.279 these do and the God of peace will be with you. 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:48.860 Here's what it's saying. If you want to become 00:14:48.860 --> 00:14:52.480 pure, guess what you have to be thinking on while 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:55.340 you're in the middle of the change? Pure things. 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:58.539 If you want to become truthful, you've got to 00:14:58.539 --> 00:15:01.559 speak and think on the truth. If you want to 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:03.919 become noble in your life in the middle of change, 00:15:04.220 --> 00:15:06.960 you've got to think noble things. If you want 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:11.000 to be just or lovely or of good report or you 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.000 want to be something that's going to be virtuous, 00:15:13.059 --> 00:15:15.440 someone who's virtuous out the other end, you've 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.259 got to be thinking on these things in the middle 00:15:18.259 --> 00:15:22.399 of the change. Because I become what I think 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.039 on in the middle of change. The thought that 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:29.700 your brain parks on is what you become in the 00:15:29.700 --> 00:15:35.039 35 ,000 plus, right? 35 ,000 plus decisions that 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:36.799 you're making in the middle of change every single 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:41.210 day. It's true. Dr. Caroline Leaf, who wrote 00:15:41.210 --> 00:15:43.750 the book Switch On Your Brain, says something 00:15:43.750 --> 00:15:45.230 like this. And if you don't know who Dr. Leaf 00:15:45.230 --> 00:15:48.070 is, she's first of all a communication pathologist, 00:15:48.289 --> 00:15:51.090 an audiologist, and a clinical neuroscientist 00:15:51.090 --> 00:15:55.429 specializing in research in psych neurobiology. 00:15:55.429 --> 00:15:58.350 You can look all that up later, okay? She's very 00:15:58.350 --> 00:16:00.649 well credentialed. But she says this in her book. 00:16:00.710 --> 00:16:02.830 She says, our thoughts, imagination, and choices 00:16:02.830 --> 00:16:05.289 can change the structure and function of our 00:16:05.289 --> 00:16:10.190 brains on every level. molecular, genetic, epigenetic, 00:16:10.269 --> 00:16:14.110 cellular, structural, neurochemical, electromagnetic, 00:16:14.509 --> 00:16:17.809 and even subatomic. Through our thoughts, we 00:16:17.809 --> 00:16:20.909 can be our own brain surgeons as we make choices 00:16:20.909 --> 00:16:24.710 that change the circuits in our brain. We are 00:16:24.710 --> 00:16:29.470 designed to do our own brain surgery. The science 00:16:29.470 --> 00:16:33.330 is this. Our thoughts physically change our brain, 00:16:33.429 --> 00:16:37.309 literally change your brain. It's not your brain 00:16:37.309 --> 00:16:39.970 that changes your thoughts. It's your thoughts 00:16:39.970 --> 00:16:44.509 that literally reconstruct, rewire your brain. 00:16:45.190 --> 00:16:48.950 In simple terms, my brain becomes what I think 00:16:48.950 --> 00:16:51.840 on. It literally becomes what I think on. So 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:54.679 when I become, you know, when I'm in the middle 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:57.820 of those 35 ,000 plus changes each day that take 00:16:57.820 --> 00:17:00.500 place, what I'm thinking on is actually what 00:17:00.500 --> 00:17:03.820 my brain is becoming. What my thoughts are fixed 00:17:03.820 --> 00:17:06.079 on in the middle of whatever experience is going 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:09.980 on. That's what I become. It is true. Science 00:17:09.980 --> 00:17:12.460 always proves what God's word says. Always, right? 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:15.980 And man, have I found this to be true, you know, 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:18.640 during this change that's been taking place, 00:17:18.700 --> 00:17:21.220 going from this location to the next. Because 00:17:21.220 --> 00:17:22.980 how many know it's really easy for fear to get 00:17:22.980 --> 00:17:25.420 in there, right? It's really easy for fear to 00:17:25.420 --> 00:17:27.680 sneak in. You know, when this all started and 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:29.859 we started looking at this and it got serious 00:17:29.859 --> 00:17:32.019 and we voted on it and the church said, yes, 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:33.799 we're going to go do this, you know, I started 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:35.579 thinking all kinds of crazy thoughts like, what 00:17:35.579 --> 00:17:37.160 if we make the change and everybody hates it? 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:39.359 You know, how many of you always go with the 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:42.339 worst case scenario, right? All couple hundred 00:17:42.339 --> 00:17:43.900 people are just going to absolutely hate this. 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:45.680 You know, and they're all going to leave, and 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:47.420 they're all going to hate me. You know, and you 00:17:47.420 --> 00:17:49.220 can go on and on, right? You can get lost in 00:17:49.220 --> 00:17:51.599 that. Or what if it changes our culture and who 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:54.579 we are? Or what if we don't like this? Or what 00:17:54.579 --> 00:17:57.259 if we don't like that? And you can get caught 00:17:57.259 --> 00:18:00.779 in the fear. And you start to build. You start 00:18:00.779 --> 00:18:03.119 to build in your brain these neurons, right? 00:18:03.180 --> 00:18:05.900 You start to build circuits. And you begin to 00:18:05.900 --> 00:18:09.799 think on. All the time. And if you don't stop 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:11.980 that loop, how many of you got a loop in your 00:18:11.980 --> 00:18:16.059 brain? Circuits tie together. You start looping 00:18:16.059 --> 00:18:18.400 in your head these thoughts, and they start going 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:20.519 back around. How many of you loop enough, you'll 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:22.019 wake up in the middle of the night thinking the 00:18:22.019 --> 00:18:25.759 same thoughts, right? You wake up in the middle 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:26.759 of the night, got to go to the bathroom, and 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:29.279 you're thinking, why am I thinking this? Right? 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:32.519 Stop it. You're just going in your head, going 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:37.269 around and around. What in the world are you 00:18:37.269 --> 00:18:41.750 thinking in the change? What is the loop in your 00:18:41.750 --> 00:18:45.670 brain fixed on? Look at the person beside you 00:18:45.670 --> 00:18:47.829 one more time. Ask them, what's looping up there? 00:18:47.910 --> 00:18:50.309 Come on. What's looping up there? You might not 00:18:50.309 --> 00:18:54.049 want to know, right? What's looping up there? 00:18:54.910 --> 00:18:57.210 And can I take this just a little bit further? 00:18:57.809 --> 00:19:01.109 Because here's the thing. A sinful thought looping 00:19:01.109 --> 00:19:04.430 up there? sooner or later you'll become the sin. 00:19:05.490 --> 00:19:09.490 You know, what you're fantasizing about, the 00:19:09.490 --> 00:19:12.150 sin that you're fantasizing about or longing 00:19:12.150 --> 00:19:16.390 about, sooner or later you become that. How many 00:19:16.390 --> 00:19:18.829 know that always starts in the mind? The six 00:19:18.829 --> 00:19:21.430 inches between your ears. Sin doesn't start down 00:19:21.430 --> 00:19:23.869 here, down your feet. It starts in the six inches 00:19:23.869 --> 00:19:26.329 between your ears. And the longer you dwell on 00:19:26.329 --> 00:19:28.829 it, the more you fantasize about it, you will 00:19:28.829 --> 00:19:32.640 become that sooner or later. You'll land in a 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:35.160 place that you don't want to be. You'll stay 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:37.480 longer than you want to stay because that's what 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:39.480 sin does, right? And you'll pay more than you 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:41.720 want to pay. That's what sin does. It's true, 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:46.200 right? What in the world are you thinking? What 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:48.420 in the world are you thinking? Because you're 00:19:48.420 --> 00:19:50.930 building real estate. Up in your mind. I don't 00:19:50.930 --> 00:19:52.190 know if you know it or not. Whatever you're thinking 00:19:52.190 --> 00:19:54.190 on, you're building real estate up there. You're 00:19:54.190 --> 00:19:56.730 building circuitry up there. And if it's not 00:19:56.730 --> 00:19:58.670 a good thing, if it's not a God thing, if it's 00:19:58.670 --> 00:20:00.430 not a righteous thing, can I tell you what to 00:20:00.430 --> 00:20:02.829 do? Just confess and repent right now. Not to 00:20:02.829 --> 00:20:04.869 me. You can do that to Jesus. I mean, if you 00:20:04.869 --> 00:20:07.710 want to confess to me, I'm glad to listen. But 00:20:07.710 --> 00:20:10.809 just confess and repent. Repent means to change. 00:20:11.269 --> 00:20:13.210 You've got to begin to change. You're going this 00:20:13.210 --> 00:20:15.150 way, and if I repent, that means I'm going that 00:20:15.150 --> 00:20:16.829 way. You've got to change what you're thinking. 00:20:17.470 --> 00:20:20.230 You've got to change it, right? Control the brain 00:20:20.230 --> 00:20:23.789 loop or the brain loop will control you. You 00:20:23.789 --> 00:20:25.670 got to control the brain loop or it's going to 00:20:25.670 --> 00:20:28.180 control you. I taught on this a little while 00:20:28.180 --> 00:20:30.359 back. I can't remember which message it was, 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:32.980 just a few messages ago, but let's dive just 00:20:32.980 --> 00:20:35.500 a little bit deeper in it because Paul's writing 00:20:35.500 --> 00:20:37.319 to Corinth right now. And you gotta remember 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:38.920 just a little earlier, I said when he was writing 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:41.599 to Corinth, it was more in a correctional nature. 00:20:41.700 --> 00:20:43.819 And you'll hear that tone in this portion of 00:20:43.819 --> 00:20:45.819 scripture. But it says this in 2 Corinthians 00:20:45.819 --> 00:20:49.200 10, verse one. It says, now I, Paul, myself am 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:51.259 pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness 00:20:51.259 --> 00:20:53.960 of Christ, who in the presence am lowly among 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:57.250 you. Being absent, I am bold. toward you. So 00:20:57.250 --> 00:21:00.569 he talks about being lowly among you. Then he 00:21:00.569 --> 00:21:02.230 talks about being bold. That's how Paul does. 00:21:02.390 --> 00:21:04.349 He jumps back and forth, right? He's like, I'm 00:21:04.349 --> 00:21:05.849 lowly, but when I get there, I'm going to tell 00:21:05.849 --> 00:21:08.210 you how it really works, right? But I beg you 00:21:08.210 --> 00:21:10.390 that when I am present, I may not be bold with 00:21:10.390 --> 00:21:12.569 confidence by which I intend to be bold against 00:21:12.569 --> 00:21:16.329 some who think of us as if we walked according 00:21:16.329 --> 00:21:18.549 to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, 00:21:18.730 --> 00:21:20.730 we do not war according to the flesh. For the 00:21:20.730 --> 00:21:23.509 weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty 00:21:23.509 --> 00:21:26.640 in God for pulling down strongholds. Casting 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.200 down arguments and every high thing that exalts 00:21:30.200 --> 00:21:32.680 itself against the knowledge of God, bringing 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:37.000 every thought into captivity to the obedience 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:40.579 of Christ and being ready to punish all disobedience 00:21:40.579 --> 00:21:44.579 when your obedience is fulfilled. Bring every 00:21:44.579 --> 00:21:47.500 thought into captivity in obedience to Christ 00:21:47.500 --> 00:21:50.700 Jesus. So what he's saying is you got to take 00:21:50.700 --> 00:21:53.920 those rogue thoughts, those things that dip you 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:59.859 into fear or anxiety or lack or even sin, any 00:21:59.859 --> 00:22:01.839 of those things, and you got to take that thought 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:04.609 and you got to imprison that thing. You got to 00:22:04.609 --> 00:22:07.349 take it captive, right? You take it at gunpoint 00:22:07.349 --> 00:22:08.710 in your head. That's the only thing you should 00:22:08.710 --> 00:22:11.730 ever take at gunpoint, right? You take it in 00:22:11.730 --> 00:22:14.490 your head. You capture that thought. You bind 00:22:14.490 --> 00:22:17.789 that thing and you lock it away so you never 00:22:17.789 --> 00:22:21.269 hear it again. You bring it into obedience to 00:22:21.269 --> 00:22:25.109 Christ. It's true. You've got to take it captive. 00:22:25.250 --> 00:22:26.950 And if I could give you a good rule of thumb, 00:22:27.069 --> 00:22:31.130 so this isn't just preaching and theory and what 00:22:31.130 --> 00:22:34.789 God's Word says, a good rule of thumb is this. 00:22:35.150 --> 00:22:38.630 Anything that you think of, if you had to verbalize 00:22:38.630 --> 00:22:42.289 that standing in front of Jesus, would you ask 00:22:42.289 --> 00:22:44.890 yourself, do I need to take this captive and 00:22:44.890 --> 00:22:46.589 pack this thing away so I never think about it 00:22:46.589 --> 00:22:48.650 again? Or am I perfectly comfortable saying this 00:22:48.650 --> 00:22:51.759 in front of Jesus Christ? Right? Am I comfortable 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:54.400 because this doesn't violate God's word in any 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:57.680 way? It doesn't violate his holy nature and righteousness 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:00.519 in any way, right? Is this good and right in 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:02.519 his eyes? So if you can take whatever thoughts 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:05.039 in your head and you could verbalize it in front 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:07.700 of Jesus and Jesus would be okay with it, you 00:23:07.700 --> 00:23:09.579 don't have to take that captive. You can let 00:23:09.579 --> 00:23:12.220 that loose. You can speak it into the air. But 00:23:12.220 --> 00:23:14.200 if it is something that you would not say in 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:16.119 front of Jesus, it's something that you would 00:23:16.119 --> 00:23:19.359 not go there with him and you know it's unrighteous. 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:21.599 and you know it's unhealthy, or you know it's 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:24.500 sinful, you need to capture that thing. And you 00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:28.640 need to lock it up. Amen? It's true. You need 00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:31.579 to imprison it. Because you will become that 00:23:31.579 --> 00:23:34.759 if you dwell on it. If you stay there in the 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:38.240 change, as you shift through life, you will become 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:40.759 that thing. And I know it sounds radical, but 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:44.000 it's not. You need to take thoughts captive. 00:23:44.420 --> 00:23:47.970 God's given you the power. He really has. And 00:23:47.970 --> 00:23:52.150 let me jump back to Switch on Your Brain by Dr. 00:23:52.269 --> 00:23:54.490 Caroline Leaf. How many know the science always 00:23:54.490 --> 00:23:56.809 catches up with what God's word has to say? It 00:23:56.809 --> 00:23:58.650 says this, getting your thoughts disciplined 00:23:58.650 --> 00:24:01.130 and under control is one of the first steps in 00:24:01.130 --> 00:24:03.170 freeing yourself of burdens of the world and 00:24:03.170 --> 00:24:05.170 begin to enjoy life despite the burdens of the 00:24:05.170 --> 00:24:08.170 world. When you objectively observe your own 00:24:08.170 --> 00:24:11.269 thinking with the view of capturing rogue thoughts, 00:24:11.490 --> 00:24:14.109 you in effect direct your attention to stop the 00:24:14.109 --> 00:24:18.230 negative impact. and rewire healthy new circuits 00:24:18.230 --> 00:24:23.549 into your brain. You literally rewire. Capturing 00:24:23.549 --> 00:24:28.269 thoughts and taking them captive, and you begin 00:24:28.269 --> 00:24:31.190 to think on the right things, you will rewire 00:24:31.190 --> 00:24:37.730 your brain. Romans 12 .1 bears this out. It really 00:24:37.730 --> 00:24:40.789 does. Very familiar piece of scripture, right? 00:24:40.869 --> 00:24:42.549 I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies 00:24:42.549 --> 00:24:44.829 of God, that you present your bodies a living 00:24:44.829 --> 00:24:47.289 sacrifice, holy and acceptable God, which is 00:24:47.289 --> 00:24:49.710 your reasonable service. And do not be conformed 00:24:49.710 --> 00:24:52.349 to this world, but be transformed by the renewing. 00:24:52.589 --> 00:24:55.009 You can put rewiring in there if you wanted to. 00:24:55.210 --> 00:24:58.390 By the renewing of your mind, that you may prove 00:24:58.390 --> 00:25:01.549 what is good and acceptable and the perfect will 00:25:01.549 --> 00:25:05.509 of God. You got to rewire it, man. You got to 00:25:05.509 --> 00:25:08.940 renew it. You got to revitalize your thoughts. 00:25:09.619 --> 00:25:13.000 You got to take captive what is dragging you 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:16.440 down. You got negativity spewing out of you. 00:25:16.500 --> 00:25:19.039 I guarantee it's what's looping up in your brain. 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:22.319 Amen? You got to grab a hold of that thing. You 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:24.819 got to say no, right? You got to take authority 00:25:24.819 --> 00:25:27.680 over your thinking. I know it sounds weird, but 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:30.019 we've got this unique ability as human beings 00:25:30.019 --> 00:25:31.880 to stand outside and examine our own thoughts. 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:34.039 Isn't that crazy? You can think while you're 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:36.019 thinking. Isn't that awesome, right? It's kind 00:25:36.019 --> 00:25:37.279 of like a matrix kind of thing. I don't know. 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:40.859 It's wild, right? But we can. And we got to start. 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:44.259 And listen, I understand this is a process. You're 00:25:44.259 --> 00:25:45.900 not going to rebuild. How many know if you've 00:25:45.900 --> 00:25:47.779 got a rewired house? Now, how many of you have 00:25:47.779 --> 00:25:50.559 ever rewired anything? Like three of you. Okay, 00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:53.680 let me explain this, okay? If you've got to rewire 00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:56.299 a house, here's what you have to do. Like anything 00:25:56.299 --> 00:25:58.599 you're going to redo, you've got to get the old 00:25:58.599 --> 00:26:01.279 stuff out first, right? You've got to pull all 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:03.220 the old stuff out. You're going to have to tear 00:26:03.220 --> 00:26:04.880 some things down. You're going to have to pull 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:06.839 some down, some plaster, and you've got to pull 00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:08.799 out the old wiring, right? You've got to pull 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:10.700 down the drywall, whatever you've got to do. 00:26:10.779 --> 00:26:12.519 There's a process. You've got to tear some of 00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:14.539 that out. That's taking it captive, right? And 00:26:14.539 --> 00:26:16.119 you've got to tear that thing out. And then you 00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:18.420 start putting the new stuff in, and all of a 00:26:18.420 --> 00:26:20.730 sudden, the light. starts coming on, right? And 00:26:20.730 --> 00:26:23.089 things begin to work and things begin to switch 00:26:23.089 --> 00:26:26.089 on in your brain. It's a process that God walks 00:26:26.089 --> 00:26:28.410 us through. And it's the renewing of your mind. 00:26:28.609 --> 00:26:30.369 A lot of people want to know what deliverance 00:26:30.369 --> 00:26:32.769 is all about. And God can instantly deliver. 00:26:32.890 --> 00:26:34.289 That's a miracle. That's called a miracle in 00:26:34.289 --> 00:26:35.950 scripture. He can deliver you in a heartbeat, 00:26:36.089 --> 00:26:38.190 but nine times out of 10, he's walking you through 00:26:38.190 --> 00:26:40.410 the process. And you're going to come out the 00:26:40.410 --> 00:26:42.750 other side, delivered and whole and free. But 00:26:42.750 --> 00:26:44.750 you got to go through the process. You got to 00:26:44.750 --> 00:26:46.890 tear out the old and you got to come in with 00:26:46.890 --> 00:26:50.500 the new. And when you begin to renew your mind, 00:26:50.700 --> 00:26:55.079 all of a sudden, you begin to rewire a new real 00:26:55.079 --> 00:26:58.559 estate building your brain. And what you were 00:26:58.559 --> 00:27:01.440 up here is no longer there, and you become something 00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:05.039 brand new. The world will not tell you this. 00:27:05.140 --> 00:27:07.400 The world will tell you you are captive to your 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:10.259 mind, and what you were, you always will be. 00:27:10.380 --> 00:27:13.539 And that is not what God's Word says. He says 00:27:13.539 --> 00:27:15.859 you become a new creature, a new creation. Amen? 00:27:16.849 --> 00:27:19.269 Inside out. Mind on out. How many know what your 00:27:19.269 --> 00:27:21.210 brain does? The body follows. It's true, right? 00:27:21.690 --> 00:27:24.990 It's true. Last thing I want to leave you. Man, 00:27:25.009 --> 00:27:26.309 this is the last thing I'm going to leave you, 00:27:26.349 --> 00:27:29.910 literally. Last point, right? At Terrace Avenue 00:27:29.910 --> 00:27:33.809 location. Jesus is the one who can change the 00:27:33.809 --> 00:27:37.230 loop in our lives. He really is. In John chapter 00:27:37.230 --> 00:27:42.670 4, Jesus is sitting by a well that borders. It's 00:27:42.670 --> 00:27:45.559 actually within the borders of Samaria. And a 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:49.279 woman comes to the well to draw water. And Jesus 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:51.759 uses what's close by, which is the well, to get 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:54.039 into a conversation with this woman. And because 00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:56.779 he's Jesus, and Jesus always was led by the Spirit, 00:27:56.900 --> 00:27:59.099 and he knew things because of the Holy Spirit, 00:27:59.220 --> 00:28:02.759 Jesus knows that this woman has been, she's been 00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:05.420 married five times, and she's currently living 00:28:05.420 --> 00:28:07.619 with a man. He knows this, right, because the 00:28:07.619 --> 00:28:11.019 Spirit left him know this, the Holy Spirit. And 00:28:11.019 --> 00:28:15.220 he calls her on it. He begins to expose the relationship 00:28:15.220 --> 00:28:17.740 loop that's been going on in her head where this 00:28:17.740 --> 00:28:20.519 woman's been thinking. He calls her on it, right? 00:28:21.220 --> 00:28:25.160 Five husbands that now live in, and she's had 00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:28.910 this bad relationship. loop I call bad juju in 00:28:28.910 --> 00:28:30.529 your brain. How many know that that's a thing, 00:28:30.569 --> 00:28:32.970 right? You get bad juju in your brain. She's 00:28:32.970 --> 00:28:35.390 had this bad relationship loop going on in her 00:28:35.390 --> 00:28:38.950 brain, and she's seeking something among all 00:28:38.950 --> 00:28:40.950 these men that she's been with, and she's not 00:28:40.950 --> 00:28:43.950 finding it, right? She's stuck in this cycle 00:28:43.950 --> 00:28:47.309 in her mind that has now led her even into sin. 00:28:47.490 --> 00:28:50.690 And Jesus, in a moment in time, begins to change 00:28:50.690 --> 00:28:54.930 the loop in her thinking. In John 4, 14, he says 00:28:54.930 --> 00:28:56.690 this, but whoever drinks of the water water that 00:28:56.690 --> 00:28:59.170 I shall give will never thirst, but the water 00:28:59.170 --> 00:29:02.390 that I shall give him will become in him a fountain 00:29:02.390 --> 00:29:04.650 of water springing up into everlasting life. 00:29:05.529 --> 00:29:08.150 Jesus, in a sense, was talking to this woman 00:29:08.150 --> 00:29:11.109 and saying, what were you thinking? You found 00:29:11.109 --> 00:29:15.670 nothing in the stagnation of following relationships 00:29:15.670 --> 00:29:19.029 the world's way, right? You found nothing. It's 00:29:19.029 --> 00:29:24.849 left you empty and dry, or it's stagnant. How 00:29:24.849 --> 00:29:26.910 many know stagnant water is no good to drink, 00:29:27.049 --> 00:29:31.660 right? bitter. It's unhealthy for you. And he 00:29:31.660 --> 00:29:34.240 says, but if you follow me, right, let me tell 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:36.200 you where the relationship ladder should start. 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:38.980 It should start in me. If you start in me, if 00:29:38.980 --> 00:29:40.980 you start with the Messiah, if you start with 00:29:40.980 --> 00:29:43.339 Jesus, rivers of living, that's what he talks 00:29:43.339 --> 00:29:45.220 about in another place in scripture, rivers of 00:29:45.220 --> 00:29:46.380 living water will come out of you. You'll be 00:29:46.380 --> 00:29:49.059 a fountain of new life that will come out of 00:29:49.059 --> 00:29:51.460 you. And he's talking, it's the Savior talking 00:29:51.460 --> 00:29:53.900 to her, and he starts to change the loop in her 00:29:53.900 --> 00:29:57.220 head. He interrupts, right, the thought process. 00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:59.359 that was there, and he starts to put something. 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:01.880 He begins to rewire her brain right there on 00:30:01.880 --> 00:30:05.500 the spot. And because he's Jesus, he speaks, 00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:08.319 right? And he says that all those relationships 00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:13.420 will not be your all in all. I am. Amen? It's 00:30:13.420 --> 00:30:15.160 true. I tell young couples this all the time, 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:17.400 doing premarital counseling or something. I tell 00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:19.079 them, look across the table. That person you're 00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:21.019 looking at is not going to be your all in all. 00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:23.240 You're lucky if they're going to be your sometime 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:27.960 in sometime. It's true. Come on, all the married 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:30.799 people are laughing, right? It's true. Jesus 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:33.519 is your all in all. Don't put that kind of pressure 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:37.240 on a person. Amen? That's above their pay grade. 00:30:37.700 --> 00:30:40.180 They can't hold up to that. They really can't. 00:30:40.180 --> 00:30:43.619 Your relationship. And Jesus rewires this woman's 00:30:43.619 --> 00:30:45.859 brain. She starts to understand that it is the 00:30:45.859 --> 00:30:48.000 Messiah standing in front of her and that he 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:49.980 is the first relationship. And how many know 00:30:49.980 --> 00:30:51.319 if you get the first relationship, right, all 00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:52.920 the other relationships start to straighten up. 00:30:53.940 --> 00:30:58.250 It's true. It's true. Rewire your brain. I'm 00:30:58.250 --> 00:31:02.369 going to ask you to stand. As the worship team 00:31:02.369 --> 00:31:10.890 comes. What in the world are you thinking? What 00:31:10.890 --> 00:31:13.789 in the world are you thinking? What were you 00:31:13.789 --> 00:31:16.410 thinking? What are you thinking? Because you're 00:31:16.410 --> 00:31:17.910 in the middle of change, whether you realize 00:31:17.910 --> 00:31:20.450 it or not. You know, you're heading towards halfway 00:31:20.450 --> 00:31:22.390 through the day. You've got thousands of decisions 00:31:22.390 --> 00:31:24.750 and change that were already made just getting 00:31:24.750 --> 00:31:28.319 here this morning. What are you thinking? Where 00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:31.480 are you at? What's your mind in the loop, right? 00:31:31.619 --> 00:31:34.220 What's going on in the loop in your mind? What 00:31:34.220 --> 00:31:36.420 are you feeding yourself? What are you rewiring 00:31:36.420 --> 00:31:40.000 in your brain? Because you're building real estate, 00:31:40.099 --> 00:31:42.700 whether you realize it or not, whatever you're 00:31:42.700 --> 00:31:45.519 dwelling on, whatever you're building up is staying 00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:49.619 in your mind. You're building blocks of things, 00:31:49.660 --> 00:31:53.420 amen? And sometimes you got to rewire the house. 00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:57.900 You got to tear out what was there. That woman 00:31:57.900 --> 00:32:00.259 at the well, in that moment in time when Jesus 00:32:00.259 --> 00:32:03.880 realized she had some bad wiring going on up 00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:07.460 here, right? Bad juju going on up here. And she 00:32:07.460 --> 00:32:10.660 needed the wire pulled out. And Jesus began to 00:32:10.660 --> 00:32:14.400 rebuild, began to rewire her thinking. Began 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:17.559 to show her a new way. So I want you to bow your 00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:22.059 heads this morning. I want you just to examine 00:32:22.059 --> 00:32:27.569 yourself. Where are you at? Where are you at 00:32:27.569 --> 00:32:31.250 in this? This is one of those messages where 00:32:31.250 --> 00:32:33.609 we got to, listen, this is going to have everything 00:32:33.609 --> 00:32:36.329 to do with who you become and where you land 00:32:36.329 --> 00:32:38.410 on the other side of it. It will have everything 00:32:38.410 --> 00:32:40.509 to do with where you land and who you become. 00:32:40.710 --> 00:32:44.049 That's how important this is. What's looping 00:32:44.049 --> 00:32:47.269 up there? What do you got to shift? What area 00:32:47.269 --> 00:32:50.950 of your life? Is it fear? Right? Is it jealousy? 00:32:51.289 --> 00:32:55.289 Is it anger? Is there some other place? And if 00:32:55.289 --> 00:32:57.869 it's not, man, just keep dwelling on the things 00:32:57.869 --> 00:33:00.809 of God and let God rebuild and rewire and bring 00:33:00.809 --> 00:33:02.809 you to a place of authority. We heard it a little 00:33:02.809 --> 00:33:05.369 earlier, right? Just walk in the authority of 00:33:05.369 --> 00:33:08.230 God. That's where he wants you, right? Let him 00:33:08.230 --> 00:33:11.009 do that. But if not, you got to realize it because 00:33:11.009 --> 00:33:14.650 first of all, God won't fix what you won't name, 00:33:14.789 --> 00:33:17.180 what you won't confess. You've got to confess 00:33:17.180 --> 00:33:19.640 it. So confess it to Him right now. Whatever 00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:21.880 the area that is, it's messed up in you, and 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:24.720 it's messed up thinking, and you know it. You've 00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:26.779 been looping on that thing a while. Right now, 00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:29.380 you just confess it to Him. And then you've got 00:33:29.380 --> 00:33:30.559 to speak out, and you've got to tell Him, I'm 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:32.420 willing to repent. So Lord, start ripping the 00:33:32.420 --> 00:33:34.599 wiring out. Start pulling it out. I want rebuilt. 00:33:34.819 --> 00:33:37.900 I want some new wiring in my house. So just right 00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:40.500 now, just speak it out to Him. Pray to Him. You 00:33:40.500 --> 00:33:42.059 don't need me to lead you in this. You can pray 00:33:42.059 --> 00:33:45.420 to Him yourself right now. Just speak, ask Him 00:33:45.420 --> 00:33:47.799 right now in this moment. Just as they're playing, 00:33:47.940 --> 00:33:51.599 I'm going to be quiet for just a minute. I want 00:33:51.599 --> 00:34:06.980 you just to focus on Him. Jesus is the one who 00:34:06.980 --> 00:34:10.429 will rewire. Jesus is the one who will renew. 00:34:11.170 --> 00:34:14.730 Jesus is the one who will begin to shift everything. 00:34:15.150 --> 00:34:18.170 What you're thinking on in the change is what 00:34:18.170 --> 00:34:25.670 you'll become. Just take another minute to pray 00:34:25.670 --> 00:34:28.869 with them. Just you and Jesus. Just you and the 00:34:28.869 --> 00:34:31.809 Lord. Just Holy Spirit speaking in you and through 00:34:31.809 --> 00:34:35.510 you. Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit connecting 00:34:35.510 --> 00:34:41.440 with you this morning. Just take a moment. Ask 00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:44.059 him. You got to ask him, Lord, rewire me. Lord, 00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:46.659 rewire me. Lord, change this in my head and in 00:34:46.659 --> 00:34:49.840 my heart. Rewire me this morning. Change it up 00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:52.639 in me. Lord, I thank you. Then begin to thank 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:54.559 him. Lord, I thank you. I'm believing right now. 00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:56.360 God, it's going to shift. It's going to change 00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:58.400 because I named it. And Lord, I've committed 00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.880 to repent. God, I've named it and I committed 00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:03.260 to change. I've committed to shift something. 00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:05.719 I'm not going to stay there any longer. I'm going 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:07.880 to start taking captive. When that thought comes 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:10.039 in my head, I'm going to grab that thing and 00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:11.639 I'm going to hold it up and I'm going to stick 00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:13.940 it in a cell. I'm going to duct tape its mouth 00:35:13.940 --> 00:35:16.679 shut and it's going to stay there. And I'm never 00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:20.010 going to look at it again. I'm starting the process, 00:35:20.110 --> 00:35:24.449 Lord. Rewire my brain. Rebuild it. Rebuild it. 00:35:26.269 --> 00:35:28.050 Lord, I thank you for each one in the house, 00:35:28.130 --> 00:35:31.829 Lord. God, I pray that you constantly rewire 00:35:31.829 --> 00:35:34.590 us, Lord. Help us, Lord, to see and to know and 00:35:34.590 --> 00:35:37.250 to walk in your authority. God, greater and greater 00:35:37.250 --> 00:35:40.349 every single day. Lord, we give you praise. We 00:35:40.349 --> 00:35:57.159 give you glory and honor in Jesus' name. We pray 00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:01.019 that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 00:36:01.380 --> 00:36:04.380 If you have been personally affected by our ministry 00:36:04.380 --> 00:36:07.179 and you would like to partner with us as we love 00:36:07.179 --> 00:36:10.300 God, love people every day, visit our website 00:36:10.300 --> 00:36:10.719 at