WEBVTT 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:04.219 Sharing good news of great joy to all people. 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:12.320 Elation Church. Say, not mine, but God's. But 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.759 God's. Because I believe in every area of life, 00:00:16.059 --> 00:00:19.339 we need to learn to develop the skill. Everybody 00:00:19.339 --> 00:00:23.600 say skill. Skill to not rely on what we have 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:29.160 or what we can do, but we need to shift. Our 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:31.800 focus, right? We need to rely on God's supply 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:36.420 and his ability, what he has and what he can 00:00:36.420 --> 00:00:40.740 do. Amen? Amen? In this series, I was reminded 00:00:40.740 --> 00:00:43.219 of my favorite Bible verse. That is 2 Timothy 00:00:43.219 --> 00:00:47.219 1 .7. It says this, For God has not given us 00:00:47.219 --> 00:00:51.000 a spirit of fear, right? He's not given us a 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:54.500 spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound 00:00:54.500 --> 00:00:57.729 mind. Amen? Aren't you glad God has given you 00:00:57.729 --> 00:01:01.289 some things, right? His word is full of those 00:01:01.289 --> 00:01:04.849 things in which he's given us, right? That we, 00:01:04.950 --> 00:01:11.409 he bestows on us, right? Helps us know that when 00:01:11.409 --> 00:01:14.590 we're in fear, when our response turns to fear, 00:01:14.750 --> 00:01:16.590 it's like we can know that, well, that's not 00:01:16.590 --> 00:01:19.769 of God, right? It's not from him. He did not 00:01:19.769 --> 00:01:23.989 give me that, right? What has he given us? The 00:01:23.989 --> 00:01:29.260 verse says power. Right? Love and a sound mind. 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:33.299 But here's the thing, and kind of the whole, 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:37.980 you could say, crux of this series. When we look 00:01:37.980 --> 00:01:41.739 at the Bible, when we look at Scripture, we discover 00:01:41.739 --> 00:01:47.099 that it's not just Him empowering us, giving 00:01:47.099 --> 00:01:51.819 us more strength or, you know, making us stronger, 00:01:52.019 --> 00:01:57.450 right? He's actually... Giving us his power. 00:02:01.430 --> 00:02:04.250 I want you to see this. He gives us his power. 00:02:04.709 --> 00:02:09.830 He gives us his strength. He's not just elevating 00:02:09.830 --> 00:02:13.849 my human abilities. He's indwelling me with something 00:02:13.849 --> 00:02:20.430 that is his. It's his love, right? It's his love 00:02:20.430 --> 00:02:23.789 that flows through us. It's not elevating my 00:02:23.789 --> 00:02:27.550 love. My love is conditional, right, on what 00:02:27.550 --> 00:02:30.270 someone says. If they looked at me the wrong 00:02:30.270 --> 00:02:34.330 way, if they spoke out of turn or whatever, I'm 00:02:34.330 --> 00:02:37.949 offended by it, and I fall into bitterness and 00:02:37.949 --> 00:02:42.169 hate. Someone does something wrong to me, right? 00:02:42.949 --> 00:02:46.889 But God never expects you to love from your natural 00:02:46.889 --> 00:02:53.560 love. He gives you his love to love others with. 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:58.099 That's why it goes so far beyond what we have. 00:02:59.340 --> 00:03:03.800 That's why we need to lay hold of what God has 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:07.539 and his ability. Because I feel like a lot of 00:03:07.539 --> 00:03:12.520 us, if you're like me, a lot of us struggle in 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:16.400 areas because we're trying to work what we see 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:18.939 in Scripture. trying to make it happen in our 00:03:18.939 --> 00:03:22.360 own ability, right? Trying to live for him in 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:28.379 our own power. But that's not what God wants. 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:33.599 He indwells you, listen, he indwells you to give 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:37.800 you his power. If he empowered you, it would 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:40.439 be lesser than who he is. So he comes on the 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:43.620 inside of you and he empowers you with his love, 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:51.419 with his truth. Right? And a sound mind. We're 00:03:51.419 --> 00:03:53.539 talking about the mind today a little bit. We're 00:03:53.539 --> 00:03:56.580 going to talk about other things. But as dad 00:03:56.580 --> 00:03:58.819 mentioned during the offering, he made the point 00:03:58.819 --> 00:04:04.020 where we need to view God as our source. Our 00:04:04.020 --> 00:04:10.060 source for everything. He's not just a side thing. 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.699 He needs to be our source for each and every 00:04:13.699 --> 00:04:18.670 day. A lot of people view themselves as their 00:04:18.670 --> 00:04:23.269 source, right? Their ability to, you know, make 00:04:23.269 --> 00:04:26.170 it happen, their ability at their job, things 00:04:26.170 --> 00:04:31.889 like that. Some people view others as their source, 00:04:32.069 --> 00:04:37.610 right? Maybe your boss, you know, maybe your, 00:04:37.629 --> 00:04:42.589 whatever, your occupation is. You view that as 00:04:42.589 --> 00:04:46.959 your source. But God never intended, those things 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:49.560 are all avenues for God's blessing, but he never 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:52.939 intended for those things to become your source 00:04:52.939 --> 00:04:56.480 and what you're dependent on. Amen? Because who 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:02.199 you draw from, you depend on and display. I'll 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:06.680 say that again. Who you draw on, draw from, you 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:11.459 depend on. And display. This morning, when I 00:05:11.459 --> 00:05:14.300 plugged in this cable here that connects the 00:05:14.300 --> 00:05:18.100 computer to the projector, it has some words 00:05:18.100 --> 00:05:20.759 on it. And in order for the picture to be up 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:23.939 there, this is the source. And then up there 00:05:23.939 --> 00:05:27.319 is the display end. And for some odd reason, 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:30.839 the HDMI cable only works one way. Very strange. 00:05:31.019 --> 00:05:33.519 I don't know why. This is just a unique one. 00:05:34.379 --> 00:05:36.720 But I had this thought as I was plugging it in. 00:05:36.779 --> 00:05:41.370 It's like... Who our source is, is what it's 00:05:41.370 --> 00:05:47.329 going to look like on the outside. Are you tracking? 00:05:48.029 --> 00:05:56.089 Right? If my source is my job, guess what? Your 00:05:56.089 --> 00:05:58.930 job, most likely you won't have it. Something's 00:05:58.930 --> 00:06:02.649 going to happen. There'll be hiccups, right? 00:06:03.149 --> 00:06:04.529 You might have to leave. You might have to go 00:06:04.529 --> 00:06:07.430 to another place. If that job is your source, 00:06:07.550 --> 00:06:10.170 guess what? You're going to display some fear. 00:06:10.769 --> 00:06:14.129 You're going to display some uncertainty, right? 00:06:14.670 --> 00:06:22.689 But if you realize that God is my source, I'm 00:06:22.689 --> 00:06:26.350 unmoved when those things in this world collapse 00:06:26.350 --> 00:06:30.589 around me. Because I do not draw from those. 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:38.980 I draw from an unlimited source, right? Some 00:06:38.980 --> 00:06:41.500 people, think about it, some people, their source 00:06:41.500 --> 00:06:47.899 is the stock market, right? Their sense of security 00:06:47.899 --> 00:06:50.319 for retirement, it's all found in the stock market, 00:06:50.420 --> 00:06:53.860 and their emotions, their attitudes in life, 00:06:53.980 --> 00:06:57.399 you know, fluctuate with the stock market. All 00:06:57.399 --> 00:06:59.199 of a sudden, it's up, and everybody's, whoo, 00:06:59.339 --> 00:07:02.370 high five, shaking hands. Kissing babies, all 00:07:02.370 --> 00:07:05.009 that kind of stuff. Everybody's very happy. And 00:07:05.009 --> 00:07:08.170 then as soon as it crashes, right? Oh no, what 00:07:08.170 --> 00:07:09.649 am I going to do? What am I going to do? What 00:07:09.649 --> 00:07:15.470 am I going to do? Who's your source? You know, 00:07:15.470 --> 00:07:17.709 there's a lot of different avenues for God's 00:07:17.709 --> 00:07:21.269 blessing. And we don't need to confuse those 00:07:21.269 --> 00:07:26.430 avenues with our source. If God's our source, 00:07:26.750 --> 00:07:32.180 the avenues can change. The avenues can change, 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:36.579 amen? And many believers struggle, I think. We 00:07:36.579 --> 00:07:39.399 all get to this place where we're like, we love 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:43.319 God and we trust him with our eternity. We've 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:46.660 entrusted him with our salvation, but we don't 00:07:46.660 --> 00:07:53.379 trust him with our every day. It's amazing to 00:07:53.379 --> 00:07:56.360 me. We have faith that... He died on a cross 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.240 2 ,000 years ago, and that's applied and removed 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:02.319 all my sin, right? And I can walk in newness 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:05.480 of Him, but yet my day -to -day, my everyday 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:11.040 decisions, I turn to myself, and I expect that 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:16.339 I have to supply, I have to come up with the 00:08:16.339 --> 00:08:21.259 ability, the work, the effort. I've got to have 00:08:21.259 --> 00:08:27.139 somebody else's to figure out. And to live, man, 00:08:27.180 --> 00:08:31.579 y 'all are too quiet this morning. Acts 17, 28 00:08:31.579 --> 00:08:36.740 says this, listen, for in him we live and move 00:08:36.740 --> 00:08:42.320 and exist. What does this mean? That God never 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:47.139 meant for you to do life, any area of life apart 00:08:47.139 --> 00:08:51.820 from him. It's only from this position of our... 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:55.399 In Christ, being in him, right? That we live, 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:59.820 that we move, and that we exist. That means it 00:08:59.820 --> 00:09:03.460 should impact every area of our life, not just 00:09:03.460 --> 00:09:06.600 the areas in which we feel like we might need 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:12.100 him. We should be dependent on him as our soul 00:09:12.100 --> 00:09:18.929 supplier, our soul source. Amen. John 14, 10, 00:09:19.009 --> 00:09:22.309 Jesus was a prime example of this, and he even 00:09:22.309 --> 00:09:27.269 said this, the words I speak are not my own. 00:09:28.570 --> 00:09:33.070 Imagine that. Jesus saying, the words I speak 00:09:33.070 --> 00:09:37.029 are not my own, but my Father who lives in me 00:09:37.029 --> 00:09:44.870 does his work through me. Think about that. He 00:09:44.870 --> 00:09:48.600 was not relying on his own. ability to speak, 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.940 his own abilities to do. He was fully dependent 00:09:52.940 --> 00:10:00.799 on the Father. Get a hold of that. He's fully 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.039 dependent. He said, it's not my words. It's not 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.259 what I think. It's not that he developed to a 00:10:06.259 --> 00:10:08.440 certain point where he was just like, well, I'm 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:11.139 going to do and work and say this and say this, 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:14.240 say this. A lot of times it's recorded that When 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.779 he would get even asked a hard question, he would 00:10:16.779 --> 00:10:21.299 stop. And he would bend down. And he would think. 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.639 Why? Was he reasoning in his own head? Or was 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:29.279 he waiting for the answer from someone who knew 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:32.879 the answer? He wasn't relying on his own mind, 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.120 his own flesh to come up with it. He was fully 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.080 dependent on God. And he said, I will wait here. 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.740 until God wants to speak what he has to say. 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:53.139 As the supreme or the prime example, how much 00:10:53.139 --> 00:10:56.559 does that differ from you and I in our day -to 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:05.259 -day experience, right? Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 00:11:05.259 --> 00:11:08.100 and then later in 2 Corinthians, he gives us 00:11:08.100 --> 00:11:11.320 this picture because... We are now in Christ. 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:15.100 Believers take up that position of being in him. 00:11:16.500 --> 00:11:21.039 We are now God's fellow workers, just like Jesus 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:23.139 was on earth. He did the works of his father. 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:25.919 He spoke the words of his father. Now, listen, 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:30.440 since we are in him, we join with Christ to accomplish 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:35.799 that same work in the earth. Do you realize that 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:40.070 God has a plan and a purpose for your life? And 00:11:40.070 --> 00:11:44.669 it's so far beyond just the making you feel good 00:11:44.669 --> 00:11:51.549 today. His plans and his purposes are not for 00:11:51.549 --> 00:11:55.190 your temporal. It's for eternal things in the 00:11:55.190 --> 00:11:59.710 earth. We are supposed to be co -laborers with 00:11:59.710 --> 00:12:03.309 God to carry out his will and his kingdom into 00:12:03.309 --> 00:12:08.110 the earth, right? We are co -laborers with him. 00:12:08.590 --> 00:12:11.490 As co -workers with God, then, we have the opportunity, 00:12:11.629 --> 00:12:15.669 listen, to exchange our natural things for his 00:12:15.669 --> 00:12:21.049 supernatural. To trade what we have for what 00:12:21.049 --> 00:12:25.870 God has and what only he can do. Amen. This is 00:12:25.870 --> 00:12:28.570 good news. Y 'all are looking at me like you 00:12:28.570 --> 00:12:32.029 sucked lemons before you came in. But this is 00:12:32.029 --> 00:12:37.210 some good news. Amen. We need to get a hold of 00:12:37.210 --> 00:12:40.909 this. Because God did not take up residence in 00:12:40.909 --> 00:12:51.129 us for us to live life apart from him. He didn't 00:12:51.129 --> 00:12:54.110 move into my home for it not to impact my life. 00:12:57.490 --> 00:12:59.570 Have you ever had someone move into your home? 00:12:59.629 --> 00:13:02.049 It impacts your life a little bit. Changes some 00:13:02.049 --> 00:13:05.830 things up a little bit, right? Right? Come on. 00:13:06.009 --> 00:13:10.970 Imagine if God moved in. Woo! But then we act 00:13:10.970 --> 00:13:19.110 like it just doesn't impact a thing. He's a great 00:13:19.110 --> 00:13:22.629 gentleman in the sense that he doesn't force. 00:13:22.850 --> 00:13:28.529 He doesn't, like, go, okay, now, Timmy, you're 00:13:28.529 --> 00:13:31.230 mine and you're going to do what I want you to 00:13:31.230 --> 00:13:35.850 do today. Right? He doesn't take away our will. 00:13:35.970 --> 00:13:39.129 He doesn't take away our desires, our souls, 00:13:39.330 --> 00:13:43.210 or our flesh, right? But he gives us an opportunity 00:13:43.210 --> 00:13:51.750 to labor with him, to join with him in the work. 00:13:53.629 --> 00:13:57.330 John 15, 5 says this, Yes, I am the vine, you 00:13:57.330 --> 00:13:59.929 are the branches. Those who remain in me and 00:13:59.929 --> 00:14:03.480 I in them will produce much fruit. For apart 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:11.000 from me, you can do nothing. Apart from him, 00:14:11.100 --> 00:14:15.259 you can't produce the fruit that will impact 00:14:15.259 --> 00:14:20.440 the kingdom. Talking about the fruit of the spirit. 00:14:20.500 --> 00:14:23.200 Apart from him, you're not going to be able to 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:27.000 produce those things, right? Like a tree, if 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:31.580 I cut off the limb, does the tree die? No, it's 00:14:31.580 --> 00:14:33.740 just removed itself from the source of life. 00:14:37.659 --> 00:14:41.940 So if we are like branches, we must abide in 00:14:41.940 --> 00:14:46.639 order to what? Produce the fruit of the Spirit. 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:53.440 We're co -laboring with Him. It's not by working 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:58.679 to be the best you. Some people treat it like... 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:01.600 It's what I can do. I'm trying to work to be 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:06.139 the best version of myself, right? But the Christian 00:15:06.139 --> 00:15:10.899 life is characterized by God's life flowing through 00:15:10.899 --> 00:15:17.379 you. Galatians 2 .20 says this. Paul wrote, I 00:15:17.379 --> 00:15:20.519 have been crucified with Christ. I no longer 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:26.610 live, but Christ lives in me. Amen? The life 00:15:26.610 --> 00:15:29.769 I now live in the body, I live by faith in the 00:15:29.769 --> 00:15:36.509 Son of God. Ooh. Who loved me and gave himself 00:15:36.509 --> 00:15:41.929 for me. That's good. What is this, what is this 00:15:41.929 --> 00:15:44.129 meaning? That, you know, we spend a lifetime 00:15:44.129 --> 00:15:50.179 learning how to live. I learn how to use my facilities, 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.740 my motor skills. I spend a lifetime developing 00:15:52.740 --> 00:15:55.500 these things. I learn how to interact with the 00:15:55.500 --> 00:15:58.320 people around me. I learn how to respond. I spend 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:01.320 a lifetime doing that. But when you come to Christ, 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:05.899 we must learn. And what this series is about 00:16:05.899 --> 00:16:11.139 is it's about learning to live again. Learning 00:16:11.139 --> 00:16:14.799 all those things that happen in the flesh that 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:18.590 you need to learn. There's a whole life of being 00:16:18.590 --> 00:16:21.029 yielded to the Spirit and the things the Spirit 00:16:21.029 --> 00:16:24.250 wants to teach you and for you to walk in. There's 00:16:24.250 --> 00:16:26.889 a whole lot of different things. It's not just 00:16:26.889 --> 00:16:30.570 magically upon you. You don't just magically 00:16:30.570 --> 00:16:34.750 walk into the things that the Spirit has for 00:16:34.750 --> 00:16:37.769 you. You don't magically walk into, you know, 00:16:37.769 --> 00:16:42.389 whatever is joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, 00:16:42.590 --> 00:16:47.519 all these things. We must learn to live again 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:51.059 as those in the position of oneness with Christ. 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:54.639 We have to live from that position, and it's 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:56.759 going to take some skill. It's going to take 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:04.059 some maturation to develop that. Proverbs 3, 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:08.759 5, and 6. It's one of my, like, another favorite 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:12.200 verse. I have a lot. But I like what it says. 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:16.240 I continually kind of like meditate on these 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:19.099 words, but it gives us a good picture. It says 00:17:19.099 --> 00:17:22.019 this, trust in the Lord with all your heart. 00:17:22.380 --> 00:17:25.079 The heart is the sphere of your existence. It's 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:28.059 everything. And it says this, do not depend. 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:33.299 Everybody say, do not. Do not depend on your 00:17:33.299 --> 00:17:36.720 own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, 00:17:36.779 --> 00:17:40.519 and he will show you which path to take. This 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.640 word depend here can also be translated lean. 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:49.779 Leaning involves shifting your weight over to 00:17:49.779 --> 00:17:57.180 something for it to hold you up. We good? Right? 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:00.700 If I'm leaning on this, I'm relying on it in 00:18:00.700 --> 00:18:04.680 a sense to hold me up, to sustain me, correct? 00:18:05.319 --> 00:18:10.160 So he's telling us to not lean. That when things 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:13.440 get unstable, we don't need to lean on, the first 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:17.019 thing we lean on is our own self, on what is 00:18:17.019 --> 00:18:21.480 ours. We need to lean on, we need to press into. 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:29.539 His word needs to carry more weight in our lives. 00:18:29.740 --> 00:18:33.690 But often... This is something that's very hard 00:18:33.690 --> 00:18:35.730 for us to do because it feels unnatural because 00:18:35.730 --> 00:18:37.970 we spend our whole lifetimes learning to rely 00:18:37.970 --> 00:18:40.650 on our own ability, on our own mind, on our own 00:18:40.650 --> 00:18:44.150 facilities, on our own reasoning. We've studied, 00:18:44.210 --> 00:18:49.230 we've learned, we've done. Right? And here, in 00:18:49.230 --> 00:18:51.170 Christ, he's saying, we need to throw it all 00:18:51.170 --> 00:19:02.250 away. Think about that. Do not depend. on your 00:19:02.250 --> 00:19:05.589 own understanding. Some people say like, you 00:19:05.589 --> 00:19:07.349 know, well, God gave you a mind. It's time for 00:19:07.349 --> 00:19:10.930 you to use it. How many of you have ever heard 00:19:10.930 --> 00:19:13.190 that? You've heard that phrase? Yeah, that's 00:19:13.190 --> 00:19:15.829 true. That's talking about common sense. And 00:19:15.829 --> 00:19:21.109 we need a lot more. Common sense is not as common 00:19:21.109 --> 00:19:24.769 as it used to be, right? We need some more of 00:19:24.769 --> 00:19:29.200 that too. in order for us to experience God's 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:32.180 best in the life, the abundant life that he has 00:19:32.180 --> 00:19:37.559 for us, we got to learn again to live as one 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:42.700 in him and to not rely and not depend on what 00:19:42.700 --> 00:19:46.279 is ours. We need to always shift our focus and 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:49.779 press in to God in every area of life. I know 00:19:49.779 --> 00:19:52.779 this is super simple, but if we can get a hold 00:19:52.779 --> 00:19:56.579 of it, it'll be transformative. Because we're 00:19:56.579 --> 00:19:59.359 so good at turning to our own self. Things get 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:02.140 tough, situation comes, we're going to turn to 00:20:02.140 --> 00:20:05.099 what I know, turn to what I'm familiar with, 00:20:05.380 --> 00:20:12.440 right? Instead of going, God, what do you want 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:15.460 me to think about this? How do you want me to 00:20:15.460 --> 00:20:20.400 process this information? When's the last time 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:24.309 you did that? When you just stopped? Before you 00:20:24.309 --> 00:20:26.470 let your mind run off in a thousand different 00:20:26.470 --> 00:20:28.509 directions, when's the last time you stopped 00:20:28.509 --> 00:20:32.809 and just simply asked God, what's the next step? 00:20:35.049 --> 00:20:38.869 When the doctor's report is really bad, what 00:20:38.869 --> 00:20:43.289 do we do? Do we rely on our own understanding, 00:20:43.549 --> 00:20:47.490 on past experience, or do we say, God, what do 00:20:47.490 --> 00:20:52.630 you want me to do? What do you want me to take? 00:20:52.869 --> 00:20:57.190 What action do I need to do next? Because guess 00:20:57.190 --> 00:21:03.089 what? Without him, there's no restoration and 00:21:03.089 --> 00:21:06.789 there's no healing. Doctors can do a lot, but 00:21:06.789 --> 00:21:11.230 healing comes from God. The surgery can be your 00:21:11.230 --> 00:21:16.269 avenue, but get this straight. God is your source. 00:21:18.650 --> 00:21:23.259 Okay? And this goes in a lot of different directions. 00:21:23.299 --> 00:21:27.240 But listen, God expects us to develop the skill 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:30.859 of relying on his mind, his thoughts, his ways, 00:21:30.940 --> 00:21:35.359 and not our own. Get this, 1 Corinthians 2 .16 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:39.400 says, it's actually Paul quoting Isaiah here. 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:42.119 It goes, who can know the Lord's thoughts? Who 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:46.259 knows enough to teach him? And then he writes, 00:21:46.460 --> 00:21:52.920 but we understand. I'm glad he understood. We 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:56.259 need to understand, right? I'm glad he got a 00:21:56.259 --> 00:22:00.339 hold of it so I could get a hold of it too. But 00:22:00.339 --> 00:22:03.819 he goes, we understand these things, right? For 00:22:03.819 --> 00:22:12.019 we have, what? The mind of Christ. We have. Everybody 00:22:12.019 --> 00:22:18.539 say that. I have. Say, I have. The mind of Christ. 00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:23.619 If you are in him, the fullness of who he is 00:22:23.619 --> 00:22:28.900 is in you. Not just the area you think that benefits 00:22:28.900 --> 00:22:32.960 you the most. His mind, his power, his love. 00:22:35.819 --> 00:22:38.539 The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:43.660 what? Is alive on the inside of you. Filling 00:22:43.660 --> 00:22:51.029 your mortal body. Come on. We understand these 00:22:51.029 --> 00:22:57.130 things. Do we, church? Do we understand this? 00:22:57.609 --> 00:23:04.630 Have we got a hold of it? We can. We can. It's 00:23:04.630 --> 00:23:12.990 available to us. You have his mind. So why keep 00:23:12.990 --> 00:23:17.140 going to yours? Why keep relying on yours? In 00:23:17.140 --> 00:23:20.480 every area. Why run to yours? Because guess what? 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:24.420 You can exchange what you have for what God has. 00:23:24.819 --> 00:23:28.000 You can exchange your confusion with his clarity. 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:33.920 You can exchange your struggle with his stability. 00:23:35.660 --> 00:23:41.039 Amen. But listen, just because you have the mind 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:44.660 of Christ does not mean you are utilizing it. 00:23:45.869 --> 00:23:50.109 Does not mean that you're turning to it. It's 00:23:50.109 --> 00:23:54.750 in you by the Spirit. But that doesn't mean that 00:23:54.750 --> 00:23:57.670 you, so like, you possess something that you're 00:23:57.670 --> 00:24:02.789 not partaking of. Like, I have food in my fridge 00:24:02.789 --> 00:24:07.109 that I possess right now. And I'm kind of hungry 00:24:07.109 --> 00:24:09.670 because I'm thinking about food. I have food 00:24:09.670 --> 00:24:16.259 in my fridge, right? It's mine. But unless I 00:24:16.259 --> 00:24:19.880 take it out and eat of it, I don't experience 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:22.960 the benefit of it. I don't experience the nutrients 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:26.200 that it has for me. I have to be a partaker, 00:24:26.220 --> 00:24:33.160 not just a possessor. You and I as Christians, 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:38.079 we need to learn to be partakers of Christ, the 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:41.349 greater one inside of us. Instead of partaking 00:24:41.349 --> 00:24:44.730 from our flesh and our own mind and our own emotions 00:24:44.730 --> 00:24:47.130 and our own will, we need to partake of him, 00:24:47.309 --> 00:24:52.309 his spirit alive on the inside of us. Because 00:24:52.309 --> 00:24:55.829 only then will transformation happen. He's not 00:24:55.829 --> 00:24:58.190 taking the things of you and elevating them. 00:24:58.250 --> 00:25:02.730 He's given you himself for his spirit and his 00:25:02.730 --> 00:25:07.369 life to flow through you in every area. Amen. 00:25:08.430 --> 00:25:10.650 So just because you have the mind of Christ, 00:25:10.730 --> 00:25:12.650 it doesn't mean that you're utilizing it. It 00:25:12.650 --> 00:25:15.069 doesn't mean that you're walking in it. Romans 00:25:15.069 --> 00:25:19.329 12, 2 says this. Get how strong these words are. 00:25:19.390 --> 00:25:23.109 Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world. 00:25:26.529 --> 00:25:34.509 Don't copy them. Don't copy the behaviors and 00:25:34.509 --> 00:25:39.329 customs of this world. But we think the world 00:25:39.329 --> 00:25:41.869 teaches us that if we do everything that someone 00:25:41.869 --> 00:25:44.349 else does, we'll achieve everything that they 00:25:44.349 --> 00:25:49.809 have. And in some degree, maybe that will happen. 00:25:49.890 --> 00:25:52.430 But guess what? More times than not, you'll chase 00:25:52.430 --> 00:25:55.269 something and it will not happen in your life. 00:25:55.349 --> 00:25:59.509 Because why? You are not them. You are unique. 00:26:01.369 --> 00:26:06.009 You carry a unique... image of who God is. It's 00:26:06.009 --> 00:26:09.630 personalized to you and his plans for you are 00:26:09.630 --> 00:26:14.250 personal for you. They're not just universal. 00:26:14.390 --> 00:26:19.910 They're personal to you. And he's telling each 00:26:19.910 --> 00:26:22.710 one of us to not copy just because, well, that's 00:26:22.710 --> 00:26:26.569 what someone else did. That's how someone else 00:26:26.569 --> 00:26:30.930 acted and responded. Therefore, I need to act 00:26:30.930 --> 00:26:33.940 and respond that same way. I need to copy that. 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:37.259 That's what everyone else does. It's their custom, 00:26:37.420 --> 00:26:42.599 right? I shouldn't copy that. It shouldn't be 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:45.960 like that. But it says this. Let's continue reading. 00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:49.660 But let God transform you into a new person. 00:26:51.660 --> 00:26:55.839 Let God transform you into a new person. How? 00:26:56.220 --> 00:27:02.339 By changing the way you think. Then. You will 00:27:02.339 --> 00:27:04.640 learn to know. Everybody say, learn to know. 00:27:05.259 --> 00:27:08.059 Learn to know God's will for you, which is good 00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:12.359 and pleasing and perfect. Amen. Paul didn't say, 00:27:12.380 --> 00:27:16.339 listen. Paul didn't say, be transformed by trying 00:27:16.339 --> 00:27:26.299 harder. Be transformed by doing your best. He 00:27:26.299 --> 00:27:29.660 says, be transformed, how? By letting God change 00:27:29.660 --> 00:27:35.890 the way you think. But he's not just saying to 00:27:35.890 --> 00:27:39.210 think on, you know, whatever you can think on 00:27:39.210 --> 00:27:43.690 that's better. He's actually supplying the thoughts 00:27:43.690 --> 00:27:46.349 on which you should think and which you should 00:27:46.349 --> 00:27:49.470 meditate on. Because we're not supposed to do 00:27:49.470 --> 00:27:54.230 it without him. Amen? And this goes in full circle 00:27:54.230 --> 00:27:56.569 for the Christian life and the Christian experience. 00:27:56.769 --> 00:27:58.930 But today we're just talking about your thought 00:27:58.930 --> 00:28:04.619 life. and that arena of your mind, right? He's 00:28:04.619 --> 00:28:08.079 going to give you new thoughts. So how do we 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:11.140 apply this to our day -to -day? How do we have 00:28:11.140 --> 00:28:15.059 this mind? How do we partake of it? It's not 00:28:15.059 --> 00:28:18.579 by transformation, you know, by trying to think 00:28:18.579 --> 00:28:22.119 better thoughts. This is the world's ideology. 00:28:23.180 --> 00:28:27.849 This is how they have twisted God's Word. Right? 00:28:27.930 --> 00:28:31.710 Because you can get some natural benefits from 00:28:31.710 --> 00:28:34.529 thinking better thoughts, from meditating on 00:28:34.529 --> 00:28:37.910 better things. But if you want supernatural transformation 00:28:37.910 --> 00:28:41.589 in your life, you're going to have to go beyond 00:28:41.589 --> 00:28:44.710 what you can think in the natural and step into 00:28:44.710 --> 00:28:48.430 God's mind and God's arena. The things of heaven 00:28:48.430 --> 00:28:56.740 are greater than the things of earth. It is exchanging 00:28:56.740 --> 00:29:03.500 your thoughts for his. How do we do this? By 00:29:03.500 --> 00:29:08.980 learning to know his thoughts. We have to learn 00:29:08.980 --> 00:29:14.480 to know his thoughts. Paul gives us a breakdown. 00:29:14.619 --> 00:29:16.519 It's all throughout scripture, but I like... 00:29:16.730 --> 00:29:19.750 This set of passages in Ephesians 4, 21 through 00:29:19.750 --> 00:29:23.809 23, says this, Listen, since you have heard about 00:29:23.809 --> 00:29:27.150 Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from 00:29:27.150 --> 00:29:30.450 Him, throw off your old sinful nature and your 00:29:30.450 --> 00:29:33.509 former way of life, which is corrupted by lust 00:29:33.509 --> 00:29:37.289 and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew 00:29:37.289 --> 00:29:43.170 your thoughts and attitudes. That word renew 00:29:43.170 --> 00:29:49.759 means to make new. not to, it's actually a full 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:52.400 exchange for that which is new, to be spiritually 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:57.019 transformed to take on a new mind, to rely on 00:29:57.019 --> 00:29:58.819 it. So let's go back to this verse. Since you 00:29:58.819 --> 00:30:03.019 have heard about Jesus, we must first have to 00:30:03.019 --> 00:30:08.119 hear. In order to have the mind of Christ, to 00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:11.000 be partakers of something which we already possess, 00:30:16.140 --> 00:30:22.759 Work with God to take hold of what he's given 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:27.440 us by being on the inside of us. Like a good 00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:31.839 example of this, like I have a push mower that's 00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:35.759 self -propelled, right? And if you don't know 00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:37.700 what that means, it's like when you cut your 00:30:37.700 --> 00:30:40.480 grass, I have this push mower, and I have to 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:43.539 engage a throttle on it even after I cut it. 00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:47.099 I don't have to do all the effort myself. If 00:30:47.099 --> 00:30:50.240 I engage that, it'll actually just move for me. 00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:53.680 It'll just propel itself. I don't have to put 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:57.960 that effort in to push it. But just because I 00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:00.420 have that doesn't mean that this afternoon my 00:31:00.420 --> 00:31:06.369 grass is going to be cut. Unfortunately, right? 00:31:06.609 --> 00:31:10.910 It's really bad. Florida grass is different, 00:31:10.990 --> 00:31:16.509 I think. It grows twice as tall between lunch 00:31:16.509 --> 00:31:19.769 and dinner. It just keeps growing. You keep cutting 00:31:19.769 --> 00:31:25.309 it, and it just keeps growing. But to be co -laborers 00:31:25.309 --> 00:31:28.690 with Christ is kind of like we realize that it's 00:31:28.690 --> 00:31:32.390 his power propelling us forward, moving us forward, 00:31:32.529 --> 00:31:35.230 but to be a co -laborer means that I have to 00:31:35.230 --> 00:31:40.490 come and put my hands on it. I have to realize 00:31:40.490 --> 00:31:43.609 that it's his power through me, but then I have 00:31:43.609 --> 00:31:46.809 to correspondingly act in faith, right, and put 00:31:46.809 --> 00:31:50.150 my hands on it to propel and to cut the grass 00:31:50.150 --> 00:31:58.130 for the job to be done. Right? In order for us 00:31:58.130 --> 00:32:00.349 to have the mind of Christ, in order for us to 00:32:00.349 --> 00:32:03.990 partake of it, we're going to have to hear the 00:32:03.990 --> 00:32:07.970 word. Everybody say hear. This is so simple, 00:32:08.049 --> 00:32:11.670 but yet I think we miss it too often. When we 00:32:11.670 --> 00:32:15.690 hear, we have to saturate ourselves in the word. 00:32:16.829 --> 00:32:21.509 The Bible often compares God's word to a seed, 00:32:21.730 --> 00:32:26.359 right? And he compares us to his soil. So his 00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:29.940 word, right? We hear this word and then it's 00:32:29.940 --> 00:32:34.059 implanted into our hearts, right? And then we 00:32:34.059 --> 00:32:36.740 have the opportunity. How many of you know in 00:32:36.740 --> 00:32:39.200 the natural world, if I plant a seed in the ground, 00:32:39.339 --> 00:32:41.640 I'm going to have to do some things in order 00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:48.230 for it to grow and produce fruit. And I want 00:32:48.230 --> 00:32:50.910 to go ahead and say this, only the seed in which 00:32:50.910 --> 00:32:53.829 you allow enter your heart is going to be the 00:32:53.829 --> 00:32:56.529 harvest in which you reap from in the next season. 00:32:59.670 --> 00:33:02.329 You don't just get a hold of everything there 00:33:02.329 --> 00:33:07.279 is in God in one seed, in one word. It's multiple 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:09.940 words. It's getting a hold of God will supply 00:33:09.940 --> 00:33:12.460 all my needs according to his riches in glory. 00:33:12.660 --> 00:33:15.720 It's getting hold of his provision. It's getting 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:18.440 hold of his peace. That word, you're hearing 00:33:18.440 --> 00:33:21.200 it. You're putting yourself in an environment 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:26.220 to hear it, to receive it. And then you continue 00:33:26.220 --> 00:33:33.400 to go back to let that seed be watered. Continually 00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:38.160 watered. You water it through relationship by 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:41.880 spending time in his word and that specific thing 00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:43.880 that he's laid on your heart that he's shown 00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:46.640 you, he takes you and he guides you. You say, 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:49.240 God, help me to see this greater. Help me to 00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:51.900 see things the way you see them. And when you 00:33:51.900 --> 00:33:55.220 spend time in fellowship in the word, what are 00:33:55.220 --> 00:33:57.700 you doing? You are watering that seed that's 00:33:57.700 --> 00:34:02.799 within you. So it's about word saturation. It's 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:05.119 about placing yourself in environments to hear, 00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:09.039 for the word to be watered. And then it's also 00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:12.280 about relationship, about fellowshipping with 00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:16.260 him and with his spirit, right? So we must hear. 00:34:16.500 --> 00:34:20.360 And then we also must learn it. We must learn 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:24.300 the truth. We have to get to a place where it's 00:34:24.300 --> 00:34:28.320 not just... the exercise of learning, but it 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.039 must come to a place where it produces fruit. 00:34:31.820 --> 00:34:34.619 And what the scripture is talking about here 00:34:34.619 --> 00:34:37.500 is not just hearing, hearing, hearing information. 00:34:37.500 --> 00:34:40.599 It's talking about when that information turns 00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:43.860 to revelation in your heart and then starts impacting 00:34:43.860 --> 00:34:46.280 your life and you start reaping the benefits 00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:50.340 from it. It moves beyond just the process of 00:34:50.340 --> 00:34:52.679 learning to all of a sudden, I know something. 00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:57.320 I've learned it. I've heard it. I've allowed 00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.019 it to be established in the soil of my heart. 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:05.280 And therefore, I'm going to stand in faith. Not 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.780 because of the storm, not because of the surround. 00:35:07.860 --> 00:35:10.619 I'm going to stay in faith. Why? Because I know 00:35:10.619 --> 00:35:15.719 something greater than what my situation's telling 00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:18.599 me. I know something greater than the thoughts 00:35:18.599 --> 00:35:23.909 the mind is trying to put into my head. I know 00:35:23.909 --> 00:35:27.409 something, that the joy, like we were singing 00:35:27.409 --> 00:35:32.530 about, the joy of the Lord is my strength. It's 00:35:32.530 --> 00:35:38.429 not my joy, it's His joy in me, through me. So 00:35:38.429 --> 00:35:40.769 it's not dependent on the world around me, it's 00:35:40.769 --> 00:35:50.809 dependent on me leaning, pressing into Him. It's 00:35:50.809 --> 00:35:53.690 hearing, it's learning it, it's allowing it to 00:35:53.690 --> 00:35:57.489 be the truth in our lives, not just a better 00:35:57.489 --> 00:36:02.170 truth than the world. It has to be the truth, 00:36:02.349 --> 00:36:06.429 amen? And then, because we've heard, because 00:36:06.429 --> 00:36:08.909 we've learned, we've allowed it to become established 00:36:08.909 --> 00:36:13.949 in us, therefore, now we have the ability to 00:36:13.949 --> 00:36:19.800 disregard our old way of thinking. We can throw 00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:23.019 it off, as the passage said, right? He's telling 00:36:23.019 --> 00:36:26.940 us a command to throw off, right, our old sinful 00:36:26.940 --> 00:36:29.699 nature and your former way of life, which is 00:36:29.699 --> 00:36:33.840 corrupted by lust and deception, right? He's 00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:37.000 talking about the mind. Your belief happens in 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:40.840 the mind. And you're saying you can throw off 00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:45.559 that old nature, that former way of life. We 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:50.449 can disregard our old way of thinking. And then 00:36:50.449 --> 00:36:55.449 when we do that, guess what? When we do that, 00:36:55.570 --> 00:37:01.710 we can yield to our spirits. Because like I said, 00:37:01.769 --> 00:37:04.949 we've learned really well to rely on our flesh, 00:37:05.250 --> 00:37:09.489 to rely on our souls, our mind, our will, and 00:37:09.489 --> 00:37:12.670 our emotions. We rely on those things, but now... 00:37:13.070 --> 00:37:16.349 We have a substitute, a great exchange for those 00:37:16.349 --> 00:37:19.269 things in Christ so that we can press in, we 00:37:19.269 --> 00:37:22.550 can lean into those things. So we yield into 00:37:22.550 --> 00:37:26.909 the Spirit and what the Spirit wants to do in 00:37:26.909 --> 00:37:30.769 and through us. And only then will we reap the 00:37:30.769 --> 00:37:35.090 benefit, the full benefit of who He is. Amen? 00:37:36.530 --> 00:37:42.110 Matthew 11, 28, and 30, and I'm done. I really 00:37:42.110 --> 00:37:47.050 like this passage because I really think it gets 00:37:47.050 --> 00:37:51.289 to the heart of it. And I believe it's what God 00:37:51.289 --> 00:37:56.969 would really want to say to us. Jesus said this. 00:37:57.070 --> 00:38:05.849 He said, come to me. It's an invitation to leave 00:38:05.849 --> 00:38:10.750 what? Physically come, no, no, it's an invitation 00:38:10.750 --> 00:38:16.369 to draw near to him. It's an invitation to experience 00:38:16.369 --> 00:38:23.050 him. He's saying, come to me, all who are weary 00:38:23.050 --> 00:38:27.250 and carry heavy burdens. Some of the greatest 00:38:27.250 --> 00:38:30.829 burdens you can bear are those in your mind and 00:38:30.829 --> 00:38:37.219 in your heart. And he's saying, come to me. If 00:38:37.219 --> 00:38:41.900 you're weary and heavy laden, come to me. Exchange 00:38:41.900 --> 00:38:47.019 what you have. Throw off what you have. Your 00:38:47.019 --> 00:38:50.019 old sinful ways of your flesh and your corruption 00:38:50.019 --> 00:38:53.380 and the lust. Throw off all those things. Come 00:38:53.380 --> 00:38:59.500 to me. Why? Because he's got something for you. 00:39:02.380 --> 00:39:08.010 He's got rest for you. He says, I will give you 00:39:08.010 --> 00:39:15.010 my rest for your burden, for your weight that 00:39:15.010 --> 00:39:17.429 you've been carrying. I will give you something, 00:39:17.510 --> 00:39:22.150 not a nap this afternoon. I will give you a peace 00:39:22.150 --> 00:39:24.849 that surpasses all understanding to guard your 00:39:24.849 --> 00:39:27.809 heart and mind in you. Because it's not the world's 00:39:27.809 --> 00:39:31.150 peace, so therefore it can't be taken away. Look, 00:39:31.289 --> 00:39:34.860 if the world didn't give it to you, The world 00:39:34.860 --> 00:39:37.539 can't take it away. I like that old song. Have 00:39:37.539 --> 00:39:39.940 you ever? I don't know. No, I'm moving on. But 00:39:39.940 --> 00:39:42.719 listen, the thief comes to steal and kill and 00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:46.400 to destroy you. Guess what? The enemy's not stealing 00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:50.619 God's peace. The enemy's not moving God. He's 00:39:50.619 --> 00:39:53.460 not moving God. God's not concerned about what 00:39:53.460 --> 00:40:00.320 happens in the earth. Why? If he's not concerned 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:04.019 with it, I shouldn't be concerned with it. Because 00:40:04.019 --> 00:40:07.340 I'm in him, he's in me. I'm operating in his 00:40:07.340 --> 00:40:11.500 power, his ability, his mind, his thoughts. And 00:40:11.500 --> 00:40:14.539 all he's saying for me to do is come. It's so 00:40:14.539 --> 00:40:19.980 simple. Come to me. Exchange what you have for 00:40:19.980 --> 00:40:24.659 what only I can give you. He will give you rest. 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:29.619 Amen. Continuing on verse 29, take my yoke. This 00:40:29.619 --> 00:40:32.500 word yoke was describing a beam that would go 00:40:32.500 --> 00:40:36.300 between two animals. Instead of being yoked with 00:40:36.300 --> 00:40:39.480 your flesh, instead of being yoked with your 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:41.900 mind and all of its burdens and all of its stuff, 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:46.199 you can throw off that old way of life because 00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:48.380 it has no power over you, as we've looked at 00:40:48.380 --> 00:40:51.320 in Romans in our life group, if you've been part 00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:54.000 of that. You can throw off. It has no power over 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:58.480 you. With your authority in Christ, you get rid 00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:02.840 of it and you put on the yoke of God. And what 00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:07.099 is this? He goes, let me teach you. Because some 00:41:07.099 --> 00:41:09.199 things have to come into your head before you 00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:12.000 experience them in your life, right? Because 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:15.420 what you think about determines how you live, 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:19.110 what you say. right, determines how your life 00:41:19.110 --> 00:41:21.489 is going to play out. So he's saying, take my 00:41:21.489 --> 00:41:24.989 yoke upon you. Let me teach you because I am 00:41:24.989 --> 00:41:28.110 humble and gentle at heart and you will find 00:41:28.110 --> 00:41:36.230 rest for your souls, your mind, your will, rest 00:41:36.230 --> 00:41:44.670 in your emotions. Amen. A source, God is our 00:41:44.670 --> 00:41:50.920 source. For our souls. For my yoke, verse 30, 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:54.420 for my yoke is easy to bear and the burden I 00:41:54.420 --> 00:41:59.000 give you is light. Just wanting us to place our 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:03.019 hands on it, right? It's his work. It's his power. 00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:07.659 It's his joy. It's his peace. It's his mind and 00:42:07.659 --> 00:42:14.730 not my confusion. Not my disillusionment. Not 00:42:14.730 --> 00:42:18.449 my reasoning. Not what some influencer told me 00:42:18.449 --> 00:42:23.289 online and so therefore I can do it. No. It's 00:42:23.289 --> 00:42:26.289 a reliance on his mind in every area of your 00:42:26.289 --> 00:42:30.130 life. This online worship experience was brought 00:42:30.130 --> 00:42:32.750 to you by the friends and partners of Elation 00:42:32.750 --> 00:42:32.949 Church.