 just having confusion of the mind but they are actually committed and addicted to the principle that is wrong to the thought to the mindset of the false or the lie. We shared with you some things last week concerning strong delusion taking place during the time of the Antichrist rise and that God would allow that to take place upon people who would not believe the truth and that that strong delusion would come when people are rebelling against God and those that would be people who will be fooled during the time of this delusion by the false miracles and false wonders that the Antichrist and Satan himself would bring and we're seeing that perpetuate itself even now preparing the way for the kingdom or the government of the Antichrist but I want to show you today about the delusion that is increasing and how it actually starts in the life of an individual and I don't care if you're a Christian or not you need to understand that the love of truth is what causes you to be made free by the fact that you will trust and believe what Jesus Christ said and who he is. Here's how it starts Satan is the master deceiver the Bible says he uses deception in the last days Jesus said Matthew 24 that the sign would be deception he said to his disciples take heed that you be not deceived how does that start well it starts by the deceiver Satan darkening the minds of people 2nd Corinthians 4 and 4 says that the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they cannot see the light of the glorious gospel this blindness is not necessarily a physical blindness but more so the spiritual blindness when Satan keeps the lights off the other night at my home we were my wife and I were there in the living room and suddenly the complete power went out for a period of time it was darkness all around us we waited for about two minutes and then the lights came back on it's the same thing we find a whole generation groping in the darkness and the only light that can come is when a believer will turn the light on and that light is none other than Jesus Christ he said he is the light of the world so this darkening of the mind leads to the distraction of your desire for God and this is what's happening today both in the life of believers and unbelievers you're not really sinful the devil says but he sends distractions to you as a viable weapon that is your job takes more precedent than God does your money the pursuit of it the love of it maybe it's sports or your relationships or your social issues that you're involved in your popularity in the community the debates that go on that keep you away from the things of God or maybe even philosophies or even debates of theology whatever that it may be these are distractions in the time that we're in right now I think one of the distractions that's come up recently has been the distraction of the focus on UFOs if it's true then let the government reveal it otherwise don't be distracted by it I feel like that it could be the answer the world gives to the explanation of the rapture of the church that suddenly the et phone home syndrome took place and millions are missing on this planet whatever that it may be I can assure you of this that the truth of God will prevail and because that it is a time of great distraction around us when we are distracted satan the bible says comes in in mark chapter 4 and verse 15 and steals the seed like a nasty bird distracting us from the word of God distracting us from the things of God people that one time had a love for the Lord now lose interest in the things of God and they are distracted and the seed of God's word the desire to worship God they become unfruitful they fall away they apostasize as the bible says when that takes place when we get distracted the bible says in mark there that the thorns grow up and choke out the word of God distractions I'm telling you it's one of the major factors right now where people don't just have time for God and they're busy schedule anymore they've got other things they need to do it's a tactic of delusion in these last days here's the third thing it is the deceiving of the heart first the blinding the the darkening of the mind secondly the distracting of your life and thirdly the deceiving of your heart the subtle deceptions of satan and even blatant lies are out there the truth is right in front of us and yet we won't embrace it because we've been deceived by the deceiver in fact the book of revelation 12 and 9 says that he is satan the deceiver of the whole world we know deception will increase in the last days jesus said in matthew 24 he said that even nations would be deceived look at individuals who are deceived by the drugs that they're taken the alcohol they consume the friends that they are connected to the word of god said in 2nd Corinthians that satan comes as an angel of light deceiving listen without the mind of god you are set up for deception so what takes place the darkening of the mind the distraction of an individual the deception of the heart and then finally comes the delusion the delusion of truth satan is deluding truth right now just like he did in the very beginning what is the delusion taking place there it is the questioning of god's word and it happened at the very beginning in the book of genesis how does that happen today well let's modify god's word let's rewrite god's word as china is doing right now let's reimagine god's word somehow well what do we are what are we supposed to reimagine what are we supposed to change it to well let's change it from what god said in human sexuality to what man wants same-sex marriage let's change human identity from a male and a female to what we want it to be our own pronoun or the sanctity of life that we can take life in the womb and kill the unborn child by the masses or that will change the word of god about the future that there is no god there is no rapture or maybe even about the people deluded about the people that you're just a number on this planet you're not an individual created in the lightness and image of god ladies and gentlemen all of these things are being propagated today and it is all signs of the return of jesus christ and the entrance of the antichrist you only in a counteract delusion with truth pure truth in psalm 19 the bible says the word is the word of the lord is perfect converting the soul he goes on to tell us there what the word of god is like and how important that the word of god is to us today so i want to encourage you as we close out this prophecy files briefing today with a few safeguards for the last days here they are first of all let humility be around our life the bible says that god resists the proud but he gives grace to the humble one of the acts of delusion is to raise up pride in our life to such a degree that we think we're the end all and that god is nothing second receive the love of the truth according to second thessalonians two it means having a passionate commitment to the truth of god's word inside of our life and not one thing superseding god's word thirdly we need to have a godly reverence and fear of god it is the beginning of wisdom the bible says when man turns to human ingenuity human philosophies human knowledge without god ladies and gentlemen is a delusion that's what god is saying in the strong delusion that is coming upon the world where there is no fear of god that's the reason why we must fear the lord for it is the bible says the beginning of wisdom fourthly here's a safeguard for you surrender to the central message of the cross when you come to the lord jesus christ and you believe in what his finished work is there on the cross you can know beyond the shadow of any doubt that that is the place of truth satan recognizes the cross of calvary as his finished place where jesus said it is finished he placed truth at the very forefront now ladies and gentlemen paul says i don't want to know nothing among you save jesus christ and him crucified the central message and protection for our lives a safeguard for our lives i encourage you to take this word today and strengthen yourself against the strong delusion that is coming upon our land it is a satanic tactic in the last days but we have the truth and jesus said that truth shall make you free i want to encourage you to register right away for the prophecy files bible prophecy conference right here at pace assembly you will not want to miss it do it today till the next time we get together remember jesus christ is coming soon it's a hand hallelujah if you'll stand with me let's have a time of prayer and before we pray i want to encourage this with uh with this scripture the lord laid on my heart psalms 37 3 through 5 and the passion translation it says keep trusting in the lord and do what is right in his eyes fix your heart on the promises of god and you will dwell in the land feasting on his faithfulness find your delight and true pleasure in yaway and he will give you what your heart desires most give god the right to direct your life and as you trust in him along the way you'll find that he pulled it off perfectly amen amen hallelujah and as we pray tonight let's consider that verse uh we have several uh people that are in the hospital here amanda levins and melanie lynch and chuck deering being prayer for the hopkins family uh just a quick testimony there you know say it again as pastor has been saying and we've been visiting uh troy in the hospital pastors up this is his cousin and he asked me to share my testimony and you know you know how you get you know you just say your testimony all the time and you feel like but i shared it with him and it really impacted him and uh and then now here he is we're reading that he's home to be with the lord so i will encourage us take the opportunity even though it might not you know be whatever an inconvenience or maybe you're feeling like you know your testimony isn't powerful enough or whatever the lie may be step out in the faith and see what the lord will do amen so tonight lord we step out in faith believing that you hear and that you answer our prayers and god we just come boldly to your throne tonight lord we lift up all these people that are listed here god they need a miracle they need a touch god they need salvation they need healing deliverance god they need you jesus god come and save to the uttermost i pray god we're calling out to you there's no other name under heaven by which we must be saved so jesus tonight we call on you lord we plead your blood over them and we believe that you hear and that you answer our prayers in jesus name amen well take a minute step out of the aisle shake a hand hug a neck high five a neighbor and online guests we're so grateful that you're here this evening we counted a privilege that you would join us here at pace assembly we believe that the same presence that's here in this building is right going through the airways right into your home or in your car wherever you're watching let us know where you're watching we would love to know how we could pray for you and we're standing in agreement with you for a miracle on your behalf in jesus name god bless you this evening all right let's give our online family a big hand clap of praise tonight you know i want to have a time just a time of prayer too for the people who are dealing with hurricane adelia you know isn't it amazing that we can be here on pence call beat surfing and just a few hundred miles down the coast you know people are getting hit by category three hurricane and we know what that's about so let's just take a time to pray for them this evening lord we just come to you again god we lift up these people lord we know god you said it rains on the just and the unjust too lord but lord we know we've been through hurricanes we know what they're experiencing right now god we thank you for every person that's working for the power company that's on their way right now to bring back and restore the power lord we thank you for every act of kindness that's taking place lord and god we ask that you would do miracles in in their midst during this time and god we just lift them up to you tonight in jesus mighty name amen amen just a few announcements want to make you aware of this sunday everyone say this sunday starting point class begins at 9 a.m you can register online or you can just show up but we're grateful that you're that you're there amen and how many of us are playing on being at prophecy conference yeah this is going to be one for the books right here i'm excited about it hallelujah thank you jesus well how many glad joyful givers do we have in the house god loves a joyful giver whose heart is in their giving right it's a privilege to sew into the kingdom we have offering buckets in the back and uh you can go online we have qr codes or you can mail it into the office as well amen so father right now we come to you and Jesus name lord and we thank you for the gift and the giver like lord we thank you for the privilege we have to sew into your kingdom god wouldn't honor it is we pray you would multiply the seed to meet the need and do it seededly above all we can ask or think or imagine in jesus name amen hallelujah man how about the word on sunday the love of god i mean that that really hit home i've been chewing on that all week and uh pastor did an outstanding job and i was thinking about maria martha you know they were writing a letter to jesus to god about their brother lazarus who was dead in the tomb right and think about all the things they could have said but you know what they said they said lord the one whom you love is needing you it wasn't a list of all his accomplishments it was the one that you love you're the one that jesus loves tonight amen let's give it up for him hallelujah well that story is going to get a little longer praise the lord hey i'm grateful for the love of god in my life amen i mean when i was at my worst the song says you're when i was your foe your love fought for me think on that when you were at your worst while we were yet sinners christ died for me not when we're having a good day not when we've achieved some great success no one my worst day god demonstrates his love for me and died for me you know it's like jose and gomer you know we're we're gomer in the story i don't know if you realize that god's jose and and he comes looking for us his love came and came and found me when i was in my worst state and i'm grateful for that are you grateful for that this evening hallelujah i thank you jesus for your faithfulness tonight amen i've told these fellows to always have their hearts full because there's no telling what may happen glad for you to be here tonight you glad to be here i'm sorry i'm running right in at the last minute i have just left from over in pennsycola having been asked to be a part of the um dedication and time of prayer leading in a prayer over there for our region for the brand new baptist hospital that's going in and along with a number of other pastors in the community and what a what a thrill it is to know that the ceo uh mark faulkner and his wife and i want you to put them on your prayer list as they are opening up in just a few days the brand new baptist hospital had the privilege of being able to lead prayer for our region over there and and of course you get in into situations like that and you wind up meeting different people and uh so i'll probably will be a uh a much better golfer because i shook bubble watson's hands but um but more than that uh jt young who is the vice president of florida power and light is the nephew to sister charlotte owens who went home to be with the lord a few years ago and he was there in attendance and uh walking on a a boot because of an achilles heel and a possible blood clot and i told him that he can rest assure because through a series of the lord's doings uh through the story he told me that god had delayed the surgery that he was supposed to have because of the blood clot and come to find out his father who had passed away had a blood clot in his leg where his was and uh through that course so we stood and talked for a few moments and i assured him uh that of course this church loved his aunt charlotte uh to this day but we would lift him up in prayer so i told him that he knows enough about the way aunt charlotte is and and and the way she prayed and way her church prayed is that we don't just mess around we pray straight up for miracles so wonder what god's going to do in his life jt young is his name would you pray for him right now father in the name of jesus you know exactly what's going on in his leg and the blood clot that they say that is there and the concerns that he has for all of that and so i pray that you would just lord honor the prayers of his aunt who prayed for him night and day and lord the prayers that are offered up now for the dissolving of that blood clot let a miracle happen inside of their life in his life i pray and let him give you the glory the honor and the praise like i know he will in jesus mighty name everybody said a good amen thank you for doing that i uh i told pastor ted who was over there with me that pastor ted trailer at olive babbis uh told him that we were coming to dedicate the uh babbis hospital there are no pentecostal hospitals because we pray the prayer of faith and they get up and walk out and there's always a jab with us so um i was honored to be able to do that and i want you to make sure you hold up the Faulkner's in your prayers as they're getting ready to open 4 000 employees is not a small task and i put the plug in for all of us pay sites over here that any day they want to go ahead and build one over here that'd be fine with us and uh it'll be a blessing so you hold them all up in prayer and what an honor it was to be able to do that as a matter of fact real quick uh we were starting to pray and god smiles in in different ways upon it and so we're standing there in the sunshine to start with and then all of a sudden a light shower with big drops starts falling upon us well if you know anything about rain in the bible it means a blessing to come upon you and then when the rain little rain moved out and we had finished our prayer not making it out as soon as we have finished our prayer a rainbow comes out on top of that hospital they took pictures of it i'm just telling you so um that prayer garden if you ever have to go there that prayer garden has been dedicated by a number of different individuals and i started praying and uh met as i said a few wonderful pastors over there pastor alexander from greater little rock baptist church who was there i got through praying he's african-american he i got through praying i walked over there to him and somebody else was getting ready to pray he said you pray like a black man to which i told him i've always wanted to be and then um and he just you know so now we've got a connection there anyway it's just uh it's good to be able to know the brothers and sisters in christ amen all right are you ready to study this bible tonight anybody bring your bible hold hold your bible up let me see your bible that's what i want that's what i want to see you're gonna see something marvelous this coming weekend um about yeah might have been might have been seven years ago um we we were able to secure um the the swaggered ministry donated more than 17 boxes of bibles to us and we hauled in about 14 or 15 bags of them into guatemala and gave them a way to pastors and so forth there and the rest of them pastor hosay took down to peru and gave them to pastors in the amazon jungle of peru they're down there you're going to see it this weekend and all of you that gave several weeks ago months ago when the avarice family was here to help build that church well that church has been built and they've had their first service in it and when he walked in the pastor the church he comes up on the platform where he was and the pastor's bible was there and what do you know it was a spanish expositor study bible that was open and uh the word of god has continued to go forth so don't miss mission sunday i've got some special things to share with you it's going to be great so you make plans to be here and don't forget prophecy files i know he's already mentioned it uh i want you to make sure that you register right away i promise you it's not going to be something you want to miss you're going to want to be a part of it and all of you that are brand new to pace assembly you've not gone through the starting point class the first one is this coming weekend and it will be ready for you and in room 6107 the educational building it will be the first time that that portion of the building has been opened up now uh in some time as a matter of fact i hope and trust and we will go back there and dedicate we dedicate everything but uh they have just completed their will god willing by friday complete the brand new remodeling of the men's and women's bathrooms in the back back there and uh it's going to look terrific and and so um if you haven't signed up for starting point please do so this is your opportunity to be able to uh enter into the membership class and also to be able uh to just get to know more about pace assembly and where you need to be in the work of the kingdom all of those are over with and now it's time to teach this bible in the book of roman's chapter number one or chapter number 12 i want you to go there tonight as we use that as a base scripture and again we're glad to have all of you that are joining us here this evening um all of you that are watching online around the world as well we're glad to have you join us praise god one thing i know jesus loves me anybody know it tonight amen father thank you for the privilege we have to study your word tonight now open it up holy spirit to the illumination of our understanding our eyes to be enlightened and i pray that your spirit would now crown it give me strength mentally physically spiritually and let the people hear and receive and increase in faith tonight and we give you praise for it in jesus mighty name everybody said a good amen you know this passage of scripture just as a base scripture in roman's chapter number 12 i beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of god that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and 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 this is the point of having your mind renewed that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of god how important that it is that our mind is renewed and we've been dealing with it the past few weeks i hope that you've been gleaning from it and i hope that you are renewing your mind on a daily basis you can have a mind that produces junk and whatever you put in is what you're going to get out or you can have a mind that is renewed in the spirit of the word of god and the and the word of god inside of your spirit to speak to others and your mind can be renewed washed cleansed in fact the bible says it is by the washing of the water of the word that we are able to be renewed and cleansed and made complete and so with that in mind we talk to you about the renewal of the mind involves a transformation of the way a person oh put her on the screen there for me there we go and boom is that it one two three give me that first there we go that's perfect i like it number 52 font that's what i like to read in it's a transformation of the way a person thinks and lives which can be achieved through the power of the holy spirit as we reflect on god's word and i need to add i really need to change that a little bit and add to it as long as you keep your faith securely and effectively positioned in the finish work of the cross now we talked about the fact that if you change your mind you're actually changing your life and so many people don't understand that i'm going to get saved and that's wonderful but now what well your stinking thinking will hold you in the cloud and the clutter and the sin of the past and if you hang around let me say this to you i am more convinced than ever before that the environment that you're in or the people that you hang out with will either edify and strengthen you or they will devalue you and your thinking you ever been around anybody who was a dream killer before all right everything you tried to dream everything you tried to think about god told me to do this or i'm impressed to do this by the spirit and suddenly you're not doing it because all of a sudden someone's talked to you out of it or whatever now perhaps that might be that it wasn't a god dream at all if you can be talked out of it but if you still presses on you in the middle of the night if you still dream about what god has put inside of your spirit then don't let people be a dream killer to you and the only way you can do that is affirming that through the renewing of your mind the mind is the battleground that every one of us are going to face every day and here's the clear facts all right that you will not survive the battle for your soul without a transformed mind the word transformed there is metamorphosis it is the changing of a worm to a caterpillar it is something that is so radical now hear what i'm about to tell you it is so radical that it is nothing in resemblance to what it was before the word the mind of christ will not have friendship with the mind of this world now that's a hard thing because we've never known the mind of christ until we got saved that's the reason he says to us let this mind be in you which was also in christ jesus there is a matter of us allowing or letting the mind of god get seated and planted on the inside of us that's a transformation it's not like anything that is before now what does the world want to do they want to conform you every and the media and medium i should say is constantly pressing to impress you to influence you to buy this do this take this i mean once again i literally i turned the television off the other night when this commercial came on which is the best part of a commercial to me is you should mute it and uh when i did i started reading the caption on the medication that they were wanting you to take now i'm just telling you i told reader right out loud i said you know what if people would turn it off and just read what the side effects are on this one particular medication they were wanting you to take in addition to the other it had so many side effects that the next thing you know uh you know your ears falling off your nose is turning upside down you know your hair is falling out your feet are crossed i mean any number of different things that are going on and when you look at that and and when you listen you just watch the commercial if you just watch the commercial the guys on the boat with his kids has nothing to do with the fact of whatever the problem may be y'all understand what i'm talking about now if you don't control the way you think and that is to say with the mind of christ then anything and everything that's coming down the pike will always whatever it peaks your interest that's what you're going to default to and i can tell you what that's going to be already i don't have to be a prophet to it because we are born with a sin nature it will always default back to whatever that the lust of the mind the lust of the eyes the lust of the flesh is going to do inside of us and the two are absolutely fighting one another as long as you are dead and trespasses and sins and christ didn't live inside of your heart your body your soul and your dead spirit agreed yeah no trouble pastor i didn't have any trouble until i got saved exactly old things passed away second chronicle second carinthian says old things passed away and behold all things became brand new now my my spirit when i got saved my spirit is saved right now the blood of jesus my faith at the cross causes me to be born again i am saved i'm on my way to heaven my soulish man is being saved my body or the flesh man will be saved it's a process that's going to take place over a period of time and in the middle of all of that is the clash of your mind and this mind getting on let's say the same page how many of you know your mind and christ's mind are two different things in fact he tells us that in the scripture he said uh my thoughts are higher than your thoughts my ways are higher than your ways uh the in fact he says through Jeremiah let me just tell you that the thoughts that i'm thinking about you are good thoughts to bring you to an expected end to bring you to a great future so the thoughts that we have of negativity and down and whatever that it may be is not what god is wanting our mind to be renewed he wants us to be transformed by the renewing of our mind there is a difference then between the work of the cross and the way of the cross when jesus when you gave your life to jesus christ that was the work of the cross instantaneous i'm born again now i got to get up and walk in the ways of the cross jesus said deny yourself we like to quote it like this take up your cross and follow me but you but if you don't get the first part the second part won't work here's the first part deny yourself deny yourself and i didn't hear this until just this past year when we were sitting i was doing the funeral service of my aunt and it came up in the conversation that my grandmother made the statement that she was concerned about the generation and at that time it was a another generation but i think it's true today she said i'm concerned about this current generation because they do not deny themselves anything now think about it solomon the wisest and richest man that's ever been said i did not deny myself anything and he concludes at the end of his writing vanity of vanity all is vanity because self can only give you what self can give you now we prayed over that hospital a few moments ago that god would use the doctors and the nurses and the facilities and everybody all that kind of stuff but at the end of the day ladies and gentlemen they can only do what they can do only the lord can heal let's make sure we understand the doctor does anybody any doctor that tells you i can heal he cannot heal he can do what has been educated of him to do and he can help him do whatever it needs to be to fix at the bone whatever that it may be but at the end of the day it takes god to heal that in any doctor that says he's the one you better go find another one any preacher that says he can heal the broken heart you better go find another one only the lord can heal the broken hearted bind up their wounded spirit and i submit to you both here and watching online right now there are people are all in that condition and if you're not careful and and and you deny that at some point you'll be in that position but when i deny myself and trust in what the lord has done i don't have to carry the weight of healing myself come on somebody i don't have to carry the weight of forgiving myself i don't have to carry the weight of my sense he carried it all i put my faith in him and suddenly denying self brings me into a whole new attitude of thinking are you hearing what i'm saying so living living an overcoming life as a believer depends on that transformed mind you must transfer transform in your mind in order to accomplish anything that's going to be pleasing to god now roman's chapter 12 tells us don't be conformed to this word world but be a transform that word world there is interesting because it is the word that we're not talking about cosmos we're not talking about moon sun moon and stars we're talking about the world system now friends i'm telling you if i could unload on you things that i'm preparing for prophecy files coming up here in a few weeks uh it probably would make many people start biting their fingernails down to the quick because we are closer than we have ever been and the systems of this world are closing in like has never been with an antichrist spirit remember i'm just going to add this and this maybe you'll satisfy my spirit here to get this out tonight but an antichrist spirit is not against christ it means another christ did you hear what i said we want to think as antichrist somebody's going to get up and fight again no no no the antichrist is going to embrace the religions of the world and everybody will come up underneath one tent because it is the offering of another christ another savior which is the problem right here when we choose something other than christ and him crucified we are receiving if i could say it this way you understand what i'm saying another christ we are actually receiving an antichrist spirit in a worldly thinking the bible says don't be conformed to that don't be conformed to that i'm telling you what i've heard today there's supposedly new covid outbreak brand new variant do not be afraid i said don't be afraid we're not going back to that nonsense and dictatorship spirit okay i'm not putting my face behind a mask anymore if you get nervous about coughing then sit on the side over here but i'm just telling you there's a there's more germs walking around in here right now than there ever has been covid are you hearing what i'm saying so take a bath wash your hands and use some good hygiene and then get up and go on about your business the world system wants to pack you into a conformity and like robots people are doing it today but he tells us to be transformed by the renewing of your mind so transforming your life begins with renewing your mind this is where it began what you're doing right now is is actually renewing your mind and it's a process it's a process you don't just trust god when you got up in salvation from the altar you don't just trust the people around you do you that's the reason why you pull your pocketbook stuff closer to you right now i love you but i haven't i haven't known you long enough to trust you this is the this is the this is the world that people live in when they get married they're all excited about the day the wedding is a day the marriage is a lifetime and what are you immediately doing you're starting to build trust with one another okay you may have dated for a while and that's all well fine and good but i'm telling you the day after you say i do it's a different world okay you before i hope you went to your house she went to her house now you get together and find out oh she hangs her stockings over the shower while i'm trying to get in or you leave your stuff in the kitchen or on and on the list goes right and everybody smiles about it tries to work with it for the first few months because you want to you want to let's get together oh we're getting married oh it's all exciting all that kind of stuff but after a while that stuff will irritate you now if i'm going to trust you to take here the finances i need you to take the garbage out i'm talking about trust right here ladies and gentlemen you all understand what i'm talking about right here because you don't hand your trust off to somebody just automatic and that includes god well okay let me put it to you like this why is it that when we have a 9-eleven event or whatever that it may be that immediately people want to blame god because they don't trust him they don't know him enough to trust him are you all with me right there so taking this a step further for you here tonight there has been some there may have been some cleaning out before but this transformation as i'm telling you is an ongoing process so there is a constant purging of our lives spiritually mentally physically even because what's going on in the mind affects the physical or the flesh or the body right people say it like this oh i hit him in the mouth i just wasn't thinking well yes you did before your hand reacted it went through your head i didn't mean to say that well yes you did now before people get all bent out of shape the problem we have in society right now is that there's not enough grace and mercy given to one another so that when somebody makes a mistake or messes up apologies don't even matter anymore that's the reason i thank god for a god who the by i i said it this morning in my morning prayer thank you lord that your mercy is brand new every morning some people may not give you mercy and you know what you may have to live with that but i just want to let you know the god that i serve and the god that i know said of himself if your mind is being renewed that his mercies are brand new every morning great is his faithfulness now the more you know that the more you won't get on a guilt trip with yourself because of what you did last night if you repent then get up and move on with god and keep your faith right there because his mercies are brand new every morning it's an ongoing process that's the reason why the children of israel when they were walking with uh in the wilderness god revealed himself through these compound names jehovah jaira jehovah rafa on and on what was he doing he was teaching them about who he is not what he does who he is so they could get acquainted with the god who is my healer now i don't question whether or not the lord is going to heal me pastor i've still got pain i'm still suffering with this the lord is your healer what difference does it make if i'm healed on this side or the other side the lord is my healer well i want to be healed on this side well so do i but what if the plan of god let me let me let me put it to you like this it's the reason why you got to know your god and be transformed in your mind what if you what if your death would bring all the rest of the of your family into the kingdom of god and serve the lord until they all got to heaven pastor i don't want to die i don't want to die either but we got to do that in order to go to heaven are you going to rapture i'm just trying to help you to understand that when you release your life to god you are releasing your life to god now if i'm going to walk with the lord i've got to know him to such a degree and i've got to know that he's not going to lead me in the wrong path the holy spirit will lead me and guide me into all truth that's what that's what brother jt was saying to me over there in the hospital he said i had another plan as soon as i found out that this was going on and that and my cardiologist had not signed off on my surgery for my achilles heel and this blood clot was going on here i didn't know that was going on he said i immediately got on the phone because i this is the way i work i said i understand you are going to work it out make it happen which he said i sure did i call the cardiologist i call the nurse i got him on the phone at the same time the cardiologist said well i can sign off i'm signing off on it right here yes sir but but we can't do the surgery because we need to do an x-ray on your foot you see if you don't rest in what the lord is doing inside of your life and so both of us stood there and i know he was talking to me at the same time because i like to make things happen too but he said i had to stop my role my role are you all with me i had to stop my role i had to stop what i was doing and say lord what is it that you're keeping me from that i'm trying to push into i wish i had some help in here but i'm just telling you the truth here tonight so transformation is that metamorphosis it takes time for the worm to turn into a butterfly does it not and so with that in mind you know i wouldn't i told you last week i wouldn't mind being a christian and being on display if he was finished but god is using me while he's changing me so i make mistakes then i have to get forgiveness and repent and all that kind of stuff and then he then he's working the one thing about it is he will never forsake you in the process somebody ought to praise god right there because because if he would have dropped you off when you first messed up but he knows that we are but human but frail human psalm 103 says he knows my frame he knows my propensity what is that my propensity to say the reason why i'm mad is because my daddy was mad and my daddy before my daddy before that that's why i'm mad well somewhere there's got to be a transformation inside of that family that says this thing stops right here by the blood of jesus christ somebody's got to get a new mind stop using the excuses of the past when god is giving you the word for your future so when you start getting rid of these old things some old things that have to be delivered out of you before before uh in order to have a renewed mind because we have habits that are ingrained in us say amen for your neighbor who ain't saying nothing so there's a constant conflict that's going on sometimes when you start renewing your mind you have more to clean out than what you think you ever remodeled a house before i have you'd rather break it completely to the floor and start all over again because when you get into it suddenly you find out oh and oh and oh man who put this one inch pipe in here when it was supposed to be two inch pipe come on am i talking to anybody right here this is the process because we are of that old sinful nature things are have got to come out of it and thank god growth means change and i need to release myself to change because nothing remains the same but god and his word that's not on your paper but take that one nothing remains the same but god and his word now people don't like change until change until they want to change see i was visiting people in the hospital at baptist hospital the old baptist hospital because they haven't moved to the new one yet and you know what they were telling me i wish i could be over there in that new baptist hospital right now i said that'd be great you'd probably cleaner because that one's been there since 1951 come on somebody we like change until it starts pinpointing the change that needs to happen in our life so sometimes we lock ourselves down from changing because you said some things and now you're embarrassed to go back and change your mind you ever said anything or done anything that you were trying to save face so you would not repent or you wouldn't go back and and do that fix it so you can move on because here's the problem with that i love how you're all looking all over the place all over right now i know i'm doing good when people start looking all around the room is it if it isn't you let me just say to you the best thing you could do is go ahead and and get it under the blood now you may you may have to talk to somebody and and get it right and they may not even receive you it's not about them it's about what god's doing on the inside of you and if you don't release and forgive neither will your father in heaven forgive you this is a part of the renewed mind right here come on somebody see a man for your neighbors all locked up right now i'm gonna tell you down to the funeral home they take a wire and put it in there and then they twist it all up hold your mouth as some of y'all is all twisted up in here tonight you can't get nothing now i've come to untwist you because i'm just gonna tell you you're gonna say something you're gonna do something that's gonna offend and and believe me believe me i i stand as the number one offender all right i can offend a lot of people all at one time you just get one on one but i'm gonna tell you if you'll go back and do what god tells you to do you'll be released and god will bless your life when god gives you the grace to go on with your life then go on with your life oh i don't know somebody needed that one one more time when god gives you the grace to go on with your life go on with your life don't wait for permission anymore don't don't ask around don't consult when god gives you the grace just keep start making a step and god's gonna work with you stop thinking that being an adult means you're finished well i'm grown passion you can't tell me yeah i know i've seen some here's my offended part i've seen some dumb folk all up in age before because they were stuck god deliver me from stuckness come on somebody ought to pray that because i'm just going to tell you you can learn things as long as you're breathing on this earth say amen somebody you're a work in progress look at your neighbor and tell them you're a work in progress tell them again they didn't even look at you you had to tell them in their ear my god they can't take nothing can they bless your soul transformation is an ongoing part of our life and and here's one thing here's one thing i pray for a long long time and try to model for my own self is to embrace the changes that come into my life i want you to know i have embraced the changes that have come into my life i thank god for what's there but i have embraced the change my son has embraced the change because change change is going to take place and and that's what listen you need to thank god that god gives you the ability to change your mind to be renewed to give you a brand new day let me tell you something if you messed up today when this service so with go home eat you some fruit loops and go to bed and then set your alarm for when the sun rises in the morning and when you get up in the morning god said i'm going to give you another chance to do it again i think i'll kick on that one right there because i'm going to tell you something some days already this days this week that i haven't gotten some things accomplished that i wanted to i had a wonderful list starting out on monday some of that was just blown right off of the page all that kind of stuff going on but you know what if i'll just go ahead and walk with god he's going to bring me into a new beginning and for those of you that don't sleep throughout the night you wake up at three o'clock in the morning i want you to know god's daybreak starts at midnight so you're going to be all right just go ahead and pray right there while you're meditating on listen that was one of the greatest days of deliverance when i read that david mused on his pillow and i said to myself i'm going to see if that works and i've mused on my pillow at four o'clock this morning i didn't say slobbered i thought of the lord and i pray right okay so with that in mind here's what the remedy according to the word of god says finally brothers whatever is true boy do we need some true this in this hour whatever is honorable whatever is just i mean he doesn't even ask you to make up what you need to think about he tells you what to think so let me let me add just one caveat to this without doing damage to the scripture here's the caveat finally brothers whatsoever things about another person is true you didn't like that stinger let me put this one on you finally brothers whatsoever whatsoever is my enemy who's whoever is my enemy think about true things think about honorable things think about just things think about pure things lovely things commendable things excellent things if there is anything that you can find a praise god about praise god about it you must in the good times and in the bad times anybody ever had some bad times before you might have some again pastor you're depressing me no no this is your way out of depression those those that medication and i know there may be cases like this but that medication that people were that i was seeing on tv the other night where they're going in the boat and you know eating a hot dog on the street corner and all that kind of stuff had nothing to do with it was all about depression medication God's got a remedy for your anxiety and for your depression it is a renewed mind in him come on somebody this is critical for us the command is to set your mind on positive christlike qualities that's what god is saying to us so why does it matter how we think as long as we do right that's the world's mentality as long as we do right long as we're good citizens long as we're this long as we're whatever what does it matter that we what we think well here's a few things for you to think about prior to the new birth our thinking was futile and our understanding the bible says would darkened get that before we were born again our mind our thinking was futile it had a it had no redeeming quality to it so what is the world system about it's about getting rich acquiring power and then you die are you hearing what i'm saying and then you leave it to all of your family who are going to fight over it until there's nothing left come on somebody futile our understanding is darkened while we are under the dominion of the world the flesh and the devil our thinking becomes vain it is without purpose it has no perspective of being able to say hey god's direction from my life is this and this is what real success is right number two at the new birth we receive the holy spirit who knows the mind of god what's the big deal about having our thinking transform the holy spirit now comes alongside to help you all right so you now you've seen my little diagram but it bears repeating because ladies and gentlemen and this is important fact for you and for me and for me that the holy spirit only operates within the borders and perimeters of the finished work of the cross another words the only place that the holy spirit will help you is when you exclusively place your faith in the finished work of the cross not only for your salvation only for your salvation but your walk with the lord in sanctification your daily transformation now if i take my faith and place it in money or my education or whatever that it may be then that's where the holy spirit says i can't help you because i didn't bless that i didn't birth it and i didn't i'm not gonna bless i can't help you let me just make it plain for you there's not a time that i preach about christ and him crucified to this congregation or anywhere else that i don't feel and pardon me almost the physical push of the holy spirit in my back of the help that comes alongside to make that message clear and effective you understand what i'm saying why is that because the holy spirit is only going to endorse and he's only going to resource what where our faith is if we place it here stand by for that teaching coming in the next few weeks we'll get a little deeper in that so knowing the thoughts of god who knows the thoughts of god the bible says it very clearly it's the holy spirit that knows what is the mind of god the mind of christ why wouldn't i want to tap into that instead of the person who i just became friends with on facebook why would i consult and spread my stuff out to people that i may know for a long long time but they do not have the resources to be able to help me answer the question that i have are you hearing what i'm saying we lay too much stuff out there for people and then we get mad because they jump on it and try to give advice and it's not what you want to hear because there is some mighty powerful scriptorians on facebook i'm talking about with some scripture but i don't see them in church it's a contradiction something wrong you're bad to the bone with the keyboard but you are nowhere in sight come on you can give others advice but advice you can't take you were wishing i was still over at babdus hospital right now aren't you the holy this is the point the holy spirit knows the mind of god and he is ready to give you the mind of god wait a minute i'm not talking about your neighbor's mind and i'm gonna just say to you and this is a reason why you even in a marriage you cannot put that level of trust into your spouse because they will never be able to satisfy the deep inner spiritual need of your life only christ and only the holy spirit can reveal that to you so many people are broken whenever their spouse may pass away or divorce or whatever it may be because their relationship with god was based upon their relationship with maybe their spouse or as we learned years ago with evangelists or pastors or somebody else and when they're whenever they disappear suddenly my faith goes away don't let that happen you keep your faith right here if i fall off the map you better keep on running with this thing come on somebody and if you fall off the map you better teach your children and your family to keep on running with god if something happens to me if i go on to glory before you do you better serve the lord see for me i would say this and this probably is not true but i would come back and like haunt y'all but that's not true i wouldn't do that the holy spirit is ready to give you the mind i'm talking about the mind of god the mind of god that spoke the worlds into existence is available to you the mind of god that names the stars by name y'all long before the scientists peered into their little telescopes and found out that there was this this and this and they named it star number 364 and all that god said you can do your numbers if you want to but i know that one right there's ed down right there is sam come on somebody i don't know what he calls him but he names them all and when one of them falls out come on let me let me do it like this he numbers the hairs on our heads so whenever the one that came out earlier when i comb my head in the comb see i don't even comb my hair anymore i just comb my head and so he said number 356 came out and so did 365 because he numbers the hairs on our head what a glorious thought to know that i can tap in by the way of the holy spirit to the very mind of god that created this world created you created me that's the mind of god y'all that's the reason he says to us you have no need that others teach he's not talking about not being taught by someone he's saying the holy spirit is available to you 24 seven have you leaned on the help of the holy spirit before drive down the road and talk to the lord and watch the holy spirit get in the car with you and show you things talk to you about things come on somebody number three here's a reason why we should renew our mind the holy spirit reveals the mind of god and here's the key the mind of god to us through the word of god we have the bible says the mind of christ not just tapping into what the holy spirit and what god's mind is but actually the transformation that comes where we start thinking the thoughts of god now why is that why is that different than what i'm was just sharing with you watch this it's one thing for you to get information from god all right i read my bible i've got the information this is saying now it's become so much a part of you that i'm not having to ask god should i or shouldn't i i know him so well that it becomes second nature to me now i have the mind of christ now i'm not trying to go find out what he says i know enough about him that i can i can get up in the morning and start walking with god and glean something on the way come on somebody you get what i'm saying to you this is critical for us in the time we're living because you're getting impulsed every day from the news and everything else filling your head up with all kinds of stuff i don't know why that they don't change some of their reporting on abc because it's like the world only exists in new york city have you ever watched abc there will be a report about something happening in new york city i shout at the tv and tell them hey there's a world down here somewhere out there in the west overseas i thought this was world news tonight if i wanted the local i'm not i'm not downplaying i'm just saying why does it become that way because they're giving to you what they want you to hear with the spin that makes your mind think something that you shouldn't come on somebody i got a revelation the other night on watching family feud because because now for years we've heard them say that this america is systemically racist but i'm watching there and all the sudden here comes two people white man black man white woman black woman and they come and embrace and hug one another on national television and then they play a game of competition are y'all hearing what i'm saying i stood over there today with all different creeds and nationalities and you know what we were praying all of the same god in the same name when nobody fighting now i'm not i'm not saying there's not stuff going on because we've seen it happen in the past few days but that doesn't come because everybody is hating on one another it comes because of an evil heart and a non-renewed mind that hates somebody because of of their skin color or whatever it may be i'm just telling you right now god don't care nothing about that he wants to know are you can are you hearing what i'm saying this is this is where this is where a renewed mind will cause you to love people that you don't even like are you hearing what i'm saying i'm talking about you may not like them but the love of god surpasses that y'all don't hear what i'm saying pastor how can i not like them and love them the same way that there are those that don't even like you and yet here you are having conversation with them why because the love of god the bible says is shed abroad in our hearts see that's hard isn't it because i only like people that i like i only love people i love well then we need to stop singing that song and we pretty much have when we all get to heaven because the problem now is because your mind has not been renewed to match what heaven is doing because heaven is not all your color is not all your class and everybody don't have bald heads and all that kind of stuff are you hearing what i'm saying why am i saying this to you because if we don't get a renewed mind heaven is going to be shock and all i thought that's what's going to happen when you get there and find out somebody made it that you didn't even think was even coming to church you're going to turn around and go you they're going to point at you and go you yeah i think we're to practice that renewed mind right now and love everybody here's number three number four as new creatures we are now called to put off this is the key this is what we have to do because we constantly are having this stuff put on us are we not like this do that say this think this brothers you got me way to go mark i know when the air goes down and at this moment the air is louder than anybody's amen so get that thing back on here and hurry all right as a new creature we are now called to put off our old self including the ways of thinking and be renewed in the spirit of our mind there is the mind of the spirit which is the holy spirit and then there is the spirit of our mind the spirit of our mind somebody said well i'm telling you i don't have that kind of spirit oh yes you do and if you want to know what kind of spirit you're of you let somebody touch that sore spot on you you got to be careful because if you ever had a bruise and then you put clothes over that bruise and then you come into church or whatever and somebody hits it and they didn't know they hit it and you react and maybe you even get mad at them because they hit the bruise spot but they're going oh i'm so sorry i didn't know didn't make any difference still hurt you didn't it what's the reaction that we should have we got to put off that spirit yeah but they hurt me no they didn't hurt you there was a bruise there they just happened to hit the sore spot that you already had and let me say to all of you here and all of you they're watching trust me you have a sore spot somewhere and that dude will come out at the most unopportune time somebody will bump up against that bruise and all of a sudden i've watched people and you have to i've watched people whenever they've been bumped up by a bruise somebody bumps their arm or whatever the man have y'all ever seen that before you ain't never seen it you know you don't go out uh let me put it like this i've watched it happen in church but it wasn't a bruise on their physical body it was a bruise on their spiritual body and the first thing people want to do is say i'm out of here and that's what the enemy wants is for you to throw your hands up and quipped but i came to tell you tonight all that is is just a test are you going to stay with the lord and change your way of thinking come on somebody he's going to give us that opportunity for a renewed mind at that spot i think this is all right teaching number five as we renew our minds with the word of god our life then our life is transformed which results in the fullness of the will of god that's what he says that you may prove what is that good and perfect and acceptable will of god pastor i face the challenge i don't know what to do transform your mind change your way of thinking get a new thought now what is paul always telling us he's always telling that philippine church rejoice and just in case you didn't hear it the first time again i say now why did he do that because he knew we weren't going to listen to the first rejoice rejoice and again i say rejoice why is he saying that to us because it is a it is a choice of ours to be transformed or conformed we choose that now you made that choice by coming out here tonight saying no to yourself to stay home and watch something on television or stay home i'm tired or stay home on whatever that it may be and you chose to come out here tonight and hear the word of god taught and while i am not the greatest teacher in the world you're choosing because the holy spirit is the real teacher not me whatever it is i might not you might not even get anything i'm saying but the holy spirit is speaking to you you've set aside time and denied yourself and you're taking up your cross and you're choosing to follow the lord you know what's going to happen god's going to reward that inside of your life simply because you made that choice some people want to count worship as when i get in here and they crank up the music and i lift my hands and i start saying halloween praise the lord but ladies and gentlemen i submit to you the moment oh god the moment that you made a choice to get in your car and drive down here and not just do what you wanted to do but purposely get the word of god in it started when you chose when you made that choice you started worship inside right there of god did you hear what i said you started worshiping god at that very moment you're going to be glad you made the choice because the renewing of your mind and here's here's what i know there have been too many times that i have taught the word of god to somebody or taught whatever that it may be preach whatever it may be and give the altar call people come and pray and all that kind of stuff and then people come and give me this testimony pastor god put my marriage back together right here right now i wasn't even preaching about marriage you understand what i'm saying you ever had anybody come to you and say hey this happened in my life and and you were praying for me you were teaching me whatever that it may be and now this transformation is happening in my life and it wasn't anything you were saying it pulls the stopper right out of your ego because you know you know what this isn't about me this is about the lord and and what the lord does you know what the lord does if you'll just submit yourself to the word of god he'll take all the things that are going on in your life oh you're having money problems and he's not even talking about money he's going to renew your mind over here and get you an answer to that oh you got problems on your job he said that's all right i'm not even preaching about your job i'm talking about oh you got to heal tonight he wasn't even talking about healing oh you put your marriage back together wasn't even talking about marriage you know why because a renewed mind is a renewed mind and if i can prove that the word of god is working inside of me by allowing my mind to change ain't no telling what god will do inside of my life i think somebody ought to take a second there and just give god some praise for what god's going to do that you don't even know what he's going to do isn't that amazing i'm gonna tell you something else is going to happen because this was confirmed by someone sending me a text a few days ago when you renew your mind and you and that renewing of your mind is a drawing near to god in other words i've made a conscious choice that i'm gonna draw near to god in his word i'm i i made a conscious choice that i'm gonna i'm gonna seek the lord and the enemy is gonna fight you and your flesh is gonna fight you anybody fall asleep while you're trying to pray here's a better one anybody ever fall asleep while you're trying to read the word of god now you can read that other book that's got 600 pages in it but you pick up the word of god and the next thing you know you wake up going oh wow wow how long have i been asleep because the flesh is gonna fight but i'm gonna tell you what god will do god okay the holy spirit already knows the lord already knows what we have need of before we pray so whenever i submit myself to the renewing in my mind though it may not have any semblance of of connection to anything that's taken place yet because watch what i'm telling you because i made a step of faith in god's direction see god is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him come on somebody i'm about to give you something god is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him the moment i take a step of faith in his direction god is ready to open up the windows of heaven and bless my life with something that i might not have even thought about i may have been praying about that months ago years ago and all of a sudden god said now's the time i take a step and the next thing you know somebody in my family gets saved something happens in my life somebody texts me and said pastor i you know i'm so thankful for what god's doing this miracle took place inside of my life and now i'm not gonna have to pay this i'm gonna have to pay this right here and it's reduced it tremendously and it's the hand of the lord inside of my life i give god the glory ladies and gentlemen the renewing of your mind will let you know where the glory goes because self is gonna want to beat its chest and say i'm the one but a renewed mind will say if it had not been for the lord who was on my side i wouldn't be able to get up in the morning and do my job are y'all with me right here can we go just a little deeper and i'm out of your way so the word world here refers to the spirit of the age the spirit of the age what is that spirit of the age right now you go over there to 2nd timothy and find it out men shall be lovers of themselves boasters proud blasphemers all that long list and there's more of that that's the spirit of the age are we there right now absolutely we're so steeped in it right now that people can't get their mind out of the fog because of it much less think about god are you hear me so you've got to be careful that your mind is renewed in the word of god so that the thoughts of the world do not take precedent in your mind and you start making decisions not with the mind of god but with the spirit of the age in other words let me put a little bit more specific of how i feel because that's the way the world operates how i feel how do you feel well i feel this way some christians use the same terminology in making decisions for their life well i just feel god in here really what does that feel well i don't know i just and this is where it ends i just feel peace now be careful because if you don't know god god will the holy spirit will never contradict god's word he's come to compliment it he's come to put the light on it am i are we all right are we on the same page right there so he'll never say anything can contradictory to the word but i've watched people say i've got a piece about this and then they go and do something that's against god's word and then blame it on god because i got a piece about it well god will never do that well i don't care what you think well i don't care what you think it's not what i say that's true and it's not what you say that's true it's what god said that's true and the problem we have today and this is the reason why we're in the world that we're in right now is because we have leaders thank god for a wonderful leader over here at baptist hospital is a wonderful christian man and uh and started the entirety there's he's told all of us there's 13 different uh open houses they're going to have over the next few days as different people are coming through but he said i wanted the first one to be prayer in this place right here when the righteous are in charge the people rejoice the bible says why are we in the mess economically nationally and every other way because they have rejected the mind of god and literally are passing laws that are against the mind of god and the problem is the people in the society have now lost their way from god's word to such a degree that as long as you keep sending me my paycheck in the mail i won't mess with you but ladies and gentlemen it is time for the righteous that are among us to say enough is enough there is a right way and a wrong way there is truth and there is a lie come on somebody so why is that so important because unbelievers are always going to default to the natural conforming of the world Ephesians 2 says but as believers we're no longer conformed to that world i've stepped out of that world's thinking because i no longer belong to the spirit of the age we've been transformed the bible says from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light can you say amen to that i wish i had time to finish this no mind change no life change i wish things were different change your mind and they will be forgive and they will be come on somebody release and they will be the older i get the more i understand this because i don't have as much time on this side as i did on the front side i wish i had some help in here but everybody must be under 20 you understand what i'm saying i don't have time to fool around with people that are not going in the direction that i'm going i don't have time to mess around with folks that don't have the mind of god to talk the things of god or to drag me away from that or or try to get me on some other course going in another direction no no i've come i've come too far to look back i think somebody wrote a song about that i've come too far walking with the lord to give up on him now he has never done me wrong people may have done me wrong but he's never done me wrong so i'm gonna get this mind right here and keep on walking whether you want me or not whether you like it or not because why because you didn't get me in this kingdom he got me in this kingdom and i'm going to change my mind to think like christ why mine renewal is so important i'm on hurry right here number one whoever directs your mind is ultimately going to direct your life so if so if a vcs telling you how to think then you're going to think that way and that's the direction you're going to go number two if there's no mind change then there will never be a life change the first thing you do for a life change is change your mind look at the protocol he thought he had it going on didn't he till covid hit there he was in the pig bin he said i don't have anywhere to go and they want me to wear a mask i ain't got money for a shot i'm i'm wiped out man they repowed my truck i don't have a house to live in and he looked at himself and said what am i doing here come on somebody man if there's ever a story to tell our story that's it right there what am i doing here why am i listening to this guy tell me the only place i belong is in this pig pen why am i in this place i'll tell you i'm i think i think i'm thinking about i'm thinking about the father's house i'm thinking about my daddy's house and i'm thinking i'm thinking that i was better off back there than i am down here and and look at me i don't belong down here i don't belong under the circumstances i don't belong underneath somebody's thinking i will arise that's the moment of a mind change right there i will arrive i don't need your help don't need none of you come on somebody don't need your welfare check don't need you to come along i don't have no more friends you befriended me a long time ago i've shut down my facebook i ain't got no social media so don't worry about that don't worry about praying pastor i will arise and i will go back to the father's house and i'm going to tell you something when you make up your mind to do that ain't no devil in hell can stop you i said there ain't no devil in hell that can stop you and if anybody tries to come along and stop you from that you just say hey you go to your own pig pen i'm going back to the father's house where there was even the servants are better and what does he find when he gets there he finds a father that's open armed who says i've been looking for you for a long time not one word of condemnation did you hear what i just said to you oh god if you don't if you miss everything else i said here tonight i don't want you to get the image of a god who's sitting on the throne with a baseball bat ready to conk you every time you mess up what i want you to see is a god who has open arms as a matter of fact it's the one thing that i didn't get to say to you this past weekend here's what jesus said i love you this much the romans in crucifixion thought they were really doing something but jesus said i love the whole wide world it never fails to address my soul to know that when the protocol came down the road that the father was looking for him he wasn't distracted by doing something else he wasn't taking care of something else the preeminent thing on his mind was you and when you got back not one word of condemnation that's your father right there not one word of go back and fix it yourself and then you come see me how many bills and debts have you got what happened to the truck i gave you come on somebody you you don't have any money that i i gave you a whole inheritance he didn't say none of that he said bring me the fatty calf bring bring me the best of the herd son you're missing your reign daddy i lost it in a bar fight daddy i lost it gambling son he said that's all right bring me a ring i got plenty of rings where's your shoes son i mean when you left out of here you had some five thousand dollar anthony davis basketball shoes where's your shoes now i don't know daddy he said that's all right bring me some shoes you don't have to provide i am your provider what does that have to do with a renewed mind everything because as long as you think you have to provide you'll always come up short but when i trust the lord with a renewed mind and the doctor say no you can't have the surgery right now then i need to back up and stop my role and say what is it that god's doing let me get this mind in my mind and what are you doing god in my life that i don't know what you're doing i'm gonna drop this on i did i give you everything i don't even know okay so here's the last thing i'll give you i was thinking about this today can i share this with you otherwise i'm gonna go to bed and i'm gonna have to take tums this is what's been burning in my spirit and it goes right along with what we're saying the bible says that god knows where all the silver and all of gold is he knows where all the diamonds are he knows where all the gold is he knows where all the silver is in other words he's saying what is it that you have need of that i don't have what is the vacuum in your life that you think you need well i'm working hard for it i've watched people burn their bodies out for a little bit of this and then they used it all to get their body back in health i'm not saying you shouldn't work my god we need folks to work today what i am saying is when you know him in a transformed mind the more you know him the more you trust him and suddenly you stop leaning upon your own understanding i need this in my life what am i gonna do i guess i gotta figure it out okay i'm gonna call the banker i'm gonna call the doctor i'm gonna do this and i'm gonna do that ladies and gentlemen just stop a minute and take a deep breath and say now jehovah jireh come on somebody tomorrow i'm gonna get the stitches out of my left foot and i'm really gonna run then and they told me it's a three out of five nev that's what they told me we're gonna cut this hunk out of your foot because it's a three out of five might be might not be i told that nurse go ahead and take what you got to take i can tell you right now the lord is my healer she said amen amen let me tell you something my friends i'd preach if they said you got cancer in your feet i kicked the devil with every foot step that i took but then they told me there ain't no cancer come on somebody so i'm gonna pack it full of nearest forum and put a band-aid on it and keep on preaching why because god said i'm not through with you that's the reason why you're still breathing in by breathing in here in by breathing there's 12 people breathing in this building no wonder i haven't been able to get an amen out of you that's the last line i couldn't wait to get to it i knew there was one more stop allowing what has happened to you to control what is left of you what's left of you what is it that god still has in store for your life has anybody got some dreams and visions that god has in store that you haven't seen come manifested yet if that's you i want you to stand on your feet right now would you do it praise god in fact i want you to take hands with somebody right beside you right now because what i need is somebody to agree with me in prayer come on somebody come on somebody i know you're tired from the day and all that kind of stuff but i need you to reach way down in your soul right now because their person you got a hold of their hand has had some severe stuff go on inside of their life and and things that have kicked them down to the ground and and they didn't think they were going to be able to make it but i came to tell you there's more left of you than there is in the past father in the name of jesus for my friends that are watching online i take hold of their hand here tonight and people inside of this auditorium and i pray for my friend i pray for my spouse i pray for my lord the friend that i've got a hold of their hand tonight that's walking through the trial of their life or or lord maybe their mind is being attacked on every occasion maybe the enemy is trying to defeat them and and do everything he can to knock them out but i say tonight god if two of us agree is touching any one thing it shall be done lord wonder what's going to happen in their life because they are choosing the mind of god right now i refuse to stay in the pig pen i refuse to stay in this mindset i refuse to be able to stay in this place of bitterness and unforgiveness lord i release it now and i asked you to let a brand new day begin inside of my life now lord i don't know what you have in store for these people but i know this the end you said is better than the beginning of a thing does anybody receive that tonight if you do the end is better than the beginning the end of a thing is better than the beginning of it so i expect my day to be better and better and better the bible said your days get brighter and brighter and brighter anybody got an anticipation of that right there i'm going to walk in health i'm going to walk in a wholeness i'm going to walk in a renewed mind and i'm going to share jesus and i'm going to think about the pure things and when it's all said and done i can say lord i've fought a good fight i've kept the faith amen amen you receive this word tonight stop allowing what happened to you to control what's left of you so when i release you out of this building it begins the moment of what's left of you don't go back move forward there's something in front of you drop off what's in the past and what's up ahead start moving towards it this very night this very night amen now to confirm that turn around and love somebody with the love of the lord right now shake hands to be friends all of you that are watching online what's ahead for you is better than what anything has been behind you stay and walk with the lord and god's going to give you strength we'll see you sunday morning don't miss it 10 o'clock we'll see you then 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 him would you send an email and let us know what jesus christ has done 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