Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Good morning. Good morning. How are you on this fine, fine, beautiful day? Hope you're having a great day today. I hope you are excited today because today is the day the Lord hath made. We'll be glad. We will. Rejoice in it. Rejoice in every single moment that you have under the sun in this cosmos, in this arrangement. Be thankful, be happy. Continually give God that sacrifice. Praise. Praise him and thank him.
[00:00:24] Last night we did a. I had to do a men's. We. Like, there's a men's fellowship or men's group that gets together and we go over the Word, and it just really, really blesses me. And I know I didn't think it would, but it totally does in the sense that it's so nice to be around men who are interested in actually learning the Word and applying it to their lives, because we go through a lot of stuff in life, you know, if you don't know how to renew and renovate your thoughts, if you don't use God's word as a sword to kind of as the. As the weapon to kind of clean your thoughts up, it's difficult. Life's difficult.
[00:01:00] And the reason why I've been going over this mind thing is because I just had somebody affect my mind in the sense that I started thinking about the future. And last night I was doing kind of work in the Word with them, and it was wild because it was reproving me the whole time. Like, live in the now, think about the now.
[00:01:22] So this morning I got up and I started reading about the imaginations of man's heart, how they're. They're evil and how that it. Just the way you judge and condemn yourself, like all these different things. So I want to go over that this morning. If you go to First Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 1, it says, Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful. But. But with me, it is a very small thing that I should be judged or examined of you, or by man's judgment, yea, I judge or examine not mine own self, for I know nothing by myself. Yet am I not hereby justified or set forth as righteous. But he that judges me is the Lord. Therefore judge or sentence not before the time until the Lord come.
[00:02:16] You're not to judge your own self. You're not to examine your own self. Now, Godly grief work of the change in your moral position. The more you do things the more you're going to, you know, you know that, you know that, you know that you probably shouldn't be doing it, let's say, or that there's, there's fruits that are happening that are good.
[00:02:34] The point is, is that God is working with you and you got to keep your mind straight on this stuff. You have to have the Word in your mind. You got to know the Word and put it in your mind. When you start to go through these things where maybe you're judging yourself, maybe you're examining yourself, maybe you're condemning yourself, if God doesn't condemn you, why are you condemning yourself?
[00:02:57] If you jump over to Romans chapter 1, verse 17, it says for it, well, I'll do verse 16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of, of Christ. For it is the power of the inherent power of God unto salvation from death to every one that believeth. To the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it is God's righteousness revealed from faith to faith. As it is written, the just shall live by faith or through faith.
[00:03:29] It doesn't say the just shall live through condemnation, the just shall live through law. That's not what it says. The righteous shall live by faith. And when you think about faith is having a firm. Well, it's specifically believing what you hear.
[00:03:44] And believing is having a firm conviction in what you hear.
[00:03:48] But the point is, is what do you think about during the day?
[00:03:52] Are you thinking about anxious thoughts and anxieties or are you thinking about God's word? And if you are having those anxious thoughts, what are you doing to renew and renovate your mind? Because God does not want us to live in fear.
[00:04:07] Perfect love casteth out fear. God is love because fear hath torment.
[00:04:12] The irony is, is that I live my life and I don't.
[00:04:16] I don't like condemn myself. And God's really cleaned up my actions throughout the years. But I don't live in a state of condemnation. But for some reason somebody will affect my mind and I'll start running on something in the future where God says not to live in the future betters the sight of the eyes and the wondering of the desire.
[00:04:35] Better is it that you look and you see and you live life now through the prism of your eyes right now than living in your mind about the wandering of the desire. You're not to think. Take thought for tomorrow. For tomorrow sufficient is the evil thereof. Today you're not to take thought for tomorrow. Tomorrow will take thought of things of itself.
[00:04:55] But do you live that way because the righteous, the just, shall live by faith, not by thought.
[00:05:03] You got to live by believing what the Word says.
[00:05:07] Now, I was going to keep going on where it talks about the way you judge others, the way you condemn yourself, like the whole thing. But the point is, like, capture your thoughts and bring them to Christ. Change your mind and don't allow your mind to run.
[00:05:20] You control your mind. It's not the other way around. God loves you. He chose you, summoned you, called you before the foundations of the world.
[00:05:29] We have a wonderful God and we live in a tremendous administration. Christ died in order that you don't have to live by law. You live through faith, believing specifically what you hear. Have a great day today. Pray the big prayers. Lift everything up in the name of Jesus Christ. When you pray, you pray to God, never to Jesus Christ. You pray to God, lifting it up in the name of Jesus Christ with that sacrifice of thanksgiving. He wants those supplications, those prayers of personal need. Have a great day today. God bless you and your family. Talk to you tomorrow.
[00:06:11] Well, Heavenly Father, thank you so much for today. And just for everything that's going on, I pray for just the steps that need to be taken, that everything gets done on time, specifically that sprinter, so we can get out of here early next week. I thank you again for the moments of my life, for the people you put in my life, for that men's fellowship. I'm very, very thankful for that group of guys that you take care of each and everything they're going through. And I pray for your believers today that you just bless them. And I'm very, very grateful for your word and the way you move, and for my family. And again, I pray for my brother's hand that it gets back to 100% in all ways. Father. And I just lift everything up to you in the name of my Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.
