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Most of your unhappiness in life, most of your unhappiness
in life is because you listen to you instead of God.
And when you do that, you tell yourself stuff all
the time that isn't true.
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Just because you have.
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A thought doesn't mean it's accurate, doesn't mean it's true,
doesn't mean it's correct. A lot of things you think
of are not right, they're not correct. A lot of
things I think of aren't right, aren't correct. In fact,
a lot of things I think are actually lying to
myself rationalizing where we tell rational lies to ourselves. How
can I be free from me? How can I be
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set free from me? And the way we're going to
look at this is the truths of Romans eight. I
have put them in a practical way of listing seven
mental habits that you need to do that will help
you apply the truth of Romans chapter eight.
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And so we're going to look at.
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These seven mental habits that explain the great truths of
Romans eight. Romans eight is the greatest chapter in the Bible.
In my opinion, it's the greatest chapter. They once stood
a study of Bible scholars and said, if you could
only have one chapter of the Bible and you're on
a desert island, which one would you take? And about
ninety percent of them said I'd take Romans eight. So
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this is a very strong passage. The first step in
being set free from me is this, I must remind
myself daily what Jesus did for me.
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That's the starting point.
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I got to remind myself every day of what Jesus
did for me. What is salvation? What are the benefits
of it? You see, we have a lot of people
who saved. You don't act like it. They run around
all the time filled with shame and uncontrolled thoughts and
compulsions and fear and bitterness and insecurity. And they're believers,
but they're not set free from me. And the first
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step is you've got to remind yourself what Jesus actually
did for you. And this is how the Holy Spirit
sets me free from shame. Let's look at these verses
Romans eight one to four. First, he says, so now
there is no condemnation for those who belong to Jesus Christ.
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And let me stop there before we go any further.
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No condemnation means God doesn't judge you for all the
things you've done wrong. If you've trusted Christ, because Jesus
took all that judgment on the cross, he doesn't have
to judge you. Because Jesus was judged, he doesn't have
to condemn you. Because Jesus took your condemnation. He took
your wrap, he paid your penalty, he did your time
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for you.
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This whole passage is talking.
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About people who've given their life to Jesus. This doesn't
apply to you if you haven't made that decision yet,
But if you've received Christ into your life, the Bible
says you're under no condemnation. Now, notice it doesn't say
that after I become a Christian, I won't sin, You're
still going to sin. It doesn't say I'm not going
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to make mistakes. You're still going to make mistakes. It
doesn't say I'm not going to fail and look stupid.
You're going to fail and look stupid. It just says
you're under no condemnation. In other words, you don't have
to walk around with shame. You don't have to walk
around with guilt because when Jesus Christ died on the cross,
he not only paid for all of the sins you
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committed last week, last year, and your.
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Entire life he committed.
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He's already paid for the sins that you're going to
commit tomorrow, next week, and the rest of your life.
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They're already paid for. Now.
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The next part of that verse says, for the power
of the life giving.
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Spirit, that's the Holy Spirit.
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God's Spirit has freed you through Christ Jesus from the
power of sin that leads to death.
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And what does that verse mean?
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The second thing I remember is that because I'm a
believer and I have g says, I have a new power.
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In my life greater than willpower.
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You see, before you became a Christian, the only thing
you had to use against your bad habits was sheer willpower.
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And how long does that work? Now? Very long, he says.
Now there's a new power in you.
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And when you want to change things in your life,
it's not just if it's to be, it's up to me.
It's not just my own willpower. It is God's power
in me. I have been given a power greater than willpower.
We're going to look at this more in the next versus.
Then the next thing it says, the law of Moses
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could not save us because of our sinful nature. Now,
laws keeping God's laws cannot save you. Guy says, well,
I know I'm going to heaven. You say, how do
you know? It's because I keep the Ten Commandments? I say,
name them. You don't not only not keep the ten commandments,
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you couldn't even name all of them. If I ask
you to stand up right now, you couldn't even How
can you keep them if you don't even know them all?
By the way, keeping laws never works, why, it says,
because of our sinful nature. Laws simply work on outside behavior.
They don't work on inside change. God knew that laws
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couldn't save us. But God put into effect a different
plan to save us. He said, his own son in
a human body like ours, except that ours are sinful.
And God destroyed sins control over us by giving his
son as a sacrifice for our sins. In other words,
he gave us the power to make those changes, to
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forgive us and the changes. And then it said he
did this, Jesus died on the cross so that the
requirement of the law would be fully accomplished for us.
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What is he saying there that Jesus.
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Not only paid for all your sins, he did all
the right things for you, those of us who no
longer follow our sinful nature, but instead follow the Spirit. Now,
if you really are serious about changing your life for
the better, you've got to start where God tells you
to start.
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And God says you don't start.
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With your behavior, your actions, and you don't start with
your feelings, your emotions. You start with your mind. The
battle for you to be set free from me starts
in changing your mind. Be renewed, be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. The Bible teaches very clearly that
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the way we act is determined by the way we feel,
and the way we feel is determined by the way
we think.
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Now, the good thing about this is that.
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Now that you're a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit
inside of you, and so you can ask him to
help you put good thoughts in your mind. So now
you're not just on your own. You're not just out
here trying to think up by yourself. And what would
be a good thing for me to think about? You
can say, Holy Spirit, put good thoughts in my mind.
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That's the second thing we learned from Romans eight. I
ask the Holy Spirit to give me better thoughts. And
if you ask him to give you better thoughts.
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Do you think he will? Of course he will. Of
course he's going.
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To give you better thoughts. That's a prayer he's going
to answer. I ask the Holy Spirit to give me
better thoughts. This is the second key to permanent change
in your life. Now, this is what it says in
the next two verses, Verses five and six of Romans eight.
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their
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mindset on what the nature that nature desires. But those
who live in accordance with the Spirit have their mindset
on what the Spirit desires. Now, there's two kinds of mindset.
There's the mindset of your old nature, and there's the
mindset of the Holy Spirit. There's the mindset of the
way I normally think about my life, and there's the
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mindset of how the Spirit sees my life. Which one's
gonna be true the one that the Spirit says. So
I have to choose between these mindsets. Am I gonna
set my mind on the way I normally think about
my life? Am I gonna set my mind on the
way God thinks about my life? Now there's a big
difference in choosing these mindsets, because if you choose one,
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you're gonna get one response, and if you choose the other,
you're gonna get another. And the next part of the
verse tells us what that is. The mind of sinful
man is what that means. It's self destructive. Thoughts that
you come up with yourself are going to tend to
be self destructive. The mind is sinful man is death.
But the mind controlled by the Spirit is what life
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and peace. And it's all about the mindset you choose.
This is the Holy Spirit's answer to uncontrolled thoughts. What
I do is I ask the Holy Spirit to give
me better thoughts. And this is the principle of replacement.
I want you to write this word down, replacement. The
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principle of replacement is anytime you want to change something
in your life and you're serious about changing it, you
don't resist it, you replace it.
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When you got something negative.
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In your life, you don't resist it, you replace it.
Whatever if you focus on gets your attention. Whatever gets
your attention gets you. Satan gives you ideas. Those are
called temptations. Holy Spirit gives you ideas. Those are called inspiration.
You get ideas. But the truth is you choose what
you focus on. But now now that you're a believer,
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you have a helper, and you can say, Holy Spirit,
I invite.
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You to give me your ideas.
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And a lot of times the Holy Spirit, the God's
Spirit will say to me, Hey, Rick, why don't you
think about this instead?
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Good idea, and I just change my thoughts.
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Now, I would encourage you to invite the Holy Spirit
to have free access to your mind. You say, God,
you have put your spirit inside of me. I give
you free access to my mind twenty four hours a day.
I invite you to suggest good thoughts. Why because they'll
always be the truth, They'll always be right, they'll always
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be helpful, they'll always be pure. Those are the things
we are to think on. So you invite the Holy
Spirit to put thoughts in your mind?
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Why?
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Because those who live according to sinful nature have their
mindset on one thing, but those who live according to
the Spirit have their mindset on another. And the mindset
that I normally have leads to self destruction, and the
mindset that God's Spirit gives me leads to peace. And
I want peace in my life. Look at the next verse.
The sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not
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submit to God's law, nor can it do so, it
can't even do it. Those controlled by sinful name nature
cannot please God. So why do you work on passing
law when they don't have the ability to change it?
To change, only God can change it. Change comes from
the inside out. Third principle. Third mental habit. You're going
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to need to develop to apply the truths of Roman's
aid in your life, and that is this, I realize
I have a new ability to say no. I need
to remind myself. I need to remember on a daily basis.
I need to realize that now that I'm a believer,
I have a new ability to say no to the
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things that are self destructive in my life. Now this
is very important because before you became a believer, all
you had was will power, and you lost most of
those bad habits because lost to most of them because
you don't willpower wears out.
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It's not enough.
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But now, with the Spirit in your life, you have
a new ability to say no, a new power, and
you need to learn.
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How to tap into that power.
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Galatians five point sixteen says this, let the Spirit direct
your lives, and you will not satisfy the desires of
the old human nature. Now if I let the Spirit
live through me. Does it say I won't have those desires?
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Is that what it said? No, it said I won't what.
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I won't satisfy those desires? I won't satisfy those desires.
In other words, do I still have the same desires
I had before as a Christian?
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Yes? Do I still have the same temptations? Yes? Do
I still have the same urges and compulsions? Yes? Do
I fulfill them? No? Why?
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Because I have a new power inside of me, And
it's not just will power any more. Now this is
the good news of Romans chapter eight. Look at the
next verse, verse nine. But he says, you are not
controlled by your sinful nature. You are now controlled by
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the spirit if you have the Spirit of God living
in you. Anybody who does not have the Spirit of
God living in them does not belong to Christ.
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And let me stop here and explain this.
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Some people mistakenly think that you get God kind of
piece meal, that Jesus comes into your life at one
point in your life, and then maybe a little bit later,
the Holy Spirit comes into your life, and then maybe
a little bit later, you get the Father into your life. No,
God is a trinity three and one When you got Jesus,
you got all of God. God doesn't come into your
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life piece meal. When Jesus comes into your life, the
Spirit comes into your life. When Jesus comes in your life,
the Father comes into your life. When the Father comes
into your life, the Spirit in Jesus, I'm in your life.
You can't separate him. Now the question is does he
have all of you and the rest of your life.
You're going to be given more and more of your
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life to him, and then the more you give, the
more power you have. But he says, because I have this,
I now have a new ability to say no.
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Look at the next verse.
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So, dear brothers, you have no obligation anymore to your
old sinful nature to do what it begs you to do.
This is how God sets me free from my compulsions.
But I have a new power, a new ability to
say no. Number four. The fourth fit mental habit I
need to develop if I want to change my life
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is I need to turn my thoughts to God whenever
I'm afraid. And this is how God spirit sets me
free from me with the attitude of fear Romans eight.
Look at the next verses, Verses fourteen to sixteen. For
the spirit God gives you does not make you slaves
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and cause you to be afraid. Instead, the spirit makes
you God's children, and by the spirit's power, we cry
out to God, Father, my father. This is actually the
Aramaic word abba. Abba is not the group it's It
means daddy, papa.
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You know, it's it's dad, dad.
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It's the most basic intimate form of father, Daddy, Daddy,
my daddy. We cry out to God, Daddy, my daddy, Papa,
my papa.
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Ahba my Abba.
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God's spirit joins himself to our spirits to declare that
we are God's children. Stop focusing on your fear. Start
focusing on your father. That's the antidote. Stop focusing on
your fear. Start focusing on your father. Now, he says,
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the antidote to fear is two things. First, he says,
the spirit that God has given you doesn't make you slaves,
make you afraid, but he makes you God's children.
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Whenever you are afraid.
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The first thing you need to do is remember this
whose family you're a part of. I'm a son of God.
I'm a daughter of God. I'm a child of God.
I'm in the family and families take care of each other,
and there's family protection. You're a child of God and
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He's going to take care of you. And second you
call out to your father. Now, what are you most
afraid of? What are you most afraid of?
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These days? You know the number one fear people have.
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I know all the studies people say it's the fear
of speaking in front of others, it's the fear of heights,
or you know, the fear of new social situation. Actually,
what I've found as a pastor talking to people for
thirty years, the number one fear people have is the
fear of being out of control. And when you feel
your life is out of control, it creates enormous fear
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in your life. The Bible says that we should not
be afraid, but we turn to God two Timothy one, p.
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Seven.
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For the spirit that God has given us does not
make us fearful or timid. Instead, his spirit fills us
with power, love, and self control. Now get this, the
more controlled you are by the Holy Spirit, the more
self control you're going to have. So if you are afraid,
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that's not from God. That fear is not from God.
When God's spirit comes into your life, you're filled with love.
I want that you're filled with power. I want that
you're filled with self control. I want that. Okay, Holy Spirit,
I want all you got fill me. The fifth thing
we learned from Romans eight is about the end antidote
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to hopelessness, and that's verses seventeen and eighteen. And the
habit I want you to learn to develop is to
focus on the long term, not the short term.
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Now.
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When you think in long term, you're able to handle
short term pain a whole lot better. You're able to
handle short term losses, short term failures, short term hindrances
because you're thinking long term now. Romans Chapter eight, verses
seventeen and eighteen talks about focusing on the long term,
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and it talks about the promises of God. Since we
are his children, we will possess the blessings He keeps
for his family, and we will also possess this is
really cool, We will also possess with Christ what God
has kept for him. Did you know that the Bible
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says that when you get to heaven, you're going to
get rewarded. You will be rewarded for how well you
did with what you were given. What did you do
with your time, What did you do with your money,
What did you do with your influence? What did you
do with your talents, your time, your talents, your treasure.
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This is called the stewardship of life.
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And God has put stuff in your hands and your
steward of you're going to be evaluated on that in heaven,
and your rewards will be based on that, and you're
going to be rewarded if you're focusing all in short term.
There's a one word for it. It's foolish. It's foolish.
Number six. The sixth habit is to remind myself that
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God is good and in control. This is an application
of what the Bible teaches in Romans chapter eight. Remind
myself that God is good and in control. And you
are mean to remind yourself of that over and over
and over and over and over every single day. In
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verses nineteen to twenty five, Paul says, everything in the
world is broken. Everything in the world has lost its
original purpose. Everything in the world is suffering, everything in
the world is in pain, and everything in the world
is frustrated because sin broke it all down. Everything is frustrated.
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In fact, look at this verse on the screen verse
twenty Everything created is subject to frustration, waiting to be liberated,
set free from me, waiting to be liberated.
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From its bondage to decay.
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All of creation groans in pain like childbirth, and we
groan inwardly. We're going, oh man, this is tough. This
is hard, This is difficult. Why is life so hard?
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Now?
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He says that the result of living in a broken
world is pain, and the result of pain is bitterness.
And we start getting resentful and we fail. Life is unfair. Well, yeah,
what else is new? Life is unfair because it's broken.
But the Bible says in Romans eight that there are
four things you need to remember to get over bitterness. Now, listen,
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pain in your life is not optional. But misery is
pain in your life. You're going to have pain in
your life. It's called life. Suffering in your life is
not optional. You're going to suffer. Misery is Moaning is optional.
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Bitterness is optional, And you overcome bitterness by remembering four
magnificent truths. In Romans eight, verse twenty six and twenty
seven says this, the Holy Spirit is praying for me.
The Holy Spirit is praying for me. That helps me
overcome bitterness because no matter what I'm going through.
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I know God's on my side. He's praying for me.
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It says here, the spirit helps a with our weakness,
and we don't know how to pray as we should.
But the Spirit himself speaks to God for us. Okay,
the Spirit of God, it says, prays for us and
even begs God for us with deep feelings that words
cannot explain. God sees what's in our hearts, and the
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Spirit speaks to God for his people in the way
that God wants.
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So when you're no matter what.
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You're going through, the first thing, he goes, you know what,
right now, the Holy Spirit is praying for me. That's cool.
Second thing, God is using it all for good. That
second thing, I remember, God is using everything in my
life for good. It's not all good, but he's using
it all for good. The next verse says this, and
we know that in all things God works for the
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good of those who love Him, who've been called according
to his purpose. It's not all good, but God is
using it all for good. God is good, greater than
my problems. God is greater than my enemies. God is
greater than my critics, And God is using it all
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for good in my life.
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Number three, God wants me to succeed. Did you know that?
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Did you know that God wants you to succeed? He
doesn't want you to fail in your life. He wants
you to succeed in your life. God is not against
you if you're a Christian, if you're a believer, God
is for you. The Bible says in verse thirty one,
So what can we say against such wonderful things, about
such wonderful things, all the stuff we've talked about, What
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do we say about all these wonderful things? If God
is for us, who can be against us? Remember I'm
in the family. My father is God, and so God
wants me to succeed. And finally, number four, God will
give me what I need. When I'm feeling blue and
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when I'm feeling bitter, I need to remember mind myself
that God is good. He's in control, his spirit is
praying for me. He's using everything for good in my life.
He wants me to succeed, and He's going to give
me what I need Verse thirty two. Since God did
not spare even his own son, but gave him up
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for us all, won't God give us. Won't God, who
gave us Christ give us everything else?
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Wow?
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He said, if God loves you enough to let Jesus
die on the cross for you, don't you think he
loves you enough to help you with your debt? Don't
you think he cares enough to help you with your health?
Don't you think he cares about you when your face
breaks out? There is nothing in your life that God
doesn't care about. I threw that one in because it
seems so ridiculous. There is nothing in your life that
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God doesn't care about. Upset tummy. God cares about it.
He knows every hair on your head. God will give
me what I need. If God didn't spare a sun
to solve my biggest problem, everything else is small potatoes.
It's all minor to him. There is no big problem
in your life. They're all small problems to God. Now, finally,
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the seventh habit destroys the seventh enemy, which is insecurity.
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Now. The fact is, when you feel insecure, it really
messes up your life.
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And the worst fear that we have in insecurity is
the rejection. Nothing hurts more than rejection. The one thing
I can tell you this is God's never going to
reject you. And the seventh habit is this trust that
God will never stop loving me. Trust that God will
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never never stop loving me.
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I'm in the family. He cannot not love his family.
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He will never stop loving me Romans eight thirty eight
and thirty nine in the chapter. Now, I'm convinced that
nothing ever can ever separate us from His love. Death can't,
life can't, The angels can't, demons can't. Satan can't separate
you from God. Our fears for today are worries about tomorrow.
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Even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away.
Whether we're high above the sky or in the deepest ocean,
nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate
us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ.
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Jesus, our Lord.
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I may lose a lot of things in life, but
I'll never lose my salvation. You can't lose it because nothing.
Once you're in God's hand. He's not letting go of you.
You may want to let go, but He's not letting
go of you. You cannot lose your salvation. Now, my
question is this, do you belong to Christ? Because none
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of these things are true in your life unless you
belong to Christ. Do you have the Holy Spirit in
your life? You say, well, I don't know. Well let's
make certain of it right now. That's bow our heads
and I'm going to pray a prayer as we close,
and I'm going to ask you to pray it. Say
this in your heart, Dear Jesus Christ, thank you for
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all that you did for me. Thank you that there's
no condemnation in my life for all the suinin I've done,
you took that condemnation. Thank you that you did what
the law couldn't do. Thank you that you destroyed sins control.
Thank you that you accomplished the law in my life.
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And my righteousness is nothing, but your righteousness is what
ticket I get into heaven on. Help me to never
forget what you did for me. And when I feel ashamed,
let me remember what you did on the cross for me.
Holy Spirit, I ask you to give me better thoughts.
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I want to switch mindsets. I don't want the mindset
of self destruction. I want the mindset of life and peace.
I don't want to think my old ways. I want
to think your new ways. I invite you to put
thoughts in my mind all the time.
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For they are the truth.
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And help me to remember and realize that I have
a new ability to say no.
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Lord. I used to just.
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Have willpower, but now I've got spirit power. I'm not
obligated to give into those compulsions anymore. That if I
ask you for help, you'll help me and give me
the strength to say no.
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Thank you, that no temptation is too strong.
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And when I'm afraid, help me to turn my thoughts
to you. Help me to remember that I'm your child,
and help me to cry out to you, Father, Daddy
i'm afraid. I focus on my father, not my fears.
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And help me to focus.
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On the long term, not the short term. You know
the pain in my life, you know the suffering. I
want you to use it for good and I want
you to use it for your glory. And I want
to look and focus long term on eternity, not just
to hear.
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And now I want to do the right thing, not
the easy thing.
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And when I start to get bitter and I feel
life is unfair, and when I feel hurt, help me
to remember that you God are good, and you're in.
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Control, that you are praying for me. Thank you for.
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Doing that, that you are working all things for good.
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Thank you for doing.
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That, that you are for me, not against me.
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Thank you for that, and that you didn't spare Jesus
and so you'll give us whatever we need. Thank you
for that.
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Most of all, I thank you that you will never
let go of me. You'll never stop loving me, You'll
never reject me. Thank you that I cannot lose my
salvation no matter what else I lose on this planet.
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That you will never stop loving me.
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If you've never invited Jesus Christ in your heart, Jesus say,
I want you to be my lord, my savior. I
want you to be the manager of my life. I
don't understand it all, but I want to trust in
you completely. Thank you for your grace to me. I
want to love you for the rest of my life,
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and I ask you to accept me into your family
by faith.
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In your name, I pray Amen Assas
Most of your unhappiness in life, most of your unhappiness
in life is because you listen to you instead of God.
And when you do that, you tell yourself stuff all
the time that isn't true.
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Just because you have.
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A thought doesn't mean it's accurate, doesn't mean it's true,
doesn't mean it's correct. A lot of things you think
of are not right, they're not correct. A lot of
things I think of aren't right, aren't correct. In fact,
a lot of things I think are actually lying to
myself rationalizing where we tell rational lies to ourselves. How
can I be free from me? How can I be
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set free from me? And the way we're going to
look at this is the truths of Romans eight. I
have put them in a practical way of listing seven
mental habits that you need to do that will help
you apply the truth of Romans chapter eight.
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And so we're going to look at.
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These seven mental habits that explain the great truths of
Romans eight. Romans eight is the greatest chapter in the Bible.
In my opinion, it's the greatest chapter. They once stood
a study of Bible scholars and said, if you could
only have one chapter of the Bible and you're on
a desert island, which one would you take? And about
ninety percent of them said I'd take Romans eight. So
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this is a very strong passage. The first step in
being set free from me is this, I must remind
myself daily what Jesus did for me.
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That's the starting point.
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I got to remind myself every day of what Jesus
did for me. What is salvation? What are the benefits
of it? You see, we have a lot of people
who saved. You don't act like it. They run around
all the time filled with shame and uncontrolled thoughts and
compulsions and fear and bitterness and insecurity. And they're believers,
but they're not set free from me. And the first
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step is you've got to remind yourself what Jesus actually
did for you. And this is how the Holy Spirit
sets me free from shame. Let's look at these verses
Romans eight one to four. First, he says, so now
there is no condemnation for those who belong to Jesus Christ.
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And let me stop there before we go any further.
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No condemnation means God doesn't judge you for all the
things you've done wrong. If you've trusted Christ, because Jesus
took all that judgment on the cross, he doesn't have
to judge you. Because Jesus was judged, he doesn't have
to condemn you. Because Jesus took your condemnation. He took
your wrap, he paid your penalty, he did your time
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for you.
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This whole passage is talking.
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About people who've given their life to Jesus. This doesn't
apply to you if you haven't made that decision yet,
But if you've received Christ into your life, the Bible
says you're under no condemnation. Now, notice it doesn't say
that after I become a Christian, I won't sin, You're
still going to sin. It doesn't say I'm not going
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to make mistakes. You're still going to make mistakes. It
doesn't say I'm not going to fail and look stupid.
You're going to fail and look stupid. It just says
you're under no condemnation. In other words, you don't have
to walk around with shame. You don't have to walk
around with guilt because when Jesus Christ died on the cross,
he not only paid for all of the sins you
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committed last week, last year, and your.
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Entire life he committed.
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He's already paid for the sins that you're going to
commit tomorrow, next week, and the rest of your life.
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They're already paid for. Now.
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The next part of that verse says, for the power
of the life giving.
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Spirit, that's the Holy Spirit.
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God's Spirit has freed you through Christ Jesus from the
power of sin that leads to death.
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And what does that verse mean?
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The second thing I remember is that because I'm a
believer and I have g says, I have a new power.
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In my life greater than willpower.
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You see, before you became a Christian, the only thing
you had to use against your bad habits was sheer willpower.
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And how long does that work? Now? Very long, he says.
Now there's a new power in you.
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And when you want to change things in your life,
it's not just if it's to be, it's up to me.
It's not just my own willpower. It is God's power
in me. I have been given a power greater than willpower.
We're going to look at this more in the next versus.
Then the next thing it says, the law of Moses
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could not save us because of our sinful nature. Now,
laws keeping God's laws cannot save you. Guy says, well,
I know I'm going to heaven. You say, how do
you know? It's because I keep the Ten Commandments? I say,
name them. You don't not only not keep the ten commandments,
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you couldn't even name all of them. If I ask
you to stand up right now, you couldn't even How
can you keep them if you don't even know them all?
By the way, keeping laws never works, why, it says,
because of our sinful nature. Laws simply work on outside behavior.
They don't work on inside change. God knew that laws
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couldn't save us. But God put into effect a different
plan to save us. He said, his own son in
a human body like ours, except that ours are sinful.
And God destroyed sins control over us by giving his
son as a sacrifice for our sins. In other words,
he gave us the power to make those changes, to
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forgive us and the changes. And then it said he
did this, Jesus died on the cross so that the
requirement of the law would be fully accomplished for us.
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What is he saying there that Jesus.
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Not only paid for all your sins, he did all
the right things for you, those of us who no
longer follow our sinful nature, but instead follow the Spirit. Now,
if you really are serious about changing your life for
the better, you've got to start where God tells you
to start.
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And God says you don't start.
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With your behavior, your actions, and you don't start with
your feelings, your emotions. You start with your mind. The
battle for you to be set free from me starts
in changing your mind. Be renewed, be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. The Bible teaches very clearly that
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the way we act is determined by the way we feel,
and the way we feel is determined by the way
we think.
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Now, the good thing about this is that.
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Now that you're a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit
inside of you, and so you can ask him to
help you put good thoughts in your mind. So now
you're not just on your own. You're not just out
here trying to think up by yourself. And what would
be a good thing for me to think about? You
can say, Holy Spirit, put good thoughts in my mind.
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That's the second thing we learned from Romans eight. I
ask the Holy Spirit to give me better thoughts. And
if you ask him to give you better thoughts.
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Do you think he will? Of course he will. Of
course he's going.
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To give you better thoughts. That's a prayer he's going
to answer. I ask the Holy Spirit to give me
better thoughts. This is the second key to permanent change
in your life. Now, this is what it says in
the next two verses, Verses five and six of Romans eight.
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their
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mindset on what the nature that nature desires. But those
who live in accordance with the Spirit have their mindset
on what the Spirit desires. Now, there's two kinds of mindset.
There's the mindset of your old nature, and there's the
mindset of the Holy Spirit. There's the mindset of the
way I normally think about my life, and there's the
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mindset of how the Spirit sees my life. Which one's
gonna be true the one that the Spirit says. So
I have to choose between these mindsets. Am I gonna
set my mind on the way I normally think about
my life? Am I gonna set my mind on the
way God thinks about my life? Now there's a big
difference in choosing these mindsets, because if you choose one,
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you're gonna get one response, and if you choose the other,
you're gonna get another. And the next part of the
verse tells us what that is. The mind of sinful
man is what that means. It's self destructive. Thoughts that
you come up with yourself are going to tend to
be self destructive. The mind is sinful man is death.
But the mind controlled by the Spirit is what life
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and peace. And it's all about the mindset you choose.
This is the Holy Spirit's answer to uncontrolled thoughts. What
I do is I ask the Holy Spirit to give
me better thoughts. And this is the principle of replacement.
I want you to write this word down, replacement. The
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principle of replacement is anytime you want to change something
in your life and you're serious about changing it, you
don't resist it, you replace it.
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When you got something negative.
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In your life, you don't resist it, you replace it.
Whatever if you focus on gets your attention. Whatever gets
your attention gets you. Satan gives you ideas. Those are
called temptations. Holy Spirit gives you ideas. Those are called inspiration.
You get ideas. But the truth is you choose what
you focus on. But now now that you're a believer,
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you have a helper, and you can say, Holy Spirit,
I invite.
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You to give me your ideas.
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And a lot of times the Holy Spirit, the God's
Spirit will say to me, Hey, Rick, why don't you
think about this instead?
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Good idea, and I just change my thoughts.
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Now, I would encourage you to invite the Holy Spirit
to have free access to your mind. You say, God,
you have put your spirit inside of me. I give
you free access to my mind twenty four hours a day.
I invite you to suggest good thoughts. Why because they'll
always be the truth, They'll always be right, they'll always
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be helpful, they'll always be pure. Those are the things
we are to think on. So you invite the Holy
Spirit to put thoughts in your mind?
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Why?
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Because those who live according to sinful nature have their
mindset on one thing, but those who live according to
the Spirit have their mindset on another. And the mindset
that I normally have leads to self destruction, and the
mindset that God's Spirit gives me leads to peace. And
I want peace in my life. Look at the next verse.
The sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not
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submit to God's law, nor can it do so, it
can't even do it. Those controlled by sinful name nature
cannot please God. So why do you work on passing
law when they don't have the ability to change it?
To change, only God can change it. Change comes from
the inside out. Third principle. Third mental habit. You're going
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to need to develop to apply the truths of Roman's
aid in your life, and that is this, I realize
I have a new ability to say no. I need
to remind myself. I need to remember on a daily basis.
I need to realize that now that I'm a believer,
I have a new ability to say no to the
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things that are self destructive in my life. Now this
is very important because before you became a believer, all
you had was will power, and you lost most of
those bad habits because lost to most of them because
you don't willpower wears out.
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It's not enough.
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But now, with the Spirit in your life, you have
a new ability to say no, a new power, and
you need to learn.
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How to tap into that power.
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Galatians five point sixteen says this, let the Spirit direct
your lives, and you will not satisfy the desires of
the old human nature. Now if I let the Spirit
live through me. Does it say I won't have those desires?
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Is that what it said? No, it said I won't what.
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I won't satisfy those desires? I won't satisfy those desires.
In other words, do I still have the same desires
I had before as a Christian?
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Yes? Do I still have the same temptations? Yes? Do
I still have the same urges and compulsions? Yes? Do
I fulfill them? No? Why?
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Because I have a new power inside of me, And
it's not just will power any more. Now this is
the good news of Romans chapter eight. Look at the
next verse, verse nine. But he says, you are not
controlled by your sinful nature. You are now controlled by
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the spirit if you have the Spirit of God living
in you. Anybody who does not have the Spirit of
God living in them does not belong to Christ.
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And let me stop here and explain this.
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Some people mistakenly think that you get God kind of
piece meal, that Jesus comes into your life at one
point in your life, and then maybe a little bit later,
the Holy Spirit comes into your life, and then maybe
a little bit later, you get the Father into your life. No,
God is a trinity three and one When you got Jesus,
you got all of God. God doesn't come into your
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life piece meal. When Jesus comes into your life, the
Spirit comes into your life. When Jesus comes in your life,
the Father comes into your life. When the Father comes
into your life, the Spirit in Jesus, I'm in your life.
You can't separate him. Now the question is does he
have all of you and the rest of your life.
You're going to be given more and more of your
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life to him, and then the more you give, the
more power you have. But he says, because I have this,
I now have a new ability to say no.
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Look at the next verse.
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So, dear brothers, you have no obligation anymore to your
old sinful nature to do what it begs you to do.
This is how God sets me free from my compulsions.
But I have a new power, a new ability to
say no. Number four. The fourth fit mental habit I
need to develop if I want to change my life
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is I need to turn my thoughts to God whenever
I'm afraid. And this is how God spirit sets me
free from me with the attitude of fear Romans eight.
Look at the next verses, Verses fourteen to sixteen. For
the spirit God gives you does not make you slaves
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and cause you to be afraid. Instead, the spirit makes
you God's children, and by the spirit's power, we cry
out to God, Father, my father. This is actually the
Aramaic word abba. Abba is not the group it's It
means daddy, papa.
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You know, it's it's dad, dad.
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It's the most basic intimate form of father, Daddy, Daddy,
my daddy. We cry out to God, Daddy, my daddy, Papa,
my papa.
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Ahba my Abba.
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God's spirit joins himself to our spirits to declare that
we are God's children. Stop focusing on your fear. Start
focusing on your father. That's the antidote. Stop focusing on
your fear. Start focusing on your father. Now, he says,
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the antidote to fear is two things. First, he says,
the spirit that God has given you doesn't make you slaves,
make you afraid, but he makes you God's children.
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Whenever you are afraid.
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The first thing you need to do is remember this
whose family you're a part of. I'm a son of God.
I'm a daughter of God. I'm a child of God.
I'm in the family and families take care of each other,
and there's family protection. You're a child of God and
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He's going to take care of you. And second you
call out to your father. Now, what are you most
afraid of? What are you most afraid of?
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These days? You know the number one fear people have.
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I know all the studies people say it's the fear
of speaking in front of others, it's the fear of heights,
or you know, the fear of new social situation. Actually,
what I've found as a pastor talking to people for
thirty years, the number one fear people have is the
fear of being out of control. And when you feel
your life is out of control, it creates enormous fear
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in your life. The Bible says that we should not
be afraid, but we turn to God two Timothy one, p.
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Seven.
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For the spirit that God has given us does not
make us fearful or timid. Instead, his spirit fills us
with power, love, and self control. Now get this, the
more controlled you are by the Holy Spirit, the more
self control you're going to have. So if you are afraid,
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that's not from God. That fear is not from God.
When God's spirit comes into your life, you're filled with love.
I want that you're filled with power. I want that
you're filled with self control. I want that. Okay, Holy Spirit,
I want all you got fill me. The fifth thing
we learned from Romans eight is about the end antidote
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to hopelessness, and that's verses seventeen and eighteen. And the
habit I want you to learn to develop is to
focus on the long term, not the short term.
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Now.
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When you think in long term, you're able to handle
short term pain a whole lot better. You're able to
handle short term losses, short term failures, short term hindrances
because you're thinking long term now. Romans Chapter eight, verses
seventeen and eighteen talks about focusing on the long term,
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and it talks about the promises of God. Since we
are his children, we will possess the blessings He keeps
for his family, and we will also possess this is
really cool, We will also possess with Christ what God
has kept for him. Did you know that the Bible
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says that when you get to heaven, you're going to
get rewarded. You will be rewarded for how well you
did with what you were given. What did you do
with your time, What did you do with your money,
What did you do with your influence? What did you
do with your talents, your time, your talents, your treasure.
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This is called the stewardship of life.
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And God has put stuff in your hands and your
steward of you're going to be evaluated on that in heaven,
and your rewards will be based on that, and you're
going to be rewarded if you're focusing all in short term.
There's a one word for it. It's foolish. It's foolish.
Number six. The sixth habit is to remind myself that
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God is good and in control. This is an application
of what the Bible teaches in Romans chapter eight. Remind
myself that God is good and in control. And you
are mean to remind yourself of that over and over
and over and over and over every single day. In
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verses nineteen to twenty five, Paul says, everything in the
world is broken. Everything in the world has lost its
original purpose. Everything in the world is suffering, everything in
the world is in pain, and everything in the world
is frustrated because sin broke it all down. Everything is frustrated.
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In fact, look at this verse on the screen verse
twenty Everything created is subject to frustration, waiting to be liberated,
set free from me, waiting to be liberated.
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From its bondage to decay.
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All of creation groans in pain like childbirth, and we
groan inwardly. We're going, oh man, this is tough. This
is hard, This is difficult. Why is life so hard?
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Now?
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He says that the result of living in a broken
world is pain, and the result of pain is bitterness.
And we start getting resentful and we fail. Life is unfair. Well, yeah,
what else is new? Life is unfair because it's broken.
But the Bible says in Romans eight that there are
four things you need to remember to get over bitterness. Now, listen,
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pain in your life is not optional. But misery is
pain in your life. You're going to have pain in
your life. It's called life. Suffering in your life is
not optional. You're going to suffer. Misery is Moaning is optional.
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Bitterness is optional, And you overcome bitterness by remembering four
magnificent truths. In Romans eight, verse twenty six and twenty
seven says this, the Holy Spirit is praying for me.
The Holy Spirit is praying for me. That helps me
overcome bitterness because no matter what I'm going through.
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I know God's on my side. He's praying for me.
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It says here, the spirit helps a with our weakness,
and we don't know how to pray as we should.
But the Spirit himself speaks to God for us. Okay,
the Spirit of God, it says, prays for us and
even begs God for us with deep feelings that words
cannot explain. God sees what's in our hearts, and the
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Spirit speaks to God for his people in the way
that God wants.
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So when you're no matter what.
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You're going through, the first thing, he goes, you know what,
right now, the Holy Spirit is praying for me. That's cool.
Second thing, God is using it all for good. That
second thing, I remember, God is using everything in my
life for good. It's not all good, but he's using
it all for good. The next verse says this, and
we know that in all things God works for the
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good of those who love Him, who've been called according
to his purpose. It's not all good, but God is
using it all for good. God is good, greater than
my problems. God is greater than my enemies. God is
greater than my critics, And God is using it all
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for good in my life.
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Number three, God wants me to succeed. Did you know that?
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Did you know that God wants you to succeed? He
doesn't want you to fail in your life. He wants
you to succeed in your life. God is not against
you if you're a Christian, if you're a believer, God
is for you. The Bible says in verse thirty one,
So what can we say against such wonderful things, about
such wonderful things, all the stuff we've talked about, What
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do we say about all these wonderful things? If God
is for us, who can be against us? Remember I'm
in the family. My father is God, and so God
wants me to succeed. And finally, number four, God will
give me what I need. When I'm feeling blue and
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when I'm feeling bitter, I need to remember mind myself
that God is good. He's in control, his spirit is
praying for me. He's using everything for good in my life.
He wants me to succeed, and He's going to give
me what I need Verse thirty two. Since God did
not spare even his own son, but gave him up
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for us all, won't God give us. Won't God, who
gave us Christ give us everything else?
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Wow?
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He said, if God loves you enough to let Jesus
die on the cross for you, don't you think he
loves you enough to help you with your debt? Don't
you think he cares enough to help you with your health?
Don't you think he cares about you when your face
breaks out? There is nothing in your life that God
doesn't care about. I threw that one in because it
seems so ridiculous. There is nothing in your life that
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God doesn't care about. Upset tummy. God cares about it.
He knows every hair on your head. God will give
me what I need. If God didn't spare a sun
to solve my biggest problem, everything else is small potatoes.
It's all minor to him. There is no big problem
in your life. They're all small problems to God. Now, finally,
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the seventh habit destroys the seventh enemy, which is insecurity.
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Now. The fact is, when you feel insecure, it really
messes up your life.
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And the worst fear that we have in insecurity is
the rejection. Nothing hurts more than rejection. The one thing
I can tell you this is God's never going to
reject you. And the seventh habit is this trust that
God will never stop loving me. Trust that God will
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never never stop loving me.
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I'm in the family. He cannot not love his family.
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He will never stop loving me Romans eight thirty eight
and thirty nine in the chapter. Now, I'm convinced that
nothing ever can ever separate us from His love. Death can't,
life can't, The angels can't, demons can't. Satan can't separate
you from God. Our fears for today are worries about tomorrow.
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Even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away.
Whether we're high above the sky or in the deepest ocean,
nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate
us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ.
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Jesus, our Lord.
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I may lose a lot of things in life, but
I'll never lose my salvation. You can't lose it because nothing.
Once you're in God's hand. He's not letting go of you.
You may want to let go, but He's not letting
go of you. You cannot lose your salvation. Now, my
question is this, do you belong to Christ? Because none
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of these things are true in your life unless you
belong to Christ. Do you have the Holy Spirit in
your life? You say, well, I don't know. Well let's
make certain of it right now. That's bow our heads
and I'm going to pray a prayer as we close,
and I'm going to ask you to pray it. Say
this in your heart, Dear Jesus Christ, thank you for
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all that you did for me. Thank you that there's
no condemnation in my life for all the suinin I've done,
you took that condemnation. Thank you that you did what
the law couldn't do. Thank you that you destroyed sins control.
Thank you that you accomplished the law in my life.
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And my righteousness is nothing, but your righteousness is what
ticket I get into heaven on. Help me to never
forget what you did for me. And when I feel ashamed,
let me remember what you did on the cross for me.
Holy Spirit, I ask you to give me better thoughts.
(28:02):
I want to switch mindsets. I don't want the mindset
of self destruction. I want the mindset of life and peace.
I don't want to think my old ways. I want
to think your new ways. I invite you to put
thoughts in my mind all the time.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
For they are the truth.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And help me to remember and realize that I have
a new ability to say no.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Lord. I used to just.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Have willpower, but now I've got spirit power. I'm not
obligated to give into those compulsions anymore. That if I
ask you for help, you'll help me and give me
the strength to say no.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Thank you, that no temptation is too strong.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
And when I'm afraid, help me to turn my thoughts
to you. Help me to remember that I'm your child,
and help me to cry out to you, Father, Daddy
i'm afraid. I focus on my father, not my fears.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
And help me to focus.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
On the long term, not the short term. You know
the pain in my life, you know the suffering. I
want you to use it for good and I want
you to use it for your glory. And I want
to look and focus long term on eternity, not just
to hear.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And now I want to do the right thing, not
the easy thing.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And when I start to get bitter and I feel
life is unfair, and when I feel hurt, help me
to remember that you God are good, and you're in.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Control, that you are praying for me. Thank you for.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Doing that, that you are working all things for good.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Thank you for doing.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
That, that you are for me, not against me.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Thank you for that, and that you didn't spare Jesus
and so you'll give us whatever we need. Thank you
for that.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Most of all, I thank you that you will never
let go of me. You'll never stop loving me, You'll
never reject me. Thank you that I cannot lose my
salvation no matter what else I lose on this planet.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
That you will never stop loving me.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
If you've never invited Jesus Christ in your heart, Jesus say,
I want you to be my lord, my savior. I
want you to be the manager of my life. I
don't understand it all, but I want to trust in
you completely. Thank you for your grace to me. I
want to love you for the rest of my life,
(30:41):
and I ask you to accept me into your family
by faith.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
In your name, I pray Amen Assas
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