 This couple together with a lying spirit, lying and delusion go together, and we're seeing that spirit that has been unleashed upon our planet, upon the nations of the world, leaders that are directly lying and those that are in places of authority, that after a while are found out to be speaking untruths, or as it is called today, misinformation or disinformation. But it seems like nothing happens after that. Well, I want you to know in the grand plan of God, delusion, deception, in fact from the very evil one himself, Satan, the deceiver, he will be dealt with and God will be justified in doing so, not only upon him, but upon his emissary, the Antichrist. And this delusion is connected to the Antichrist spirit in the last days. I believe the spirit of Antichrist is certainly all among us. But when you're looking at this delusion, what is it involved? What kind of activity can be taking place that proves to us that we're in a place of deception and delusion? Well, when there is the voices of the propaganda, media and others that are speaking about a false gender identity and how that if you don't use the right pronouns that somehow you need to be excised from the community or the pressure to affirm a transgendered individual. Or how about the misinformation that comes recently divulged that the social media platforms were literally suppressing other people's voices of free speech and truth that was supposed to be coming for. That's deception on a level that we've never seen before. How about AI, artificial intelligence? Ladies and gentlemen, we're watching that like a tsunami across our world that is bringing with it great delusion and great deception. And then there is the climate change subject of people that are exerting that what's happening in our world right now somehow has been done by man and that the climate needs to be protected somehow by man. The voices are saying it's better that man is not on this planet or that we depopulate and on and on these lies perpetuated are happening in our world today. How about government deception and delusion? Where whole departments in the federal government of the United States have been found to be deceptive in all of their ways and lying that is coming out now through the investigations that are taking place in Congress. And then there is the latest distraction and delusion that's taking place in the great discussion of UFOs and super spirituality that's taking place and how that even people are trying to put that into the Word of God. The mental confusion and the media confusion and deception is at an all time high. And the Bible says that it would happen like that in the last days that truth would be fallen in the streets. Now listen carefully to me. Delusion is not just a mind that is in confusion but in the realm of what we're speaking of here concerning the last days and the events that would take place that would confuse and deceive and dilute the minds of people by the masses. Delusion then can really be defined as a mind that is committed and addicted to a principle that is wrong, that is not biblical, that is not truth. And so with that in mind, I want to take you very quickly to Second Thessalonians that speaks specifically about this, about strong delusion taking place that God will send in the end times. The Bible says the coming of the lawless one, that's the Antichrist, is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, or lying wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perceiving or perishing, I should say, because they refuse to love. This is important. People refuse to love the truth so that they can be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion so that they might believe what is false and in order that they may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. This is a powerful statement. And I will assure you that while that great deception will take place when the Antichrist comes to this world, it is already pervading in our land right now. There is a preparation of a spirit of Antichrist that has us in a place of great delusion where you can speak to people today about what is true and yet their mind is so committed to the faults, addicted to the faults that you cannot persuade them. You can't have a conversation with them. They believe what they believe, that the moon is made of cheese or that the sky is green. I will tell you that the Word of God is true and it stands forever. And that's the reason why we must love the truth the Bible says in order for us to participate in these last days. We've got to embrace the truth like we never have before and love the truth so much that we propagate it to other people in spite of their rejection of it. Let me just give you a few things on today's message and we will pick this up again next week concerning delusion. First of all, strong delusion will take place, of course, during the time of the lawless one or the Antichrist rise to power according to 2 Thessalonians 2 and 8. Secondly, God actually allows this strong delusion. Why does he do that? Because people, according to the book of Thessalonians, people would actually continue in their false thinking their false ideas, their anti-God. We don't want God in our thoughts and our mind and in our memories whatsoever until God says, you can have it your way. Like Burger King says, you can have it your way. God says, you can have it your way. And he turns them over in the book of Romans to believe a lie, to be deluded, to come into a delusion that they are committed so much to the wrong, to the false, that speaking the truth to them doesn't even connect whatsoever. The third thing is that the strong delusion will also be during the time when many will rebel against God according to 2 Thessalonians 2 and 3. This is what it says. For that day will not come unless the rebellion or the apostasy falling away comes first and then the man of lawlessness or sin is revealed. The Antichrist will rise in power during a time when people are rebelling against God to such a degree that they say we don't want God in our thoughts and our mind, in our media, in our schools and our churches. Is that the time we're living in? I believe it truly is. And here's number four. People will be fooled during the time by Satan's power and false miracles taking place. We're in a time where people are believing anything and everything and with just a little bit of an AI, artificial intelligence tweak on a chat GPT, suddenly it becomes something that people embrace wholeheartedly and believe what their eyes are telling them. But the Bible is clear for every believer, every Christian. We walk by faith, not by sight. We are not controlled by our senses or what we feel. It is truth that should order our steps. This is so important for us concerning the fact that we're living in a time of great and strong delusion. This strong delusion that God sends in the last days is something that will serve as a part of God's overall judgment upon the earth, especially during the time of the Great Tribulation, the seven years of Tribulation under the administration of the Antichrist. But I submit to you today, my friends, that we are living in a period where people are under the influence of this strong delusion that we're speaking of and that the Bible speaks of would be pervading in the last days. I want to encourage you right now as we stop right here and I want you to make sure you're back with me next time for the Prophecy Files Briefing because we're going to take this subject up a little bit more and show you the progression of how delusion begins inside of our life until it is full-blown to a point at which a person is addicted, actually committed to believing a lie. It's so important that we embrace the Word of God today and that the Word of God finds its place inside of our heart, our mind and our spirit. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. That, my friend, is the only preventative away from a full-blown lie. Satan is the father of lies and today the only way to combat that, of course, is through the truth of God's Word and Jesus Christ who is true. I encourage you to be back with us again on Prophecy Files Briefing. Till then, remember Jesus Christ is coming soon. Hello, this is Pastor Joey Rogers and I want to give you a special invitation to join me for the upcoming Prophecy Files Conference. This Bible Prophecy Conference is going to be filled with information concerning the end times and how you can be prepared for the imminent return of Jesus Christ. This year, I'll welcome my special guest, Jeff Kinley, Pastor Shane Warren, William Federer, and keynote speaker, Pastor John Hage. I want you to join me for this year's Prophecy Files Conference. Registration is available online at paceassembly.org and lunch will be provided for a cost of $10. We look forward to seeing you right here at PACE Assembly on September the 16th and 17th for this year's Prophecy Files Conference. All right, good evening. How's everybody doing? Oh, come on now, let me hear you. How are you doing this evening? Hey, aren't you glad in a crazy world that we can stand on the promise of God that says that nothing can separate you and I from the love of God? Nothing. No, he even goes on further. He said, no, in all these things, we are more than conquerors in Christ who strengthens us. I'm not about to. That's bringing hope to my heart tonight. Amen. Will you stand with me? Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Let's just keep that posture of God's love for you. It's not that he so loved the world, he does, but he loves you. He loves you and he loves you. Let's make it personal tonight to the throne and ask for his mercy and grace to meet the needs. Father, we love you and we thank you that you hear and that you answer our prayers tonight, Lord. Your Word said that you will do it see it more over and above more than we can ask, think or imagine. And God, we're coming tonight with all the needs that are listed on this prayer and praise. God, there's folks needing to touch a healing tonight. They're watching online on TV. They need you right now, Jesus, to come through. We lost family members, Lord, that need salvation in this critical hour. Jesus, we need deliverance. God, we need to hear your Word more than ever before, God. We need your salvation saved to the utter most as what you came to do. God, it will be careful to give you all the praise for it tonight in Jesus' name. Amen. Come on, let's give it up for the Lord. He's in this place tonight. Cross the aisle, shake a hand, hug a neck, high five a brother or sister. Online guests, we're so honored that you would be with us on this evening. We counted a joy and a privilege that you would tune in on Wednesday night. We believe the same presence that here is also available via wherever you're watching. Let us know where that is. We'd love to know how we can pray for you. We do have someone that can chat with you online. So God bless you this evening for tuning in. Amen. Look to your neighbor and tell him they're looking good tonight. Come on. Now turn to your second choice and say you are too. Come on. We can have a little fun in the house of the Lord. As you're making your way to your seats, the announcement obviously don't want to miss prophecy files. Amen. Let's give it up for a pastor in prophecy files. I mean, we are a blessed people to be informed and to be up to date with all that's going on. And prophecies should always encourage our hearts to go and reach one more person for Jesus Christ. All right. It's not about getting fearful the end times. No, it's the revealing of Jesus Christ for the Christian. This is the most exciting time. But let it encourage our heart and strengthen our hearts to go and win one more person for Jesus this week. Amen. So make plans. That's going to happen September 16th and 17th. Amen. And who loves a joyful, cheerful giver? Hallelujah. Whose heart is in their giving. We have offering buckets in the back. You can also go online. There's a QR code and you can also mail it in. Hallelujah. Let's pray of the offering tonight. Lord, what a privilege it is to give into your kingdom and the work in this hour that you're doing. And God that we ask that you would just bless the gift and to give her a like. Lord, that you would seed it to meet the needs. Lord, God, and we thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen. Glad to be here tonight. So am I. I should take your Bibles and open up to the Book of Romans and some other passages in the Book of Ephesians chapter 4. I want to lead off with here tonight. Praise God. First of this evening. I just want to know is there anybody going to say it again. That's what I want to know. Alright, so I don't have to redraw my egg. I need to do that. Okay. So it's good to see you here all of you here tonight and those of you that are watching online. We're delighted that you're with us. And I believe that God is going to bless. You heard being say a few moments ago about the prophecy conference. If you haven't, we need you to register. Your information is free. So we need you to be able to do that please. Those of you here, those of you watching online. If you're planning on staying for lunch and having that at the cost is $10. And if you will please, we need you to register for that as soon as you possibly can. It's extremely important that we get your information so that we can be prepared. We will not be buying over and above you know to feed the $5,000. Even though the gospel bird will be served. We need you to register in order to get your own meal and we appreciate you doing that very, very much. It's going to be an exciting time. And I just want to mention to you also if you haven't put on your calendar for the upcoming, it's November it's a little ways off but it'll be here obviously before you know it for the upcoming Pace Family Fest. We've been working on that today. The staff and I have and it's going to be an exciting time. We are incorporating professional bull riders coming back in once again this year from Oklahoma and bringing in their bulls to ride full-blown rodeo going on out on the ball field along with a gigantic carnival. It's going to be a great time. Opportunity to invite your friends and neighbors to come and give them the witness. Give them an opportunity to recognize that this church is here and that they've got an opportunity to be able to come and it'll be a great, great time and in the middle of all that we're going to give them the gospel. Amen. And that's what's going to be good about it. Amen. So I want you to make plans. It's going to be great. We were talking with one of the folks we got some upcoming meetings for the rodeo folks that are going to be coming in and we're extremely excited but I'm telling you they're more excited than we are to participate in this. We want you to make sure that you're making plans to be able to be with us and invite other people to come. A couple of things one thing that I'll share with you that I just got a hold of if you, you know, one of the most difficult things to think for a citizen of the United States of America is to think that your government and leaders are actually fighting against what your American, what we call the American dream and all of that, actually fighting against it it's hard to wrap your mind around that especially been living, if you've been living for any period of time and you've come through administrations we know there's been corruption and all that kind of stuff. I mean I was watching as President Nixon was giving the peace sign and it was a horrible time, all that kind of thing but the unprecedented level of undermining of the values and the constitution in the United States and all that is at an incredibly all time high and when you when it actually gets in your face it's hard to deny it. From this point forward you just have to stick your head in the sand. So this article is a brand new report just came out just today that the Biden administration has literally gone out to Arizona and welded the doors that were put on the wall to prevent the immigrants from coming in and so forth and going into the right places that they need to they've literally gone and opened all of those doors on the Tucson, Arizona border and welded them open welded them open so in the past week every day of the week there's been more than 1400 folks coming across the border from all different countries the cartels were watching it when it was taking place and all of a sudden there is a new entryway and an influx into the United States of America hey there's one thing I know nobody's jumping the wall to get into Putin's Russia matter of fact if you didn't see it one thing you don't want to do is mess around with Mr. Putin because the Wager group that got together and tried to overthrow the government so forth suddenly the leader of that whole organization crashed in an airplane today and you just don't mess with all of that so nobody's jumping into these other borders but they are into America it tells me that America obviously still has something that people want to be able to have because they're coming to what is called a promise land that's the kind of thing that's going on but the problem we've got is that when you are lawless in doing this it only creates more lawlessness right let's just say it like this let's just say that every time you get up every morning and you drive through the stop sign on your way to work and you're consistently doing that you should expect because you're breaking the law and endangering other people not only them but yourself in the whole process you should expect the law to pull you over give you a ticket stop whatever and if you keep doing it take your license well what we have here is lawlessness that instead of the law stopping what's taking place the highest authority is saying we're going to well the door shut take the stop sign down and y'all do whatever you want to so I'm saying to you we need to pray for our leaders there's a lot that's going on there's a debate that's taking place tonight I don't know what in the world that's going to wind up being and it really doesn't seem to matter what does matter is is that if my people which are called by my name that's what must happen in the time that we're in right now and God will give us wisdom and know what to do but I'm amazed on a daily basis and that's the reason why you need to be in this prophecy files conference because you're going to hear things that you've never heard before from these speakers that it's going to challenge your life challenge your belief and it's going to take you into the word of God that's the one thing about the men that I have coming they're not coming here with blown up exploitation or speculation they are Bible men who are going to point you to the word of God as prophecy is being fulfilled so you can see line upon line on precept amen here's some good news for you redemption church are wonderful friends that we've had for a long long time Pastor Nick Hawkins and his wife and all of redemption church where Rob and Yvonne crumbly go to church in Spokane in medical lake your gifts are being given out there because every month we support convoy of hope and out of all the churches that they could have gone to redemption church is the church where convoy of hope is distributing thousands and thousands and thousands of pounds and supplies into a devastated area to God be the glory amen now on a different note and the fires just seem to be coming a friend of this ministry he and his wife used to be here at this church for a long time they went to Alaska to pastor and came back into the area and they're now pastoring down in the other end of our district at page pond assembly of God last night the page pond assembly of God older building not the one they're in right now but their children's center and all of that went up in flames and burned to the ground and so I called pastor Trent today and talked to him a little bit and assured him that we were praying for him and what could we do to be able to help him and they are moving forward and so forth and actually after his conversation it's pretty much a miracle in a lot of different ways that have taken place I won't be able to share it all with you but a point being is that they're alright they're having to move into a different location right now until the parsonage can be able to be found secure and the power be shut back on they have found this to be arson and about a year ago let me take that back there was a couple that he married some time ago and then they wound up getting divorced and this man started making threats long story short started making threats and he literally saw him last night running away from the building and they propose him to be the number one suspect who because he was mad at his ex-wife who was going to get married in front of the church for the oak tree this coming weekend decided to set the building on fire and burn it to the ground so with all of that in mind here's the way God works God takes the ashes and he makes something out of it so here's what's going on a few weeks ago and I don't think he'll mind me telling this a few weeks ago he came to see me and we sat down and talked a little bit and he was sharing some of the things that he's dealing with and trying to help get the church going where it needs to go had been through some difficult times and so last night when this fire was burning so out of control that the volunteer fire departments only rolled up on the scene and put water on the parsonage because the other building was gone already by the time they got there suddenly the community by the thousands showed up on the property of page pond assembly of God watch God they showed up there many of them were standing underneath that oak tree praying for the preservation of the church and the property many of them started testifying as he was telling me on the phone late this afternoon how that they grew up in this church they got married in this church they raised their children in the church they dedicated their babies in the church I said pastor Trent God has opened a wide door for you he started tearing up and he said pastor I just have to send you the pictures at one point someone captured a picture that standing up above the fire where it was there was the image of an angel without stretched hands protecting the parsonage the whole time it is so touch that community he said I have never seen the amount of cars that have passed by on this road there page pond is around the Port St. Joe area that particular area down there it's not somewhere that you're going to go to unless you're going to and their church is in a small community their church had gone down quite a bit and he was doing everything he could to build it up I said man you're not going to have to build it God is going to build his church and the fire of hill shall not prevail against it amen so I want you to pray for pastor Trent we're going to do that right now in the name of Jesus we thank you for your provision your protection your keeping power Lord you know all that was taking place the anger even in the heart of this man who set the fire and all that's taking place but Lord you are Romans 828 in that place right now you're turning it all around and making it good and for your glory so just strengthen my friends pastor Trent his wife that congregation you that you're making a way for them that insurances will come through like it needs to but more than that Lord let it start the fire of revival in that area that draws people back to the church Lord where Jesus Christ is being lifted up and we give you the glory for that tonight in Jesus mighty name everybody believes it say good amen amen so that's that story and for them I know God's going to make a way for them and they're going to have to push it all down some of the walls are still standing it's unsafe but God's got the plan God already knew it and watch what happens when the young man who has been accused of setting this fire and seems to be the number one suspect let's just watch what happens when God grabs a hold of his heart brings him to the altar of the church that he burnt down turns his life around come on somebody have you got your Bibles in Romans 12 we want to pick up the next part this one I can see will be part number 96 so y'all just take the ride with me I my goal is to be able to get the Word of God in your spirit more than trying to race through some subject because this one needs to take time it is the battleground of every day of our lives in the mind of the believer and in the unbeliever for that matter so the writer in Romans 12 says I beseech you therefore brother by the mercies of God and present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God this is so important for us to get a hold of let's look at verse 3 there for I say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you not to think of himself himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith flip over to the book of Ephesians real quick Ephesians chapter number 4 I want you to see something here and I believe the Lord has given me some things this evening that will be extremely important in addition to what you have already Ephesians chapter number 4 this is a powerful passage of scripture just make sure I'm in the right place I do believe I am yes so Ephesians chapter number 4 down in verse let's look at verse number 22 the Bible says that you put off put off, put it off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lust so what is the old man he's corrupt you can say it it'll be alright say corrupt it's corrupt so it is not holy it is not perfect there is no good thing that dwells in the flesh Paul says it is corrupt to the core because it was and is that that sinful nature that each one of us were born with now in verse 23 and you put off the old man and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that you put on so it's not enough just to put it off and get your mind changed but you must put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness then he goes into this list of things that we are to put off he gives some examples of things that are to be put off wherefore put away lying speak every man truth to his neighbor wow that should be put up in the intricate gate of Washington DC for we are members one of another that's a powerful statement right there what I need you to understand is that we are not a bunch of different Christians but because the same spirit that dwells in me as a believer dwells in you as a believer we are members one of another we make up the the completeness of Christ but what I need you to understand is is that you're not just a separate individual out here you're part of it because of what you believe you understand what I'm saying so he says put off lying verse 26 be angry and sin not let not the son go down upon your wrath neither give place to the devil let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labor working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have to give to him and he goes on and on about things that we should put off okay so with that in mind I'm just using that as a backdrop and that other passage of scripture in Romans as we pick up this subject let's get this once again in your spirit as far as what this definition is if you got the renewal of your mind that you got back here is it there it is that's what we want so look at this one more time I think it's on your paper the renewal of the mind involves a transformation of the way a person thinks and lives thinks and lives which can be achieved through the power of the Holy Spirit as we reflect on God's Word and I should have added into there as we keep our faith securely and exclusively in the cross of Jesus Christ so you can add that to that okay so with that in mind I want to add just another couple of components right here that I think will be extremely important for you because we have a free will God has created us to be a free moral agent a free will and I want you to understand what I'm about to tell you the power of choice is probably one of the most powerful things that God has given to us can choose to or choose not to now you may be you may not have the strength spiritually to be able to make the right choices that all the more reason why keeping your faith in the cross and being able to have the help of the Holy Spirit come alongside to sanctify you is the absolute necessity of the process of having your mind renewed but what you're dealing with what you're dealing with is on a daily basis you know obviously you're sitting in this building tonight you made a choice to come to Bible class and you made a choice that you want to hear the Word of God and we understand faith comes by hearing let me say it like this trust comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God so the more the Word of God you have the more you know about God the more you'll trust Him another definition of faith deals with and this is not something that oh just the sinner people deal with the saints deal with it in fact saints wind up struggling with sinners problems over and over again not to say you can't be an overcomer and victorious but here's the component between your victory and the old man and it's found in the location of your of your will the term is self so you have a free will to choose whether to serve God or not serve God and God will not twist your arm to do that but if you're going to serve the Lord and you've given your life to Jesus Christ let's just say it like this you might as well go all the way come on somebody because a lukewarm individual God said I'll spew you out of my mouth so you know I mean I'll say it like this since the days before that I stepped into the ministry I began to accumulate books and teaching and instruction video whatever that it may be to help me be better at what I do because this is what I do alright so as a Christian the last thing you want to do is say I'm saved and get up and walk away and not feed that spiritual man what he needs in order to give you the strength that you need are you with me now I want to put two other components in here and I'll pull them out so you can see them a little bit but one of them see look at me writing wrong here that right there thank God for an eraser God's got a big one come on somebody alright so in this location is your memory in this location is your I'm just going to put IMAG down there your imagination okay you have thousands of memory sensors that are found in your mind you have billions of imagination sensors found in your mind you have more imagination sensors than you do memory I want to make this statement don't let your memories immobilize your imagination in other words every one of us has got a past every one of us has got something that we're not proud of things that have hindered us obstacles difficulties and the devil loves you know the memory of your failures and your past and all of that you know that God is not going to take away your memory if he took away your memory you wouldn't have the good things that God has done in your life to reflect upon so he's not going to take it away Lord just take it away you know it's like the person who walked him off and said I want you to pray for me that God will take this sexual desire out of my life I said hold it Robert I don't think you want me to pray that prayer all right I don't want him to take my memories away I need to be able to make sure that I'm not living my life based on my past when I have built notice what God did God did this y'all he didn't put more sensors in your memory than he did in your imagination which deals with your future so God is saying I don't want you to render by your past I want you to reflect on it so that you can be able to glean and learn from it how many of you know if you mess up and you got a memory of it you go hey I won't do that again right okay I will not put my hand on the stove again because it was like hot right my imagination in my mind is a powerful thing notice what the Bible says and this is where we are in society pulling down the strongholds and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of bringing into captivity every thought the imagination bringing it what subject to the obedience of Christ so remember there is the spirit of your mind which is strong because self is always involved in it are you with me and then there is the mind of the spirit that once you get saved old things pass away and behold all things become brand new I'm not if you're struggling with sin you're struggling with the wrong thing Jesus has handled sin and he's also handled every obstacle and every temptation that you and I will ever face what are we dealing with we're not dealing with the struggle over sin well pastor I sinned and I did this and I did that the propensity of that old man is always default back there but that's the reason why you're in this class tonight so that your mind can get renewed and you can put off the old man because it is not reflective of this now what have I got to do I've got to get this in obedience to the mind of the spirit which takes the renewing of my mind to be able to make that take place are you with me here tonight so this is a powerful thing that we're dealing with this is not on your paper this is fresh right out of the cooker so I'm going to give you a few things before I give you something to write is that alright last night last week we got all of two things done right okay so the first part of your life as a believer starts with repentance everybody say repentance repentance is the first step in a person's life to do what what does repentance do it agrees with God about who God is and your sin you believe lord I'm a sinner and you're the only one that can save me now watch how self comes out in this thing because even when truth even if I try to teach you the renewing of your mind self is going to do everything he can will is a strong thing alright I watched it happen in little Henry tonight before service Rita needed to comb his hair she said come here come over here how old is he three he's four he's four he's four year old four years old all of us came here the same way we you didn't come here obeying your parents did you you came here like Adam and Eve running into the bushes because you knew that you reached your hand in the candy jar okay this is part of who we are so self has always got to be dealt with and self will has always got to be dealt with the only way you're going to do that is first to be repentant before God and agree with him about what he said in his word about who I am now before some of you in this building and those of you watching right now get all caught up in a secular humanist mind well I like my self esteem I want my image my self image to be good let me tell you something the only way you can have a good self esteem and a good self image is to know who you are in the identity of Christ Jesus everything else is from the pit of hell you better hear what I'm telling you let me unfold this a little bit here for you tonight because repentance is the first what is repentance? Repentance is a change of mind re-return penance it means God said when you repent I'm going to return you back to where you were before Adam sin to the highest level the highest pinnacle that you could ever be repentance a change of heart a change of mind all of this is part of it and the Holy Spirit has to bring about repentance through conviction conviction is a good thing condemnation is a bad thing this is the mind of man now watch this I'm about to give you something this is what the mind of man does and acts like outside of Christ's mind before we got saved now if you see these things rising up inside of your own life then you need to I'll explain what you need to do so get this here we go sin enters the Bible says now watch this this happens every day sin enters through the mind 2nd Corinthians 11 man's mind is corrupted then by sin 1st Timothy 6.5 man's mind is blinded by the God of this world if you just saw that prophecy files I've been dealing with see it next week and probably the following week about delusion delusion we are in a time of great delusion in fact God said he would send delusion upon the people's minds in the last day delusion is not just and when I've Googled it everything that delusion was for an example in definition all came up as some kind of mental disorder or mental incapacity or confusion while the world wants to explain it like that I want you to understand the depth of the explanation and definition comes from God and what is that it is that delusion is a person who is not just confused in their mind but when they are confronted with the truth they are committed and literally addicted to their wrong principled thought so much so that even confronted with truth you know what one of the latest things it is going on right now is that the earth is flat apparently there's some of you out here that think that the Bible answers the question the Bible lets us know that earth is a sphere the Bible already tells us that the earth is round that's where Columbus got the whole idea to start with from the Bible man I might need to run out of here and teach to a different church here tonight did y'all understand that you should read that in the Bible on the footnote I'll go on so watch this some of y'all don't even believe it in the face of truth you're so committed to your own thoughts cause what did I preach to you this past weekend what's the word amen mean so be it okay I want you to know I didn't just tell you what Joey found out night before last that the earth is round I just told you that the Bible says that the earth is round and a Pluto Saturn is round why in the world would you have a flat minded thought that somehow the earth is flat now why is that so important that I'm talking to you why am I driving that because I had no idea I was gonna say any of that I'll tell you why because we have been so infused with a secular mind out there that is against God that even the things that might seem oh I'm gonna investigate this you know the biggest thing too is UFOs right well Pastor where's the UFOs in the Bible there's gotta be some UFOs there's gotta be some big-headed, scrawny-looking people in the Bible somehow that float down on a the mentality of this world out here is humanism and the acquisition of knowledge and God said that he is God man I feel like preaching now God is going to bring the wisdom of the wise to not when it's all said and done so stop playing with me Washington if you found some UFOs and you found some alien beings yank them out and put them on the screen otherwise quit trying to distract people from something that possibly will be the explanation of the rapture of the church so that they've got an explanation through their own human wisdom and reasoning let me go on man's mind is hardened through pride Daniel says man's is lifted up in the vanity of his mind the emptiness of his mind man's mind is after the things of the flesh I'm trying to tell you what it looks like before you got say before you got say mind the mind of man is is alienated from God because of the wicked works of the mind man's mind and conscience is defiled by sin the conscience is not the Holy Spirit y'all I don't have time to explain that right now man's mind outside of Christ only minds earthly things the carnal mind is enmity the Bible says in Romans 8 it's an enemy against God that's the reason why you have a struggle this guy right here does not want to submit himself in any way man thinks that he somehow in his mind is superior to God ladies and gentlemen what's happening with A.I we're going to recreate and redesign humanity and make it better than what God can make it that we don't even believe in God we'll be gods where have I heard that before Satan said I will I will I will I will are you hearing what I'm saying so this is the same state of man's mind since the fall so the Bible says in Matthew that when you come to the Lord there is the fruit of repentance that should take place what does that look like it's godly sorrow for your sins it is confession of your sin and all this I've got scriptural reference I don't have time to get all that on you I didn't put it on the paper maybe I will next week forsaking your sin hatred of sin all of that is part of the renewal that's taking place now that doesn't happen it happens at salvation but it is a progressive thing because just like you and I in this world let's pray to God that folks around you took a bath because whether you like it or not you're going to get some dirt on you every day just because you walked around somewhere right how did that get up my nose I'll tell you why I'm working in this area and breathing it in your nose so what happens the mind has to have a change there's a change that takes place at repentance there's a change that should show up as fruits of true repentance and then there is the need then of faith towards God in his word that brings us to a place where we start changing our mind about the way things are the old mind and begin to embrace what is the mind of the spirit the mind of Christ let this mind be in you the assumption is the first word let is to allow it is to open the door up and you have the opportunity to do that or you can keep your mind closed toward the things of God so let this mind be in you well how am I going to do that by the reading of God's word preaching and preaching of God's word and it builds faith faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God but now watch this the cut right across the philosophy of self-belief which is listen to me self-preservation is the number one desire of self inside of your life and mind are you hearing me what does that mean self like this anything the mind of man can believe the mind of man can achieve right that's the philosophy of the day but that is completely contrary to the faith that we have in God and watch what Jesus said this is the only religion and only leader that ever says this all the others are self-indulgent self-aggrandizement all of it Jesus is the only one who said deny self and do what take up your cross and follow me the denial of self is the denial of your desires to satisfy and gratify self and say Lord not my will but thine be done this this process is going on in our heads every day of the week in the middle of the night are y'all hearing what I'm saying this is important for you to get a hold of because because the renewing of the mind requires us to deny self constantly because self is always trying to get up and control it are you hearing what I'm saying the secular humanist philosophy says have faith in yourself God's Word says have faith in God what was the mantra that we heard throughout COVID trust the science now I went through this some of you heard it some of you didn't I mean I had a download in the office one day and if I ever have a whiteboard in front of me and a download it's gonna get out there and I've got a picture of what I wrote down there in a few moments as God began to just dump this on me because the definition of science is knowledge so what did Adam and Eve what was the temptation Jesus God says you can eat of every tree in the garden isn't it amazing when you can say I can you can have this whole buffet but don't touch this one thing and what do we do come on somebody and anybody who sits in this building or watches online and go it's not me I'm telling you I'm I've got control no you don't the only control you have is a life crucified by Christ nevertheless Paul said I live yet not I but it's Christ who lives in me and the life I live now I don't live in the flesh in my own self but I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me are you hearing what I'm saying how important that it is because the renewing of your mind because you are impulse with stuff every day the media the medium is coming at you constantly to get you to choose in your own mind what you want to do what you want to be from toothpaste to cars to everything else I turn I was watching a commercial last night she don't even know that I was doing this we were sitting there and I turned the I'm notorious I don't care about the commercial every time so I muted this commercial and it was for some drugs some medication and when I looked at the commercial without all the words and the music and the you know butterflies flying and all that kind of stuff I read the caption I had the caption on I read the caption and by the time they told me what that drug did it had nothing to do with what my eyes were seeing and if it listen if you were just to take it on on face value without all the fluff you would have said oh no I'll never take that that stuff will kill me but because we're not listening to the side effects might be your nose falls off your eyes bleed on and on and on and you're going whoa whoa wait a minute this sounds like arsenic to me are you trying to kill me I told you the other day I was amazed they had this one drug that said you know it will do this but it only works up to 40% but if you take this one it works up to 60% so now I'm taking that one in this one and I'm not even at 100% leave me alone and let me die in my misery why is that because the sensors are lying to us come on somebody that's the reason why this word will lead you come on now he will lead you and guide you into not some truth not 40% truth or 60% truth he's gonna lead you into all truth now if you listen to the voices and you listen to people around even Christians that have got their own castle and domain of how they've worked it all out you know pastor what they really need is some counseling for me to say I had to take some counseling courses you know preparing for the ministry and by the time it was all said and done I had to throw the book away because nothing they said was working okay and I can appreciate counseling but let me just tell you something as I was growing up we didn't have a lot of counseling first of all any counseling mom and daddy did was me in a plum tree switch and it got my mind right well then that's the reason why you're all messed up well I'm up here teaching you so don't talk too much anyway side note but I'm just gonna tell you we didn't have and we didn't know a lot of the and part of that is because we didn't have as many distractions back then come on somebody we didn't have as many restaurants in fact we didn't go to restaurants we actually cooked at the house I know that that right there raises up a self will in you right now but I want you to know that's why ovens and stoves were created and watch this I'm gonna help you out now watch me right now the oven and stove does not have a gender preference who's working at it so whoever can do it let me get back so what's happening here we are fighting self and what does this world offer it offers nothing but a secular self a grandisement religion it is a religion and it pumps self so that you're supposed to feel good about yourself and what has the churches embraced and pastors they've embraced that entire secular humanistic mindset because to deny self and change my mind about the way I feel I'm denying me well I'm sorry but that's what Jesus requires of us to do and you're not gonna like this this one will flow in your face too but I just want to let you know something me pastor you hurt me when you say these things I'm sorry I meant to kill you Jesus didn't say for you to keep a little bit of you alive so that you could have a good self-esteem he said the only way you're gonna know who you are is to deny you take me up and when you do that the whole world changes come on somebody because I know you think you're in love with them but you can't love them without the love of God coming up from the innermost being because there's gonna be days you don't even like them I don't know when I'll get you to something to write down but the Greeks say be wise and know yourself the Romans say be strong and discipline yourself religion says be good and conform yourself Epicurean say be sensuous and enjoy yourself education says be resourceful and expand yourself philosophy says be confident and assert yourself materialism says be satisfied and please yourself pride says be superior and promote yourself humanism says be capable and believe in yourself legalism says be pious and limit yourself philanthropy says be generous and release yourself and then pat yourself on the back for doing it Jesus said deny yourself deny yourself and then you'll find yourself that's a daily activity because what is God doing he's trying to get this mind of this lowly earthly thinking transformed the word transformed that we've read about in Romans 12 is the term metamorphosis it is what happens when you watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly though they are connected in the cocoon they are not even the same and operate one crawls around on the leaf and eats the leaf the other one flies around in the freedom of the sky because there has been a complete change God help me right now there has been a complete change there's nothing that looks like the same the worm has turned into a butterfly there's so much preach right there goes into the cocoon and stays there as a newborn butterfly shedding what it was the worm dies and the new life emerges out of that and every one of those wings of those butterflies are different than the other one that flew out of the last cocoon are you hearing what I'm saying if the worm did not deny itself it would never be the butterfly that God created it and watch this put inside of the worm to be pastor how can I be everything that God wants me to be deny yourself I'm not talking about flog yourself I'm not talking about beating yourself down I'm talking about having relationship with Jesus that you see his mind superior to your thoughts because the thoughts and the word that he's thinking is the plan for my life that I did not know as a worm but now as I'm emerging out of this cocoon I'm coming into a brand new life in Jesus Christ why do we need this teaching why do we need to renew our mind because we live in a narcissistic thing am I boring you watch what's happening in our world what was the latest movement the Me Too movement now I'm amazed that thousands and tens of thousands of little girls can be trafficked all over the United States and through the southern border and the Me Too movement is nowhere to be found I'm amazed that these organizations like Intifa and everybody else is nowhere on the map why because it's all about them it's not about trying to correct something or get society better their principles are Marxist communist mentalities that are directly against God and his word it is humanistic Karl Marx philosophy y'all better hear this preacher tonight because we are being steeped in it right now where man is elevating his own mind and his own thoughts to that above God it is satanic it is narcissistic and the generation will die as it gazes into the mirror every day of its life looking at only itself instead of others why can't we get people working today because nobody thinks about that they thinking about themselves and what do you see now I'm just telling you all of self rose up in me yesterday as I'm driving down the road trying to get to the destination I need to be and the car in front of me the lady in front of me had her phone up right here and was texting while trying to drive shifting all over the road now if you're in this building and I was too close on you there was a reason I did not listen to Christ I was listening to self because I was right up on the back end Lord forgive me for writing self preservation is actually a killer and the devil knows it are you hearing what I'm saying so now that you got all that I got all that out not all of it but there's more y'all alright out there being transformed in this way believers can discern what is good acceptable and perfect according to God's standard that's Romans chapter 12 now we got this to you last week we're back to number one you will not survive the battle for your soul remember this is the soulish realm and God willing next week I'll have a handout for you so that you can see all the activities you're going to know people are listen how many of you have heard that COVID is coming back if you haven't it's already on the path and boy we're ready with needles in hand what does that do just the injection of that into the minds of people fear now what does the Bible say that God has done with fear fear not God has not given me the spirit it's the spirit and who's using it Satan through who human beings who are pushing what? self, knowledge and the science pastor listen to me don't talk to me about that this book right here is the greatest science manual you have ever read in your life it contains all it contains all the periodic scale all of the chemical mixes everything it's all found in creation everything about it is all right here I don't care if it's science I don't care if it's how to deal with your family domestic whatever that it may financial manual it's all right here so what's the point the point is is that if we don't understand that the mind is in need of a renewal when you get saved and you keep still thinking with stinking thinking and you need to check up from the neck up then the only way that can happen in this building right now and daily taking up the Word of God and renewing your mind because the push every day is on through every medium that there is to change your mind about whatever that it may be I don't even listen to the major networks anymore if I need to find the news I just go find the news and figure it out and then I'll do two or three tests to find out is this legit or not come on somebody because what we're being fed is what they want you to know and it is directly against God are you hearing what I'm saying so with that in mind you'll not survive the battle for your soul without a transformed mind and we said to you last week that living an overcoming life as a believer depends on a transformed mind remember the transformed mind the transformation is metamorphosis so nothing that is of the old man nothing of the old way of thinking can be brought into the Christ mind of thinking and be able to function I want you to understand that it's a total renewal well pastor God gave me a mind to think with I'm not talking about he gave you a mind I'm not talking about he doesn't implant thoughts and ideas and creative ideas he put all that inside of us I'm talking about the conflict that takes place between the philosophies of man and Satan and the world and the flesh and God's mind the mind of Christ are you hearing what I'm saying so you must be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you can prove that's the goal to prove what is good acceptable and the perfect will of God so what the Bible says in Romans chapter number 12 be not conformed do not be put into the mold of this world the word world there deals with not just the cosmos it deals with the world system of thinking do not be put into the world's thinking don't allow your mind to be put into a box of the world's system thinking but be transformed metamorphosis by the renewing of your mind that means at the root of any transformation the root of any transformation starts then in the renewing of your mind you want to learn something it starts in your mind it is with the mind that we serve the Lord how do I know how to serve the Lord well Paul said I wouldn't know what sin was unless the law taught me what that was so the word of God gives me what is right and gives me what is wrong and then gives me the answer I want you to understand that some of you are reading the Bible and you're thinking why is it when I read the Bible that it continually feels like that it's targeting my sin and putting a spotlight on it that's what it's meant to do the word the law is the school master that brings us to Christ and no listen to me he doesn't the word doesn't direct you to some idea the word doesn't give you the renewing of your mind so that you can choose a multiple choice the word is so so transforming that it collects all of your ideas and all of that and brings it into this zone and then there's only one door to get out of the escape zone are you hearing what I'm saying why is that because we will choose the other door every time we'll always choose the door against Christ because that's that sin nature on the inside of us pastor it sounds like to me that you're saying that every one of us are just a bunch of heathens okay my heathen rose up yesterday on the tail end of that car alright alright but this is what we do then my heathen and your heathen are two different heathens and by the way yours is worse than mine and paul said it is unwise to compare yourself with others but you've got to realize that God is working on you and everybody in this building and those of you watching are on different levels of walks with walking with the Lord now you can stop wherever you want to but you're only denying what God has in store for those who left him did you hear what I said people all talking about I wish I knew what heaven was I wish I knew where heaven was I wish I knew this and that and the other can I tell you if you'll just read this book you'll find out that there's a place that's got streets of gold gates of pearl walls of jasper that is the throne of the almighty God a rainbow over his head a lake that is in front of him that is a pure glass that will be a city that's 1500 miles square I don't have to guess about all that that is a renewing of my mind pastor how did you know that I just read it in the book and guess what this book is not sealed up with a lock on it and saying only the priest can read it you too can open up the word of God and on a daily basis find out who God is your plan is for your life and walk in total victory because of what Christ has done on the cross y'all with me so transforming your life begins with the renewing of your mind you folks just got saved and started coming to church here and thank God you sit on the front row the heathens started on the front row but then they heathenize himself all the way back y'all stay right here until your mind gets renewed how y'all doing in the back back there how them cheap seats oh they're alive and well praise God my God I want to be the first one on the bus and I will always take the front seat always if the driver moves I will get in his seat and drive the bus why am I saying that because your desire for the things of God the renewing of your mind desire for the things how many of you ever read the Word of God and it was like it was like salt that made you want to get more come on you can never be accused of overeating in the Word of God how's that for a diet plan come on somebody whoa hold on whoa man hold up my mind can only comprehend so much pastor oh that's why you're taking six glasses at college and you spend all day there and then you spend the night working on a paper God help the desire of our heart to be such that we hunger and thirst after righteousness that we shall be filled come on say amen somebody so there has to be when we read in Ephesians chapter 4 he said first of all when you come to the Lord you're going to need to get ready to start putting some things off when you get saved there's some things you were doing that needs to be gone it will conflict well pastor can I keep it you can but it will kill you you can keep thinking it but it will always drive you away you better hear what I'm telling you because people have been talked out of church because they never got in deep enough you're like the little kid who fell asleep at night in his bed and fell out on the floor and he said mama mama come again she comes in picks him up gently puts him back up under the covers covers him up it'll be alright next night falls out of mama mama fell out of the bed this went on for two or three nights finally the little kid asked mama mama why am I falling out of the bed so much she said it's simple son you never got far enough in some of you are not far enough let me get my old rugged feet down here some of y'all have not got far enough in you got just enough Jesus to get some fire insurance to get you to heaven but you don't have enough watch what I'm telling you you don't have enough to be able to turn around to somebody else and lead them to Christ you got just enough food on the plate for you ladies and gentlemen the whole point of renewing your mind is so that you can reach a hand to somebody else who does not know the Lord and you can talk to them about Jesus and bring them into the kingdom are y'all with me there has to be some cleaning out before you can go forward so let me say it like this in transformation or we might want to call it sanctification sanctified if you raise in the church of God your testimony on Sunday night went like this I'm say sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost now the reason why the church of God split off the assembly of God is because we were not sanctified enough come on somebody you know what I'm talking about we are more holy than you well let me just tell you something there's not a day that goes by that if you'll give yourself to Christ that he will sanctify it always starts in the mind so what's he going to do he's telling you put this off you don't need this anymore see ladies and gentlemen you're running a race as a believer and let me just give you let me give you the late breaking news you're the last runners in this race the race is about to be called you're the last runners and they always say the fastest runners for last so I can't afford to be dragging your junk their junk my junk from my past and be able to win the race I'll wear out and fall down before I get to the finish line makes no difference that a hundred people win across a finish line I don't have to be first I just have to finish I just need to finish come on does somebody want to finish how about let's finish strong come on with that right there instead of a weakling across that so what does he say let us lay aside every weight and all the stuff that is blasting our minds every day of our life that's weighing us down that's what Facebook does you look on there 15 minutes later you got their problem their problem their problem next thing you know you've taken up their offense I love how you're looking at me right now taking up all their offenses now you're mad at them because they're mad at them because they're my friend and I like them and here's some scripture for you to wear them out with I love them scripture Toten six gun Christians let me put one in let's kill him come on now are you talk to me somebody you understand what I'm saying here you got to lay aside the weights well pastor it ain't a sin he said lay aside the weight because if you don't lay aside the weight it has the potential to become sinful everything's not sinful and everything doesn't help me run the race when I was practicing I tied the ankle weights around me so that it gave me some strength in my legs when I got ready to run the race I took the ankle weights off so I could run the race do you know they buy special clothes for all this stuff for runners do you realize they buy all kinds of special clothes like clothes that's supposed to mentally make you feel like you're flash here's the problem first of all you should get some that fit you because I'm on my way here and they're running around Spencer field and I'm going you ain't gonna make it I'm just telling you I've watched them you don't start out running and go like six miles well how do you know pastor because I try you know you had an exercise for ten years and then you climb today I'm gonna do four miles after a half a mile you're already hacking and coughing and giving me something to drink because you build up to it come on somebody you build up to it you build up to it I would not walk into into the gym and reaching grab 450 pounds look at me ain't happening is it I didn't need that I didn't help my self esteem you got things to deal with things that are messing with your mind every day you're carrying people's problems that you need to shed did you hear what I said you're carrying people's problems and one of the things that people love to do is dump on you but they don't want an answer now I saw my counseling a little while ago I'm telling you 90% of counseling is basically sitting and listening to somebody and if then you get an opportunity to give them some advice large percentage of the time people don't take it how do you know because I've been doing this for a long time I love everybody I want to help everybody but if I listen to me any counsel I give to you in my office or anywhere else is going to be the same thing that I say right out here at this pulpit from the Word of God I don't have anything else well pastor it didn't work and no it's not working because you haven't disciplined self Paul said this exercise of the flesh it profits a little you got to exercise the spirit on the inside of you to get built up anybody get anything out of this I sure am it's really relieving some pressure off of my chest so transformation then is a metamorphosis it takes time for that process I wouldn't mind being a Christian being on display if I was finished but you know what the problem is God is using me while he's changing me looky here come on y'all I'm preaching in tennis shoes tonight you got cuts on both of my feet and I got to stand up here and teach y'all and normally I would not I wear tennis shoes with the kids I have no problem but that's not I went to the hospital and visited yesterday and I'm wearing my tennis shoes and trying to walk in the door that ain't me but you know what God will put you in some places two days ago Monday after Sunday when I needed some encouragement to still keep pastoring this church I came into my daily devotion that I read I read about three of them every day and I've got one that's right there and the headline of the devotion said when you feel out of control hmm okay I start reading it to find out that the scripture is telling me exactly what I'm telling you tonight because what we want to do is control it and the Lord is saying you need to turn that control over to me and don't worry about your reputation if you'll take care of your character God will take care of your reputation because it's not always going to be that everybody's going to applaud you and say what a great guy you are as a matter of fact when you put your foot down and say you know what I'm for this but I'm not for that because God said this I don't have to get in and argument with somebody I am an ambassador at the embassy of the kingdom I represent these are not my words these are the words of the king if you're an ambassador of the United States you don't go over there making policy and you don't tell them what you think and the way things ought to be what you do is you say my government and my constitution said this that's all you got to do but if you don't have this mind this constitution in your mind you're scrambling like everybody else to try to come up with answers human thinking and self are you hearing what I'm saying so now when you start getting rid of old things I conclude here tonight obviously you're going to have to keep that paper in your hand when you start to get rid of old things let me go ahead and pop this in the head this is like whack-a-mole night and I just felt this I just felt this mold jump up out of the ground so I'm faking it wacky here it is pastor I ain't no kid no more I am now of age I am grown I don't have problems like that anymore every person in the scripture males who committed sexual immorality did so after 50 I want to say to you I don't care how old you are age does not constitute maturity in the word of God look at Abraham all up in age going she my wife she's my sister come on somebody how many of you know that was a fleshly idea even the king look back at him and go what are you trying to do to me telling me that that's your sister aren't you glad God didn't sanitize this book so we can relate to the people that went through the same struggles that you and I are doing every day and we find out you know what Abraham here he is the father of many nations are you kidding me he went through all that struggle just to show us you can be an overcomer too if you'll choose the ways of God hold it Abraham did not do it based upon his works the Bible says clearly Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness sake so before you want to say all that faith stuff is all about the New Testament you need to recognize that the first one Abraham was setting the course of faith for all of us and if it took faith for Abraham it's going to take it for us and we just need to make the choice because when you start getting rid of old things some old things that you have to be delivered from in order to have a renewed mind or things or habits that have been ingrained in you and based upon the environment that you've lived in or whatever that it may be or what maybe you were exposed to or what happened to you but that's the reason why I started out this message tonight by telling you about memory and imagination because we're finding out more and more that so many people have been abused in their earlier life and it's so ingrained I was talking to somebody the other day and it was so it was like it happened yesterday and I get it I don't understand it you know that wasn't me contrary to all of my rhetoric around here about my father getting a plum tree switch and whipping me it was good for me come on David said it was good for me that I was afflicted for now I know how to live so the Lord sent my father to afflict me a little bit and that wasn't a bad thing it's a good thing what's the point the memories will play on you and if you're not listening very carefully I'm about to close right here if you're not careful the enemy Satan will want to leave you in a victim mentality as if God cannot give you a fresh start and a new beginning regardless of what has happened in your life and self will affirm that feeling so much that people will say I'm a victim all the time but I came to tell you Jesus didn't come to save you to leave you to be a victim of whatever happened in your life if you're in this building or watching right now and maybe you're abused as a child or maybe even as an adult I want you to know tonight when he cleanses with his precious blood he takes it and can wipe it out of your mind right out of your spirit and he can make old things become brand new or pastor you know I got such hatred for them and all that listen to me God will take that and mold it in through the transformation of your life that's what he's doing right now he's transforming every one of us and what is God going to do he's going to make something beautiful telling other people about what happened and it sets them free or you might not say anything at all but God has healed me to such a degree that I'm not dragging it into the next relationships that I have or my reflection of who God is because my daddy beat me or whatever it is because all we know of God is our earthly father but ladies and gentlemen if we turn our affection toward home and say wait a minute God that he's making me brand new old things can pass away and you know what God will do for you he'll start putting things in your imagination let's call it vision let's call it dreams oh my God I feel I've tapped into something right here let me just say something to you have any of you in this building any of you watching online have you ever felt God dream that is yet to take place let me see your hand come on let me see your hand let me see your hand hold it up real high then let me tell you something you didn't get that in there God put it in you you can't see it it's out in the future you've got an imagination of it when I came to this church you know what I imagined the house being full I look out here Sunday morning this past weekend the house is full people are worshiping God it's a dream and a vision into you just to frustrate you he puts it in your imagination so you'll keep running the race and laying aside all the weights that beset you to achieve what God has in store for your life come on and get up on your feet and let's glorify the Lord Father thank you for the dream that you give to me today renew my mind let me get a fresh vision of what you want inside of my life don't let me hang out in the cocoon forever would you just birth something brand new inside of my life to such a degree God that it's like I can taste it and touch it a brand new life a brand new marriage a brand new home brand new children come on somebody something that God has oh he's not talking about just creating something new he's going to take what you got in your hand and when he puts his hand on it it's going to transform it to what God wants it to always have been somebody will lift your hand and thank God right now that he's transforming you he's transforming you Lord I lay aside myself I lay aside my ideas my thoughts and I take up your thoughts and help me to be obedient Holy Spirit come alongside me and help my will to be conformed to your will Almighty God I give you glory for it right now thank you for the vision and the dream that you put inside of me I see those kids getting saved I see my spouse getting saved I see them being healed I see them in the future somebody said you look better in the future than you have in your past I want you to know if God has stopped in your life it's only because you stop get up and keep running again God's got more waiting on you but he's waiting for you to open the door and walk through it open the door and walk through it Pastor I don't know if I can do it sure you can take a step of faith tonight boy I don't know who I'm prophesying to in this building but there's something that's been stuck inside of your spirit that you've yet to see keep walking it out I say keep walking it out don't let the naysayers don't let the dream killers talking your ear that it'll never happen the devil is a liar and so are they get your mind renewed in the spirit of God if you see your business increasing if you see your family increasing the blessing of the Lord I don't care what the world is doing out there if God before you who can be against you you believe that tonight say a good amen Father I thank you for this wonderful congregation and those that are watching right now I believe tonight Lord Jesus that you are birthing something inside of some people here they may have to carry the baby of that seed for a little while they may have to they may have to nurse it they may have to feed it they may have to weed it they may have to go through some struggle places but Lord I prophesy in Jesus name tonight that you will bring to pass what you said about them as sure as you told Jeremiah I'm thinking a thought about you that you have no idea it's a good thought and I have an expected end I speak that over this congregation and those that are watching tonight bring us to the expected end your expected end and I give you glory for it right now in Jesus name you receive this word tonight church amen shake hands and be friends with somebody don't miss Sunday and whatever you do throughout the rest of this week say it again church say it again thank you for worshiping with us today and we pray that God has touched your life in a powerful way if you've given your life to Jesus Christ or you're feeling the tug in your heart to do so why don't you surrender to the Lord today ask him to come into your heart forgive you of your sins he'll do exactly that when you place your faith in what he's done at the cross and then we want to hear from you but you send an email in your life let us know where you're watching from we'd love to connect with you and I believe that God is going to touch your life and bless you in the days that are ahead if you count Pace Assembly as your regular church of worship then we certainly want to be able to hear from you there's information on the screen that you can send your email to and we look forward for you being a part of every service right here at Pace Assembly every Sunday and every Wednesday and special services throughout the year God bless you for joining us today Father I pray that you would touch the life of my friend that today they would never be the same that your presence would surround their life and peace would be their highest blessing we give you praise for it today in Jesus name Amen God bless you friends and until we get together again remember Jesus Christ is coming soon