Bridge Church Virginia Beach

0.000000 3.640000 We're going to continue the series called Overload, Overload.
3.640000 4.800000 I want you to take out your Bible.
4.800000 11.120000 It's Philippians chapter four, and we're going to talk about something that I believe is
11.120000 17.200000 very pertinent to all of us, and it's called Reframed Your Thoughts.
17.200000 24.320000 Pastor Scott did a masterful job last week talking about, you know, recognizing your reality.
24.320000 28.700000 He had to do that on the spare the moment, and I called him on Friday and said, "Man,
28.700000 32.140000 it's all you today, man, it's all you."
32.140000 40.420000 And we let him rip, and he was so gracious to do that, but to reframe your thoughts.
40.420000 48.940000 We live in a world that's constantly trying to put us into its frame of thinking.
48.940000 54.340000 In fact, all of us have been framed.
54.340000 61.700000 In the moment that we were born into this people planet, we have been framed and conditioned
61.700000 65.260000 to think a certain way.
65.260000 70.300000 Whether we recognize that or not, we've been framed.
70.300000 76.380000 You watch movies, the good guys usually framed by the bad guys.
76.380000 86.300000 All of the people, seven billion plus have been framed and put into a mindset.
86.300000 95.020000 And those mindsets become a very destructive in nature if we don't recognize it.
95.020000 100.820000 Often think which is more important, the frame or the picture.
100.820000 105.740000 See, we have been framed by the spirit of the world.
105.740000 110.820000 The spirit of the age, Paul called it the anti-Christ spirit.
110.820000 117.940000 In fact, I hear people all the time, especially people who are very eschatological.
117.940000 121.060000 They're always thinking about the end times, they're always thinking about the anti-Christ,
121.060000 123.380000 they're always thinking about the second coming.
123.380000 124.900000 I believe Jesus is coming.
124.900000 129.300000 I believe He's on His way and I believe we're living in those last days.
129.300000 133.260000 But they say, "Man, when do you think the anti-Christ is going to appear?"
133.260000 136.700000 I'm like, "He's already here, the spirit is already here.
136.700000 142.540000 He's been here since the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and even before
142.540000 143.540000 that."
143.540000 149.700000 But we are conditioned and framed by the spirit of this world.
149.700000 155.940000 Most of us have been framed by the words of a parent that told us we would never amount
155.940000 159.660000 to anything, that we were no good.
159.660000 168.300000 We've been framed by social media, the comparisons that people put on us and we compare ourselves
168.300000 169.300000 to other people.
169.300000 170.300000 We have been framed.
170.300000 173.660000 We have been framed by constant criticism.
173.660000 180.740000 These criticisms cause us to take on mindsets that produce a negative self-talk.
180.740000 186.580000 We've been framed by repeated rejection and setbacks in life and because we've been rejected
186.580000 195.300000 and we've been setback, we think we can never overcome, your life has been framed.
195.300000 201.780000 Negative self-talk coming out of our own mouth about our own lives frames us.
201.780000 205.140000 Because life and death is in the power of a tongue.
205.140000 207.220000 Whose tongue, your tongue?
207.220000 211.820000 How many, you know, your tongue is more powerful than the tongue of somebody else?
211.820000 216.460000 If somebody else criticizes me and then I turn around and agree with that negative criticism
216.460000 223.340000 and I began to have negative self-talk over my life, it begins to frame my world.
223.340000 224.980000 How did God frame the world?
224.980000 228.940000 How did He God frame the universe through words?
228.940000 233.780000 In the beginning God said, let there be light.
233.780000 237.420000 We're framed by media.
237.420000 241.900000 Every day you get up and you watch news, your life is being framed to think a certain way,
241.900000 244.060000 to see a certain thing.
244.060000 246.220000 You have been framed.
246.220000 249.220000 We have been framed by unhelpful labels.
249.220000 256.340000 The labels of a bad student, the labels of a problem person, the label of an addictive nature.
256.340000 258.220000 You are an addict.
258.220000 263.460000 I'm amazed that there are some people in our world that have been free from drugs for 20
263.460000 267.860000 years and they're always saying they're still an addict.
267.860000 273.420000 You keep framing and reframing your world.
273.420000 278.740000 I remember somebody trying to frame my world in a high school, it was my home room teacher
278.740000 282.460000 and my 12th grade year at the end of the year were getting ready to graduate.
282.460000 289.420000 She said, son, you're a good guy, but you're a bad student, go to work, don't go to college.
289.420000 291.020000 She said it that simply.
291.020000 295.260000 I love to see her today and let her know I've got to earn doctorate.
295.260000 296.260000 Amen.
296.260000 297.260000 Why?
297.260000 302.980000 Because people are always trying to frame your world.
302.980000 310.460000 You've got to decide if you're going to allow the spirit of the world to frame you.
310.460000 316.460000 When I was 14, 15 years old, I battled crippling anxiety.
316.460000 322.140000 I would take zeroes before I would get up and do an oral presentation in school.
322.140000 328.020000 This anxiety came from a dysfunctional family and before you point the finger, we all come
328.020000 330.340000 from dysfunctional families.
330.340000 333.460000 Some are just more dysfunctional than others.
333.460000 334.460000 Amen.
334.460000 339.580000 That's why Jesus came to earth to work out the dysfunction that's put in all of humanity
339.580000 341.060000 because of sin.
341.060000 343.540000 But in my family, I could never live up.
343.540000 348.420000 My dad was very verbally and emotionally abusive to his kids.
348.420000 349.420000 I loved him.
349.420000 354.300000 He's a great guy and he's in heaven, but come to find out that's the way he was raised.
354.300000 360.220000 How many of you know sometimes patterns just keep going until somebody breaks them.
360.220000 362.100000 We call them generational curses.
362.100000 366.100000 I don't like that term because Jesus came to redeem us from the curse.
366.100000 371.180000 I call them patterns that have to be broken through the power of the Holy Spirit and the
371.180000 374.900000 Word of God and the blood of Jesus.
374.900000 379.700000 And so these patterns have to be broken and because of the dysfunction in my family, I began
379.700000 383.300000 to suffer from panic attacks and I would go outside.
383.300000 385.300000 I would feel like I was suffocating.
385.300000 386.700000 I couldn't breathe.
386.700000 389.500000 I couldn't even get a breath out.
389.500000 391.140000 I was just smothering.
391.140000 394.780000 If you've never felt that before, they are real.
394.780000 399.180000 Panic attacks are real.
399.180000 407.020000 What caused those in my life was the framing of my life by negative circumstances and situations
407.020000 408.860000 in my family.
408.860000 414.540000 So my mom took me to the doctor one day and he began to talk to me and he kept talking and
414.540000 418.180000 he kept talking and he knew I was having trouble breathing.
418.180000 421.000000 And I talked to him and I was holding this conversation.
421.000000 425.200000 At the end of that, he said, "Son, there's nothing wrong with you physically.
425.200000 429.900000 It's all emotionally and you're suffering from panic attacks.
429.900000 434.420000 You're suffering from anxiety and worry."
434.420000 442.940000 And from that moment on, because I knew my reality, I located where I was from that moment
442.940000 451.560000 on, God gave me grace to get out of that anxiety and to no longer have anxiety attacks, but
451.560000 453.060000 it took me some time.
453.060000 455.740000 You say, "Pastor, what did you have to do?
455.740000 460.020000 I had to reframe my thoughts."
460.020000 461.020000 I was saved.
461.020000 467.300000 I was saved at five years old Long Island, New York, in assembly God church.
467.300000 472.220000 I was a Christian, but I was suffering from anxiety.
472.220000 473.700000 I was stressed.
473.700000 476.380000 I was beat up emotionally.
476.380000 483.660000 But from that moment on, God began to teach me that I could saturate my worry with worship,
483.660000 488.420000 that I could praise my way into peace.
488.420000 495.500000 I could get into God's word and it would become a warfare and an instrument that God would
495.500000 497.980000 use that would bring me peace.
497.980000 503.620000 How do I know that because a Psalmist said, "Perfect peace have they which love thy law and nothing
503.620000 505.500000 shall offend them."
505.500000 511.660000 I began to understand that the peace of God could rule and reign in my heart.
511.660000 515.500000 I had to learn to reframe my thoughts.
515.500000 520.860000 I had to learn to put this frame away.
520.860000 527.740000 That Jesus came, His death, burial and resurrection came to break this frame and throw it away.
527.740000 536.580000 That's why He came, He came to reframe my world and give me a whole new frame.
536.580000 538.540000 Here's our new frame, people.
538.540000 544.260000 You got to decide which frame you're going to live from.
544.260000 550.340000 Are you going to live from the spirit of the world or are you going to live from Jesus?
550.340000 552.860000 You get the pick.
552.860000 554.380000 I choose Him.
554.380000 556.700000 I don't choose religion.
556.700000 557.700000 It makes you mad.
557.700000 558.700000 It makes you mean.
558.700000 559.700000 It makes you angry.
559.700000 561.340000 It makes you uptight.
561.340000 563.820000 It makes you real judgmental.
563.820000 566.420000 I choose Jesus.
566.420000 568.580000 Jesus said, "Come follow me."
568.580000 569.660000 He didn't say, "Just sit down."
569.660000 570.740000 He said, "Come follow me."
570.740000 576.180000 So I need to keep following Jesus.
576.180000 582.300000 See if you don't learn to manage your thoughts, your thoughts will begin to manage you.
582.300000 587.580000 The Bible says as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
587.580000 592.060000 She knows Gen Z is called the most anxious generation.
592.060000 596.420000 We live in a world of anxiety, stress and worry.
596.420000 599.820000 We've got everything, but we're still stressed.
599.820000 604.020000 We've got provision, but we're still anxious.
604.020000 607.620000 We've got wealth, but we're still worried.
607.620000 611.100000 There's something going on in the emotional well-being of our society.
611.100000 618.820000 I believe we are living in the age of overload, that we've got too much on our plate.
618.820000 623.940000 We think we can save the world when we can't save ourselves.
623.940000 628.580000 I've come to realize that the reason we're so anxious because we've had government officials
628.580000 633.980000 telling us that we need to save the planet.
633.980000 638.180000 Climate change has been perpetrated on us.
638.180000 646.180000 But we need to save Mother Earth, and we can't even lose three pounds.
646.180000 648.020000 How can we save Mother Earth?
648.020000 654.700000 We can't even save our lives, folks.
654.700000 658.980000 God had to send his son because we couldn't save ourselves, and we spend our lives trying
658.980000 663.860000 to save our spouse, trying to save our kids, trying to save society, trying to save Mother
663.860000 670.700000 Earth, and that overwhelms us, and man, it makes us anxious.
670.700000 673.940000 Paul writes this letter called Philippians.
673.940000 675.100000 It's a prison epistle.
675.100000 679.740000 He wrote it anywhere from 60 to 62 AD.
679.740000 686.620000 Prison epistle is called that because while he was in prison in Rome, he changed to a soldier.
686.620000 687.620000 He writes four books.
687.620000 692.180000 He writes Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, and Falemen.
692.180000 700.940000 He's writing this book to some Jesus people in a Jesus community in Macedonia.
700.940000 702.260000 They're under Roman rule.
702.260000 703.660000 They're a Roman colony.
703.660000 707.140000 They're under the military mind of the Romans.
707.140000 710.220000 There's a little bit of division in the book.
710.220000 719.940000 And chapter four with some people, but he writes this book from prison, and this whole book
719.940000 723.020000 is on joy.
723.020000 729.580000 How can a man who's imprisoned write a book on joy?
729.580000 735.740000 Just the very thought of that gives us some secrets to where Paul found his joy.
735.740000 749.340000 Verse four says this, rejoice in the Lord when, rejoice in your job, rejoice in your spouse,
749.340000 754.540000 rejoice in your fortune, your fame, rejoice in your friends.
754.540000 757.180000 No, he locates our joy for us.
757.180000 768.500000 He says, rejoice in the Lord, rejoice in the Lord.
768.500000 775.740000 That word rejoice is in a verb form that doesn't actually mean just a burst of joy or a
775.740000 778.100000 one-time feeling of joy.
778.100000 782.060000 It means an ongoing joy that I'm joyful now.
782.060000 783.700000 I'll be joyful this evening.
783.700000 785.740000 I'll be joyful tomorrow.
785.740000 790.500000 It doesn't matter about my circumstances, circumstances change.
790.500000 796.620000 But because my joy is anchored in Jesus, Jesus never changes.
796.620000 801.660000 Therefore, I have this constant abiding joy on the inside of me.
801.660000 805.140000 That doesn't mean bad things, don't happen to good people.
805.140000 806.140000 They do.
806.140000 812.900000 But what it does mean is that I have a sense of joy and well-being because my faith is
812.900000 817.500000 not anchored in me or society or in the spirit of the world.
817.500000 821.500000 My joy is anchored in Jesus.
821.500000 826.220000 Rejoice in the Lord always.
826.220000 831.860000 Now for those people in the back and those people that didn't want to hear it, Paul reset
831.860000 832.860000 it.
832.860000 835.300000 We'll say it again.
835.300000 837.300000 Rejoice.
837.300000 838.300000 Look what he says.
838.300000 843.340000 Let your gentleness be evident to all, why would he say that?
843.340000 846.420000 Because there was a little disunity in the church.
846.420000 852.020000 He said, hey, I want you to rejoice, but I want you to be gentle.
852.020000 854.260000 I want you to be gentle.
854.260000 856.220000 I want you to be gentle with other people, man.
856.220000 858.580000 They might not be where you're at spiritually.
858.580000 861.460000 They might not be going through the same thing that you're going through.
861.460000 864.180000 You learn to be gentle.
864.180000 867.740000 The Lord is near.
867.740000 870.300000 My Lord, he's there.
870.300000 873.380000 The reason I can rejoice is because he's near.
873.380000 882.700000 Then he goes on to say, be anxious about, don't be anxious about anything.
882.700000 886.100000 Oh, pastor.
886.100000 889.580000 Paul didn't live in my day.
889.580000 892.140000 Paul had a silver spoon in his mouth.
892.140000 893.460000 No, he was shipwreck.
893.460000 895.220000 He spent a night in the day in the deep.
895.220000 896.220000 He was flogged.
896.220000 897.220000 He was whipped.
897.220000 899.540000 He was left for dead.
899.540000 901.700000 The government was trying to kill him.
901.700000 909.220000 I believe if he really studied Paul's life, he probably suffered from anxiety.
909.220000 912.260000 He probably knew what it meant to be anxious.
912.260000 918.700000 In fact, when he's writing these prison epistles, we think he's got a laptop and he's just
918.700000 921.700000 chilling.
921.700000 924.820000 But what we don't understand about Paul is this right here.
924.820000 927.580000 Do you know Paul was stoned?
927.580000 929.460000 What happens when you get stoned?
929.460000 932.540000 How do you protect yourself?
932.540000 937.700000 Did you know many commentators believe that when Paul was writing, he was writing with
937.700000 940.860000 fingers that were mangled.
940.860000 945.540000 They were beat up because of the stones that people threw at him and he had to guard
945.540000 950.460000 his head and now he's writing these things and he's saying, rejoice.
950.460000 954.140000 Even the very fact that he's writing and he's telling other people to rejoice, that he had
954.140000 961.540000 to learn to rejoice when his hands did not function well.
961.540000 963.420000 He says, "Be anxious for nothing."
963.420000 968.340000 That word anxious there means to be pulled in many directions.
968.340000 970.020000 It means that I've got this going on.
970.020000 971.020000 I've got this going on.
971.020000 972.300000 I've got that going on.
972.300000 977.100000 The dogs barking, the cats meowing, the kids want something to eat, I've got all this stuff
977.100000 978.940000 going on.
978.940000 988.220000 He says, "Be anxious for nothing but in every situation," say every.
988.220000 990.660000 How can I do that?
990.660000 995.700000 Because I've learned to put my joy in the Lord always.
995.700000 1002.780000 In every situation he tells us, he gives us the key to not be an anxious.
1002.780000 1004.220000 Here it is.
1004.220000 1005.940000 This is not deep.
1005.940000 1009.300000 I'm not even going to give you the Greek word.
1009.300000 1010.620000 Prayer.
1010.620000 1021.580000 Prayer, pastor, that's not deep enough, it's not philosophical enough, it's not psychological
1021.580000 1023.580000 enough.
1023.580000 1028.740000 Prayer, prayer.
1028.740000 1033.180000 When I was going through anxiety as a young teenager, God taught me something.
1033.180000 1036.260000 How many of you know the Holy Spirit is the teacher?
1036.260000 1039.900000 Even when I'm up here preaching, the Holy Spirit is teaching.
1039.900000 1041.260000 He's working through me.
1041.260000 1048.380000 He says, "I learned that if I would put worship on and I would pray and I would calm my
1048.380000 1052.980000 life down and I would, and sometimes I would have to sit a whole hour before I felt
1052.980000 1057.420000 my mind calm down."
1057.420000 1062.220000 And then I began to read in Scripture where David said, "Be still, O my soul.
1062.220000 1065.220000 Put your trust in God."
1065.220000 1072.740000 Did you know you can actually speak to your soul, your mind, your will, your emotions, be
1072.740000 1080.740000 still, O my soul, put your trust in God.
1080.740000 1086.620000 He said prayer, petition, petition is another form of prayer, it's asking God.
1086.620000 1091.820000 Look here, then He mixes this in here with thanksgiving.
1091.820000 1093.700000 Be thankful.
1093.700000 1095.180000 Be thankful.
1095.180000 1099.380000 How many of you know it's hard to complain when you're giving thanks?
1099.380000 1100.380000 I need to be thankful.
1100.380000 1102.540000 I need to pray that quiets me down.
1102.540000 1106.020000 I need to bring what I'm worried about in petition to God.
1106.020000 1109.660000 Lord, I'm worried about my finances, I'm worried about my spouse, I'm worried about
1109.660000 1113.460000 the future, I'm worried about the present, the past, I'm worried about my children, I'm
1113.460000 1118.660000 going to bring that to you and I'm going to thank you for already meeting the need that
1118.660000 1119.660000 I have.
1119.660000 1123.140000 Lord, I don't even have to tell you my need because you know what I have need of before
1123.140000 1128.620000 I even bring it to you, but because you said so, I'm going to bring it to you in a petition
1128.620000 1133.620000 and give it to you and I'm going to give you thanksgiving and when I do that, I'm going
1133.620000 1139.140000 to present my request to you and look here, here's the trade-off.
1139.140000 1152.180000 And the peace of God, that transcends all understanding is going to guard your heart and your minds
1152.180000 1154.940000 in Christ Jesus.
1154.940000 1157.460000 That is a tremendous trade-off, folks.
1157.460000 1159.140000 I don't know about you.
1159.140000 1163.540000 That will save you time, energy and resources, it will save you money.
1163.540000 1167.980000 I thank God for counselors, but we have a great counselor, amen.
1167.980000 1170.220000 We have a wonderful counselor.
1170.220000 1174.820000 Never forget that if you'll come to God and if you'll sit there, come on, shut that phone
1174.820000 1181.060000 down, sit there with God, just meditate in the Word of God, meditate on his presence, allow
1181.060000 1185.500000 him to calm your anxious heart.
1185.500000 1191.740000 Then Paul goes on to say, finally, he breaks it down, he says, finally, brothers and sisters,
1191.740000 1194.620000 so we know he's talking to the church.
1194.620000 1199.320000 He's not talking to the world, he's not talking about the Roman military.
1199.320000 1201.740000 He's talking to the church.
1201.740000 1208.300000 Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is
1208.300000 1212.100000 lovely, whatever is admirable.
1212.100000 1221.940000 Look here, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about what such things.
1221.940000 1226.500000 Here's the question, what are you thinking about?
1226.500000 1231.380000 Whatever you've learned or received or heard from me or seen him, he put into practice,
1231.380000 1236.300000 and the God of peace will be with you.
1236.300000 1241.860000 The God of peace will be with you.
1241.860000 1249.580000 Thoughts are so powerful, Proverbs 23, 7 says, as a man think of in his heart so easy.
1249.580000 1256.700000 Do you know thoughts shape your actions?
1256.700000 1262.060000 So if I want to change my behavior, I don't change my behavior with starting with my behavior,
1262.060000 1264.860000 I start with a thought.
1264.860000 1272.900000 The thought that comes into my mind creates an attitude that attitude becomes a behavior.
1272.900000 1277.860000 That's why Paul, speaking to the church at Corinth, he said, take every thought captive
1277.860000 1284.620000 to the obedience of Christ, every thought, say every thought, where do thoughts come from?
1284.620000 1288.580000 They come from my flesh, they come from the enemy, or they come from God.
1288.580000 1294.720000 I have to take every thought captive and begin to say, is this God's thought or a thought
1294.720000 1298.500000 of my negative flesh or a thought that comes from the devil or the world?
1298.500000 1304.020000 And when I do that, I keep the God's thoughts and I let all those other thoughts go.
1304.020000 1309.460000 That's when I begin to begin to take responsibility for my own life.
1309.460000 1314.060000 See, we're constantly praying to God and asking God to do something that he's empowered
1314.060000 1318.780000 us to do.
1318.780000 1323.140000 I have to be the one that takes the thought captive.
1323.140000 1331.140000 Paul said this, he's living in this world that's very perverse.
1331.140000 1336.460000 Do you think our nations perverse, do you think the nations of the world, world is perverse?
1336.460000 1343.380000 You gotta understand, Paul was living in a time that was very perverse sexually.
1343.380000 1349.580000 And he speaks to the Roman church at Romans 12 verse 2, he says this, do not be conformed
1349.580000 1354.980000 to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
1354.980000 1359.900000 He's saying, don't allow the world to put you into its frame of thinking, its pattern
1359.900000 1361.660000 of thinking.
1361.660000 1368.940000 He says, don't be conformed to the world, but be transformed, say transformed, how, by
1368.940000 1371.460000 the renewing of your mind.
1371.460000 1377.020000 The greatest thing you can do after you come to Christ for salvation is to allow God's
1377.020000 1382.140000 word to begin to transform the way you think.
1382.140000 1388.980000 Say most of us as believers were satisfied with a fire insurance.
1388.980000 1395.620000 And we get saved, we get out of a, we get a card that keeps us out of hell.
1395.620000 1399.020000 But that's not the full gospel.
1399.020000 1405.220000 The gospel is not just keeping you out of hell, it's making your life an abundant life
1405.220000 1407.380000 on earth.
1407.380000 1412.660000 Jesus said, the thief comes to kill, steal and destroy, but I have come that you might have
1412.660000 1415.060000 life and life more abundantly.
1415.060000 1421.940000 The thief there is not Satan, even though Satan is behind all thevery within the context
1421.940000 1428.980000 of John 10, the thief is religion.
1428.980000 1436.460000 I have come to the conclusion that religion has anocculated many people from the real thing.
1436.460000 1444.980000 Jesus, see we must understand the person of Jesus gives us eternal life, applying
1444.980000 1452.020000 the principles of Jesus gives us abundant life, meaning that I can have eternal life and
1452.020000 1458.420000 live my whole life on earth in hell and get to heaven and be saved and stand before Jesus
1458.420000 1459.420000 one day.
1459.420000 1463.740000 And Jesus said, I gave you eternal life, but I wanted you to possess abundant life, why
1463.740000 1467.780000 didn't you?
1467.780000 1479.420000 It's because we never understand the transformation of the mind, that the mind is very important.
1479.420000 1486.620000 He told Nicodemus, you must be born again, if you're born again and you become saved, you're
1486.620000 1494.220000 born into a new kingdom that has a different value system.
1494.220000 1499.940000 This is the problem, I'm born into a new kingdom but I try to bring the old value system into
1499.940000 1505.260000 the new way of living and it doesn't work.
1505.260000 1511.300000 Thus I'm frustrated and I never live the overcoming life because I'm trying to live in a new
1511.300000 1516.900000 kingdom with old values that come from the kingdom of darkness.
1516.900000 1522.340000 So I have to have something that begins to change the way I think, I'm going to give you
1522.340000 1524.740000 a couple of things right here.
1524.740000 1529.940000 If you're going to change the way you think, you need number one information, say information.
1529.940000 1532.740000 I'm not talking about just any information.
1532.740000 1537.620000 The book of Daniel prophesies to us that in the last days there would be a literal knowledge
1537.620000 1539.460000 explosion.
1539.460000 1545.180000 Did you know everything you want to know, whatever one to know and might need to know, is in
1545.180000 1550.380000 the palm of your hand called a smart device.
1550.380000 1559.820000 That is a good thing but it's become very problematic because we think the smart device is God and
1559.820000 1566.620000 we think information is the same as wisdom.
1566.620000 1571.540000 So I'm very nervous for a younger generation who has all the information but not the years
1571.540000 1574.980000 of wisdom to apply the information.
1574.980000 1581.060000 So it's just like your kids when they get 14 they begin to tell your dad you're wrong.
1581.060000 1589.380000 You don't know anything but when they get married and start having kids you're the expert.
1589.380000 1595.340000 Young people under 40 understand that information is not wisdom, information is knowledge facts
1595.340000 1600.580000 and principles and theories, wisdom is the ability to apply that.
1600.580000 1604.980000 So when I'm talking about information, I'm not talking about just information about computers
1604.980000 1610.780000 or information about social media, information about cars or being this or that.
1610.780000 1613.140000 I'm talking about the information of God's Word.
1613.140000 1616.300000 We need God's Word.
1616.300000 1620.060000 We need the Word of God in our lives.
1620.060000 1625.140000 In fact, in Hebrews 4 it says that the Word of God is living, active, operative, energized
1625.140000 1629.900000 and effective, sharper than it should to sort, piercing as far as the vision of the soul and
1629.900000 1633.340000 the spirit and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
1633.340000 1636.660000 The Word of God is powerful.
1636.660000 1641.460000 The Psalmist says that the Word is a lamp into my feet and a light into my power.
1641.460000 1645.020000 The entrance of your Word, Lord, brings light.
1645.020000 1650.340000 So we need the Word of God, all 66 books, don't unhinge from the Old Testament.
1650.340000 1654.740000 You don't know the New Testament without the Old Testament.
1654.740000 1661.380000 You need all 66 books written by 40 different authors over basically 1,500 years inspired
1661.380000 1664.260000 by the Holy Spirit given to us.
1664.260000 1670.260000 We need information, no, no, we need information, next, we need illumination.
1670.260000 1671.260000 What is illumination?
1671.260000 1675.820000 It's when the Holy Spirit, who's the author, illuminates the Word of God.
1675.820000 1676.820000 It becomes illuminated.
1676.820000 1680.420000 You're ever at a verse in the Bible and it just stands out to you.
1680.420000 1683.180000 It's like God zeroes in on it.
1683.180000 1684.900000 It becomes a part of your life.
1684.900000 1685.900000 That's illumination.
1685.900000 1692.820000 That's when the Holy Spirit takes God's Word and he illuminates it because it's inspired.
1692.820000 1699.140000 And that illuminated Word here next becomes revelation.
1699.140000 1705.740000 The revelation, the revealed truth that God wants to work on a part of my life.
1705.740000 1711.660000 The best thing you can do is every day sit down with God's Word, read it.
1711.660000 1716.820000 And one of the hardest things for me to do as a pastor is to read the Word of God for me
1716.820000 1720.500000 and not for a sermon.
1720.500000 1722.700000 So I often have to take two tracks.
1722.700000 1727.700000 I'm going to study over here for a sermon, but I'm going to study over here for Archie
1727.700000 1730.100000 prep.
1730.100000 1733.020000 So the Word of God gets on the inside of me.
1733.020000 1734.100000 So we need information.
1734.100000 1736.420000 The Word of God, the Holy Spirit comes in illuminated.
1736.420000 1743.840000 It becomes revealed truth and revealed truth produces transformation in my life.
1743.840000 1746.980000 It's the working of the Word and the Spirit together.
1746.980000 1752.940000 Dr. Jack Hayford passed a great church out in California, a great teacher of the Word,
1752.940000 1755.300000 great psalmist.
1755.300000 1757.700000 He said, "If you have all Word, you dry up.
1757.700000 1760.980000 If you have all Spirit, you blow up.
1760.980000 1765.140000 If you have Word and Spirit, you grow up."
1765.140000 1769.540000 I believe RT Kindle is getting it right in his latter years.
1769.540000 1776.320000 The revival and awakening that is coming is not all Spirit, it's not all Word, it's both.
1776.320000 1781.700000 Coming together as a powerful stream where people know the Word of God and they encounter
1781.700000 1787.260000 the Spirit of God and there's a transformation coming to our lives.
1787.260000 1793.620000 See information that's illuminated by the Holy Spirit that becomes revelation, revealed
1793.620000 1804.300000 truth to me, produces transformation so that I can reach my destination.
1804.300000 1812.900000 Every one of us have a purpose, we have a destiny, but it will not be realized just because
1812.900000 1814.900000 we've been saved.
1814.900000 1822.180000 It's only realized as we continue to abide in Jesus and walk with Him.
1822.180000 1829.380000 I got saved at five or six years old, but I can tell you, I'm not the same man I was at
1829.380000 1835.380000 five or six, that we have constantly tangent out there walking with the Lord.
1835.380000 1841.420000 We have constantly been moving forward, not out of striving, not out of religious rigor,
1841.420000 1848.220000 not out of just ritual, but out of a spiritual relationship with God and that's that transformation
1848.220000 1850.500000 that takes place in our lives.
1850.500000 1852.940000 How many of you want to be spiritual?
1852.940000 1853.940000 Just raise your hand.
1853.940000 1857.100000 It's not a trick question, you want to be spiritual or not.
1857.100000 1863.220000 There's another word in spiritual, it's this word, ritual.
1863.220000 1869.620000 Most cares, medics, pentecostals don't like ritual, but you will never be spiritual without
1869.620000 1874.500000 building spiritual rituals in your life.
1874.500000 1879.780000 The ritual of reading God's Word, the ritual of praying.
1879.780000 1886.240000 The ritual of meditating on God's Word, the ritual of gathering together with God's people,
1886.240000 1890.400000 the ritual of small groups that you need to sign up for today.
1890.400000 1891.400000 Amen.
1891.400000 1892.660000 These are rituals.
1892.660000 1901.460000 I meet with a group of guys, man, they sharpened me, I sharpened them and we work it out
1901.460000 1902.460000 together.
1902.460000 1903.460000 Why?
1903.460000 1910.500000 Do I need to?
1910.500000 1914.900000 Yes, I still have sharp points on me and I'm a living stone, sometimes I'm a jagged stone.
1914.900000 1922.860000 So I need somebody rubbing on me together so I can fit into the body of Christ.
1922.860000 1932.420000 Jesus is unchanging, but this unchanging Jesus is constantly changing us.
1932.420000 1940.620000 And building into us, His character, but I got to reject a frame.
1940.620000 1942.980000 There's people in here today, you need to make a decision.
1942.980000 1946.380000 You got to reject the spirit of the world.
1946.380000 1947.780000 You got to reject it.
1947.780000 1952.980000 You got to just, hey, I'm not going to live by the agenda of this world anymore.
1952.980000 1956.620000 I'm not going to be put into its mold.
1956.620000 1960.020000 I'm not going to be put into its pattern.
1960.020000 1968.520000 You need to allow Jesus to put His hands on that frame and break it.
1968.520000 1973.020000 And allow Jesus to frame your life with His life.
1973.020000 1974.420000 He is the prototype.
1974.420000 1977.060000 He is the pattern.
1977.060000 1984.020000 Rejoice in the Lord always, again, I say, rejoice.
1984.020000 1986.660000 Let your gentleness be made known to all men.
1986.660000 1992.300000 The Lord is near, be anxious for nothing but in everything with prayer, petition, with
1992.300000 1995.100000 Thanksgiving, present your request to God.
1995.100000 1999.900000 And the peace of God that transports sins, all understanding will guard your hearts and
1999.900000 2002.300000 minds in Christ Jesus.
2002.300000 2010.700000 You say, Pastor, did you memorize that, the preach, no, I memorized that to live when I was
2010.700000 2011.700000 anxious.
2011.700000 2014.860000 I memorized that.
2014.860000 2017.640000 I got it on the inside of me.
2017.640000 2020.700000 I began to say, Lord, I need your word.
2020.700000 2028.340000 I need your information illuminated, make it reveal truth so it transforms my life.
2028.340000 2035.700000 And now, 30 some years after the fact of dealing with anxiety for about five years, sometimes
2035.700000 2042.460000 I can feel that coming on and I can recognize it and I say, hold up.
2042.460000 2046.060000 And I can sit right down and I can worship God.
2046.060000 2048.060000 And I've learned to watch that thing flee.
2048.060000 2051.060000 Man, it doesn't bother me anymore.
2051.060000 2052.060000 Why?
2052.060000 2057.740000 Because I've overcome it through the word and the spirit of God and the word of my testimony.
2057.740000 2062.540000 I've got there and I said, no, I'm going to quiet my mind.
2062.540000 2064.860000 Young people, you're going to have to learn to quiet your mind.
2064.860000 2068.020000 I'm going to give you three things, practical things and we're going to go.
2068.020000 2069.780000 But you need to do.
2069.780000 2074.140000 Number one, you need to practice positive self-talk.
2074.140000 2076.860000 I'm not talking about the worldly self-talk.
2076.860000 2084.900000 I'm talking about taking God's word and saying what God's word says about you.
2084.900000 2088.820000 If negative voices were spoken over you, you need to take God's word and say, I can do
2088.820000 2091.580000 all things through Christ who strengthens me.
2091.580000 2096.580000 If poverty and scarcity was talked over you as a kid, you need to begin to take Philippians
2096.580000 2097.580000 4.19.
2097.580000 2103.740000 My God will supply all my needs according to his roots in glory by Christ Jesus.
2103.740000 2107.860000 If somebody said you will never amount to anything, you need to begin to confess God's word
2107.860000 2112.460000 Philippians 1-6 that he who began a good work in me will perfect it until the day of Christ
2112.460000 2113.980000 Jesus, my Lord.
2113.980000 2118.060000 You need to begin to replace that negative self-talk with positive.
2118.060000 2123.340000 I'm talking about out of your mouth, out of your mouth.
2123.340000 2125.780000 You need to write some scripture down and quote it every day.
2125.780000 2133.740000 Number two, you need to practice limiting social media, intake.
2133.740000 2141.740000 You need to go on a diet, get rid of some of that stuff, it's killing you.
2141.740000 2150.180000 The comparisons, looking at other people's highlight reels, strolling into eternity, wasting
2150.180000 2155.500000 time and energy, polluting your mind.
2155.500000 2161.340000 You live in a world of complexity, but simplicity is the way of Jesus.
2161.340000 2165.700000 We must understand that number three, practice gratitude.
2165.700000 2170.780000 Be thankful in your prayer, in your petition, in your begging God.
2170.780000 2173.540000 Take time and say, "Lord, I'm thankful."
2173.540000 2175.260000 I'm thankful.
2175.260000 2177.460000 Thank you for your goodness.
2177.460000 2185.220000 See, no one should be recognized or reality, but we need to begin to reframe our thoughts
2185.220000 2188.780000 into the power of Jesus.
2188.780000 2194.060000 Your thought life is so, so powerful.
2194.060000 2197.940000 It actually directs the course of your life.
2197.940000 2201.860000 Joyce Myers calls it the battlefield of the mind.
2201.860000 2206.740000 Greatest battlefield in the world is not in the Middle East right now.
2206.740000 2208.700000 It's between our ears.
2208.700000 2213.220000 It's our minds.
2213.220000 2219.820000 The peace have they that love that law, and nothing shall offend them.
2219.820000 2229.020000 He will keep Him at perfect peace whose mind is state on Him, whose mind is state on Him.
2229.020000 2231.420000 I want you to stay in with me.
2231.420000 2237.700000 Gotta keep our minds on Jesus.
2237.700000 2242.780000 A lot of things fighting for our minds and our attentions, but I just thank you.
2242.780000 2251.720000 For the power of your word, thank you, Lord, that you have brought us not just to eternal
2251.720000 2260.460000 life, but abundant life, that your word offers that.
2260.460000 2266.280000 Jesus, you call us to abide in you, and if you said if we abide in you, we would bear
2266.280000 2269.380000 much fruit.
2269.380000 2274.780000 That love, that joy, that peace, that patience, that kindness, that jealous, that goodness,
2274.780000 2281.260000 that self-control, all that fruit, Lord, would just naturally become a byproduct of the
2281.260000 2282.820000 life that abides in Christ.